Tag: Esotericism
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Albert Pike Ponders on Lucifer in Morals and Dogma: Tells Us to Seek the Light of Knowledge
There has been only one line in all of the pages of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, used and cited numerously to accuse him of praising Lucifer or Evil in his book, and propagating “Luciferianism.” This is often used in Christian polemics against Esoteric philosophy and traditions. The purpose of this article is to dispose…
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Friedrich Nietzsche on the Overman • Narrated by Peter Sjöstedt-H)
Peter Sjöstedt-H reads Nietzsche’s own words on the concept of the Overman/Superman (Übermensch) Create a Man beyond this one. There is a true need for a new aim, a higher type of Man, to better preserve itself. This kind of society is not capable of bringing it about. The Man it produces has reached its…
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“I Believe in Philosophy” (script) scene from Hypatia
Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here…have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It’s only a matter of time and you know it.Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?…As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors.…
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Marcel Barsotti: Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887
Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887 THE ENDURING MYTH OF POPE JOAN “…a female pope who is not set down in the list of popes.”
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The Difficult Jargon of Occultists and the Graeco-Latin Terminology of Scientists
“These sciences are, and have been for ages, hidden from the vulgar, for the very good reason that they would never be appreciated by the selfish educated classes, who would misuse them for their own profit, and thus turn the Divine science into black magic, nor by the uneducated, who would not understand them. It is often…
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Popularizing Genuine Theosophy in our Age
The success of an attempt of such a kind as the one you propose, must be calculated and based upon a thorough knowledge of the people around you. It depends entirely upon the social and moral conditions of the people in their bearing on these deepest and most mysterious questions which can stir the human…
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Mahatma Letters on the Evolution of Life: Ten-Point Summary
The position on evolution and emanationism in the Mahatma Letters and as explained by H.P. Blavatsky remains a fascinating aspect of Theosophy. This position is neither atheistic, or agnostic, merely because of the rejection of the God-theory, The history of these positions antedate Darwin, including Democritus. Morya, attempting to get A.P. Sinnett to understand the…
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James Madison on the ‘Divine Ideal’ in Republicanism
Federalist Papers No. 55 James Madison, lead drafter of the Constitution stated once, that Republicanism admits the existence of qualities in man in a higher degree, and is thus built on a spiritual Ideal of man’s nature. We recognize James Madison as a man who rejected the notion of racial superiority, although he failed to put…
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Sophia and the Alchemical Wedding in the Rosicrucian Vision
“You are my mind, bring me forth.You are my treasure-house, open for me.You are my fullness, take me to you.” THE PRAYER OF APOSTLE PAUL, NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY
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“The Forlorn Hope” Letter, 1882.
“The Forlorn Hope,”‡. Received in Allahabad, Feb., 1882. “One or two of us hoped that the world had so far advanced intellectually, if not intuitionally, that the Occult doctrine might gain an intellectual acceptance, and the impulse given for a new cycle of occult research. Others – wiser as it would now seem – held…
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Luciferous Protogonos, The God the Ancients Call “The First-Born”
PRE-CHRISTIAN AND MYTHIC ORIGINS COMMENTARY ABOUT THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE LUCIFEROUS describes the radiance of the FIRST PRINCIPLE born from the Great Mother and Father-GOD in nearly every ancient cosmogony. Here, we will give a different meaning of LUCIFER, or the morning star, that is based upon the Graeco-Roman MYSTERIES, known under the titles…
The American Minervan 