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  • The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study

    The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study

    THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) are pivotal to Theosophy and was the basis of the approach of the Theosophical Movement teaching to “The West.” In nineteenth-century developments between interactions of ‘Western Philosophy’ and ‘Eastern Philosophy,’ the Theosophists at the helm were discouraging the psycho-somatic and psychic breath forms of Yoga…

  • The Practice of Concealing Spiritual Wisdom

    The Practice of Concealing Spiritual Wisdom

    Thoughts on the persecution and exclusion of the marginalized ‘esotericist’ in Western Culture and the difference between Ancient and Modern Esotericism in an illuminating paper from Michael L. Frazer’s “Esotericism Ancient and Modern:Strauss Contra Straussianism on the Art of Political-Philosophical Writing,” Political Theory 34:1,February 2006, pp. 33-61. In Stanley Rosen’s Hermeneutics as Politics, a critique…

  • Carl Orff: Veni, Veni, Venias

    Carl Orff: Veni, Veni, Venias

    Carl Orff: Veni, Veni, Venias #Orchestra #Wisdom #Gnostic #Love #Mysticism