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Tag: Greek & Classical Philosophy

  • G. de Purucker’s Introduction to the Esoteric Tradition: The Word “Dogma”

    G. de Purucker’s Introduction to the Esoteric Tradition: The Word “Dogma”

    G. de Purucker in his introduction of the Esoteric Tradition (1940) explains the meaning of Theosophy being non-dogmatic.  DOGMA IN THE ESOTERIC TRADITION BY G. DE PURUCKER “The word dogma comes from the Greek verb dokein, “to seem to be,” “to appear to be.” A dogma, therefore, was something which appeared to be a truth: an…

  • Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…