Tag: greek philosophy
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Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages Part I: The Traditional Seven Sages and their famous Maxims
THE STANDARD TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF ANCIENT GREECE The Seven Sages (or Seven Wise Men) of ancient Greece were a group of renowned statesmen, lawgivers, and thinkers from the 7th–6th centuries BCE, celebrated for their practical wisdom and pithy maxims. Ancient sources vary on the exact list, but the most traditional and commonly accepted ones…
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Theosophy, Pre-Socratic Monism and Cosmology in relation to Abrahamic Monotheistic Claims
Within the Theosophical framework, as articulated by H.P. Blavatsky and in David Reigle’s analyses of an ancient, pre-Vedic Wisdom Tradition, the Pre-Socratic sages such as Thales, Anaximander, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras (often included in this group) are regarded as pivotal figures who birthed Western civilization and philosophy by drawing from a primordial, universal esoteric…
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David Reigle’s Analysis on legitimate Buddhist Esoteric Lineage in Theosophy: Great Madhyamaka and Samkhya
INTRODUCTION In David Reigle’s analysis when discussing the relation of Theosophy to Great Madhyamaka and the Samkhya school, he positions Theosophy as the contemporary manifestation of an ancient Wisdom Tradition, emphasizing its doctrinal coherence with esoteric Eastern systems, rather than eclectic borrowings. This distinction in defining Theosophy is key to future research, because standard definitions…
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Pan-Esotericism in African Religious Tradition: Roots of the “Divine Spark”
The “divine spark” refers to the inner divine principle that makes a being fully human and capable of ultimate spiritual realization. The claim made by certain European racist occultists (e.g., some 19th–20th century esoteric racists) that Black Africans or people of African descent lack the “divine spark” (the Logos, Atman, Nous, scintilla animae) is philosophically,…
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These Seven Kinds of Love will Change your Attitude to Life
LOVE (EROS), like the god PAN, is an important god (one of the primordial ancient Greek gods). Eros does not simply refer to an intense Erotic Love, but is an exulted Divine Ideal, that can be a frightening and dangerous POWER. It is considered to be a quickening FIRE, or psychic force that burns out…
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Hecate and Diana in the Mysteries as Triune Genetrix and Savior
Hecate the Savior “Hekate . . . pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade . . . nightly seen.”—Orphic Hymn 1 to Hecate (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns c. 3rd B.C.E to 2nd C.E.) “The world’s key-bearer, never doomed to fail . . . unconquerable queen” (ibid). Mortals, carrying with them on the threshold,…
The American Minervan 