Tag: H.P. Blavatsky
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Theosophy and the Wisdom Tradition according to David Reigle
Theosophy is portrayed as the modern expression of an ancient, non-dual and non-theistic universal Wisdom Tradition, that predated all known religions and serves as their primordial source. This tradition, once universally diffused, fragmented into exoteric religions particularly under priestcraft and conventionalists, but was preserved in esoteric schools through oral and initiatory dissemination of knowledge, particularly…
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Maurice Joly: Origins of the Protocols of Zion and its Impact on Theosophy
Stories of the Origins of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion AND ITS USE AGAINST THEOSOPHY Maurice Joly, an ill-fated Parisian attorney during the reign of Emperor Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) lived a life both comedy and tragedy. It is Maurice Joly who wrote the politically satirical Conversations between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in the…
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Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…
The American Minervan 