Tag: Helena Blavatsky

  • Christian Truth, or the eclectic Theosophical System

    Christian Truth, or the eclectic Theosophical System

    Every effort to help the West has failed and faced trials, each falling into the same patterns of individual and organizational turmoil, blame and mythologizing an adversary. So, what is this effort that the modern Theosophical Movement represents to “the West”? It is important to challenge our notions of “the West” as I explained in…

  • Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    INTRODUCTION When I come across modern alternative spiritual teachers constructing new terminology, I am reminded that this has become customary in twentieth-century to present-day. The first generation of Theosophists were not constructing an extensive array of new terminology to baffle people. They were using terminology from schools, traditions and languages directly and then interpretating them…

  • The Complex Legacy of Albert Pike

    The Complex Legacy of Albert Pike

    The life and writings of Albert Pike provide a lesson to those interested in the history and study of Esoteric Philosophy. This article briefly lays out some facts to consider in light of recent events to challenge both American racial conflicts and limitations and the Trump Administration’s appropriation of Albert Pike (The Unseen Danger of…

  • ‘The Greatest Curse to a Nation is a Form of Faith that Prevents Inquiry’

    ‘The Greatest Curse to a Nation is a Form of Faith that Prevents Inquiry’

    What is the greatest curse to a nation? Helena P. Blavatsky stated that the greatest curse to a nation is a form of Faith that prevents inquiry. She begins by explaining the initiatory system and institutions of the Mysteries and its purposes and approach to education, as opposed to the manner in which the dominating…

  • Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini

    Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini

    Introduction In the visions of nationhood and association professed by Italian revolutionary, Guiseppi Mazzini, I find inspiration, and freedom from limitations in the U.S. American perspective within the larger historical contexts of Republicanism. After the failures of the Carbonari, Mazzini founds Young Italy in his hopes for Italy’s unification. Mazzini saw the American Republic as…

  • Did a Federation of Adepts form in the Nineteenth-Century?

    Did a Federation of Adepts form in the Nineteenth-Century?

    HELENA BLAVATSKY IS CERTAIN THAT A GREAT BODY OR FEDERATION OF “spiritual Illuminati” does exist in her time; but their locations will never be known. Firstly, until the masses had greatly sought to get rid of its ignorance and aspired to learn of the body of knowledge associated with those institutions and schools, such individuals…

  • Nicholas Roerich asks Lama about the Kalachakra and the Kuthumpas

    Nicholas Roerich asks Lama about the Kalachakra and the Kuthumpas

    Nicholas Roerich asks a Lama: “. . . Lama, have you met Azaras (i.e., Sk. ācāryas) and Kuthumpas? (…)” “(…) Many of our people during their lives have encountered the Azaras and Kuthumpas and the snow people who serve them. Only recently have the Azaras ceased to be seen in cities. They are all gathered…

  • Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters

    Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters

    What do the Letters of Blavatsky teach us about the Masters Morya or K.H. had been suspected of being Thakur Singh, because of proximity to the Maharaja of Lahore (a region now in modern-day Pakistan). Morya appears to have been associated with Prince Duleep Singh, when H.P.B. writes, that he was “in the house of…

  • Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

    Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

    NOTES ON MESSIANISM, APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE TOLEDOT YESHU AND SUBVERSIVE FIXATIONS WITH CHRISTIANIZING THEOSOPHY “I write in every letter that a divine Christ (or Christos) has never existed under a human form outside the imagination of blasphemers who have carnalized a universal and entirely impersonal principle.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Reply to the Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my…

  • On Blavatskycentrism, Post-Truth, and Christofascism

    On Blavatskycentrism, Post-Truth, and Christofascism

    What was the kiss of death for the modern Theosophical Society? NOTES The kiss of death for the modern Theosophical Society was not, as K. Paul Johnson once wrote from his view, the Blavatskycentrism of the 70s-80s, itself likely the reaction to Leadbeater’s influence in the 20th century. Take this example, about influence and power…

  • Blavatsky and Theosophy: Prebunking Jim Stewartson and other Hacks

    Blavatsky and Theosophy: Prebunking Jim Stewartson and other Hacks

    unedited. cunningly false descriptions of Theosophy It is generally accepted that Helena P. Blavatsky was proven to be a fraud, when an original report of Richard Hodgson by the Society for Psychical Research was published in London, December 1885. However, in April 1986, that case was examined by Dr. Vernon Harrison and published by the…

  • Lies about Theosophy: The Protocols, Yuliana Glinka and the Vatican’s Position

    Lies about Theosophy: The Protocols, Yuliana Glinka and the Vatican’s Position

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a notorious antisemitic forgery first published in Russia in 1903, which served as a key ideological justification for the persecution of various groups by Nazi and Fascist regimes in Germany, Austria, and Italy. This included Theosophists, who were targeted despite no genuine connection to the document’s alleged…