Tag: Helena Blavatsky

  • Is Church Universal and Triumphant based on Theosophy?

    Is Church Universal and Triumphant based on Theosophy?

    Theosophy is not defined by its slanderers. A recent ‘X’ post of technologist and anti-Q-Anon activist, Jim Stewartson is an unfortunate example of a perpetual cycle of misinformation and ignorantly unapologetic slander before many readers about Theosophy and Blavatsky — this time under the guise of “anti-disinformation.” “The Church Universal and Triumphant” is not Theosophy,…

  • Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race

    Occult Interests and Theosophy in Germany (1880s-1930s): Blavatsky vs. Hitler, List and Liebenfels on Race

    SUMMARY Most importantly, without recognizing the Theosophy of 19th century as a system and as it was being explained, thereby respecting the teachers and school it was being explained from versus modified, simplified or distorted systems derived from it, rather than the defenses of so-called orthodox ‘Blavatskyian Theosophists’, demarcating the difference between Theosophy and Fascism,…

  • Aleister Crowley and Thelema critiques of Theosophists

    Aleister Crowley and Thelema critiques of Theosophists

    A COMMON MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THEOSOPHISTS Many Theosophists early-on and still today belonged to and represented their particular tradition, or religion to its highest, being specialized and trained within them in their deeper meanings, and tied to some actual superior, or superiors (priests, gurus) of the group, or religion they belonged to. A Theosophist was hence…

  • The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy

    The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy

    INTRODUCTION Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Great Liberator or Failed Messiah,” asks Luis S. R. Vas in his highly insightful book about the relations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society. This story is about a young boy that became an important philosophical teacher throughout the 20th century. Groomed by theosophists, Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater to…

  • Tragedy of Satan the Double-Headed Dragon

    Tragedy of Satan the Double-Headed Dragon

    THE GOD OF THE THEOLOGIANS, THE JEWISH GOD-NAME AND THE ANCIENT MYTH OF THE TWIN BROTHERS IT IS A MISTAKE TO VIEW HELENA BLAVATSKY’S DISMANTLING OF BIBLICAL POLEMICS as threatening, even anti-Semitic as she has been falsely accused of. She often spends a great deal explaining just as she does with the history of the…

  • Why the Academic Study of Western Esotericism is not as Popular as Critical Theory and Women’s History?

    Why the Academic Study of Western Esotericism is not as Popular as Critical Theory and Women’s History?

    Thoughts on Wouter J. Hanegraaff about “Rejected Knowledge” in Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism (page 149-151). Should this be a topic to tip toe over, or be careful? There are things that must be considered first. While so many people have become interested with deconstructing the hegemonic grand narratives of Western culture, racial…

  • Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan

    Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan

    𓄂𓆃 ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE MISQUOTE IN KINGSFORD’S “PERFECT WAY” ON THE SECRET OF SATAN H.P.B. STATES THAT “THE TRUE ESOTERIC VIEW ABOUT “SATAN,” the opinion held on this subject by the whole philosophic antiquity, is admirably brought out in an appendix, entitled “The Secret of Satan,” to the second edition of Dr. A. Kingsford’s…

  • Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case

    Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case

    STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH HELENA BLAVATSKY AFFECTS ADEPT CONNECTIONS TO THEOS. SOC. During a period that The Secret Doctrine was being written, Olcott’s relationship with H.P.B. had become more strained, and it is said K.H. materialized a letter on Olcott’s table saying of H.P.B., that the Adepts have no favorites. K.H. adds, despite H.P.B.’s personality and…

  • Hilarion Smerdis, Serapis Bey and the Legend of the “Brotherhood of Light” and Luxor

    Hilarion Smerdis, Serapis Bey and the Legend of the “Brotherhood of Light” and Luxor

    THE FRATRES LUCIS AND THE EGYPTIAN BROTHERHOOD OF LUXOR INVOLVING HILARION SMERDIS AND SERAPIS BEY Another less known Theosophical master of a sub-brotherhood of the Greater Fraternity of Adepts, known as the Egyptian Brotherhood of Luxor is Hilarion Smerdis, whom K. Paul Johnson attempts to identify with a little known character by the name of…

  • Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy

    Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy

    YOGI RAMALINGAM PILLAI PROPHECY Daleep Singh and Thakur Singh had a prophecy related to Russia and the West, but so did a well-known swami in Southern India, Vallalār, also known as Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal. This important figure in Tamil history is mentioned as Chidambaram Ramalingam Pillai Avergal (also called Arulprakasa Vallalare) in Theosophy, and this yogi…

  • Speculations about Thakur Singh Sandhawalia: Were the Theosophical Masters Sikh?

    Speculations about Thakur Singh Sandhawalia: Were the Theosophical Masters Sikh?

    K Paul Johnson claimed to provide a “suggestion” and “persuasive case” of his findings. Beginning with K.H. (Koot Hoomi or Kuthumi). K. Paul Johnson suggests K.H. was Sardar Thakur Singh Sandhawalia, the chief and founder of the Sikh Singh Sabha Movement in India who was involved in patriotic efforts in the freedom movement from the…

  • Spiritual Philosophy without God: Subba Row on Pragna and the God of Theology

    Spiritual Philosophy without God: Subba Row on Pragna and the God of Theology

    Edited December 2023 The positions of Tallapragada Subba Row on PRAGNA are also the doctrine of Samkhya and the Nepalese Svabhavikas on the nature of reality. T. Subba Row attempts to solve in his Collected Writings the issue between Personal God vs. Impersonal God. Subba Row explains, that the theory of a god outside of Space…