Tag: Helena Blavatsky

September 27, 2019

Helena Blavatsky on Government Systems: “They have no sway over the inner man…”

“…Whether the physical man be under the rule of an empire or a republic, concerns only the man of matter. His body may be enslaved; as to his Soul, he has the right to give to his rulers the proud answer of Socrates to his Judges. They have no sway over the inner man.” (H.P.…
July 12, 2019

Blood, the Universal Proteus: Significance of Blood in Ancient Magic and Religion

“…it was then that I understood for the first time a little of that message proclaimed by my ancestors on the banks of the Ganges thirty centuries ago–‘They who see but One in all the changing manifoldness of this universe, unto them belongs Eternal Truth, unto none else!’” (MODERN SCIENCE AND THE VEDANTA, THE BRAHMAVADIN,…
March 29, 2019

Stunning Visual TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time

Absolutely contemplative, and stunning visual timelapse of the future, based on modern science, created by Melody Sheep https://www.patreon.com/melodysheep., who creates science videos and soundtrack music mashups. When I first happened onto Timelapse of the Future, it had a near 10 thousand views, and I did not see the date, and thought it was one of…
November 19, 2018

The Septenary Principles of Man: Zurvanite Zoroastrian and Theosophical Classification

R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan. A Zoroastrian Dilemma, Oxford, 1955, pp. 323, 334) demonstrates, that the Zurvanite Zoroastrian (a now extinct school of thought) classification (referring to levels of being or existence) is near identical to the Tāraka Rāja Yoga classification. However, as the Theosophical [esoteric] classification show, that the septenary division of man is explained in…
October 15, 2018

Albert Pike Ponders on Lucifer in Morals and Dogma: Tells Us to Seek the Light of Knowledge

There has been only one line in all of the pages of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, used and cited numerously to accuse him of praising Lucifer or Evil in his book, and propagating “Luciferianism.” This is often used in Christian polemics against Esoteric philosophy and traditions. The purpose of this article is to dispose…
September 4, 2018

The Nineteenth-Century Popularization of the Desatir | Theosophists, Ishraqis, and Zoroastrianism

The Desatir or Dasātīr (Per. دساتیر lit. “Ordinances”), also known as Dasatir-i-Asmani is a collection of writings now generally taken to be a literary forgery written in an invented or artificial language. It contains elements from Indian and Iranian dialects, as well as Persian grammar. It is recommended in “The Secret Doctrine Reference Series,” where…
August 5, 2018

H.P. Blavatsky involvement in Italian Politics with Garibaldi and Mazzini, and the Carbonari’s Role in the Republican Revolutions

H.P. Blavatsky’s interest in Italian politics has been very scanty in the historical record of her life. H.P.B. herself had claimed and proven to H.S. Olcott, as detailed in his Diary Leaves, that she had joined the Garibaldians (see Garibaldi and the Red Shirts) at the bloody Battle of Mentana, where she was stabbed with a…
July 25, 2018

The Evolution of the God-Idea | H.P. Blavatsky on the Limits of the Greeks and Christians

DIVINE THOUGHT, OR CINERITIOUS MATTER (The Secret Doctrine Vol. 1, Page 327): A section from the 1888 work of H.P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine (pp. 326-28: Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter) discusses the evolution of the GOD-IDEA. This is the beginning of some far more dense commentary on occult physics that will be central to…
June 19, 2018

‘The snub-nosed Saxons’ [Borderland Magazine, 1894]

THE SNUB-NOSEDSAXONS Borderland Magazine, October 15th, 1894 tributehighlights influence of Blavatsky in the successful periodsof the theosophical movement on the cultural milieu. “If everything be true that Dr. Hodgson and the Psychical Research Society say about her, it only heightens the mystery, and adds to the marvel of the influence which Madame Blavatsky undoubtedly has exercised,…
June 16, 2018

Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky on the True Meaning of Satan

𓄂𓆃 INTRODUCTION “LET US THEN FATHOM THIS CREATION OF THE PATRISTIC FANCY STILL DEEPER.” Helena Blavatsky Satan יְהֹוָה in its original conception means adversary and differs from the later Dantian and Christian conception of popular imagination. According to H.P. Blavatsky, SATAN, a concept held by other ancient nationalities, “is one of the most profoundly philosophical…
June 11, 2018

Kalachakra and Theosophy: The Sources of the Book of Dzyan and Kiu-te in The Secret Doctrine and Tantras

The Secret Doctrine Connection to the Kalachakra, ANCIENT RELIGION, ORIGINS OF KABBALAH and the Mystery-Language OF THE INITIATES “These facts take us well beyond the realm of probability. Blavatsky indeed had esoteric northern Buddhist sources” (David Reigle) INTRODUCTION On the authorship of The Secret Doctrine: a facsimile of a letter from K.H. to William Quan Judge…
June 8, 2018

“Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public”

“Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public” “IT is nineteen centuries since, as we are told, the night of Heathenism and Paganism was first dispelled by the divine light of Christianity; and two-and-a-half centuries since the bright lamp of Modern Science began to shine on the darkness of…