Tag: Helena Blavatsky
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The Queen of Humbugs: Edmund Russell, an Account of an Interview of HPB
Account of an American artist, Edmund Russell on H.P.B. “All felt her penetration and her power. Each fell to the charm of her universality. She lifted people to the expression of their best at once. It gave men new force to feel they had met one who could look right through to their real selves,…
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The Problem with the New Age “Ascended Master Jesus”
Importance of the issue with the concept of “Jesus the Ascended Master” in light of Theosophy. There are not many left true to the “original program”! (MORYA) “Ready to lay down our life any day for THEOSOPHY – that great cause of the Universal Brotherhood for which we live and breathe – and willing to…
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Kumari Jayawardena: “The White Woman’s Other Burden.” Blavatsky and Emancipation in South Asia
From the outset, Kumari Jayawardena’s “The White Woman’s Other Burden” (1995) demonstrates, theosophy emphasized the absence of any distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color in its theory and practice; and gender equality was therefore, one of its distinctive features. The 1995 work of Jayawardena details the roles and activities of foreign women in…
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The Limitations of Csoma de Koros and Western Tibetan Buddhist Scholars
The limitations of Alexander Csoma de Koros (also see The Hungarian Bodhisattva) and scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth-century. To be complementary to a piece on the sources of the Book of Dzyan and Kiu-te. Does Dr. Alexander Berzin know of “A Few Misconceptions Corrected” — “One of the greatest, and, withal, the most serious objection…
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Letter to Baron J. Spealieri (a Student of Eliphas Levi) on Western Kabbalism
When Helena Blavatsky wrote to a close student of Eliphas Levi on the state of the Western traditions, Kabbalism, and Christological influences. The letter highlights something to be taken into important account and not by-pass it as insignificant, or a trifling detail. She states, Eliphas Levi helps us so far, as it helps to compare Western…
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Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle
“The problem of life is man. Magic, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being; which forces are Divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge (…) We begin with instinct: the end is OMNISCIENCE.” ALEXANDER WILDER Real magical operations…
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“Blavatsky” Film | Italian Theosophical Society Centennial Documentary
“Blavatsky,” 2002 England film. For subtitles in English or another language, click Settings → Subtitles → Auto-Translate → English.
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“Lift high the torch of Liberty of the Soul of Truth”
“The life of altruism is not so much a high ideal as a matter of practice. Naturally, then, Theosophy finds a home in many hearts and minds, and strikes a resounding harmony as soon as it reaches the ears of those who are ready to listen. There, then, is part of your work: to lift…
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William Q. Judge on Eastern Occultism in Theosophy versus Western Occultism
The theosophists were trying to explain in their time, that the history, nature and implications of Occult Philosophy are far more than what was being introduced to Western thinkers, and certain fundamental elements of Occultism should direct its development and influence. It is not for the sake of division, that Judge and Blavatsky made the…
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Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization
Peter Kingsley on the sacred Tradition at the heart of Western Civilization “We can romanticize about the sacred origins of Tibetan Buddhism and South American Shamanic Traditions, and anything, as long as it’s not our own; and that’s apart of this tremendous understanding, this tremendous resistance. (…) and this is one of the paradoxes I…
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Per Faxneld’s Paper “Blavatsky the Satanist” slanders Theosophy under the Guise of Scholarship
PER FAXNELD’S PAPER “BLAVATSKY THE SATANIST” SLANDERS THEOSOPHY UNDER THE GUISE OF SCHOLARSHIP The decline of the Theosophical Movement and the Theosophical Society since the 1930’s has been attributed to many factors by researchers and theosophists, but most bothersome is identifying Theosophy and H.P.B.’s ideas as Satanism. Per Faxneld is senior lecturer in ‘Study of…
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Mark Passio on the Perversion of Blavatsky’s Occult Writings
I must first explain, despite what is said in the lecture, the theosophical position actually negates the belief in God, and also does not see Nature as God. While an asteroid hitting the earth, or a Supervolcano erupting would remind us of the truly awful and frightening, unmerciful power of nature and the Earth, it…
The American Minervan 