The American Minervan

Tag: Henry Corbin

  • Lovers of the Ancients, or Christian Dogmatic claims to Truth

    Lovers of the Ancients, or Christian Dogmatic claims to Truth

    We are who we are, because we are “lovers of the ancients.” I would not be writing without my influences from Greek, Indian and Islamic Philosophy; and Blavatsky, Suhrawardi and Henry Corbin. I traced the styles of Blavatsky’s references, going to sources of doctrines in the Chaldean Oracles and the works of the eclectic orientalist…

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

    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…

  • The Manifestation of Divine Light

    The Manifestation of Divine Light

    “But All-Father Mind, being Life and Light, did bring forth Man (Ἄνθρωπον) co-equal to Himself.” (Pœmandres treatise) “This Man or Anthrōpos is the Spiritual Prototype of humanity and of every individual man, and is a technical term found in a number of the early Christianised Gnostic systems” (G.R.S. Mead). “So says the Zoroastrian: I hold…