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Tag: history of science

  • Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages: All the Wise Sages

    THE TRADITIONAL SEVEN SAGES OF GREECE AND THEIR FAMOUS MAXIMS Peter Kingsley portrays these pre-Socratic philosophers not as rationalists but as sages in a sacred, shamanic tradition and lineage originating from eastern influences e.g., Phocaea, an ancient Ionian Greek city of Anatolia, transplanted to southern Italy. The schools of these eminent sages emphasized incubation, divine…

  • Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization

    Henry Thomas Buckle on the Progress of Civilization

    History of Civilization H.T. Buckle (English Historian, 1821-1862) “There appear from time to time great thinkers, who, devoting their lives to a single purpose, are able to anticipate the progress of mankind, and to produce a religion or a philosophy by which important effects are eventually brought about. But if we look into history we shall…

  • Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism

    Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism

    Rasgusan physicist Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787) is mentioned in Helena Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine” written in 1888. Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine in his paper, Boscovich in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine (July 21, 2014). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to…