Tag: interfaith

  • 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…

  • Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    Guenon, Theosophy and Perennialism: Decline of Guidance and Wisdom

    INTRODUCTION When I come across modern alternative spiritual teachers constructing new terminology, I am reminded that this has become customary in twentieth-century to present-day. The first generation of Theosophists were not constructing an extensive array of new terminology to baffle people. They were using terminology from schools, traditions and languages directly and then interpretating them…

  • The Limitations of Tolerance to all Religions | Sophia Wadia

    The Limitations of Tolerance to all Religions | Sophia Wadia

    Against the policy of “live and let live” in religious pluralism and interfaith “It is the duty of esoteric students to unmask error and hypocrisy; to face lie with truth; not as personal criticisms but as facts against mis statements (…) Theosophy is in the world for that purpose. We are not to be self-assertive nor…