Blood, the Universal Proteus: Significance of Blood in Ancient Magic and Religion according to Theosophy
“…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 […]
Marc Demarest on the Armchair Occultist, Godfrey Higgins: Modern Occultism, and the Professionalization of History
The Armchair Occultist: Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis and Modern Occultism Lecture. Emma Hardinge Britten Archive. The Church, Christian Spiritualists, and the professional establishment sought to control the influence of occultists. Anacalypsis […]
The Philosophical Wisdom of the Pre-Christian World Survives and Lives On
The philosophical wisdom of the pre-Christian World survives, and lives on, and with us, will advance, and shape the coming eras with the help of earnest, dedicated students, which must […]
The Truth: Was Helena Blavatsky a Socialist & 33° Degree Mason? | Charles Sotheran and the Masonic Patent
H.P. BLAVATSKY EXPLAINS HER HONORARY MASONIC PATENT H.P.B. kicks out socialist Charles Sotheran and discusses her Masonic Patent. “If you will kindly refer to my Isis Unveiled (Vol. II, p. 394), […]
Types of Ancient Philosophers and Practitioners | Isis Unveiled and Theosophical Glossary
“THERE are persons whose minds would be incapable of appreciating the intellectual grandeur of the ancients, even in physical science, were they to receive the most complete demonstration of their profound […]
Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries
Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods figured by Samuel F. Dunlap, demonstrates that the ancient systems, considered pagan, with the ancient Hebrew system, contained a conception of the Hidden God, that […]
The Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations
Helena P. Blavatsky writes in the preface of Isis Unveiled that, the work is “a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom-Religion, as the only possible […]
The Illuminati of the Perfected: What is an ‘Adept’ and ‘Initiate’?
The term Adept defined in the Theosopedia. “Adeptus. Derived from the Latin word Adeptus — “he who has obtained.” The term refers to one who is an Initiate, and has […]
Goetia and Witchcraft: Origin of the “Witch” and Magic
Long, Long ago, when people still believed in witches….. The term “Witch” in old Anglo-Saxon glossaries is tied to wicce, meaning “pythoness, divinatricem.” As in this, and in early forms, it […]
The Different Aspects of Zeus in Greek Mythology: Is Zeus the Highest God?
“These fairy tales are not senseless stories written for the amusement of the idle; they embody the profound religion of our forefathers(…)” (W.S.W. Anson, Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions […]
