Tag: Jamal al-Din

  • Investigating Jamal al-Din’s influence on Noble Drew Ali and Black American New Religious Movements

    Investigating Jamal al-Din’s influence on Noble Drew Ali and Black American New Religious Movements

    INTRODUCTION ON BLACK AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE FROM NEW WORLD TO NEW THOUGHT In a recent article about the concept of “Divine Messengers” in Islam and Theosophy, one of the key points I wanted to guide you into considering there are many influences that underlie modern understandings of religion, esotericism and theological study in the West,…

  • Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters

    Blaming Blavatsky: Suspicions about Duleep Singh and Hidden Identities of Masters

    What do the Letters of Blavatsky teach us about the Masters Morya or K.H. had been suspected of being Thakur Singh, because of proximity to the Maharaja of Lahore (a region now in modern-day Pakistan). Morya appears to have been associated with Prince Duleep Singh, when H.P.B. writes, that he was “in the house of…

  • Political Operations in Cairo and Cyprus: Meeting Hilarion and Ooton Liatto

    Political Operations in Cairo and Cyprus: Meeting Hilarion and Ooton Liatto

    POLITICS AND WAR TREATY IN CYPRUS AND THE MYSTERY “GREEK GENTLEMAN” IN CHARGE Here comes in Hilarion Smerdis, K. Paul Johnson tries to tie him to the underground culture and operations of Jamal al-Din, stating that Hilarion’s travels between Egypt and Cyprus are politically suggestive. After Egypt and Cyprus become British protectorates, Hilarion leaves his…

  • Did Helena Blavatsky Study with the Druze of Lebanon?

    Did Helena Blavatsky Study with the Druze of Lebanon?

    “The religion of the Druses is said to be a compound of Judaism, Mahomedanism and Christianity, strongly tinged with Gnosticism and the Magian system of Persia. Were people to call things by their right names, sacrificing all self-conceit to truth, they might confess things otherwise. They could say, for instance, that Mahomedanism being a compound…