Tag: Occult Philosophy
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Crusades to Late Renaissance Occultism to Enlightenment Timeline (1075-1680)
HISTORY ABOUT THE TIMELINE This timeline focuses on significant events and personages specifically from the Crusades to the Late Renaissance, which leads into the Enlightenment. It is a record of Europe’s most riveting historical developments in the study of Religion and War in Europe, and the history of the Catholic Church and Occult Philosophy from…
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Magic Life in the Oracles on the Mount
The inner life, or psychic experiences are to only be spoken to those who will understand, not the “hoi polloi,” the incredulous, the plundering wolves, and false seers. The neophyte comes as a dead one, a prisoner to the physical body, of Earth-substance, and resuscitated, is raised in and through [the states of matter of]…
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Baptized with Fire: Proclus and Simonian Theosophy on the Symbolism of Fire and Water
“I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)” LUKE 3:16 Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The Meaning of Fire in Baptism Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai…
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Theosophy in Star Wars: The Force, Its Sides and the “Two Paths”
TWO CENTRAL CONCEPTS IN STAR WARS AND THEOSOPHY: THE FORCE AND THE TWO PATHS There is no coincidence to the fact, there are similarities between Star Wars and Theosophy. The former is a fictional universe, but the latter is an actual high philosophical collection of teachings and ethical codes. In no other school of thought…
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James M. Pryse On The Delphian Key-Note of Esotericism: Plato’s Four Degrees of Knowledge
Theosophist, James Morgan Pryse describes the true meaning of the Delphian axiom, “Man, Known Thyself,” in his highly interesting work, Apocalypse Unsealed: Being an Esoteric Interpretation of Initiation (1910). Pryse argued, that the “Book of the Revelation” of Iaonnes (John) is not a book detailing the past, nor the future; but was a book designed to…
The American Minervan 