Tag: Occultism
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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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“Revolutions Will Spring…Creeds and Powers Will Crumble”
“Koot Hoomi tells Sinnett first that the world must prepare itself for the manifestation of phenomenal elements in constantly augmenting volume and force. The age of miracles, he says, is not past; it really never was. Plato was right in asserting that ideas ruled the world; and as the human mind increases its receptivity to…
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Julian Strube on Public Fascination with “Nazi Occultism”
note i The public does not take any serious interest and competent research on early National Socialism and esotericism, though are yet often easily accepting of arguments in sensationalist articles or media about the topic. Both left-wing and right-wing Christian conspiracists in this case are ignorant of the consequences of their approach. Recent studies still…
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Lies about Theosophy: The Protocols, Yuliana Glinka and the Vatican’s Position
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a notorious antisemitic forgery first published in Russia in 1903, which served as a key ideological justification for the persecution of various groups by Nazi and Fascist regimes in Germany, Austria, and Italy. This included Theosophists, who were targeted despite no genuine connection to the document’s alleged…
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God versus Svabhava and its Importance | Cosmological Notes in Theosophy
mahatma letters. fundamental position on the nature and existence of God versus the Doctrine of Svabhāva THERE HAVE EXISTED philosophical schools that have a spiritual ideal of nature, without a God. The debates between the domineering forces of theology, proponents of physicalism and atheism give us very little space to debate between them. The Theosophical position…
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The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study
THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) are pivotal to Theosophy and was the basis of the approach of the Theosophical Movement teaching to “The West.” In nineteenth-century developments between interactions of ‘Western Philosophy’ and ‘Eastern Philosophy,’ the Theosophists at the helm were discouraging the psycho-somatic and psychic breath forms of Yoga…
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Gustav Holst: Saturn, Bringer Of The Old Age
Come forth DREAMER, MIGHT of elder father, so that you may rise again; Dream as you would when in longing, It is from an Old Age your gifts sprang. It was the churning hot elements from the stars that bore you.
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Carl Orff: In Taberna Quando Sumus – Kurt Eichhorn
“Here no-one fears death,but they throw the dice in the name of Bacchus…May those who slander us be cursedand may their names not be written in the book of the righteous.” Precisely my sentiment. When we’re in the tavern In taberna quando sumusnon curamus quid sit humus,sed ad ludum properamus,cui semper insudamus.Quid agatur in tabernaubi…
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A Fauns’ Delicacy
Like a faun that plays between the wild forests and the labyrinth. Though, not in sorrow, nor in joy, but in rhythm. The faun can always hear the sweet melodies in the distance that run deeper than through those tall ears. This faun has not forsaken the dirt and the leaves, and the smell of…
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Age of the Rule of Faith: Irenaeus dispute with Gnostic Narcissus
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The Church of Rome was Gnostic – just as much as the Marcionites were – until the beginning and even…
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Madhava Ashish: Contribution of Blavatsky to World Thought
“The world’s many religious teachings are human attempts to express mankind’s half defined ideas about himself and the world he lives in. As we become richer in our wealth of concepts and more knowledgeable about our environment, we find it necessary from time to time to reformulate our religious ideas. H.P. Blavatsky’s contribution to world…
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A Second Look at Blavatsky on Indigenous People in The Secret Doctrine
There are a couple passages in The Secret Doctrine that come to mind when dealing with accusations against H.P. Blavatsky. When she mentions for example, “sterility between two human races” as observed by Darwin, H.P.B. references Sir William Henry Flower, a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain of his time, in speaking of “semi-animal…
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