Tag: Occultism
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The Difficult Jargon of Occultists and the Graeco-Latin Terminology of Scientists
“These sciences are, and have been for ages, hidden from the vulgar, for the very good reason that they would never be appreciated by the selfish educated classes, who would misuse them for their own profit, and thus turn the Divine science into black magic, nor by the uneducated, who would not understand them. It is often…
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The Liberator-God in Ancient Religion: Salvation and Resurrection of the Initiated
Resurrection of the DEAD and the Liberation of MAN in the MYSTERIES. Initiates, as Lovers of Education and WISDOM. THE DRAMA OF GRADUATION IN THE MYSTERIES Think only the Greeks and Romans celebrated the MYSTERIES? As Francis Bacon once said, Ipsa scientia potestas est (“Knowledge itself is power”)—Meditationes Sacrae, 1597. I must be INITIATED, ere I die!!—Aristophanes, Eirene (“Peace” Comedy). The…
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Quotes on the Scientific Aristocracy and Vanity of Modern Philosophers
QUOTES “France, why do you misunderstand us? European and American Journalists, why don’t you study genuine Theosophy before criticizing it? Because scientific aristocracy is full of vanity and struts on stilts of its own fabrication; because modern philosophy is materialistic to the roots of its hair; because both, in their pride, forget that in order to…
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Carl Orff: Lucia Popp: “In Trutina”
Lucia Popp sings “In Trutina” (Between Chastity and Love) in Carl Orff’s Carmina Baruna.
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Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism
Rasgusan physicist Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787) is mentioned in Helena Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine” written in 1888. Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine in his paper, Boscovich in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine (July 21, 2014). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to…
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Occultism in the Theosophical Society
Letter 65 The success of the operation of the Theosophical Movement depended upon those who compose the movement, but many delusions and misunderstandings about that operation existed among the members. The future civilizational development and trajectory of thought depended upon the success of the ideas the Movement sought to impress on the culture. These masters…
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Eliphas Levi’s “Warning to the Impudent” on Occultism
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonso Louis Constant), 19th century French esotericist influenced by occult philosophy and thinkers like Joseph de Maistre, warns impudent students rushing into occult studies. [Translated by Arthur Edward Waite in Transcendental Magic, 1896] If there are two lessons to take from this, they are — “The Esotericists are therefore warned that unless they are prepared…
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Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle
“The problem of life is man. Magic, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being; which forces are Divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge (…) We begin with instinct: the end is OMNISCIENCE.” ALEXANDER WILDER Real magical operations…
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Per Faxneld’s Paper “Blavatsky the Satanist” slanders Theosophy under the Guise of Scholarship
PER FAXNELD’S PAPER “BLAVATSKY THE SATANIST” SLANDERS THEOSOPHY UNDER THE GUISE OF SCHOLARSHIP The decline of the Theosophical Movement and the Theosophical Society since the 1930’s has been attributed to many factors by researchers and theosophists, but most bothersome is identifying Theosophy and H.P.B.’s ideas as Satanism. Per Faxneld is senior lecturer in ‘Study of…
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Mark Passio on the Perversion of Blavatsky’s Occult Writings
I must first explain, despite what is said in the lecture, the theosophical position actually negates the belief in God, and also does not see Nature as God. While an asteroid hitting the earth, or a Supervolcano erupting would remind us of the truly awful and frightening, unmerciful power of nature and the Earth, it…
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Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages
Josef Wäges gives the death-blow to Illuminati conspiracies as strings of repeated hearsay devoid of historical fact. He goes into the references made by George Washington, a Freemason, who equated the Illuminati with the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom “THERE are lives that Theosophists and all others…
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Occultism and the Source of Magical Knowledge
INTRODUCTION OCCULTISM AND THEOLOGY I had explained in Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle the source of Magic in Occult Philosophy. Theology attributes miracles simply to God, Angels and Saints, through the power of God. The occultist is the explorer intent on discovering the real cause of various hidden phenomena and the…
The American Minervan 