Tag: occultist
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First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”
A SCHOOL OF HUMANITY I am highly satisfied with my copy of “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati.” I cannot believe how much error exists regarding this historical order, and so fail to understand the reasons the Bavarian Illuminati Order is demonized, as if it was a ploy…
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Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…
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Eliphas Levi’s “Warning to the Impudent” on Occultism
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonso Louis Constant), 19th century French priest 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…
The American Minervan 