Tag: pan-esotericism
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From Nabta Playa to the Osirian Mysteries: Africa’s Claim to the Primordial Wisdom Tradition
How nineteenth-century esotericists ignored Africa’s ancient Wisdom Traditions, limiting their focus to Biblical interpretations, which expanded into understanding Indo-Iranian roots. INTRODUCTION The concept of a single primordial Wisdom Tradition, or even just the origins of “Holy Wisdom” as it was constituted in Western religious and philosophical literature (particularly in the nineteenth-century, to the medieval Alchemists…
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Albert Pike’s Life and Philosophical Legacy in American Esotericism
This article is a combination of transcription and summation of Canadian philosopher Manly P. Hall’s Seminars on the life and ideas of Albert Pike in 1958 tracing the origins of the Wisdom Tradition, which often takes on a form of mythmaking of its own. A more in-depth fact check/biography of Albert Pike’s life, views and…
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The “Divine Spark” in White Racist Biopolitics
If you have kept up, this has a relation to Theosophy in its global context, particularly when addressing the teachings of ancestral and ancient Native American and African philosophical religious traditions. In the midst of researching the life and ideas of Scottish-Rite Freemason Albert Pike based on Manly P. Hall’s lecture, because his toppled statue…
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Pan-Esotericism in Africa: Hermetic Roots and Bantu Spiritual Wisdom
The lengthy article in The Boston Courier of July 18, 1886, in which nearly seventy citizens of Nagapattinam in India penned a letter defending the existence of the Sadhus, of great initiates is a testament of the truth regarding the full ramifications of this elusive history of the mysteries. That people have held personal converse…
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