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  • The Nineteenth-Century Popularization of the Desatir | Theosophists, Ishraqis, and Zoroastrianism

    The Nineteenth-Century Popularization of the Desatir | Theosophists, Ishraqis, and Zoroastrianism

    The Desatir or Dasātīr (Per. دساتیر lit. “Ordinances”), also known as Dasatir-i-Asmani is a collection of writings now generally taken to be a literary forgery written in an invented or artificial language. It contains elements from Indian and Iranian dialects, as well as Persian grammar. It is recommended in “The Secret Doctrine Reference Series,” where…

  • Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries

    Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries

    INTRODUCTION The source of “The Secret Doctrine” on the Ancient Worships of Syria explains the ancient Sun-Gods. These Gods and Names in the ancient world are intimately tied to the history of ancient peoples, cities, and the meanings those people ascribed in their world. S.F. Dunlap was a reference source in H.P. Blavatsky’s major work,…

  • Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…