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Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

5 Aug 20185 Aug 2018No Comments

“It would take Gentile to rebuild Italy” outlines Gentile’s thought, and place in Italian intellectual history. Like Mazzini, Gentile understood nationalism in the sense, that it was a faith and a spiritual philosophy for unifying the people of a nation, which has its destiny. So, he states in The Residues of the Old Italy (p. … Continue reading Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

13 Jul 20185 Dec 20182 Comments

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, but we now understand the reasons orders such as the Bavarian Illuminati Order are demonized to avert us common man from discovering things, … Continue reading First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

“Nietzsche – Overman”

19 May 201819 May 2018No Comments

What is the difference between Nietzsche’s Overman, and the emphasis on the New Man and Will-Power in the Occult Philosophy?

Adepts in America in 1776 » William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

18 May 201831 May 20181 Comment

ADEPTS IN AMERICA 1776? DID ANY ADEPTS GET INVOLVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. WILLIAM Q. JUDGE PUBLISHED IN THEOSOPHIST 1883 SUGGESTIONS HE PLACES AS THOSE OF HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITY WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF ANY ADEPTS. AN ORTHODOX HINDU CHHABIGRAM DOLATRAM WRITES TO H.P.B. FOR CLARIFICATION AND SHE QUESTIONS THE THEORY ‘Illuminati’ def. (Lat.). The “Enlightened”, … Continue reading Adepts in America in 1776 » William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

James M. Pryse’s Works: The Oracular Gnosis of Christianity, Revelations, and the Mysteries of John

17 May 20187 Jun 2018No Comments

THE ORACULAR GNOSIS OF CHRISTIANITY CHRISTIANITY RESTORED TO ITS HELLENIC AND PRIMITIVE FORM James Morgan Pryse was an author, theosophist and his brother John founded the Gnostic Society in 1928. In The Apocalypse Unsealed (1910) Pryse published the secret key to decoding the esoteric meaning of the Biblical Book of Revelation. In 1914, The Restored New Testament … Continue reading James M. Pryse’s Works: The Oracular Gnosis of Christianity, Revelations, and the Mysteries of John

The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky…

8 May 20188 May 2018No Comments

Prof. William G. Dever and Francesca Stavrakopoulou on the construction of monotheism. Prof. William G. Dever (Archaeologist, Anthropologist, University of Arizona) says the Torah is a “Minority Report” “To understand Paul, we have to realize that in antiquity, all monotheists were polytheists by our modern definition. Everyone (…) acknowledged the existence of everybody else’s gods. Back then, … Continue reading The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky…

The Irony of Apoliticism in Theosophy | Socialism, Communism, and Globalism

12 Apr 201810 Jun 20182 Comments

With the reintroduction of theosophical research comes the opportunity to gain victory over our narrative, and the way others understand our mission to be, through facts, our writings, and tongue. What Thomas Mace-Archer-Miles, Chairman of the British Monarchist Society stated to The Economist in an interview on monarchism is similar to the role of theosophy, … Continue reading The Irony of Apoliticism in Theosophy | Socialism, Communism, and Globalism

Rachel Weisz’s Hypatia in Agora: “I Believe in Philosophy”

20 Jan 20187 Aug 20182 Comments

“There have been times when “a considerable portion of enlightened minds” were taught in our schools. Such times there were in India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. But, as I remarked (…) the adept is the efflorescence of his age, and comparatively few ever appear in a single century. Earth is the battle-ground of moral no … Continue reading Rachel Weisz’s Hypatia in Agora: “I Believe in Philosophy”

Marcel Barsotti: Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887

19 Jan 2018No Comments

Die Päpstin – Anno Domini 887

U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

17 Jan 201814 Apr 20182 Comments

Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of … Continue reading U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society