Notes on Post-Risorgimento Idealism: The Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonaro Theosophists
NOTES ON THE SUBSTANCE AND CONTEXTS OF GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in […]
Bhagavan Das On The Evils Of Nationalism
THE PLATONIC GOOD AND THEOSOPHISTS ON NATIONALISM VERSUS INTERNATIONALISM Liberals in H.P.B.’s time were different than today. They had nationalist and patriotic fervor, and were yet considered cosmopolitans, romanticists, lovers […]
The Oracular Gnosis of Christianity: Christian Syncretism, Revelations, and the Mysteries of John | James M. Pryse’s Writings
I. 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 […]
Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven Principles of the Human Constitution
The concept of the Septenary Constitution describes two distinct beings in man: (1) The spiritual (or monadic); and (2) the physical (or somatic), i.e.— “The man who thinks and the […]
The Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations
Helena P. Blavatsky writes in the preface of Isis Unveiled that, the work is “a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom-Religion, as the only possible […]
James M. Pryse On The Delphian Key-Note of Esotericism: Plato’s Four Degrees of Knowledge
Theosophist, James Morgan Pryse describes the true meaning of the Delphian axiom, “Man, Known Thyself,” in his highly interesting work, Apocalypse Unsealed: Being an Esoteric Interpretation of Initiation (1910). Pryse argued, […]
