Tag: psychology
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Age of the Rule of Faith: Valerie Tarico on the Christian Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagans and Eastern Religions
VALERIE TARICO IN THE CHRISTIAN DELUSION: WHY FAITH FAILS (PG 47-50) ON CHRISTIAN EXCLUSIVE TRUTH CLAIMS AND EMPHASIS ON RIGHT BELIEF This is related to Jan Assmann on monotheism as a cross-cultural impediment (The Construction of Monotheism) and is a diagnosis of the real consequences and limitations Christianity produced and imposed. As we have demonstrated…
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Laura Holloway & Blavatsky: Against Mediumship and Spiritualist Practices
H.P. Blavatsky found in the growing adversaries of Spiritualist proponents to Theosophy sufficient need to declare it would have nothing to do with it. She goes on with the enquirer, noting a pattern in the fates of mediums mental states and bodies. The letter which follows after in the latter part of August 1884 to…
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The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet
The Secret Doctrine defends the doctrine on the Seven Numerations of Man and Nature, held by the Trans-Himalayan Occultists’ School taught in the Theosophical system. Helena Blavatsky did not invent Theosophy, nor this concept, but explains it in no way others have hitherto done. She further tied this to Greek Esotericism (Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven…
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