Edith Starr Miller’s “Occult Theocrasy” on Theosophy and the Illuminati
Known as Lady Queensborough, her real name was Edith Starr Miller (1887-1933). Edith Starr Miller, an active member of Fascist leagues, sought it her utmost duty as an anti-Mormon Christian to […]
Blavatsky’s Interpretation of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
“Were it light alone, inactive and absolute, the human mind could not appreciate nor even realise it (…) According to the views of the Gnostics, these two principles are immutable […]
Alan Watts on American Spiritual Settler Movements: ‘Why America is a Republic and not a Monarchy’
“So, the point is that the ruach is the divine, in the creature, by virtue of which you are sons of, (or of) the nature of God (manifestations of the […]
Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions
Pagan, a reinterpreted term limiting knowledge of antiquity. The term Pagan, or paganus originally meant, an inhabitant of the village, i.e., a peasant), but now refers to everything considered not […]
Gottfried De Purucker defines Religion in “Occult Glossary”
What does it mean, when we use the broad term religion? Gottfried de Purucker† (1874-1942), who was head of the Pasadena Theosophical Society from 1929-1942, had a good definition in […]
The Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries
Pages 305-307, Collected Writings, Vol. 14. “Thus it is not Judaism and Christianity that remodelled the ancient Pagan Wisdom, but rather the latter that put its heathen curb, quietly and insensibly, […]
The Different Aspects of Zeus in Greek Mythology: Is Zeus the Highest God?
“These fairy tales are not senseless stories written for the amusement of the idle; they embody the profound religion of our forefathers(…)” (W.S.W. Anson, Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions […]
Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”
Sam Harris mentions Helena P. Blavatsky in the first chapter of Waking Up: Guide on Spirituality without Religion (2014), and he committed a poor mistake, with a very inaccurate, and […]
