Pseudo-Theosophy and Pseudo-Messiahs: Imitations of Theosophy
Helena Blavatsky is sometimes referred to as the “Mother of the New Age” movement. This is not only untrue, it is not the compliment those that argue this to define […]
Sophia Wadia on the Limitations of Tolerance to all Religions
Against the policy of “live and let live” in religious pluralism and interfaith. “It is the duty of esoteric students to unmask error and hypocrisy; to face lie with truth; not […]
Lewis Loflin’s “Debunking Theosophy”
Lewis Loflin’s Debunking Theosophy and Psychological Manipulation and Society (Joseph P. Szimhart’s review) are two critiques of the Theosophical Society, high in the index. The link is there to review. A common criticism […]
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 […]
The Performance of Occultism: ‘Adept’ and ‘Initiate’
Adeptus means in Latin, “one who has obtained,” and thus referring to the person as an Adept indicates one who is an Initiate. Initiates are disciples or aspirants of an […]
Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions
Limited Knowledge of Religion in Antiquity The term Pagan, or paganus originally meant, an inhabitant of the village, or a peasant, but came to refer to perverted heretical and heterodox […]
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 […]
The American Minervan 