Tag: Republic

  • Albert Pike Ponders on Lucifer in Morals and Dogma: Tells Us to Seek the Light of Knowledge

    Albert Pike Ponders on Lucifer in Morals and Dogma: Tells Us to Seek the Light of Knowledge

    There has been only one line in all of the pages of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, used and cited numerously to accuse him of praising Lucifer or Evil in his book, and propagating “Luciferianism.” This is often used in Christian polemics against Esoteric philosophy and traditions. The purpose of this article is to dispose…

  • The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    “The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…

  • American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome

    American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome

    A number of the American founders were classicists, and were trained in the classics in their colonial education, and American Romanità demonstrates how Classicism was integral to education in the U.S., and not simply an “elite education.” It should also be kept in mind, that the first U.S. president, George Washington was honored on Masonic…

  • Alan Watts on American Spiritual Settler Movements: ‘Why America is a Republic and not a Monarchy’

    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 divine). This discovery is the Gospel, is the good news; but this has been perpetually repressed throughout the history of Western religion; because all Western…