Tag: Russia
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Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy
YOGI RAMALINGAM PILLAI PROPHECY Daleep Singh and Thakur Singh had a prophecy related to Russia and the West, but so did a well-known swami in Southern India, Vallalār, also known as Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal. This important figure in Tamil history is mentioned as Chidambaram Ramalingam Pillai Avergal (also called Arulprakasa Vallalare) in Theosophy, and this yogi…
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Testimony of Communist and Civil Rights Activist Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
“In the first place, wherever I’ve been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against Fascism were the Communists (…) I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist (…) You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of…
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Maria Carlson on the Influence of Theosophy on Russian Culture in the Russian Silver Age
In September 1990, the Soviet Union officially ended its policy of state-sponsored atheism, approving a tolerant law on freedom of conscience as people were entering the Church in record numbers. The fall of Communism in Russia in 1991 also led to the end of long years of a ban and suppression against Theosophy during the Soviet era.…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 3 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER III Having described the English and the characteristics they have developed here, let us look at the natives and see how far they have deserved their harsh fate. Let me here express a thought which may seem paradoxical, though it is supported by irrefutable facts. The Hindus lack and are incapable of…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 2 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER II H.P. Blavatsky calls the attitudes between the English and Indians, that of two blind men. “In India, wherever two Englishmen meet, complaints about the “fiendish ingratitude of the black devils” are soon heard and wherever two natives encounter each other, complaints about the “dark intentions of the white oppressors” will…
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Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings on Racism and Colonialism in India, 1 of 3
FROM THE DURBAR IN LAHORE, CHAPTER I H.P. Blavatsky gives her humane view of the realities of colonial India in The Durbar in Lahore. In Blavatsky’s Eloquent Anti Racist Colonialism Editorial 1/3, it says this editorial is from Chapter 3 of The Durbar in Lahore, which is planned for publication in the second volume of Blavatsky’s Russian Travel Writings by…
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Before the Conversion: Helena Blavatsky on Shakyamuni Buddha and Buddhism
The nineteenth-century saw its first public Western converts to Buddhism, or this is how it is usually defined in books. Although Helena P. Blavatsky cannot be described as a “Western convert,” H.P.B. and Henry S. Olcott, an American lawyer who worked on U.S. President Lincoln’s assassination case, were the two leading movers of the Theosophical…
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“Hello, on the Road!” | Alexandrov Ensemble
A People’s folksong during Russian Civil War, performed by Red Army Choir. THE PATH
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Helena Blavatsky Biography Russian Documentary
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY. BEST DOCUMENTARY (ENGLISH DUBBED) The fascinating life of H.P.B. Helena Petrovna von Hahn was born in Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav), a town in Southern Russia (now Ukraine), under the Romanov Dynasty and old Russian Empire. Her mother Helena de Fadeyev was a renowned novelist, and her grandmother, Princess Helena Pavlovna Fadeyeva-Dolgorukov was a botanist and writer. Her maternal…
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