Tag: Satan
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Tragedy of Satan the Double-Headed Dragon
THE GOD OF THE THEOLOGIANS, THE JEWISH GOD-NAME AND THE ANCIENT MYTH OF THE TWIN BROTHERS IT IS A MISTAKE TO VIEW HELENA BLAVATSKY’S DISMANTLING OF BIBLICAL POLEMICS as threatening, even anti-Semitic as she has been falsely accused of. She often spends a great deal explaining just as she does with the history of the…
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Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan
𓄂𓆃 ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE MISQUOTE IN KINGSFORD’S “PERFECT WAY” ON THE SECRET OF SATAN H.P.B. STATES THAT “THE TRUE ESOTERIC VIEW ABOUT “SATAN,” the opinion held on this subject by the whole philosophic antiquity, is admirably brought out in an appendix, entitled “The Secret of Satan,” to the second edition of Dr. A. Kingsford’s…
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Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky on the True Ancient Meaning of Satan
INTRODUCTION — THE JEWISH AND THEOSOPHICAL POSITION, AND DEVIL-WORSHIP Satan יְהֹוָה in its original conception means adversary and differs from the later Dantian and Christian conception of popular imagination. According to H.P. Blavatsky, SATAN, a concept held by other ancient nationalities, “is one of the most profoundly philosophical and ideal conceptions of ancient thought” (The…
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Blavatsky questions Eliphas Levi interpretation of the Astral Light and Lucifer
The Astral Light and Lucifer What is called energy and force in Science is the very soul of the world, and light is according to the Occult Philosophy of the Alchemists, a spiritual secretion. The knowledge of the real nature of Light will, we are told, leads to knowledge of what is called the correlation…
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Interpretations of Serpents and Dragons in Theosophy and Ancient Mythology
Part I. ON “Human Serpents” and Immortal Sages: ANCIENT INITIATES CALLED SERPENTS MEANING “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew x: xvi) ⊕ “(…) the “Serpent” and “Dragon” were the names given to the “Wise Ones,” the initiated adepts…
The American Minervan 