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The Adoration of Wisdom & Education in Theosophy and the Order of Illuminati | “Hiraf” Article on the Rosicrucians and Illuminati

8 Aug 201820 Dec 2018No Comments

Blavatsky Hopes Truth will Prevail So do we “They worship Hermes (WISDOM) most of gods. And they swear an oath by Him alone, and say that they were born from Hermes (WISDOM).”—Herodotus, Thrace: The Getai and the Trausians, Bk 5.7; see Robert B. Strassler, The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, pg. 368 and The Liberator-God in … Continue reading The Adoration of Wisdom & Education in Theosophy and the Order of Illuminati | “Hiraf” Article on the Rosicrucians and Illuminati

Archaeology Professors on Pseudoarchaeology in Theosophy

22 May 201814 Feb 20193 Comments

There is no objection to teaching about Theosophy in an Archaeology college class. This will explain why archaeologists and paleontologists, or biologists would even do so, by explaining the views on evolution and human origins in the nineteenth-century Theosophical literature, where it all began. However, the idea Heinrich Himmler was inspired by Theosophy is highly … Continue reading Archaeology Professors on Pseudoarchaeology in Theosophy

Matt Dillahunty to Jordan Peterson: “Science can’t confirm the supernatural”

4 May 20189 Dec 2018No Comments

Jordan Peterson asks Matt Dillahunty in their debate, or dialogue, why don’t atheists contend with the major philosophical and theological sources. He gives an expected answer, which instead of pouting about, should be listened to, regarding evidence of the supernatural. Matt Dillahunty to Jordan Peterson: “I think this gets basically to the same point I … Continue reading Matt Dillahunty to Jordan Peterson: “Science can’t confirm the supernatural”

Rachel Weisz’s Hypatia in Agora: “I Believe in Philosophy”

20 Jan 20187 Aug 20182 Comments

“There have been times when “a considerable portion of enlightened minds” were taught in our schools. Such times there were in India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. But, as I remarked (…) the adept is the efflorescence of his age, and comparatively few ever appear in a single century. Earth is the battle-ground of moral no … Continue reading Rachel Weisz’s Hypatia in Agora: “I Believe in Philosophy”

The Difficult Jargon of Occultists and the Graeco-Latin Terminology of Scientists

9 Jan 2018No Comments

“These sciences are, and have been for ages, hidden from the vulgar, for the very good reason that they would never be appreciated by the selfish educated classes, who would misuse them for their own profit, and thus turn the Divine science into black magic, nor by the uneducated, who would not understand them. It is often … Continue reading The Difficult Jargon of Occultists and the Graeco-Latin Terminology of Scientists

The ‘Scientific Aristocracy’ and the Vanity Of Materialist Philosophers

3 Nov 201717 May 2018No Comments

“Materialistic scientists will be driven out of their position not by spiritual, theosophical, or any other physical or even mental phenomena, but simply by the enormous gaps and chasms that open daily and will still be opening before them (…) until they are finally knocked off their feet by the ninth wave of simple common sense.”— … Continue reading The ‘Scientific Aristocracy’ and the Vanity Of Materialist Philosophers

Rewriting the History of Science: Roger J. Boscovich in the Secret Doctrine

26 May 201717 May 2018No Comments

Despite a few grammatical errors in this obscure journal article, Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787), a Rasgusan physicist in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s “The Secret Doctrine” (1888). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to the great philosophers, and into modern physics. This history is hidden, not by … Continue reading Rewriting the History of Science: Roger J. Boscovich in the Secret Doctrine

Philosophers and Philosophicules, and the Mission for Philosophical Renaissance

28 Apr 201717 May 2018No Comments

Theosophy As An Equivalent Of Philosophy H.P. Blavatsky saw the theosophical movement as an attempt to initiate a new renaissance, as known with the later general European Renaissance, and not as a literary club, nor of quietists. Philosophicules (term. a combination of philosophism and homunculus), a clever title, was written October 1889 in the LUCIFER Magazine, … Continue reading Philosophers and Philosophicules, and the Mission for Philosophical Renaissance

Race and IQ — Sam Harris and Charles Murray Set the Record Straight on Intelligence Testing

26 Apr 2017No Comments

This is an excerpt from episode 73 of Waking Up with Sam Harris, published on the 22nd of April 2017, titled Forbidden Knowledge, in which Sam Harris talks to Charles Murray about racial, cultural, and gender specific IQ differences. Charles Murray on the level of sophistication geneticists have studied in the variations of the human … Continue reading Race and IQ — Sam Harris and Charles Murray Set the Record Straight on Intelligence Testing

Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle

19 Apr 201720 Apr 2018No Comments

“The problem of life is man. Magic, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being; which forces are Divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge (…) We begin with instinct: the end is OMNISCIENCE”. (Alexander Wilder, see The Secret Doctrine, … Continue reading Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle