Tag: Science
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“I Believe in Philosophy” (script) scene from Hypatia
Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here…have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It’s only a matter of time and you know it.Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?…As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors.…
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The Difficult Jargon of Occultists and the Graeco-Latin Terminology of Scientists
“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…
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Quotes on the Scientific Aristocracy and Vanity of Modern Philosophers
QUOTES “France, why do you misunderstand us? European and American Journalists, why don’t you study genuine Theosophy before criticizing it? Because scientific aristocracy is full of vanity and struts on stilts of its own fabrication; because modern philosophy is materialistic to the roots of its hair; because both, in their pride, forget that in order to…
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Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine and Revisionist History of Science connection to Occultism
Rasgusan physicist Roger J. Boscovich (1711-1787) is mentioned in Helena Blavatsky’s book “The Secret Doctrine” written in 1888. Roger J. Anderton examines the use of Roger J. Boscovich in The Secret Doctrine in his paper, Boscovich in the Esoteric Tradition of Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine (July 21, 2014). R.J. Anderton argues that ancient notions have passed down to…
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Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle
“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 Real magical operations…
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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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Occultism and the Source of Magical Knowledge
INTRODUCTION OCCULTISM AND THEOLOGY I had explained in Six Points on “Magic”: Theosophy rejects Supernaturalism and Miracle the source of Magic in Occult Philosophy. Theology attributes miracles simply to God, Angels and Saints, through the power of God. The occultist is the explorer intent on discovering the real cause of various hidden phenomena and the…
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“Time destroys the speculations of man” – William James, 1907
“I fully expect to see the pragmatist view of truth run through the classic stages of a theory’s career. First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves…
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The Limitations of Tolerance to all Religions | Sophia Wadia
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 as personal criticisms but as facts against mis statements (…) Theosophy is in the world for that purpose. We are not to be self-assertive nor…
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The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet
The Secret Doctrine defends the doctrine on the Seven Numerations of Man and Nature, held by the Trans-Himalayan Occultists’ School taught in the Theosophical system. Helena Blavatsky did not invent Theosophy, nor this concept, but explains it in no way others have hitherto done. She further tied this to Greek Esotericism (Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven…
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Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”
Sam Harris mentions Helena P. Blavatsky in the first chapter of Waking Up: Guide on Spirituality without Religion (2014), and he committed a poor mistake, with a very inaccurate, and incompetent account. It is rare for such an author to even mention Blavatsky, but it is unfortunate again, as always, that it is a slight,…
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