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  • The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven

    The Early Greek Natural Philosophers of Physis and the Way of Heaven

    In the spirit of the ancient Ionian and Eleatic thinkers, who sought the archē, the fundamental principle of all things through reason and observation of physis or dynamic generative nature as a self-unfolding process of emergence. INTRODUCTION The key to Theosophy can also be found in the Hellenic cosmology of the early Greek natural philosophers…

  • The Septenary Principles of Man: Zurvanite Zoroastrian and Theosophical Classification

    The Septenary Principles of Man: Zurvanite Zoroastrian and Theosophical Classification

    R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan. A Zoroastrian Dilemma, Oxford, 1955, pp. 323, 334) demonstrates, that the Zurvanite Zoroastrian (a now extinct school of thought) classification (referring to levels of being or existence) is near identical to the Tāraka Rāja Yoga classification. However, as the Theosophical [esoteric] classification show, that the septenary division of man is explained in…

  • The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet

    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…