The American Minervan

Tag: Spirit

  • John Tavener: Fragments of a Prayer

    John Tavener’s Fragments of a Prayer

  • 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…

  • Remembrance of the Gods: What the Origin of the Term Soul in English Reveals

    Remembrance of the Gods: What the Origin of the Term Soul in English Reveals

    Origin of Soul and Spirit in English In our English, the sawol (from saiwalō; Proto-Germanic origins) or soul meant life, animate existence, living being, or the spiritual and emotional part of a being. Around 971, this term also referred to the “spirit” of a deceased person. The terms “soul” and “spirit” became in the English confusedly synonymous and passed down…