Tag: Stoicism
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Logos and Divine Providence in George Washington’s Faith
An equivalent of the “divine spark” in ancient Stoic philosophy is the logos spermatikos, which was transmitted through Roman Republicanism, Christianity, and Enlightenment thinkers. While George Washington’s writings and speeches do not explicitly use the term, his quiet Christian faith relies heavily on Christian divine providence, natural rights endowed by a Creator, and the moral…
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George Washington on the Sacred Fire of Liberty and the Republic
The doctrine on the sacred fire (i.e., the divine spark) and noumenal fire came from far antiquity — from Africa, from the Jewish Sodalites, from Aryavarta, from the natives of Persia, the seven Greek sages, and the Hellenistic and Roman Stoicism down to American Republicanism. When first chief, George Washington stated in his first Inaugural…
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The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study
THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) are pivotal to Theosophy and was the basis of the approach of the Theosophical Movement teaching to “The West.” In nineteenth-century developments between interactions of ‘Western Philosophy’ and ‘Eastern Philosophy,’ the Theosophists at the helm were discouraging the psycho-somatic and psychic breath forms of Yoga…
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Jean Varenne on the Reactions to Julius Evola on Buddhism
“Let us leave modern men to their ‘truths’ and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.” JULIUS EVOLA Evola’s writings on Buddhism may help to dispel some misunderstanding about Buddhism. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad provides the same approach we will take here with Julius Evola. JEAN…
The American Minervan 