Tag: Theosophy
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Popularizing Genuine Theosophy in our Age
The success of an attempt of such a kind as the one you propose, must be calculated and based upon a thorough knowledge of the people around you. It depends entirely upon the social and moral conditions of the people in their bearing on these deepest and most mysterious questions which can stir the human…
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NYT calls H.P. Blavatsky an Anti-Semitic influence on Nazis
The New York Times profiles Tony Hovater, a white nationalist, and uses a poor source accusing H.P. Blavatsky of being an Anti-Semitic influence on the National Socialists. In this last month’s New York Times profile article “I Interviewed a White Nationalist and Fascist, What Was I Left With?” its journalist, Richard Fausset claimed that Helena Blavatsky was…
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The Philosophical Wisdom of the Pre-Christian World Survives and Lives On
The philosophical wisdom of the pre-Christian World survives, and lives on, and with us, will advance, and shape the coming eras with the help of earnest, dedicated students, which must be genuine and honest. This honesty includes dismantling the lies about antiquity, that has shielded our theologians for centuries. “Let it not be imagined that…
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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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The Swastika and the Star of David: A Combined Theosophical Emblem
THE SWASTIKA AND HEXAGRAM DO NOT ORIGINATE with the Nazis and the Jews. These two symbols are part of a symbolic language, established upon natural and pure transcendental and metaphysical realities in connection to life and the cosmos. The four-armed wheel (or cross) and the double-interlaced triangle have hitherto become the symbols of two political…
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Carl Orff: Lucia Popp: “In Trutina”
Lucia Popp sings “In Trutina” (Between Chastity and Love) in Carl Orff’s Carmina Baruna.
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Popular Occulture in Scotland and Scottish Theosophy: Michael Shaw on “The Theosophical Press in Scotland”
Presented at the “Periodical Occulture and the Occult Public Sphere.” 14th July 2017. Synopsis “This paper discusses the Theosophical periodical press in Scotland c.1880-1920, and it argues that these periodicals reveal a particular Theosophical culture in Scotland. Focusing on two titles that were unique to Scotland, Theosophy in Scotland and Occult, Scientific and Literary Papers Read…
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Eric Kurlander on German and Austrian Occultism, and the Politicization of Populist Folkdom
The National Socialists tried to subvert German Theosophists to support the Reich. “There’s a general trend toward a post-traditional spiritualism or transcendentalism in France and Britain (and there are many good books that look at those movements in parallel to Germany). The difference I think is that it was more privatized and apolitical. The kind…
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Witnesses of Morya, the Identity of Koot Hoomi and Connections to Tibet and the Panchen Lama
THE MULTIPLE WITNESSES OF MORYA AND WHY MORYA WASN’T THE MAHARAJAH RANBIR SINGH The master known as Morya had visited the Theosophical Society Headquarters at Bombay, and a joint statement of seven Theosophists (including Olcott) was given as quoted in Hints on Esoteric Theosophy (No. 1, 1882, pp. 75-76): “We were sitting together in the…
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Jiddu Krishnamurti repudiates the Convergence of Theosophy and his Teaching
The most comprehensive collection of Krishnamurti’s true thoughts on Theosophy. Gathered by the Rishi Valley Study Centre (Working Paper #4, May 1995, Revised October 1996 by Hans and Radhika Herzberger). Jiddu Krishnamurti utterly rejected the convergence of his thought and Theosophy, and his wishes should be respected. Contemporary Theosophists have to let go of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and trying to…
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Baptized with Fire: Proclus and Simonian Theosophy on the Symbolism of Fire and Water
“I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)” LUKE 3:16 Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The Meaning of Fire in Baptism Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai…
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Helena Blavatsky predicts Europe Catastrophe, World War and Adolf Hitler
HELENA BLAVATSKY SPEAKING ON FREDERICK III OF PRUSSIA PREDICTS CATASTROPHE FOR EUROPE BEFORE DEATH, FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR “In the prognostication of such future events, at any, all foretold on the authority of cyclic recurrences, there is no psychic phenomenon involved. It is neither prevision, nor prophecy; no more than is the signaling of…
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