Tag: Theosophy
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Theosophy in Star Wars: The Force, Its Sides and the “Two Paths”
TWO CENTRAL CONCEPTS IN STAR WARS AND THEOSOPHY: THE FORCE AND THE TWO PATHS There is no coincidence to the fact, there are similarities between Star Wars and Theosophy. The former is a fictional universe, but the latter is an actual high philosophical collection of teachings and ethical codes. In no other school of thought…
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Annie Besant before Theosophy and her Story
Annie Besant was women’s rights and labor activist, a British intellectual and orator. Annie Besant left the Anglican Church, and became a secularist reformer, as an atheist and Fabian socialist. Her deepening interest in theosophy caused her to break with the Fabians and Marxists. This was before she joined the T.S. — “marching towards theosophy” around 1888. Helena P. Blavatsky had some…
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Beelzebub and Baphomet
Beelzebub (Gr. Βεελζεβούλ., Heb. ba’al z’bub). Described as “Monarch of Hell” (The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2., 389 fn.) in Demonology. This god is defined as “lord of the flies” in the text of the Torah: 2 Kings 1: 2-3, 6, and 16; and in the Christian canon: Matthew 10:24-26, Matthew 12:22-28, Mark 3:21-26, and Luke 11:14-20, where Iesous…
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Luciferous Protogonos, The God the Ancients Call “The First-Born”
PRE-CHRISTIAN AND MYTHIC ORIGINS COMMENTARY ABOUT THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE LUCIFEROUS describes the radiance of the FIRST PRINCIPLE born from the Great Mother and Father-GOD in nearly every ancient cosmogony. Here, we will give a different meaning of LUCIFER, or the morning star, that is based upon the Graeco-Roman MYSTERIES, known under the titles…
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Carl Orff: Ave Formosissima!
“VENUS, VENUS, VENUS — GENEROSA (noble Venus)!” “Ave formosissima,gemma pretiosa,ave decus virginum,virgo gloriosa,ave mundi luminar,ave mundi rosa,Blanziflor et Helena,Venus, generosa!”
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English Magic in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: If Occultism became Reputable
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell takes place in an alternative timeline in the early nineteenth-century, where magic becomes demonstrated and reputable amongst society. It delves into issues and disputes within the history of Occultism to consider. Despite exaggerating Magic at times, it would still be of interest to those that study ancient, medieval and nineteenth-century occult philosophy…
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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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John Tavener: “Mother and Child”
“Mother and Child” “Hail Maria, Hail Sophia…” Hail Nature, Hail Spirit, Wisdom of God, Soul of the World.
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Manly P. Hall: the Great Value of Blavatsky’s “The Secret Doctrine”
Manly P. Hall on the influence of H.P.B.’s writings from his Landmarks of Esoteric Literature Lecture “We have not yet reached that point in international thinking, in which we could be fair about the opinions, beliefs, and convictions of other peoples; and even today, if a poll were taken, I think it would be safe…
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“I Dread The Appearance In Print Of Our Philosophy” | The Mahatma Letter No. 56
“By most of your gold worshipping countrymen our facts and theorems would be denominated fancy-flights, the dreams of madmen.” The Occult Philosophy taught to the Theosophists does not belong to them, but to the men, that were teachers to H.P.B. There has been much disrespectful misrepresentation and abuse of that philosophy which has devalued perception…
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Helena P. Blavatsky’s “Bird’s Eye View” Predicted the Fate of Theosophists
“Night before last I was shown a bird’s eye view of the theosophical societies. I saw a few earnest reliable theosophists in a death struggle with the world in general and with other – nominal and ambitious – theosophists. The former are greater in number than you may think, and they prevailed – as you…
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Pseudo-Theosophy and Pseudo-Messiahs: Imitations of Theosophy
Helena Blavatsky is sometimes referred to as the “Mother of the New Age” movement. This is not only untrue, but also not the compliment those that argue this to define her legacy seem to think it is. It can be strongly demonstrated that H.P. Blavatsky would have critiqued the New Age movement more harshly than…
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