Tag: Theosophy
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Blavatsky’s Interpretation of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
“Were it light alone, inactive and absolute, the human mind could not appreciate nor even realise it (…) According to the views of the Gnostics, these two principles are immutable Light and Shadow, Good and Evil being virtually one and having existed through all eternity, as they will ever continue to exist so long as…
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Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge: ‘Though They Are Gods, Still They Are Not To Be Worshiped’
“I say there are many gods, but one God of all these gods, incomprehensible and unknown to all (…) a Power of immeasurable and ineffable Light, whose greatness is held to be incomprehensible, a Tower which the maker of the world does not know.” (Simon Magus, Clemens Recognitiones from the Clementine Literature) “They boast ethereal vigour and…
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The Secret Doctrine Commentaries on Gods and the Seven Planetary Regents
COMMENTARY ON BLAVATSKY LODGE MEETING, 1888 (EDITED 7/28/2020). I briefly introduced in the topic of sun-gods and fire-gods, the explanation of the ancient so-called “fire” and “sun-worshipers” held by our many and various ancestors; and that in truth, they did not die entirely in vain believing wholly in superstitions. Now, much of the purpose of The…
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Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries
In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…
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Helena Blavatsky Biography Russian Documentary
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY. BEST DOCUMENTARY (ENGLISH DUBBED) The fascinating life of H.P.B. Helena Petrovna von Hahn was born in Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav), a town in Southern Russia (now Ukraine), under the Romanov Dynasty and old Russian Empire. Her mother Helena de Fadeyev was a renowned novelist, and her grandmother, Princess Helena Pavlovna Fadeyeva-Dolgorukov was a botanist and writer. Her maternal…
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Inspiring Buddhist Truths: All Beings have the Buddha Nature
No matter, what is happening in the world, remember the dignity of every human being; and feel the pains and sorrow of man, as in relation to your own. Remember, all mankind is suffering on various levels in this life. རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང༌། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང༌། ། རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། །རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། ། “Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading, Because reality is undifferentiated, And…
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Sir Malcolm Murray “Night Work” Script: Season 1
“Come Join Me,” says Sir Malcolm Sir Malcolm Murray: “You seem to be a free thinker, able to imagine a world not bound by such what we consider ‘truth’.” Dr. Victor Frankenstein: “You mean the supernatural?” Sir Malcolm Murray: “I mean the place where science and superstition go hand in hand. An anatomist of your calibre would…
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What are the Principles of a Theosophical Group?
The principles of a group called Theosophical would be: [1] “Brotherhood [camaraderie] of man, without distinction of race, color, religion, or social position. [2] The serious study of the ancient world-religions for purposes of comparison and the selection therefrom of universal ethics; [3] the study and development of the latent divine powers in man (…)” —Theosophical…
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Hermetic Undertone of the Theosophical Society’s Foundations
K.H., The Mahatma Letters, Letter no. 85, December 7, 1883 “(…) As the lady has rightly observed, the Western public should understand the Theosophical Society to be “a Philosophical School constituted on the ancient Hermetic basis” — that public having never heard of the Tibetan, and entertaining very perverted notions of the Esoteric Buddhist System.…
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Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Secret of Gnosis and the Dignity of Man
Pico della Mirandola on the secret of Gnosis
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James M. Pryse On The Delphian Key-Note of Esotericism: Plato’s Four Degrees of Knowledge
Theosophist, James Morgan Pryse describes the true meaning of the Delphian axiom, “Man, Known Thyself,” in his highly interesting work, Apocalypse Unsealed: Being an Esoteric Interpretation of Initiation (1910). Pryse argued, that the “Book of the Revelation” of Iaonnes (John) is not a book detailing the past, nor the future; but was a book designed to…
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Limitations of Christian Cabalists and Bible Challenge Authority of Western Esotericism
Does the limitations of Kabbalah and the Christian Bible in the Studies of Esotericism blind Western Philosophers? Helena P. Blavatsky challenged the esotericists of her time, who saw in the Bible, the final authority, even in the area of esoteric study. “And now it has come to this: The student interested in the Secret Sciences…
The American Minervan 