Tag: Theosophy
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Age of the Rule of Faith: Irenaeus dispute with Gnostic Narcissus
Act of Irenaeus (Bishop of Lyon) disputing with Narcissus Gnostics and Scientific-Thinking Pagans (Christians invent the Rule of Faith) Christian Exclusive Truth Claims and Emphasis on Right Belief vs Pagan and Eastern Religions (Valerie Tarico) “The Church of Rome was Gnostic – just as much as the Marcionites were – until the beginning and even…
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Aleister Crowley and Thelema critiques of Theosophists
A COMMON MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THEOSOPHISTS Many Theosophists early-on and still today belonged to and represented their particular tradition, or religion to its highest, being specialized and trained within them in their deeper meanings, and tied to some actual superior, or superiors (priests, gurus) of the group, or religion they belonged to. A Theosophist was hence…
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History of a Word: Greek Origin of “Theosophy”
THE NEOPLATONISTS, DIOGENES AND THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THE TERM THEOSOPHY, CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM & THE 1875 THEOS. SOC. There are multiple ways to describe Theosophy, whether technical, mystical, from the special point-of-view of the mystic through their experience, or in describing the ancient wisdom of peoples and religions throughout human history. We must go outside…
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Tragedy of Satan the Double-Headed Dragon
𓄂𓆃 THE GOD OF THE THEOLOGIANS, JEWISH GOD’S NAME AND THE MYTH OF THE TWIN BROTHERS IT IS A MISTAKE TO VIEW HELENA BLAVATSKY’S DISMANTLING OF BIBLICAL POLEMICS as threatening, even anti-Semitic as she has been falsely accused of. She often spends a great deal explaining just as she does with the history of the…
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Historical Connection of Born-Again Christianity to 17th century Theosophers, Occultism and Alchemy
Theosophy and Mike A. Zuber on the Nature and Roots of “Born-Again” Christianity traced to the clandestine network of theosophers, Rosicrucians and alchemical Paracelsianism around 1600 are connected to the later spiritual movements of the American settlers. The beliefs of post-liberal Catholic conservatives that Gnosticism is creeping into church theology are mute, against a long…
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The Practice of Concealing Spiritual Wisdom
Thoughts on the persecution and exclusion of the marginalized ‘esotericist’ in Western Culture and the difference between Ancient and Modern Esotericism in an illuminating paper from Michael L. Frazer’s “Esotericism Ancient and Modern:Strauss Contra Straussianism on the Art of Political-Philosophical Writing,” Political Theory 34:1,February 2006, pp. 33-61. In Stanley Rosen’s Hermeneutics as Politics, a critique…
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Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan
𓄂𓆃 ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE MISQUOTE IN KINGSFORD’S “PERFECT WAY” ON THE SECRET OF SATAN H.P.B. STATES THAT “THE TRUE ESOTERIC VIEW ABOUT “SATAN,” the opinion held on this subject by the whole philosophic antiquity, is admirably brought out in an appendix, entitled “The Secret of Satan,” to the second edition of Dr. A. Kingsford’s…
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Thaumaturgic Sots, Hankering after Phenomena and Power
“Try to break thro’ that great maya (illusion) against which occult students, the world over, have always been warned by their teachers – the hankering after phenomena. Like the thirst for drink and opium, it grows with gratification. The Spiritualists are drunken with it; they are thaumaturgic sots. If you cannot be happy without phenomena…
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Alliance of the Fascists, Jesuits and the Vatican
The Church polemic against Freemasonry and Theosophy is the same as the Fascists. The main two adepts associated with the early Theosophical Society did in fact believe in a grand conspiracy about the Jesuit Order. Their letters also exhibit a prevailing prejudice and attitude born out of conflicts between the Gelugpas and Kagyupas for supremacy…
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Sarat Chandra Das the Bengali Spy, Sengchen Tulku and the Maha-Chohan Connection
Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868-1922) pioneered the introductions of Tibetan Buddhism to Europe and America and was one of the earliest translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts into the English language. One of these Tibetan Buddhist texts was the “Book of the Dead” with Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz. Kazi Dawa Samdup said of Helena P. Blavatsky’s writings, that…
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Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case
STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH HELENA BLAVATSKY AFFECTS ADEPT CONNECTIONS TO THEOS. SOC. During a period that The Secret Doctrine was being written, Olcott’s relationship with H.P.B. had become more strained, and it is said K.H. materialized a letter on Olcott’s table saying of H.P.B., that the Adepts have no favorites. K.H. adds, despite H.P.B.’s personality and…
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Alan Watts: Be Absolutely Willing to Die
A lecture that helped me years ago. Don’t put the question of death off til later. It is the most important thing to consider now. “‘Memento mori.’ ‘Be mindful of death.’ Gurdjieff says in one of his books, that the most important thing for anyone to realize, is that you and all you, every person…
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