Tag: Theosophy

  • Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan

    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…

  • Thaumaturgic Sots, Hankering after Phenomena and Power

    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…

  • Alliance of the Fascists, Jesuits and the Vatican

    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…

  • Sarat Chandra Das the Bengali Spy, Sengchen Tulku and the Maha-Chohan Connection

    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…

  • Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case

    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…

  • Alan Watts: Be Absolutely Willing to Die

    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…

  • Four Kinds of Esoteric Sciences in Hindu Philosophy | Helena Blavatsky

    Four Kinds of Esoteric Sciences in Hindu Philosophy | Helena Blavatsky

    Anton Levey once defined Occultism as a “Do it yourself God-kit,” leaving out the significance of ethics, self-discipline and morality. This is not what Occultism is once we explore it. This is to understand Occultism more fully as a Tree with Branches (Practices, Sciences and Departments), not a singular thing, a benevolent nor nefarious thing.…

  • Ranbir Singh in the Flesh: Was Morya the Maharajah Ranbir Singh?

    Ranbir Singh in the Flesh: Was Morya the Maharajah Ranbir Singh?

    RANBIR SINGH IN THE FLESH: WAS MORYA THE MAHARAJAH RANBIR SINGH? As to Sahib Morya, K. Paul Johnson made two confusing suggestions that K.H. and M. was the Hindu Rajput Ranbir Singh (1830-1885), who was the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (from 1856-1885). The prince Ranbir Singh was a Vedantist, fond of speaking Pashto; and…

  • Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy

    Tamil Swami Ramalingam Pillai’s Prophecy

    YOGI RAMALINGAM PILLAI PROPHECY Daleep Singh and Thakur Singh had a prophecy related to Russia and the West, but so did a well-known swami in Southern India, Vallalār, also known as Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal. This important figure in Tamil history is mentioned as Chidambaram Ramalingam Pillai Avergal (also called Arulprakasa Vallalare) in Theosophy, and this yogi…

  • Speculations about Thakur Singh Sandhawalia: Were the Theosophical Masters Sikh?

    Speculations about Thakur Singh Sandhawalia: Were the Theosophical Masters Sikh?

    K Paul Johnson claimed to provide a “suggestion” and “persuasive case” of his findings. Beginning with K.H. (Koot Hoomi or Kuthumi). K. Paul Johnson suggests K.H. was Sardar Thakur Singh Sandhawalia, the chief and founder of the Sikh Singh Sabha Movement in India who was involved in patriotic efforts in the freedom movement from the…

  • Case of the Masters, their Disciples and Sponsors behind the Theosophical Movement

    Case of the Masters, their Disciples and Sponsors behind the Theosophical Movement

    INTRODUCTION THIS SERIES WILL PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE AND HISTORY about the “the Masters” that were said to be secret sponsors behind the Theosophical Movement and its operations. These circles of adepts, including their disciples and associates were said to have activities in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas…

  • Spiritual Philosophy without God: Subba Row on Pragna and the God of Theology

    Spiritual Philosophy without God: Subba Row on Pragna and the God of Theology

    Edited December 2023 The positions of Tallapragada Subba Row on PRAGNA are also the doctrine of Samkhya and the Nepalese Svabhavikas on the nature of reality. T. Subba Row attempts to solve in his Collected Writings the issue between Personal God vs. Impersonal God. Subba Row explains, that the theory of a god outside of Space…