Tag: Theosophy
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The Evolution of the God-Idea | H.P. Blavatsky on the Limits of the Greeks and Christians
DIVINE THOUGHT, OR CINERITIOUS MATTER (The Secret Doctrine Vol. 1, Page 327): A section from the 1888 work of H.P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine (pp. 326-28: Divine Thought, or Cineritious Matter) discusses the evolution of the GOD-IDEA. This is the beginning of some far more dense commentary on occult physics that will be central to…
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Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky on the True Meaning of Satan
𓄂𓆃 INTRODUCTION “LET US THEN FATHOM THIS CREATION OF THE PATRISTIC FANCY STILL DEEPER.” Helena Blavatsky Satan יְהֹוָה in its original conception means adversary and differs from the later Dantian and Christian conception of popular imagination. According to H.P. Blavatsky, SATAN, a concept held by other ancient nationalities, “is one of the most profoundly philosophical…
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Kalachakra and Theosophy: The Sources of the Book of Dzyan and Kiu-te in The Secret Doctrine and Tantras
The Secret Doctrine Connection to the Kalachakra, ANCIENT RELIGION, ORIGINS OF KABBALAH and the Mystery-Language OF THE INITIATES “These facts take us well beyond the realm of probability. Blavatsky indeed had esoteric northern Buddhist sources” (David Reigle) INTRODUCTION On the authorship of The Secret Doctrine: a facsimile of a letter from K.H. to William Quan Judge…
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“Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public”
“Between these two conflicting Titans — Science and Theology — is a bewildered public” “IT is nineteen centuries since, as we are told, the night of Heathenism and Paganism was first dispelled by the divine light of Christianity; and two-and-a-half centuries since the bright lamp of Modern Science began to shine on the darkness of…
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Laura Holloway & Blavatsky: Against Mediumship and Spiritualist Practices
H.P. Blavatsky found in the growing adversaries of Spiritualist proponents to Theosophy sufficient need to declare it would have nothing to do with it. She goes on with the enquirer, noting a pattern in the fates of mediums mental states and bodies. The letter which follows after in the latter part of August 1884 to…
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The Influence of Theosophy on Russian Culture in the Russian Silver Age
Maria Carlson and other Collected Writings In September 1990, the Soviet Union officially ended its policy of state-sponsored atheism, approving a tolerant law on freedom of conscience as people were entering the Church in record numbers. The fall of Communism in Russia in 1991 also led to the end of long years of a ban and suppression…
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Adolf Hitler’s Religion and Ideological Influences in National Socialism
National Socialism in Germany arose partially out of a folk movement in Germany connected to Romanticism and politically existed nearly two decades prior to Hitler. In its manifestation as a matured aesthetic and political force under Hitler, we find that by 1934, economists reported that the Germans look on Hitlerism as a Religion with “no…
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Friedrich Nietzsche on the Overman • Narrated by Peter Sjöstedt-H)
Peter Sjöstedt-H reads Nietzsche’s own words on the concept of the Overman/Superman (Übermensch) Create a Man beyond this one. There is a true need for a new aim, a higher type of Man, to better preserve itself. This kind of society is not capable of bringing it about. The Man it produces has reached its…
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Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…
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The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky and Others
Prof. William G. Dever (Archaeologist, Anthropologist,University of Arizona) says the Torah is a “Minority Report” “To understand Paul, we have to realize that in antiquity, all monotheists were polytheists by our modern definition. Everyone (…) acknowledged the existence of everybody else’s gods. Back then, not only were you born into cultic obligations to the gods of…
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Matt Dillahunty to Jordan Peterson: “Science can’t confirm the supernatural”
Jordan Peterson asks Matt Dillahunty in their debate, or dialogue, why don’t atheists contend with the major philosophical and theological sources. He gives an expected answer, which instead of pouting about, should be listened to, regarding evidence of the supernatural. Matt Dillahunty to Jordan Peterson: “I think this gets basically to the same point I…
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The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea
The Connection of the Theosophy of the Trans-Himalayan Adepts to Tibetan Buddhism, Kabbalism, Ancient Iran and Chaldea “No comparison between our real Brahmanical and the Tibetan esoteric doctrines will be possible unless one ascertains the teachings of that so-called “Aryan doctrine,” . . . and fully comprehends the whole range of the ancient Aryan philosophy.” — T.…
The American Minervan 