The American Minervan

Tag: Universal Brotherhood

  • Blavatsky and Mazzini’s Vision of Progress

    Blavatsky and Mazzini’s Vision of Progress

    Blavatsky and Mazzini adopted the same view towards communism and socialism. Both maintained a unique position in republicanism as a force for the progress of a moralistic and humanitarian syncretic religious vision, “universal brotherhood,” and ethical duty-driven virtue. This vision was divorced from socialism and communist revolutionaries, the emergent “new atheism” of that time (which…

  • Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘Brotherhood’

    Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘Brotherhood’

    M.L.K. “Through our scientific and technological genius we’ve made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers—or we will all perish together as fools.” (Martin Luther King Jr.) “The term ‘Universal Brotherhood’ is no…

  • Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”

    Sam Harris dishonesty about Helena Blavatsky in “Waking Up”

    Sam Harris mentions Helena P. Blavatsky in the first chapter of Waking Up: Guide on Spirituality without Religion (2014), and he committed a poor mistake, with a very inaccurate, and incompetent account. It is rare for such an author to even mention Blavatsky, but it is unfortunate again, as always, that it is a slight,…