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  • Pan-Esotericism in African Religious Tradition: Roots of the “Divine Spark”

    Pan-Esotericism in African Religious Tradition: Roots of the “Divine Spark”

    The “divine spark” refers to the inner divine principle that makes a being fully human and capable of ultimate spiritual realization. The claim made by certain European racist occultists (e.g., some 19th–20th century esoteric racists) that Black Africans or people of African descent lack the “divine spark” (the Logos, Atman, Nous, scintilla animae) is philosophically,…