tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24905755978187910752024-03-17T20:04:21.607-07:00Blavatsky News 2.0News Desk for Blavatskian Studies in the 21st CenturyMark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-43942478797396297862024-03-17T09:56:00.000-07:002024-03-17T11:53:35.740-07:00Blavatsky, William Butler Yeats, Mysticism and the Occult<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="ant-row css-1mqg3i0"><div class="Episode__TitleWrapper-hholEX hTfDfa"><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5IXwdhN-f5Hzwrjt2KKjY0SICnjxSkER3DFHMX7j3cpV2YzGlHsUFnaqlCywzrGCKEvdbJfk1K1GUuzr08EqXzQttTCQ60l3uZeiftrrR8AVUGp601e4LZa47byEuYTQCo-abHsgshzqOoHW8Uo3PTLkBj5qSq7-NncK38R70HOVt2Q1qntEx7UdHXKRV/s350/yeats12.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBBxd4IpMYWwrEZyQiukvFZ-CNKQwJ0nd0AB4dvTznhPiX3L4nLz_aVDkuqD0dGv35_RMqwpO-jlR6sfcs3u5PT9RIiX-gq_MWwFdrLCQHrIdp3HqdaEtUa9eTdvAQLJ2Eq5Ertg9iggP9VOJ7RTxaz39nLJoqgwzP41tgFqHttvc7CskNzqXt19lmRou/s500/yeats13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="334" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPBBxd4IpMYWwrEZyQiukvFZ-CNKQwJ0nd0AB4dvTznhPiX3L4nLz_aVDkuqD0dGv35_RMqwpO-jlR6sfcs3u5PT9RIiX-gq_MWwFdrLCQHrIdp3HqdaEtUa9eTdvAQLJ2Eq5Ertg9iggP9VOJ7RTxaz39nLJoqgwzP41tgFqHttvc7CskNzqXt19lmRou/w268-h400/yeats13.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page">Worried
that this blog might be considered unpoetical, I thought this post was
overdue, and to pay proper respects to the Theosophical movement's great
Irish heritage...</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"> </span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Come away, O human child!</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">To the waters and the wild</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">With a faery, hand in hand</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">For the world's more full of weeping</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">than you can understand</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stolen_Child">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stolen_Child</a> <br /></span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"> </span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page">A lot of mainstream journalistic and academic writings gloss over Yeats' Theosophical experience, but see:</span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Theosophy and the Theosophical Society</span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"><a href="https://www.yeatsvision.com/Theosophy.html">https://www.yeatsvision.com/Theosophy.html</a></span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page"> </span></span></div><div class="Typography__Title-dbqVEe AEcqr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page">A-Mysticism, Celtic Myth & the Occult - Online Library Exposition<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-spc2/exhibits/show/yeats/mysticism"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="exhibit-page">https://web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-spc2/exhibits/show/yeats/mysticism</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">B -<a href="https://hibernianmetropolis.humspace.ucla.edu/" rel="home">"In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis"</a><span> Online Research Exhibition<br /></span></span></div><a href="https://hibernianmetropolis.humspace.ucla.edu/about/ "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://hibernianmetropolis.humspace.ucla.edu/about/ </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1-The Occult Fascinations of poet William Butler Yeats Podcast<br /></span></span></div><div class="Episode__EpisodeInfoWrapperWithButton-iqAYZM eQVFte"><div class="Episode__EpisodeInfoWrapper-iahTuw fXcXRc"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><time class="Episode__DatePublish-hIaZnt jczMkH" datetime="2023-10-06T18:18:43.192Z">Friday, October 6, 2023</time></span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/night-night-bitch/episodes/william-butler-yeats-occult-magus-golden-dawn-theosophical">https://shows.acast.com/night-night-bitch/episodes/william-butler-yeats-occult-magus-golden-dawn-theosophical</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">2-</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Pilgrim Soul: WB Yeats & the Ireland of his Time Daniel Mulhall</span></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">SONJA TIERNAN Dec11, 2023</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> <br /></span></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/12/09/pilgrim-soul-readable-portrayal-of-the-enigma-of-wb-yeats/">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2023/12/09/pilgrim-soul-readable-portrayal-of-the-enigma-of-wb-yeats/</a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">3- W. B. Yeats and Mysticism Faisal Al-Doori 2022<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-8314-6-sample.pdf">https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-8314-6-sample.pdf</a></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Yeats_the_Initiate/zJ5jDUwgJFQC?hl=en&gbpv=1">https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Yeats_the_Initiate/zJ5jDUwgJFQC?hl=en&gbpv=1</a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">4- </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Making the Void Fruitful </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="font-semibold">Patrick J. Keane 2021<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0275">https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0275</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">5- A Review of A Reader’s Guide to Yeats’s A Vision 2021<br />Neil Mann, A Reader’s Guide to Yeats’s A Vision (Clemson, SC: Clemson University<br />Press, 2019), pp.408, ISBN: 978-1-942954-62-0, $130.<br />Reviewed by Claire Nally</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=iys ">https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=iys <br /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">6</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">- The Battle of Blythe Road - Film Trailer, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto" style="font-family: georgia;">Jun 11, 2020</span></span><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/">https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/</a></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiR-HAwYI4s "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiR-HAwYI4s <br /></span></a></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div></div></div><div class="entry-title cb-entry-title cb-single-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">This essay published on various sites - Dismissive treatment of Blavatsky and Theosophy, outdated, inaccurate and lacks historical method<br /></span></div><div class="entry-title cb-entry-title cb-single-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">7- William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia</span></div><div class="cb-byline"><div class="cb-author"> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/author/evanmantyk/">The Society</a> <time class="updated" datetime="2020-05-19">May 19, 2020</time></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2020/05/19/william-butler-yeats-and-the-occult-an-essay-by-adam-sedia/">https://classicalpoets.org/2020/05/19/william-butler-yeats-and-the-occult-an-essay-by-adam-sedia/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><header class="indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0" data-testid="article-header"><div class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_heading2 indo-300db776_none indo-c0ff676e_displayinline indo-91174671_primary indo-66f0fec7_medium indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit" data-testid="article-title" style="color: var(--color-text-grey-base); text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">8- On his relationship with artist Edmund Dulac -Yeats's Occultism </span><br /></div><div class="date-header" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tuesday, September 25, 2018</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://yeatsvision.blogspot.com/2018/09/yeatss-occultism.html">http://yeatsvision.blogspot.com/2018/09/yeatss-occultism.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">9<span style="font-weight: normal;">- W.B. Yeats Loved Tarot Cards</span></span></div><div class="article-authors byline"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/daily-author/amy-shearn/">Amy Shearn</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><time class="timestamp timestamp--published" datetime="2018-06-13T12:05:36-04:00">June 13, 2018</time></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/w-b-yeats-loved-tarot-cards/">https://daily.jstor.org/w-b-yeats-loved-tarot-cards/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span class="aw-post-title">10- W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Mysticism, and the Occult
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Academie Gnostique hosts W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Mysticism, and the Occult at 6 p.m. on Friday, November 17, 2017 at 126 Baronne Street.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mikita Brottman, PhD, is professor of humanistic studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore<span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.antenna.works/w-b-yeats-poetry-mysticism-and-the-occult/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.antenna.works/w-b-yeats-poetry-mysticism-and-the-occult/ <br /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">11- </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Edited by Matthew Gibson and Neil Mann 2017</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/yeats-philosophy-and-the-occult-edited-by-matthew-gibson-and-neil-mann/ ">https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/yeats-philosophy-and-the-occult-edited-by-matthew-gibson-and-neil-mann/ </a></span></div><div class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_heading2 indo-300db776_none indo-c0ff676e_displayinline indo-91174671_primary indo-66f0fec7_medium indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit" data-testid="article-title" style="color: var(--color-text-grey-base); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_heading2 indo-300db776_none indo-c0ff676e_displayinline indo-91174671_primary indo-66f0fec7_medium indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit" data-testid="article-title" style="color: var(--color-text-grey-base); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">12- Magic, Myth and Secrecy - WB Yeats and the occult</span></span></div></header><div class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4" data-testid="title-summary" style="color: var(--color-primary-80); text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Poet dallied with 'the other side', writes Michelle McDonagh Fri 8 May 2015 </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/magic-myth-and-secrecy-wb-yeats-and-the-occult/31207213.html">https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/magic-myth-and-secrecy-wb-yeats-and-the-occult/31207213.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"></span></div><div class="title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">13 -Talking to the Gods, 2015<br /></span></div><div class="title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Contributors/G/Graf-Susan-Johnston">Susan Johnston Graf</a></span></div><div class="title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Talking-to-the-Gods ">https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Talking-to-the-Gods </a></span></div><div class="title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="title" style="text-align: left;"><div class="page__title" id="page-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">14- W.B. Yeats, Magus</span></div>
<div class="excerpt"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For William Butler Yeats, poetry was a kind of magic.</span></div>
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<div class="author" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/jamie-james">Jamie James</a> <span class="LEwnzc Sqrs4e"><span>Jul 29, 2012</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/magic-myth-and-secrecy-wb-yeats-and-the-occult/31207213.html">https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/w-b-yeats-magus </a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-74016910080875545632024-02-07T06:21:00.000-08:002024-02-07T08:53:16.134-08:00Blavatsky on Norse Scandinavian Mythology<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscM63XPs_ICG8wOXHQ7q7lB73-JCoMRVQzN2VEcyZahV4Fc3q07AbxJ1Ens_kRyhbpHV5nzucE79TnwoRgMFgZp4njRvlngm9DhiG-5-hQe_OzvZfXL4dGMGjJz26JtFWmCS6hBWNbcpzCwUWilLCv2dAwEKI3jM6b1VpPan0kxr_Mam-1jouFUE05K7-/s1025/norse4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscM63XPs_ICG8wOXHQ7q7lB73-JCoMRVQzN2VEcyZahV4Fc3q07AbxJ1Ens_kRyhbpHV5nzucE79TnwoRgMFgZp4njRvlngm9DhiG-5-hQe_OzvZfXL4dGMGjJz26JtFWmCS6hBWNbcpzCwUWilLCv2dAwEKI3jM6b1VpPan0kxr_Mam-1jouFUE05K7-/w313-h400/norse4.jpg" width="313" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the many innovations that Blavatsky brought to the study of world religions is the integration of esoteric and mystical interpretation into the burgeoning study of Norse mythology. An introduction to her fairly extensive writing on the subject. Note that Blavatsky's interest was of a spiritual nature. She did not give any political interpretations and did not prioritize specific racial interpretations </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of this topic</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.<br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_cosmology">Scandinavian Cosmogony</a> — placed by
Professor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller">Max Muller,</a> in point of time, as “far anterior to the Vedas” in the
poem of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1">Voluspa </a>(the song of the prophetess), the Mundane egg is again
discovered in the phantom-germ of the Universe, which is represented as lying
in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnungagap"><i>Ginnungagap</i></a> (1)— the cup of illusion (<i>Maya</i>) the boundless
and void abyss. In this world’s matrix, formerly a region of night and
desolation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim"><i>Nebelheim</i></a><i> (2)</i> (the mist-place, the <i>nebular</i> as it is
called now, in the astral light) dropped a <i>ray of cold light</i> which
overflowed this cup and froze in it. Then the <i>Invisible</i> blew a
scorching wind which dissolved the frozen waters and cleared the mist. These , called the streams of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liv%C3%A1gar"><i>Elivagar</i></a>, (3) distilling in
vivifying drops, fell down and created the earth and the giant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir"><i>Ymir</i>,</a> (4)
who only had “the semblance of man” (the Heavenly man), and the cow, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%B0umbla"><i>Audhumla</i></a>
(5) (the “mother” or astral light, Cosmic Soul) from whose udder flowed <i>four</i>
streams of milk (the four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of
Eden, etc., etc.) and which “four” allegorically are symbolized by the <i>cube</i>
in all its various and mystical meanings. (Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1, 387)<br /></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 480;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 221.4pt;" valign="top" width="295">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>1-</i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><i> Ginnungagap</i></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">boundless
and void abyss</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">cup of
illusion (<i>Maya</i>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>2- </i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><i>Nebelheim</i></a>, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Nifiheim </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">mist-place
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">the <i>nebular</i>
as it is called now, in the astral light</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">3- streams
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liv%C3%A1gar"><i>Elivagar</i></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">waters
(chaos)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">4- </span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir"><i>Ymir</i>,</a></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">
</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">giant, semblance
of man</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">Heavenly
man</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><i>5 -Audhumla</i></a>, cow,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">“mother”
or astral light, Cosmic Soul</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"> four</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"> streams of milk</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">four
cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of Eden, cube</span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2-JzFCO1rBnwXv20LnjHQcaYn2oIi4DE_YnqZWLFkkvuRoCQG1Gi8Sr9K7hN-0PSOtehj9cvjUKrkDOBoS3-Ms_ky24KFL-M6s85d8KzuU-FqbWnhzN7eCiR2hhjZWyQh5kVWpveoBp5zAGPYBSWd6xf4zeaxHGtOO1DIh4dsK-VuG4GO-4HDAbElTZF/s385/norse2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2-JzFCO1rBnwXv20LnjHQcaYn2oIi4DE_YnqZWLFkkvuRoCQG1Gi8Sr9K7hN-0PSOtehj9cvjUKrkDOBoS3-Ms_ky24KFL-M6s85d8KzuU-FqbWnhzN7eCiR2hhjZWyQh5kVWpveoBp5zAGPYBSWd6xf4zeaxHGtOO1DIh4dsK-VuG4GO-4HDAbElTZF/s320/norse2.jpg" width="183" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) There is no obvious reference to an egg here, in Blavatsky's main source, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><i><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=XIUAAAAAMAAJ&q=ostara#v=snippet&q=ostara&f=false">Asgard and the Gods</a> </i><span>(</span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vb1v8xokwoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><a href="https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wagner_(Philologe)">WilhelmWagner</a>, 1880)</span></span><span class="d2edcug0hpfvmrgzqv66sw1bc1et5uqllr9zc1uha8c37x1jfe6kdd0rmau55g9wc8b282ybkeod5gw0nxhoafnmaigsh9s9d3f4x2emiv3no6dbjq4qci2qa3bd9o3vb1v8xokwoo9gr5idhzawbc8m"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">, p. 22:' </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 44.02%; top: 50.38%; transform: scaleX(0.990788);">Allfather,</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 56.02%; top: 50.38%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 58.09%; top: 50.04%; transform: scaleX(1.05126);">the</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 61.91%; top: 50.04%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 63.9%; top: 50.27%; transform: scaleX(1.13477);">Uncreated,</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 77.63%; top: 50.27%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 79.54%; top: 50.05%; transform: scaleX(1.06278);">the</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 83.4%; top: 50.05%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 85.27%; top: 50.22%; transform: scaleX(1.15575);">Unseen, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 9.38%; top: 52.61%; transform: scaleX(1.11749);">dwelt</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 16.14%; top: 52.61%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 18.09%; top: 52.81%; transform: scaleX(1.22383);">in</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 20.21%; top: 52.81%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 21.45%; top: 52.66%; transform: scaleX(1.06278);">the</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 25.31%; top: 52.66%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 26.97%; top: 52.96%; transform: scaleX(1.01992);">depth</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 34.02%; top: 52.96%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 35.73%; top: 52.64%; transform: scaleX(1.06278);">of</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 38.3%; top: 52.64%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 39.58%; top: 52.63%; transform: scaleX(1.07409);">the</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 43.48%; top: 52.63%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 45.23%; top: 52.97%; transform: scaleX(1.11749);">abyss</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 51.99%; top: 52.97%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 53.65%; top: 52.47%; transform: scaleX(1.05987);">and</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 58.05%; top: 52.47%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 59.79%; top: 53%; transform: scaleX(1.10841);">willed,</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 67.84%; top: 53%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 69.17%; top: 52.46%; transform: scaleX(1.06977);">and</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 73.61%; top: 52.46%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 75.35%; top: 52.44%; transform: scaleX(1.08741);">what</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 81.37%; top: 52.44%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 83.28%; top: 52.47%; transform: scaleX(1.03486);">he</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 86.14%; top: 52.47%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 87.72%; top: 52.64%; transform: scaleX(1.0056);">willed </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 9.29%; top: 54.93%; transform: scaleX(1.09102);">came</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 15.81%; top: 54.93%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 16.97%; top: 55.27%; transform: scaleX(1.14992);">into</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 21.74%; top: 55.27%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 22.7%; top: 55.69%; transform: scaleX(0.999838);">being.' Similar to Hiranyagharba myth? Although more <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mythsandfolklore/2023/03/cosmic-egg-in-the-creation-myths-around-the-world/">recent research </a>equates the egg with the rune </span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haglaz"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 22.7%; top: 55.69%; transform: scaleX(0.999838);">Haglaz.</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 22.7%; top: 55.69%; transform: scaleX(0.999838);"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 22.7%; top: 55.69%; transform: scaleX(0.999838);"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ginnungagap
<i>(Scand</i>.). The “cup of illusion” literally ; the abyss of the great
deep, or the shoreless, beginningless, and endless, yawning gulf; which in
esoteric parlance we call the “World’s Matrix”, the primordial living space.
The cup that contains the universe, hence the “cup of illusion”. (Theosophical Glossary)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Nifiheim
(<i>Scand.</i>). The cold Hell, in the <i>Edda</i>. A place of eternal
non-consciousness and inactivity. (See <i>Secret Doctrine</i>, Vol. II., p.
245). (TG)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) Elivagar <i>
(Scand</i>.).
The waters of Chaos, called in the cosmogony of the Norsemen “the stream of
Elivagar”. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(TG)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Ymir<b> </b>
(<i>Scand</i>.). The
personified matter of our globe in a seething condition. The cosmic monster in
the form of a giant, who is killed in the cosmogonical allegories of the <i>
Eddas</i> by the three creators, the sons of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borr"> B<span>ö</span>r</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin">Odin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_and_V%C3%A9">Wili and We</a>, who are said to have conquered Ymir and created the world out
of his body. This allegory shows the three principal forces of
nature—separation, formation and growth (or evolution) conquering the unruly,
raging “giant” matter, and forcing it to become a world, or an inhabited globe.
it is curious that an ancient, primitive and uncultured pagan people, so
philosophical and scientifically correct in their views about the origin and
formation of the earth, should, in order to be regarded as civilized, have to
accept the dogma that <i>the world was created out of nothing!</i> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(TG)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiae0laDepfuwt00vdx6hlyvWnozzsQyaE_OZ7VCzq2nfoqcJWnmLAiNuxG4oaj3-AkiGV_1ErNzXsyOsvfW8WTxBU7z2ZBKCnAsekZ2M7IqmFDTRBLAfDuPZEICM6QhPEGKutEXZmehJRI_hm33mvOFEOFDdQbx_aVD0L-7r2hQiRWgbtqZt2cTybyZlti/s756/norse5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiae0laDepfuwt00vdx6hlyvWnozzsQyaE_OZ7VCzq2nfoqcJWnmLAiNuxG4oaj3-AkiGV_1ErNzXsyOsvfW8WTxBU7z2ZBKCnAsekZ2M7IqmFDTRBLAfDuPZEICM6QhPEGKutEXZmehJRI_hm33mvOFEOFDdQbx_aVD0L-7r2hQiRWgbtqZt2cTybyZlti/s320/norse5.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Audumla<b> </b>
(<i>Scand.</i>) The Cow of
Creation, the “nourisher”, from which flowed four streams of milk which fed the
giant Ymir or Örgelmir (matter in ebullition) and his sons, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn">Hrimthurses (Frost giants</a>), before the appearance of gods or men. Having nothing to graze
upon she licked the salt of the ice-rocks and thus produced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BAri">Buri,</a> “the Producer”
in his turn, who had a son B<span>ö</span>r (the born) who married a daughter of the Frost
Giants, and had three sons,<i> Odin </i>(Spirit), <i>Wili </i>(Will), and We
(Holy). The meaning of the allegory is evident. It is the precosmic union of the
elements, of Spirit, or the creative Force, with Matter, cooled and still
seething, which it forms in accordance with universal Will. Then the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86sir">Ases</a>, “the
pillars and supports of the World” </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(<i>Cosmocratores</i>), step in and <i>
create</i> as All-father wills them. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(TG)</span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-32646724105710779282023-12-30T13:55:00.000-08:002023-12-30T14:21:33.892-08:00Blavatsky's Epic New Year Message for 1889<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcnbABqOxpuu5ADwQEWM9yoXLOEQG87prykBIS3YzoImAp5tpjl73EySltY9r8ZD4RWWYSWK2O_mWnttEPcC9Ed8HiHQnl1TBBGHDWYGMQ03HwSGHf-ah_tOB3IsZ3xyFGXml-a_TmBAonda1-2doJD943EMJzsywzxMsjPiAGyE8sQGkui6q55IAntO4k/s871/blav2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcnbABqOxpuu5ADwQEWM9yoXLOEQG87prykBIS3YzoImAp5tpjl73EySltY9r8ZD4RWWYSWK2O_mWnttEPcC9Ed8HiHQnl1TBBGHDWYGMQ03HwSGHf-ah_tOB3IsZ3xyFGXml-a_TmBAonda1-2doJD943EMJzsywzxMsjPiAGyE8sQGkui6q55IAntO4k/w241-h400/blav2.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Back
in the day, Blavatsky could write a mean New Year's message. Some are
quite epic in scope. Why not begin the New Year in style with all the
proper esoteric gravitas from one of the eminent occult philosopher's of
recent times?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v10/">Blavatsky Collected Writings volume 10</a> 277-285</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">THE YEAR IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE YEAR!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">DECEMBER, 1888, AND JANUARY, 1889</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[Lucifer, Vol. III, No. 17,January, 1889, pp. 353-359]</span></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>LUCIFER sends the best
compliments of the season to his friends and subscribers, and wishes them a
happy New Year and many returns of the same. In the January issue of 1888,
Lucifer said: “<b>. . . . <span style="color: #274e13;">let no one imagine that it is a mere fancy, the
attaching of importance to the birth of the year. The earth passes through its
definite phases and man with it; and as a day can be coloured so can a year.
The astral life of the earth is young and strong between Christmas and Easter.
Those who form their wishes now will have added strength to fulfil them
consistently.” He now repeats what was said and adds: Let no one mistake the
importance and potency of numbers—as symbols. Everything in the Universe was
framed according to the eternal proportions and combinations of numbers. “God
geometrizes,” and numbers and numerals are the fundamental basis of all systems
of mysticism, philosophy, and religion. The respective festivals of the year
and their dates were all fixed according to the Sun—the “father of all
calendars” and of the Zodiac, or the Sun-god and the twelve great, but still
minor gods; and they became subsequently sacred in the cycle of national and tribal
religions.</span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A year ago, it was stated by
the editors that 1888 was a dark combination of numbers: it has proved so
since. Earthquakes and terrible volcanic eruptions, tidal waves and landslips,
cyclones and fires, railway and maritime disasters followed each other in quick
succession. Even in point of weather the whole of the past year was an insane
year, an unhealthy and uncanny year, which shifted its seasons, played ducks
and drakes with the calendar and laughed at the wiseacres who preside over the
meteorological stations of the globe. Almost every nation was visited by some
dire calamity. Page 277</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Prominent among other
countries was Germany.
It was in 1888 that the Empire reached, virtually, the 18th year of its
unification. It was during the fatal combination of the four numbers 8 that it
lost two of its Emperors, and planted the seeds of many dire Karmic results.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>What has the year 1889 in
store for nations, men and theosophy, and what for Lucifer? But it may be wiser
to forbear looking into Futurity; still better to pray to the now ruling Hosts
of Numbers on high, asking them to be lenient to us, poor terrene ciphers.
Which shall we choose? With the Jews and the Christian Kabalists, the number of
their deity—the God of Abraham and Jacob—is <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>10, the number of perfection, the
ONE in space, or the Sun, astronomically, and the ten Sephiroth,
Kabalistically. But the Gods are many; and every December, according to the
Japanese, is the month of the arrival, or descent of the Gods; therefore there
must be a considerable number of deities lurking around us mortals in astral
space. The 3rd of January, a day which was, before the time of Clovis,
consecrated to the worship of Isis—the goddess-patroness of Paris who has now
changed her name and become Ste.-Geneviève, “she who generates life”—was also
set apart as the day on which the deities of Olympus
visited their worshippers. The third day of every month was sacred to Pallas
Athene, the goddess of Wisdom; and January the 4th is the day of Mercury
(Hermes, Budha), who is credited with adding brains to the heads of those who
are civil to him. December and January are the two months most connected with
gods and numbers. Which shall we choose?—we ask again. “This is the question.”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>We are in the Winter
Solstice, the period at which the Sun entering the sign of Capricornus has
already, since December 21st, ceased to advance in the Southern Hemisphere,
and, cancer or crablike, begins to move back. It is at this particular time
that, every year, he is born, and December 25th was the day of the birth of the
Sun for those who inhabited the Northern Hemisphere.Page 278</span></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It is also on December the 25th, Christmas,
the day with the Christians on which the “Saviour of the World” was born, that
were born, ages before him, the Persian Mithra, the Egyptian Osiris, the Greek
Bacchus, the Phoenician Adonis, the Phrygian Attis. And, while at Memphis the people were
shown the image of the god Day, taken out of his cradle, the Romans marked
December 25th in their calendar as the day natalis solis invicti. </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Sad derision of human
destiny. So many Saviours of the world born unto it, so much and so often
propitiated, and yet the world is as miserable—nay, far more wretched now than
ever before—as though none of these had ever been born!</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6VW4wJ5DNlXu1Q4kicUGT0hkY716v5kJkQ599rNmPlkT2Uyu1g_Npir63ICkk1-rzp4H6EIdrl2JKR93HWihUZ9TBIyIcuc-A34G_iO3ByR5fvcsInT4fnqPGYQg-LmZq5A1MRSuNbkJt3Rmqcn4dvOqmfdr6v5Q-4KDJNvmffOs9pUzGwZOSGt_FaeZC/s1092/janus1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="908" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6VW4wJ5DNlXu1Q4kicUGT0hkY716v5kJkQ599rNmPlkT2Uyu1g_Npir63ICkk1-rzp4H6EIdrl2JKR93HWihUZ9TBIyIcuc-A34G_iO3ByR5fvcsInT4fnqPGYQg-LmZq5A1MRSuNbkJt3Rmqcn4dvOqmfdr6v5Q-4KDJNvmffOs9pUzGwZOSGt_FaeZC/s320/janus1.png" width="266" /></a></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>January—the Januarius
dedicated to Janus the God of Time, the ever revolving cycle, the double-faced
God—has one face turned to the East, the other to the West; the Past and the
Future! Shall we propitiate and pray to him? Why not? His statue had 12 altars at
its feet, symbolising the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the twelve great gods,
the twelve months of the solar year and—the twelve Apostles of the Sun-Christ.
Dominus was the title given to the Sun by the ancients; whence dies domini,
dies solis, the “Sun-days.” Puer nobis nascitur dominus dominorum, sing the
Roman Catholics on Christmas day. The statue of Janus-January carried engraved
on his right hand the number 300, and on his left, 65, the number of the days
in the Solar year; in one hand a sceptre, in the other a key, whence his name
Janitor, the door-keeper of the Heavens, who opened the gates of the year at
its beginning. Old Roman coins represent Janus bifrons on one side, and a ship
on the other.</b></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlsGJ_zin92lLwdO4yvJD0e_NSqMW4IEAztkWgRgJEKRuxTl__jVjIvCnfWqJpieXnMzfbD0Vo9M61kRv1iCWUFsd9sWeXBDpsckySTpcIkg7YZrM60tQuf8PBNACASSrbHURGSLXdhfq6xnu119yrwO_Fi9QoPnjRfrvyVj1vUxTpwLwx4EwQfbMAH9A/s306/janus2.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="306" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlsGJ_zin92lLwdO4yvJD0e_NSqMW4IEAztkWgRgJEKRuxTl__jVjIvCnfWqJpieXnMzfbD0Vo9M61kRv1iCWUFsd9sWeXBDpsckySTpcIkg7YZrM60tQuf8PBNACASSrbHURGSLXdhfq6xnu119yrwO_Fi9QoPnjRfrvyVj1vUxTpwLwx4EwQfbMAH9A/s1600/janus2.webp" width="306" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Have we not the right to see
in him the prototype of Peter, the fisherman of the celestial ship, the Janitor
of Paradise, to the gates of which he alone holds the keys? Janus presided over
the four seasons. Peter presides over the four Evangelists. In Occultism the
potency and significance of Numbers and Numerals lie in their right application
and permutation.</b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span>If we have to propitiate any mysterious number at all, we have
most decidedly to address Janus-Peter, in his relation to the ONE—the Sun. Now
what would be the best thing for Lucifer and his staff to ask from the latter
for 1889? Our joint wishes are many, for our course as that of true love, does
not run altogether smooth. Page 279</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Thus addressing the bright
luminary in perpetual abscondito beyond the eternal fogs of the great city, we
might ask him for a little more light and warmth in the coming year than he
gave us in the year 1888. We might entreat him at the same time to pour a
little light into the no less befogged heads of those who insist on boycotting
Lucifer under the extraordinary notion that he and Satan are one. Shine more on
us, O, Helios, Son of Hyperion! Those on whom thou beamest thy greatest
radiance must be, as in the legend of Apollo, good and kind men. Alas, for us.
The British Isle will never be transformed, in this our cycle, into the isle of
Aea, the habitat of Helios, as of the children of that God and the Oceanide
Perseis. Is this the occult reason why our hearts become, with every year,
colder and more indifferent to the woes of mankind, and that the very souls of
the multitudes seem turning into icicles? We ask thee to shed thy radiance on
these poor shivering souls.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Such is Lucifer’s, our
Light-bearer’s fervently expressed desire. What may be that of the Theosophical
Society in general, and its working members in particular? We would suggest a
supplication. Let us ask, Brethren, the Lord on High, the One and the SOLE (or
Sol), that he should save us from the impudent distortion of our theosophical
teachings. That he should deliver us in 1889 from his pretended priests, the “Solar
Adepts” as they dub themselves, and their sun-struck followers, as he delivered
us once before; for verily “man is born unto trouble,” and our patience is
well-nigh exhausted!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>But, “wrath killeth the
foolish man”; and as we know that “envy slayeth the silly one,” for years no
attention was paid to our ever increasing parodists. They plagiarized from our
books, set up sham schools of magic waylaid seekers after truth by deceiving
them with holy names, misused and desecrated the sacred science by using it to
get money by various means, such as selling as “magic mirrors” for £15,
articles made by common cabinet makers for £1 at most. Page 280</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>With them, as with all
charlatans, fortune-tellers, and self-styled “Adepts,” the sacred science of
Theosophia had become when kabalistically read—Dollar-Sophia. To crown all,
they ended by offering, in a most generous manner, to furnish all those
“awakened” who were “disappointed in Theosophical Mahatmas” with the genuine
article in the matter of adeptship. Unfortunately the said article was traced
in its turn to a poor, irresponsible medium, and something worse; and so that
branch of the brood finally disappeared. It vanished one fine morning into thin
air leaving its disconsolate disciples thoroughly “awakened” this time, and
fully alive to the sad fact, that if they had acquired less than no occult
wisdom, their pockets, on the other hand, had been considerably relieved of
their weight in pounds and shillings. After their Exodus came a short lull. But
now the same is repeated elsewhere.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>(I cut this part. See <a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v10/y1889_001.htm">original.</a> </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>For whatever reason, for better and for worse, Blavatsky was influential, and it took about five minutes for imitators to emerge. She attests here to the extent of
Theosophical influence in her own time.)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrk_Cp2T5RG-U0kxFMxx4P0mKpQSB1L5cYhK4zNwLmkkiu9a_mmRaAg9y8XLYBZAPWxlSDvxgKep_P85-7zbWUAuOD-q3i89KlNzyB7qVTZcCe0xFg1lIP_2XewcI1G0Zhbf3w698cC0sRwaB9ziG2FWgy93PHQanraSkOpkyR6FyC0nKXh2W3CYfzrepJ/s320/blavatskyflagg.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="320" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrk_Cp2T5RG-U0kxFMxx4P0mKpQSB1L5cYhK4zNwLmkkiu9a_mmRaAg9y8XLYBZAPWxlSDvxgKep_P85-7zbWUAuOD-q3i89KlNzyB7qVTZcCe0xFg1lIP_2XewcI1G0Zhbf3w698cC0sRwaB9ziG2FWgy93PHQanraSkOpkyR6FyC0nKXh2W3CYfzrepJ/s1600/blavatskyflagg.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Therefore, let us, in our
turn, recite a heartfelt conjuration (the ancient name for prayer), and invoke
the help of the powers that be, to deliver us from the painful necessity of
exposing those sorry “make-believes” in Lucifer once again. Let us ring the
theosophical Angelus thrice for the convocation of our theosophical friends and
readers. If we would draw on us the attention of Sol on High, we must repeat
that which the ancients did and which was the origin of the R.C. Angelus. Page
283</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The first stroke of the bell
announced the coming of Day; the appearance of Gabriel, the morning messenger,
with the early Christians, of Lucifer, the morning star, with their predecessors.
The second bell, at noon, saluted the glory and exalted position of the Sun,
King of Heavens; and the third bell announced the approach of Night, the Mother
of Day, the Virgin, Isis-Mary, or the Moon.</b></span> Having accomplished the prescribed
duty, we pour our complaint and say:—</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Turn thy flaming eye, O SOL,
thou, golden-haired God, on certain trans-atlantic mediums, who play at being
thine Hierophants! Behold, they whose brain is not fit to drink of the cup of
wisdom, but who, mounting the quack’s platform, and offering for sale
bottled-up wisdom, and the homunculi of Paracelsus, assure those of the gaping
mouths that it is the true Elixir of Amrita, the water of immortal life! Oh,
bright Lord, is not thine eye upon those barefaced robbers and iconoclasts of
the systems of the land whence thou risest? Hear their proud boasting: “We
teach men the science to make man”(!). The lucrative trade of vendors of
Japanese amulets and Taro cards, with indecent double bottoms, having been cut
off in its full blossom in Europe, the Eastern
Wisdom of the Ages is now abandoned. According to their declarations, China, Japan,
old India and even the
Swedenborgian “land of the Lost Word” have suddenly become barren; they yield
no more their crop of true adepts; it is America, they say, the land of the
Almighty Dollar, which has suddenly opened her bowels and given birth to
full-blown Hierophants, who now beckon to the “Awakened.” Mirabile dictu! But
if so, why should thy self-styled priests, O great SUN, still offer as a bait a
mysterious Dwija, a “twice born,” who can only be the product of the land of Manu? And why should those pretended and
bumptious servants of thine, oh Sûrya-Vikarttana, whose rich crop of national
adepts, if “home-made,” must rejoice as a natural rule in purely Anglo-Saxon
and Celto-German names, still change their Irish patronymics for those of a
country which, they say, is effete and sterile, and whose nations are “dying
out”? Page 284</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Has another Hindu name and
names been discovered in the Great Hub, as a peg and pegs whereon to hang the
modest pretensions of the Solar Magi? Yea, they belie truth, O Lord, and they
bend their tongues like quill pens for lies. But—“the false prophets shall
become wind, for the word is not in them.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>TO DARE, TO WILL, TO ACHIEVE
AND KEEP SILENT is the motto of the true Occultist, from the first adept of our
fifth Race down to the last Rosecroix. True Occultism, i.e., genuine Raj-Yoga
powers, are not pompously boasted of, and advertised in “Dailies” and
monthlies, like Beecham’s pills or Pears’ soap. “Woe unto them that are wise in
their own eyes; for the wise man feareth and keeps silent but the fool layeth
open his folly.”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Let us close by expressing a
hope that our Theosophist brothers and sisters in America will pause and think before
they risk going into a “Solar” fire. Above all, let them bear in mind that true
occult knowledge can never be bought. He who has anything to teach, unless like
Peter to Simon he says to him who offers him money for his knowledge—“Thy money
perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of (our inner) God
may be purchased with money”—is either a black magician or an IMPOSTOR. Such is
the first lesson taught by Lucifer to his readers in 1889.</span></span></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-15995359308850226982023-11-29T07:55:00.000-08:002024-02-19T18:20:25.487-08:00Blavatsky and neo-theosophy (3/3) Myth Theory, Philosophy of History, Sociology of Pop Culture<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy.html"><b></b></a><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy.html"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FtImc9wL5iU4AIJJg4F_KxV10ulK491Pq_thztfmILLFmf4ad6-7-jDdSlM1dfnKvbeRlRrcnXgCf4XzMv0Lx-CzSMZCPd4w-agg-nFDGGEiXjwKlzeoSD3Oyvr3AgUoSDWxpu-DHHDwIDvCP3rRqTVn6QAz6kd_LNNMRufJMXhZVX5S_KYEYFrDNrSE/s399/blavatskyisis.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FtImc9wL5iU4AIJJg4F_KxV10ulK491Pq_thztfmILLFmf4ad6-7-jDdSlM1dfnKvbeRlRrcnXgCf4XzMv0Lx-CzSMZCPd4w-agg-nFDGGEiXjwKlzeoSD3Oyvr3AgUoSDWxpu-DHHDwIDvCP3rRqTVn6QAz6kd_LNNMRufJMXhZVX5S_KYEYFrDNrSE/w301-h400/blavatskyisis.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy.html">Part 1 </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>HBO’s <span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/"> </a></span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/">Love Has Won</a>: </span></span> The Cult of Mother God, <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2023/11/love-has-won-trailer-release-date.html">Docuseries </a><span lang="EN-CA">was the 8<sup>th</sup> most watched show on Max in its
first of three episodes (and the second episode reached #3) . It is the tragic story of Amy Carlson and an
alternative spirituality group with an eclectic mix of beliefs and practices
with some questionable elements that have raised eyebrows. </span><span lang="EN-CA">The theology of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Has_Won">Love Has Won</a> has been described as fluid, combining
New Age spirituality, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theories</a>, and elements from mainstream
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="">Abrahamic
religions</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the first two parts, I examined how certain concepts of esoteric cyclical history may have filtered down into the Love Has Won 'Galactic A-Team' chart in a more modern mass media pop culture form. In this post, I'd like to take a brief look of how these original ideas have been developed along more rational lines. <span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3">It
begins with a passage from H. P. Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled I, <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2017/05/theosophy-basics-doctrine-of-cycles.html">ch. 1, p. 34</a>,
about the doctrine of cycles:</span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #990000;">‘’Thus, all those great characters who tower like
giants in the history of mankind, like Buddha-Siddartha, and Jesus, in the
realm of spiritual, and Alexander the Macedonian and Napoleon the Great, in the
realm of physical conquests, were but reflexed images of human types which had
existed ten thousand years before, in the preceding decimillennium, reproduced
by the mysterious powers controlling the destinies of our world.’’ (34)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">William Q. Judge elaborates on this notion in The
Ocean of Theosophy, <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ocean/oce-14.htm">chapter 4</a>, 1893; (he further elaborates on the subject in
his <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gita/bg1.htm">first essay</a> on the Bhagava Gita, 1895: <br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ccnTOBgBzd17GzvWrWDHDD3Yd7GFswipxXJOPJm1J7htepSS_2qX26tO5sD5JQontd0k1YP1_nD1QhIIif-BB0SmGic2jcy6OPNFTTQ_hnrLvTDrrFmc6jQlcPzdIyHkeib1q0OMbGU6sWLrpulkua66nXZ55YiMUUk0Ovhi2ZKlodmwqREAxn-Ozs2m/s1000/judgeocean.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ccnTOBgBzd17GzvWrWDHDD3Yd7GFswipxXJOPJm1J7htepSS_2qX26tO5sD5JQontd0k1YP1_nD1QhIIif-BB0SmGic2jcy6OPNFTTQ_hnrLvTDrrFmc6jQlcPzdIyHkeib1q0OMbGU6sWLrpulkua66nXZ55YiMUUk0Ovhi2ZKlodmwqREAxn-Ozs2m/w275-h400/judgeocean.jpg" width="275" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="color: #0b5394;">‘’In these cycles we can include mixed characters who
have had great influence on nations, such as King Arthur, Pharaoh, Moses,
Charlemagne reincarnated as Napoleon Bonaparte, Clovis of France reborn as
Emperor Frederic III of Germany, and Washington the first President of the
United States of America where the root for the new race is being formed.’’ </span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Without getting into the complexities of it, there is
a notion of the esoteric role of prominent historical figures, who are involved
in the cyclical repetition of archetypal patterns. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This concept has actually received one of the more serious studies in the recent academic interest in Theosophical history with a notion that Garry W. Trompf terms 'Macrohistory: Trompf, G. (2013). Theosophical Macrohistory. In Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein (Eds.), Handbook of the Theosophical Current, (pp. 375-403). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004235977_019">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004235977_019</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">In the second and best of three papers on
Theosophical Macrohistory, he outlines a general overview of the concept in
Blavatsky’s writings and the main continuations in other Theosophical writers.
As a critical survey, it ambitiously aims to intertwine a historiography,
theoretical study, and biography. The critical aspects fail mainly because of
the limited space for such an extensive, pioneering undertaking and the limited
availability of consistent materials in a burgeoning field of study. It is
remarkable that the paper almost succeeds in this, before faltering with superficialities
and inaccuracies. It does manage to succeed in touching upon most of the
essential problems of the topic and as such can be considered a solid basis for
future developments. He does for example, cite
the Blavatsky and Judge passages noticed above, seeing them as more or less consistent and connected (380-81; 390-91). Whatever one thinks of Blavatsky’s ideas, the paper
does convincingly establish that her views are intelligible, hence amenable to
rational analysis according to academic concepts of macrohistory. </span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCC_xdU-aGvwkKHEOixN4q3pujyEUwyZ258UVqXcXlcQzL2i7nVXLlOb10a7G66asGDrHHQTsJIj4Dww-Ai3C7h2aNxjwUgPjkH227aL_OlQjTG7YQ08jQ93-94OldSQrMb79Qv7LIDXmNueu7Ktxk5h14-0U-0eOo9cjYPllyXJKFZPaRDeZiOPfwyGc/s386/Myth3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="258" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNCC_xdU-aGvwkKHEOixN4q3pujyEUwyZ258UVqXcXlcQzL2i7nVXLlOb10a7G66asGDrHHQTsJIj4Dww-Ai3C7h2aNxjwUgPjkH227aL_OlQjTG7YQ08jQ93-94OldSQrMb79Qv7LIDXmNueu7Ktxk5h14-0U-0eOo9cjYPllyXJKFZPaRDeZiOPfwyGc/w214-h320/Myth3.jpg" width="214" /></a>Jeffery Lavoie, despite mixed motives and retaining familiar tired academic misconceptions, has
undertaken a solid study of the Theosophical doctrine of cycles, benefiting from the more advanced state of scholarship since Trompf’s paper. Jeffrey D. Lavoie, “Saving Time: Time, Sources and Implications of Temporality in the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky” (PhD diss., University of Exeter, 2015). <a href="https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/25014/LavoieJ.pdf?sequence=3">https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/25014/LavoieJ.pdf?sequence=3<br /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">It’s a rather complex subject and as been indicated in
the first two posts, the idea has been developed variously in different
neo-Theosophical currents. The general notion of individual agency in a context
of archetypal history has been developed by several comparative mythology scholars, in
considering the relation of myth and history. Mircea Eliade elaborates how historical accounts have a
complex interaction with mythology, how poetic historical sagas and even local
legends have a tendency to become mythologized: <span style="color: #38761d;">'A series of contemporary events is given an articulation and an interpretation that conform with the atemporal model of the heroic myth.' </span>(Cosmos and History: , The Myth of the Eternal Return, 1958. Chapter 1, 'Myths and History')<br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Georges Dumézil, in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2Xc6Iu3so4Y7KQqE9BiL49liE4d0yxr7Mw-Fwe3p0Dn-qy884zJaexGUzqqttBePBM7cNMgwXxBvN4rDIEiMchjPDLB-dFqB3qGh4uDXMjuRDje0eo9LG428e5wYeYcbvdrSgeLnEL9w3En7DkSStknPTXloxO6RCzJQ6NhZ4pULM0IW03pbHMhGndXW/s500/Myth4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2Xc6Iu3so4Y7KQqE9BiL49liE4d0yxr7Mw-Fwe3p0Dn-qy884zJaexGUzqqttBePBM7cNMgwXxBvN4rDIEiMchjPDLB-dFqB3qGh4uDXMjuRDje0eo9LG428e5wYeYcbvdrSgeLnEL9w3En7DkSStknPTXloxO6RCzJQ6NhZ4pULM0IW03pbHMhGndXW/w197-h320/Myth4.jpg" width="197" /></a> <a href=" https://archive.org/details/frommythtofictio00geor">"From Myth
to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus"</a>, (1970) further elaborates on the complex inter-connection between myth, history and fiction. He </span><span lang="FR-CA">considers how the early mythology of a people can be creatively
transposed into the epic of their origin or the "history" of
their kings, or the source of their fiction. The Saga of Hadingus, written by twelfth-century Danish "historian," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus">Saxo-Grammaticus</a>, provides an instance of this kind of transposition, demonstrating how the saga can be seen as a literary
structure derived from the religious structure of the myth. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Fiction-Saga-Hadingus/dp/0226169723">https://www.amazon.ca/Myth-Fiction-Saga-Hadingus/dp/0226169723</a></span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Joseph Campbell further considers Freudian and Jungian
psychological concepts: archetypal patterns found in mythology are found to
appear subjectively in dreams. Therefore patterns of mythical heroes have
individual applications.: <span style="color: #990000;">'Moreover, if we could dredge up something forgotten not only by ourselves but by our whole generation or our entire civilization, we should become indeed the boon-bringer, the culture hero of the day-a personage of not only local but world historical moment (The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949).</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Moreover, Eliade </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">furthermore </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">mentions how forms of
mythical, archetypal patterns are present in modern mainstream mass media
popular culture via novels and films: <span style="color: #0b5394;">'The cinema, that 'dream factory', adopts and uses innumerable mythical motifs: the combat of the hero and the monster, combats and trials of initiation, exemplary figures and images (the 'Young Girl', the 'Hero', the land of paradise, 'Hell', etc.) Even reading has a mythological function (The Sacred and the Profane, 1957, Chapter 4, 'The sacred and the profane in the modern world',p. 174).<br /></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7oJJNPuXN7TN11AAbNjg0vcx60CXK8kTZgrSwX2vpy1Ty_7alAs-43xjwmElEkc0zSVF8WOqWub1qycRqpUXbv2B7Qk_3LKWrFM5swX5ytqcn6OhgM0r3kb0K7UnjK46KVun3rJDh0enFs_eocgPJH97w8aq0Pcf0dWGEeqbFfPGibJlytelRNuvDjl0v/s720/williamsrobin.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7oJJNPuXN7TN11AAbNjg0vcx60CXK8kTZgrSwX2vpy1Ty_7alAs-43xjwmElEkc0zSVF8WOqWub1qycRqpUXbv2B7Qk_3LKWrFM5swX5ytqcn6OhgM0r3kb0K7UnjK46KVun3rJDh0enFs_eocgPJH97w8aq0Pcf0dWGEeqbFfPGibJlytelRNuvDjl0v/w400-h225/williamsrobin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Edgar Morin posits the heavy mythologizing power
present in the Hollywood star system<span style="color: #38761d;">: 'Thus the stars, patterns of culture in the literal sense of the term, give shape to the total human process which has produced them. The star is indeed a myth: not only a daydream but an idea-force. The characteristic of the myth is to insert itself or incarnate itself somehow within life. If the myth of the stars incarnates itself so astonishingly within reality, it is because that myth is produced by that reality, i.e., the human history of the twentieth century. But it is also because the human reality nourishes itself on the imaginary to the point of being semi-imaginary itself. (The Stars, An account of the star system in motion pictures, 1957) p, 183.<br /></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">So with a recent article on Robin Williams, this notion of how
popular culture figures become viewed as historical figures of some
transcendent historical significance takes us full circle, as it where. Whether the archetypal structures appear
after the historical events or are coeval with them is debatable, suffice to
point out that there is a noticeable tendency in human nature to view historical
figures in an archetypal, idealized way (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">The celebrity worship of "Love Has Won": Why Robin Williams may have resonated with a cult. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/writer/melanie_mcfarland">Melanie McFarland</a> December 4, 2023 </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/12/04/love-has-won-robin-williams-culture/">https://www.salon.com/2023/12/04/love-has-won-robin-williams-culture/</a> ).<br /></span></span></p>
</div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-67729856646836095702023-11-28T15:02:00.000-08:002023-12-12T10:31:39.800-08:00Blavatsky and neo-theosophy (2/3) (spiritualism)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfgxwWuincHIVGQ7AQPGvGsOyUrxlh7Gs3sw3yfmgJLz65v5b6_SthZ4rDuVDFlD33JuInScufLrzQ_wkdeknlfYSzmtdYx_Sbl0K-ckR7lFWzdMWEV4PJCuXeZw0NeXkJO12CykRA8iSb8knmynmIdU8hNY8PKlC2UV7L1AvaVn1mQlr_Sn1exGn-6bR/s1402/spiritualism1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1402" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfgxwWuincHIVGQ7AQPGvGsOyUrxlh7Gs3sw3yfmgJLz65v5b6_SthZ4rDuVDFlD33JuInScufLrzQ_wkdeknlfYSzmtdYx_Sbl0K-ckR7lFWzdMWEV4PJCuXeZw0NeXkJO12CykRA8iSb8knmynmIdU8hNY8PKlC2UV7L1AvaVn1mQlr_Sn1exGn-6bR/w400-h191/spiritualism1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>HBO’s <span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/"> </a></span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/">Love Has Won</a>: </span></span> The Cult of Mother God, <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2023/11/love-has-won-trailer-release-date.html">Docuseries </a><span lang="EN-CA">was the 8<sup>th</sup> most watched show on Max in its
first of three episodes (and the second episode reached #3) . It is the tragic story of Amy Carlson and an
alternative spirituality group with an eclectic mix of beliefs and practices
with some questionable elements that have raised eyebrows. </span><span lang="EN-CA">The theology of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Has_Won">Love Has Won</a> has been described as fluid, combining
New Age spirituality, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theories</a>, and elements from mainstream
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="">Abrahamic
religions</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">A striking collage entitled ‘The Galactic A-Team’
featuring modern western pop culture celebrities from film and music and the
ascended master version of the Count of <a href="https://davidpratt.info/st-germain1.htm">Saint-Germain</a>. In reading a few
articles on the subject, a few more neo-theosophical elements could be glimpsed
among the Christian, millenialist, QAnon and New Age elements. Among this
rather baroque appearance, I happened to recognize a few discernible elements,
and so I thought it would be feasible to attempt a brief analysis as it could
give some insight into how theosophical influences figure in contemporary new
religious movements.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRga8m_pKM2hEGXVlIH0yzoxfY72RpTowrKwiOm-u_hMVegTazNyuy6ss1itrLztQ9_fzkK2Zejk8_bKo3UK98qTifIdqNce3Nc_oGTcsPxyG_c7bEQqQwOUdtV7hv95IrwVnY56QVdZ55H5ydBS3swGgSrg8TFsLy-xVDS1ji0deTrV5ZY8b3zrgqY8fK/s1268/spirutalism4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1268" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRga8m_pKM2hEGXVlIH0yzoxfY72RpTowrKwiOm-u_hMVegTazNyuy6ss1itrLztQ9_fzkK2Zejk8_bKo3UK98qTifIdqNce3Nc_oGTcsPxyG_c7bEQqQwOUdtV7hv95IrwVnY56QVdZ55H5ydBS3swGgSrg8TFsLy-xVDS1ji0deTrV5ZY8b3zrgqY8fK/w400-h241/spirutalism4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Since much of the
Galactic A-Team has to do with recently deceased pop culture celebrities, it
would seem useful to touch upon the question of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism">spiritualism </a>in new religious
movements. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">I don’t know if there is much awareness of how big a movement spiritualism was in the late 19<sup>th</sup>
century. The striking phenomena that was occurring was attracting considerable
attention, including from the scientific field, there were millions of
followers, with various magazines, and mediums giving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism_(beliefs)">séances and demonstrations</a>. Theosophical Society founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Steel_Olcott ">Henry Olcott</a> had a strong interest in the movement,
and was interested in the scientific investigation of the phenomena. His first
book, <a href="https://mflibra.com/products/1875-scarce-first-edition-spiritualism-people-from-the-other-world-by-henry-s-olcott?variant=42282990600441">People from the Other World</a>, details his reports on this and recounts his
first encounter with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky">H. P. Blavatsky</a>. <a href="ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Percy_Sinnett"><span> </span>A.P. Sinnett</a> also had a strong interest in studying
these phenomena. Although much dismissed today, the accounts of deceased people physically manifesting in front of people garnered a lot of attention, similar to the phenomena of UFOs and crop circles today, perhaps.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">As well as
communication from the deceased, there were also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship">mediumnistic communications</a>
from spiritual beings produced via automatic writing, known today as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship#Channeling">channelling</a>.
Theosophist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallapragada_Subba_Row">T. Subba Row</a> gave a critique of one such text, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oxley">William Oxley</a>,
a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita from an entity named <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Esoteric_Writings_of_T._Subba_Row/The_Philosophy_of_Spirit">Busiris</a>, whose
interpretations Row was not much impressed with.<span> <br /></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b>Theosophy and
Spiritualism</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b> </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8Bd-FgqN_TxTQFHSE59KfjuFX154zyaB4nOSUygFtKFz4eHuABBbpzN_2qRtxGsM91UL_j67nLeWjY2fQ-Z0LX2eE7e5GbIrGOcdj8wOTWGiZTx16U87tWvanC6SjMToLbObiuu3OU0LZ_Cen9l1SPdY3eKxu0INYTsiv59rRZOd8OS49OaVR00y5fyj/s1000/spiritualism3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8Bd-FgqN_TxTQFHSE59KfjuFX154zyaB4nOSUygFtKFz4eHuABBbpzN_2qRtxGsM91UL_j67nLeWjY2fQ-Z0LX2eE7e5GbIrGOcdj8wOTWGiZTx16U87tWvanC6SjMToLbObiuu3OU0LZ_Cen9l1SPdY3eKxu0INYTsiv59rRZOd8OS49OaVR00y5fyj/w230-h400/spiritualism3.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>Blavatsky and
Olcott began early on writing to spiritualist magazines and eventually began to
introduce elements of esoteric philosophy and occultism, which contradicted the
spiritualist beliefs. Eventually Blavatsky would introduce theosophical views on
reincarnation which explained that communications with departed souls are
really with discarded astral bodies of the deceased and not the spiritual
essence of the person, which could generally not be contacted. Moreover she
considered that attempts to contact the deceased was undesirable and that
séances were harmful and problematic. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Moreover, she maintained that various
mischievous entities from the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2020/01/theosophical-basics-astral-light-and.html">astral plane</a> were wont to impersonate famous
historical figures, and thus most communications from such beings were false
and unreliable. See, for example,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v5/y1883_099.htm">Theosophy and Spiritism, 1883.</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Additionally, early
theosophists also pointed out the dangers and pitfalls of psychic practices
related to the astral plane.<span> See for example, </span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2021/08/astral-intoxication-william-q-judge.html">Astral Intoxication </a>- William Q. Judge 1887, and a Judge letter concerning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahspe:_A_New_Bible">Oahspe </a>writings, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href=" https://theosociety.org/pasadena/prac-oc/po13.htm">November 28, 1890</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Also, it is be
noted that Blavatsky never claimed to engage in such practices<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_Madame_Blavatsky#cite_note-FOOTNOTESinnett191361Kuhn199263-50">[a]</a></sup>
<span> </span>and gave comparatively few explanations
as to the nature of her own methods of communications with adepts and mahatmas,
but explained that the occult training required to do so, makes it differ
considerably from spiritualism. Occult communication with living adepts, who
are human beings, is a difference process than communication with beings of an
astral or spiritual nature. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">However, many
people in the mainstream, especially those who reject the possibility of living
spiritual adepts, don’t care to make the distinctions that Blavatsky proposed
and tend to conflate her with spiritualism and call her a medium, taking
special pleasure, it would seem, in retroactively attributing the more mediumnistic term of ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master">ascended masters</a>’ to her, a term which belongs to a much later time with very different
people and organizations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b>Complications</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b> </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">There are,
however, some difficulties that could be pointed out in the problem of
distinguishing theosophy from spiritualism. In Isis Unveiled,
Blavatsky does not totally reject spiritualist practices, making a distinction
between <a href="https://blavatskytheosophy.com/mediumship-and-mediatorship/">mediumship and mediatorship</a>, where one can communicate with more
spiritual beings proper. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgMESlxCzDRH3uptf21T4MLX9zfYr00HEso3cfeQXWRpracMovto8RPtbjJDd2KkHiGa83B8pU09-Nps_Q41tyLvQs0BLlrPnWFtMiDY48C37ubOBzPasUSKcVrL3dfB9IVcWsIVggOrmd9tdDjs3qa3LJvTtF4Y_7S0UlmeWWFXmRxe6F3q7bzuJkfqD/s330/spiritualism5.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgMESlxCzDRH3uptf21T4MLX9zfYr00HEso3cfeQXWRpracMovto8RPtbjJDd2KkHiGa83B8pU09-Nps_Q41tyLvQs0BLlrPnWFtMiDY48C37ubOBzPasUSKcVrL3dfB9IVcWsIVggOrmd9tdDjs3qa3LJvTtF4Y_7S0UlmeWWFXmRxe6F3q7bzuJkfqD/w266-h400/spiritualism5.png" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-CA">Moreover, there
were some cases where the adepts did try to use mediumnistic methods to
communicate. Four such cases can be cited, <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/04/blavatsky-and-william-stainton-moses.html">William Stainton Moses</a>, <a href=" https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/09/through-gates-of-gold-1-mabel-collins.html">Mabel Collins</a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">, <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/03/blavatsky-and-anna-bonus-kingsford.html">Anna Bonus Kingsford</a>, and <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Laura_C._Holloway">Laura Holloway</a>. Indications are given in the
literature about how difficult it was to find a suitable person and how delicate the
process was. Despite having produced one text each with Moses, Kingsford, and
Holloway, and three texts from Collins, all four attempts ultimately failed and
communication had to be broken off. There is also the intriguing case of </span></span><span class="mw-page-title-main" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Emma_Hardinge_Britten">Emma Hardinge Britten</a>, a prominent spiritualist who was also a founding member of the Theosophical Society, whose book, <a href="http://www.ehbritten.org/texts/primary/ehb_art_magic_1909.pdf">Art Magic</a>, was favorably mentioned in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mahatma_Letters_to_A.P._Sinnett">Mahatma Letters</a>. <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Strangely, there might even be a kind of adept prototype for the Galactic
A-Team, with the mysterious beings communicating to William Stainton Moses, who were
composed of seven circles of seven spirits, said to be the souls of prominent historical spiritual and philosophical figures, who were related to functions that
might be a more accurate depiction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_rays">seven rays</a>, so developed in
neo-theosophy. Note that the seven rays doctrine was not so elaborately
detailed in Blavatsky’s writing, with<span> </span>T.
Subba Row only giving out rough indications, stating that the first two rays
could not really be mentioned<i>, </i>see </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Esoteric_Writings_of_T._Subba_Row/The_Occultism_of_Southern_India">The Occultism of Southern India</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">First circle of seven spirits:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">1-Imperator Servus Dei,</span><span lang="EN-CA">
chief of a band of <span>forty-nine spirits (
7 x 7)</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">2-Rector</span><span lang="EN-CA">, deputy and
lieutenant, control manifesting spirits</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">3- Doctor, the Teacher, </span><span lang="EN-CA">superintendence of spirits of wisdom and knowledge</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">4-5- Two Guardians </span><span lang="EN-CA">of
the earth</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">6-7- Two guardians of the spheres</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Each member of the first circle presiding over one the next six circles: <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 1- Guardians and inspiring spirits Supervision of the whole band.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 2- Spirits of love. Religion, love to God; charity, love to man;
gentleness, tenderness, pity, mercy, friendship, affection.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 3- Intuition, perception, reflection, impression, reasoning and
the like. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 4- Knowledge–of men, of things, of life, whose charge is
caution and comparison, of causality and eventuality, and the like.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 5- Art, science, literature, culture, refinement, poetry, paintings,
music, language.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 6- Mirth, wit, humour, geniality and joyous conversation.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Circle 7- Physical manifestations. </span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA"><b>Spiritualism today</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR97Kdbldc3A3BYGzhpYDHAl-XQdoRLSK1nBEa1d-9tRcYaEBUbnEfIWkBdt3iCqth5eWEKzdeE_euwFY8LpHP9wsnnKR5UtJs8XJ4VqfU1Y_4LjlrqrTqD9nfNlKuglzHBZbhhxN4HMiRiZIMuhHLFeC8If5sHm7Wt1yxlJu_2YYKlcjj8YZ31N7eqrM/s1650/newgods.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1073" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinR97Kdbldc3A3BYGzhpYDHAl-XQdoRLSK1nBEa1d-9tRcYaEBUbnEfIWkBdt3iCqth5eWEKzdeE_euwFY8LpHP9wsnnKR5UtJs8XJ4VqfU1Y_4LjlrqrTqD9nfNlKuglzHBZbhhxN4HMiRiZIMuhHLFeC8If5sHm7Wt1yxlJu_2YYKlcjj8YZ31N7eqrM/w260-h400/newgods.webp" width="260" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">Additionally, I think that it would be good to consider
that Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, arrived in an
alternative spirituality movement that had already been quite active since
about 1850, with the Spiritualism movement being the dominant current,
therefore, it would be quite difficult to make a mark in an already effervescent
field. Therefore, even though the early theosophical writings discourage
spiritualism, many theosophists did pursue such practices. </span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">A little known part
of theosophical history is the relationship of </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">A.P. Sinnett with <a href="http://blavatskyarchives.com/caldwell_mary_unveiled_unabridged_.pdf">Maude Boyle-Travers</a>, whom he used as a medium to supposedly contact the Mahatmas
after communications were broken off with him, as described in The Mahatma
Letters. Considering the major influence that he had on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater">C. W. Leadbeater</a>, one could even
consider him the godfather of the new age, in which the little known figure of <span>Maude Boyle-Travers, who later married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scott-Elliot">William Scott-Elliot</a>,
could be considered a more specific godmother of the new age.</span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">Ultimately, I don't think that </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">Blavatsky </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">had much success in changing the
beliefs of the spiritualists. However, considering that a program from a local
annual spiritualist conference that I've seen was almost entirely comprised
of activities based on esoteric practices and world spiritual traditions, one
could say that the spirit world has virtually adopted the theosophical charter.
Therefore, the new age movement could be better described as the result of the spiritualist
movement absorbing the theosophical world view into their practices, with the
related esoteric and new thought philosophies. Personally, I think that many people find the surrounding materialistic society too stifling, and so come to depend on any kind of other-worldly experience for reassurance. Blavatsky was aware of the problem of <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2020/11/blavatsky-on-humanitys-innate-spiritual.html">weird spiritual beliefs.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">In the case of the Love Has Won group, without having watched
the documentary series, I would </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">then </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">say that it seems to be a case of advanced
absorption of the theosophical current by spiritualistic practices. One pertinent reason why I consider this historical excursion useful is because I noticed that in more recent works, such as Graham Nicholls' </span></span></span><span class="js-text-content content-block" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPageElement"> <i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.grahamnicholls.com/books/navigating-the-out-of-body-experience">Navigating the Out of Body Experience: Radical New Techniques</a>, </span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">which mentions related techniques of astral healing, the author surveys the literature on astral projection, including theosophical texts, but only goes as far back as CW Leadbeater, and seems unaware of the more cautionary explanations found in the earlier literature.<br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy.html"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA">Part 1 </span></span></span></a></b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still have some backlog for a 3rd post, which I couldn't fit it - more mainstream ramifications of 1st Blavatsky quote, myth theory, philosophy of history, sociology- Stay tuned...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy-3-myth.html"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Part 3 </span></b></a></span></span><b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="wst-header-titlegenheadertitle"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span></span></b></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-12831818866577973432023-11-24T16:10:00.000-08:002024-03-05T14:59:57.521-08:00Blavatsky and neo-theosophy (Cyclical History, archetypes) (1/3)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPh_cPtQdW2kuxkQsQjm18YFcprIia4c9m8hbjUCfrj4v3FKsTV_tr_c-F7FF7dSPBVFd69_T3VcfUruJAH4CIaeCjzE9ShO6-Dq6fkCmYzQoaH2MgkpA97TIIJiu0AIMPXczAOkmjkq1vkAfgmPEn5jgnw0vQUDbDidD_8UOBUPsgkMyLiORxG5wdgZJx/s2048/a-team2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1752" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPh_cPtQdW2kuxkQsQjm18YFcprIia4c9m8hbjUCfrj4v3FKsTV_tr_c-F7FF7dSPBVFd69_T3VcfUruJAH4CIaeCjzE9ShO6-Dq6fkCmYzQoaH2MgkpA97TIIJiu0AIMPXczAOkmjkq1vkAfgmPEn5jgnw0vQUDbDidD_8UOBUPsgkMyLiORxG5wdgZJx/w343-h400/a-team2.jpg" width="343" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">HBO’s <span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/"> </a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://marieclaire.com/culture/a37417778/love-has-won-cult-amy-carlson-stroud-death/">Love Has Won</a>: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> The Cult of Mother God, <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2023/11/love-has-won-trailer-release-date.html">Docuseries </a><span lang="EN-CA">was the 8<sup>th</sup> most watched show on Max in its
first of three episodes (and the second episode reached #3) . It is the tragic story of Amy Carlson and an
alternative spirituality group with an eclectic mix of beliefs and practices
with some questionable elements that have raised eyebrows. </span><span lang="EN-CA">The theology of <a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Has_Won">Love Has Won</a> has been described as fluid, combining
New Age spirituality, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theories</a>, and elements from mainstream
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="">Abrahamic
religions</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">A striking collage entitled ‘The Galactic A-Team’
featuring modern western pop cultures celebrities from film and music and the
ascended master version of the Count of Saint-Germain. In reading a few
articles on the subject, a few more neo-theosophical elements could be glimpsed
among the Christian, millenialist, QAnon and New Age elements. Among this
rather baroque appearance, I happened to recognize a few discernible elements,
and so I thought it would be feasible to attempt a brief analysis as it could
give some insight into how theosophical influences figure in contemporary new
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</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span lang="EN-CA">My theory is that there is a specific passage from Blavatsky that has
been noticed and has gradually morphed into something very different, but one
can still trace the timeline back to the source, from 2023 to 1877</span>. It
begins with a passage from H. P. Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled I, <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2017/05/theosophy-basics-doctrine-of-cycles.html">ch. 1, p. 34</a>,
about the doctrine of cycles:</span><sup><span lang="EN-CA"></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #990000;">‘’Thus, all those great characters who tower like
giants in the history of mankind, like Buddha-Siddartha, and Jesus, in the
realm of spiritual, and Alexander the Macedonian and Napoleon the Great, in the
realm of physical conquests, were but reflexed images of human types which had
existed ten thousand years before, in the preceding decimillennium, reproduced
by the mysterious powers controlling the destinies of our world.’’ (34) <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">William Q. Judge elaborates on this notion in The
Ocean of Theosophy, <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ocean/oce-14.htm">chapter 4</a>, 1893; (he further elaborates on the subject in
his <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gita/bg1.htm">first essay</a> on the Bhagava Gita, 1895: <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #38761d;">‘’In these cycles we can include mixed characters who
have had great influence on nations, such as King Arthur, Pharaoh, Moses,
Charlemagne reincarnated as Napoleon Bonaparte, Clovis of France reborn as
Emperor Frederic III of Germany, and Washington the first President of the
United States of America where the root for the new race is being formed.’’ <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Without getting into the complexities of it, there is
a notion of the esoteric role of prominent historical figures, who are involved
in the cyclical repetition of archetypal patterns. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Moreover, Blavatsky occasionally makes disclosures of
historical figures who are agents working for the lodge of Mahatmas, such as
<a href="https://davidpratt.info/st-germain1.htm">Saint-Germain</a>, Cagliostro, and Anton Mesmer. They are considered as adepts,
initiates or students of occultism of a lower degree. These are two different
concepts, but are often inter-related.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">With the writings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater">C.W. Leadbeater</a>, which I
designate as neo-theosophy, as I consider that there are considerable
differences with Blavatsky’s writings, one could say that there is an
elaboration of historical spiritual and occult figures, with details about their
past lives attributed to contemporary members of the Theosophical Society. One
could say that the degree of spiritual advancement gains more prominence as many
members of the theosophical society become designated as initiates.<span style="color: #990000;"> Moroever,
the higher spiritual beings in Blavatsky’s writings, such as Sanat Kumara, which
were not described in detail, and not in anthropomorphic terms, are elaborately
described as such in Leadbeater’s writings.</span> To a certain extent, human adepts
become more god-like and diving beings become more human-like. Communication
with both seem to be portrayed as being more frequent and less difficult than in
Blavatsky’s writings.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">This tendency continues in the writings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey">Alice Bailey</a>, with the following passages, for example:<span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02ux1yc453h">
</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02ux1yc453h"><span lang="EN-CA">“These are the things which the triangle at
Yalta attempted
to do. These they may not have consciously recognised as the work asked of them
on account of their discipleship, but they automatically worked this way
because they correctly sensed human need.” (The Externalisation of the
Hierarchy, 3.7, 1957)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02u"><span lang="EN">"Napoleon; Bismarck,
the creator of a nation; Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler who
lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist, Stalin and
Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little
understood energies." </span></span><span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02ux1yc453h"><span lang="EN-CA">(The Externalisation of the Hierarchy,
2.3, 1957)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5wxeuuglix13faqbex1vvkbsx1xmvt09x1lliihqx1s928wvxhkezsox1gmr53xx1cpjm7ix1fgartyx1943h6xxudqn12x3x7a5mx6prxxfxvq8zenxo1l8bmxzsf02u"><span lang="EN">In these two passages,
Bailey attributes the notion of archetypal historical actors and occult historical
agents to contemporary political figures, sometimes conflating the two in one person.
This esoteric engagement in contemporary political events of World War Two, had
some controversial repercussions, beginning with a possible influence on
the notorious ‘<a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2018/06/blavatsky-pauwels-bergiers-morning-of.html">Morning of the Magicians</a>’. Indeed, the history of theosophical
responses to the Second World War would make for an interesting study. Current Bailey groups often reject such passages as errors of transmission.<br /></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">
</span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">This hyper-spiritualization tendency further continues
with the Church Universal Triumphant and the notion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master">Ascended Masters.</a> Where adepts where initially considered to be human
beings with a physical body who could engage in astral projection, now they are
portrayed as angelic beings solely functioning in a spiritual world. <span style="color: #990000;">Moreover,
there is an extensive elaboration with the introduction of an extended list of <a href="https://alphaimaging.co.nz/ascended-master-list/">spiritual beings of different types</a>,
with a hierarchical categorization according to the concept of the seven rays,
a concept presented in Blavatsky’s writings, but which did not have the
specific detailed elaborations that were introduced by Leadbeater.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">With the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Creme">Benjamin Crème</a> group, this type of
spiritualized elaboration continues on a more concrete level with an <a href="https://mikehughes38.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/the-list-of-initiates-their-rays-and-stage-of-evolution-share-international/">extensive array of historical figures</a> from throughout world history from different fields, from
politics to science to art and some more modern western pop culture figures,
including:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0b5394;">Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Dirk Bogarde, Marlon Brando,
Jim Morrison, Georges Brassens, George Burns, Greta Garbo, Jerry Garcia, Frank Sinatra,
Katharine Hepburn, Peter Sellers, and Eartha Kitt.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The two aspects of historical agents which were conflated with Alice
Bailey and termed 'disciples' in Bailey’s writings, are now given the higher status of ‘initiates’.
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwRayZ4UFXpiMPfBeL0JDtICITF01wx-f9niJixEVHm8DKi1GPICttpxX8mMwsEJCEuzDOHJYjvd_mlcmPfeXqSDhpEmaaVWroVKkkxbQ8tsrm3TRc8XoeYV2CQWGYGfxvTi0zg8QK5xtx4v-gxORmVnDx6uevVaBNFQlBk9rpS89z3V1ZeiOBdiH2d7wf/s1500/hopper.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwRayZ4UFXpiMPfBeL0JDtICITF01wx-f9niJixEVHm8DKi1GPICttpxX8mMwsEJCEuzDOHJYjvd_mlcmPfeXqSDhpEmaaVWroVKkkxbQ8tsrm3TRc8XoeYV2CQWGYGfxvTi0zg8QK5xtx4v-gxORmVnDx6uevVaBNFQlBk9rpS89z3V1ZeiOBdiH2d7wf/w400-h213/hopper.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A final step that would take us closer to the A-Team assembly can be
gleaned from <a href=" https://www.amazon.ca/Circle-Initiates-Past-Present/dp/0980969476">The Circle of Initiates: Past and Present, <span> </span>Klaire D. Roy</a>, 2016 where are listed along
with<span style="color: #38761d;"> Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, we have Robin Williams and Walt
Disney.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijidr-bcqeeor-qvutc0r-poiln3"><span lang="EN-CA">She claims to receive communications from the so-called DK, supposedly a disciple (chela) from Blavatsky’s days, later associated with Alice Bailey,
although the main Alice Bailey groups have received the work negatively. The list that
she presents is shorter, and more focused on more recent western pop culture
celebrities.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Theosophical concepts are considered to be part of the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_religion">UFO religion movement</a>, and so these types of portrayals expanded into an
extra-terrestrial framework as well. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism">Millenialist</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism">millenarian </a>elements started to appear in
all of these movements, which lead to a certain influence on the <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/09/blavatsky-american-traditionalism-qanon.html">QAnon</a> conspiracy
movement. Therefore I would describe the ‘Galactic A-Team’ as a more westernized pop culture version of the cast of initiates of the Benjamin Creme group, with added
aspects from UFO religions and QAnon movements. </span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">A quote from <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/protocols-ufo-anti-semitism">Michael Barkun</a>, referring to </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the Hatonn communications</span>, <span style="font-family: georgia;">describes a similar process:</span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span lang="FR-CA" style="color: #990000;">'What we actually
have is a highly derivative form of Theosophy— bits and pieces of what should
really be termed neo-Theosophy, almost certainly lifted from sects that had
themselves broken away from the larger Theosophical movement, such as the “I
AM” Religious Activity in the 1930s and 1940s or the more recent Church
Universal and Triumphant, and that have provided the Hatonn materials with a
fragmentary and superficial Theosophical gloss.'</span></span></span> <br /></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">I’ve tried to give a brief outline of a rather complicated development, that I
hope serves to show how a rather picturesque assemblage began from some more
straightforward, albeit esoteric considerations of alternative histories. I
wouldn’t call this a logical development, but rather the result of series of
deviations, with each new series of teachings having been met with opposition
or rejection from a previous group. But this is not all. I think that to give a
more complete explanation, it would be good to give an overview of the spiritualist
movement and present some considerations on how Blavatsky’s esoteric historical
notions have developed along more rational lines. To be continued…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/11/blavatsky-and-neo-theosophy-2.html">Part 2</a></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"> <br /></span></span></p>
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</div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-12753929794168615582023-11-19T13:30:00.000-08:002024-01-13T07:30:52.776-08:00Blavatsky and the Secret Destiny of America, Manly P. Hall<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVbBg477foVTyxJOL0RT_z6Jh3lelD-WUIkq49mkBbuwCUSf2D3G2E7oyN3ltK2Rf-dGGx4pMTavtpZwm15tHY4XbD5Y5XbeoK1YDSOh5DwGse-dQAWH_6PYnl5Oj4aRo8CyWLIBaFt5SLoSO_EvtQ7EiUvN7tbrmUnwk_pHV915WhvDcFbuB-6dDGl1C/s275/hall4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitVbBg477foVTyxJOL0RT_z6Jh3lelD-WUIkq49mkBbuwCUSf2D3G2E7oyN3ltK2Rf-dGGx4pMTavtpZwm15tHY4XbD5Y5XbeoK1YDSOh5DwGse-dQAWH_6PYnl5Oj4aRo8CyWLIBaFt5SLoSO_EvtQ7EiUvN7tbrmUnwk_pHV915WhvDcFbuB-6dDGl1C/w266-h400/hall4.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 17.85pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Due to the
current political climate and the renewed interest in the relation of occult or
esoteric philosophy and politics, I thought that it would be useful to take a look <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_P._Hall"><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Manly</span></i><i> </i>P.<i>
</i></a><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_P._Hall">Hall</a>'s </span></i>The
Secret Destiny of America, 1944 , as it is considered to
be a specific influence on <a href="https://pesaagora.com/columns/steve-bannon-fascism-and-making-sense-of-the-invasion-of-ukraine/">American politics</a>, related to American
exceptionalism. This is the 12th post in a series dealing with politics and controversies related to theosophy that are currently being debated. I hope to wrap up this series with a few more posts on alternative archaeology and Buddhism before the year is over, making for a total of 15 posts. <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 17.85pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Since I noticed some possible influences from theosophical
sources,<span> </span>I thought that the following
study would be useful to help further research in that area and clarify
misconceptions regarding conspiracy theories and the like. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 17.85pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The work is a
pro-democracy political essay that presents its argument through
an alternative view to mainstream history that posits the role of a an esoteric
group that has been gradually working for the universal implementation of
democratic societies since ancient Greece, with the United States being considered
to be the long-foreseen central locus for the culmination of this plan of world
democracy. It was written during the second World War, which most likely
inspired the anti-tyranny tone. The work goes on to list a series of well-known
and lesser known historical figures, who have links to this esoteric group and
played roles in advancing its plans. He uses terms such as </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>secret empire,
unknown philosophers and Brotherhood of the Quest.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Chapters 1-7 - The Ancient World</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The
first seven chapters cover events in the ancient and medieval periods. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fctTVkQXctMhYAa32H-PpTpU_omaSHohfB1a6UJsIzyNvmV_zRK3hBSzN3gpTt34WYvwrgTLoMfvSb2NHGwiue_njz_XRtSH2MZawc8rxuA3kFOYsR6bw9leyXkpvIdOW9VkGVFiE7O94rpeeKRYjMfydhPa0co-7o31Z-z6ZVGHdXkuT0jiUVZLzV5Z/s581/Hall6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fctTVkQXctMhYAa32H-PpTpU_omaSHohfB1a6UJsIzyNvmV_zRK3hBSzN3gpTt34WYvwrgTLoMfvSb2NHGwiue_njz_XRtSH2MZawc8rxuA3kFOYsR6bw9leyXkpvIdOW9VkGVFiE7O94rpeeKRYjMfydhPa0co-7o31Z-z6ZVGHdXkuT0jiUVZLzV5Z/w198-h320/Hall6.jpg" width="198" /></a><span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>1- The idea that a world
democracy is the secret dream of great classical philosophers is proposed. American leadership in
the Western world is pre-figuring a new order of world ethics and the need to reconstruct the post-war world is discussed.
The idea that American democracy is part of universal plan is introduced. The political significance of people such as Plato and Buddha and ancient mystery religions are considered.<br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>2-
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten ">Akhenaton</a> is presented as a pre-cursor for democratic values.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>3-
In discussing Plutarch, the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, he acknowledges the theory of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis">Atlantis</a>. Hall uses the story of the Golden Fleece
to develop a term called ‘the Brotherhood of the Quest’. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta">Magna Carta</a> is presented
as a proto-democracy innovation,
possible reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril">coming race</a> of Edward Bulwer Lytton.</span></span></div><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>4- Plato’s
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias_(dialogue)">Critias </a>is discussed, focusing on political aspects with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon">Solon</a>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>5-
Plato’s Critias is discussed, focusing on Atlantis as proto-democracy political
allegory. (See Casey Stegman’s <a href="https://www.academia.edu/95044058/From_Athens_to_Atlantis_Democratic_Mythmaking_in_Classical_Greece?auto=download">From Athens to Atlantis Democratic Mythmaking in Classical Greece</a>).<br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>6-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus">Plotinus</a>’ Platonopolis project discussed.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">7- Focus on secret societies, including
architectural builders as social reformers, with mention of African tribes,
Eskimos, order of Dionyisan artificers, Hiram Abif, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a>, <span> </span>Medieval, Esoteric History. Probable
reference to <a href="https://sacred-texts.com/cla/dart/index.htm">The Dionysian Artificers </a>by Hippolyto Joseph da Costa [1820].</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Chapters 8-13 - Renaissance,
Enlightenment, Discovery of America</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGO-Qleyjx3IHoWnQZAL_ZUlr_98eK5rGaAKfrNacUmAvDITbhGA3zLifrJx4QnK1OmcHM7FwGBEvlc9pFOsL7NcXXCeS2YcFmItt6hf8WX2FV4nUWMcU5iivLIxwTazRUxij0HtAxfWOJEKr5YMoV-hii21o1xbAnXVWo_JzJFtkxU6lmCILMNT6iLZuU/s400/hall7.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGO-Qleyjx3IHoWnQZAL_ZUlr_98eK5rGaAKfrNacUmAvDITbhGA3zLifrJx4QnK1OmcHM7FwGBEvlc9pFOsL7NcXXCeS2YcFmItt6hf8WX2FV4nUWMcU5iivLIxwTazRUxij0HtAxfWOJEKr5YMoV-hii21o1xbAnXVWo_JzJFtkxU6lmCILMNT6iLZuU/s320/hall7.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span></span>These
chapters discuss how events since the Renaissance have developed the plan of the
advent of American democracy, presenting probable agents of the plan, with
prophecies that corroborate this notion.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>8- Hall presents a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_theories_of_Christopher_Columbus">theory </a>that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> was <a href="https://greekreporter.com/2012/10/08/columbus-day-was-christopher-columbus-greek/ ">Greek</a> and mentions the presence of a mysterious
stranger as a possible secret democratic adept, based on a book by <a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/Christopher_Columbus_was_a_Greek_and_His.html?id=BcG2GwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y">Spyros Cateras</a>. Mentions his use of <a href="https://aish.com/christopher-columbus-secret-jew/">cryptic symbols</a> in his correspondence. <br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>9- Discusses
prophecies of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus">Nostradamus</a>, mentioning assistance by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain ">Count of Saint-Germain</a>.
Discusses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Sibly">Ebenezar Sibly's </a>astrological
forecast for the United States in 1787.</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>10- Various
political utopia writings considered as precursors to democratic revolutions, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(More_book)">Utopia</a>,
Thomas More,</span><span> </span><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_the_Sun ">City fo the Sun</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Tommasa Campanella,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span><a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajano_Boccalini">Boccalini</a>.</span></span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>11- The role of Francis Bacon’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon#Occult_theories">New Atlantis </a>in enlarging bonds of human empire is
considered .
</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsDY7lY3XL9UpEFhBnh34uaKNuncPmXHoTeJzUczj04_U9n0OdcXLFL-8fzGvG-q9I-OHHQG7GBBbSQrwsp85PvyLLT0hfDQhniuqI_44OktZh4sOPPsURt5yWbQWX4haMFzgF4A36NlOqu0QOvA-NwmUym2_FqUzMtQ_gDpUggWhRfBx5nGb9EBoqS0h/s864/Hall3.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="864" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsDY7lY3XL9UpEFhBnh34uaKNuncPmXHoTeJzUczj04_U9n0OdcXLFL-8fzGvG-q9I-OHHQG7GBBbSQrwsp85PvyLLT0hfDQhniuqI_44OktZh4sOPPsURt5yWbQWX4haMFzgF4A36NlOqu0QOvA-NwmUym2_FqUzMtQ_gDpUggWhRfBx5nGb9EBoqS0h/s320/Hall3.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Serapis flag<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>12-
Mayan civilization considered as precursor to American democracy as well as the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nations_of_Canada">seven nations</a> of the Great Lake Indians and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho">Great Rabbit</a>. He mentions a mysterious
old man, Quetzalcoatl as a secret adept. <span> </span></span></span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>13- The role
of Francis Bacon, England, Germany, France
in colonialization of New England, the role of
mystical groups such as Pietists and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kelpius">Kelpius,</a> the role of <span> </span>Benjamin Franklin as adept
agent are discussed. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Chapters 14-20 - Prophecies and
mysterious agents in American History</span></b></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGdSUBcTthProVQtFv9pWBgJfrR74fSWO5wogwwAAXnaqU-hZkOdbnCVNw1mfWOioJ6MHNETe25i7k_Amz5cU5Dbh26GhPdAE1WSEMqy0Po6IUo95x7xHu2t6jodW2jxxhn9l9FXmUyAEFwsQfJoKLiTZY0_6TAjPviOQFfAGK4R0TAL5l9f2gQZvKabN/s400/hall10.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="400" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGdSUBcTthProVQtFv9pWBgJfrR74fSWO5wogwwAAXnaqU-hZkOdbnCVNw1mfWOioJ6MHNETe25i7k_Amz5cU5Dbh26GhPdAE1WSEMqy0Po6IUo95x7xHu2t6jodW2jxxhn9l9FXmUyAEFwsQfJoKLiTZY0_6TAjPviOQFfAGK4R0TAL5l9f2gQZvKabN/s320/hall10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The
stage moves to the United
States, with more examples of secret
participants of democratic plan and confirming prophecies.</span></span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>14- <span> </span>Discussion of a series of predictions for US
history, found written in </span></span><a href="https://sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Hope/Vindication/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A Vindication of the True Art of Self-Defence</span></a>, <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>1724, <a href=" https://sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Hope/index.html">William Hope</a>, in a copy held by the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">US Library of Congress</span>. <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This is probably the strangest artifact in the book. Why a book on
fencing? How did Hall find this? How did he decipher it? I could not find any
further references on this, except for a William Hope Fencing society that
accepts the story as is, but see 2020 paper by <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346351149_The_Hanging_Guard_William_Hope%27s_1660-1724_Invention_of_Self-defence_and_the_Spirit_of_Enlightenment">Alexander Will</a>.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">15- Hall discusses origin of American flag with a story of
a mysterious stranger who helped design it, from Robert Allen Campbell 1890, <a href="https://archive.org/details/ourflagorevoluti00camp">Our
Flag</a>, an eclectic historical writer who also wrote "Phallic
Worship", and Philosophic Chiromancy Mysteries of the Hand Revealed
and Explained. The story is un-referenced and contradicts documented accounts
of Benjamin Franklin’s role with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis_flag">Serapis
Flag</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">16- The role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine">Thomas
Paine</a> in the American Independence movement is discussed, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson ">Jefferson</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">17- The story of the
declaration of American Independence with a dramatic intervention of a mysterious
stranger, derived from a theosophical reference, <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Albert_Powell_Warrington">A
P Warrington</a>, Adept Influences in America, The Theosophist, <a href=" http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/theosophist/theosophist_v59_n8_may_1938.pdf">May,
1938</a>, pp. 107-125. The story is of <a href="https://esoterx.com/2016/09/24/the-best-speech-never-given-phantom-of-the-continental-congress/ ">doubtful
historical provenance</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIyEfRq95PyVkaAzXxWhrjK4wKnZQTeJIhxb6rerOlzp7QXrXRTn4kFEbxx6vvrNh43hvURbtVd75BwFfSRkUArykuXt_H_5FLM0I6HiB3L6OgQle7lezWaN2iQxP7geI2F00nnQniQMwKphVto4YzZj6heCl88wvNogC0LPCviGkR3Vn0-DrYsbs5suh/s804/theos38.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="516" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIyEfRq95PyVkaAzXxWhrjK4wKnZQTeJIhxb6rerOlzp7QXrXRTn4kFEbxx6vvrNh43hvURbtVd75BwFfSRkUArykuXt_H_5FLM0I6HiB3L6OgQle7lezWaN2iQxP7geI2F00nnQniQMwKphVto4YzZj6heCl88wvNogC0LPCviGkR3Vn0-DrYsbs5suh/w256-h400/theos38.jpg" width="256" /></a></span>18-
Esoteric aspects of the seal of the United States are discussed. He
references a work by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaillard_Hunt" title="Gaillard Hunt">Gaillard
Hunt</a><i>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofsealofu00unit/page/n7/mode/2up">The
History of the Seal of the United States</a>, </i> largely based on a
two-volume work written in 1897 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._A._L._Totten" title="C. A. L. Totten">Charles
A. L. Totten</a><i>, Our Inheritance in the Great Seal of Manasseh, the United
States of America: Its History and Heraldry; and Its Signification unto the
'Great People' thus Sealed.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">19- A
prophetic dream by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan">
General McClellan</a> that helped <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington">Washington
</a>in the battle for independence is discussed. It is of <a href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/glc0645201 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-washingtons-vision/">doubtful
historical provenance</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace">Henry
Wallace</a>’s role of getting the <a href="https://greatseal.com/dollar/hawfdr.html">all
seeing-eye seal </a> placed on the US dollar bill in 1935 is discussed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">20- He concludes his essay with a
presentation of some principles and values of the eventual world democratic
society. He proposes three levels of fields of research: spiritual (religion),
mental (philosophy) and , physical (arts and crafts) and gives some
inspirational considerations for the future of American democracy: 'In a
democratic way of life the very survival of the State depends upon the
intelligent cooperation of its people. Where men make their own laws, they must
live according to the merits and demerits of the statutes which they have
framed.'</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"></p><p></p>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAsfhhyphenhyphen62JIMRmmuxhQCpZXLUIC-z_eTtOSB93d0IR6Dfe6wh7hqnS14S3CjwDTTsrLr7hNz0dfDv5O5FBoGDQ6c4tEjKGFZ_NM7mx-6iWv8LTGb1qeGUcuzT7CqCiDbwQW1PNxb5dyIER_hdvm9JJ0XJ22ErTWn3TWgXG2Lo9k0lZ9xU5BCqJXm_Gvyv/s863/hall9.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAsfhhyphenhyphen62JIMRmmuxhQCpZXLUIC-z_eTtOSB93d0IR6Dfe6wh7hqnS14S3CjwDTTsrLr7hNz0dfDv5O5FBoGDQ6c4tEjKGFZ_NM7mx-6iWv8LTGb1qeGUcuzT7CqCiDbwQW1PNxb5dyIER_hdvm9JJ0XJ22ErTWn3TWgXG2Lo9k0lZ9xU5BCqJXm_Gvyv/w296-h400/hall9.jpeg" width="296" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">The first Theosophical influence that comes to mind, would be <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/William_Quan_Judge">William Q Judge</a>’s well-known article, </span></span><span><a href="https://www.philaletheians.co.uk/study-notes/buddhas-and-initiates/the-role-of-adepts-in-the-great-american-revolution.pdf">T</a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.philaletheians.co.uk/study-notes/buddhas-and-initiates/the-role-of-adepts-in-the-great-american-revolution.pdf">he Adepts in America in 1776</a>,</span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (</span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">October, 1883<i>, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">with Blavatsky's added commentary)<i>, </i>which Hall does not reference.
It turns out, however, that the 1938 issue of The Theosophist that he
references is a kind of special patriotic American spirit issue inspired by the looming
onset of World War Two where the Judge article is quoted prominently. (The issue is from a peak neo-Theosophy period that I do not subscribe too, but it seems to be an interesting historical document.) Besides the story of the Declaration of
Independence speech, he also apparently got the story of the American flag from that issue, as well as the Washington vision. I think that Hall would have done better to have followed the Judge and Blavatsky texts instead of the more doubtful ones that he opted for. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Hall discusses Atlantis in terms of political theory and makes only minor use of Theosophical interpretations. The basic American democratic pre-destination idea originating in Ancient Greece does not seem to be of Theosophical provenance.
Otherwise, there is a broadly common use of<a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/07/blavatsky-in-1950s-serge-hutin-secret.html"> esoteric traditions</a> (and Blavatsky discusses <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-08.htm">Nostradamus</a>, relating a prediction of the Crimean War. (Isis Unveiled I, 261. Her main take on European medieval and renaissance esoteric tradition is in <a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-08a.htm">chapter 8</a> of Isis Unveiled, 2)). The
Judge text keeps the reference to secret adepts vague and uses mainstream
historical references, whereas Hall is interested in more detailed accounts of
a prophetic nature, with somewhat more alternative references. Unfortunately, the
references for the American part do not hold up as well as the ancient and
Renaissance ones, using several popular and Masonic after-the-fact accounts. Both sources note that idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism">American exceptionalism </a>is
inherent in the formal mainstream history of the United States. It may be of interest to note that both Judge and Hall discuss Thomas Paine, but they give him noticeably different treatments, with Judge emphasizing more idealistic, prophetic aspects whereas Hall gives a more conventional historical account.<br /></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFUcDOJiELUnlEmzUS-TqyPb7GYr0NGwc8lFs6k6vE6G4_exlwfuyBY6Anibpb0_k7GcsMAmZjyDoykx9dUIwkybwudyCv1gQe-FoSKttC-327phwrhNZTxh6cPd-15rV4KeMlXwxEBpH3Dc15rjtSG63k_zXnZohKKtz9xQiUSFbpReyS0opJKyVn0HH/s900/WashingtonCrossingTheDelaware.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="900" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFUcDOJiELUnlEmzUS-TqyPb7GYr0NGwc8lFs6k6vE6G4_exlwfuyBY6Anibpb0_k7GcsMAmZjyDoykx9dUIwkybwudyCv1gQe-FoSKttC-327phwrhNZTxh6cPd-15rV4KeMlXwxEBpH3Dc15rjtSG63k_zXnZohKKtz9xQiUSFbpReyS0opJKyVn0HH/w400-h226/WashingtonCrossingTheDelaware.jpg" width="400" /></a></span>It is beyond the scope of my post to analyze the intrinsic merits of this work (which would be a very interesting task). A preliminary conclusion would be that Hall’s work is
more specifically Masonic, although he seems to avoid making explicit Masonic references (and Judge was a Mason as well) with Hall being the most obvious influence on American politics, (with <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/01/05/ronald_reagan_and_the_occultist_the_amazing_story_of_the_thinker_behind_his_sunny_optimism/">Ronald Reagan</a>, for example). One could argue, perhaps, that that 1938 Theosophist American history article was a kind of proto-Secret Destiny. UFO, alternative
spirituality/history/archaeology, and unexplained phenomena watchdog Emily
Louise, in a video on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoPvYGtNHlU&t=4126s">Edgar Cayce</a>, mentions how Cayce made some predictions
about the importance of the United
States, implying that it is derived from Theosophical notions of evolution, but no specific details about this are
provided. Note that since all the references to Blavatsky and Theosophy in
the video are of a derogatory nature, therefore it is possible that
there is a negative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias">confirmation bias</a> and a lack of<a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-11/Journalism/index16e4.html?page_id=24"> journalist principles</a> of
neutrality and objectivity.<span> A recent Jason Colavito <a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-ancient-aliens-s19e15-edgar-cayce-the-sleeping-prophet">blog post</a> gives some more information on Cayce's Theosophical connections.<br /></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span>I would venture to say that both Judge and Hall helped pave the way for the historical study of the considerable esoteric, Masonic, and mystical influences present in the founding and development of the United States. For example:</span></span></span></p><!--[if !mso]>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6aqKKzrHU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6aqKKzrHU</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><b> Recent edition with additional text covering South America: <br /></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.prs.org/store/p8/The_Secret_Destiny_of_America__%28Paperback%29__978-158542-622-1.html">https://www.prs.org/store/p8/The_Secret_Destiny_of_America__%28Paperback%29__978-158542-622-1.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqLMekONSRZDsNykJDZ09pyai1LAMExXvWSeEUZif74tquEeiS_3IbhCQ0BWTFYGg1VHw-J0k67r7HTAO4dqxF1wclqn556LzmsOcg-95Kmqj3N5GI-uKQXjTLWilbp_ysmUTTECDCqPEyoQZidtaNgVDkZw1bV3NjvDm_DPX5Dgh1kmoL_G30qjcMf1kT/s774/hall8.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqLMekONSRZDsNykJDZ09pyai1LAMExXvWSeEUZif74tquEeiS_3IbhCQ0BWTFYGg1VHw-J0k67r7HTAO4dqxF1wclqn556LzmsOcg-95Kmqj3N5GI-uKQXjTLWilbp_ysmUTTECDCqPEyoQZidtaNgVDkZw1bV3NjvDm_DPX5Dgh1kmoL_G30qjcMf1kT/w310-h400/hall8.webp" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Paine<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">PS - In light of the proliferation of alternative esoteric histories and conspiracy theories in the 20th century, I would like to state that I do not think that writing an alternative history essay exempts one from the standards of rigorous historical research. If anything, it should increase the standards. I do consider that Blavatsky followed rigorous documentation standards. Specific examples that I use are her review of <a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_036.htm">A. E Waite's Rosicrucian history</a> and her use of the works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Ragon">J</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Ragon">ean-Marie Ragon.</a></span></span><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">PPS - Blavatsky's esoteric history touches upon a Jesuit conspiracy theory, which I avoid discussing as I feel that it has been overly misused and misconstrued, although I plan on writing a post about it in the future. For now, I would like to state that she apparently based it on a credible compilation of authentic Jesuit documents: </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=w9YDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">The Principles of the Jesuits</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Handley_Norris">Henry Handley Norris</a> (1839).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PPPS - In the interest of presenting diverse points of view, a Jason Colavito critique of <a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/helena-blavatsky-freemasons-and-the-occult-history-of-the-knights-templar">Isis Unveiled 2, Chapter 8.</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"></p>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-37173793127089098332023-10-23T06:01:00.006-07:002024-01-13T07:31:14.776-08:00Blavatsky and the top 20 American Theosophists, part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5G93kThqpX4NlFOgRnPegGH3rHjF_ybi1OsjkLBt45XEwwNZSREhPpef2oIYRvieiRC4Wjr8lXsi_67xUalX_caV8ltWfNgnmMm-fcTR1IkkVXsGLsjvK50rH7pg-gNevbx93fiAOAlCL118vdJ-QRr69VZM1JaoRXtXOaGtHim2TfRQLPzP8uMesPXM/s680/mccalls-1-e1433185307470.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="549" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5G93kThqpX4NlFOgRnPegGH3rHjF_ybi1OsjkLBt45XEwwNZSREhPpef2oIYRvieiRC4Wjr8lXsi_67xUalX_caV8ltWfNgnmMm-fcTR1IkkVXsGLsjvK50rH7pg-gNevbx93fiAOAlCL118vdJ-QRr69VZM1JaoRXtXOaGtHim2TfRQLPzP8uMesPXM/w323-h400/mccalls-1-e1433185307470.webp" width="323" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Honorable Mentions</b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
Theosophical Society always considered itself to be a bulwark within a
wider theosophical movement for the burgeoning modern world and the
subsequent de-colonialization process. Therefore instances of
theosophical influence are usually accompanied with a certain amount of
conflict and controversy, which is not unusual for a reform movement in
very tumultuous times. Below is a lot of people whose theosophical
activities require more research. They are characterized by a more
individualistic, original, ambiguous approach to their theosophical
inspirations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">See<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/10/blavatsky-and-top-20-american.html">Part 1</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><p></p><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_159" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="e3i0g" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London">Jack London<span> </span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1876 – 1916)<span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><span> </span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><span>In a 1983 dissertation, William Linville: London's books Martin Eden, The Star Rover, and John Barleycorn all reveal a debt to the Secret Doctrine. </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><span> </span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'Martin Eden’s head was in a state of addlement when he went away after
several hours, and he hurried to the library to look up the definitions
of a dozen unusual words. And when he left the library, he carried under
his arm four volumes: Madam Blavatsky’s “Secret Doctrine,” “Progress
and Poverty,” “The Quintessence of Socialism,” and, “Warfare of Religion
and Science.” Unfortunately, he began on the “Secret Doctrine.” Every
line bristled with many-syllabled words he did not understand.'<span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jack_London ">https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jack_London </a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot">T S Eliot</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1888 – 1965) </span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">I shall not want Pipit in Heaven: </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Madame Blavatsky will instruct me </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In the Seven Sacred Trances; </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Piccarda de Donati will conduct me. </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">A Cooking Egg, Poems, 1919 </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Fantastic Views: T. S. Eliot & the Occultation of Knowledge & Experience (1997</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/OTJrDPkvJt" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>jstor.org/stable/4075513<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">2?typeAccessWorkflow=login</span></a></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="College course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra">Sun Ra </a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1914 – 1993) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proponent
of a very particular brand of neo-theosophy that was quite influential,
he included Blavatsky on his reading list in a college course that he
gave as lecturing musician in residence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos”">Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos”</a> July 21st, 2014</span></div><div style="clear: both;"></div>
<div class="clearfix" id="clearfixheader"> </div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html">https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1922 – 2007) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kurt Vonnegut called her ‘the Founding Mother of the Occult in America’, which is not entirely hyperbole. </span></span><span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">McCalls Magazine, March 1970</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><a href="https://www.apollo-magazine.com/transcendental-painting-group-new-mexico/ "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">https://www.apollo-magazine.com/transcendental-painting-group-new-mexico/ </span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr. </a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1929 – 1968)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Not an official theosophist, but deserves an honorary status</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">You Say You Want a Revolution—in Consciousness?
tapped into a mystical East-West lineage, one that can guide us in divisive times
Christopher Naughton Jan. 1, 2020</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-in-consciousness-b83958b88dff ">https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-in-consciousness-b83958b88dff </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter"></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter">Wayne Shorter </a> </span></span></span><span>(1933 – 2023)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">There
is an obvious neo-theosophy influence in free jazz with Sun Ra, but maybe
also in hard bop through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>'s reading theosophist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Scott">Cyril Scott</a>,The Philosophy of Modernism, 1917. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Forms">Kenny Burrell </a>covered a Cyrill
Scott composition, Lotus Land, on his album with Gil Evans. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_(McCoy_Tyner_album)">McCoy Tyner </a>has an album
title Atlantis and </span></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">there is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Jefferson">Carter Jefferson</a>'s The Rise of Atlantis. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Wayne was a Nichiren Buddhist, perhaps into Theosophy?
1985 album titled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_(Wayne_Shorter_album)">Atlantis</a>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://blog.oup.com/2015/04/religion-jazz-love-supreme-john-coltrane/">https://blog.oup.com/2015/04/religion-jazz-love-supreme-john-coltrane/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Gene Wilder </span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder"> </a>(1933 – 2016)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">His
aunt was a neo-theosophist from Wheaton and he developed some sort of
spiritual practice that did not go very well, but maybe it somehow had
some sort of positive influence. He was advised to quit smoking. Good
advice.<br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3766152/Torment-Willy-Wonka-star-hid-twinkling-blue-eyes-Gene-Wilder-s-clownish-characters-concealed-life-battered-tragedy.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3766152/Torment-Willy-Wonka-star-hid-twinkling-blue-eyes-Gene-Wilder-s-clownish-characters-concealed-life-battered-tragedy.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_aRI80fMu9ty2k6clACMcF90dky4XkqlDOQursJinv_M31XdbfIaUnjqYH46jAlmTPS3VFLQRfuVJw1qcBCW6uriOm2m6HZmsg-APnJvr06sYEDWCq6b0kRp19a1Bvfd3Qqh1RvTu-y2ki6xgV7QKZQBN7ey8u8EFIGqQqTZfti6G9UbN2AO8lW5xb0e/s1056/steinem.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_aRI80fMu9ty2k6clACMcF90dky4XkqlDOQursJinv_M31XdbfIaUnjqYH46jAlmTPS3VFLQRfuVJw1qcBCW6uriOm2m6HZmsg-APnJvr06sYEDWCq6b0kRp19a1Bvfd3Qqh1RvTu-y2ki6xgV7QKZQBN7ey8u8EFIGqQqTZfti6G9UbN2AO8lW5xb0e/w151-h200/steinem.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem">Gloria Steinem</a><span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (1934-)<span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><span> </span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism" title="Second-wave feminism">second-wave feminism</a> in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s</span>.<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Her mother was a Theosophist.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">'In
retrospect, I realize that I was so lucky that it was my mother’s
child-rearing philosophy, because if you believe in reincarnation, you
don’t think children are your possessions.'</span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/vKusUeCpKl" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2018/02/08/voi<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">ces-of-feminism-oral-history-project-sept-28-and-30-2007/</span></span></a><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_46" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley"></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley">Elvis Presley</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (1935 – 1977)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Apparently, he would read Blavatsky's 'Voice of the Silence' at his concerts... he had some sort of neo-theosophy interest... </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The seeker King: a spiritual biography of Elvis Presley,
18 june 2020 (Awaken | Gary Tillery) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://globalheart.nl/spiritualiteit/the-seeker-king-a-spiritual-biography-of-elvis-presley/">https://globalheart.nl/spiritualiteit/the-seeker-king-a-spiritual-biography-of-elvis-presley/</a></span><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Todd Rundgren </span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1948-) </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Theosophy
doesn't have the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin rock n' roll
cred that the Thelemans have, but check out Todd's (Alice
Bailey inspired?) falsetto wailing and proggy guitar riffing, with a nice intro
about cooperation.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Utopia - Seven Rays,</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> (BBC Old Grey Whistle Test, 1975) </span></span><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58K5j9zsfhA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58K5j9zsfhA</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-90129420976588422882023-10-22T16:45:00.003-07:002023-11-01T11:31:58.056-07:00Blavatsky and the symbolism of the Wizard of Oz<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_WxqXN-tQlSUItgjp8Zc0YnRw7zzurR0md1BhGJ7hlQh73d88v2yYDDqpPM7zh3gwS3xEH8c_RAN6mGSm0L8PI41PV49Wtq0diwuiM2yoXZwBNxjFYKVJg-mAXZw_po1i--IDM4Z37y2JAOk6CxjsrBVbGkw3vJHo4pCsB8J9cdDhPy0dJvTruAzXQ/s1036/Oz_-_W.W._Denslow_cover_(back).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_WxqXN-tQlSUItgjp8Zc0YnRw7zzurR0md1BhGJ7hlQh73d88v2yYDDqpPM7zh3gwS3xEH8c_RAN6mGSm0L8PI41PV49Wtq0diwuiM2yoXZwBNxjFYKVJg-mAXZw_po1i--IDM4Z37y2JAOk6CxjsrBVbGkw3vJHo4pCsB8J9cdDhPy0dJvTruAzXQ/s320/Oz_-_W.W._Denslow_cover_(back).jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When
I began researching the Wizard of Oz, I was not really aware of the
massive cultural legacy that it carried. Hence my first post was a
gangly, unwieldly attempt at processing a lot of material on the
subject. I later discovered that the semiotic and symbolic study of the
story is a well-developed area on its own. No self-respecting pop
culture symbolist can claim to be hip without dishing their take on it. I
originally tried to incorporate these recent articles into the first
post, but that made it even more unwieldly. There are many more takes on
this theme on Youtube and podcasts.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="article__time-container"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">John Algeo was a neo-theosophist English Lit prof, wrote about the spiritual symbolism in the story of Oz, a concept first introduced in The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Michael Patrick Hearn, 1973. </span></div></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/KK1fsoBAzQ" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00ba7c; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>theosophy.wiki/en/L._Frank_Ba<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">um</span></a></span></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> “The Alchemical World of Oz” </span></b></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Timothy J. Ryan </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Rose+Croix Journal</i> Vol. 14, 2020</span></b></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 11.8%; top: 42.46%; transform: scaleX(0.918803);">L. Frank Baum was a student of Blavatsky’s and keenly familiar with esoteric teachings in </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 11.8%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.932011);">the years prior to writing</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 31.3%; top: 44.2%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 31.79%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.869798);">Oz</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 33.97%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.928253);">, having likely read both</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 53.09%; top: 44.2%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 53.58%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.905962);">The Secret Doctrine</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 69.37%; top: 44.2%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 69.86%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.865967);">and</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 72.69%; top: 44.2%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 73.18%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.926022);">Isis Unveiled</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 83.47%; top: 44.2%; transform: scaleX(0.913503);">, is </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 11.8%; top: 45.94%; transform: scaleX(0.912324);">worth considerable attention. It is also worth pointing out that Baum believed such teachings </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; left: 11.8%; top: 47.68%; transform: scaleX(0.912875);">could be successfully transmitted through works of literature. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://bfcd9c487151ad5177fe-0f9253894b074fcb30762f45677b1794.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/Vol14_62-74_Ryan.pdf"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://bfcd9c487151ad5177fe-0f9253894b074fcb30762f45677b1794.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/Vol14_62-74_Ryan.pdf</span></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLBtsJZIn0tOx6U2enizeaFZ8pzRxgkcXuLOCf_oOryxGpEcKJvVinN4bmAVnSTovnoWxWrHM3uj66Gnbty9NqSbS60UCITs8y-BjBXYR6UXnvRLMo-NN7ZId62khwmiD0nvkizmFkNB21GqHJRXZMRULbvPZS6hoMcl40auvMQ-hQmly0UhigyOfREIg/s662/ozsy1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLBtsJZIn0tOx6U2enizeaFZ8pzRxgkcXuLOCf_oOryxGpEcKJvVinN4bmAVnSTovnoWxWrHM3uj66Gnbty9NqSbS60UCITs8y-BjBXYR6UXnvRLMo-NN7ZId62khwmiD0nvkizmFkNB21GqHJRXZMRULbvPZS6hoMcl40auvMQ-hQmly0UhigyOfREIg/s320/ozsy1.jpg" width="224" /></a></div>Well-researched 3-part series on spiritual & feminist aspects of Oz</span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Marvelous Land Of Oz Part 1: Golems And The Uraeus Of Isis</span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="byline"> <a href="https://themodernmysteries.wordpress.com/author/themodernmysteries/" rel="author" title="Posts by themodernmysteries">themodernmysteries</a> </span><span class="cat-links"> </span>
<span class="published-on">
<time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-07-05T23:26:35+00:00">July 5, 2020</time></span></span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-07-05T23:26:35+00:00">The Marvelous Land Of Oz is the fascinating follow-up to L. Frank Baum’s
famous novel The Wizard Of Oz. In order to more completely explore the
many ideas and themes of the book without rushing through things this
will be in multiple parts.</time><span><span class="published-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-07-05T23:26:35+00:00"> </time></span> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://themodernmysteries.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/the-marvelous-land-of-oz-part-1-golems-and-the-uraeus-of-isis/">https://themodernmysteries.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/the-marvelous-land-of-oz-part-1-golems-and-the-uraeus-of-isis/</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">excellent piece on spiritual aspects, rites of passage </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: They Even Banned Dorothy?!
Mary Bartling </b></span></span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Oct 7, 2021</b></span></span><span aria-hidden="true" class="l"><span class="bd b be z ft"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Much has been written about Baum’s connection to Theosophy, an
esoteric movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The Witch
of the North parallels the wisdom’s “world Mother,” who in a very real
sense, takes “all the women of the world” under Her charge.Which is precisely what she does with Dorothy.
</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Naturally, the witch’s association with the North suggests a
connection to the Pole Star, which according to Theosophy keeps a
“watchful eye” on the “Imperishable Sacred Land” around the North Pole.Consistent
with this imagery, the Witch of the North gives Dorothy a protective
talisman – a kiss on the forehead. The kiss is clearly a nod to what is
known in Theosophy as “Dangma’s opened eye,” the inner spiritual eye of
an advanced student.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://medium.com/@marybartling/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-they-even-banned-dorothy-d01ac6cae033"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://medium.com/@marybartling/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-they-even-banned-dorothy-d01ac6cae033</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLksC-Upb8bEZ03nsq6V2tlAwQDyQ-IREEGlsbEKJCq3Wdm0t8HWBZ6oFCN2u3osfxGyMfFFnj7T4MJzIwOWVNFLyZJJWdlBitjAXP3BmC8SCcHjVDDHcjNtX2-EdjeIXunXVWUlcO-V-g3f1C6QP-kZ2npIQqrmtJrSE_ZPMvs7JK2u-ueO-MF53nV5l/s1000/ozfilm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="1000" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLksC-Upb8bEZ03nsq6V2tlAwQDyQ-IREEGlsbEKJCq3Wdm0t8HWBZ6oFCN2u3osfxGyMfFFnj7T4MJzIwOWVNFLyZJJWdlBitjAXP3BmC8SCcHjVDDHcjNtX2-EdjeIXunXVWUlcO-V-g3f1C6QP-kZ2npIQqrmtJrSE_ZPMvs7JK2u-ueO-MF53nV5l/w400-h258/ozfilm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>“The Wizard of Oz” as Personal Myth</span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="author vcard"><a href="https://faithinthejourney.com/author/richard-stromer/" rel="author" title="Posts by Richard Stromer">Richard Stromer</a></span> | <span class="published">Jul 27, 2021</span> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">More importantly, Gage introduced Baum to the religious and
philosophical system known as Theosophy. Founded in 1875 by psychic and
spiritual teacher Helena Blavatsky, Theosophy is one of the sources
which would later give rise to the spiritual movement known as “New
Age.” Seeking to combine insights from Western Science with Eastern
mysticism, Theosophy optimistically encouraged its adherents to seek
wisdom from many traditions as well their own inner knowing. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b><a href="https://faithinthejourney.com/the-wizard-of-oz-as-personal-myth/">https://faithinthejourney.com/the-wizard-of-oz-as-personal-myth/</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFjj0rswBnsxqFaxmLI4Of_I9G10he1JzPmERubvmf4d8F0ZVfRAzCNollEM2Usi-CvgtKk9WzO-io_ah1oGmQOi9VSA3cUkyOej8WqDgU0ytn6ZbCNgv5umiDAKVkkFOyOMZsSbauIX4LNHrkweMf6SkNfyVAt4OXWbtYCMqOz59ZQODJdpgTrhUd2SA/s800/ozneil.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="571" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFjj0rswBnsxqFaxmLI4Of_I9G10he1JzPmERubvmf4d8F0ZVfRAzCNollEM2Usi-CvgtKk9WzO-io_ah1oGmQOi9VSA3cUkyOej8WqDgU0ytn6ZbCNgv5umiDAKVkkFOyOMZsSbauIX4LNHrkweMf6SkNfyVAt4OXWbtYCMqOz59ZQODJdpgTrhUd2SA/s320/ozneil.jpg" width="228" /></a></div>Good overview of various Oz interpretations, Theosophical included<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The Real Meaning of these Wizard of Oz Characters</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">A. C. Grimes Feb. 3, 2023</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">While
employed as a newspaper reporter Baum covered high-profile
theosophists. One was Thomas Edison, the famed "Wizard of Menlo Park."
He also paid an amusing tribute to one of theosophy's pioneers, Madame
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Blavatsky railed against organized religion
and "all kinds of pseudo‐occult humbug," per the New York Times. When
she died, Baum responded with the headline, "An Astral Vacation: Mme.
Blavatsky Is Not Dead, but Taking a Rest." <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.grunge.com/165193/the-real-meaning-of-these-wizard-of-oz-characters/">https://www.grunge.com/165193/the-real-meaning-of-these-wizard-of-oz-characters/</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">Buffy, Katniss, Dorothy Heroine's Journey quite a thing, Wizard of Oz gets that treatment-Joseph Campbell, sure, why not? Seems to work </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/rJf1bQZttH" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block; text-overflow: unset;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">https://</span>consciousconnectionmagazine.com/2013/04/transf<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">ormational-lessons-from-oz-an-interview-w-dr-jean-houston/</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>Understanding The Heroine's Journey Can Help You Unlock Your Feminine Power </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>Gwen Farrell Sept 14, 2023</b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Murdock saw that the archetype of the hero’s journey is about going forward to conquer something, while <a class="cursor-newtab" href="https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/can-a-woman-have-a-hero-story" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a heroine’s journey</a>
is more demonstrative of profound, inward soul-searching through
emotions, psychology, and spirituality. Thus, her 1990 self-help guide <i>The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness </i>was born, and through it, Murdock hoped to inspire women to undergo their own expedition into self-awareness and fulfillment.</span><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_113" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/heroines-journey-unlock-secrets-feminine-power ">https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/heroines-journey-unlock-secrets-feminine-power </a></span></span></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-59210693035793739882023-10-21T10:04:00.023-07:002023-11-15T09:50:58.023-08:00Blavatsky and the top 20 American Theosophists<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyJqAJvYg3ahlvbwJFWYRIikCfC_sC36bK_jIMrW4-06ywkx2c6ajDRVsZyznHc0MbQqAXNDQqhK_Ty3usSSJlEO7RfYSUs2PfwpD7e4S1QBdoSYZSW08EKBKQxnsaVe9ZQmDY35KOnLItV_YIF7kPDq0cmOGlgiVW6PPblFN-yDOjyqPrFyqIc-xPQvl/s561/bragdon-station-interior.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="561" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyJqAJvYg3ahlvbwJFWYRIikCfC_sC36bK_jIMrW4-06ywkx2c6ajDRVsZyznHc0MbQqAXNDQqhK_Ty3usSSJlEO7RfYSUs2PfwpD7e4S1QBdoSYZSW08EKBKQxnsaVe9ZQmDY35KOnLItV_YIF7kPDq0cmOGlgiVW6PPblFN-yDOjyqPrFyqIc-xPQvl/w400-h321/bragdon-station-interior.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Central Railroad Station in Rochester, NY designed by Claude Bragdon</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></b>Since the US is having a Pluto return over the next few years, I thought it opportune to propose the following compilation as a reflection on the not inconsiderable socio-cultural impact of theosophy on America. This is not so much a list of active participating members, but a rather a list of relatively famous, influential ones. <b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>1- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> (1815 – 1902)</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Major early US feminist, her Woman's Bible is full of theosophical notions.</span></span></div><div class="nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-xl nova-legacy-e-text--family-display nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-none nova-legacy-e-text--color-grey-900 research-detail-header-section__title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319103094_How_to_Ruin_Your_Reputation_Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton_and_The_Woman%27s_Bible_Paper_presented_at_the_Feminist_Theologies_Day_Sophia_Ecumenical_Feminist_Spirituality_Centre_Adelaide_12th_August_2017"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How to Ruin Your Reputation: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The Woman's Bible.</span></a></div><div class="nova-legacy-e-text nova-legacy-e-text--size-xl nova-legacy-e-text--family-display nova-legacy-e-text--spacing-none nova-legacy-e-text--color-grey-900 research-detail-header-section__title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">2- <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Abner_Doubleday">Abner Doubleday</a> </span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1819 – 1893)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He is the very model of a modern major general...
Was into transcendentalism and was a major early theosophist in the days of Blavatsky and Olcott. There is a statue of him west of Gettysburg on Reynolds Avenue.</span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/DjhGvrAxbq" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">http://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">historicalspaghetti.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-my<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">th-of-baseball-and-abner.html</span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">3- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Joslyn_Gage">Matilda Joslyn Gage</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (1826 – 1898)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">Important feminist, advocate for abolition and Native American rights.
spent time among the Iroquois & received the name- "she who holds
the sky" - upon her initiation into the Wolf Clan, admitted into
Iroquois Council of Matrons</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/3t0KUFer01" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/03/blavat<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">sky-theosophy-american-feminism-2.html</span></span></a><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_58" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>4- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James">William James </a>(1842–1910)</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Philosopher, pragmatism, psychologist, & 1st educator to offer a psychology course in US
A Theosophical Discipline: Revisiting the History of Religious Studies
JĀJ Storm. ( JAAR ), Vol. 89, 4, Dec 2021</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/102895353/A_Theosophical_Discipline_Revisiting_the_History_of_Religious_Studies ">https://www.academia.edu/102895353/A_Theosophical_Discipline_Revisiting_the_History_of_Religious_Studies</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">5</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison"> Thomas Edison</a> (1847 – 1931)</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931)
Madame Blavatsky Tracking Down Tinfoil Phonograph #158 Allen Koenigsberg The Antique Phonograph JUNE 2014 27-30 The TS bought a phonograph, Blavatsky was recorded, recording damaged, phonograph lost
</span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/OQl861mIH6" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">academia.edu/82205911/Ediso<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">n_and_Madame_Helena_Blavatsky_Theosophy_Redux</span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">6- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spalding">Albert Spalding</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (1849 – 1915) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pitcher,
manager, & executive in the early years of professional baseball,
& co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company
Major figure in making good baseball gloves & balls & developing
baseball into a major sport</span>.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://havechanged.blogspot.com/2017/12/madame-blatavsky-and-beginnings-of.html">https://havechanged.blogspot.com/2017/12/madame-blatavsky-and-beginnings-of.html</a></span></span></span></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <br /></span></span></span></b></div><b></b><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">7- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum">L. Frank Baum </a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">(1856 – 1919)</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/Yiftx5YMBt" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/03/blavat<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">sky-wizard-of-oz.html</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>8-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fayette_Bragdon"> Claude Bragdon </a>(1866 – 1946) </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Architect, writer, & stage designer based in Rochester & New York City-remarkable books on sacred geometry, multi-talented. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/GP1wyEDUO2" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>bauarchitecture.com/docs/Red%20Squ<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">are.pdf</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Frank Loyd Wright possibly had some theosophical influence as well </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-publishes-new-book-modernist-architect-claude-bragdon ">https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-publishes-new-book-modernist-architect-claude-bragdon </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>9- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnston_(Theosophist)">Charles Johnston</a> (1867 – 1931) </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Irish
writer, journalist, theosophist, naturalist, and Sanskrit scholar,
married to the niece of Madame Blavatsky and was involved in the
development of the Theosophical Society in the United States as of 1900.</span><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> First person to translate all the major Upanishads. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/charley/ ">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/charley/ </a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">10</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Evans-Wentz"> Walter Y. Evans-Wentz</a> </span></span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(1878 – 1965)</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The Comparative Study of Religion A Common Core of Theosophy in Celtic Myth, Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism Jens Schlieter
Occult Roots of Religious Studies 2021 </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110664270-007/html?lang=en">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110664270-007/html?lang=en</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>11- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Mundy ">Talbot Mundy </a>(1879 – 1940) </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">English writer of adventure fiction, US in 1909, joined TS 1923
compared with Haggard & Kipling, he adopted an anti-colonialist stance & positive interest in Asian religion & philosophy </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="http://greydogtales.com/blog/h-p-lovecraft-lords-venus/ ">http://greydogtales.com/blog/h-p-lovecraft-lords-venus/ </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">12-</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grant_Still">William Grant Still </a>(1895-1978) </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Dean of African American Composers
influenced by Theosophy via music therapist Evelyn Benham-Bull (1897-1983) but was more of a spiritualist. Symphony No.5 program notes here some seem to show Theosophical influence. More research needed.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZMPaM8ROhQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZMPaM8ROhQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title</a> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">13- </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane_Rudhyar">Dane Rudhyar</a>
</span>(1895 – 1985)</b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Astrologer, composer, painter
New York City, 1916, association with Theosophy, began when asked to compose music in LA,1920. Married Marla Contento, secretary to independent Theosophist Will Levington Comfort, introduced him to Marc Edmund Jones </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/11/dane-rudhyar-music-and-mysticism.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/11/dane-rudhyar-music-and-mysticism.html</span><span><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">14- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder">Thornton Wilder </a>(1897 – 1975) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Playwright and novelist. He won three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prizes</a> — for the novel <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey" title="The Bridge of San Luis Rey">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</a></i> and for the plays <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town" title="Our Town">Our Town</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth" title="The Skin of Our Teeth">The Skin of Our Teeth</a></i> — and a U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a> for the novel <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighth_Day_(novel)" title="The Eighth Day (novel)">The Eighth Day</a></i>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In his last novel, <i>The Eighth Day</i> (1967), one of his characters gives quite a lengthy dissertation on reincarnation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Novelists and the Ancient Wisdom </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Philip Harris 1999</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://theosophicalsociety.org.au/articles/the-novelists-and-the-ancient-wisdom "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://theosophicalsociety.org.au/articles/the-novelists-and-the-ancient-wisdom <br /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div aria-labelledby="id__tkdc9p33of id__nnq4d1q4ty" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1ssbvtb r-1s2bzr4" id="id__v2y44ct2tg"><div aria-labelledby="id__7446y2uyj0k id__rrybl8qkvji" class="css-1dbjc4n r-15ma8z r-1867qdf r-1phboty r-rs99b7 r-1ny4l3l r-1udh08x r-o7ynqc r-6416eg" data-testid="card.wrapper" id="id__nnq4d1q4ty"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-pm2fo r-zmljjp r-1adg3ll" data-testid="card.layoutLarge.media" id="id__7446y2uyj0k"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1udh08x"><div class="r-1p0dtai r-1pi2tsx r-1d2f490 r-u8s1d r-ipm5af r-13qz1uu"><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>15- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Crawford_Seeger">Ruth Crawford Seeger</a> (1901–1953) </b></span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Composer & folk music specialist. Mother of Pete Seeger. 1924, began private piano lessons with Djane Lavoie-Herz, sparked Crawford's interest in theosophy & Scriabin, met Dane Rudhyar & Henry Cowell </span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Toast 6 Nov 2019 </span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://ca.toa.st/blogs/magazine/a-quiet-pioneer-composer-ruth-crawford-seeger-laura-barton">https://ca.toa.st/blogs/magazine/a-quiet-pioneer-composer-ruth-crawford-seeger-laura-barton</a></span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>16- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Tyberg">Judith Tyberg </a>(1902–1980) </b></span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sanskrit scholar and orientalist. Founder and guiding spirit of the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. </span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://ashramsofindia.com/judith-tyberg-jyotipriya/">https://wrldrels.org/2021/06/14/judith-tyberg/</a></span></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <br /></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">17- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_G._Decker_Jr.">Alonzo G. Decker Jr.</a> </span></span> (1908 – 2002)</b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-1-0"><span data-text="true">A theosophist for all your power tool needs. B</span></span>usinessperson and engineer who served as the chairman of the board of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_Decker" title="Black & Decker">Black & Decker</a>.
He is known for developing power tools for use in the home, including
the first cordless electric drill, which helped create the do it
yourself market.<sup> </sup>Throughout his life he was an active philanthropist. Served as trustee for Theosophical Society in America.</span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">18</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness">Alan Hovhaness </a>(1911 – 2000) </span></b></span></div><div aria-label="Picture of entrance way" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-11wrixw r-61z16t r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">American-Armenian composer,one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, wonderful synthesis of east-west styles
Spent time with composer Henry Cowell & theosophist colony of Halcyon in California</span> </span><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_152" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/Tg2A96TNVK" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/alan-h<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">ovhaness-on-universal.htm</span></span></a></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true">19- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock">Jackson Pollock</a> </span></span>(1912 – 1956)<span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></b></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true">The
bad boy of the group...compelling artist. Studied with Phillip Guston and Thomas Hart Benton. Through Frederic John de
St. Vrain Schwankovsky—introduced to Theosophy, attended Krishnamurti’s
camp-meetings at Ojai </span></span></span><div class="UbhFJ7 nkqC0Q blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color blog-text-color post-title blog-hover-container-element-color FG3qXk blog-post-page-title-font" data-hook="post-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="post-title__text blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="blog-post-title-font blog-post-title-color"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Mysterious Rituals Of Jackson Pollock's Abstraction </span></span></span><a data-hook="profile-link" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="tQ0Q1A user-name dlINDG" data-hook="user-name" title="Ahmed Kheder"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ahmed Kheder </span></span></a><span class="post-metadata__date time-ago" data-hook="time-ago" style="font-family: georgia;" title="Oct 27, 2022"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oct 27, 2022</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00613d;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-1-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.khederpaintings.com/post/the-mysterious-rituals-of-jackson-pollock-abstraction">https://www.khederpaintings.com/post/the-mysterious-rituals-of-jackson-pollock-abstraction</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cfpbd-0-0"><span style="color: #00613d;"><span data-offset-key="cfpbd-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>20- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson">Ian Stevenson</a> (1918 –2007) </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">P</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">sychiatrist, founder & director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">Theosophy & the Dissenting Western Imagination Dara Tatray Literature & Aesthetics Vol 21 N 1 June 2011
</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/YMALWxOixe" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">theosophicalsociety.org.au/articles/theos<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">ophy-and-the-dissenting-western-imagination</span></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">For 10 honorable mentions, see </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/10/blavatsky-and-top-20-american_23.html">part 2 </a></b></span></span></span></div><p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-83460059689318855462023-10-20T10:57:00.006-07:002024-01-13T07:31:48.551-08:00Blavatsky and recent academic publications<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWIthFQrRSRk44DIkaeyNMhfnhOch2cnTy3E5YziTKzk0TULviBVbG5XX9-M1xj5AHNVw8gmfBsVjxtayby4-Ha7WuzL16643FI3uVhk-PK_dJhRlpmJ0K2gAu-Dq1fgVA323kGhGmb7SdnabchLxT8M7vMCnmcjPla9NxmKKOmHVZFb26TBKZ_ExwhOXm/s550/ac8.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="358" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWIthFQrRSRk44DIkaeyNMhfnhOch2cnTy3E5YziTKzk0TULviBVbG5XX9-M1xj5AHNVw8gmfBsVjxtayby4-Ha7WuzL16643FI3uVhk-PK_dJhRlpmJ0K2gAu-Dq1fgVA323kGhGmb7SdnabchLxT8M7vMCnmcjPla9NxmKKOmHVZFb26TBKZ_ExwhOXm/w260-h400/ac8.webp" width="260" /></a></div></div>I'm not really academically minded, and I certainly don't cover the academic scene as thoroughly as the previous Blavatsky News, but I do what I can. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Since the last book that I covered was from 2019, I do believe that I have some catching up to do. I think I can safely say that Blavatsky and theosophy are still going strong in the academic scene, there's still a healthy interest and vitality present and the depth and quality of research continues to improve. This list below is by no means comprehensive, simply a random compilation of works that I noticed in my various readings.</span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Has 2023 been the year where Blavatsky made a breakthrough in terms of recognition as important philosophical thinker? There have been precedents, but it's been a good year for Blavatsky in philosophy.</span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1-</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="js-book-info__meta" data-google-interstitial="false" href="https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/46714"><span class="book-info__title" href="https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/46714">The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century
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<a class="book-info__author-link" data-google-interstitial="false" href="https://academic.oup.com/search-results?f_Authors=Alison Laura Stone">Alison Laura Stone (ed.)</a></span></span><span class="al-authors-list book-info__author-list"> <br /></span></b></div><div class="book-info__authors"><div class="title-wrap">
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<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Blavatsky’s Place in the History of Philosophy
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link stats-author-info-trigger" data-google-interstitial="false" style="font-family: georgia;">Tim Rudbøg 2023</a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="al-authors-list book-info__author-list" style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div class="book-info__authors"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">engaged with philosophers, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Leibniz, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Spencer</span></span></div></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href=" https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/46714/chapter-abstract/414022475?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false ">https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/46714/chapter-abstract/414022475?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false </a></span><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2- </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain</span></b></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Alison Stone 2023<br /></span></b></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Develops ideas on Blavatsky and Besant present in journal article below.<br /></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-philosophers-in-nineteenth-century-britain-9780192874719?cc=us&lang=en&">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-philosophers-in-nineteenth-century-britain-9780192874719?cc=us&lang=en&</a></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Later Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers on Mind and Its Place in the World</b> </span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=search&query=author:Alison%20Stone">Alison Stone</a> <a class="top_bio_wrap_link" href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846369#bio_wrap">(bio)</a> </span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/76">Journal of the History of Philosophy</a> </span><span><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47283">Volume 60, Number 1, January 2022</a></span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Having received the hylo-idealists’ materials, Blavatsky singled out
Naden’s writing for its “extremely attractive” style and published
Naden’s short atheist piece “Autocentricism” (signed “C. N.”), plus two
hylo-idealist letters, from Lewins and George McCrie. But, signing
herself “The Adversary,” Blavatsky appended a critique of hylo-idealism,
to which in fact she had already noted her objections in late 1887 when
she read Naden’s “What Is Religion?”</span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><a aria-describedby="qtip-204" class="rid-fn-text ref-hover" data-hasqtip="true" href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846369#f39" name="f39-text"></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846369 ">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846369 </a></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"> </div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aWVlbeA6jJe1wwU1iepXBD_CNgjoB4p_Y1CUjBk7Ng9sXTxCuRSTRogVZ1uEvXfh6OvAuBGjUl1BoU0vJ4GfU4yxjL7lC82OMc2yVv9aBXNIz7-XoFbyhwgTMW68lZc1ELvSJl6Kifrb1l5hRrcIPXLEsSG1r48WlEDvqL_UIUYcfp2fmM7FgKQwPVWz/s440/acad1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="293" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1aWVlbeA6jJe1wwU1iepXBD_CNgjoB4p_Y1CUjBk7Ng9sXTxCuRSTRogVZ1uEvXfh6OvAuBGjUl1BoU0vJ4GfU4yxjL7lC82OMc2yVv9aBXNIz7-XoFbyhwgTMW68lZc1ELvSJl6Kifrb1l5hRrcIPXLEsSG1r48WlEDvqL_UIUYcfp2fmM7FgKQwPVWz/w266-h400/acad1.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>Nice work. 15 papers that examine many facets of the TS relation to Hinduism and Buddhism mainly. </span><b><span><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span>3- Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society</span></b><span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="al-author-name book-info__author js-flyout-wrap">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a class="linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link stats-author-info-trigger" data-google-interstitial="false" style="font-family: georgia;">Tim Rudbog (ed.)</a><span class="delimiter al-author-delim" style="font-family: georgia;">, </span><a class="linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link stats-author-info-trigger" data-google-interstitial="false" style="font-family: georgia;">Erik Sand (ed.) </a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>(Oxford,
2020)</span></span></span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/39711">Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Very interesting work. 13 papers cover a worldwide study of Theosophical influence.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>4- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Theosophy across Boundaries </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="label" style="font-family: georgia;">Edited by</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://sunypress.edu/Contributors/K/Kraemer-Hans-Martin">Hans Martin Krämer</a> & <a href="https://sunypress.edu/Contributors/S/Strube-Julian">Julian Strube</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://sunypress.edu/Series/S/SUNY-series-in-Western-Esoteric-Traditions">SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions</a> 486 pages,
November 2020</span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Theosophy-across-Boundaries "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Theosophy-across-Boundaries </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A
quantum leap in Tantra history, with much on role of Theosophical
Society, essential reading for the modern Yoga history field<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipw2oyj2pF_d4Qt1W5l-CEQP6yaeZ4gZpykuqC8eu5aLHhZ17pte91rk_I42fWGAXgN3mEgRmyqgXcIiybss-2ezRC-MPgTkD7t6YeGhIcv9lrWaHNMDaY5mhF6GxDbU1UNXef0OW5F5GU85EkeKpXY9KFBNjoxHPeGMPmQC-HeF3305WlcoUgajjVPdg-/s274/acad3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipw2oyj2pF_d4Qt1W5l-CEQP6yaeZ4gZpykuqC8eu5aLHhZ17pte91rk_I42fWGAXgN3mEgRmyqgXcIiybss-2ezRC-MPgTkD7t6YeGhIcv9lrWaHNMDaY5mhF6GxDbU1UNXef0OW5F5GU85EkeKpXY9KFBNjoxHPeGMPmQC-HeF3305WlcoUgajjVPdg-/w263-h400/acad3.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /> 5</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>- </span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Global Tantra</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blog.oup.com/?p=148406">Modern tantra and the global history of religion</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="product_biblio_author"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Julian Strube, Oxford 2022</span><br /></div><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-tantra-9780197627112?cc=us&lang=en&"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-tantra-9780197627112?cc=us&lang=en&</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good study, chapters 4 & 5 on theosophy. Since the previous work on this didn't include theosophy, a good ice-breaker</span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>6-</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> The Subtle Body: A Genealogy </span></b></div><div class="book-info__authors">
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link stats-author-info-trigger" data-google-interstitial="false" style="font-family: georgia;">Simon Cox </a><span style="font-family: georgia;">2021</span></span></b></div></div></div><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/38999?login=false "><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>https://academic.oup.com/book/38999?login=false</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 articles, from medieval period to modern times, 3 specific theosophical papers<br /></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">7- Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present</span></b></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><div class="c-app-header__side"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Palgrave Macmillan 2021
</span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Editors: <a data-author-popup="author-1-0" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4#author-1-0">Georgiana D. Hedesan</a>, <a data-author-popup="author-1-1" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4#author-1-1">Tim Rudbøg</a></span></b></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796–1881)</span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">J</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ean-Pierre Brach <span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number">Pages 185-200</span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number"> </span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a data-track-action="ToC link to content page" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4_8">H. P. Blavatsky’s “Wisdom-Religion” and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tim Rudbøg <span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number">Pages 201-228</span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number"> </span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a data-track-action="ToC link to content page" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4_9">Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism Between Innovation and Tradition</a></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Julie Chajes <span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number">Pages 229-254</span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number"> </span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a data-track-action="ToC link to content page" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4_10">Theosophical
Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (1848–1919): A Link
Between H.P. Blavatsky’s Philosophy and the Nazi Movement</a></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jeffrey D. Lavoie <span class="c-meta__item u-display-inline-block" data-test="page-number">Pages 255-279</span> <br /></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4#toc"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4#toc</span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>8-</b> <b><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81003-0#toc">Spiritual Empires in Europe and India</a>, <a data-author-popup="author-0-0" data-test="author-name" data-track-action="open author" data-track-label="link" data-track="click" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81003-0#author-0-0">Perry Myers</a>, 2021.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era<span><span> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric)
religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe Independent des Études
Ésotériques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in England, France, Germany, and
India during the late nineteenth-century to the interwar years. Despite
their diversity, these factions manifested a set of common
features—anti-materialism, embrace of Darwinian evolution, and a belief
in universal spirituality—that coalesced in a transnational field of
analogous cosmopolitan spiritual affinities. Yet, in each of their
geopolitical locations these groups developed vastly different
interpretations and applications of their common spiritual tenets<span><span> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;">
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Occult Roots of Religious Studies 2021</span></b></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900</span></div><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Edited by:</span>
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<span class="displayName linkAnimation">Yves Mühlematter</span>
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<span class="displayName linkAnimation">Helmut Zander </span></span></span><span class="subTitleInfoProductPage">Volume 4 in the series</span>
<a class="linkRegularSidebar ga_parent ga_parent_series" href="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/okmo-b/html">Okkulte Moderne</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A
Common Core of Theosophy in Celtic Myth, Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism:
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and the Comparative Study of Religion
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors">Jens Schlieter</span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors"><br /></span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><div class="d-inline-flex contentProductPageResult mb-0" style="text-align: left;">
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The Science of Religion, Folklore Studies, and the Occult Field in Great
Britain (1870–1914): Some Observations on Competition and Cain-Abel
Conflicts</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors">Marco Frenschkowski</span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors"> </span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><div class="d-inline-flex contentProductPageResult mb-0" style="text-align: left;">
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Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors">Julian Strube</span><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110664270-007/html?lang=en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110664270-007/html?lang=en</span></a></span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAyVt9_dhRg1BU9taLTA6hy__c-HKElt7BJDmIPGsbX0KyDJC5p19tHXKMk69DD_SYfqaSIKfuTPiHJ4SUOdKUQyK_AXl6ipLQ3cqLId_Fh1yFV-iQVMYTrdyhm11TAo4_2m_TSGKEnUwv3jqSHxfPN9KP-PSdN8epv7cA_pbCQs2-sVQWdScsn1tFNiV/s452/acad4.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAyVt9_dhRg1BU9taLTA6hy__c-HKElt7BJDmIPGsbX0KyDJC5p19tHXKMk69DD_SYfqaSIKfuTPiHJ4SUOdKUQyK_AXl6ipLQ3cqLId_Fh1yFV-iQVMYTrdyhm11TAo4_2m_TSGKEnUwv3jqSHxfPN9KP-PSdN8epv7cA_pbCQs2-sVQWdScsn1tFNiV/w265-h400/acad4.webp" width="265" /></a></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN">Fun look at very contemporary, topical questions</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN"><b>10- </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hermes Explains </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism</span></b><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="publisherAndPublicationDate metadataInfoMainContent"><span class="publisher"><a class="ga_published_by ga_published_by_header" href="https://www.degruyter.com/search?query=*&publisherFacet=Amsterdam+University+Press">Amsterdam University Press</a>
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<span class="publicationDate">2019</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Edited by:</span>
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<span class="displayName linkAnimation">Wouter Hanegraaff</span>
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<span class="displayName linkAnimation">Marco Pasi</span></span></span></span></div><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors" style="font-family: georgia;">Egil Asprem</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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<span class="notAvailable"></span></span><span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors">Boaz Huss</span> <span class="bookTocEntryAuthors contributors">Massimo Introvigne</span> <span><span class="metadataAndContributorsFont"><span class="contributor"><span class="displayName linkAnimation"> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="metadataAndContributorsFont"><span class="contributor"><span class="displayName linkAnimation"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048542857/html?lang=en#contents">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048542857/html?lang=en#contents</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="subtitle productSubtitleMainContent" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="metadataAndContributorsFont"><span class="contributor"><span class="displayName linkAnimation"> </span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 papers that cover multi-cultural topics </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">worlwide </span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism</span></b></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="c-Button--link" href="https://brill.com/view/serial/SMTR">Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion</a><span class="series-volume">, Volume: 17 2021<br /></span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="creator-type-label">Volume Editors: </span><a href="https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Egil+Asprem"><span class="contributor-unlinked">Egil Asprem</span></a><span class="contributor-unlinked"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="contributor-separator">and </span>
<a href="https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Julian+Strube"><span class="contributor-unlinked">Julian Strube</span></a></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://brill.com/display/title/59442?language=en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="series-volume">https://brill.com/display/title/59442?language=en</span></span></a></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="series-volume"> </span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="series-volume">Good study on relatively neglected early twentieth-century period of theosophy. Good coverage of The Voice of the Silence and T. Subba Row.</span></span></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="series-volume">12- </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Annie Besant’s Pedagogy and the Creation of Benares Hindu University</span></b></div><div class="typography-body title mb-3 text-headline font-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="metadataAndContributorsFont"><span class="contributor"><b><span class="displayName linkAnimation">Yves Mühlematter 2022</span></b>
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SUNY series in Religious Studies 368 pp, 2023 </span></span></b></div><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__nb7a7f1h9gb" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; text-overflow: unset;">Blavatsky, early TS, could be credited much more, but very good, very theosophical approach, esoteric aspect, east/west comparative included</span></span></div><div class="css-901oao css-cens5h r-igjf4l r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__nb7a7f1h9gb" lang="en" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 10; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Musicology-of-Religion ">https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Musicology-of-Religion </a></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="series-volume"> </span></span></div></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></div><div class="book-info__publication-date"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span> </div>
</div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-2784261016491953162023-10-01T09:57:00.012-07:002024-01-13T07:30:08.385-08:00Blavatsky, Vivekananda and the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, part 2<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDridIgrgr5vVsWOjA3eyi9qIgev3S9jVJh5SOyErPehg8u4S2guC8brNwaeA7NimrBo0EA1LoqPMnmVwgnaTH7i-0z2XvxV7lKxbOmoOs5f-TT3oC1Cti8UeFG7qTRNldWJmpfJ1splh8o8m9gwr8OR9lyBTsvtBH4Tt2FuA-icX3LW6Czu3XvYUqMrno/s300/vivek1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="300" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDridIgrgr5vVsWOjA3eyi9qIgev3S9jVJh5SOyErPehg8u4S2guC8brNwaeA7NimrBo0EA1LoqPMnmVwgnaTH7i-0z2XvxV7lKxbOmoOs5f-TT3oC1Cti8UeFG7qTRNldWJmpfJ1splh8o8m9gwr8OR9lyBTsvtBH4Tt2FuA-icX3LW6Czu3XvYUqMrno/w400-h324/vivek1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the 1893 Chicago World Religion
Parliament, I'd like to present some links that comment on the relation of Theosophy to Vivekananda. </span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span>On September 11, 1893, at World <span role="tooltip" tabindex="0"><span class="c5aZPb" data-enable-toggle-animation="true" data-extra-container-classes="ZLo7Eb" data-hover-hide-delay="1000" data-hover-open-delay="500" data-send-open-event="true" data-theme="0" data-ved="2ahUKEwiYqc7kmdWBAxV5EFkFHd8mD_AQmpgGegQIIBAD" data-width="250" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="JPfdse" data-bubble-link="" data-segment-text="Parliament of Religions">Parliament of Religions</span></span></span> held at Chicago, America, Swami
Vivekananda gave a revitalizing speech by emphasizing the harmony of
religions and enlightening the glory of India to the world. This day is marked as Universal Brotherhood Day in India and among the Ramakrishna Math centres in 22 countries worldwide.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span><a href="https://www.vrmvk.org/universal-brotherhood-day ">https://www.vrmvk.org/universal-brotherhood-day </a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>Rajagopal
Chattopadhyaya, 1999, p. 132</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Was Vivekananda really the singular sensation </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">of the 1893 Chicago World Religion
Parliament</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">? This biography suggests that there are no substantial news reports on record that go beyond indicating that he gave a well-received speech and that the actual sensation was the subsequent result of media buildup.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?redir_esc=y&id=EtcoeaQIQdAC&q=olcott#v=snippet&q=olcott&f=false">https://books.google.ca/books?redir_esc=y&id=EtcoeaQIQdAC&q=olcott#v=snippet&q=olcott&f=false</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsM5GTWEpH-pKLRJ1PRjF_cKUyTlVGNEqvJM9EB0UPQ0zoEW2_1ynAp1WmYQ6jM1EpjpqqFK6eibDRFJfVWyCp6vNgpmf7eM6rCQLGZMl6llWI_OCCPPGkW40LTucEjntXrW-AnNtBHX-4DlzCeTNK4N-6IlPNbIZyQfywrUjth-UnkF-N5VTkBLP-O3O/s2048/vivkek3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsM5GTWEpH-pKLRJ1PRjF_cKUyTlVGNEqvJM9EB0UPQ0zoEW2_1ynAp1WmYQ6jM1EpjpqqFK6eibDRFJfVWyCp6vNgpmf7eM6rCQLGZMl6llWI_OCCPPGkW40LTucEjntXrW-AnNtBHX-4DlzCeTNK4N-6IlPNbIZyQfywrUjth-UnkF-N5VTkBLP-O3O/w400-h300/vivkek3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Evan Goldstein reviews </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American
Representations of India, 1721-1893 </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Michael Altman </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">(Oxford, 2017) </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">not a huge
fan of conflating Theosophy with orientalism, but he covers Parliament of the
World's Religions/ Chicago Fair Vivekananda</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://s-usih.org/2018/11/review-of-heathen-hindoo-hindu/">https://s-usih.org/2018/11/review-of-heathen-hindoo-hindu/</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Swami Vivekananda, Reform Hinduism,
Nationalism & Scientistic Yoga </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Karl Baier </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion &
Transf. in Contemp. Society 5 (2019) 230–257 </span></span><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Last year, I wrote how US politics have theosophical aspects, same
for India, decent intro</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">roots of Hindu nationalism.</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://t.co/eCUgM8dION" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">https://</span>pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6047/5fe178e2d<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">0cb544f659aadc7e0fba546cbcd.pdf</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the descent of God in Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and other esoteric schools."
According to Meera Nanda, "Vivekananda uses the word involution exactly
how it appears in Theosophy: the descent, or the involvement, of divine
consciousness into matter."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENanda2010335_33-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachings_and_philosophy_of_Swami_Vivekananda#cite_note-FOOTNOTENanda2010335-33">[30]</a></sup></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><cite class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFHeehs2020"><b>Heehs, Peter (2020), "Sri Aurobindo's Theory of Spiritual Evolution", in Mackenzie Brown, C. (ed.), Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian Cultural Contexts, Springer Nature</b></cite></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><cite class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFHeehs2020"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/70252237/Sri_Aurobindo_s_Theory_of_Spiritual_Evolution">https://www.academia.edu/70252237/Sri_Aurobindo_s_Theory_of_Spiritual_Evolution</a> </cite></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><cite class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFHeehs2020"></cite></span><br /> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Antiracism & Spiritual Universalism. Japan, India, &
the Development of Internationalism </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Akio Tanabe Apr 5, 2021 </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Kinza Hirai Kakuzō
Okakura, HS Olcott Anagarika Dharmapala Vivekananda Nikola Tesla World’s
Parliament of Religions, 1893 to UNESCO, 1946 </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://t.co/xKPLYsNWVy" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">https://</span>politika.io/en/article/ant<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">iracism-and-spiritual-universalism-japan-india-and-the-development-of-internationalism</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY3KmZBgvqOWiGO87YquWq1cd8a-B-FaBKmaBUNSb2Dm7fOUZWb7VMOLqfeqiVFQNQTjNGQP-C93tfxQJ5ghWtFQZBHk3alJOwkLpMxx5JR0iyEH9_Ei9PcK14CRfVFkdIzuuLQE8ITMyPYLw2LP-jcJbVA2AffeN0OihiAQqY2U2krmzpcMliz995jwnT/s700/vivek8.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1BMHVfPxnQvQh3T62klNGqjq4XWvhZlGzTwmNmliEPloYs_ZCIdUHEq_cIOtCbtRiJ4rKgBGjQXtmX46eKoMirA4K77bG9UmfoPDrag8ImdjGzq9TN2j2BIeCW7NMXAlziMc4pYi5ebtOYUlvqLMGEPrqZyXQz8AmxEqpqPq5UEbby4nYYTxXaXqnEho/s700/vivek8.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1BMHVfPxnQvQh3T62klNGqjq4XWvhZlGzTwmNmliEPloYs_ZCIdUHEq_cIOtCbtRiJ4rKgBGjQXtmX46eKoMirA4K77bG9UmfoPDrag8ImdjGzq9TN2j2BIeCW7NMXAlziMc4pYi5ebtOYUlvqLMGEPrqZyXQz8AmxEqpqPq5UEbby4nYYTxXaXqnEho/w400-h225/vivek8.png" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="FR-CA">“Hinduism, Theosophy, & the Bhagavad
Gita within a global religious history of the 19th century</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Michael Bergunder -</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> (Theosophy across
Boundaries, 2021)</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">very good text, historically accurate, detailed,
precise, 1877-1905 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">discusses influence on Vivekananda </span></span><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://t.co/APCu7tkapa" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">https://</span>google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi3us7LtaqBAxW1kYkEHYGaABkQFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Frmserv.wt.uni-heidelberg.de%2Fweb%2Fonline-artikel%2F2020-bergunder-hinduism-theosophy-and-the-bhagavad-gita.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2ZQm7lRzLHPyIwtsmvaKpt&opi=89978449</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>Guru to the World: The Life and
Legacy of Vivekananda</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>Ruth Harris</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b> Harvard, 2022</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Recent bio has rather weak </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> coverage of</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> Theosophy, research outdated
10-20 years, a few good bits </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">on Dharmapala and William Q Judge.</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></span></span></b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">The Theosophist v16 December, </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">1894</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">, p. 185 -
Vivekananda's Appeal – anon</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Theost y1895 v17 Dec </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Supplement </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> p.15 - Swami
Vivekananda in England - (<i>The Standard</i>) – anon</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Theost y1897 v18 April Suppl. p.23 - Swami
Vivekananda -- E.</span></span></b></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Theost y1914 v35 February p790 - Svami
Vivekananda & Theosophy -- anon</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good general overview </span></span><b><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/theosophist/theosophist_v35_n5_feb_1914.pdf ">http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/theosophist/theosophist_v35_n5_feb_1914.pdf </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/09/blavatsky-vivekananda-and-1893.html"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;">Part 1 </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"></span></span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-31220414964118869172023-09-27T23:20:00.015-07:002024-03-09T18:40:15.062-08:00Blavatsky, Vivekananda and the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, part 1<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiAApzI-CSS9TSgVorkJ2mq3SpDRVvHD1FK9Jjo3UoXzpxYB0Zo11kcV17sUVnllTAzNYa0byFuPQjdIYBoGO88iKjP_6Hs401P0Ljss_1kEKiuz34E0C_2P9t94sWOxSam-_C2APnsmwne-Ba24YpdtTgM2LF7DdemI9YN_38xcqOIld3iuEi8S16lYE/s647/Vivekananda_and_Dharmapala_in_1893.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="647" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSiAApzI-CSS9TSgVorkJ2mq3SpDRVvHD1FK9Jjo3UoXzpxYB0Zo11kcV17sUVnllTAzNYa0byFuPQjdIYBoGO88iKjP_6Hs401P0Ljss_1kEKiuz34E0C_2P9t94sWOxSam-_C2APnsmwne-Ba24YpdtTgM2LF7DdemI9YN_38xcqOIld3iuEi8S16lYE/w400-h250/Vivekananda_and_Dharmapala_in_1893.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Virchand
Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Vivekananda , Nikola Tesla</span></td></tr></tbody></table>This year, September 11 marked the 130th anniversary </span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">of the 1893 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions">Parliament of the World's Religions</a> in Chicago, which was the first formal gathering of
representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the first organized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_dialogue" title="Interfaith dialogue">interfaith</a> gathering. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The official delegation for the Theosophical Society consisted of President <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/William_Quan_Judge" title="William Quan Judge">William Quan Judge</a>; English orator <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>; <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/G._N._Chakravarti" title="G. N. Chakravarti">Professor G. N. Chakravarti</a> representing <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>; <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Anagarika_Dharmapala" title="Anagarika Dharmapala"> Anagarika Dharmapala</a> representing <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>; <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Henrietta_M%C3%BCller" title="Henrietta Müller">Miss F. Henrietta Müller</a> representing European Theosophists; and <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Isabel_Cooper-Oakley" title="Isabel Cooper-Oakley">Mrs. Isabel Cooper-Oakley</a>, representing Australia and New Zealand.
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> <br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKvOST7c22A_2M5YICvmeJ-yAs-yqcLnccZjJD_iwrQhCVVc-SekoazJ8k9c4Ju77aUPoYDkJ_kH6ykFrQjC5-I0g-282BvwiicPgNJhrUoTZX1W3rWg1nY_cc_abmAeEvaC3ZFQUBgIUSJcPmAXMX4HSZ2Rh5lX_xf8vAjZQUfwMHD8Ut0XzKtqyO5pw/s350/chicagofair.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="350" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKvOST7c22A_2M5YICvmeJ-yAs-yqcLnccZjJD_iwrQhCVVc-SekoazJ8k9c4Ju77aUPoYDkJ_kH6ykFrQjC5-I0g-282BvwiicPgNJhrUoTZX1W3rWg1nY_cc_abmAeEvaC3ZFQUBgIUSJcPmAXMX4HSZ2Rh5lX_xf8vAjZQUfwMHD8Ut0XzKtqyO5pw/w320-h223/chicagofair.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The event was part of the <a href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition">World's Columbian Exposition</a>, a World's Fair held </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to celebrate the 400th anniversary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a>'s arrival in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a> in 1492.<sup> </sup>The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_the_United_States" title="Architecture of the United States">architecture</a>, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTQtpx1hLnHF_2ai7jub1fn7b14hZgmBwoaOfX1A9ymT2iqUXjhSOwFd1mix8eYrEoyhmDOwTJ9kNlnRKBfdOf7reQ2Xr9fy0ea_-h4leD-Ix_5d9fXKoUxlDbjVQhHbL5hbd4TzZL1GzkI3UoCBU1I0n7D5fjo-mpgqteGqLUmQqsMO3jsv6250CrlwE/s606/chicagofair6.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="379" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTQtpx1hLnHF_2ai7jub1fn7b14hZgmBwoaOfX1A9ymT2iqUXjhSOwFd1mix8eYrEoyhmDOwTJ9kNlnRKBfdOf7reQ2Xr9fy0ea_-h4leD-Ix_5d9fXKoUxlDbjVQhHbL5hbd4TzZL1GzkI3UoCBU1I0n7D5fjo-mpgqteGqLUmQqsMO3jsv6250CrlwE/s320/chicagofair6.png" width="200" /></a></div>What Really Happened at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893?</span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2NN2rktA4yMz3yApgJ33lsRte5NmieJA" spellcheck="false">IT'S HISTORY</a> <span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto">Jun 23, 2022</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto">Nice 2o -minute documentary </span></span>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">A <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/World%27s_Parliament_of_Religions_(1893)">Theosophical Congress</a> was held within the greater Parliament from September 15-17. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All six of the credentialed Theosophical Society delegates to the Parliament spoke at the Congress, along with <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jerome_A._Anderson" title="Jerome A. Anderson">Dr. Jerome A. Anderson</a>, <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Claude_Falls_Wright" title="Claude Falls Wright">Claude Falls Wright</a>, <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Mercie_M._Thirds" title="Mercie M. Thirds">Mrs. Mercie M. Thirds</a>, <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jirah_Dewey_Buck" title="Jirah Dewey Buck">Dr. J. D. Buck</a>, and <a class="new" href="https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=George_E._Wright&action=edit&redlink=1" title="George E. Wright (page does not exist)">George E. Wright</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A <span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">200-page Proceedings
Report was issued later that year, with full transcripts of all the lectures and speeches.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://t.co/ijzJyZ4zlP" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">https://</span>archive.org/details/theoso<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">phicalcong00theo/mode/2up</span></a></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-5OdqdlaXCSEtJ7g9gqpSgm0wjXGY4oNm633aGNwDxu-VVBx6q1i8Vjz9OuZu2MeNXcEr7aCkiv9NyPW_PP-0I72lMqYoSCj7vNNlXj4aob94MBW2EiF1tXB3dAlgoHHMdlgqh8dPiYUXjBO-t7F8h5p0ZaXtxoZ-pE-KF1VuynB_hyphenhyphendvoT6CTGGxoFN/s800/chicgofair2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="800" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-5OdqdlaXCSEtJ7g9gqpSgm0wjXGY4oNm633aGNwDxu-VVBx6q1i8Vjz9OuZu2MeNXcEr7aCkiv9NyPW_PP-0I72lMqYoSCj7vNNlXj4aob94MBW2EiF1tXB3dAlgoHHMdlgqh8dPiYUXjBO-t7F8h5p0ZaXtxoZ-pE-KF1VuynB_hyphenhyphendvoT6CTGGxoFN/w400-h176/chicgofair2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>It was a rather momentous gathering of prominent theosophists, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Joslyn_Gage">Matilda Joslyn Gage</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum">L. Frank Baum</a>, (creator of the Wizard of Oz), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison">Thomas Edison</a>. A good account of this can be found in </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=E2HUcQ66NrcC&dq=angelica+shirley+carpenter+blavatsky+theosophy&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-leguin-schwartz10-2009may10-story.html">Finding Oz </a></span></span></span><b><span data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span data-text="true">: </span></span></b><span data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span data-text="true">How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, </span></span></span><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="cptv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Evan I. Schwartz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009</span></span><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span></span><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">pp. 200-250</span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Excellent article that touches upon the complex confluence of </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Columbian Exposition, Theosophy and Wizard of Oz<b><br /></b></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><div data-testid="headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The secret life of Oz</b></span></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><time class="_2_zR-" data-testid="datetime" datetime="2008-07-27T10:00:00+10:00" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Marina Warner </b></time><span class="_2xetH" style="font-family: georgia;"><time class="_2_zR-" data-testid="datetime" datetime="2008-07-27T10:00:00+10:00"><b>July 27, 2008 </b></time></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-secret-life-of-oz-20080727-ge79ar.html">https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-secret-life-of-oz-20080727-ge79ar.html</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><div class="entry-title fusion-post-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Wizard in the White City</span></b></div><div class="entry-title fusion-post-title" style="text-align: left;"> <b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/author/scott/" rel="author" title="Posts by Scott">Scott</a></span></span><span class="fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span>April 28th, 2021</span></span></b><span class="fusion-inline-sep"></span> <br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2021/04/28/the-wizard-in-the-white-city/">https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2021/04/28/the-wizard-in-the-white-city/<br /></a></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMYLHBhuH5k6-aHlzmbk6SO9hEj5lRU4lJDrmW0lDvLQ5IPC-Y4QO3VKEssvwFC2_Mm94itAKsWx-fiptC8aRWV56plo6mTIx-_nLDBwwXHKMe1WfFkh_3FzXO3wb_4EYn8KQTIYMUiOQ-uCXhAO4dhws0XDPDnt0uBc_b52OpR3LLnxTE8I12InqfaD5G/s563/chicagofair4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMYLHBhuH5k6-aHlzmbk6SO9hEj5lRU4lJDrmW0lDvLQ5IPC-Y4QO3VKEssvwFC2_Mm94itAKsWx-fiptC8aRWV56plo6mTIx-_nLDBwwXHKMe1WfFkh_3FzXO3wb_4EYn8KQTIYMUiOQ-uCXhAO4dhws0XDPDnt0uBc_b52OpR3LLnxTE8I12InqfaD5G/w249-h400/chicagofair4.jpg" width="249" /></a></div>Gage attended 1893 Parliament of the World's
Religions/World's Columbian Exposition and lobbied for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman%27s_Building_(Chicago)">The Woman's Building </a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title fusion-post-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Columbian Exposition Books from 2018</b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2019/01/05/2018-books/">https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2019/01/05/2018-books/<br /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></b><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="74h4a-0-0"><span data-text="true"><b>Petition Signed by Thomas Edison for Sunday Openings at the World's Columbian Exposition</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="cnj97" data-offset-key="eab6n-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eab6n-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="eab6n-0-0"><span data-text="true">subjects of the petitions, assemblies, & speeches foreshadowed 20th century debates over social issues, including religion, gender, & race</span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cnj97" data-offset-key="b4pum-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b4pum-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="b4pum-0-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/edison-petition</span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b4pum-0-0"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="b4pum-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">The event was an important landmark in American history and formed the setting of the opening chapters of Thomas Pynchon's <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2018/09/blavatsky-and-thomas-pynchon.html">Against the Day</a>, 2006.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2023/10/blavatsky-vivekananda-and-1893.html"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Part 2 </span></span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></span></span></a></b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-57928279079815989282023-08-15T14:55:00.021-07:002023-08-16T11:50:28.833-07:00Blavatsky’s Universal Brotherhood - Tim Rudbøg<p class="Pa38" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0mAtKgfW8XwDkbHZih69CKtye0jxONDDZK_8tgZGsYiTotVf904yDT6DugHDjbkooQFEMONqMgsHWRM9DpaI7zFFnnmmlD42WvFaKcTi7jJlMoW8Ny_wsnYJtqxD6wEiVmwDSOc7SlO4jovoZQsIp9ZYgan-PvfKbGCh4X4AErF-xqSLdHlDRSsUJwqRR/s252/ubrh.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0mAtKgfW8XwDkbHZih69CKtye0jxONDDZK_8tgZGsYiTotVf904yDT6DugHDjbkooQFEMONqMgsHWRM9DpaI7zFFnnmmlD42WvFaKcTi7jJlMoW8Ny_wsnYJtqxD6wEiVmwDSOc7SlO4jovoZQsIp9ZYgan-PvfKbGCh4X4AErF-xqSLdHlDRSsUJwqRR/w400-h317/ubrh.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some selected passages from: The West Moves East Blavatsky’s “Universal
Brotherhood” in India,
<span style="color: #221e1f;"><a href="https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/219763">Tim Rudbøg</a>, 2020. For more on the history of this idea and Blavatsky's views, see <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2017/10/jean-marie-ragon-on-universal-masonry.html">Jean-Marie Ragon</a>, <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/05/giuseppe-mazzini-on-universal.html">Mazzini,</a> <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2022/03/leo-tolstoy-on-universal.html">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/theosophy-basics-universal-brotherhood.html">Blavatsky</a>, <a href="goog_1303366330">Mahatma Letters</a></span><a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-mahatma-letters-on-universal.html"><i><span style="color: #221e1f;"><br /></span></i></a></span></span></div><p></p>
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</p><p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In order to counter these new social
inequalities and problems— perceived as resulting from private property rights,
capitalism, and industrialism— radical thinkers proposed new alternative models
of society. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Saint-Simon">Henri de Saint- Simon</a> (1760– 1825), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier">François Marie Charles Fourier</a>
(1772– 1837), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen">Robert Owen</a> (1771– 1858) are credited with being among the
first to define modern socialism;<span class="A13">(11) </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx">Karl Marx</a> (1818– 83) and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels">Friedrich Engels </a>(1820– 95) defined modern communism in 1848 with the
publication of their <i>Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">12</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>Numerous reform
movements were formed, and the literary landscape was flooded with many books
in the utopian genre.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">13</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fZfnMXNIws9cpJTmnP7rJBfPcZo6Hb-pQeM65VLjrSA4mRNrPR4W-r1R-8I8NGY69_-X3Mm2_emEwcGbCUB3RmQOYCVBs968-x6Sk6UpSR48fmg7UTPVZUfzBq3mCaFHtjLBkWlsXP3vB3v6KLBeiW61G1jv03wbsMwx8BWEyyi2YYcsi8s8KtKFyDhw/s370/elihu-burritt-2-sized.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="243" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fZfnMXNIws9cpJTmnP7rJBfPcZo6Hb-pQeM65VLjrSA4mRNrPR4W-r1R-8I8NGY69_-X3Mm2_emEwcGbCUB3RmQOYCVBs968-x6Sk6UpSR48fmg7UTPVZUfzBq3mCaFHtjLBkWlsXP3vB3v6KLBeiW61G1jv03wbsMwx8BWEyyi2YYcsi8s8KtKFyDhw/w263-h400/elihu-burritt-2-sized.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elihu Burritt<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Instrumental to the idea of universal
brotherhood was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Burritt">Elihu Burritt </a>(1810– 79), an American blacksmith, pacifist, and
peace advocate with extraordinary autodidactic abilities. At the age of thirty
Burritt was able to translate thirty languages, increasing to about one hundred
languages by the time of his death. He was instrumental in the publication of
a whole spate of short- lived magazines related to peace and brotherhood such
as <i>Literary Geminæ </i>(1839– 40), <i>The Christian Citizen </i>(1844), <i>The
Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood </i>(1846), <i>The Bond of
Brotherhood </i>(1854), <i>Burritt’s Citizen of the World </i>(1855), and <i>The
North and the South, and New Britain Journal </i>(1857– 59). Burritt had also
been a member of the American Peace Society until 1846, after which he founded
his own League of Universal Brotherhood. Burritt was furthermore involved in
international peace congresses in 1848, 1849, and 1850 and received an honorary
doctorate from Yale
University in 1874. Burritt’s League of Universal Brotherhood was the first <i>international </i>peace
movement against war, slavery, social injustice, and in support of solidarity
between all colors and classes.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">14</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span></span><p></p><p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBSzYILS-ckaDfPmY1x762tfaSKmtufjDAGU_9nJOiKjjYPhZdB7Kcex0VeJwAnTfhsLcIJa8Ql4vsgmgiytJSvCNJFKe86f1q0QRpgK-bfdAlcA45580sYvtkUscY8naTgkjoNkAAq7AAe7t3pkvPCOjbOkAKo4H0SJ_Fg92U4fpR25TBO13Fb16wyM6-/s1565/elihu2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="1020" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBSzYILS-ckaDfPmY1x762tfaSKmtufjDAGU_9nJOiKjjYPhZdB7Kcex0VeJwAnTfhsLcIJa8Ql4vsgmgiytJSvCNJFKe86f1q0QRpgK-bfdAlcA45580sYvtkUscY8naTgkjoNkAAq7AAe7t3pkvPCOjbOkAKo4H0SJ_Fg92U4fpR25TBO13Fb16wyM6-/w261-h400/elihu2.jpg" width="261" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>James Otis Wattles (1809– 59)</b>, </span>a figure
now more or less lost to history, is another important reform initiator
relevant to the idea of universal brotherhood.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">15</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>A Yale graduate, he
fought for the abolitionist cause by freeing slaves and establishing black
schools. He later became interested in spiritualism and was instrumental in
establishing several reform projects. In 1842 he co- founded The Society for
Universal Inquiry and Reform (1842– 46) in Clinton County, Ohio with John A.
Collins, Orson S. Murray, and others, as “an alliance of Hicksite Quakers and
New England Garrisonian abolitionists.”</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">16</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>This society sought to
implement a new social order upon the principles of liberty, justice, and
equality under the banner of fraternal brotherhood.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">17</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>Following its failure
Wattles bought “Utopia,” a site in Cincinnati, Ohio formerly occupied by the
utopian- socialist Fourierist community, which had closed the same year due to
lack of funds. Here he, together with other reformers, significantly founded
what they termed the “Universal Brotherhood,” also known as the “Spiritualist
Community” (1846– 48).<span class="A13">(18</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>The “Universal Brotherhood” was to implement the
principles of Christ as formulated in the gospels to rid the evils of society,
but unfortunately the society was flooded by the great Ohio flood of December
13, 1847, in which over half of its members died and Wattles only barely
escaped.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">19</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">
</span>His
final project was the Grand Prairie Harmonial Institute, an association for
education and reform purposes, founded in Warren County Indiana in 1853.
However, it only lasted a year.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">20</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rise of spiritualism in the late 1840s was
closely related to the widespread reform milieu of its day.<span class="A13">(21) </span>The spiritualist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Tuttle">HudsonTuttle <span style="color: black;">(</span></a>1836– 1910), also from Ohio, and the spiritualist, Freemason, medical
doctor, and future Theosophist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_Peebles">James M. Peebles</a> (1822– 1922) wrote in <i>The
Year- Book of Spiritualism for 1871 </i>that spiritualism “underlies all
genuine reform- movements, <span> </span>physiological,
educational, social, philanthropic, religious.”<span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">22</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>Tuttle and Peebles also
attempted to define the multifaceted spiritualist movement. They agreed that to
define such a diversified individualistic movement was immensely difficult,
but that the most basic belief common to all spiritualists must be the belief
in the possible communication with the dead.<span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">23</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span>However, they
significantly argued that the most common aim of the spiritualist movement is
“to reconstruct society upon the principles of eternal justice,— the principles
of equality, charity, and a universal brotherhood.”<span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">24</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></p>
<p class="Pa28" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5bi8FD1-thRqNQ2BBdqv-yG41QwQKz84QJOr2biQAZ5gmHflY44YQXI7oSvb8R7_Nz4-uKyNPathfHQ0Q-jn5GUHorr29YV381RempnAY4VlSWWy7_R47j0n78TZDREB8V18Pt6a1jZRuKFqsXfp_KBSmq3wEZZ5vYj-1xGtR2MBv0VUGq0gb4IDv0du/s200/Andrew_Jackson_Davis.003.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="154" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn5bi8FD1-thRqNQ2BBdqv-yG41QwQKz84QJOr2biQAZ5gmHflY44YQXI7oSvb8R7_Nz4-uKyNPathfHQ0Q-jn5GUHorr29YV381RempnAY4VlSWWy7_R47j0n78TZDREB8V18Pt6a1jZRuKFqsXfp_KBSmq3wEZZ5vYj-1xGtR2MBv0VUGq0gb4IDv0du/w246-h320/Andrew_Jackson_Davis.003.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Davis">Andrew Jackson Davis</a> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">The idea
of universal brotherhood was important to a number of spiritualists in various
guises. The prolific spiritualist writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Davis">Andrew Jackson Davis</a> (1826– 1910) laid
the spiritual foundation for its importance throughout his writings.</span><span class="A13">25</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">He emphasized that
everything in nature is harmoniously interlinked through what he termed the
great “Law of Association.”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">26</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">This
intimate connection unifies all life in a universal brotherhood.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">27</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">Many religions have tried
to establish a universal brotherhood, Davis argued, but each sect or religion
seeks to do this by converting others to their own beliefs and thereby by
opposing other religions.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">28</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">This
obviously causes more discord than unity; hence a new universal system is
needed.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">29</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">In 1850 Davis established
his Harmonial Brotherhood, organized according to the human body- organism, and
inspired by Plato’s <i>Republic</i>, with sectors of the new society
functioning as the feet, heart, head, and so on.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">30</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">In 1855 </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">T. E. Spencer </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">(no date) and his wife </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Martha Spencer</span><span style="color: #221e1f;"> (no
date) established the controversial communal Harmonial Society in Harmony
Springs, Benton County, Arkansas, which, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Hardinge_Britten">Emma Hardinge Britten’</a>s
account, was to form one common brotherhood presided over by angels eventually
leading to a universal brotherhood of man.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">31</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><p></p>
<p class="Pa24" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSe36XruQ5qqcbDNEPfgvk7JqO-rVqqMHrRPmYuhswaSSQmcYb_ckkfGg8w-_IlLlCPucIqDZUi_s0UNYE_uB0vpnIDYuB87i3Et-IxWA1nyNgKEuJ7HFrjhkb9lo5ejV26ARwzKnM6Qc3m67TmRU_vKgGai_Db8GfJ_sdoRYV49QXw1XRE8u2VX-1qyj8/s625/Albert_mackey.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSe36XruQ5qqcbDNEPfgvk7JqO-rVqqMHrRPmYuhswaSSQmcYb_ckkfGg8w-_IlLlCPucIqDZUi_s0UNYE_uB0vpnIDYuB87i3Et-IxWA1nyNgKEuJ7HFrjhkb9lo5ejV26ARwzKnM6Qc3m67TmRU_vKgGai_Db8GfJ_sdoRYV49QXw1XRE8u2VX-1qyj8/w262-h320/Albert_mackey.jpg" width="262" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="firstHeading mw-first-heading" id="firstHeading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Mackey</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">Finally,
it should be noted that it has been a part of the social- redemptive ideology
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry">Freemasonry </a>to practice the Enlightenment ideal of universal brotherhood,
to reconcile distinctions between religions, classes, and races and to work for
its global implementation believed to lead to a new enlightened age.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">32) </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">The prolific nineteenth-
century freemasonic writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mackey">Albert G. Mackey </a>(1807– 81) stated in 1859 that</span></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;">When the day comes in which all
men shall acknowledge one strong tie of brotherhood, then, will be the true
millennium; and it is a glorious thought that the mission of Masonry is to
bring forth this consummation, to teach the doctrine of a universal
brotherhood, and to enforce the necessity of man’s giving a helping hand to
man.<span class="A17">(33) </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">Clearly, ideas of universal brotherhood have a long history and
the concept had been used, as just shown, both nominally and ideologically
prior to the founding of the Theosophical Society by spiritualists and
Freemasons. What this indicates is that in the background of Blavatsky’s notion
of universal brotherhood we find mainstream enlightenment ideals that were
given life in modern esotericism. Blavatsky herself acknowledges part of this
historical background, and historically her discourse for universal brotherhood
should, as is argued here, be regarded as part of this wider Enlightenment and
social reform milieu of the day.</span><span class="A13">(34) (pp.</span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">275-77)</span></p>
<p class="Pa28" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">When
two Westerners, such as Blavatsky and Olcott, came to India in February 1879
and contrary to all expectations regarded ancient India, Hinduism, and Buddhism
as superior to the West and to “Church Christianity”— they joined forces with
the Indian reformers such as the </span><span style="color: #38761d;">Arya Samaj </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">and the </span><span style="color: #38761d;">Sri Lankan Buddhists</span><span style="color: #221e1f;">— their
stance of course held great appeal for the Hindus and Buddhists; but,
simultaneously, it was a major irritation to the Christian missionaries, who
attacked the Theosophists in India from the very beginning.</span><span class="A13">(69)</span></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">Blavatsky and Olcott’s strategy
was to undertake extensive travels throughout India with an outreach campaign
to the Indians.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">70) </span>Instead
of converting the Hindus and Buddhists as the Christian missionaries had done,
they themselves took <i>pansil</i>, that is, converted to Buddhism on May 25,
1880, in Ceylon</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">71</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13"> </span>and
helped in the design of the Buddhist flag as well.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">72</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">
</span>They supported the revival of Indian culture by establishing free
schools teaching Sanskrit; constructing a massive oriental library in Adyar; and promoting Hindu and
Buddhist culture and philosophy through the activity of the Theosophical
Society and <i>The Theosophist</i>, which in part was dedicated to “Oriental
Philosophy, Art and Literature.”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">73</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">Instead of regarding the Indian
religions as heathen superstition, as many Christians tended to do, and the Indian
people as inferior, as the British government and mainstream anthropology did,
Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society promoted universal brotherhood without
distinction of race, color, sex, or class. This overall strategy of extending
the Enlightenment ideal of equality and human rights to the Indian natives
helped return and even enhance the original dignity, unity, and self- respect
of the natives and proved a great success; so much so, that by 1884 the
Theosophical Society in India alone had grown to one hundred Indian branches.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">74</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> (pp.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">281-82)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">During the following ten years (1881– 91) heated debates with
and critique of the Christian missionaries and their idea of brotherhood toward
the Indians continued.</span><span class="A13">(81) </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">Blavatsky acknowledged that the idea of
universal brotherhood originated with the Christians and also praises them for
this,</span><span class="A13">(82</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">but she found more vice and strife in much Christian
activity among the Indians than actual brotherhood.</span><span class="A13">(83</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">Blavatsky
continued to focus on her idea of universal brotherhood and the cause “to
revive the philosophical Self- respect of the Indian people”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">84</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">and to “prove to occidental scholars that the ancestors
of those they now look down upon as of an ‘inferior race,’ were intellectual,
moral and spiritual giants.”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">85</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">Such recognition from the British, that
the Indians are not inferior, Blavatsky hoped, would not only lead to a
universal brotherhood of equal human rights but also to a “link between the
East and the West, uniting them both in a bond of Intellectual Brotherhood.”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">86</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A13">)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> (p. 283)<br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5mNEtgDQItqBnOkLyIu0yY2sQP0kahkfWhd_Vv1SSljDvQpzrrQEpmIQ7I_OrChMEuUPGtR8yo0-l4o4pdgHUkOTWRKsJWTkZ71Ga60xgTPyBIrhYkRUPjMkyF7d-T9JKs2jhze41iCnWrncFs_eVKrfBLTwnAykRYSmqc6LU4cbK6qo9Fq5WB0f6WfOT/s535/blavatskygroup.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="535" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5mNEtgDQItqBnOkLyIu0yY2sQP0kahkfWhd_Vv1SSljDvQpzrrQEpmIQ7I_OrChMEuUPGtR8yo0-l4o4pdgHUkOTWRKsJWTkZ71Ga60xgTPyBIrhYkRUPjMkyF7d-T9JKs2jhze41iCnWrncFs_eVKrfBLTwnAykRYSmqc6LU4cbK6qo9Fq5WB0f6WfOT/w400-h199/blavatskygroup.png" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Blavatsky took
the view that the French Revolution had not succeeded in implementing
brotherhood among men,</span><span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">108) </span><span>just as she criticized the Freemasons and Christians
for having failed to practice it.</span><span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">109) </span><span>The causes still hindering its realization, Blavatsky
found, can be categorized as existing on sociological, ideological, and
individual levels. On the sociological level, all hegemonic structures upheld
either by secular or sacral institutions and organizations, that unnaturally
divide and separate people, are a hindrance to the true implementation of
brotherhood, as in the case of the British rule in India, the Christian
Churches, and the traditional Hindu caste system, mentioned earlier.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span><span class="A13">110</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span>This also included the un- brotherly strife between nations.</span><span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">111</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span>On the ideological level, Blavatsky found modern materialism and
conservative theological dogmas to be a great hindrance due to their
reductionism and their intolerance.</span><span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">112</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span>Finally on the
individual level, Blavatsky generally argued that men’s natural selfishness,
prejudice, greed, and bias are obstacles to be overcome.</span><span class="A13"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">113</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #221e1f;">Similar to other reformers of the day, Blavatsky argued that it
is the mission of the Theosophical Society to counteract these obstacles. This
should, however, not be done in any manner involving bloody revolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">114) </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">or the implementation of diplomatic policy,</span><span class="A13">(115</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">as it has to come naturally and voluntarily by moral
regeneration,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">116</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">“inner enlightenment,”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">117</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f;">and the gradual awakening of the realization among all
men that humanity is naturally a brotherhood and that the true law that governs
inequalities is karma.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">118</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A13">) (p. 285)<br /></span></span></p><p class="Pa38" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">12 The West Moves East Blavatsky’s “Universal
Brotherhood” in India
<i><span style="color: #221e1f;">Tim Rudbøg</span></i></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="A1"><i>The West Moves East </i>In: <i>Imagining the East</i>. Edited by:
Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg S, Oxford
University Press (2020).</span><span class="A1"> DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190853884.003.0013</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Notes</span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">11. Davies, Europe: Europe: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 836– 37.<br />12. Ibid., 837.<br />13. See Jean Pfaelze, The Utopian Novel in America, 1886– 1896: The Politics of Form (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984); and James Morris and Andrea L. Kross, The A to Z of Utopianism (Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2004).<br />14. David Cortright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 31– 32; see also Elihu Burritt, Lectures and Speeches (London: Sampson, Low, Son & Marston, 1869); and Merle Curti, The Learned Blacksmith: The Letters and Journals of Elihu Burritt (New York: Wilson- Erickson, 1937). Blavatsky knew of Burritt and mentions him in 1889; see H. P. Blavatsky, “On Pseudo- Theosophy,” in HPBCW (1973), 11:45– 61 (56).<br />15. Morris and Kross, The A to Z of Utopianism, 321– 22; see also, Thomas D. Hamm, God’s Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842– 1846 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996).<br />16. Hamm, God’s Government Begun, xv.<br />17. Ibid., 235– 36. The society was organized into eight communities. “One (Skaneateles) in New York, three (Marlborough, Prairie Home, and Highland Home) in Ohio, and four (Union Home, West Grove or Fraternal Home, Kristeen, and Grand Prairie) in Indiana.” None lasted more than a year, ibid., xvi.<br />18. Ibid., 219; and Morris and Kross, The A to Z of Utopianism, 322.<br />19. Hamm, God’s Government Begun, 219.<br />20. Ibid., 221; and Morris and Kross, The A to Z of Utopianism, 123.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">21. Hamm, God’s Government Begun, 222; Robert S. Cox, “Spiritualism,” in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: Metaphysical, New Age, and Neopagan Movements, 5 vols., ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), 3:27– 47 (35); see also Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth- Century America, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (2002), 1– 9.<br />22. Hudson Tuttle and James M. Peebles, The Year- Book of Spiritualism for 1871 (Boston, MA: William White, 1871), 21.<br />23. Ibid., 21.<br />24. Ibid.; see also Hudson Tuttle, Arcana of Spiritualism: A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy (Boston, MA: Adams, 1871), 16, 22, 446; and Cox, “Spiritualism,” 33.<br />25. For more details on Davis see Phillip Charles Lucas, “Davis, Andrew Jackson, 11.8.1826 Blooming Grove, New York, 13.1.1910 Watertown, Massachusetts,” in Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism, ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff et al., 2 vols. (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2005), 1:299– 301. For the distinction between spiritualism and Davis’s “Harmonial Philosophy” see Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 400.<br />26. Andrew Jackson Davis, The Harmonial Philosophy, ed. by a Doctor of Hermetic Science [A. E. Waite] (London: William Rider & Son, 1917), 267– 71; and Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles: Her Divine Revelations and a Voice to Mankind (Boston, MA: Colby and Rich, 1847), 734.<br />27. Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia: Concerning the Seven Mental States; The Seer, 5 vols. (Boston, MA: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1853), 3:125; and Andrew Jackson Davis, The Penetralia: Being Harmonial Answers to Important Questions (Boston, MA: W. White, 1868), 61.<br />28. Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature: Her Divine Revelations and a Voice to Mankind (Boston, MA: Colby and Rich, 1847), v, see also 401, 575.<br />29. Ibid., v.<br />30. R. P. Ambler, “New Movement at Hartford,” The Spirit Messenger 1, 42 (1851): 333– 34; James Hogg, Hogg’s Instructor 9, new series (Edinburgh: James Hogg, 1852), 500– 501; and Jean L. Silver- Isenstadt, Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 195, 287.<br />31. Geoffery K. Nelson, Spiritualism and Society (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969), 20; and Emma Hardinge [later Britten], Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years’ Record (New York: printed by the author, 1870), 365, 367.<br />32. Philip G. Nord, The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth- Century France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 25– 26, 85; Jessica Harland- Jacobs, Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717– 1927 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 235– 36; and Clifford Putney, “Service over Secrecy: How Lodge- Style Fraternalism Yielded to Men’s Service Clubs,” in Freemasonry in Context: History, Ritual, Controversy, ed. Art DeHoyos and S. Brent Morris (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 105– 16 (107).<br />33. Albert G. Mackey, “Monthly Masonic Miscellany: Brotherhood,” The American Freemasons’ New Monthly Magazine, July 1859, 73. For later Freemasonic accounts of the importance of “universal brotherhood,” see S. R. Pachment, Ancient Operative Masonry (San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Center, Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1930), 10– 12; and Deman S. Wagstaff, Wagstaff’s Standard Masonry (San Francisco, CA: Walter N. Brunt, 1922), 104.<br />34. The Enlightenment heritage has been demonstrated in Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994). </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">69. Jones, Socio- Religious Reform Movements, 171; Moulton, “Beginnings of the Theosophical Movement,” 117; and Augustine, Social Equality in Indian Society, 130.<br />70. See Cranston, Extraordinary Life, 191– 284.<br />71. See Olcott, Old Diary Leaves, 2:166– 69; Catherine Wessinger, Dell deChant, and William Michael Ashcraft, “Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age Movements,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, 3 vols., ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 2:753– 67 (755); and Cranston, Extraordinary Life, 214.<br />72. Ibid., 3:362– 84; Richard Francis Gombrich, Theravāda Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2003), 185– 87; Richard Francis Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere, Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), 204– 5; Cheah, Race and Religion in American Buddhism, 33; Stephen R. Prothero, The White Buddhist : The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 171; Thomas A. Tweed, The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844– 1912: Victorian Culture & the Limits of Dissent (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 56; Murphet, Yankee Beacon, 142, 320; George D. Bond, The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992), 49; and Cranston, Extraordinary Life, 193.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">73. Wessinger, deChant, and Ashcraft, “Theosophy, New Thought, and New Age Movements,” 755; Moulton, “Beginnings of the Theosophical Movement,” 115; Cheah, Race and Religion in American Buddhism, 36– 38; Murphet, Yankee Beacon, 131– 52; H. P. Blavatsky, “What Good Has Theosophy Done in India,” in HPBCW (1986), 9:129– 34; and Blavatsky, “Our Three Objects,” 391– 400.<br />74. Jones, Socio- Religious Reform Movements, 171– 74; Moulton, “Beginnings of the Theosophical Movement,” 116– 17; W. Michael Ashcraft, The Dawn of The New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 199n68; and Robert S. Ellwood, Theosophy: A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1986), 213.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">81. H. P. Blavatsky, “A False ‘Witness,’” in HPBCW (1995), 3:131– 38 (132– 37); H. P. Blavatsky, “A Word with ‘Zero’ (Reply by a Theosophist),” in HPBCW (1991), 4:358– 65; H. P. Blavatsky, “Footnotes to ‘The Status of Jesus,’” in HPBCW (1991), 4:603– 604; H. P. Blavatsky, “The Rev. W. Hastie’s Karma and the Progress of Poesy in Bengal,” in HPBCW (1997), 5:350– 51; H. P. Blavatsky, “The Neutrality of the Senate House,” in HPBCW (1989), 6:166– 68; H. P. Blavatsky, “The Theosophical Mahatmas,” in HPBCW (1987), 7:241– 49 (246– 48); H. P. Blavatsky, “Misconceptions,” in HPBCW (1990), 8:70– 91 (89– 90); and H. P. Blavatsky, “Civilization, The Death of Art and Beauty,” in HPBCW (1982), 13:177– 90 (188).<br />82. H. P. Blavatsky, “Lucifer to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Greeting!,” in HPBCW (1990), 8:268– 83 (273); H. P. Blavatsky, “The Beacon of the Unknown,” in HPBCW (1973), 11:248– 83 (282); and Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, 41.<br />83. See note 82.<br />84. H. P. Blavatsky, “A Personal Explanation,” in HPBCW (1995), 3:440– 48 (448); and Blavatsky, “A Word with ‘Zero,’ ” 360.<br />85. H. P. Blavatsky, “Comment on ‘Practical Work for Theosophists,’” in HPBCW (1989), 6:211– 12 (212); see also Blavatsky, “Misconceptions,” 90– 91.<br />86. Blavatsky, “Comment on ‘Practical Work for Theosophists,’ ” 212; Blavatsky, “Misconceptions,” 91; see also Charles Johnston and H. P. Blavatsky, “Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,” in HPBCW (1990), 8:392– 409 (404– 409).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">108. Blavatsky, “Misconceptions,” 86. Blavatsky did, however, identify herself with the ideals of the French Revolution on numerous occasions (see for example Sinnett, Incidents in the Life of Madam Blavatsky, for her juvenile declaration that she wanted to be a “Goddess of Liberty” all her life after hearing Henriette Peigneur, her old French governess, relate her memories of the Revolution), but apparently did not think that its attempted implementation of brotherhood had succeeded. F. K. Gaboriau (editor of Le Lotus), however, argued in a footnote to “Misconceptions,” referenced previously, that Blavatsky was misinformed about the state of affairs in France due to her long absence from France and due to the foreign newspapers she read, which only sought to soil French democracy; see Blavatsky, “Misconceptions,” 86n.<br />109. See previous note, but see also Blavatsky, “Letter from H. P. Blavatsky to the Second American Convention,” 243.<br />110. Blavatsky, “Lucifer to the Archbishop,” 273; Blavatsky, “The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future,” 75; H. P. Blavatsky, “Second Letter of H. P. Blavatsky to the American Convention,” in HPBCW (1973), 11:163– 68; and Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, 40, 305.<br />111. Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, 40.<br />112. Blavatsky, “Letter from H. P. Blavatsky to the Second American Convention,” 244; Blavatsky, “Second Letter of H. P. Blavatsky,” 163– 68; Blavatsky, “Beacon of the Unknown,” 282; H. P. Blavatsky, “Letter to the Fifth Annual Convention of the American Section of the Theosophical Society,” in HPBCW (1982), 13:171– 75 (174– 75); and Blavatsky, “Civilization, the Death of Art and Beauty,” 188. For further details on Blavatsky’s view of conservative theology see Rudbøg, “Blavatsky’s Theosophy in Context,” 206– 50.<br />113. Blavatsky, “The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future,” 75; Blavatsky, “Second Letter of H. P. Blavatsky,” 163– 68; H. P. Blavatsky, “The Fall of Ideals,” in HPBCW (1987), 12:33– 52 (51); and Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, 40.<br />114. Blavatsky, “Beacon of the Unknown,” 283.<br />115. Blavatsky, “The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future,” 74.<br />Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/book/39711/chapter/339733431 by McGill University Libraries - Serials Unit user on 15 July 2023</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="A13">116. Blavatsky, “What Is Theosophy?,” 502.<br />117. Blavatsky, “The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future,” 74.<br />118. Ibid., 74– 75; Blavatsky, “Beacon of the Unknown,” 283; see also Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1:644– 45.<br /></span></span></div>
Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-77624892250790740382023-08-08T11:05:00.003-07:002023-08-08T11:10:42.467-07:00Blavatsky and Politics<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmYWptRk3gpuHxZk5RDuPZNIR49F3UTZ7gNM1E3wI2beBIImQBhq93XZytMRlcSu5SBC71MvpgZFPoo7atEyceHlxNSQ-HYZN8tZyVrkmMQGqGtYBOjahZppOhX1zl3-jT8NIuySLOB1NEZvy4a_AXHVqbeNNPZmdrWC1OHdH8REarzb8kEve4UqITNXc/s700/Russia_0604_1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="700" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmYWptRk3gpuHxZk5RDuPZNIR49F3UTZ7gNM1E3wI2beBIImQBhq93XZytMRlcSu5SBC71MvpgZFPoo7atEyceHlxNSQ-HYZN8tZyVrkmMQGqGtYBOjahZppOhX1zl3-jT8NIuySLOB1NEZvy4a_AXHVqbeNNPZmdrWC1OHdH8REarzb8kEve4UqITNXc/w400-h263/Russia_0604_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Links to a series of 11 political-related posts from 2022.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/09/blavatsky-american-traditionalism-qanon.html">Blavatsky, American Traditionalism, QAnon, UFO and New Age Spirituality</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/09/blavatsky-and-traditionalism.html">Blavatsky and Traditionalism / Perennialism</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/09/blavatsky-and-russian-traditionalism.html">Blavatsky and Russian Traditionalism / Eurasianism</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/09/blavatsky-and-theosophical-movement-in.html">Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement in Russia & Ukraine </a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/10/blavatskys-writings-on-russia.html">Blavatsky’s Writings on Russia</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/11/blavatsky-and-contemporary-politics-15.html">Blavatsky and contemporary politics 1/5 - History</a></span></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/11/blavatsky-and-contemporary-politics-25.html">Blavatsky and contemporary politics 2/5 - Neo-theosophy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/11/blavatsky-and-contemporary-politics-35.html">Blavatsky and contemporary politics 3/5 - General Influence</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/12/blavatsky-and-contemporary-politics-45.html">Blavatsky and contemporary politics 4/5 - Fascism and the Occult (Right wing (and left wing) ideologies)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/12/blavatsky-and-contemporary-politics-55.html">Blavatsky and contemporary politics 5/5 - Basic response </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/12/helena-blavatsky-and-rene-guenon-on.html">Helena Blavatsky and René Guénon on the Kali-Yuga</a></span> <br /></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-4102819187738441272023-06-28T16:37:00.013-07:002024-03-17T17:15:00.828-07:00Blavatsky, William Q. Judge & Charles Johnston (Shawn F. Higgins)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcayAd5T_JmJ-UfG21NlxosimPZDKrpl57BW8K91mKPffaBCWy7K5lDWArUAfaJm5dPrxmn9KmNF2UdHPAkuxpccAxYr1KWiecsGA-2yLsEKMdA4lE3Jomy2GCU6IItQp6c8A3TWLT12UiEy1RtBGLj-p2NcHduePn9V8qPh1a7HxmLcVbiULu6JzyNzyV/s300/judge7.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcayAd5T_JmJ-UfG21NlxosimPZDKrpl57BW8K91mKPffaBCWy7K5lDWArUAfaJm5dPrxmn9KmNF2UdHPAkuxpccAxYr1KWiecsGA-2yLsEKMdA4lE3Jomy2GCU6IItQp6c8A3TWLT12UiEy1RtBGLj-p2NcHduePn9V8qPh1a7HxmLcVbiULu6JzyNzyV/w400-h224/judge7.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Q. Judge and family<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>After forty years of progress, the academic quality of theosophical history can reach a very high level of research. I would like to draw attention to a series of papers from a certain Shawn F. Higgins of the Harvard Divinity School, who has recently posted a series of writings on theosophical history of an exceptional level of quality and research, which feature, in certain cases, I think, some ground-breaking work on people and subjects that have had little coverage so far.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Is this a book? An epic 10-part series of articles of episodes showcasing a vast array of historical figures involved with the Theosophical Society in the 1880s from around the world, beginning with Irish, later American Theosophist Charles Johnston. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">THE AGONISED WOMB OF CONSCIOUSNESS </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">March 18, 2023 by <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/author/shiggins/"><span itemprop="author">Shawn F. Higgins</span></a> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/charley/">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/charley/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Part 10</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/06/indo-gothic-yoga/">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/06/indo-gothic-yoga/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4F3LOebSVYDg5QPmoIBCA468gFxFAMvYbznzirGdETzXYo8okFtE4aVhi25OK-AkvspaovvoxsANAoE0pRyRsAvswsswif-qyRtBOb2OHqhnPSJfvz_FA2gjVBd-QbCm7fPlVZIUuXfmAEIKPFX2IWDnj-z88PswvHlPM4ScTITP99QxCE2HbG-qyfRi3/s300/blavatskycaricatureofwqj.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4F3LOebSVYDg5QPmoIBCA468gFxFAMvYbznzirGdETzXYo8okFtE4aVhi25OK-AkvspaovvoxsANAoE0pRyRsAvswsswif-qyRtBOb2OHqhnPSJfvz_FA2gjVBd-QbCm7fPlVZIUuXfmAEIKPFX2IWDnj-z88PswvHlPM4ScTITP99QxCE2HbG-qyfRi3/w296-h400/blavatskycaricatureofwqj.png" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketch by Blavatsky <br /></td></tr></tbody></table>THE SHADE OF SATTAY</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="pull-left"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> February 25, 2023 by <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/author/shiggins/"><span itemprop="author">Shawn F. Higgins</span></a></span></b></div><div class="pull-left"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the story of Govindarao Sattay, the first male Brahmin to visit America in 1884 with much interesting information about William Q. Judge<span itemprop="author">.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/02/shade-of-sattay/ ">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/02/shade-of-sattay/ </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>THE SILENT PASSENGER.
December 30, 2022 </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Short piece on William Q. Judge's travel to Ireland in 1888</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2022/12/out-castes-part-i-the-silent-passenger/ ">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2022/12/out-castes-part-i-the-silent-passenger/ </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“SPIRITS BRIGHT AND AIRY.” </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">January 6, 2023 </span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Short piece on William Q. Judge's childhood<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href=" https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/01/out-castes-part-ii-spirits-bright-and-airy/"><span> </span><span>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/01/out-castes-part-ii-spirits-bright-and-airy/</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnggio2sz5MZlwGWQd9oghBecEyUiz6MoYccopCia3tp69e6Ckr4wnDU32FAjdIESYw-i6_FmftZB5AcO3WrlefSFW4wehIEzIKqLQikGm6NUu-5ScUq9bQyDGWl0PP5JqYDYFXXGWyVUKVmZHtJUmkSi9DaLBM7_WBtu7gks01Q3eZ4yAQ-0E_4Ug_Qv/s300/BhavaniShankar.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="300" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnggio2sz5MZlwGWQd9oghBecEyUiz6MoYccopCia3tp69e6Ckr4wnDU32FAjdIESYw-i6_FmftZB5AcO3WrlefSFW4wehIEzIKqLQikGm6NUu-5ScUq9bQyDGWl0PP5JqYDYFXXGWyVUKVmZHtJUmkSi9DaLBM7_WBtu7gks01Q3eZ4yAQ-0E_4Ug_Qv/w400-h229/BhavaniShankar.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rare photo of Bhavani Shankar, right</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />“NOW, AND FOREVER.”</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> January 17, 2023 </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">William Q. Judge's in Ireland in 1888 <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/01/now-and-forever/"><span>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/01/now-and-forever/</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">THE ESOTERIC SCHOOL </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">November 24, 2022<br /></span></b></div><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Short piece about Ernest Temple Hargrove</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2022/11/the-esoteric-section/ ">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2022/11/the-esoteric-section/ </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An intriguing paper on meteorological phenomena in 1874, references John W. Draper states in <a class="decorated-link" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-chvwx_Pm_AC&pg=PR3&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><i>History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science</i> </a>(1874)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sword of the Living Flame March 5, 2023 <br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/sword-of-living-flame/">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/03/sword-of-living-flame/</a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> <br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">THE BENEDICK [PREFACE]: TALKS ON RELIGION</span></b></div><div class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">February 12, 2023</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">During the academic year of 1906-1907, Henry Bedinger Mitchell,
president of the New York Branch (NYB) of the Griscom Theosophical
Society (GTS,) hosted a series of monthly meetings in his rooms at The
Benedick Apartments (80 Washington Square East, New York) to discuss the
intersection of science, philosophy, and religion. Being an adjunct
professor of mathematics at Columbia University, the participants of
these talks were largely pooled from Mitchell’s colleagues in the
various departments of Columbia. These talks were recorded by a
stenographer, and subsequently reprinted in the journal, <i>The Theosophical Quarterly</i>. In 1908 these articles were collected and published as a nine-chapter book titled, <a class="decorated-link" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=U7iJlpWbq1IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=talks+on+religion&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicu6edsoL9AhV9ElkFHTw_DQIQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=talks%20on%20religion&f=false" target="_blank"><i>Talks on Religion</i></a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/02/the-benedick-preface/">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginalia/2023/02/the-benedick-preface/</a> <br /></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-89662971855668701052023-06-05T06:21:00.012-07:002024-01-21T15:08:27.162-08:00Blavatsky, Alternative Archaeology & Ignatius Donnelly<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYGRbkZfj68ExrRsLQFgDm0am30I1OIbB6SnZ4fsN4jzhLoh6zlcZxzM4uIJTmRLb6njBCkhEJhPMGG-cB3tpAQJfl3VA7KLj4W1WXGg6_lnMCtYAlKV4lN_0fT4hhHF2YRd2k5IkmrDaYv7ecgPWmDZeE_CUjR3MBIkw14YyyPtuCVi2hLeREY1WdA/s768/atlantis2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="768" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYGRbkZfj68ExrRsLQFgDm0am30I1OIbB6SnZ4fsN4jzhLoh6zlcZxzM4uIJTmRLb6njBCkhEJhPMGG-cB3tpAQJfl3VA7KLj4W1WXGg6_lnMCtYAlKV4lN_0fT4hhHF2YRd2k5IkmrDaYv7ecgPWmDZeE_CUjR3MBIkw14YyyPtuCVi2hLeREY1WdA/w400-h309/atlantis2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A recent Graham Hancock TV series was quite popular and elicited considerable response from mainstream archaeologists, often quite politicized. Blavatsky was not mentioned that much, but since it touches upon topics close to her ideas about ancient civilizations, I thought this might be of interest. Most of these articles are critical of the mainstream archaeology response, but I'm not taking sides here. I have great respect for the work of historians and archaeologists and I agree that one should watch out for colonialist bias in sources. It's just that the pro-archaeologist articles we're so widespread, that I felt it would be good to highlight other viewpoints in order to try to encourage a more balanced perspective.<br /></span><p></p><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r2jl:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ancient Apocalypse’ and the Ugly Battle Between Alternative and Mainstream Archaeology</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Greg Taylor Tuesday, December 20th</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.dailygrail.com/2022/12/ancient-apocalypse-and-the-ugly-battle-between-alternative-and-mainstream-archaeology?fbclid=IwAR1hLSkOeD1uyfYrhwLSkzenZpv81Danu_4_rTltyBh5_KiF3VUwTsuTpag" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.dailygrail.com/.../ancient-apocalypse-and-the...</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'The Most Dangerous Show on Netflix'?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Progressives criticized Ancient Apocalypse because it challenged their most basic assumptions.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kenneth Schrupp</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Dec 21, 2022 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix/?fbclid=IwAR1vj1mqFgHjUf82DIWUtYDqPyCXt33YIC_Bxjuvojv6bJdsCos-PvaCIYs" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-most.../</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Attack of the Archaeologists</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A professional society of academics whines publicly they feel demeaned by Graham Hancock. Does that validate his ideas?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mark Hammons Dec 7, 2022<br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/attack-of-the-archaeologists-a1bb7f8770c6?fbclid=IwAR3BUsgFZgrwWyM0s6XpFrj9FkoQl7DNygdeKZPXM7hL1CZuaZBg0Z4w7FU" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://medium.com/.../attack-of-the-archaeologists...</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A Series About the Origins of Ancient Civilzations is Being Called 'the Most Dangerous Show on Netflix,' Because We've All Gone Insane Jerry Thornton 12/01/2022 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3446927/a-series-about-the-origins-of-ancient-civilzations-is-being-called-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix-because-weve-all-gone-insane?fbclid=IwAR0CfFaUKjPNZwH8m1R528SlNoZjuI4PCKEeSdj0lyjOhwQoD-ygwiLWq7M" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.barstoolsports.com/.../a-series-about-the...</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="viewsInfo gradientBackground viewsInset viewsInfoFullWidth"><div class="viewsTitle" data-test-id="views-title"><div class="viewsTitleText" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them.</span></div></div><div class="content"><div class="viewsAttribution viewsAttributionNewRR viewsAttributionFullWidth viewsAttributionTooltipContainer"><span class="viewsAuthors viewsAuthorsTooltipContainer" style="font-family: georgia;" title="Aylin Woodward"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aylin WoodwardJan 20, 2024 Wall Street Journal<br /></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/these-netflix-documentaries-are-hits-scientists-hate-them/ar-BB1gYsbm ">https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/these-netflix-documentaries-are-hits-scientists-hate-them/ar-BB1gYsbm </a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Good article that covers problems related to recent widely mediatized Graham_Hancock-Archaeologist debate</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kenneth Feder is failing on Atlantis</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A critical commentary on Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thorwald C. Franke 3 October 2021 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://atlantis-scout.de/atlantis-kenneth-feder-engl.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dHEKhNa-E4q4dXLm8rY0qbhQhEOKeKwhrz1Wugtu-uX-Vas5yWmNSuyE" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://atlantis-scout.de/atlantis-kenneth-feder-engl.htm</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cornelius Holtorf (2005) Beyond crusades: how (not) to engage with alternative archaeologies, World Archaeology, 37:4, 544-551</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs19/files/2012/08/Beyond-crusades-how-not-to-engage-with-alternative-archaeologies.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0LVKmI18Un6uHBhx0soONQSx_qbr0P3TBl9q4_pmYH3NDV3yHMcyndSjs" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://anthropology.msu.edu/.../Beyond-crusades-how-not...</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Doctor Huguet: Ignatius Donnelly on Being Black</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">John R. Bovee Minnesota History Summer 1969 286-94 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In every intelligent white man the intelligent black man will find a defender; and the reign of peace and love and brotherhood will begin </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/41/v41i06p286-294.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1N3A88gwRaA_I5vKR8u5f7NAV3239XkZUFnQnYkqTTg4wG4jDuuBMdiIc" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://collections.mnhs.org/.../41/v41i06p286-294.pdf</a></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I agree that Atlantis theory should be de-colonialized, but claims by archaeologists that Ignatius Donnelly's work has white supremacy issues seem to me unproven, needs more work. His Doctor Huguet novel 1891, is strongly anti-racist</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">JS Patterson American Quarterly 22, 4 1970</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2711872">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2711872 </a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="post-meta" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span itemprop="name">Bad title, but good article, well-researched:</span></span></div><div class="post-meta" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span itemprop="name">Ignatius Donnelly: Paranoid progressive in the Gilded Age</span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="post-meta-author"><a data-uw-rm-brl="false" href="https://minnlawyer.com/author/zacfarbergmail-com/" title="">Zac Farber</a>
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</div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lCxDgCd7dc">https://minnlawyer.com/2018/05/30/ignatius-donnelly-paranoid-progressive-in-the-gilded-age/ </a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYQkVph1wOOMO9-Lt2aBgIBJSiLSGH3PNgnFO3NggqeENEXP3dS69AnddSee27__MyQ28LYoTtMWGGbE-iLCsjzXVCR1DeRbyvVc3oJIocTG_kgGoVugXc5zstkTn16P7UjO-tf5emi4-W8DhU9s1I7oWiAKWmfa8mNhMENByC6lRWAvXqUbjUp-OTg/s1332/atlantis3.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="879" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYQkVph1wOOMO9-Lt2aBgIBJSiLSGH3PNgnFO3NggqeENEXP3dS69AnddSee27__MyQ28LYoTtMWGGbE-iLCsjzXVCR1DeRbyvVc3oJIocTG_kgGoVugXc5zstkTn16P7UjO-tf5emi4-W8DhU9s1I7oWiAKWmfa8mNhMENByC6lRWAvXqUbjUp-OTg/w264-h400/atlantis3.webp" width="264" /></a></div>The show came out around the same time as the second Black Panther movie, which was kind of an intriguing moment that indicated how theosophical influences have converged in rather strange but relevant intersection of debates in politics, religion, anthropology and pop culture. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">In terms of the need for inter-disciplinary studies, and what I've been writing about on the importance of esoteric studies in history and politics, see:</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">Egil Asprem Esoteric Knowledge, Alternative Spirituality, and Conspiracy Theories January 10, 2022</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/knowledge-spirituality-conspiracy/2021/12/8">https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/knowledge-spirituality-conspiracy/2021/12/8</a></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-1dbjc4n r-1loqt21 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" role="link"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-901oao r-1awozwy r-18jsvk2 r-6koalj r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-b88u0q r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-qvutc0" dir="ltr"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></div></div></a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Disinformation studies” is an emerging multidisciplinary speciality that brings together psychologists, computer scientists, sociologists, engineers, philosophers, mathematicians, behavioral scientists, military scholars, historians, political scientists, linguists, and more.' </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-1dbjc4n r-1loqt21 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" role="link"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Caroline Orr Bueno</span></span></span></a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1634046553412304897">https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1634046553412304897</a></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Canadian
radio current affairs show, Ideas, not bad, could be worse, they mention
Blavatsky a few times, not accurate, but tolerable, well-produced.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Atlantis and the Apocalypse: The World of Pseudo-Archaeology</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15964892-atlantis-apocalypse-the-world-fringe-archaeology">https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15964892-atlantis-apocalypse-the-world-fringe-archaeology</a> </span></div></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Besides, the CBC radio program, here's another pro-mainstream archaeology piece, not bad, it gets into the history and socio-political issues of the question.</span></span></div><div class="article-meta"><div class="article-title"><div class="article-headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Strange and Dangerous Right-Wing Freakout Over </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ancient Apocalypse</span></i></span></span></div><div class="article-headline" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="AuthorList" style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span class="AuthorList_author"><a class="Author_anchor" href="https://newrepublic.com/authors/jason-colavito" itemprop="author" title="Jason Colavito">Jason Colavito</a></span><span class="AuthorList_comma"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <time content="2022-12-05" datetime="2022-12-05" itemprop="datePublished">December 5, 2022</time></span></span></div></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/169282/right-wing-graham-hancock-netflix-atlantis"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://newrepublic.com/article/169282/right-wing-graham-hancock-netflix-atlantis</span></span></a></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The exception, of course, is within the narrow world of ancient mysteries-themed New Age media. This fall, in <i>New Dawn </i>magazine and <a href="https://grahamhancock.com/thrusselld1/">reprinted this week</a> on Graham Hancock’s website, David Thrussell, an Australian composer, published a retrospective on <i>Ancient Apocalypse</i>
in which he attacked me personally for advocating “totalitarian” ideas
in an effort to suppress Hancock’s alternative history in the name of
purifying the body of humanity from the disease of intellectual dissent:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">
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<div class="blog-separator"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/defender-of-graham-hancock-claims-i-am-a-collaborator-with-depraved-elites">https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/defender-of-graham-hancock-claims-i-am-a-collaborator-with-depraved-elites</a></span></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-58383633771808344332023-05-31T15:17:00.008-07:002024-02-14T16:15:15.066-08:00Blavatsky, Pop Culture, Film, Superheroes & Superheroines, Science-Fiction<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeulVJ5gFhQ-Wd-an_TBf-rYKX9PMQg6KmBtjDliGls__ecEyubBR4_1IgPxEBqIcQjf_V8euvJl6EyNfccPei9AA8y7QyXGP3DhFIt-EPl_Llktk51SnJrQxT5ee2-0U68KkLvD6wl2eUiD8Yym9b6C6JrGjZNA88JgA6Ki_duqW8ombm1fnw3jPZ6Q/s680/namora3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeulVJ5gFhQ-Wd-an_TBf-rYKX9PMQg6KmBtjDliGls__ecEyubBR4_1IgPxEBqIcQjf_V8euvJl6EyNfccPei9AA8y7QyXGP3DhFIt-EPl_Llktk51SnJrQxT5ee2-0U68KkLvD6wl2eUiD8Yym9b6C6JrGjZNA88JgA6Ki_duqW8ombm1fnw3jPZ6Q/s320/namora3.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I once accidentally did a post on the 1st Dr. Strange movie on the week of its opening and inadvertently got a lot more traffic. Then I kept updating it as I went along until it expanded into the multiverse, so to speak. Moreover, more books on the subject of spirituality and pop culture kept appearing, so it's kind of an area that I've been tracking somewhat as it's been growing. Below is simply a section of the Doctor Strange post that has broken away to do its own thing...</span><b><br /></b></span></div></div></b></span><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>Sherlock Holmes & the Adventure of Theosophy: Spiritual Underpinnings of the Science of Deduction </b></span></span></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>Arup K. Chatterjee </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>Jan 2023 Journal of Religion & Popular Culture 35(1) <br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">importance of Blavatsky in quasi-spiritual modes of knowing in Holmesian methods
</span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/s48EIi9LcL" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>researchgate.net/publication/36<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">6977902_Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Adventure_of_Theosophy_Spiritual_Underpinnings_of_the_Science_of_Deduction</span></span></a></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>How Writers On LSD Changed Marvel Comics Forever </b></span></div><div class="css-g6xufx exadjwu8" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In
the 1970s, a forgotten generation of comic book writers took the medium
from schlocky superheroes to artful considerations of consciousness,
identity, and selfhood. Their secret? Tapping into the counterculture.</span></div><div class="css-b23776 exadjwu5"><address class="css-17nbumz ehvvd9m2"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-vrkqh7 ehvvd9m1"><a class="css-7l5upj epl65fo4" href="https://www.esquire.com/author/231996/jonathan-russell-clark/">Jonathan Russell Clark</a></span><time class="css-a81tie exadjwu4"> May 18, 2023</time></b></span></address><address class="css-17nbumz ehvvd9m2"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43918564/70s-marvel-comics-lsd/">https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43918564/70s-marvel-comics-lsd/</a></span></span></address><address class="css-17nbumz ehvvd9m2"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></address><address class="css-17nbumz ehvvd9m2"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">good - ground-breaking? quantum leap?</span></span></address><address class="css-17nbumz ehvvd9m2"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>Roukema, Aren (2020) Early science fiction and occultism.
[Thesis] (Unpublished)
</b></span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/XXjxidCUdi" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block; text-overflow: unset;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45820/1/Roukema%20%E2%80%94%20Early%20SF%20and%20Occultism%E2%80%94Final.pdf"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">https://</span>eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4582<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">0/1/Roukema%20%E2%80%94%20Early%20SF%20and%20Occultism%E2%80%94Final.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> <br /></span></span></address></div></div><p style="text-align: left;">
</p><div class="article-header__attribution"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;">The study of Theosophical influences on pop culture is quite a growing field, pioneered by:</span></span></span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><div id="volume-info-sidebar"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Pop Culture<span class="addmd"> - edited by B. J. Oropeza - 2005<br /></span></b></span></span></div><div id="volume-info-sidebar"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="addmd"><span><a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Gospel_According_to_Superheroes.html?id=d9B-9ll_YPIC&redir_esc=y">https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Gospel_According_to_Superheroes.html?id=d9B-9ll_YPIC&redir_esc=y </a></span></span></span></div><div id="volume-info-sidebar"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="addmd"><span> </span></span></span></div><div id="volume-info-sidebar"><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span class="fn"><span dir="ltr">Our Gods Wear Spandex</span></span>: <span class="subtitle"><span dir="ltr">The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes</span></span></b><span dir="ltr"><b>, 2007 </b>- </span><a class="secondary" href="https://www.google.ca/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Chris+Knowles%22"><span dir="ltr">Chris Knowles</span></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;"> <a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=93Mv-1R5yskC&source=gbs_navlinks_s">https://books.google.ca/books?id=93Mv-1R5yskC&source=gbs_navlinks_s </a></span></span></span><span class="addmd"><span> <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><b><span style="color: #484848;"><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;"><b>Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction Superhero Comics and the Panormal, Jeffrey
Kripal, 2011:</b></span></span></span></b><i><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;"><br /><a href="https://books.google.ca/books/about/Mutants_and_Mystics.html?id=5CS09XNEr38C&redir_esc=y">Google Books</a></span></span></span></b></i></span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><b><span style="color: #484848;"><i><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></span></span></b></i></span></b></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><b><span style="color: #484848;">Pseudoscience and Science Fiction, </span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><b><span style="color: #484848;"><b><span style="color: #484848;"><span><b><span style="color: #484848;">Andrew May, 2016 </span></b></span></span></b>:</span></b><span style="color: #484848;"><br />
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</span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="fl-col fl-node-5baa727466faf fl-col-small" data-node="5baa727466faf"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Assimilation of Yogic Religions Through Pop Culture</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-editors">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="field-label">Editor, </span>Paul G. Hackett, 2017<span> <span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=DAY3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false">Google Books</a> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="fn"><span dir="ltr"></span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="fn"><span dir="ltr">Movie Magick</span></span>: <span class="subtitle"><span dir="ltr">The Occult in Film, 2018</span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=sfx0DwAAQBAJ&dq=Doctor+Strange+film+Blavatsky+Theosophy&source=gbs_navlinks_s"><span class="subtitle"><span dir="ltr"><span>https://books.google.ca/books?id=sfx0DwAAQBAJ&dq=Doctor+Strange+film+Blavatsky+Theosophy&source=gbs_navlinks_s</span></span></span></a></span></div><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="subtitle"><span dir="ltr"><span> </span><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity - Zack Kruse, 2021</b> <br /></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="addmd"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_cQEAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions">https://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_cQEAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions</a></span><span class="author vcard"><span class="author-name fn"><span style="color: #484848;"><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="author vcard"><span class="author-name fn"><span style="color: #484848;"><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><div class="booktitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="fn"><span dir="ltr">Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination</span></span></span></b><span class="subtitle"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span dir="ltr">BRILL</span>, <span dir="ltr">2021</span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="author vcard"><span class="author-name fn"><span style="color: #484848;"><span style="color: #484848;"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=NLJFEAAAQBAJ&dq=Blavatsky+review+of+Mr.+Isaacs+francis+marion+crawford&source=gbs_navlinks_s">https://books.google.ca/books?id=NLJFEAAAQBAJ&dq=Blavatsky+review+of+Mr.+Isaacs+francis+marion+crawford&source=gbs_navlinks_s </a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="article-header__attribution"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="author vcard"><span class="author-name fn"><span style="color: #484848;"><span style="color: #484848;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Marvel Cinematic Universe</span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.google.ca/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Michael+D.+Nichols%22">Michael
D. Nichols</a> McFarland, 2021 208
pages</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A New Gnosis
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<div class="c-app-header__subtitle" data-test="book-subtitle" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology <br /></b></span><div class="c-book-section-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Editor: David M. Odorisio <span>2023</span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20127-1 ">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20127-1 </a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA">Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA">Eliot Borenstein 2023</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769368/marvel-comics-in-the-1970s/#bookTabs=1 ">https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769368/marvel-comics-in-the-1970s/#bookTabs=1 </a></span></span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-16967282282225391172023-05-16T12:04:00.028-07:002023-08-07T06:40:34.970-07:00Blavatsky & recent positive mainstream articles<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMfP0zONuXbep1OmLX97Cne0adcc2K7G4MPJid_TWYi6_YDD5WJ2_zbosBBa4bLxIBuqHxWWVF-3LztGeIdvfXng-TdqduzsRhhTYfwbvZ4U8b5t7YFoZ0gV7SYikvTvp1FHEEu9uUy4eqY8zDbYTVW-AeWQczMiT8WHRJYopV6nRPaoGPUGHMAo80g/s843/blavatskycollage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="843" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMfP0zONuXbep1OmLX97Cne0adcc2K7G4MPJid_TWYi6_YDD5WJ2_zbosBBa4bLxIBuqHxWWVF-3LztGeIdvfXng-TdqduzsRhhTYfwbvZ4U8b5t7YFoZ0gV7SYikvTvp1FHEEu9uUy4eqY8zDbYTVW-AeWQczMiT8WHRJYopV6nRPaoGPUGHMAo80g/w400-h250/blavatskycollage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />In these tough times, the theosophical movement has been struggling. The various issues around the Covid pandemic, the January 6th Washington riot, the Russian invasion of Ukraine have seen diverse reactions and positions, which have caused some tensions. On the other hand, there have been many charitable, compassionate deeds and shows of solidarity and support. Blavatsky, as I have posted about on occasion, has seen an increase in negative allegations, often highly speculative, superficially researched, steeped in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias">confirmation bias</a>, when not outright fanciful conspiracy theories. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Amazingly, in all of this, there have been a recent spate of mainstream articles about Blavatsky that are actually fair, accurate, and appreciative. Are we approaching a 'ground-zero' level of understanding of Blavatsky in the mainstream, where she gets the same level of professional, researched consideration as any normal historical figure, rather than </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">the
tenuous, inaccurate, unfair, contrived, unproven, confused, conceptual, discursive,
theoretical speculations steeped in colonialist-era assumptions? Let us hope. Thank you!</span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">Decent article - It got picked up on some news wires, did well. When did Blavatsky use the term 'ascended teachers'? I'm not aware of such statements by her. Then she includes a link to a Pablo Sender article denying connection with 'ascended masters', so this bit is confusing. Should Blavatsky have been critiquing Russian imperialism? That's quite a complicated can of worms to be opening, I think she was capable of criticizing Russia on certain things, see <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/10/blavatskys-writings-on-russia.html">Blavatsky's writings on Russia</a>, more research needed. Was her views on India and Eastern religions too romantic? Maybe according to academic theories on orientalism, but weren't western academic views on Asia steeped in imperialistic colonialism? It's nice that she's acknowledging her anti-colonialist position in her travel writings, but what if research were to reveal that it is much more extensive than that? My own opinion is that the 'Prisoners of Shangri-La' theories have fostered a considerable under-valuation of Blavatsky's relation to Eastern philosophy. One could read studies on <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2021/09/blavatsky-book-review-buddhism-of-h-p.html">Buddhism</a>, the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-bhagavad-gita-theosophical.html">Bhagavad Gita</a>, the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2022/02/patanjalis-yoga-sutras-theosophical.html">Yoga Sutras</a>, and recent studies by <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2022/08/blavatsky-and-international.html">Julian Strube</a> to see Blavatsky's credible and coherent knowledge of Eastern philosophy and religion. Moreover, by perusing the <a href="http://116.0.17.135/indices/THEOST.HTM">magazines</a> that she <a href="http://116.0.17.135/indices/LUCIFR.HTM">edited</a>, one can notice many serious, important contributions by some of the most learned native Asian scholars of the time.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">White Lotus Day
celebrates the ‘founding mother of occult in America,’ Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky </span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/marina-alexandrova-1250138" rel="author"><span class="fn author-name" itemprop="name"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Marina Alexandrova </span> </span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA">May 5,
2023 </span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://theconversation.com/white-lotus-day-celebrates-the-founding-mother-of-occult-in-america-helena-petrovna-blavatsky-197342#Echobox=1683331792">https://theconversation.com/white-lotus-day-celebrates-the-founding-mother-of-occult-in-america-helena-petrovna-blavatsky-197342#Echobox=1683331792</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN">Accurate,
respectful, objective, nice image research, 31 </span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-b88u0qr-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN">slides</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="r-18u37iz"><span lang="EN">Madame Blavatsky</span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"> Russian mystic who founded an occult movement</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="viewsAuthors" title=""> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Stars Insider • May 8</span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="EN"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/madame-blavatsky-the-russian-mystic-who-founded-an-occult-movement/ss-AA18afJE?ocid=LGDHP#image=1">https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/madame-blavatsky-the-russian-mystic-who-founded-an-occult-movement/ss-AA18afJE?ocid=LGDHP#image=1</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">An
HPB 'Mindmap', a bullet-point chart thing, not bad, seems like an
Indian perspective, where did they get '“Theosophical Dictionary”, “From
the caves and debris of Hindustan”? </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><b>Madame HP Blavatsky - Biography, Contributions, Literary Works</b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.iasexpress.net/madame-hp-blavatsky/">https://www.iasexpress.net/madame-hp-blavatsky/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">science one a little fuzzy, but the rest seems OK</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">19 facts about Madame Blavatsky, the famed Russian mystic's life: </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Carl Seaver 2023<br /></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://t.co/uGO6yaFzyU" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="color: #00ba7c;">https://</span></span><span style="color: #00ba7c;">historydefined.net/madame-blavats<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0">ky/</span></span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="ne-article__title" style="text-align: left;"> <b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Helena Blavatsky: The idiosyncratic occultist who divided opinion </span></b></div>
<div class="ne-article__excerpt" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Guru or phoney, even in death Helena Blavatsky's spiritual teachings continued to attract admirers</span></b></div><div class="ne-article__excerpt" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/contributor/charlie-connelly">Charlie Connelly</a> 5 May 2022 </span></b></div><div class="ne-article__authors">
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</div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/helena-blavatsky-great-european-lives/">https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/helena-blavatsky-great-european-lives/</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">This is one of those 'Yeah Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society, but then the <a href="https://blavatskynews2.blogspot.com/2021/09/blavatsky-and-coulomb-hodgson-affair.html">Hodgson Report</a> came out. Game over. Cased closed. The end.' type articles. This may have been well-intentioned. I think that they just wanted an occult article for Halloween. But it relies on </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the Marion Meade bio, which I think is too steeped in the standard 'guilty until proven innocent' approach to Blavatsky, still prevalent in the 1990s, but has become outdated since then, in my view, as thing have changed a lot in twenty years.<br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Did She Introduce Eastern Spirituality To America Or Merely Hoodwink
People? The Tale Of Madame </span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-b88u0qr-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Blavatsky</span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">: </span></span><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><u><span lang="FR-CA" style="color: blue;"> </span></u></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span lang="FR-CA">Margaret Brecknell, October 24, 2022</span><u><span lang="FR-CA"><br /></span></u></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><u><span lang="FR-CA" style="color: blue;"><a href="https://mentalfloss.com/posts/madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society ">https://mentalfloss.com/posts/madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society </a></span></u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><u><span lang="FR-CA" style="color: blue;"> </span></u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">Good, accurate, comprehensive, concise academic online encyclopedia entry: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">The Theosophical Society </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">James A. Santucci, 2018 </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">World Religions and Spirituality Project (WRSP), <br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/Vl6cMkH4gB" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00ba7c; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">wrldrels.org/2018/11/07/the<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">-theosophical-society/</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><u><span lang="FR-CA" style="color: blue;"> <br /></span></u></span></span></div><p></p><p>
</p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-19733143291744960412023-05-07T17:10:00.010-07:002023-06-08T03:29:47.075-07:00Blavatsky and the Mahatmas (whom she did not call ascended masters nor the great white lodge)<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The question of hidden adepts has always been a major source of controversy for Blavatsky, especially in Western societies. Her claims have been met with much doubt and disbelief, but perhaps the greater problem is too much credulity. In many ways, belief in the Mahatmas has been too successful. The amount of writings and teachings that claim to be inspired by Mahatmas claiming connection with Blavatsky is mind-boggling and hence, much confusion has resulted. In looking at her chapter on the question from the Key to Theosophy from 1889, one can see that most of the problems that exist today were already present in her time, and unfortunately, all too often, her statements on the problem have gone unheeded.</span><br /></span></span></div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Section 14 </span></span></h4>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The
"Theosophical Mahatmas" </span></h3>
<h5 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>ARE THEY "SPIRITS OF LIGHT" OR
"GOBLINS DAMN'D"? </span></span></h5>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mahatmas are human beings</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>In the first place they are <i>living men</i>, born
as we are born, and doomed to die like every other mortal. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">They are not 1000 years old</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The more we deny them, the more we try to set people
right, the more absurd do the inventions become. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Some live longer, but less than 500 years, if they care to</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Some Adepts do exceed, by a good deal, what you would
call the ordinary age; yet there is nothing miraculous in it, and very few of
them care to live very long. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mahatma simply means Great Soul</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Besides, the term is an Indian and a very old word. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Masters are men of great learning, Initiates</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>They are men of great learning, whom we term
Initiates, and still greater holiness of life. They are not ascetics in the
ordinary sense, though they certainly remain apart from the turmoil and strife
of your western world. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">They isolate themselves in the West not in the East, world
not ready for their teachings</span></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Does not the fate of the Theosophical Society
sufficiently prove that the world is neither ready to recognise them nor to
profit by their teaching? <span><span>In their own country they go about as publicly as
other people do. </span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">They have developed powers latent in everyone</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The powers which they exercise are simply the
development of potencies lying latent in every man and woman, and the existence
of which even official science begins to recognise. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Sometimes inspire verbatim passages in writers, but mostly
just general ideas</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>There are passages entirely dictated by them and <i>verbatim</i>,
but in most cases they only inspire the ideas and leave the literary form to
the writers. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Thought transmission is a natural possibility</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>When two minds are sympathetically related, and the
instruments through which they function are tuned to respond magnetically and
electrically to one another, there is nothing which will prevent the transmission
of thoughts from one to the other, at will; for since the mind is not of a
tangible nature, that distance can divide it from the subject of its
contemplation, it follows that the only difference that can exist between two
minds is a difference of STATE.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The powers of hypnotism demonstrate the possibility of
thought transmission</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>And so, if such results can be produced by the
knowledge of the mere rudiments of Hypnotism, what can prevent the Adept in
Psychic and Spiritual powers from producing results which, with your present
limited knowledge of their laws, you are inclined to call
"miraculous"? </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Unbelief in psychic powers hinders research into them</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Because, first of all, they are not Adepts with a
thorough understanding of the secrets and laws of psychic and spiritual realms,
but materialists, afraid to step outside the narrow groove of matter; and,
secondly, because they <i>must fail</i> at present, and indeed until they are
brought to acknowledge that such powers are attainable. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Materialism hinders the acquisition of such powers</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Not unless they were first of all prepared, by having
the materialistic dross they have accumulated in their brains swept away to the
very last atom. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Dictating teachings to people is not easy for adepts and
rarely occurs. It is easier for </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">malevolent </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">adepts.</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>No, on the contrary, to very few. Such operations
require special conditions. An unscrupulous but skilled Adept of the Black
Brotherhood ("Brothers of the Shadow," and Dugpas, we call them (1)) has
far less difficulties to labour under. For, having no laws of the Spiritual
kind to trammel his actions, such a Dugpa "sorcerer" will most
unceremoniously obtain control over any mind, and subject it entirely to his
evil powers. But our Masters will never do that. They have no right, except by
falling into Black Magic, to obtain full mastery over anyone's immortal Ego,
and can therefore act only on the physical and psychic nature of the subject,
leaving thereby the free will of the latter wholly undisturbed. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Psychic powers and magic can be used for selfish and harmful
purposes</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Simply <i>abuse of psychic powers</i>, or of any <i>secret
of nature;</i> the fact of applying to selfish and sinful ends the powers of
Occultism. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Use of magic and psychic powers entails a great ethical
responsibility</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>You cannot believe in the efficacy and reality of the <i>powers
of suggestion</i> by physicians and mesmerisers (or hypnotisers), and then
refuse to believe in the same powers when used for evil motives. And if you do,
then you believe in <i>Sorcery.</i> You cannot believe in good and disbelieve
in evil, accept genuine money and refuse to credit such a thing as false coin. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Such is the nature of life that there exist malevolent adepts as
well as good ones</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>And we, knowing as we do of the existence of good and
holy Adepts, believe as thoroughly in the existence of bad and unholy Adepts</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Blavatsky never benefited from her claims about Mahatmas,
she considers it a compliment if all of her writings are credited to her and
not to various adepts</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>By saying what they do, they are also giving her the
credit of being far cleverer than the hundreds of men, (many <i>very</i>
clever and not a few scientific men,) who believe in what she says — inasmuch
as she must have fooled them all! If they speak the truth, then she must be
several Mahatmas rolled into one like a nest of Chinese boxes; since among the
so-called "Mahatma letters" are many in totally different and
distinct styles, all of which her accusers declare that she has written. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The Mahatmas find the Hodgson report funny</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It might be painful if it were true, or came from
people less rabidly materialistic and prejudiced. As it is, personally she
treats the whole matter with contempt, while the Mahatmas simply laugh at it. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Blavatsky denies the validity of the Hodgson report</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>They did, and their final conclusion rests entirely on
the unchecked statements and unverified assertions of this young gentleman. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Blavatsky did not sue Coulomb or Hodgson because it was
against her principles to heed personal insults</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Firstly, because as a Theosophist, it is her duty to
leave unheeded all personal insults. Secondly, because neither the Society nor
Mdme. Blavatsky had any money to waste over such a law-suit. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">She did not pursue a lawsuit also because it would have been
too complicated and she didn’t think she’d get a fair trial</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>But do you believe that any English jury or judge
would have ever admitted the reality of psychic phenomena, even if entirely
unprejudiced beforehand? And when you remember that they would have been set
against us already by the "Russian Spy" scare, the charge of <i>Atheism
and infidelity</i>, and all the other calumnies that have been circulated
against us, you cannot fail to see that such an attempt to obtain justice in a
Court of Law would have been worse than fruitless! </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span>Blavatsky prefers unbelief in Mahatmas than misuse of their
names</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>As she always says now, she almost prefers that people
should not believe in the Masters. She declares openly that she would rather
people should seriously think that the only Mahatmaland is the grey matter of
her brain, and that, in short, she has evolved them out of the depths of her
own inner consciousness, than that their names and grand ideal should be so
infamously desecrated as they are at present. At first she used to protest
indignantly against any doubts as to their existence. Now she never goes out of
her way to prove or disprove it. Let people think what they like. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The teachings ascribed to the Mahatmas should be judged on
their own merits</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>If the knowledge supposed to have been imparted by
them is good intrinsically, and it is accepted as such by many persons of more
than average intelligence, why should there be such a <i>hullabaloo</i> made
over that question? The fact of her being an impostor <i>has never</i> <i>been
proved</i>, and will always remain <i>sub judice;</i> whereas it is a
certain and undeniable fact that, by whomsoever invented, the philosophy
preached by the "Masters" is one of the grandest and most beneficent
philosophies once it is properly understood. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span>The Mahatmas do not guide the society, they only protect it</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The Masters do <i>not</i> guide the Society, not
even the Founders; and no one has ever asserted that they did: they only watch
over, and protect it. This is amply proved by the fact that no mistakes have
been able to cripple it, and no scandals from within, nor the most damaging attacks
from without, have been able to overthrow it. The Masters look at the future,
not at the present, and every mistake is so much more accumulated wisdom for
days to come. </span></span></p>
<h5 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>THE ABUSE OF SACRED NAMES AND TERMS </span></span></h5>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Some writings have been inspired by adepts, but all
theosophical writings should be judged on their own merits</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It may or it may not be true. How can I tell? The
burden of proof rests with them. Some of them, a few — very few, indeed — have
distinctly either <i>lied</i> or were hallucinated when boasting of such
inspiration; others were truly inspired by great Adepts. The tree is known by
its fruits; and as all Theosophists have to be judged by their deeds and not by
what they write or say, so <i>all</i> Theosophical books must be accepted on
their merits, and not according to any claim to authority which they may put
forward. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span>Blavatsky regrets that identities of certain Mahatmas have
been made public. She attests to the numerous fake Mahatmas even in her own
time</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Certainly; she says expressly in the PREFACE that she
gives out the doctrines that she has learnt from the Masters, but claims no
inspiration whatever for what she has lately written. As for our best
Theosophists, they would also in this case far rather that the names of the
Masters had never been mixed up with our books in any way. With few exceptions,
most of such works are not only imperfect, but positively erroneous and
misleading. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Great are the desecrations to which the names of two of the Masters
have been subjected. There is hardly a medium who has not claimed to have seen
them. Every bogus swindling Society, for commercial purposes, now claims to be
guided and directed by "Masters," often supposed to be far higher
than ours! Many and heavy are the sins of those who advanced these claims, prompted
either by desire for lucre, vanity, or irresponsible mediumship. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="sm-caps"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">The notion of Mahatmas became quite popular in
Blavatsky’s time, which she regrets</span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>It is so; and had we acted on the wise principle of
silence, instead of rushing into notoriety and publishing all we knew and
heard, such desecration would never have occurred. Behold, only fourteen years
ago, before the Theosophical Society was founded, all the talk was of
"Spirits." They were everywhere, in everyone's mouth; and no one by
any chance even dreamt of talking about living "Adepts,"
"Mahatmas," or "Masters." One hardly heard even the name of
the Rosicrucians, while the existence of such a thing as "Occultism"
was suspected even but by very few. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Now all that is changed. We Theosophists
were, unfortunately, the first to talk of these things, to make the fact of the
existence in the East of "Adepts" and "Masters" and Occult
knowledge known; and now the name has become common property. It is on us, now,
that the Karma, the consequences of the resulting desecration of holy names and
things, has fallen. All that you now find about such matters in current
literature — and there is not a little of it — all is to be traced back to the
impulse given in this direction by the Theosophical Society and its Founders. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Much
deception, fraud had been done in the name of the Mahatmas, a desecration which
the TS is partly responsible; <span class="sm-caps">Spiritualist have used adepts to
discredit the TS</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The cycle of "Adepts," used as
sledge-hammers to break the theosophical heads with, began twelve years ago,
with Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten's "Louis" of <i>Art Magic</i> and <i>Ghost-Land</i>,
and now ends with the "Adept" and "Author" of <i>The Light
of Egypt</i>, a work written by Spiritualists against Theosophy and its
teachings. But it is useless to grieve over what is done, and we can only
suffer in the hope that our indiscretions may have made it a little easier for
others to find the way to these Masters, whose names are now everywhere taken
in vain, and under cover of which so many iniquities have already been
perpetrated. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>Notes </b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>(1) There are about a half a dozen concepts in Blavatskyan Theosophy that I avoid discussing, because I feel that they are too touchy, too controversial, mainly because they have been too misconstrued and misused. I plan on posting some comments on these tough questions eventually. This notion of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>'Adept of the Black
Brotherhood' or 'Brothers of the Shadow' is certainly a major one. Personally, I feel that it is culturally inappropriate to use the term '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukpa_Kagyu ">dugpa</a>' nowadays. Moreover, I think that more research on the topic needs to be done. For now, I would simply posit that the notion does seem to exist in Tibetan and Hindu traditions. See for example:<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thupten Jinpa in”The Wheel of Sharp Weapons” gives an account that
conveys a Tibetan attitude toward the Bon religion -(Essential Mind
Training, Wisdom Publications, Somervillie, MA, 2011, p. 139) “The
Tibetan terms I have translated here as “divination” and “shamanism” are
mo and bon. Although the term bon later became established as the name
of Tibet’s pre-Buddhist religion, the term can also simply refer to some
form of village shamanism or animism. This idea of not relying on mo
and bon appears to be an important theme in the early Kadam writings.
For to do so is, according to the Kadam masters, to contradict the
Buddhist practice of seeking refuge only in the Three Jewels.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here’s Geoffrey Samuel’s take on the question in his recent “The
Subtle Body in Indian and Beyond” in Religion and the Subtle Body in
Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body (Routledge UK 2013):<br />
“The reforms associated with Samkara and his successors propagated a
primarily devotional form of religion for the masses, while reserving a
cleaned up version of what were seen as dangerous Tantric practices for
the elite. This led to a split between so-called “right hand” and “left
hand” approaches to Tantra, terms that are heavily loaded in India
because of the polluting associations of the left hand with its
association with defecation and bodily impurities. The “right hand”
approaches avoided polluting and transgressive practices, and could and
were to be carried out by respectable members of high castes. “Left hand
approaches retained transgressive elements, and their practice was for
the most part confined to ascetics who were beyond the restrictions of
the caste systems, or lay practioners, such as the Bauls in Bengal, who
were willing to accept the low status that went along with such
practices. In parts of India, however, the practice of “left hand”
approaches to Tantra, involving ritual sexuality, the consumption of
meat and alcohol, and other problematic aspects, continued in secret
among members of some high-caste groups.” (37)</span></p>
<p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-59038893696486295202023-04-16T15:15:00.012-07:002023-05-25T11:21:11.385-07:00Blavatsky and William Stainton Moses <p></p><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoRurfQ7jAFBnUOZtlqYp23VGwD1z0_AQlYeYNEQ9sFweEjj1AE26PgN93ciGkmnbLkuhpUBvPIw2n0yjh0UFLT-EGx87w5oI1JY_DJR4YieJ7FR3YYqX6fEFmLmB_KHBPbKH69yJ4S_2HsM7ec5SFKNMLo-KX45gPodgLo1kg8zWKlfs0mVY15Gljg/s487/Moses_spiritualist.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoRurfQ7jAFBnUOZtlqYp23VGwD1z0_AQlYeYNEQ9sFweEjj1AE26PgN93ciGkmnbLkuhpUBvPIw2n0yjh0UFLT-EGx87w5oI1JY_DJR4YieJ7FR3YYqX6fEFmLmB_KHBPbKH69yJ4S_2HsM7ec5SFKNMLo-KX45gPodgLo1kg8zWKlfs0mVY15Gljg/w300-h400/Moses_spiritualist.png" width="300" /></a></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">From The Key to Theosophy, chapter 9:</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">'ENQUIRER. But "M. A. Oxon" (pen-name of William Stainton Moses) is a
Spiritualist?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">THEOSOPHIST. Quite so, and the only true Spiritualist
I know of, though we may still disagree with him on many a minor question.
Apart from this, no Spiritualist comes nearer to the occult truths than he
does. Like any one of us he speaks incessantly "of the surface dangers
that beset the ill-equipped, feather-headed muddler with the occult, who
crosses the threshold without counting the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="t1"></a>cost." Our only
disagreement rests in the question of "Spirit Identity." Otherwise,
I, for one, coincide almost entirely with him, and accept the three
propositions he embodied in his address of July, 1884. It is this eminent
Spiritualist, rather, who disagrees with us, not we with him.'</span></span></span></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The relationship between Theosophy and spiritualism (beside Blavatsky's distinction between mediumship and mediatorship) is complicated by the strong possibility that the adepts associated with the movement were also using similar means to communicate with certain people, such as <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/search/label/WilliamStaintonMoses">William Stainton Moses</a>, Mabel Collins, Anna Kingsford, and Laura Holloway. How does one distinguish between possible adept communications and the average spiritualistic fare? One way would be to examine the writings in question and ascertain if their teachings have a consistency among them. According to H. P. Blavatsky: <span style="color: #38761d;">'</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The tree is known by its fruits; and as all Theosophists have to be
judged by their deeds and not by what they write or say, so <i>all</i>
Theosophical books must be accepted on their merits, and not according to any
claim to authority which they may put forward.' (Key to Theosophy, ch. 14) </span>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There was a time when <a href="http://meilach.com/spiritual/books/st/spteach.htm">Spirit Teachings</a> by <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/William_Stainton_Moses">William Stainton Moses </a>was considered to be the 'Bible' of spiritualism. In its time, it had a considerable influence on the alternative spiritual movement, but it seems to have gone out of style and been replaced by more modern teachings. His original <a href="https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/happy-birthday-william-stainton-moses/">notebooks</a> are still the prized possession of the psychic research organization that he founded. <br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Here is what Henry Olcott has written regarding the
identity of +Imperator and his band of loyal associates (Old Diary Leaves I,
chap. 20):</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl120.html" target="_blank">http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl120.html</a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“It is now clear to me that one directing
Intelligence, pursuing a wide-reaching plan covering all nations and peoples,
and acting through many agents besides ourselves, had in hand his development
and mine, his body of psychical proofs and those given me by and through H. P.
B. Who “Imperator,” its agent, was, I know not–I do not even know who H. P. B.
really was—but I have always been inclined to believe that he was either S.
M.’s own Higher Self or an adept; and that “Magus” and others of S. M.’s band
were adepts likewise. I had my band also—though not of “spirit controls.” S. M.
had an Arabian teacher, so had I; he an Italian philosopher, so had I; he had
Egyptians, I had a Copt; he had a “Prudens,” “versed in Alexandrian and Indian
lore,” so had I—several; he had Dr. Dee, an English mystic, I also had one—the
one previously spoken of as “the Platonist;” and between his phenomena and H.
P. B.’s there was a striking re-semblance.” (p.320)</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“In view of all the above (i.e., the facts and
arguments given in the original version of this and the preceding chapter), am
I far wrong in suspecting a close connection between the Intelligence behind
Stainton Moses and that behind H.P.B.?” (p. 323)</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>See what Mr. Sinnett’s esteemed correspondent had
to say about the identity of this mysterious +Imperator and his relation to Blavatsky (from <a href="https://theosophy.wiki/en/Mahatma_Letter_No._18">Mahatma Letters 9</a>):</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br />Here’s an intriguing description of Imperator’s band
of indefatigable agents. Notice the conspicuous sevenfold organizational
structure:</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSDM8YtXGpImcJclAXq2igY_FR6pUprbnGPe3S47EfPd7xMvfF8KHt_sKgd9u_KhoF1WC-ozo_le06HooajBDVlHr11-sbfKPIRRVBmRbWpb2DNPWYnzoNR6LBjkEO2tN0jMEpOjC5D-EHSES8Mb1_8rCNUOUbRH_dYBq-YHITY8jpoxJIjRBPCh1VA/s3000/mosesws3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="3000" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSDM8YtXGpImcJclAXq2igY_FR6pUprbnGPe3S47EfPd7xMvfF8KHt_sKgd9u_KhoF1WC-ozo_le06HooajBDVlHr11-sbfKPIRRVBmRbWpb2DNPWYnzoNR6LBjkEO2tN0jMEpOjC5D-EHSES8Mb1_8rCNUOUbRH_dYBq-YHITY8jpoxJIjRBPCh1VA/w400-h127/mosesws3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I, myself, <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Imperator Servus Dei,</span></b> am the chief of
a band of <b><span style="color: #990000;">forty-nine spirits,</span></b> the presiding and controlling spirit, under
whose guidance and direction the others work. I am come from the seventh
sphere to work out the will of the Almighty ; and, when my work is
complete, I shall return to those spheres of bliss from which none
return again to earth. But this will not be till the medium’s work on
earth is finished, and his mission on earth exchanged for a wider one in
the spheres.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Under me is my deputy and lieutenant, <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Rector</b></span>, whose
business it is to superintend in my absence, and especially to control the
band of physical manifesting spirits. Associated with him is a <span style="color: #990000;"><b>third high
spirit</b></span>, who is the inspiring spirit, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Doctor, the Teacher. </b></span>He guides the
medium’s thoughts, influences his words, directs his pen. Under his
general superintendence there are the spirits of wisdom and knowledge,
to be hereafter described.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Next come the <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>guardians </b></span>whose are it is to ward off
and modify the baneful influences of earth, to drive away the hurtful,
temper the painful, to shed around an influence. The inward yielding to
evil can alone destroy their power.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Yet again, there are <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>two guardians</b></span> whose care it
is to ward off the evil influences of the spheres, the allurement of the
lower spirits who would draw the medium from his allotted work and divert
him from his sacred mission. These<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <b>four guardians</b> </span>are my personal attendants,
and these complete the<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <b>first circle of seven</b></span>, the whole band being
divided into seven circles of seven spirits; each circle composed of one
presiding spirit with six ministers.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjvmDhSDmI7qVJGmynneiz8NleMvBce3zjTRYe-84ANCrewtvNc7OHcIh5b7K5NeEN9Y4Oed6v9i8Mz-g8w2P70JcLc0zLb1DbYLaOsp66KV5tNsqhOKzAJmtud8RURU_Eq5rESJXNJlBk9r7GdNAtYI-eOqH0VubOtQTqHJ32PsJPoTJwrIRhGv7ZQ/s600/moses7.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjvmDhSDmI7qVJGmynneiz8NleMvBce3zjTRYe-84ANCrewtvNc7OHcIh5b7K5NeEN9Y4Oed6v9i8Mz-g8w2P70JcLc0zLb1DbYLaOsp66KV5tNsqhOKzAJmtud8RURU_Eq5rESJXNJlBk9r7GdNAtYI-eOqH0VubOtQTqHJ32PsJPoTJwrIRhGv7ZQ/w400-h400/moses7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>The first circle is composed entirely of <span style="color: #990000;"><b>guardians
and inspiring spirits (7)</b>–</span>spirits whose mission is general and
concerned with the supervision of the whole band.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The next circle of seven spirits is devoted to the
care of love–<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>spirits of love. Religion, love to God; charity, love
to man; gentleness, tenderness, pity, mercy, friendship, affection (6)</b>;</span>
all these are in their charge. They minister to the affections, inspire
feelings of gentleness and mercy; love to God, the Universal Father; love
to man, the common brother; tenderness for all who grieve; pity for all
who suffer; desire to benefit and help all.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Next comes a circle–one presiding, with six spirit
ministers–of wisdom. Under their care is<span style="color: #38761d;"> <b>intuition, perception,
reflection, impression, reasoning and the like (5)</b></span>. They preside
over the intuitive faculties and the deductions made from observable
facts. They inspire the medium with the spirit of wisdom and drive away
influences fallacious and misguiding. They plant intuitive wisdom.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Next in order is a circle which presides over <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>knowledge–of
men, of things, of life, whose charge is caution and comparison, of
causality and eventuality, and the like (4)</b>. </span>They guide the
medium’s steps through the tortuous paths of earth-life, and lead him to
practical knowledge, complement to the intuitive wisdom, of what is beneficial
and profitable.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>To these kindred groups, wisdom and knowledge–which
are under the general supervision of Doctor, the inspiring
Teacher–succeed: A circle who preside over<span style="color: #990000;"><b> art, science,
literature, culture, refinement, poetry, paintings, music, language (3).</b></span>
They inspire the thought with that which is noble and intellectual, and
lead to words of refinement and sublimity. They incline to that which is
beautiful, artistic, refined and cultured; which gives the poetic touches to
the character and elevates and ennobles it.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrpxSJlmTW9q9JRReRGWhO7nLZFFTCo_csB-QYIy3uRK3HCXgB3s5OdGZyeFEhmEh9lPblqtaiOzjIACT6klcuvA7RV-P65a1QkKnCrQ48RgX7Wnb7Mj7_1s5LHnBNmMtONVShL-JHFiHrWBWQqGH_znTXwrBzqT0SwijbN0YlKgNrbA6sBgIN7w_zw/s335/mosesws.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrpxSJlmTW9q9JRReRGWhO7nLZFFTCo_csB-QYIy3uRK3HCXgB3s5OdGZyeFEhmEh9lPblqtaiOzjIACT6klcuvA7RV-P65a1QkKnCrQ48RgX7Wnb7Mj7_1s5LHnBNmMtONVShL-JHFiHrWBWQqGH_znTXwrBzqT0SwijbN0YlKgNrbA6sBgIN7w_zw/w299-h400/mosesws.jpg" width="299" /></a></div>Next comes a circle of seven who have charge of <span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>mirth,
wit, humour, geniality and joyous conversation (2).</b></span> These give
the lighter touches to the character, the sparkling, bright side, which is
attractive in social intercourse, which enlivens the word spoken or
written with flashes of wit, and relieves the somber dullness of daily toil.
They are spirits attractive and genial, kindly and lovable.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Last of all come the spirits who have charge of the <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>physical
manifestations (1), </b></span>which it is thought right at present to
associate with the higher message. This circle is composed principally of
spirits on their probation under the guardianship of <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Rector, lieutenant
of the band.</b></span> It is his care to teach them and to allow them, by
association with the medium and his circle, to advance from a lower to a
higher sphere. These are spirits who from divers causes are earthbound,
and who, by the manifestations which they are permitted to work out, are
purifying and elevating themselves.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>So you see the band divides itself into <span style="color: #990000;"><b>seven groups,
</b></span>each with its peculiar charge. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Spirits of love, of wisdom and knowledge;
spirits refined and noble; spirits bright and genial, </b></span>who shed a ray of
that light which is not of your earth on the drudgery of existence in a
lower sphere; spirits whose privilege it is to progress from an
inferior grade to one higher and nobler through association with you, to
whom such manifestations as they furnish are yet necessary.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In all these various circles there are spirits who are
progressing, who are giving experience and enlightenment, who are living
the medium’s life, and mounting upward as he mounts; learning as they
teach, and soaring as they raise him to their sphere. It is a labour
of love, this guardianship of ours, a labour which brings its own reward, and
blesses us, even as we bestow blessings upon the medium and, through him,
upon mankind. May the Almighty Father bless you.” <i>More
Spirit Teachings</i>, pp. 4-5</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Leslie Price gives some more details (See Mystery #5 Who was Imperator?):</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><div itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Madame Blavatsky and the Seven Archival Mysteries - part two</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><time datetime="2015-03-15T05:49:46+00:00" itemprop="datePublished"> </time></span></b></div><div itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Leslie Price, </span></span>15 March 2015</span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="http://www.theosophyforward.com/theosophy/1408-madame-blavatsky-and-the-seven-archival-mysteries-part-2">http://www.theosophyforward.com/theosophy/1408-madame-blavatsky-and…</a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>There’s actually an astral photograph of one of
+Imperator’s esteemed agents with Moses, taken by
the spirit photographer, Aksakov. The following explains the process of that
circumstance:</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>(There are several such photographs available on the internet. I could have included them, but since we are now in a period of strong skepticism regarding spiritualist manifestations, and because the agents in question are not as glamorous and flamboyant as the modern 'ascended masters' portrayals, I fear that these images would be disappointing to many.) <br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6jggNgpZCCUPrKAKOiFPRulbWIiAYrNcCVPmGxE-p_TZ1VREhB6Ye0R9mHxvokYE5eVePBMw0_G5abLxOzMJPYLIOKd1mR8CcKU_QVWiAy4eMjeIanLA6t_paVC1M0dRBbtYeILGJevTnq3EwqKPkc7I1PIuHgsvT1pqCRfWndR5pwOdB6DJVMDKhw/s289/mosesws2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="174" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6jggNgpZCCUPrKAKOiFPRulbWIiAYrNcCVPmGxE-p_TZ1VREhB6Ye0R9mHxvokYE5eVePBMw0_G5abLxOzMJPYLIOKd1mR8CcKU_QVWiAy4eMjeIanLA6t_paVC1M0dRBbtYeILGJevTnq3EwqKPkc7I1PIuHgsvT1pqCRfWndR5pwOdB6DJVMDKhw/w241-h400/mosesws2.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>His spirit photographed in Paris.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>S. M. writes in <i>Light</i> of a letter received from
a French gentleman concerning the spirit photography of his sister and other
relatives during their sleep in America,
the photo being taken by Buguet in Paris.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Mentally, the Frenchman had asked his sister for her
family’s picture; and on one plate she was there with three girls, and on the
other with two boys. Another time she, in answer to his request, brought
her mother, who was living miles away from her. There were also messages written
on a card which she holds in the photo.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>As a result, S. M. arranged to have a photo of a
friend taken in Paris
on a Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, hoping to be there in spirit. He awoke late,
heard church bells, then became unconscious till 11.47. The experiment was
successful. On the second exposure there was a perfect likeness of S. M.,with
eyes closed as in sleep. Also, on the plate, was an old man, a sage well-known
to him as one of his band, Prudens (Plotinus).</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>At a subsequent seance Imperator said that the
medium’s spirit had been carefully entranced, and was then transported by its
guides from London to Paris, the cord which unites body and soul
being extended from one city to the other. <i>More Spirit Teachings</i>, p. 66</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Video Lecture: </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Roger Luckhurst: "Negotiating the Public and Private in The Ghost Club”</b></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto" style="font-family: georgia;">Aug 23, 2017</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The Ghost Club lecture
society set up in 1882 by </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">William</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Stainton</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Moses</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> & A. A. Watts, </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">William</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> Crookes
members & guests Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, Sir Harry Johnstone, Sir </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">William</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> Richmond, Arthur Lillie Charles Massey, A. P. Sinnett Dr. Stanhope Speer</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-o6sn0f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/v15V5upmau" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>youtube.com/watch?v=QWUDgy<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">eN7_c</span></a></span><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_ok" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_7" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">A Spirit Explains Ectoplasm </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">15 August 2022</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In the February 1905 issue of “The Annals of Psychical Science,” Ernest Bozzano, an Italian psychical researcher, offers an article titled “A Defence of William Stainton Moses.”
</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-o6sn0f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/McZXJ5g0vu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">http://</span>whitecrowbooks.com/michaeltymn/en<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">try/a_spirit_explains_ectoplasm</span></a></span><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_ok" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_16" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-91399674321233659992023-04-08T07:14:00.013-07:002023-06-25T07:01:21.262-07:00Blavatsky on Satan and Lucifer<p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjun-jzTQb5nDglolBFwz6E8S_lhwuUff6mZ65VomoTheZ8nq-juswp7Kzaz3ljdddDpsZhkOwDoTMS6r_oPPeNb7FGprz6RmmZZoG5R9fy6CLtyzO1Ik1RI7AmlACMWOreqPXD1s-LcGQZ1xiMWOTtIDjClFTU6rJH_rGnUMIDkfckBRhPj6cVfxs5pg/s1106/Blavlucifer.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjun-jzTQb5nDglolBFwz6E8S_lhwuUff6mZ65VomoTheZ8nq-juswp7Kzaz3ljdddDpsZhkOwDoTMS6r_oPPeNb7FGprz6RmmZZoG5R9fy6CLtyzO1Ik1RI7AmlACMWOreqPXD1s-LcGQZ1xiMWOTtIDjClFTU6rJH_rGnUMIDkfckBRhPj6cVfxs5pg/w289-h400/Blavlucifer.jpg" width="289" /></a></p> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Satan and
Lucifer</span></b><span> – Her views on Satan and
Lucifer were situated in a social current of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferianism">Luciferiansim </a>and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>still get noticed by various more fundamentalist Christians; below some
of the major pieces on this controversial topic. Blavatsky does not worship the devil, she is rather cautious about questions of ritual and worship and she does not support any form of idolatry, sacrilege, profanation, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>desecration, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>blasphemy, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> or immorality. She considers the popular understanding of the devil to be a superstition, and she makes a distinction between what are known as Satan and Lucifer. Her writings are situated within a current of theological debates of the time, spurred by a greater critical approach and historical research. Her basic approach to the question is to challenge the anthropomorphic, literal, superstitious, and dogmatic approaches in favour of considering the question in a more philosophical, theological inquiry into the nature of good and evil and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy">theodicy</a>. </span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="mw-page-title-main"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This is an area where the debate has changed. Christians no longer engage in intricate theological defence as in Blavatsky's day. They have more or less acquiesced to the skeptical, rationalist, modern approach and accept the historical temporality of textual and social history. Realizing perhaps that there is little solid testimonies for the first fifty years of Christianity, they can safely posit that there's little about the origins of Christianity that can be proved or disproved, therefore no one can totally discount their traditions, faiths and beliefs. Consequently, there is little interest in doing a historiographical survey of those debates, for example of the reception of an important text that Blavatsky used, which made an enormous impact, went through many printings, and has been largely forgotten, Supernatural Religion: An <i>Inquiry</i> Into The Reality Of Divine Revelation, 1874, </span><span class="mw-page-title-main"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Richard_Cassels">Walter Richard Cassels<i>.</i></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="mw-page-title-main"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Regarding </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">an oft-posted Blavatsky quote on the Interwebs,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> “It is Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god…”?
Well, it's from SD2, 234 </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/wgsYp7LizK" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00ba7c; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">2-1-13.htm</span></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">
She' s paraphrasing & commenting on Anna Kingsford's intriguing text, The Secret of Satan
</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/l1YOxMXno1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00ba7c; display: inline-block;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">https://</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sacred-texts.com/wmn/cws/cws71.<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">htm</span></span></a></span><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_ok" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_32" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an intriguing mystical Origen-type universal salvation theology text.
At worst, the quote is supporting <a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/03/19/flesh-and-fire-reincarnation-and-universal-salvation-early-church">Origenist universal salvation</a>. If one wishes to condemn her for that, fine, otherwise, I think that the use of the quote is misleading. <br /></span></span></div></div><div class="mcafee_ok" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_32" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>1-
</span></b><span>She devotes
a full chapter in Isis Unveiled, vol. 2 to an intricate theological research
into the question of the existence of Satan. One of her most erudite, focused
and sustained pieces of historical research.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Chapter
10 – The Origin and History of the Dogma of Satan </span></b><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>(The
Devil-Myth)</span></b><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>1- Eternal Damnation / Christian Missionaries (473)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>2-Dogma of the existence of Satan (476)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>3- Biblical Passages (480)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>4- Serpent-Dragon Pagan Sources (482)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>5- Job (493)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>6- Demons / Church History (500)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>7- Avatars (503)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>8- Sun and Dragon Myths / Hell (506)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>9- Descent into Hell / Gospel of Nicodemus (514)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>10- Israelites and Saturn (523)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>11- Judaism and Christian Theology (525)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>12- Bacchus (527)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-10a.htm">https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-10a.htm</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>2-What’s
in a Name?</span></b><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Lucifer, Vol. I, No. 1, September, 1887, pp. 1-7]
Collected Writings vol. 9, pp. 5-13</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>This with the next article, explains the reasons for
the magazines controversial title and gives very erudite and esoteric
explanations for the connection of Lucifer with the planet Venus.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_008.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_008.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>3- History
of a planet</span></b><span> [Lucifer, Vol. I, No. 1,
September, 1887, pp. 15-22] Collected Writings vol. 9, pp. 14-27</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_010.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_010.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>4- The Fall of Ideals </span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer,
Vol. V, No. 28, December, 1889, pp. 261-274] Blavatsky Collected Writings vol.12,
pp. 33-52</span></span></p>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A
good succinct exposition of her ideas on Satan and Lucifer based on commentary
of a Victor Hugo poem.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">'he
is the ideal synthesis of all discordant forces & each separate
human vice or passion is but an atom of his totality.' CW 12, 51, The
Fall of Ideals [Lucifer, Dec., 1889, p. 274] </span></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v12/y1889_079.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v12/y1889_079.htm</a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>5- </b>Her major esoteric,
theological, cosmological exposition:<b> </b></span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b>The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, part 2,
Chap. 18. XVIII. On the Myth of the “Fallen Angel,” in its Various
Aspects,</b><span> </span>pp. 475-505</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> <a href="https://t.co/FLzOFBITN9" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://</span></span>theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2-2-04.htm</span></span></a></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0">Academic
study:</span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="book-infotitle"><span><b>Satanic
Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture, </b></span></span><span class="al-authors-listbook-infoauthor-list"><b>Per Faxneld, 2017</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/1486/chapter-abstract/140901200?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false">https://academic.oup.com/book/1486/chapter-abstract/140901200?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false</a></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0">a
more recent book that has similar arguments and research to the Isis Unveiled chapter, more accessible: </span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><b>Elaine
Pagels (1995) The Origin of Satan NY: Vintage Books </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://t.co/kS45rDis20" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://</span></span>archive.org/details/origin<span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ofsatan00page</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">PS - </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">sound bite on Satan/Lucifer-
'he is the ideal synthesis of all discordant forces & each separate human vice or passion is but an atom of his totality.' CW 12, 51, The Fall of Ideals [Lucifer, Dec., 1889, p. 274] Victor Hugo poem comm</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oaocss-16my406r-poiln3r-hiw28ur-qvk6ior-bcqeeor-qvutc0"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></span></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-55911077891540095462023-04-06T10:12:00.024-07:002023-06-25T07:06:26.444-07:00Blavatsky on Christianity<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6I0U6lMX_yZWWx-O3gzH3ttK14u57YmVV08of8rQYnl6N-VDc35JtbTbR-KolvW0-PL9o6tLgl3sRKfb6sUhAJCIbrf5psxbxkJIN-OLkaOxtEoR8pB9pooY9H3O-GxRU7Pi_71Px4ikqYZPfqjSuomY59gmhS1S2fljl1eOeRA6TmO51YKbDzJ0XA/s900/christ-in-the-wilderness-ivan-kramskoi.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="900" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6I0U6lMX_yZWWx-O3gzH3ttK14u57YmVV08of8rQYnl6N-VDc35JtbTbR-KolvW0-PL9o6tLgl3sRKfb6sUhAJCIbrf5psxbxkJIN-OLkaOxtEoR8pB9pooY9H3O-GxRU7Pi_71Px4ikqYZPfqjSuomY59gmhS1S2fljl1eOeRA6TmO51YKbDzJ0XA/w400-h351/christ-in-the-wilderness-ivan-kramskoi.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Blavatsky
is sometimes perceived as being ‘anti-Christian’, or because of later
neo-theosophical developments, of being a heterodox Christian. Whatever the
case may be, the fact is that she has a considerable body of writings of Christian
critiques (which if studied, may be found to have been quite prescient and
constructive) as well as on early Christian history, Jewish and Christian
Gnosticism and comparative studies of esoteric and pagan aspects of
Christianity to her credit.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Blavatsky
was a critic of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Vatican_Council">first Vatican
council</a> and made various allegations about corruption in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits#Controversies">Jesuit order</a> of
her time. The <a href="https://mcc.edu.in/archives/">Christian College Magazine</a>
was published by a Scottish Protestant missionary organization and ran a
slanderous piece on Blavatsky. <a href="http://traditioetrestauratio.blogspot.com/2012/04/william-h-kennedy-rene-guenon-and-roman.html">René
Guénon</a>'s anti-theosophy essay <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Th%C3%A9osophisme,_histoire_d%27une_pseudo-religion">'Théosophisme'
</a>was edited by Catholic philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Maritain">Jacques Maritain</a>. The
Vatican
issued a report on the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html">New
Age movement </a>with conceptual, conjectural, discursive, interpretative,
theoretical speculations about Blavatsky which were inaccurate, contrived, and
unproven. Also, their report on the condemnation of esoteric philosopher <a href="https://religionnews.com/2000/01/01/news-feature-four-centuries-later-vatican-still-condemns-giordano-brunos-he/">Giordano
Bruno</a> was unsatisfactory to me, although better than nothing, I guess. Therefore, there are some tensions between
the theosophical movement and Christian institutions to say the least.</span></span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">However, did not the <a href="https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2017/08/gregory-baum-3rd-global-conference-on.html"><span color="windowtext" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Second Vatican Council</span></a> implement many of the
critiques contained in Blavatsky's writings on Christianity? Has this not
created a division between <a href="https://novusordowatch.org/2023/02/against-new-papacy-peter-kwasniewski/"><span color="windowtext" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">conservative </span></a>and progressive Catholics? So when
a man undertakes to promote theosophical concerns such as universal brother and
sisterhood, opposition to the death penalty, and respect for the environment, I
think such efforts deserve a fair hearing in theosophical forums, as has been
done in various <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/italys-freemasons-extol-fratelli-tutti"><span color="windowtext" style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Masonic circles</span></a>. Below are a selection of some
of the more comprehensive, substantial writings on her favoured aspects of
Christianity. For a more specialized study, see <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589684.New_Testament_Commentaries_of_H_P_Blavatsky">New Testament Commentaries of H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1332127.Henk_J_Spierenburg"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span data-testid="name">Henk J. Spierenburg</span></span></a>, 1987. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Regarding on oft-posted quote on the internet:</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"Our
goal is not to restore Hinduism, but to wipe Christianity off the face
of the earth."
- Declaration of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Medium and Daybreak,
London, 01/1893, P.23 in "Theosophism: History of a pseudo-religion",
René Guénon. The quote in question is a second-hand account of a
supposed comment that she made orally. It is highly doubtful that she</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> actually said that. The person and the source are not very credible, and was published after her death. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Also, <b>Antoine Faivre</b> in works such as <i>Access to Western
Esotericism</i> (1994), bucked the trend of the largely Guénon -inspired
negative approach to Theosophy in French publishing and presented Theosophy in
a more articulate and positive light. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Furthermore, <b>William Quinn's</b> 1997 <i>The Only Tradition </i>convincingly pointed out the salient problems of historical accuracy in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Guénon’s 1921 </span><i>Théosophisme </i>(111-114).One can also consult </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 658.304px; top: 544.53px; transform: scaleX(0.887938);">Theosophy and The</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 197.48px; top: 571.197px; transform: scaleX(0.890674);">osophism: Response to a Criticism of Theosophy by René Guénon</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 751.019px; top: 571.197px;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 761.519px; top: 571.197px; transform: scaleX(0.900189);">written by </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 197.48px; top: 597.867px; transform: scaleX(0.900141);">Paul Bertrand a pseudonym of Georges Méautis. </span></span><span><span lang="FR-CA"><span><a href="http://hypatia.gr/fota/images/newsletter/Fota_Newsletter_Special_Ed_Autumn2016.pdf">http://hypatia.gr/fota/images/newsletter/Fota_Newsletter_Special_Ed_Autumn2016.pdf</a></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /></span></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>1-</span></b><span> In the first chapter of
Isis Unveiled, vol. 2, she gives some initial social critiques of Christianity
based on reports of various contemporary churches.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Chapter
1 Christianity’s relation to Spiritualism and Paganism</span></b><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>(The
Church! Where is it?”) </span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>1- Christianity’s attitude towards paganism and
spiritualism (p.1)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>2- Origin of Christian belief in the Devil and Hell
(10)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>3- Christianity’s relation to the Supernatural (16)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>4- The attitude of Science and Comparative Religion
to Spiritualism (25</span><span>)</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>5- India
and Paganism as source of Christian theology (The logos, the Trinity, the
Eucharist) (30)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>6- Christianity’s struggles with Gnostics and
Neoplatonists (51)</span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-01.htm">https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-01.htm</a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>2- Lucifer
to the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Greeting! </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Quite a clear, concise, eloquent critique of the
Anglican church, which was widely distributed in pamphlet form, and is probably
the best overall example of her views on Christianity.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. I, No. 4, December, 1887, pp. 242-251]
Collected Writings, Vol. 8, pp. 268-283</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_039.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_039.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>3- From
Lucifer to a Few Readers </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 7, March, 1888, pp. 68-71] Collected
Writings vol. 9, pp. 80-86</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>An interesting follow-up to the previous article. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">'Let them turn every cathedral and church into hospitals, refuges, homes for the homeless, and </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">secular</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">schools</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">; and teach people daily morality instead of incomprehensible dogmas.' H. P.</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">Blavatsky</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> CW9, 85</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_017.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_017.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViim-D4F2WAdi6eL1WTXt4lSoAP8O_PVg1BbB_ssW8YzYavmejuCL-hpQs7YGo27QhaPXtsmXo0HPYcc3_zc4KPaMsDd2YQvEGCG76MigymlkDdYR1YBzG11O8Cjx0lGUP4w8yYxpfOGTfhlCaSiNAedm9CtszUjFmEiVkzwrz8ED9tTgqq_Bxxytlg/s630/Sophia_the_Martyr.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="630" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViim-D4F2WAdi6eL1WTXt4lSoAP8O_PVg1BbB_ssW8YzYavmejuCL-hpQs7YGo27QhaPXtsmXo0HPYcc3_zc4KPaMsDd2YQvEGCG76MigymlkDdYR1YBzG11O8Cjx0lGUP4w8yYxpfOGTfhlCaSiNAedm9CtszUjFmEiVkzwrz8ED9tTgqq_Bxxytlg/w400-h244/Sophia_the_Martyr.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>4- Notes on
Abbé Roca’s ‘Esotericism of Christian Dogma’ </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Le Lotus, Paris, Vol. II, No. 9, December, 1887, pp.
160-173] Collected Writings, Vol. 8, pp. 372-391</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>One of the more extensive debates which Blavatsky
engaged in, with someone from the French Christian occultism movement of the
day, of the type of Fabre d’Olivet and Éliphas Lévi, dealing mainly with
ever-recurring questions of millennialism. One of her most candid and detailed
expositions on Christian theosophy.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_048.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_048.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>5- Reply to
Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbé Roca </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Le Lotus, Paris, Vol. II, No. 13, April, 1888, pp.
3-19] Collected Writings, Vol. 9, pp. 216-237</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_033.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_033.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>6- The Origin
of the Gospels and the Bishop of Bombay
</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[The Theosophist, Vol. IV,
No. 1, October, 1882, pp. 6-9] Collected Writings, Vol. 4, pp. 232-242</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Responds to a debate on
divorce and re-marriage, with historical discussions about the origins of the
New Testament, quoting Church fathers.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1882_104.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1882_104.htm</a></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>7- The Sign
of the Times </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. I, No. 2,
October, 1887, pp. 83-89] Collected Writings, Vol. 8, pp. 98-108</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Discussing the presence of occultism
in literature and the press, she mentions the case of the Roman Catholic priest
Urbain Grandier (1590-1634) who was accused of practising witchcraft at Loudun
(Vienne, France), in 1632.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_018.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_018.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzALOQM0-82UDrDQTH1hocH4WvwuEkyE2ttsS2kkCNFDRaNUiPpjCtueIs20bmsPANadvkYurTRD1ggEhVbz96eMknmBvTJeqpMWo7pSBZrzHsboeVOWlNk_tr_10aikpmCD8LWqQnjfUfXTKul5eapdnGKguHqdFm0RBgu0dQtr_91Zps6zMps4lo6A/s539/boehm4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzALOQM0-82UDrDQTH1hocH4WvwuEkyE2ttsS2kkCNFDRaNUiPpjCtueIs20bmsPANadvkYurTRD1ggEhVbz96eMknmBvTJeqpMWo7pSBZrzHsboeVOWlNk_tr_10aikpmCD8LWqQnjfUfXTKul5eapdnGKguHqdFm0RBgu0dQtr_91Zps6zMps4lo6A/w253-h400/boehm4.jpg" width="253" /></a></div>8- The Esoteric Character of the Gospels </span></b><span>[Lucifer, Vol. I, No. 3, November, 1887, pp. 173-180]
Collected Writings, Vol. 8, pp. 172-217</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Began as an ambitious series of articles that was not
completed. Like Jacob Boehme, she criticizes mainstream Christianity in favor
of mystical Christianity, and thus favors a symbolic understand of scriptures
and emphasizes how the life of Christ exemplifies an inner process of self-transformation
related to symbols of spiritual initiation, and she emphasizes the universal
aspect of these symbols, following mainly Gerald Massey. This texts deals
largely with an erudite exegesis of the word, Christ, ''Christos''. Certain
aspects have influenced modern New Age Christianity.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_030.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v8/y1887_030.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>9- The
Crucifixion of Man</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 9, May, 1888, pp. 243-250]
Collected Writings, Vol. 9, pp. 264-275</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Commentary on an article comparing Prometheus to the
crucifixion of Christ, with references to the work of<span> </span>J. Ralston Skinner.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_038.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_038.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>10- Christian
Lecturers on Buddhism, and Plain Facts about the same, by Buddhists </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer. Vol. II, No. 8, April, 1888, pp. 142-149] Collected
Writings, Vol. 9, pp.142-154</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Commenting
on a lecture by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monier_Monier-Williams">Monier Monier-Williams</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monier_Monier-Williams">,</a> Blavatsky defends Buddhism using statistics and sources
such as Chinese Buddhism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edkins">Joseph Edkins</a>. <br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_026.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_026.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>11- Star-Angel
Worship in the Roman Catholic Church </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 11, July, 1888, pp. 355-365] Collected
Writings,Vol. 10, pp.13-32</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>An esoteric commentary on the worship of the seven
archangels and the story of the temple
of Seven Spirits,
especially built for them by Michelangelo: the famous church known as “St. Mary
of the Angels.”, the <i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Basilica of St</span></i><i>. </i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mary of the Angels</span></i><i> and of the </i><i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Martyrs</span></i>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v10/y1888_057.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v10/y1888_057.htm</a></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cKu4hD-GfdlHnWGjkH3ONYZkR4dFAiCMO5Zx32tiJ-atR9RpRzfHFiJyKHvaoK2GmIzlN-_t83V5Lxw5hk77mBamluzk13E3fCzazIdn-QM48qsvAPwAC80TP1Wuk3k47H7k4w50QPrn_zImv-J1BC4PcL5FsO6R6BfCvyvjjgDChh-CCLMth1VDeA/s2560/mandaeans5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2560" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cKu4hD-GfdlHnWGjkH3ONYZkR4dFAiCMO5Zx32tiJ-atR9RpRzfHFiJyKHvaoK2GmIzlN-_t83V5Lxw5hk77mBamluzk13E3fCzazIdn-QM48qsvAPwAC80TP1Wuk3k47H7k4w50QPrn_zImv-J1BC4PcL5FsO6R6BfCvyvjjgDChh-CCLMth1VDeA/w400-h266/mandaeans5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>12- The Roots
of Ritualism in Church and Masonry, </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. IV, Nos. 19 and 21, March, 1889, pp.
32-44, and May, 1889, pp. 226-36] Collected Writings, Vol. 11, pp. 62-101</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Another uncompleted ambitious series of articles, a
comparative study of the esoteric and pagan roots of Christian ritual,
referencing writers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Ragon">Jean-Marie Ragon</a>. She contends that “The Initiates took
perhaps the hint, and thus joining nolens volens the followers of the new faith,
then becoming all domineering, acted accordingly. Some hellenized Jewish
Gnostics did the same; and thus more than one “Clemens Alexandrinus”—a convert
to all appearance, an ardent Neo-Platonist and the same philosophical pagan at
heart—became the instructor of ignorant Christian Bishops. In short the convert
malgré lui blended the two external mythologies, the old and the new, and while
giving out the compound to the masses, kept the sacred truths for himself.’</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_014.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_014.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>13- Commentary on the Pistis-Sophia </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>A lengthy, fragmentary commentary on Gnostic mysticism
thatis remarkably original and insightful. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer April, 1890, to April, 1891] H.P. Blavatsky,
Collected Writings, Vol. 13, p. 1 <a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v13/ps_13.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v13/ps_13.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>14- Notes on
the Gospel According to John </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>[Lucifer, Vol. XI, No. 66, February, 1893, pp.
449-456] Collected Writings,Vol. 11, pp. 482-503</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>An esoteric and mystical commentary, notably on the
opening verses and the wedding at Cana. Since
there is an unusual amount of commentary on the Greek text, one can surmise a
possible assistance from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._R._S._Mead">GRS Mead</a>. <br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_067.htm">http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_067.htm</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>PS - </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">sound bite for her views on Christianity: 'Let them turn every cathedral and church into hospitals, refuges, homes for the homeless, and secular schools; and teach people daily morality instead of incomprehensible dogmas.'
H. P. Blavatsky, CW v. 9, p. 85 [Lucifer, March, 1888]</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>
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<p></p>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-58137815829134481752023-03-16T10:24:00.039-07:002024-03-09T18:37:57.662-08:00Blavatsky, Theosophy & The Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum<div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="chsbl-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="chsbl-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="chsbl-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6VXxp-idv0IzF84ZYdsZj-qXF-ADolE0gHcaxpQ0v9JZRmPy-ry0d0WXBfYVnLew-jDe0uR_TgYEFfiNz04zKYo8iwXdhVRoR7nvlpSVuCce01L1jvWhfUsUJk0-nC93KhlMGJpbOLLpeJoHVpoUGGqBzcVVj4wGFU7S3sNgpwjPnmIXZV2akOHUlw/s1600/ozfilm3.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1221" data-original-width="1600" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6VXxp-idv0IzF84ZYdsZj-qXF-ADolE0gHcaxpQ0v9JZRmPy-ry0d0WXBfYVnLew-jDe0uR_TgYEFfiNz04zKYo8iwXdhVRoR7nvlpSVuCce01L1jvWhfUsUJk0-nC93KhlMGJpbOLLpeJoHVpoUGGqBzcVVj4wGFU7S3sNgpwjPnmIXZV2akOHUlw/w400-h305/ozfilm3.webp" width="400" /></a></div>Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz has ensconced itself into the American socio-cultural fabric in so many wondrous ways, becoming something of an essential modern American archetypal myth, with a message that has been reformulating itself with every new generation. </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">he original 1900 novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature,
and the Library of Congress has declared the work to be "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale."</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The<a href=" it is also one of few films on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film) "> Classic 1939 MGM film with Judy Garland </a>is one of few films on UNESCO's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_of_the_World_Programme#Memory_of_the_World_Register" title="Memory of the World Programme">Memory of the World Register</a>. There are several popular musicals, such as<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(film)"> The Wiz</a>, won</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> 7 tony awards, film soundtrack, 1978, did well, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_in_Concert:_Dreams_Come_True ">1995 film staging </a>with Jewel, Jackson Browne, Roger Daltrey, Natalie Cole and Ry Cooder, and </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(musical) ">Wicked</a>, 2003, won 3 tony awards and a Grammy</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">. A recent comic book <a href="https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/21489176 ">adaptation by </a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/21489176 ">Eric Shanower and Skottie Young </a>made NY Times bestseller list, with <a href="https://cine-vue.com/2022/11/the-enduring-legacy-of-the-wizard-of-oz.html">numerous other cultural adaptations,</a> with </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">books and films being the subject of many academic studies.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><br /><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyt18jmo2s5ocp4BNXukHzcbTzGctACLGeDZ5c_84zrAqN25GzCyWYb7_3pw4aU1MmjQDH-wSO5bNGCnlYUuv3AOrDryDu0rUw-M1XFWLzB2ISw_R3f_QUWZzx2t57pKIWRMUnr0K3yaekL1l71RhhR_WGG8mZA5gBSdGIFnic6iLk151GO6XC__8cg/s500/oz6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyt18jmo2s5ocp4BNXukHzcbTzGctACLGeDZ5c_84zrAqN25GzCyWYb7_3pw4aU1MmjQDH-wSO5bNGCnlYUuv3AOrDryDu0rUw-M1XFWLzB2ISw_R3f_QUWZzx2t57pKIWRMUnr0K3yaekL1l71RhhR_WGG8mZA5gBSdGIFnic6iLk151GO6XC__8cg/w265-h400/oz6.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lately, people have been less shy in noticing that theosophist and major feminism pioneer Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Baum's mother-in-law, helped inspire Baum's writing of the story, and that Baum himself was a theosophist and theosophical aspects have inspired the story. How this fact is to be understood in terms of what theosophy means to American culture is an idea that is beginning to become more of a topic of historical reflection.</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Baum bio that does not shy away from feminist, theosophical and spiritual elements <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story</span></span></span></b></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="cptv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Evan I. Schwartz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 </span></span></span></b></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fdr8s" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=E2HUcQ66NrcC&dq=angelica+shirley+carpenter+blavatsky+theosophy&source=gbs_navlinks_s https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-leguin-schwartz10-2009may10-story.html">Finding Oz </a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" id="above-the-fold"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">FINDING OZ: discover the inspirations for THE WIZARD OF OZ </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="eittr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Evan I. Schwartz </span></span></span></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZJ7hoJauPY"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZJ7hoJauPY</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></span></a></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 gVBMpi headline" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">PBS American Experience 2021 Frank L. Baum documentary</span></b></div><div class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 gVBMpi headline" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>‘American Oz’:</b> L. Frank Baum doc traces ‘Wizard of Oz,’ ‘Wicked’ roots to author’s formative Chicago years</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt19cuPSvc0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt19cuPSvc0</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" id="above-the-fold"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/extended-trailer-american-oz/">https://www.pbs.org/video/extended-trailer-american-oz/</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" id="above-the-fold"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaICa1TPlrwmPw5sCZWVUyOqpEABLtkeETjGKgOgznZ17oCZd074zysPJ7MChVt7tjXJ2KKJOe9S-OcaWNlAGX0OYrPkLmjk5mREaTzHr3eXMvEPdKi7P3PXjHoG5EjkZkPcUD3jOcGlQdDE9qAi9Sn2uxqdLrBQN88RKBSZgR3JLohzBaJlFlumO6w/s1907/oz-Featured.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="1907" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaICa1TPlrwmPw5sCZWVUyOqpEABLtkeETjGKgOgznZ17oCZd074zysPJ7MChVt7tjXJ2KKJOe9S-OcaWNlAGX0OYrPkLmjk5mREaTzHr3eXMvEPdKi7P3PXjHoG5EjkZkPcUD3jOcGlQdDE9qAi9Sn2uxqdLrBQN88RKBSZgR3JLohzBaJlFlumO6w/w400-h190/oz-Featured.jpg" width="400" /></a>Amazing
story that shows how deeply the story is ingrained in the American social
fabric, no effort spared to make the Red Slippers into a religious icon,
with an elaborate ritualistic pilgrimage and mythography worthy of the
most sacred holy relic. <br /></span></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div class="c-article-headline__heading c-article-headline__heading--long" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><b>Dorothy’s stolen ruby slippers:</b> a bizarre tale of obsession, small-town gossip and a police hunt that took 13 years </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">When
the famous ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz were stolen from a
museum in a small Minnesota town, it set off more than a decade of
investigations, rumours, false leads, wild goose chases ... and
eventually a big break.</span></div><div class="article__time-container" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="article__author"><span class="article__author-name article__author-name--nolink">Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson</span><span class="article__author-credit">The Washington Post Magazine </span></span><span class="article__published-date--clickable alcta" data-alparams="{"ltype":"label","ctype":"warning"}"><span class="article__published-date article__published-date--warning">Sun., May 19, 2019</span></span></b></span></div><div class="article__byline__font c-article-header__byline article__byline-container-author-withphoto" data-lpos="article|author"><div class="article__byline"><div class="article__time-container"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="article__readtime"><span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2019/05/19/dorothys-stolen-ruby-slippers-a-bizarre-tale-of-obsession-small-town-gossip-and-a-police-hunt-that-took-13-years.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2019/05/19/dorothys-stolen-ruby-slippers-a-bizarre-tale-of-obsession-small-town-gossip-and-a-police-hunt-that-took-13-years.html</a></span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="c-article-headline__heading c-article-headline__heading--long" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><div class="article__byline"><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Washington D.C. Museum Opens First Permanent
Exhibition For Pop Culture — Where To See Dorothy’s Red Slippers,
Muhammad Ali’s Robe, And More</span></b></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i3u2ln99ws" lang="en"><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><div class="published-date"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="name" style="font-family: georgia;">Greg Robertson </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jan.23.2023</span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.travelawaits.com/2851753/national-museum-of-american-history-entertainment-nation-pop-culture-exhibit/">https://www.travelawaits.com/2851753/national-museum-of-american-history-entertainment-nation-pop-culture-exhibit/</a></span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">How Wizard of Oz ruby slippers became ultimate Hollywood symbol </span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Maureen Lee Lenker Aug 25,2019</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/25/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-ultimate-hollywood-symbol/ ">https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/25/wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers-ultimate-hollywood-symbol/ </a></span> </div><span style="color: #00ba7c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="2fohm-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="beepc" data-offset-key="2fohm-0-0"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i3u2ln99ws" lang="en"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="162t4-0-0"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i3u2ln99ws" lang="en"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNzqKPBwQnf_z-2MeY3tfMvjxMUpEoMpche2xWPMOtY06nyxrRjXoYKdLe2tsjneH_uWZTv9zS4pj-uQVIHBSiyf5PC8qrPJWIs9eWQJS7_k-K1JHg3a8T3dm3XzRue9a05IkGo5rlI1VMNrp39PaQJYfGqDl3qgLv88iHoyC_b8FGXFWyffSQ7QAEQ/s1600/ozwiz.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1600" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNzqKPBwQnf_z-2MeY3tfMvjxMUpEoMpche2xWPMOtY06nyxrRjXoYKdLe2tsjneH_uWZTv9zS4pj-uQVIHBSiyf5PC8qrPJWIs9eWQJS7_k-K1JHg3a8T3dm3XzRue9a05IkGo5rlI1VMNrp39PaQJYfGqDl3qgLv88iHoyC_b8FGXFWyffSQ7QAEQ/w400-h261/ozwiz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Opinion: Lumet’s ‘The Wiz’ is still a trailblazing film in Black culture</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="storybyline"><a class="creditline" href="https://thedailyaztec.com/staff_name/trinity-bland/">Trinity Bland</a> and <a class="creditline" href="https://thedailyaztec.com/staff_name/ryan-hardison/">Ryan Hardison</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="storydate"><span class="time-wrapper">February 25, 2021</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">The film
is foremost a story of racial liberation paired with Afrofuturism
elements and perfectly blends with the combination of science fiction,
fantasy, magical realism and ancient African tradition that dares to
criticize historical events or envisions a Black future. Its impact is
evident in current cinema and has prompted recent groundbreaking films
as </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get Out</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Panther </span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://thedailyaztec.com/104336/opinion/opinion-lumets-the-wiz-is-still-a-trailblazing-film-in-black-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://thedailyaztec.com/104336/opinion/opinion-lumets-the-wiz-is-still-a-trailblazing-film-in-black-culture/</span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <br /></span></span></span><header class="entry-header">
<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZqwjaIayfiIWNFp45_qYLgwGVP2AWiNChUFRjTEPPXGib3e_ccXVQtTf97H-RxhWZ9RJodVmTu4wEj4lZPctLorxk3LqfUAUCy1Pl4JRKkjAJYCrZt0PSVf9-VhnUt_Pc5w7fbEELyMdjCpnGPqXd7BKqaon4wl1s--TYY_x4i_3xzYj_5VolVZhhQ/s2100/ozfilwitch.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="2100" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZqwjaIayfiIWNFp45_qYLgwGVP2AWiNChUFRjTEPPXGib3e_ccXVQtTf97H-RxhWZ9RJodVmTu4wEj4lZPctLorxk3LqfUAUCy1Pl4JRKkjAJYCrZt0PSVf9-VhnUt_Pc5w7fbEELyMdjCpnGPqXd7BKqaon4wl1s--TYY_x4i_3xzYj_5VolVZhhQ/w400-h269/ozfilwitch.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2et2h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2et2h-0-0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true">Good critical review of Oz movie that discusses feminist and theosophical aspects:</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2et2h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2et2h-0-0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true"><b>On
the 100th Anniversary of the Woman’s Suffrage March on Washington,
Disney’s “Oz, the Great and Powerful” Sets the Women’s Movement back
beyond a century.</b></span></span></div><div class="article__time-container"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i3u2ln99ws" lang="en"><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="beepc" data-offset-key="611sd-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="611sd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="611sd-0-0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true"><b>March 11, 2013 </b></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="611sd-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It comes as no surprise, then that Gage was also a Theosophist. The
primary belief of brotherhood and equality in Theosophical tenets would
surely have drawn her to this philosophy. These beliefs would also
inform her work opposing the political power of the Christian church,
whose oppression she had fought against in both her work as an
abolitionist and suffragist. Theosophy was brought to the United States
by Helen P. Blavatsky who introduced eastern philosophical ideas of
Buddhism and Hinduism to the West.<span data-offset-key="611sd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="beepc" data-offset-key="2fohm-0-0"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i3u2ln99ws" lang="en"><span style="color: #00ba7c; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="2fohm-0-0"><span data-text="true">https://extremehistoryproject.org/tag/theosophy/</span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehurAhoeJb0G5dB4ad5fsDtUDk4MgEnwklNGBWZ2uMd9lNJV84ARvoG8LwJxs_Lt_eSp-wPuBbwWxF-bwpb5SRrsoucF7_B3ObskirV6HEAd0dt2G-BLMTXt04Ya37gUF1Ho-dFbag3C71AA1stxgrZWyFUQ7_kQMKGt_2t9UAabp4tozwuX8w743BQ/s1000/oz2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="652" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehurAhoeJb0G5dB4ad5fsDtUDk4MgEnwklNGBWZ2uMd9lNJV84ARvoG8LwJxs_Lt_eSp-wPuBbwWxF-bwpb5SRrsoucF7_B3ObskirV6HEAd0dt2G-BLMTXt04Ya37gUF1Ho-dFbag3C71AA1stxgrZWyFUQ7_kQMKGt_2t9UAabp4tozwuX8w743BQ/w261-h400/oz2.jpg" width="261" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="aVX gai RzU ZQG" style="text-align: left;"><b>This Feminist Icon May Have Partially Inspired 'The Wizard Of Oz'</b></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><b><a href="https://www.bustle.com/profile/charlotte-ahlin-1908747">Charlotte Ahlin</a> <time datetime="2018-06-21T10:00:52-04:00">June 21, 2018</time><span><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><div style="text-align: left;">Picking up the book today, it doesn't exactly read like a cutting
edge feminist manifesto. We can thank L. Frank Baum, though, at least in
part, for several generations of fierce, female protagonists in
fiction. We can thank him for planting the seed of a witch who was <i>powerful </i>and <i>magical </i>without being evil in the public consciousness. And we can hope that Matilda Joslyn Gage, <a class="T3D" href="https://www.biography.com/people/matilda-joslyn-gage-212143" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">who never lived to see the Oz books published,</a> would have been (begrudgingly) proud.<span><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="jf5n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/the-wizard-of-oz-book-by-l-frank-baum-actually-has-a-fascinating-feminist-origin-9326087 ">https://www.bustle.com/p/the-wizard-of-oz-book-by-l-frank-baum-actually-has-a-fascinating-feminist-origin-9326087 </a></span></span></span></span></div><b> </b></div><br /></header></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></span></div></div><div class="article__time-container"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For all things Oz, consult <b>The Daily Ozmopolitan</b></span></div><div class="article__time-container"><div class="article__time-container"><a href="https://ozmapolitan.wordpress.com"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">https://</span>ozmapolitan.wordpress.c</span><span class="article__readtime" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>om</span></span></a></div><div class="article__time-container"><span class="article__readtime" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="article__time-container"><span class="article__readtime" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>If you really wish to go all the way down the yellow brick road, check out </span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>The Oz VLog</b>
</span><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/AS0lWIq5SB" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="color: #00613d; display: inline-block; text-overflow: unset;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://instagram.com/theozvlog/"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io" style="text-overflow: unset;">https://</span>instagram.com/theozvlog/</a><div style="cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;"><div class="mcafee_green" id="0DE9E47C-871A-4F90-8440-B190C216800A_11" style="outline: none;" tabindex="0"></div></div><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span><span class="article__readtime" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><span class="article__readtime" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><u></u></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="article__time-container"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490575597818791075.post-70170380118676923932023-03-13T07:47:00.020-07:002023-03-14T07:28:47.270-07:00Blavatsky and Anna Bonus Kingsford<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkcSjjziVPGrcknTsgzmyK55qAE9hYp5i2NlUFgRFXz1GPflpM5Arh1opN_QCJmgk8GvyMwosO497ALO5LtJid6Vzg3UveCl77Uwm6eKmfJxljMrrd9SbhxFARpBpjjk8hATlHCEuFJziHa6h3Gb-PUg3xllwshvYUpq_HjkXXqBuY7N7KPV-a71vJrg/s785/kingsford.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="555" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkcSjjziVPGrcknTsgzmyK55qAE9hYp5i2NlUFgRFXz1GPflpM5Arh1opN_QCJmgk8GvyMwosO497ALO5LtJid6Vzg3UveCl77Uwm6eKmfJxljMrrd9SbhxFARpBpjjk8hATlHCEuFJziHa6h3Gb-PUg3xllwshvYUpq_HjkXXqBuY7N7KPV-a71vJrg/w283-h400/kingsford.jpg" width="283" /></a></div></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif">In her <a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v9/y1888_019.htm">Kingsford obituary</a>, Blavatsky stated: <span style="color: #0b5394;">'</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And Anna Kingsford’s work will be still bearing fruit even when her
memory has been obliterated with the generations of those who knew her
well, and new generations will have approached the psychic mysteries
still nearer.'</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif">There
has been an increase of interest in the life and work of Anna Kingsford
in the last five years, especially in the areas of feminism,
vegetarianism, Victorian history, animal rights, and influence on
modern magick.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of her writings, Blavatsky stated: <span style="color: #0b5394;">'The first and most important was The Perfect Way, or the Finding of
Christ, which gives the esoteric meaning of Christianity. It sweeps away
many of the difficulties that thoughtful readers of the Bible must
contend with in their endeavours to either understand or accept
literally the story of Jesus Christ as it is presented in the Gospels</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">.<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">' </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif">She
brings to an interestingly eclectic mix of Christian mysticism, Greek
Hermetism, Christian Alchemy and Kaballah a wider appreciation of
comparative religion, especially Hindu and Buddhist notions of karma and
reincarnation along with modern theosophical notions of spiritual
evolution. Although firmly rooted in a traditional Christian mysticism,
she embraces more open notions of perennialism and evolution.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"> </span></span></span><i><span><span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif"> <br /></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span data-offset-key="9vjiq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Fota </span></span></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 68.9%; top: 20.91%; transform: scaleX(0.945175);">ISSUE No 8</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 76.24%; top: 20.91%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 77.38%; top: 20.91%;">|</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 77.73%; top: 20.91%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 78.79%; top: 20.91%; transform: scaleX(0.925816);">Autumn-Winter 2017-2018</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 78.79%; top: 20.91%; transform: scaleX(0.925816);"><span style="color: #b45f06;">F</span>riends <span style="color: #b45f06;">O</span>f <span style="color: #b45f06;">H</span>istorical <span style="color: #b45f06;">A</span>rchives <span style="color: #b45f06;">T</span>heosophical<br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 7.14%; top: 74.65%; transform: scaleX(0.99923);">34</span><span class="markedContent"></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 9.76%; top: 74.65%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.01%; top: 75.01%;">•</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.5%; top: 75.01%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.88%; top: 75.01%; transform: scaleX(0.9);">Anna Kingsford Conference Report</span><span class="markedContent"></span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.78%; top: 76.44%; transform: scaleX(0.85);">Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière</span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 7.14%; top: 78.07%; transform: scaleX(0.99923);">36</span><span class="markedContent"></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 9.76%; top: 78.07%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.01%; top: 78.43%;">•</span><span class="markedContent"></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.5%; top: 78.43%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 13.19%; top: 78.43%; transform: scaleX(0.900865);">Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created?</span><span class="markedContent"></span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.78%; top: 79.86%; transform: scaleX(0.85);">Arnaldo Sisson</span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 7.14%; top: 81.49%; transform: scaleX(0.99923);">41</span><span class="markedContent"></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 9.76%; top: 81.49%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.01%; top: 81.85%;">•</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.5%; top: 81.85%;"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.88%; top: 81.85%; transform: scaleX(0.913437);">Anna Bonus Kingsford & Edward Maitland</span><span class="markedContent"></span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.78%; top: 83.28%; transform: scaleX(0.85);">Elaine Bailey</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 84.9%; transform: scaleX(0.904966);">She </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 86.32%; transform: scaleX(0.945092);">was well versed in the classics and had studied the neo-Platonists, </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 87.75%; transform: scaleX(0.94417);">the Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, and many other 17th Century </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 89.17%; transform: scaleX(0.943887);">esotericists including the magician astrologer William Lilly, Anna </span><span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 90.6%; transform: scaleX(0.926611);">had also studied the Kabbala, and much more. Anna Kingsford had </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 92.02%; transform: scaleX(0.899955);">also studied Emanuel Swedenborg, read Joseph Ennemoser’s History </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 8.37%; top: 93.45%; transform: scaleX(0.910569);">of Magic, Mme Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and Eliphas Lévi’s works.</span><span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: 12.78%; top: 83.28%; transform: scaleX(0.85);"> </span></span></span></span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; left: 78.79%; top: 20.91%; transform: scaleX(0.925816);"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="9vjiq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="http://hypatia.gr/fota/images/newsletter/Fota_Newsletter_08.pdf">http://hypatia.gr/fota/images/newsletter/Fota_Newsletter_08.pdf</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span data-offset-key="9vjiq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9W2UFlaRqTNHkGZeHacalDyvvRPas1yGhJAKQUR5m5E8LPvVednYsdV2Drbkod_DhIKGJ_gBgfh55GJWZA19Z-xchuS8yG66_DhZYZB6wUyCjIr-RIS7GGauBsSW7aY9h6GIoXSR4dc4N4PpasMdn0aYoQP-wKobdGe6BoDey_wQQz0zLcPqngMPVA/s270/perfectway.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9W2UFlaRqTNHkGZeHacalDyvvRPas1yGhJAKQUR5m5E8LPvVednYsdV2Drbkod_DhIKGJ_gBgfh55GJWZA19Z-xchuS8yG66_DhZYZB6wUyCjIr-RIS7GGauBsSW7aY9h6GIoXSR4dc4N4PpasMdn0aYoQP-wKobdGe6BoDey_wQQz0zLcPqngMPVA/w267-h400/perfectway.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>Anna Kingsford and the Intuitive Science of Occultism </span></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Christine Ferguson, Aries, 22(1), 114-135</span></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the late 1870s onwards, Kingsford and Maitland had been working
together to perfect their intuitive capacity through the production of <i>The Perfect Way</i>
(1882), a work of Hermetic Christian exegesis written via ‘the
operation of the mind’ which allowed the pair to ‘gain access to the
interior and permanent region of our nature, and there to possess
ourselves of the knowledge which in the long ages of her past existences
the soul has made her own.’<span><b><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/22/1/article-p114_6.xml ">https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/22/1/article-p114_6.xml </a></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span data-offset-key="9vjiq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Becoming What You Eat: Anna Kingsford's Vegetarian Posthuman</span></span></span></b></span></div><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="2lim9" data-offset-key="fk9us-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fk9us-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span data-offset-key="fk9us-0-0"><span data-text="true">Natasha Rebry Coulthard, Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , Summer 2022 , pp. 325 - 353 </span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fk9us-0-0"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Through a blend of Theosophy, dietetics, and chemistry, Kingsford promoted vegetarianism as <i class="italic">gastro-ethical becoming-with</i>
whereby one could generate respectful multispecies kinships and
alternative nonanthropocentric identities, promising (to use Eva
Giraud's terms) material and symbolic changes to human being. <span><b><span><span data-offset-key="fk9us-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2lim9" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/becoming-what-you-eat-anna-kingsfords-vegetarian-posthuman/C59CBE5B67A466D1F0FA06CA70C757DE">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/becoming-what-you-eat-anna-kingsfords-vegetarian-posthuman/C59CBE5B67A466D1F0FA06CA70C757DE</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Vegetarians, Vivisection and Violationism: Gender and the Non-Human Animal in Anna Kingsford’s Life and Writing </b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ruby Ekkel <span>Lilith: A Feminist History Journal: Number 28, 2022 <br /></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="markedContent" id="page651R_mcid25" style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*148.94px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px); transform: scaleX(1.02161);">In</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*157.45px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px);"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*166.30px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px); transform: scaleX(0.965898);">foregrounding</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*221.56px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px);"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*230.41px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px); transform: scaleX(0.909551);">Kingsford’s</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*273.36px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px);"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*282.21px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*487.60px); transform: scaleX(0.940273);">vegetarianism, </span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page651R_mcid26" style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*85.04px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*499.60px);">a</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*89.08px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*499.60px);"> </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*96.66px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*499.60px); transform: scaleX(1.02065);">movement frequently overlooked in existing scholarship on </span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page651R_mcid27" style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*85.04px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*511.60px); transform: scaleX(0.972779);">Victorian reformism and politics, this article challenges accounts </span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page651R_mcid28" style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*85.04px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*523.60px); transform: scaleX(0.990497);">that subsume the nuanced ideas of vegetarians and other animal </span></span><span class="markedContent" id="page651R_mcid29" style="font-family: georgia;"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="left: calc(var(--scale-factor)*85.04px); top: calc(var(--scale-factor)*535.60px); transform: scaleX(0.961984);">protectionists within purportedly more significant causes.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span> <br /></span></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/journals/lilith/lilith-feminist-history-journal-number-28">https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/journals/lilith/lilith-feminist-history-journal-number-28</a></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><div class="page_title" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>The Unfinished Business of Anna Kingsford – Towards an Enchanted Animal Ethic
</span></b><span><span class="name"><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div class="page_title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="name"><b>Mitch Goldsmith</b>, </span></span><span><a class="title" href="https://trace.journal.fi/issue/view/7660">Vol. 7 (2021): Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies </a></span></span></div><div class="page_title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This article takes seriously the claim made by 19th century
antivivisectionist Anna Kingsford that experiments on animals constitute
a type of malevolent sorcery, more specifically a demonic blood
sacrifice. In so doing, the paper follows the work of Pignarre and
Stengers in their explication of sorcery and how to “get a hold” of its
operations despite its stupefying powers. <span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
</div><div class="article__header__dek"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://trace.journal.fi/article/view/99270 ">https://trace.journal.fi/article/view/99270</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span><br /></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anna Kingsford’s Spiritual Thunderbolt</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <span><span class="meta-author"><span class="author vcard"> </span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="meta-author"><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://jvc.oup.com/2022/01/13/anna-kingsford/" rel="author" title="View all posts by Melissa Purdue">Melissa Purdue</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="meta-date"><a href="https://jvc.oup.com/2022/01/13/anna-kingsford/" rel="bookmark" title="9:33 am">January 13, 2022</a> </span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the Journal of Victorian Culture Online<br /></b></span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Conversations about Kingsford today often focus separately on her animal
rights activism, her Theosophical beliefs, or her career as a medical
doctor, but these different aspects of her life were deeply intertwined. <span><span class="meta-date"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://jvc.oup.com/2022/01/13/anna-kingsford/ ">https://jvc.oup.com/2022/01/13/anna-kingsford/ </a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #00ba7c;"><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><span data-text="true">A mind is a terrible thing to waste... someone with...<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6bgt1-0-0"><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></div><div class="article__header__dek"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Victorian Occultist</b></span></div><div class="article__header__dek"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/dee-cunning">Dee Cunning</a> January 5, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="article__header__dek"><span class="abc__textblock size--article" data-component="TextBlock"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What
would Claude Bernard and Paul Bert tell us if they dropped by to the
séance room? They sure as hell weren't the victims of psychic
assassination. Bert died of dysentery in Hanoi while Bernard had been in
ill health for some 17 years, with a disease of the very organs he
spent his whole career studying, the pancreas and the liver, ironically
leading to his slow demise. </span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne43pg/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind">https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne43pg/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind</a> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><header class="entry-header">
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<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIjuQuziWYaMLgjBfuzwOBd77k5CM6_eyEgCaJ1qfeU8Mjzc_8zvLo6YrhM4sQvX42TULWgC8oLZgmYNN81-POjy6_4fsvhcPV0nwAIF8Z0H0tPJ0OWW-mrr0_05lyWgUBb_qXiSEbjeOcnC4pXuUYr0qGhIwUyCqX6npud9P52lVQ8cLrHZGpAS9og/s599/radicalvctorians.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIjuQuziWYaMLgjBfuzwOBd77k5CM6_eyEgCaJ1qfeU8Mjzc_8zvLo6YrhM4sQvX42TULWgC8oLZgmYNN81-POjy6_4fsvhcPV0nwAIF8Z0H0tPJ0OWW-mrr0_05lyWgUBb_qXiSEbjeOcnC4pXuUYr0qGhIwUyCqX6npud9P52lVQ8cLrHZGpAS9og/w268-h400/radicalvctorians.jpg" width="268" /></a></div>Book review: Radical Victorians, The Women and Men who Dared to Think Differently, James Hobson</span></b></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="color: black;"><b>Chris Hallam,</b></span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/book-review-radical-victorians-by-james-hobson/" rel="bookmark" title="8:58 am">May 23, 2022</a></span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">None of the nineteen figures lived to see their arguments become
popular. Some of their outlandish notions, such as gender equality,
freedom of the press and the notion of cremating the dead, have become
widely accepted since. Others, such as socialism, vegetarianism and
republicanism remain significant minority opinions, which are at least
tolerated today. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div>
</header><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/book-review-radical-victorians-by-james-hobson/ ">https://chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/book-review-radical-victorians-by-james-hobson/ </a><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><div class="ff4"><div class="product_title entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Making magic Happen Selected Essays from the Inaugural Magickal Women Conference 2019 </b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anna Bonus Kingsford, the Woman Clothed with the Sun – Elaine Bailey <br /></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>“</span>The Magickal Women Conference held on 1 June 2019 was a
major international gathering in London celebrating women in the occult,
witchcraft, and esoteric traditions. <span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="https://www.hadeanpress.com/shop/making-magic-happen">https://www.hadeanpress.com/shop/making-magic-happen</a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="298" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvslBQ8JWpRzIECoAvOXrvI5kNkpuKGZYrZ6A1KulBZEJn56DRY_LKhMfV0PHIAM6kurEmbOFcX5RYD840QyqiXaBYuWGKCju_q3yBuADXwkdQTsYu1pGUrdrsRjxAU5B-yfvpAy00xyftKGui8RIqas-_4MXw8usIkhe6wsdqtYDzrqKvpttWnd9ng/w239-h400/MangaKingsford.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="239" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manga Anna Kingsford</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Being made into a manga character is the </span></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>official sign that you've been un-cancelled</span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> adaptation by Chuya Kogino began serialization in <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Gangan" title="Monthly Shōnen Gangan">Monthly Shōnen Gangan</a></i> since April 2007. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C.Staff" title="J.C.Staff">J.C.Staff</a> produced two 24-episode <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a>
series between 2008 and 2011. An animated film was released in February
2013. A 26-episode third season aired between 2018 and 2019. Several
spin-offs and other adaptations have also been made, including several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a>.</span> </div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>A Certain Magical Index,</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Toaru Majutsu no Indekkusu</i></span></span></span></span> <br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><a href=" https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_Kingsford "><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_Kingsford </span></span><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></a></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span lang="FR-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Magical_Index"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Magical_Index</span></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>Brian McAllister, the Lost Letters of Edward Maitland</b></span></span></span></div><a href="https://imagier.co.uk/books/lost-letters-of-edward-maitland-by-b-g-mcallister/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;">https://imagier.co.uk/books/lost-letters-of-edward-maitland-by-b-g-mcallister/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://imagier.co.uk/books/lost-letters-of-edward-maitland-by-b-g-mcallister/ "> </a><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__xuw3w0f56f" lang="en"><div id="swp-tcr--title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Anna Bonus Kingsford and her Circle</span></b></span></div><div class="ff4">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="a" style="left: 1958px; top: 934px; word-spacing: -3px;">Dr James Gregory </span><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> July 2007</span></span></b></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;">Good biographical overview, with useful references</span></span><b><span><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> <br /></span></span></b></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/3862213/Anna_Bonus_Kingsford_and_her_Circle ">https://www.academia.edu/3862213/Anna_Bonus_Kingsford_and_her_Circle </a></span></span></div> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> <br /></span></span><div class="ff4">
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Anna Kingsford Web Site</span></b></span></div><div class="page-title"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Biographical Information and Biographies</span></b></span></div>
</header><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="http://www.humanitarismo.com.br/annakingsford/EN/biographical-information-and-biographies/ ">http://www.humanitarismo.com.br/annakingsford/EN/biographical-information-and-biographies/ </a></span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> </span></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland: by Elaine Bailey, 2018</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOhoawS1J8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOhoawS1J8</a></span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> <br /></span></span></div><div class="ff4"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anna Kingsford`s The Perfect Way</span></b></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Brian McAllister, Author of the book "The Lost Letters of Edward Mailtland",</span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string bold" dir="auto"><b>Dec 2, 2020</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8sxS0wWvQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8sxS0wWvQ</a></span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Occult Lives Anna Kingsford with Ken Rees, 2019</b><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y726DprtWI ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y726DprtWI </a></span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"> </span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="GramE"><span><b>The Virgin of the World [review by T. <span class="SpellE">Subba</span> Row]</b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Review by T. <span class="SpellE">Subba</span> Row of translation of the ancient Hermetica text, with answers by Anna Kingsford and Edward
Maitland, and the answer to them by T. <span class="SpellE">Subba</span> Row.</span></span></div><div class="ff4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="a" style="left: 2084px; top: 1028px;"><a href="http://www.humanitarismo.com.br/annakingsford/english/Other_Related_Works/Texts/OOR-I-Subbareview.htm">http://www.humanitarismo.com.br/annakingsford/english/Other_Related_Works/Texts/OOR-I-Subbareview.htm</a><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Mark Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696362210408606380noreply@blogger.com1