Some lantern slides from Clement Wragge's lectures on astronomy, meteorology and Theosophy, from the Auckland Museum NZ. 1890-1922
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Some lantern slides from Clement Wragge's lectures on astronomy, meteorology and Theosophy, from the Auckland Museum NZ. 1890-1922
Blavatsky, Helena "The Theosophical Glossary" published originally in 1892, this version is a reprint of 1918. This posthumous work, purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabbalistic and Gnostic words. Defining occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature.
Most information are taken from the Kabbalah, which is illustrate Hermetic or Rosicrucian doctrines. Blavatsky also took definitions from "The Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary" by Eitel "The Hindu Classical Dictionary" by Dawson "The Vishnu Purâna" by Wilson "The Royal Masonic Cyclopoedia" of Kenneth Mackenzie
Russian mystic of German descent Madame Blavatsky is know for her esoteric works and co-founding of the Theosophical Society. Still today her meaning is moving between an enlighted Sage and charlatan, as we can not determine which biographical information is "true" (which is a northworthy fact, as the Theosophical Society claimed the Truth as the highest value... More information in the first lemma) or embellished to create an alluring myth. Despite the carefullness in which we should handle all spiritual world-views and explanatory principles, it is an undeniable polygot venture and can support to arouse a deeper understanding of the synthesis of religion, philosophy and science. Indisputable there is more between earth and space, as we can measure and see.
Actually I had photographed more, but due to the limit of a post, I have selected some exemplary and interesting pages... It is also sad, that Altaic Shamanism (Tengrism) or other spiritual ideas e.g. from southern Africa or South-East-Asia, are unregarded. Imagine how motifs, we thought tailored in our region, appear all around the world! What a fantastic conception, but also human-strenght exceeding project this would be !!!
Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment, SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994). Paperback edition. 448 pages. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254659313734
“The Fifth Race produced from the Holy Stock (remained). It was ruled by Her First Divine Kings.”
The first divine Kings, who are said to have “redescended,” guided and instructed our Fifth Race after the last deluge.
The first three “divine or astronomical Dynasties,” who taught the Third Root-Race; and after having abandoned the Atlanteans to their doom, returned (or redescended, rather) during the third Sub-Race of the Fifth, in order to reveal to saved humanity the mysteries of their birth-place—the sidereal Heavens. The same symbolical record of the human races and the three Dynasties (Gods, Manes—semi-divine astrals of the Third and Fourth, and the “Heroes” of the Fifth Race), which preceded the purely human kings, was found in the distribution of the tiers and passages of the Egyptian Labyrinth.”
— The Secret Doctrine
Malati Paranjape (1917 Bibby’s Annual). The nauvari (9 yard saree) is worn in several different ways in Maharashtra - this one is a casual drape and also covers the body upto the knees.
Events in the Soviet Union after 1985 revealed that occultism and general and Theosophy (and Anthroposophy) in particular had not disappeared from the Russian consciousness. These movements survived the years of forced repression in Russia's occult underground, in exile, and in emigration. Significant numbers of Russian occultists went to Germany, Switzerland, the Baltic states, South America, and Yugoslavia in 1918; after Hitler invaded Eastern Europe in 1939, many occultists emigrated again. Theosophy resurfaced in Russia the moment the climate became even moderately hospitable, although it has not achieved its prerevolutionary popularity and scope. Now Russian Theosophists are once again holding meetings and giving lectures, and Theosophical societies have officially opened their doors in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. The cooperatively printed works of Blavatsky, Besant, and Steiner are readily available.
Holly DeNio Stephens, “The Occult in Russia Today” in The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (1997)
