Theosophy - Theosophy Theosophy refers to a body of belief which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain "the Divine," and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. Theosophy, as a coherent belief system, developed from the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Together with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others she founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. A stricter definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes Theosophy as "any of various philosophies professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, esp. a modern movement following Hindu and Buddhist teachings and seeking universal brotherhood." Adherents of Theosophy maintain that it is a "Body of Truth" that forms the basis of all religions. Theosophy.
Christian theosophy - Christian theosophy Christian Theosophy is a term used to designate the knowledge of God and of the Christ obtained by the direct intuition of the Divine essence, but with a Christian distinctive. It is often confused with mysticism, since the source of the Christan Theosophist's power over the "hidden forces" of the universe are similar, if not identical to those of Mysticism. By intuition, initiation, or revelation Theosophists are considered to be in harmony with the central principle of the universe. This knowledge of the "secret forces" of nature frees them from the ordinary limitations of human life, and gives them power over these "hidden forces." Modern theosophy claims to be a science, and as such to be based on investigation of, and experimentation with the occult.
Karl Daub - principle that he deduced not only Jesus as the embodiment of the philosophical idea of the union of God and man, but also Judas Iscariot as the embodiment of the idea of a rival god, or Satan." The three stages in Daub's development are clearly marked in his writings. His Lehrbuch der Katechetik (1801) was written under the spell of Kant. His Theologumena (1806), his Einleitung in das Studium der christi. Dogmatik (1810), and his Judas Ischarioth (2 vols., 1816, 2nd ed., 1818), were all written in the spirit of Schelling, the last of them reflecting a change in Schelling himself from theosophy to positive philosophy. Daub's Die dogmatische Theologiejetziger Zeit oder die Selbstsucht in der Wissenschaft des Glaubens (1833), and Vorlesungen uber die Prolegomena zur Dogmatik (1839), are Hegelian in.
Jan Baptist van Helmont - the ferments, and just as diseases are primarily caused by some affection (exorbitatio) of the archeus, so remedies act by bringing it back to the normal. At the same time chemical principles guided him in the choice of medicines--undue acidity of the digestive juices, for example, was to be corrected by alkalies and vice versa; he was thus a forerunner of the iatrochemical school, and did good service to the art of medicine by applying chemical methods to the preparation of drugs. Over and above the archeus he taught that there is the sensitive soul which is the husk or shell of the immortal mind. Before the Fall the archeus obeyed the immortal mind and was directly controlled by it, but at the Fall men received also the sensitive soul and.
Jesus Christ as the Messiah - That Psalm begins with cries of despair, but ends on a note of hope and trust in God's triumph and deliverance. It also contains several details that have been taken to apply to Jesus' crucifixion, such as the soldiers casting lots for Jesus' garments and leaving his bones unbroken. The Gospel of John, on the other hand, has Jesus in total control from the cross, saying "It is finished" upon his death, and instead of asking the "bitter cup" to be taken away from him while praying in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before, he actually asks for it in John's account. Resurrection, Ascension, and Second Coming According to the New Testament, he rose from the dead on the third day following his crucifixion and appeared to his disciples; the.
John Carew Eccles - Bibliography How the Self Controls Its Brain Mind and Brain, editor See: The mind-body problem External Link http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-bra.htm.
Johann Reuchlin - Erasmus, as the Reuchlinian. At Heidelberg Reuchlin had many private pupils, among whom Franz von Sickingen is the best known name. With the monks he had never been liked; at Stuttgart also his great enemy was the Augustinian Conrad Holzinger. On this man he took a scholar's revenge in his first Latin comedy Sergius, a satire on worthless monks and false relics. Through Dalberg, Reuchlin came into contact with Philip, elector palatine of the Rhine, who employed him to direct the studies of his sons, and in 1498 gave him the mission to Rome which has been already noticed as fruitful for Reuchlin's progress in Hebrew. He came back laden with Hebrew books, and found when he reached Heidelberg that a change of government had opened the way for his return.
Harmony Society - Harmony Society The Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and alchemist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785 or 1786. Due to religious persecution by the Lutheran Church, the Harmony Society moved to the United States in 1803-1804, eventually purchasing 3000 acres of land in Butler County, Pennsylvania. On February 15 1805, they, together with about 400 followers, formally organized the Harmony Society, placing all their goods in common. The Society was founded and led by Johann Georg Rapp (1757-1847) and his adopted son, Frederick Rapp (1775-1834). The Harmony Society is best known for its worldly succeses, eventually bulding what were in effect three small cities, one at Harmony, near what is now Ambridge, Pennsylvania, another by a splinter group in nearby Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and the third in Illinois..
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - and the Alpha et Omega, as well as a renamed faction headed by Arthur Edward Waite that underwent further splits. Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include freemasonry, theosophy, Eliphas Levi, Papus and medieval grimoire magic. The synthetization of these influences into a new school of thought is largely the merit of Mathers, who at times was teaching things he had discovered only days or hours before. The "Golden Dawn", as it is commonly referred to, was probably the single greatest influence on twentieth-century western occultism. While it existed, it was the focal point of the (re-)development of magical thinking in Europe. In it, most concepts of magic and ritual that have since become core elements of Wicca, Thelema, western mystery schools and other forms of magical spirituality were first.
Henry Steel Olcott - as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance. See also: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Theosophy.
Hidden variable theory - theories that allow systems to interact over distances with speeds greater than the speed of light, were not ruled out. The best-known hidden-variable theory, the Bohmian mechanics, of the physicist and philosopher David Bohm, created in 1952, is a non-local hidden variable theory. It is thought to be empirically equivalent to orthodox quantum mechanics. It still enjoys a modest popularity among physicists. What Bohm did was to distinguish between the quantum particle, e.g. an electron, and a hidden 'guiding wave' that governs its motion. Thus, in this theory electrons are quite clearly particles. When you perform a double-slit experiment (see wave-particle duality), they go through one slit rather than the other. However, their choice of slit is not random but is governed by the guiding wave, resulting in the wave pattern.
Gnosticism - Attacks on Gnosticism by orthodox Christians, hostile as they are, most likely suffer from some degree of bias; and orthodox Christians had a tendency to conflate the many differing groups opposing them. There were considerably more Gnostic scriptures written than orthodox Christian ones, which are hinted at throughout the orthodox scriptures. Many Gnostic scriptures and other works were written, but until the late 19th and the 20th centuries, none of them were available, except in isolated quotations in the writings of their opponents. Many 19th century scholars devoted considerable effort to collecting the scattered references in the works of opponents and reassembling the Gnostic materials. Several finds of manuscripts have been made since, most importantly the Nag Hammadi codices. But though we now possess a reasonable collection of Gnostic texts, they.
Universal Paradigm - pile and 8 stones in another pile and 100% of the people will agree that the pile with 8 stones is larger. This is considered a Universal Truth. The Universal Paradigm believes truth and trust go hand-in-hand, and that as truth emerges, trust can grow to an almost infinite level between people. Love, it argues, is that almost-infinite trust. See also: Theosophy.
Franz Xaver von Baader - generally gave expression to his deepest thoughts in obscure aphorisms, or mystical symbols and analogies (see Eduard Zeller's Ges. d. deut. Phil. 732, 736). Further, he has no systematic works; his doctrines exist for the most part in short detached essays, in comments on the writings of Boehme and Saint Martin, or in his extensive correspondence and journals. At the same time there are salient points which mark the outline of his thought. Baader starts from the position that human reason by itself can never reach the end it aims at, and maintains that we cannot throw aside the presuppositions of faith, church and tradition. His point of view may be described as Scholasticism; for, like the scholastic doctors, he believes that theology and philosophy are not opposed sciences, but that.
Esoteric knowledge - it is deliberately kept secret from those outside a select group. Such knowledge is confined within certain disciplines, such as magic and freemasonry. See Esotericism, Occult, Theosophy.
Alexander Scriabin - lessons with Nikolay Zverev who was teaching Sergei Rachmaninov at the same time. He became a noted pianist. Scriabin also became interested in theosophy. Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano, the earliest pieces resemble Frederic Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Scriabin's ten piano sonatas, however, are more original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The last five of these are written with no key signature and many passages in them can be said to be atonal. See: mystic chord. Scriabin wrote only a small number of orchestral works, including a piano concerto (1896), The Poem of Ecstasy (1908) and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910), which includes a part for a "clavier à.
Alfred Richard Orage - for their paper on philosophy, including in particular the thought of Plato and Edward Carpenter, By the late 1890s, Orage was disillusioned with socialism and turned for a while to theosophy. After reading Friedrich Nietzsche in 1900 he returned to socialist platforms, but now determined to combine Carpenter's socialism with Nietzsche and theosophy. Concentrating on this led to separation from his wife, while he also resigned his teaching post and moved to London. Orage explored his new ideas in several booklets. He saw Nietzsche's superman as a metaphor for the "higher state of conciousness" sought by mystics and sought to define a route to this, insisting this must involved a rejection of civilisation and conventional morality. Instead, he moved through a celebration of Dionysus to declare he was in favour not.
Alice Bailey - (1880-1949), writer and lecturer on neo-theosophy, was born in England in 1880 as Alice LaTrobe Bateman. After spells as an evangelical Christian and a member of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society, Alice Bailey founded the Arcane School in 1923. Her books popularized notions such as the coming New Age and the Network of Light, whose triangles she initiated in 1937. They include the prayer known as “The Great Invocation” which is still used by esoteric groups to this day. Alice Bailey died in 1949. Her work is continued by the Lucis Trust..
Anthroposophy - is a philosophy (or, as its opponents claim, a religion) that developped from Helen Blavatsky's Theosophy movement. Anthroposophy is not to be confounded with Anthropology. Major differences from the Theosophical Society are the emphasis on developing artistic impulses, the practical focus of Antroposophy, its theoretical base in Western Occultist (rather than Hiduist and Buddhist) thought, and the positive view of Christ, which however is still very different from the standard Church view. Steiner defined Anthroposophy as 'a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe'. It advocates that we are not mere observers of a self-contained reality. According to Steiner, reality only arises at the juncture between the spiritual and the physical (i.e. 'where concept and percept meet'). This bears no small.
Annie Besant - women's rights, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator. Her conversion to theosophy came after reading The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky in 1889 and writing a review on this book. Soon after becoming a member of the Theosophical Society she went to India for the first time (in 1893). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progress. Together with Charles Webster Leadbeater she investigated the universe, matter and the history of mankind through clairvoyance. The two became embroiled over Leadbeater's advice to young boys to masturbate. At the time such advice was highly controversial. He had to leave the Theosophical Society over this in 1906. In 1908 he was.
