Tag: esotericism
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Esotericism, Freemasonry, And Confusion In The Lodge
from peopleofshambhala.com: “Esotericism” has come to be a kind of “catch all” phrase for alternative and non-Western spirituality, Freemasonry, the occult, and so on, not least of all as a way of making subjects previously taboo within academia acceptable subjects of research for books and PhD theses. While we will undoubtedly learn more and more about…
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Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
from ndpr.nd.edu: Those of us who were introduced to the history of moral and political philosophy by students of Leo Strauss — in my case, Allan Bloom — would sometimes ask for evidence backing their claim that the great writers of the past practiced a lost art of esoteric writing. The answers we received, I’m…
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A Dreamer Out of Time: Nicholas Roerich
from theimaginativeconservative.org: In a large part of the Western mindset, Russian culture only really existed in the nineteenth century. Before Vladimir Putin’s kleptocracy and before the horrific purges of the Soviets, Russia was, we are led to believe, a somewhat backwards land that nevertheless managed to produce great works of art. Undoubtedly, Russia in the…
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Manly P. Hall Gets to the Heart of Homer’s “Odyssey”
from Disinfo.com: You won’t hear this interpretation in the storied halls of academia. Manly P. Hall – author, mystic, examiner of all things esoteric – teases apart the obscurities of Homer’s epic to reveal its secret meaning. Namely, what certain elements represent and how it relates to the inner life of man (mental/emotional/spiritual) and consciousness…