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I knew Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) as a result of a visit to a used bookstore in Kansas City in 1987 where I picked up three of his books about the occult. During research for this article I found that a wealth of material flowed from his pen.
The scholar K. Paul Johnson maintains that the "Masters" that Madame Blavatsky wrote about and produced letters from were actually idealizations of people who were her mentors. Also see the article “Talking to the Dead and Other Amusements” by Paul Zweig ''New York Times'' October...

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Energy In EsotericismTheosophy H. P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical teaching represented the convergence of 19th century Western occultism, Eastern philosophy, religion, science, and mysticism. ”The Secret Doctrine”, and ”The Key to Theosophy” combined the Vedantic concept of five koshas with Western esoteric traditions, (particularly ...
TheosophyI knew Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) as a result of a visit to a used bookstore in Kansas City in 1987 where I picked up three of his books about the occult. During research for this article I found that ...
TheosophyThe scholar K. Paul Johnson maintains that the “Masters” that Madame Blavatsky wrote about and produced letters from were actually idealizations of people who were her mentors. Also see the article “Talking to the Dead and Other Amusements” by Paul ...
TheosophyMy interest in spiritual connections produced my discovery of Annie Besant (1847-1933). Besant was a social reformer in England who in 1879 lost her children as a result of her free thinking. Besant was a prolific writer and powerful orator ...
TheosophyAccording to C.W. Leadbeater, Maitreya’s plan in the early 20th century was to manifest through Jiddu Krishnamurti, as he had purportedly done 2000 years earlier through Master Jesus. C.W. Leadbeater “discovered” fourteen-year-old Krishnamurti in 1909 during walks to the beach ...
Scientology deserves to be considered as a cult but what about the society that targets it?
Esotericism“The modern German occult revival owes its inception to the popularity of theosophy in the Anglo-Saxon world during the 1880.” Theosophy The first German Theosophical Society was established in July 1884, under the presidency of Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden, a conservative German ...
New Age CommunitiesIt is one's state of evolution and consciousness that determines what sort of afterlife one finds one's self in after the crossing from this world into the realms beyond it. One's spiritual progress or development is largely dependent on the ...
TheosophyOriginal usage Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for spiritual knowledge that existed in all cultures. It is found in an unbroken chain in India but existed in ancient Greece and is hinted in the writings ...
AnthroposophyThe early work of the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, culminated in his ”Philosophy of Freedom” (also translated as ”The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity” and ”Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path”). Here, Steiner developed a concept of free will which ...
Extrasensory PerceptionThe power of thought is a phenomenon for which increasing evidence is being offered by serious researchers. It has been demonstrated that thought can traverse great distances, can affect people and objects, and is indeed a tangible factor in the ...
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