и почему онъ читаетъ мой дискъ
Англичане помогали русскому народу освобождать польских братьев от царских сатрапов, ну так и мы поможем английскому пролетариату. Идея, между прочим, носилась в воздухе. Достоевский писал: “Вот что мне кажется: не сказалась ли в этом факте…
Read more of Д.Е. Галковскій (и Ф.М. Достоевскій) о всеслуженіи человѣчеству
Вообще, нужен опыт овладения национальной идеей. Она очень сильна и на неподготовленные натуры может воздействовать разрушительно (злоба и т.д.). Эта идея иррациональна и может подчинить себе разум, разрушить его до основания и включить в свою…
[In his Mémoires pour sérvir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme, Augustin] Barruel traced the core ideas of the French Revolution back to the Manichaean concepts of ‘equality’ and ‘freedom’. He regarded Mani as a paternal father…
Read more of Claus Oberhauser on A. Barruel’s idea of the origins of liberté & egalité
Why should esoteric organizations which study and teach the complexities of Cabala, surely the ultimate in intellectual spiritual contemplation, by bothered with Arthuriana? The clue lies in the dating. Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was as…
One of the most important aspects of any esoteric teaching is that the same statement may have two or more quite different meanings – factual and allegorical, exoteric and esoteric – and may reveal different…
The problem turned out to be that, although not one single piece of information in either article was classified, GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] feared that the way that all the individual Unclassified details were put…
The entire history of secret societies in China exemplifies the saying, ‘One man’s terrorist (or brigand, or bandit) is another man’s freedom fighter’. Many of these societies raised and maintained the devotion if their members…
Read more of David V. Barrett on the Chinese secret societies
In a curious aside, [Aleister] Crowley was a significant influence on L/ Ron Hubbard, creator of the psychoanalytic system of Dianetics and founder of the controversial Church of Scientology. In 1945 Hubbard stayed for some…
One of the main initiatory rituals of the HOGD [the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]’s Second Order took place in a seven-sided vault based on that in which Christian Rosekreuz’s uncorrupted body is supposed…
Read more of David V. Barrett (& Gareth Knight) on the active imagination
The best-known Rosicrucian Orders today are based in the USA; indeed, reading their literature, one could almost be forgiven for thinking that Rosicrucianism is an invention peculiar to the United States; it is so tied…