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The Rose, Nr4, by Hilma af Klint, 1907.
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jareckiworld · 4 months
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Emma Kunz (1892-1963) — Work No. 333 [pencil and oil crayon on millimetre graph paper, no date]
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noughtlux · 2 months
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Astral Plane IV Digital art 2024 (Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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creature-wizard · 1 year
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New Age is a poisoned chalice.
MASSIVE CW for racism and genocide up ahead. So, New Age ultimately goes back to Theosophy, which was primarily founded by Helena Blavatsky. Here's a paragraph Blavatsky wrote herself in her own book The Secret Doctrine: Mankind is obviously divided into God-informed men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Âryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, no generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Âryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so-called. The “Sacred Spark” is missing in them, and it is they who are the only inferior races on the Globe, now happily— owing to the wise adjustment of Nature which ever works in that direction—fast dying out. Verily mankind is “of one blood,” but not of the same essence . We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in Nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent. This is the kind of sentiment the New Age movement came out of, and it's not any better today - New Agers are still simping for genocide, whether they're looking forward to people dying from climate change or eagerly awaiting the day Trump and his loyalists enact a second Holocaust. You don't have to dig very far at all to find videos and blogs expressing these very sentiments. New Agers, by the way, are the people pushing things like: -Soulmates and twin flames -The Law of Attraction/Law of Assumption/Manifestation -"Low vibrational frequency" vs. "high vibrational frequency" -Karmic debt -DNA upgrades/DNA activation/light code activation -Ascension to 5D -The existence of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu -Ancient aliens -Starseeds So yeah, watch out for this stuff (it's unfortunately all too common on witchblr and WitchTok), and be aware that though it might look harmless on the surface, it's all rotten underneath.
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geritsel · 1 year
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Kazimierz Stabrowski - Crows Council of Seniors.
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theoptia · 2 years
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H.P. Blavatsky, from The Secret Doctrine
Text ID: The moon is the deity of the mind…
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hdslibrary · 7 months
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We're Serious. It's Publisher's Binding Thursday!
We came across this striking publisher's cloth binding on an 1895 book on theosophy. The front is decorated with eye-catching symbols of theosophy, but the back cover also bears a serious looking fellow with a serious sort of message.
Sinclair, Marie, Countess of Caithness. Serious letters to serious friends. 2nd ed. London, C.L.H. Wallace, 1888.
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nyxshadowhawk · 1 year
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Disclaimer: This is just a joke, I don’t actually think any of these paths are evil. The axes are more RHP/LHP and Conventional/Edgy.
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theidealistphilosophy · 8 months
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The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich, Source Unlisted.
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teenageascetic · 6 months
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Madame Blavatsky
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alchemisoul · 10 months
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Freemason Sufi Druid | Robert Graves
Graves turned down a CBE in 1957 and was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, losing out to John Steinbeck. And while mostly remembered as an author and poet, his contributions to the comparative examination retracing the overlapping commonalites shared and missing links in between Western and Eastern esotericism, hermeticism, and mysticism are not as widely cited or as commonly known as those of Manly P. Hall, Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, G.I Gurdjieff, P.D Ouspensky, Robert Anton Wilson, Rudolph Steiner, and Alan Watts but nevertheless stand on their own merit.
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The Path, Reginald W. Machel, 1835.
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jareckiworld · 4 months
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Emma Kunz (1892-1963) — Work No. 2 (pencil, crayon, on millimetre graph paper, ca. 1938)
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noughtlux · 2 months
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Astral Plane III Digital art 2024 (Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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creature-wizard · 3 months
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Holy shit, Behind The Bastards has uploaded four episodes on Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy (the predecessor of New Age). There's like. Over four hours of material here. Gonna be checking this out because holy shit. Can't wait to hear what all dirt they've dug up on her.
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(Pseudo)Science Saturday
Solar Biology, by spiritual leader (or cult leader, depending on your perspective) Hiram E. Butler, was published in Applegate, California by The Esoteric Publishing Co., one of the commercial endeavors of Butler’s Esoteric Fraternity. First published in 1887, we think our 19th edition came out around 1915. To the best of our knowledge, the last time the book was put out by the Esoteric Publishing Co. was in 1970 as a 40th edition. In addition to churning out copies of Solar Biology, Butler and his adherents published over 30 books, booklets, and periodicals from their 500 acre compound in in Northern California, some of which are advertised in the backmatter of our copy. In a pseudoscience twofer, the London publisher of the book is listed as L. N. Fowler, after American phrenologist Lorenzo Niles Fowler, who spent much of his career in London and had a background in publishing; his American publishing house Fowler & Wells Co. was a leader in the “field” of phrenology.
The Esoteric Publishing Co. actually predates the Esoteric Fraternity; Solar Biology was first published in 1887 when Butler was still located in Boston. There, Butler (as founder and contributing editor) produced a monthly magazine called The Esoteric. While in Boston, Butler founded the “Genii of Nations, Knowledge and Religions” (GNKR) to promote his teachings. Butler's moves in Boston apparently drew the ire of  Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and Butler was basically run out of town by the powerful mystic, who had labeled Butler and his ilk as charlatans. Once relocated to California, Butler rechristened the GNKR as the Esoteric Fraternity. 
Solar Biology might have been the first book to publicize a simplified astrology, the kind that is familiar to anyone who might have casually asked “what’s your sign?” Prior to Butler, astrological readings always involved the more detailed calculations involving time and place of birth that may be familiar to more hardcore astrology buffs. Butler's book directly influenced the English astrologer and founder of modern astrology Alan Leo and therefore one could draw a direct line from Solar Biology to the popular astrology found in newspaper horoscope columns (or these days, horoscope apps). It was also fascinating to see the Christian religious underpinnings of Butler’s work. The links between contemporary astrology and (granted, extremely fringe) Christian esoteric tradition was news to me!
Find more Science Saturday (with actual science!) posts here.
-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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