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What is Aghartha? (Other than an awesome live Miles Davis dark funk album) Aghartha is a mythical hidden city somewhere under the Earth, usually somewhere in Asia. It’s often confused or even merged with Shambhala, another hidden city in Buddist […]
By the mid 1800s there finally existed a plethora of Rosicrucian groups, all practicing various forms of western esotericism and occultism, most with a Christian mystical bent. Many claimed to have descended from the original Rosicrucians of the 1400-1600s, but as no […]
So, to recap, from 1614 to 1616 three tracts were published in Germany claiming to be from an underground Order of highly knowledgable wise guys possessing all sorts of esoteric secrets of the universe. It was actually a small group […]
In discussing colorful forms of spiritualism in the Victorian era, we would be quite remiss is we ignored the group that started it all, that brought medieval hermeticism, western esotericism and occultism into the Renaissance and paved the way for much […]
We shall end our little 4 part series of Freemasonry with some pictures of Masonic temples. During the 1700s as Freemasonry became a new type of social club centered around symbolic spiritual morality with less and less ties to its […]
Now that we’ve not only covered some interesting early history of Freemasonry involving the Hanovers and Jacobites but established the animostiy of the Catholic Church towards Freemasonry (although to be fair, i have not yet listed the specific reasons the […]
During the 18th, 19th and early 20th century Freemasonry grew to enormous proportions. Groups of lodges operated under various Grand Lodges, but each Grand Lodge was more or less independent from one another. Thus, many different types of degrees, rites, […]
We’ve covered the Golden Dawn, we’ve covered Spiritualism and Theosophy. If you were doing something crazy and far out in the Victorian era, we’ll get to it, but at long last we turn our gaze on the single most influential […]
In examining the more colorful forms of spirituality that appeared during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, there are some interesting figures who movements like Theosophy drew upon and reimagined into a mythological status. The Compte Saint Germaine is perhaps one […]
Now that we’ve covered the history of Theosophy, let’s end our little sojourn with a discussion of what the movement was all about. Basically, Spiritualism began the idea that ghosts and occultish things could be reasoned out and studied scientifically. […]