Theosophy, Lucifer, and The Great Initiates: Rediscovering Édouard Schuré
The French Theosophist had an enormous influence on European philosophy, literature, and the visual arts of the Belle Époque. Yet, he is almost forgotten today.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
The French Theosophist had an enormous influence on European philosophy, literature, and the visual arts of the Belle Époque. Yet, he is almost forgotten today.
All of Cornell’s work was but “a variation on the single theme of Christian Science metaphysics,” a statement not by an art historian but by the artist himself.
The painter and the novelist and First Lady were both Theosophists who dreamed to make Costa Rica into the first country officially acknowledging Krishnamurti as the World Teacher.
The records of what was once the largest world anti-cult organization demonstrate that criminal behavior was systemic rather than occasional in anti-cult milieus.
The Slovak-Hungarian painter was a unique example of artist influenced by the Theosophical Society who combined Theosophical ideas with a sacralization of homosexuality.
Auditors and scholars who examined CAN accounts found massive irregularities, a usual problem in anti-cult organizations.
Anti-cultists referred parents of “cult members” to deprogrammers. The latter, in turn, transferred a percentage of the honoraries to the anti-cultists.
The most damning documents the bankruptcy of CAN put at the scholars’ disposal concerned the sexually abusive behavior of deprogrammers towards their victims.
The rediscovery of a Czech Theosophical artist who decorated an extraordinary esoteric home for a friend and produced iconic woodcuts and paintings.
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