Theosophy
founder- Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) founded 1875.
Scriptures and writings- The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled, The Key to Theosophy, and The Voice of the Silence.
God- God is a principle.
Some interesting statements from Helena Blavatsky
"We are about to found a magazine of our own, Lucifer. Don’t allow yourself to be frightened: it is not the devil, into which the Catholics have falsified the name of the Morning Star, sacred to all the ancient world, of the ‘bringer of light,’ Phosphoros, as the Romans often called the Mother of God and Christ. And in St. John’s Revelation does it not say, ‘I, Jesus, the morning star’? I wish people would take this to mind, at least. It is possible that the rebellious angel was called Lucifer before his fall, but after his transformation he must not be called so...."
H.P. Blavatsky in a letter to her sister Vera.
"Open your columns to free and fearless discussion, and do as the theosophical periodicals have ever done, and as LUCIFER is now preparing to do. The 'bright Son of the morning' fears no light. He courts it, and is prepared to publish any inimical contributions (couched, of course, in decent language), however much at variance with his theosophical views. He is determined to give a fair hearing in any and every case, to both contending parties and allow things and thoughts to be judged on their respective merits. For why, or what should one dread when fact and truth are one's only aim?" H.P. Blavatsky in Lucifer, October, 1887.
Blavatsky and Crowley(luciferian)
Crowley recognized Blavatsky as a Sister of A
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The Heart of the Master through O.T.O. in 1938. He thought it especially noteworthy that he was born in the same year that the Theosophical Society was inaugurated. Crowley reissued Blavatsky's
Voice of the Silence (
Extracts from the Book of the Golden Precepts, including "The Two Paths" and "The Seven Portals") with his own commentary as Liber LXXI, a Class B publication of A
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Crowley "regarded his own system, Thelema, as the child of the Golden Dawn and Theosophy." (p. 47) The following observations may shed light on some obscure features of the Aeonic myth of Thelema.
more to come soon...