Theosophy

All these occult systems use traditional Christian words, which make them all the more deceptive.

See Francis Schaeffer's warnings in The God Who Is There

From the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

"The Theosophical Society. The term theosophv in later years obtained wide currency as denominating the beliefs and teachings of the Theosophical Society, founded in the United States in 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.... Soon after the death of Madame Blavatsky (1891) a split took place.... The parent organization, now called the Theosophical Society in America, has its headquarters at Wheaton, Ill.

       "The founders of the Theosophical Society assumed their continuity with the ancient esoteric tradition of occultism and were ready to make the 'secret doctrine' available to humanity at large. (page 1000)

       "According to Madame Blavatsky’s original statements, this wisdom has been transmitted through the ages as a secret doctrine by a brotherhood of adepts or mahatmas [demonic guides] scattered through the world but in connection with one another. With a certain group of these in Tibet she claimed to be in communication. A Master Morya [spirit guide] is supposed to have taken on Madame Blavatsky as his personal pupil, or chela. In adepts such as Morya the spiritual nature is supposed to have been so developed that the body has become the ductile instrument of the intelligence....

       "... theosophical language includes references to astral bodies, guardian angels, and the like.

"In... Isis Unveiled, Madame Blavatsky seeks to establish that the one source of all the wisdom of the past is India. Christianity, according to the same volume, 'copied all its rites, dogmas and ceremonies from paganism' with the exception of the doctrine of eternal damnation and the custom of pronouncing anathemas.

       "The Indian doctrines which are often treated in theosophical writings are the identity of the human and the divine, the concept of reincarnation and transmigration... and the concept of karma. ...

"The goal of the struggle to achieve wisdom which leads to self-actualization is Nirvana, when the lower self or selves is annihilated and the true self liberated." Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 21, (Chicago: William Benton, 1968), page 1000-1001)

Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Theosophy -- 'There is No Religion Higher than Truth': "The idea, for example, of a personal, anthropomorphic God, a sort of magnified image of ourselves, a God who created the universe and ourselves from nothing, who listens to prayers, grants favours, forgives sins, and eventually consigns us to heaven or hell -- such a God finds fewer and fewer believers. At the same time, the idea of a soulless, mechanical universe governed by nothing but chance is not very compelling either. Many people are seeking a deeper and more meaningful vision of life.

       "This was also true of the Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the 'mother of the New Age', when she set out on her quest for knowledge in the middle of the 19th century. Through her contacts with religious and mystical traditions in many parts of the world, and the instructions she received from her own teacher [spirit guide] in Tibet, she learned of the existence of the ageless wisdom -- the fountain-source from which all the great world religions and philosophies have sprung. ....The fundamental teaching of the ancient wisdom is the spiritual unity of all things.

The Esoteric Meaning of Lucifer: "...in the early 1920’s, when Alice and Foster Bailey were beginning to publish the books published under her name, they named their fledgling publishing company 'Lucifer Publishing Company' By 1925 the name was changed to Lucis Publishing Company and has remained so ever since. Both 'Lucifer; and ;Lucis; come from the same word root, lucis being the Latin generative case meaning of light.

      "The Baileys' reasons for choosing the original name are not known to us, but we can only surmise that they, like the great teacher H.P. Blavatsky, for whom they had enormous respect, sought to elicit a deeper understanding of the sacrifice made by Lucifer. Alice and Foster Bailey were serious students and teachers of Theosophy, a spiritual tradition which views Lucifer as one of the solar Angels, those advanced Beings Who Theosophy says descended (thus 'the fall) from Venus to our planet eons ago to bring the principle of mind to what was then animal-man.

      "In the theosophical perspective, the descent of these solar Angels was not a fall into sin or disgrace but rather an act of great sacrifice, as is suggested in the name Lucifer which means light-bearer."

Annie Besant [Wikipedia]: "...Her decision in favour of Socialism came about through a close relationship with George Bernard Shaw, a struggling young Irish author living in London, and a leading light of the Fabian Society. Annie was impressed by his work and grew very close to him too in the early 1880s. It was Annie who made the first move, by inviting Shaw to live with her. This he refused, but it was Shaw who sponsored Annie to join the Fabian Society....

      "During 1884, Annie had developed a very close friendship with Edward Aveling, a young socialist teacher, who translated the important works of Marx into English for the first time.... Aveling left Annie to live with Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx. ...
     "Soon after joining the Marxists, Annie stood for election to the London School Board.... In fact, women householders had been brought into the local electorate in 1881....
     "She saw freemasonry, in particular co-freemasonry... as a 'movement which practised true brotherhood, in which women and men worked side by side for the perfecting of humanity. ...Besant founded new lodges...
     "In 1889, she was asked to write a review... on The Secret Doctrine, a book by H.P. Blavatsky. After reading it, she sought an interview with its author, meeting Blavatsky in Paris. In this way she was converted to Theosophy....

     "When Blavatsky died in 1891, Annie was left as one of the leading figures in Theosophy....

     "She first met clairvoyant theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater in London in April 1894.... Besant became clairvoyant in the following year.... Together they would investigate the universe, matter, thought-forms and the history of mankind through clairvoyance...

      "...in 1907, [Besant was] elected international president of the Theosophical Society after the death of its first president Henry Steel Olcott.... Besant actively courted Hindu opinion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Buddhism in Ceylon, and their promotion of Buddhist revival activities....
     "Annie set up a new school for boys at Varanasi: the Central Hindu College. Its aim was to build a new leadership for India.... As early as 1889, Blavatsky had told a group of Theosophical students that the real purpose of establishing the Society was to prepare humanity for the reception of the World Teacher when he appeared again on earth....
     "Annie Besant died in 1933.... After her death, her colleagues, J. Krishnamurti, Aldous Huxley...."

The next excerpt is by a trusted Christian researcher, Carl Teichrib, whose articles are posted on our website:

Bloody Utopian Dreams, Part I: "One particular Ascended Master, the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul [in the New Age an Ascended Master is a highly evolved spiritual entity, channeled the raisons de'être for the despots and tyrants of the last two hundred years, ascribing to them a high and beneficial role in the development of human spiritual enlightenment. Alice Bailey, one of the more prominent leaders of the Theosophical movement [Theosophy has been a key factor in the creation of today's modern New Age Movement], recorded the Tibetan's words in her book, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy,

"They [France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal] have...reacted to that force [Shamballa Force] through the medium of certain great and outstanding personalities who were peculiarly sensitive to the will-to-power and the will-to-change and who...have altered the character of their national life, and emphasised increasingly the wider human values. The men who inspired the initiating French revolution; the conqueror, Napoleon; Bismarck, the creator of a nation; Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler, who lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist; Stalin and Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little understood energies. These have wrought significant changes in their day and generation...

"We call these people dictators, demagogues, inspired leaders, or just and wise men, according to our particular ideology, tradition, attitudes to our fellowmen and our particular political, economic and religious training. But all these leaders are...in the last analysis, highly developed personalities. They are being used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face of civilization...

"Blame not the personalities involved or the men who produce these events before which we stand today bewildered and appalled. They are only the product of the past and the victims of the present. At the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order and the initiators of the new civilization; they are the destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way."[8]

"...They are the destroyers of what must be destroyed..." Think about it! This section of The Externalisation of the Hierarchy was written in 1939, the year World War II began. Hitler's atrocities against his own people - particularly the infirmed and incurables - was known by 1939, as was his treatment of German Jews [9]. Mussolini's tactics were also known, as was the executions by Franco's Nationalists Spain [10]. Lenin and Stalin's crushing of their own people, soaking the Russian motherland with the blood of its citizens, was known too [11]. And the French Revolution, with its forests of guillotines, had kick started revolutionary ideologies that had bled Europe and other parts of the world over and over again [12].

But remember, it was the master Djwhal Khul, a spiritual entity that can supposedly transcend time and space [hence, ignorance cannot be used as an excuse], that basically proclaimed all of this death and destruction as good and necessary. Why? So that "humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way."

See also: An Inside Look at the Global Interfaith Agenda and Lucifer Rising

From the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

"THEOSOPHY [original form, before Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society], those forms of philosophic and religious thought which claim a special insight into the divine nature and its constitutive moments or processes (from Greek Theos, “god,” and sophia, “wisdom”)....

      "General Theory.—Theosophy claims to derive its significant data by way of intuition or through revelation from seers or masters. Thus it does not rely on ordinary observation or logical reason to the same degree as does most philosophical thought....

      "Theosophy generally arises in connection with deeply felt religious needs.... Accepting the testimony of religious experience that the present world lies in a state of imperfection, if not 'fallenness,' theosophy seeks to give an account of this state of things while pointing the seeker on to an experience of actualization on a higher plane of his being....

      "India has been the mother of most theosophical speculations. They are reflected in the systems known as Brahmanism, upanishadic thought and the Vedanta, Sankhya, and Yoga systems.... In Indian thought the rishis are those who have 'seen' the inner wisdom and have communicated it to faithful disciples.... The distinction between esoteric wisdom, available only to the few, and exoteric wisdom, available to the masses, is often implicit in theosophical thought and practice.

     "There are many affinities between mysticism and theosophy. Many of the speculations in the sermons and writings of Meister Eckhart could be considered as much theosophical as mystical. Yet Eckhart is considered one of the great mystics in the Roman Catholic tradition of Christianity, though in his later years he fell under suspicion of heresy. Eckhart’s doctrine asserts behind God a predicateless Godhead, which, although unknowable not only to man but also to itself, is, as it were, the essence or potentiality of all things. From it proceed, and in it exist, the three Persons of the Trinity, conceived as stages of an external self-revealing process....

      "...the sensuous and phenomenal... are mere privation and nothingness; things exist only through the presence of God in them....

      "...Jakob Böhme [was] called the theosophist par excellence... The nature-philosophers of the Renaissance... curiously blend scientific ideas with speculative notions... from Neoplatonism and even from the Cabala). ...

     "Echhart’s Godhead appears in Böhme as the abyss, the eternal nothing.... In God, however, as the condition of his manifestation, lies, according to Böhme, the eternal nature or the mysterium magnum, which is as anger to love, as darkness to light, and, in general, as the negative to the positive. This principle illuminates both sides of the antithesis, and thus contains the possibility of their real existence....

     "Even the three Persons of the Trinity, though existing... beforehand, attain reality only through this principle of nature in God, which is hence spoken of as their matrix .... God is sometimes spoken of as the father, and the eternal nature as the mother of things.

     "Creationbegins with the creation of the angels. The subsequent fall of Lucifer is explained as his surrender of himself to the principle of nature, instead of dwelling in the heart of God....

     "Emanuel Swedenborg (q.v.) is usually reckoned among the theosophists." (page 1000)

Lessons in Theosophy Lesson 6, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Avichi, and Devachan: "Theosophy teaches that, after we die, our point of consciousness moves on to other planes of existence (before returning for another reincarnation). Some planes are 'higher' than others, although the reader is cautioned not to think of the planes as geographically separate....

     "Hell is not eternal. As a person spends time on a particular sub-plane of the astral plane, they eventually burn off the vibrations of that particular sub-plane. That allows the person to rise up to the next higher sub-plane and spend time there.... Living in Hell, then, is this process: The newly-dead 'floats' to his or her appropriate level in the after-life. Those who have lead a wretched life float down to the lowest astral level (Hell), waiting for the heaviest astral atoms to eventually burn off. This then frees them to float up to the next level....

     "Some orthodox religions teach that we will go to Hell if we do not believe in a particular deity, a particular religion.... Theosophy teaches against these ideas.... Theosophy teaches that all superstition must be removed before Nirvana can be achieved. '...in order to gain ... tolerance, you must yourself first be free from bigotry and superstition.

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