... Beaver Category: Beaver Memos Date: July 2013 Blavatsky, Theosophy and the Central Sun; Freemasonry and the Subconscious Mind; ... research as well: from Helena Blavatsky, who founded Theosophy in 1875, and from Alice Bailey, who joined the organization read more...
... were the products of many influences, several of which were esoteric in origin; but given Fetzer’s private nature, few suspected ... to recognize the various strands from which Fetzer wove his metaphysical worldview. One who did, however, was Tom Beaver, who from read more...
... C. Wilson Category: Commissioned Essays John Fetzer and the Metaphysical Midwest By Brian C. Wilson Professor of American Religious ... and America’s Agony: the Wenger-Winger-Wanger History including Christian Wenger, 1718 (Kalamazoo, MI: John E. Fetzer read more...
... C. Wilson Category: Commissioned Essays John E. Fetzer and Freemasonry by Brian C. Wilson Professor of Comparative Religion ... 4 However this may have been, Fetzer found much more in Freemasonry than simple fellowship and commercial and political read more...
... C. Wilson Category: Commissioned Essays John E. Fetzer and Theosophy by Brian C. Wilson Professor of Comparative Religion ... Western Michigan University Just as Spiritualism was the tradition most responsible for the spread of metaphysical ideas in the United States during the 19th century, so Theosophy played this role in the twentieth. Indeed, in many ways Theosophy has had an even greater influence than Spiritualism on this read more...
... Commissioned Essays John Fetzer’s Washington DC and Freemasonry John Fetzer spent a considerable amount of time in ... in the Society of Free and Accepted Masons – i.e. Freemasonry – help him advance his advocacy case in the policy halls of read more...