The Problem with Modern Contemporary Esoterica

Looking back through the contemporary history of the so-called “civilized” world, one thing becomes generally apparent. Between the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires and all the crusades that paved the course of Evangelism, there was always a secret tendency to its esoteric opposite. The irony is, this had little to do with any revival of pre-Christian tradition, as most of it had already been syncretically absorbed by Catholicism at this time. Instead there came hermetic mysticism, no less steeped in Middle Eastern lore as it was always assumed to be the birthplace of higher civilization. In fact this has been the general school of thought for both evangelists and esoterics well into the 20th century. Yet, despite all advancements in archeoforensics, still persists in the theosophical following of such seeming intellectuals as Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune.

The fallacy is that assumption that no writings could be found elsewhere, for whatever they had hoped to find it all written on. I still hear this argument today from their adherents; so oblivious to the fact of ongoing oral traditions, let alone why the Celto-Germanic peoples chose not to write them down. Well, I was raised on oral tradition, especially because of how the esoteric movement tried to rewrite our history. Yes, I'm talking Fahrenheit 451 here, and they are just as much to blame as the evangelists. Little do they realize how Blavatsky's “Secret Doctrine” inspired the curse of Nazi Ariosophy. Yet, you would have thought it ended with the Nuremberg trials, but not all things utopian necessarily come in the German language, nor did it really have anything to do with paganism either- especially that assumption that any special human ability came from the allegedly angelic Annunaki. Nonetheless, the buggers are still at it, trying to make it all sound so politically correct through alternate wording, when it actually boils down to much the same exploit of wanton illusion.

Two wrongs don't make it right, so think again.