Introduction. In this blog I will compress into a short story my proposed periodization of Modernity, bookended by the Renaissance and Post-modernity. My idiosyncratic idea is to place the start of modernity in 1620 and its end in 1926. The Start of Modernity in 1620 The choice of 1620 has two reasons. First, it … Continue reading “Modernity Between the Rise and Fall of the Cartesian Cogito”
Tag: Esoteric history
Bibracte: Last Center of Celtic Occultism?
The other day I visited David Reigle’s excellent web site of the Eastern Tradition Research Institute and found again his paper on “The Centennial Cycle.” In this paper he discusses the origin of the policy by the Brotherhood of Mahatmas of enlightening the “western barbarians” on a centennial basis. Here I read that the very last of … Continue reading “Bibracte: Last Center of Celtic Occultism?”