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Helen Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian psychic, was the force behind Theosophy's establishment. "For years and years the ancient wisdom was preserved in the mystery schools, mainly through esoteric teachings and Eastern wisdom," Aloyse Hume, a member of the Boston group since the late 1960s, explains. "Blavatsky in her travels spent seven years in a Tibetan monetary and she was asked to go out and head up this experiment and make available this information." Evidently satisfied with the early progress of the "experiment," the Hierarchy continued to transmit the ancient wisdom, according to Theosophy...
Since the Enlightenment, though, philosophers have not been impressed. The great skeptic was David Hume (1711-76), who scoffed at the design argument because nature is so savage and wasteful that it might have been the work of "some infant deity who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance." Turned inside out, the proof is really a question: Could this intricate universe have evolved by pure trial and error? The last major philosopher to promote the argument, Britain's F.R. Tennant, wrote in 1934: "Presumably the world is comparable with a single throw of the dice. And common...
Primate of the Church of England and spiritual leader of 65 million Anglicans around the world. Runcie is likely to be a lively prelate if his background and early actions are any test. In a remarkable ecumenical break with tradition, he invited Basil Cardinal Hume, 57, the country's Roman Catholic shepherd, to read the Epistle at the installation. The two are good friends-although Hume's game is squash...