From Sun Worship to Alien Apocalypse: Theosophy and its UFO Legacy (Part 1)
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Kevin Storrar
- May 18, 2017
- July 19, 2020
- 13 min read
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Many modern day UFO sightings may be at least in part an adapted remnant of long established solar worship: mystical lights in the sky that represent a greater intelligence. It is certainly interesting to note that the most common reported shape of a UFO since the mid-1940s has been a circular disk; often they are reported as metallic and reflective of natural sunlight, or able to emit their own bright luminance. Such circular light sources in the sky draw parallel to the Sun, stars, or the Moon. The second most common UFO shape, a triangle, seems also to make reference to a pyramid, often synonymous with solar worship, an idea that, even if not always accurate, has been made common belief through spiritual...
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Kevin Storrar
Kevin Storrar is an artist and researcher based in the UK. His recent book And They Witness Light Across the Sky: Belief in the Age of UFOs explores cultural, religious and political influences on the nature of belief relevant to the UFO phenomenon.
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There are a number of serious inaccuracies regarding Theosophy in the section about it in the above article.
I became aware of the article due to it linking to an article on my site; however, although my article “The Men From Other Planets” is given as a footnote reference for Kevin’s statement that –
“In such ideas humanity is moving gradually toward enlightenment, and toward the Sun; alleged great events in the past once transferred life from Mars to Earth, and they will again in the future move life on to Venus and then Mercury”
– this is in no way stated in that article, nor anywhere in the teachings of Theosophy. In fact, the opposite point is made in Theosophical teachings, namely that life and humans do *not* move in their evolution from planet to planet of the solar system.
And the old claim that Theosophy influenced Nazi ideology is manifestly false; see the articles “Responding To Lies about H. P. Blavatsky” (https://blavatskytheosophy.com/responding-to-lies-about-h-p-blavatsky/) and “Is Theosophy Racist about Africans?” (https://blavatskytheosophy.com/is-theosophy-racist-about-africans/) to see that the real story is very different. Theosophists and their organisations were persecuted by the ***** (see the “Responding to Lies” article) and the claim in the article that “Blavatsky saw . . . the Jewish faith as harmful to human spirituality” sounds more like the alarming statements made by Alice Bailey, not Blavatsky.
Those who presume to write as if they are experts about Theosophy ought to be aware that there are two highly conflicting versions of “Theosophy” in existence, i.e. the original Theosophy presented by H. P. Blavatsky and her closest colleague William Q. Judge and a later version that arose after their death under the influence of C. W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant, and Alice Bailey. This latter system is often termed “Neo-Theosophy” or “Pseudo-Theosophy” by students of the original system.
It is in Pseudo-Theosophy that one finds such notions as “the Sun is seen as the Solar Logos” and also ideas about people moving from planet to planet. The New Age Movement is quite influenced by Pseudo-Theosophy but barely influenced by Original Theosophy; Blavatsky and her writings warn against many of the ideas and practices which have now become commonplace features of popular New Age spirituality.
The idea that Blavatsky’s Masters “spoke to her while she was in a trance” is also not true, unless one erroneously equates being in a trance with receiving communications telepathically whilst conscious and in control of one’s faculties. But those Masters were also physically incarnated human beings, who were seen in the flesh by numerous people during that time, including by credible witnesses, who swore their good names to it. Their actual existence, independently of Blavatsky, is not a matter of debate for anyone who does their research thoroughly and impartially.
I hope the author will either correct or qualify some of the statements in his article or at least explain his reasons for not being willing to do so. If he lives in or happens to be visiting London, England, he’d be most welcome to call by at the United Lodge of Theosophists where we would be happy to have a friendly discussion on these and any related matters. Thank you!