Theosophy among the Hopi
Much about the origin and age of the original inhabitants of America remains unknown. Popularizers still propagate the view of the first Americans as semi-savage,… Read More »Theosophy among the Hopi
Writings related to Indigenous Native American systems of philosophy and spirituality.
Much about the origin and age of the original inhabitants of America remains unknown. Popularizers still propagate the view of the first Americans as semi-savage,… Read More »Theosophy among the Hopi
People of all times and places have sought to understand how the universe came into being and how humanity developed. Each culture provides its own… Read More »The Maya Creation Story
Although we live with the wind daily, delight in its blessings and suffer its wrath, how often do we question what it is or where… Read More »Holy Wind, Holy Spirit
Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to discover and appropriate what is good wherever we come upon it. — J. W.… Read More »An Important Message from the Kogi Elders
Karma, a Sanskrit word meaning “action,” is regarded as a law of absolute universal justice, in which effect is linked with cause. It covers all… Read More »Karma in the Oglala Indian Tradition
Much of the wisdom of the American Indians is written in symbols — a language without letters or sounds that speaks to that part of… Read More »Wisdom Teachings of the Hopi
Standing in the altar room looking out through the east-facing door towards the dark mesas, I could tell that the sun was about to rise.… Read More »House of the Great Kiva: Astronomical Observations
The Indian Racetrack is located on a mesa above the Animas River Valley of northwestern New Mexico. It is composed of four parabolic arcs of… Read More »South Corner Time: Excavations and Sunrise Observations at Indian Racetrack
How the prehistoric Anasazi, the Ancient Ones, perceived the universe may not be so different from certain theosophic perspectives of the cosmos. The Pueblo Indians… Read More »Autumn Equinox at the World Quarter Shrine
Opening Prayer: If you would walk the paths of the American Indian — be prepared. Walk softly, O My Sisters, O My Brothers. Tread lightly,… Read More »American Indian Vision Quest
Dennis Tedlock’s recent translation of the Quiche Mayan Popol Vuh* is one of the finest, and as such is attracting widespread attention. It, together with his introduction,… Read More »[Review:] The Mayan Popol Vuh
Father, give me the light of your mind, / that my mind may be strong; / Give me some of your strength, / that my… Read More »Monster Slayer’s Hero Quest—the Navaho Way
What is the native American’s view of death? Tribal traditions about the matter vary in expression but are not at variance one with another on… Read More »Death and the Tree of Life
“Man is made From Everything” is a beautiful Navaho saying that is pregnant with implications. It means that we human beings are compound of every… Read More »Continuous Journey to the Sun
Before the beginning of the making-anew, only the Maker and Container of All, the All-father Father, had being. Nothing else whatsoever was, through the great… Read More »Children of the Rainbow
On I Chuen our Lord took out from itself its Divinity, and made heaven and earth. On 2 Eb it made the first ladder to… Read More »I, The Great Mystery
The remains of Maya civilization were discovered during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by amateur archaeologists who came to Central America. Better prepared individuals in… Read More »Those Mysterious Maya?
[Part 1] There was an ancient American theosophy which taught conceptions of the universe and of man just as lofty, profound, and spiritual as any… Read More »The Theosophy of Ancient America
Part One The question of how and when man first arrived in the Americas is far from settled, for the whole Western Hemisphere is covered… Read More »Where Did the ‘Americans’ Come From?
Imagine, if you will, a people who had a complex written language that suffered no major changes for more than a thousand years; whose cultural… Read More »Ciphers and Civilizations
Part One In a just published book, Before Columbus (Crown Publishers, Inc., N.Y. 1971; 224 pages, $6.50; see review article, “A Question of Maps,” Sunrise August 19, 1967), Dr. Cyrus… Read More »Ancient America
The most precious relic of Pre-Columbian culture in Mexico is the Aztec Calendar Stone. This immense object of basaltic porphyry measures thirteen feet in diameter… Read More »Aztec Calendar Stone
The Popol Vuh was composed by a native of Guatemala in the 17th century from traditions handed down by the priests of the Feathered-Serpent, and… Read More »The Popol Vuh
Under the distinctively American name and symbol of the Feathered-Serpent are to be found the Great Teachers of Mexico and Central America. Who has not… Read More »The Feathered-Serpent
The ancient glory of America is to be sought in Mexico, Central America and Peru. In impassable valleys or on inaccessible heights lie buried hundreds… Read More »The Children of the Sun
What is the origin of the American Indian? The civilizations of Persia, China and Egypt had their roots in the remote past of the Fourth,… Read More »Sources of Early American Civilization
Among students of occultism, there have been persistent traditions of a branch or branches of the Great Lodge in the New World; Peru, the mountains… Read More »The Guatemalan Secret Doctrine
[I.] We have heard much of the Sacred Books of the East. It is time to say something of the Sacred Books of the West,… Read More »The Early Races in the Popol Vuh
Since the earliest times of which we have any historical knowledge, the emblem of the serpent has always been used as a symbol of occult… Read More »Quetzalcoatl
The following interesting letter was received by us from Fresno, California. As it is a private one, we can give but extracts from it.—Ed. [H.P.B.]… Read More »The Seventeen-Rayed Sun-Disc
[I] Whether one surveys the imposing ruins of Memphis or Palmyra; stands at the foot of the great pyramid of Ghizé; wanders along the shores… Read More »A Land of Mystery