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“Trump believed-like so many great Americans real and imagined, such is Steve Jobs or Jay Gatsby- in the unlimited, unequaled power of the individual to achieve nearly anything. And like many other products of the uniquely American machinery of celebrity, Trump believed that his fame and success would catapult him to a level of power that he deserved because he had made so much money. He believed that just by walking into a room, just by reflecting the passions of the crowd, he could shift the course of events. He could for example, make America great again. ‘Believe me’, he had beckoned crowds throughout the campaign (for the nomination as Republican candidate for president). ‘Believe me’. Improbable didn’t begin to describe what he had achieved…”

Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power, New York, London, Toronto Sydney, New Delhi: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2016 p. 335

“… Occult philosophy teaches us that even now, under our very eyes, the new Race and Races are preparing to be formed, and that it is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced.
Pure Anglo-Saxons hardly 300 years ago, the Americans of the United States have already become a nation apart and owing to a strong admixture of various nationalities and inter-marriage, almost a race sui generis, not only mentally, but also physically…

Thus, the Americans have become in only three centuries a ‘primary race’, pro tem., before becoming a race apart, and, strongly separated from all other now existing races. They are, in short, the germs of the Sixth sub-race, and in some few hundred years more, will become most decidedly the pioneers of that race which must succeed to the present European or fifth sub-race, in all its new characteristics…
Thus it is the mankind of the New world-one by far the senior of our Old one, a fact men had also forgotten- of Patala (the Antipodes, or the Nether World, as America is called in India), whose mission and Karma it is, to sow the seeds for a forthcoming, grander and far more glorious Race than any of those we know of at present. The Cycles of Matter will be succeeded by Cycles of Spirituality and a fully developed mind. On the law of parallel history and races, the majority of the future mankind will be composed of glorious Adepts. Humanity is the child of cyclic Destiny, and not one of its Units can escape its unconscious mission, or get rid of the burden of its co-operative work with nature. Thus, will mankind, race after race, perform its appointed cycle-pilgrimage. Climates will, and have already begun, to change, each tropical year after another dropping one sub-race, but only to beget another higher race on the ascending scale; while a series of other less favored groups-the failures of nature- will, like some individual men, vanish from the human family without even leaving a trace behind.”

H. P. Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, London: The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited; New York: William Q. Judge; Adyar, Madras: the Manager of the Theosophist, 1888 Volume 2, “Anthropogenesis”, (Pasadena, California: Theosophical University Press, 1977) pp. 444-446
The “improbability” of Donald Trump’s capturing of the position of candidate for the Republican Party in the US presidential contest of 2016, noted by Washington Post journalists Michael Kranish and Mark Fisher in there chronicle of the “angry outsider”‘s rise to prominence, which seemed an understatement to the authors, now seems, since the results of the presidential election itself, to be a marker of a sea-change in American political culture. For Trump, the “improbable candidate” has, for the American opinion- forming classes, now become the “improbable president”. Journalists, pundits and professors have declared Trump and Trumpism an alien importation, an exaggeration of tendencies always present in US political life, or a clear case of publicistic chicanery. However, it is now evident that none of these explanations, or any of the others being commonly offered, adequately addresses the magnitude of the problem, which requires an analysis at a more fundamental, philosophical, level, one involving a convincing intellectual history, or pedigree. The latter is supplied, I believe, by American New Thought.
As we have noted, the Dressers (Julius, Annetta, and their son Horatio), were the chief early apologists for the New Thought movement, and the parents had been patients of Phineas P. Quimby. The main early philosopher of the moment, however, was another Quimby patient, the sometime Methodist and later Swedenborgian minister, Warren Felt Evans. In a series of books, the well-informed Evans worked out the theological implications of the developing New Thought movement, and in his final volume, laid his finger upon the dynamic factor in the Western spiritual tradition that he considers had generated American “mind-cure”. This he details as follows:

“In the present mental cure system, I know no principle which is true that is not found in the New Testament and in the true spiritual philosophy of all ages and nations. He who carefully studies that development of Christianity which we have in the writings of Swedenborg, will find all the truth there is in the various schools of mental cure. And his spiritual philosophy is nothing but a reproduction and amplification of the ancient Hermetic and Kabbalistic science.” (Warren Felt Evans, Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics, Boston: H.H. Carter and Karrick, 1886 page 134; quoted in Charles S. Braden, Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought, Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963 p. 103)

While acknowledged as a key figure in the development and spread of New Thought by the movement’s own scholars, and scholars of the movement, Warren Felt Evans was largely ignored by later New Thought writers, and commentators on the spiritual tradition, alike. In addition, the general importance of Hermeticism and Kabbalism for the “Neo-Platonism” of the Renaissance, the Reformation period, and the Enlightenment has only become clear since the groundbreaking work in the late 1950s and 1960s of the Warburg Institute group of scholars of London, England (such as D. P. Walker, Dame Frances Yates, etc.).
As New Thought as a distinct prominent American spiritual tradition “disappeared” (or rather “went underground”) in the 1940s and 50s, as we have seen, scholarly advances in the understanding of the role of the Hermetic-Kabbalist structure of consciousness in the formation of the modern mind, have not been brought to bear upon a New Thought, contributing to the surprise with which Trumpism, a New Thought legacy (as I believe) has been met.

Some students of the work of the late German-American political philosopher Eric Voegelin (Stephen A. McKnight, for example) have assimilated the analyses of the Warburgers and their followers, but this has been seen (by American Voeglinians, at least) as of little relevance for the politics of the United States. Esotericist scholars and recent popular writers in the United States, however, have made a clear link between Hermetic-Kabbalism and the New Thought/ “prosperity gospel” precursor of Trumpism, a connection made (as we have seen in the case of Warren Felt Evans) by New thought writers themselves.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

“Trump believed-like so many great Americans real and imagined, such is Steve Jobs or Jay Gatsby- in the unlimited, unequaled power of the individual to achieve nearly anything. And like many other products of the uniquely American machinery of celebrity, Trump believed that his fame and success would catapult him to a level of power that he deserved because he had made so much money. He believed that just by walking into a room, just by reflecting the passions of the crowd, he could shift the course of events. He could for example, make America great again. ‘Believe me’, he had beckoned crowds throughout the campaign (for the nomination as Republican candidate for president). ‘Believe me’. Improbable didn’t begin to describe what he had achieved…”

Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power, New York, London, Toronto Sydney, New Delhi: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2016 p. 335

“… Occult philosophy teaches us that even now, under our very eyes, the new Race and Races are preparing to be formed, and that it is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced.
Pure Anglo-Saxons hardly 300 years ago, the Americans of the United States have already become a nation apart and owing to a strong admixture of various nationalities and inter-marriage, almost a race sui generis, not only mentally, but also physically…

Thus, the Americans have become in only three centuries a ‘primary race’, pro tem., before becoming a race apart, and, strongly separated from all other now existing races. They are, in short, the germs of the Sixth sub-race, and in some few hundred years more, will become most decidedly the pioneers of that race which must succeed to the present European or fifth sub-race, in all its new characteristics…
Thus it is the mankind of the New world-one by far the senior of our Old one, a fact men had also forgotten- of Patala (the Antipodes, or the Nether World, as America is called in India), whose mission and Karma it is, to sow the seeds for a forthcoming, grander and far more glorious Race than any of those we know of at present. The Cycles of Matter will be succeeded by Cycles of Spirituality and a fully developed mind. On the law of parallel history and races, the majority of the future mankind will be composed of glorious Adepts. Humanity is the child of cyclic Destiny, and not one of its Units can escape its unconscious mission, or get rid of the burden of its co-operative work with nature. Thus, will mankind, race after race, perform its appointed cycle-pilgrimage. Climates will, and have already begun, to change, each tropical year after another dropping one sub-race, but only to beget another higher race on the ascending scale; while a series of other less favored groups-the failures of nature- will, like some individual men, vanish from the human family without even leaving a trace behind.”

H. P. Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, London: The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited; New York: William Q. Judge; Adyar, Madras: the Manager of the Theosophist, 1888 Volume 2, “Anthropogenesis”, (Pasadena, California: Theosophical University Press, 1977) pp. 444-446
The “improbability” of Donald Trump’s capturing of the position of candidate for the Republican Party in the US presidential contest of 2016, noted by Washington Post journalists Michael Kranish and Mark Fisher in there chronicle of the “angry outsider”‘s rise to prominence, which seemed an understatement to the authors, now seems, since the results of the presidential election itself, to be a marker of a sea-change in American political culture. For Trump, the “improbable candidate” has, for the American opinion- forming classes, now become the “improbable president”. Journalists, pundits and professors have declared Trump and Trumpism an alien importation, an exaggeration of tendencies always present in US political life, or a clear case of publicistic chicanery. However, it is now evident that none of these explanations, or any of the others being commonly offered, adequately addresses the magnitude of the problem, which requires an analysis at a more fundamental, philosophical, level, one involving a convincing intellectual history, or pedigree. The latter is supplied, I believe, by American New Thought.
As we have noted, the Dressers (Julius, Annetta, and their son Horatio), were the chief early apologists for the New Thought movement, and the parents had been patients of Phineas P. Quimby. The main early philosopher of the moment, however, was another Quimby patient, the sometime Methodist and later Swedenborgian minister, Warren Felt Evans. In a series of books, the well-informed Evans worked out the theological implications of the developing New Thought movement, and in his final volume, laid his finger upon the dynamic factor in the Western spiritual tradition that he considers had generated American “mind-cure”. This he details as follows:

“In the present mental cure system, I know no principle which is true that is not found in the New Testament and in the true spiritual philosophy of all ages and nations. He who carefully studies that development of Christianity which we have in the writings of Swedenborg, will find all the truth there is in the various schools of mental cure. And his spiritual philosophy is nothing but a reproduction and amplification of the ancient Hermetic and Kabbalistic science.” (Warren Felt Evans, Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics, Boston: H.H. Carter and Karrick, 1886 page 134; quoted in Charles S. Braden, Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought, Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963 p. 103)

While acknowledged as a key figure in the development and spread of New Thought by the movement’s own scholars, and scholars of the movement, Warren Felt Evans was largely ignored by later New Thought writers, and commentators on the spiritual tradition, alike. In addition, the general importance of Hermeticism and Kabbalism for the “Neo-Platonism” of the Renaissance, the Reformation period, and the Enlightenment has only become clear since the groundbreaking work in the late 1950s and 1960s of the Warburg Institute group of scholars of London, England (such as D. P. Walker, Dame Frances Yates, etc.).
As New Thought as a distinct prominent American spiritual tradition “disappeared” (or rather “went underground”) in the 1940s and 50s, as we have seen, scholarly advances in the understanding of the role of the Hermetic-Kabbalist structure of consciousness in the formation of the modern mind, have not been brought to bear upon a New Thought, contributing to the surprise with which Trumpism, a New Thought legacy (as I believe) has been met.

Some students of the work of the late German-American political philosopher Eric Voegelin (Stephen A. McKnight, for example) have assimilated the analyses of the Warburgers and their followers, but this has been seen (by American Voeglinians, at least) as of little relevance for the politics of the United States. Esotericist scholars and recent popular writers in the United States, however, have made a clear link between Hermetic-Kabbalism and the New Thought/ “prosperity gospel” precursor of Trumpism, a connection made (as we have seen in the case of Warren Felt Evans) by New thought writers themselves.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com