Has anyone else heard of this author before?

[Geoff-Allen]

Greetings everyone.

Hope your time here on the forum is interesting & fruitful.

Here's an author I had never heard of until today.

His name is Henry T. Laurency

You can access a TON of his writing at this site -

Introduction to the Works of Henry T. Laurency

The name of Laurency is inseparably connected with Pythagoras’ esoteric teaching, which is called hylozoics (this term being preferred to hylozoism). Laurency considered that in the new world-epoch now dawning, esoteric knowledge formerly reserved for certain secret schools will be widely diffused, popularized, and so distorted. Nevertheless, the need for such knowledge will be more intensely felt as traditional religion is dying out and the physicalist outlook based on natural science proves increasingly untenable as a world view. (Physicalism, a term used by Laurency, refers to the erroneous notion that there is only physical reality.)

Enjoy your day!

 

[exchemist]

Greetings everyone.

Hope your time here on the forum is interesting & fruitful.

Here's an author I had never heard of until today.

His name is Henry T. Laurency

You can access a TON of his writing at this site -

Introduction to the Works of Henry T. Laurency

The name of Laurency is inseparably connected with Pythagoras’ esoteric teaching, which is called hylozoics (this term being preferred to hylozoism). Laurency considered that in the new world-epoch now dawning, esoteric knowledge formerly reserved for certain secret schools will be widely diffused, popularized, and so distorted. Nevertheless, the need for such knowledge will be more intensely felt as traditional religion is dying out and the physicalist outlook based on natural science proves increasingly untenable as a world view. (Physicalism, a term used by Laurency, refers to the erroneous notion that there is only physical reality.)

Enjoy your day!

Yes I agree that, with the decline of organised religion, all sorts of homespun, wacky crystals-and-s**t stuff seems to be on the increase.

People need mystery in their lives, it seems, so if they feel traditional religion is old-fashioned or discredited, they will go for other stuff instead, a fair bit of it peddled by charlatans out to make a buck. Not everyone finds the physicalist worldview satisfying. (Physicalist is a well-established term: physicalist )

 

[Aupmanyav]

You can access a TON of his writing at this site.

If he wrote that much, he could also have declared himself as a messenger / manifestation / mahdi from God / Allah, and he would have had a mausoleum as large as Taj Mahal.

 

[Sirona]

If he wrote that much, he could also have declared himself as a messenger / manifestation / mahdi from God / Allah, and he would have had a mausoleum as large as Taj Mahal.

There may be quiet writer types "channeling" loads and loads of "spiritual content" but effectively lacking the talents or the charisma for actually disseminating it to a wider audience. On the other end of the spectrum, there may be the charismatic guys who effortlessly gather large crowds and end up with their own throne, temple and God status although spiritually speaking, they just sell hot air.

 

[Aupmanyav]

.. although spiritually speaking, they just sell hot air.

^^^