12-30-2022, 09:23 AM
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is the most Theosophical of L. Frank Baum’s stories.
The land of Oz is the magnificent but illusory world in which our "ego" lives; but Kansas is our true "id" home.
Dorothy (meaning “Gift of God”) is the human soul looking for development through a spiritual journey of self-discovery over the yellow brick road to reach the green (emerald) city, transcending our ego to ultimately become enlightened (or at least attempt to).
Her 3 companions represent Theosophical themes. The Cowardly Lion is the "animal", physical prowess and weakness. The Tin Woodman is the "mineral" emotional self in search of love. The Scarecrow is the "vegetable", fallible understanding of life. And the dog Toto?!?
According to Blavatsky's "The Secret Doctrine", human consciousness "has to pass through its mineral, vegetable, and animal forms before the Light of the Logos (the spirit of the universe) is awakened in the animal man".
The mother-in-law of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, radical feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, was a member of the Theosophical Society, in 1892 she intitiated her daughter, Maud Gage, and Frank Baum into the Ramayana Theosophical Society in Chicago.
The Wizard of Oz has also popularised witchcraft, with the the Good Witch and the Evil Witch.
While the Wizard himself apparently represent the world teacher (maitreya).
Within the "green" agenda, there is an obvious goal to promote electricity as THE (only?) form of energy consumption. Electricity for Baum (and for Theosophy in general?) had "magical, spiritual, and moral dimensions".
Blavatsky wrote about electricity and in particular about "fohat", which she called the “essence of cosmic electricity” (I don't have a clue what this is supposed to mean): https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...zard-of-oz https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...-part-four
Here are the first and third parts of the essays on Frank Baum and Theosophy: https://www.theosophyforward.com/article...phy-part-1
https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...part-three
The land of Oz is the magnificent but illusory world in which our "ego" lives; but Kansas is our true "id" home.
Dorothy (meaning “Gift of God”) is the human soul looking for development through a spiritual journey of self-discovery over the yellow brick road to reach the green (emerald) city, transcending our ego to ultimately become enlightened (or at least attempt to).
Her 3 companions represent Theosophical themes. The Cowardly Lion is the "animal", physical prowess and weakness. The Tin Woodman is the "mineral" emotional self in search of love. The Scarecrow is the "vegetable", fallible understanding of life. And the dog Toto?!?
According to Blavatsky's "The Secret Doctrine", human consciousness "has to pass through its mineral, vegetable, and animal forms before the Light of the Logos (the spirit of the universe) is awakened in the animal man".
The mother-in-law of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, radical feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, was a member of the Theosophical Society, in 1892 she intitiated her daughter, Maud Gage, and Frank Baum into the Ramayana Theosophical Society in Chicago.
The Wizard of Oz has also popularised witchcraft, with the the Good Witch and the Evil Witch.
While the Wizard himself apparently represent the world teacher (maitreya).
Within the "green" agenda, there is an obvious goal to promote electricity as THE (only?) form of energy consumption. Electricity for Baum (and for Theosophy in general?) had "magical, spiritual, and moral dimensions".
Blavatsky wrote about electricity and in particular about "fohat", which she called the “essence of cosmic electricity” (I don't have a clue what this is supposed to mean): https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...zard-of-oz https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...-part-four
Here are the first and third parts of the essays on Frank Baum and Theosophy: https://www.theosophyforward.com/article...phy-part-1
https://www.theosophyforward.com/theosop...part-three
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549