NOTES ON GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY
This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in a way most people have not considered. Let us for the time being forget what H.P. Blavatsky states about Central Asian origins of Theosophy, the origins of Zoroastrianism, the preserved magical knowledge of the priesthoods of Ancient Chaldea and India and just focus on the historical contexts of the nineteenth-century. The student must take into account the context, beginning in particular with the rise of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile as the two leading Italian intellectual tyros in their time trying to expand beyond Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. Similarly, the intellectual substance of Theosophy has been described rightly, as an objective idealism, but not an idealism that rejects the existence of matter.
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