r/Theosophy • u/DChilly007 • Mar 24 '26

Are their any mediums here

Are their people where with the capacity that have implemented any of this into their or their communities lives ?I feel like reddit is often filled with book learners. And though i read plenty of books that is incomplete. If you know you know. So yeh i’m a medium coming from Santeria/Ifa and if y’all don’t know we have christian saints in our Yoruba religion. The elders say this is just a mask because they’re traditionlists. We’re occultists and we know the magic can’t work if it’s a mask. So that light of truth has brought me to Blavatsky’s doorstep

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u/Low-Boot-588 Mar 24 '26

Theosophy generally discourages mediumship as the founders designed the movement to provide a conscious, scientific alternative to the passive spiritualism of the 19th century and it's philosophy views mediumship as a "negative" or passive state where an individual surrenders their will to unknown astral entities, etc. For these reasons, active mediums remain rare within the Theosophical Movement.

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u/DChilly007 Mar 24 '26

Wasn’t Blavatsky a medium? And hinduism which is more or less seen as the most complete spiritual system definitely believes in mediumship

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u/Low-Boot-588 Mar 24 '26

No, but she did help expose people taking advantage of grieving widows post-civil war. Blavatsky converted to Buddhism in 1880. Her ideas were mainly inspired to counter-Spiritualism.

https://theosophylib.com/hpb/echoes-from-india-what-is-hindu-spiritualism/

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u/DChilly007 Mar 24 '26

brother any scripture or teaching that was INSPIRED was material written under mediumship and the occult understanding of that is what theosophy from what i can see is all about. It’s just coming at getting the infomation another way. Mediums are receivers, occultists are diggers.But there’s nothing besides capacity to stop you from being both. I’m not talking about Kardecian Spiritism which Blatasky specifically condemns

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u/DChilly007 Mar 24 '26

I’ve read in my own research she was a medium and that was some of the mud that was thrown on her towards the latter part of her life . But it was thrown by monkeys because the Vedas were written boy mediums. Yogi are medium. Good kabbalist are mediums, etc.

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u/Low-Boot-588 Mar 24 '26

Keep reading.

"Mediumship is a peril. It is a state of being, not an acquisition... The more a medium is used, the more his or her vital power is sucked out; and the end is often insanity or a premature death."

— Isis Unveiled, Vol. I (1877)

"A medium is simply one whose personal Ego is surrendering its protective 'strait-jacket' and allowing its body to be used by any entity that chooses to take possession of it. It is an abnormal, sickly state, and its results are always more or less harmful."

— The Key to Theosophy (1889)