Tag Archives: Our Mandate

The priesthood of Diana in the Waikato Times

Posted on October 7, 2019 by esotericnz

Extract from: THE TRUTH PERCEIVERS. WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 98, ISSUE 15335, 8 SEPTEMBER 1923 A STRANGE PRIESTHOOD. WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 98, ISSUE 15341, 15 SEPTEMBER 1923 THE TRUTH PERCEIVERS. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19230908.2.94.4? A STRANGE PRIESTHOOD. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19230915.2.89.3? With thanks to the National Library … Continue reading →

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Nemesis as the goddess of vengeance

Posted on June 20, 2016 by esotericnz

From Notes & Queries.,Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 June 1884 https://beta.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FRERE18840601.2.17 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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THE SHRINE OF APHRODITE.

Posted on December 15, 2014 by esotericnz

THE SHRINE OF APHRODITE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19103, 22 August 1925, Page 1   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19250822.2.163.5&srpos=74&e=——-100–1—-0dionysus– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand

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Palmerston Zealandia

Posted on August 11, 2014 by esotericnz

The Goddess personification of New Zealand on a Boer War monument. One of 3 public monuments featuring Zealandia, one in Otago, one in Canterbury and one in Auckland (this one commemorating the New Zealand wars)

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An Occult Argument Against Music Education

Posted on June 21, 2014 by esotericnz

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1884. THE PROPAGATION OF DISCORDS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 879, 16 December 1884, Page 2 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AMBPA18841216.2.8&srpos=1&e=——-10–1—-0tHE+PROPAGATION+OF+DISCORDS–

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Prose Moon Worship

Posted on June 9, 2014 by esotericnz

THINGS OF THE MOON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15837, 6 February 1915, Page 1   With thanks to the national library of New Zealand –

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A Demand for an Offering to Zealandia

Posted on December 2, 2013 by esotericnz

  Another voice raised for the importance of cultural output to the future of the country THE COMING BOOM FOR NEW ZEALAND.   Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 222, 18 September 1889, Page 4   http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS18890918.2.21&srpos=22&e=——-10–21—-0zealandia+goddess– With thanks to the … Continue reading →

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Hygeia Goddess of Health 1932

Posted on November 25, 2013 by esotericnz
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Mokoia Island: Spirit and Place in New Zealand

Posted on November 4, 2013 by esotericnz

AS ISLE OF GHOSTS. Otago Daily Times , Issue 15780, 3 June 1913, Page 3 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19130603.2.7&srpos=16&e=——-100–1—-0occult+portent– with thanks to the National Library of New Zealand    

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Moon Musings

Posted on June 3, 2013 by esotericnz

ON MOONLIGHT. Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7020, 23 March 1888, Page 2   with thanks to the national library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18880323.2.4

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