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I won’t be happy until I’m elected prime minister The NDP convention Stories by DAMIAN INWOOD At age 14, Jordan Peterson may only be five feet tall, but he’s reaching for the sky in Alberta politics. Just for starters, Jordan came within 13 votes of being elected as a vice-president of the provincial New Democratic Party convention. And even though he failed by such a narrow margin, Jordan isn’t perturbed. “I’ll be running for office again next year,” he says. “And I won’t be happy until I’m elected prime minister.” The Fairview boy collected 114 votes in his bid at a convention Sunday to become the youngest member of the party executive. “I think it’s because I look young that I lost,” said the student. “I’m 14, but I look even younger.” The candidate winning the most votes was Earl Rasmuson, of Wetaskiwin, with 132. The other two vice-presidents were elected with 129 and 127 votes. “I was a bit surprised that the boy ran, He said he was an honors student and I can believe it. He gav...

Historia sin biografía de un elegante caballero escéptico y millonario convertido a la Teosofía por madame Blavatsky. Así podría subtitular esta peregrina y breve información sobre la estupenda figura de D. José Xifré, silueta destacada, con más relieve que muchas otras, e injustamente borrada en nuestros días, de la sociedad alfonsina del pasado siglo. Ahijado del duque de Sexto y condiscípulo de Alfonso XII, el caballero Xifré se encontró, de golpe y porrazo, heredero de su padre y propietario, entre otros bienes, de ochenta millones de pesetas, un barrio entero en Barcelona, aún conocido por barrio de Xifré, y el famoso palacio árabe del paseo del Prado. Frívolo, escéptico y elegante, fue el compañero de Alfonso XII en los días en que Isabel II estaba lejos del discutido trono de España. El París, el caballero Xifré hacía la vida de todos los elegantes con dinero. Tenía trabajo todo el día por no trabajar en nada, y una pasión disculpaba la frivolidad insensata de las demás pasiones...

  THE PRESIDENCY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. It is stated that the presidency of the Theosophical Society and the hegemony of Theosophists in general, so far as Europe is concerned, is to pass from the hands of Colonel Olcott into those of Mme. Blavatsky, whose position has hitherto been that of general secretary of the movement. This division of authority is of an entirely friendly character, and is dictated by considerations of expediency alone. The Colonel will continue to exercise from his headquarters at Adyar, Madras, the functions of the president of at least the Indian section of the Theosophists. THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The settlement of the staff of the European section of the Theosophical Society under the recently authorized presidency of Mme. H. P. Blavatsky, with headquarters in the Avenue-road, Regent’s Park, and in connection with the general headquarters at Adyar, Madras, is, writes the London correspondent of the  Manchester Guardian , being approximately ...

  On Luciferism: ⁃ “Lucifer,” is the pale morning-star, the precursor of the full blaze of the noon-day sun — the “Eosphoros” of the Greeks. ⁃ So deeply rooted, indeed, is this preconception and aversion to the name of Lucifer — meaning no worse than "light-bringer" (from lux , lucis , "light," and ferre "to bring") ⁃ They ought to study their Homer and Hesiod’s Theogony if they would do justice to Lucifer, " Eosphoros and Hesperos ," the Morning and the Evening beautiful star.  ⁃ But their sacred writ is the first to contradict their interpretations and the association of Lucifer, the Morning Star, with Satan. Chapter XXII. of Revelation , verse 16th, says: “I, Jesus . . . am the root . . . and the bright and Morning Star ” (òρθριvòς "early rising"): hence Eosphoros, or the Latin Lucifer. ⁃ This gives the reason why one of the early Popes was called Lucifer, as Yonge and ecclesiastical records prove. (Blavatsky, H.P. (1887) Wh...

  ARE ALL RUSSIAN LADIES RUSSIAN AGENTS? WHAT MDME. BLAVATSKY HAS TO SAY. A certain young lady, by name A. de Grasse Stevens, has excited no small indignation in the Russian camp by putting into literary form in her novel “Miss Hildreth,” the popular delusion as to the political machinations of all Russian ladies who may happen to find themselves outside the frontier of their own country. This indiscreet young lady in the first volume of her novel makes Count Melikoff address the following remarks to Mr. Tremain:— Our agents of the first section are generally well known; as a rule they make no secret of their connection with the Imperial Chancellerie, and they consist of both sexes and of all classes. Indeed, we find our cleverest work often accomplished by ladies. I need but mention Mdme. Novikoff, whose influence and power over a certain Premier of England is but a matter of common on dits , and who at one time seriously affected the foreign policy of Great Britain. That work acc...