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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to
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see if it is possible for personalities which have left
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this earth to communicate with us.
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Not by any occult, mystifying, mysterious or weird means.
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Such as are employed. By so-called mediums, but by
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scientific methods. Thomas Edison.
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Not the lone genius history books like to claim, but a
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ruthless businessman who built an empire on other men's
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patents. Still, even Edison couldn't
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escape the pull of the unknown. In 1920, he spoke of a new
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invention, what the press called a spirit phone, a device he
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believed might let the dead speak through machines.
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Since 1878, Edison had been a member of the Theosophical
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Society, a movement that mixed science with ancient mysticism.
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At its center was a woman unlike any of the modern age had ever
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seen. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a
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Russian Mystic who claimed to channel hidden masters from
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beyond the Himalayas. A writer who sought to weave
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East and West into one great philosophy.
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A woman who divided the world, hailed as a prophet, condemned
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as a fraud, but never ignored. Helena Blavatsky claimed to
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channel wisdom from beyond this world.
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The question is, who was she speaking to?
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in 1831 in Yekaterinoslav,
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today's Dnipro, Ukraine. She came from nobility.
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Her father was Colonel Peter von Han, a Russian officer of German
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descent. The von Han line was part of the
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Baltic German nobility with a long record of military service
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to the Russian Empire and her mother, Helena Andreyevna
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Fadaeva, a novelist who died young.
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She was from the Dolgarukov family, one of the most ancient
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and prestigious noble houses in Russia, with roots going back to
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medieval Princess. But young Helena was no ordinary
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child. From an early age she claimed to
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see things others could not, apparitions, forces moving in
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the shadows. She had an uncanny gift, what
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her family called second sight. Servants whispered that the girl
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was protected by unseen powers. By adolescence, her strange
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abilities only grew stronger. She seemed fearless, reckless
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even, often riding wild horses with no saddle or slipping into
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trances where she spoke of visions no one could explain.
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The natural world, stones, rivers and forests felt alive to
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her. She believed they carried
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voices, messages from beyond. But these experiences were not
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dismissed as childish imagination.
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They were the first signs of a life that would be consumed by
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the occult. At 17, Helena entered into an
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arranged marriage with Nikifor Vasilyevich Blavatsky, the vice
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governor of Arevan in Armenia. He was nearly 40 years her
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senior. Within three months, she fled
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the Union, some say on horseback in the dead of night, escaping
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to her family and then out into the wider world.
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That flight set her on a different path. 1 of endless
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travel from Constantinople to Egypt, from Europe to India, she
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wandered for decades, driven by visions and a hunger for hidden
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wisdom. It was the beginning of the
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quest that would ultimately shape her destiny.
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After her escape, Helena began to wander.
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From Ereven, she moved S through Constantinople and into the
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wider world. What followed is one of the most
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important periods of her life, a span of decades where history
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and myth blur into one. Some say she joined a circus in
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Tiflis, mastering the art of trick riding, taming wild horses
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with a fearlessness that stunned crowds.
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Others insist she disguised herself as a man, crossing
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borders that would have been impossible for a woman of her
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station. There are tales of shipwreck in
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the Aegean, where she nearly drowned before washing ashore,
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and whispers of secret initiations in Egypt, rituals
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hidden behind temple walls, passed down by adepts guarding
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ancient knowledge. Whether these stories were
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literal truth or carefully woven myth, one thing is certain.
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She wandered farther than most women of her century could even
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imagine, driven by visions, haunted by unseen forces, and
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guided, she claimed, by the hand of a master.
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Helena said she met him first as a vision in childhood, A
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towering figure she called Moria.
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Now during her travels, she claimed to meet him in the flesh
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and adept from the east, one of the mysterious Mahatmas who
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would shape her mission. Blavatsky insisted she was never
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working alone. Behind her, she said, stood the
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Mahatmas, the masters of wisdom. For decades, she moved through
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Constantinople, Greece, Egypt, India and back again.
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She claimed her travels were guided by the unseen hands of
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these masters, hidden adepts who guarded the oldest truths of
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humanity. The most important of them was
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Moria, A towering figure she first claimed to see in
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childhood visions and later in the flesh during her travels in
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India. Alongside him was Koot Humi,
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another Eastern adept whose teachings, she said, reached her
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through letters that appeared in impossible ways, sometimes
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materializing directly onto paper as if dropped from another
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world. To her critics, they were
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inventions, but to Helena Blavatsky, they were the very
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source of her mission to deliver fragments of an ancient wisdom
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tradition that had survived the fall of Atlantis, Lemuria and
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countless forgotten ages. In 1871, in Cairo, she made her
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first attempt to gather followers.
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She founded a spiritualist group she called the Societe Spirit,
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but it collapsed within months, plagued by fraud, quarrels and
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scandal. Still, the seeds were planted.
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Helena Blavatsky was beginning to test her power to draw others
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into her orbit. In 1873, Blavatsky arrived in
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New York, a city buzzing with seances and mediums claiming to
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speak with the dead. But she dismissed them as
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frauds, insisting they misunderstood the forces they
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were playing with. Here she met Colonel Henry
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Steele Olcott, a lawyer and journalist drawn to the
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paranormal. Together with William Kwan
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Judge, they founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
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Its aim was radical for its time to unite science, philosophy and
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religion, to promote the brotherhood of all humanity and
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to explore the hidden laws of nature.
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In just two years, Blavatsky would publish her first great
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work, ISIS Unveiled. It challenged the materialism of
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science, the dogma of religion, and introduced the West to the
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vast cosmologies of the East. It was the beginning of a
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movement that would ripple across the world.
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This was the turning point. The wandering Mystic had become
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a leader, and the teachings of the Mahatmas were about to
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ripple into the modern world. Two massive volumes, nearly 1300
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pages. It was nothing less than a war
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cry against the world of her time.
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She attacked modern science for its arrogance, for reducing the
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universe to dead matter and blind chance.
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She attacked Christianity for twisting older truths into
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dogma. And she insisted that behind all
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religions, behind every mythology and philosophy, there
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existed a single current of ancient wisdom, a wisdom guarded
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by hidden initiates stretching back to Egypt, India and
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Atlantis. She pulled from Hermetic texts,
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the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and more.
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The message was clear. All traditions were fragments of
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1 great truth. She spoke of astral and psychic
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forces, unseen energies science had yet to measure.
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She spoke of reincarnation and karma, saying the soul passed
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through cycles far older than the Church would allow.
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To spiritualists, she said their seances were real, but that they
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misunderstood the forces they played with.
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To scientists, she warned, their discoveries were only the
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surface of deeper laws. She claimed she was not the
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author but the channel, the Mahatmas, the hidden Masters
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were behind the work, some said. She wrote in trances, pages
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flowing as if dictated from beyond.
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Though their presence was not yet explicit, their fingerprints
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were all over. The text Isis Unveiled was
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presented as a master key, and the masters themselves were the
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silent architects of its knowledge.
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The first volume, Science, opens with an attack on modern
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materialism. She accused science of
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arrogance, of reducing reality to lifeless matter while
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ignoring psychic and astral forces.
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Here she introduced the idea of the inner man, a spiritual core
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beyond the physical body, and hinted at reincarnation and
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karma, ideas that would later become central to theosophy.
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She argued that hidden laws of nature were already known to the
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ancients. The phenomena studied in
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seances, she claimed, were real, but the mediums misunderstood
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the forces they were tapping into.
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To her, these were the echoes of a far older science, the wisdom
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religion. The second volume, Theology,
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turned her focus to religion. Blavatsky dissected
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Christianity, accusing the Church of corruption and
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sorcery, and insisted that its doctrines were only fragments of
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something older. She compared the faith to
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Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the mysteries
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of Egypt, arguing they all traced back to a single primal
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source. To her, the veiled goddess Isis
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was the symbol of nature itself, hidden, secret, waiting to be
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revealed. Philosophers and priests only
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glimpsed her veil. Theosophy, she declared, sought
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to lift it. HPB did something, I think, that
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people don't fully appreciate it.
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What she did was quite unique in the world of literature.
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She made the resume of all the old classical traditional
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knowledge of this subject that had ever been in the world or
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written up in books. And she went to the trouble of
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finding all the old scriptures, all the old systems of
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philosophy, all the old religions, and all the great
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sages, And she somehow or another acquired a knowledge of
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what they said, and put it all together.
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The main part of these teachings, these philosophies,
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was of course, Eastern India in the late 1870s was a vast and
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fascinating world of contradictions where the ancient
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E met the Western influences of the British Raj.
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Blavatsky and Alcott travelled extensively around the
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subcontinent to promote interest in her great work.
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They eventually established in the South, at Adyar near Madras,
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the headquarters for the Theosophical Society.
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At a time when India was simply the backhoe of Calcutta or Sati
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or infanticide, they saw a vision of India.
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They saw the magic of India. They saw beyond the poverty and
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filth that we still hear today. They saw the thing that drew
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people and still draws people from The Beatles down to any
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person who comes today. That magic, that magic that
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still exists in India. And I think This is why the
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society also still has a headquarters in India.
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That from here, I think more than anything else, she
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contributed to the image of India in a remarkable way, in
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the sense that India, not just the country or locality, but
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India in the sense of a a state of mind.
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Levatsky was developing A reputation for producing
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astounding psychic phenomena. In an empty room, bells would
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ring, furniture move. Most importantly, letters
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written to her and her associates by the masters were
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apported. I found it difficult to
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understand at first how someone who was attacked by the
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spiritualist of whom she's so disapproved, could at the same
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time herself receive phenomena. You can't.
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Really discuss HP Blavatsky without the phenomena.
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She did produce phenomena. Again, she pointed to the fact
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that. This was not her.
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Chief aim, but it. It.
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Did gain the attention of the world.
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Well, she hoped that by demonstrating these faculties
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that she would inspire people with interest to explore the
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teachings and the ideas that she sought to propagate to, to
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humankind. She found that people, when
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presented with phenomenon, were simply excited by that and they
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didn't seek to go any further. That's a great pity.
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So she really turned away from that.
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I think from those who were around her at the time, they had
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no doubt that she was very capable.
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But this fact alone put her in the midst of controversy.
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Controversy that was to, in a way, work against her altruistic
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mission, which was to teach man about the spiritual science and
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about man's latent capabilities that he could draw, draw upon.
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So it worked for those around her, but it became A2 edged
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sword. Yes, I think her, there's plenty
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of evidence that she did some amazing things that would excite
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the parapsychologists of today. But it didn't serve the purpose
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to which he hoped, which was to draw people towards the
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understanding and the questions, the great questions that man has
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always asked. What am I?
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What is it about human nature that can make these phenomena
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possible? ISIS Unveiled made Helena
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Blavatsky a sensation, but fame came with a price.
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From the moment the book appeared in 1877, critics
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pounced. Good heavens.
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What is this nonsense? Academics accused her of
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plagiarism, pointing out entire passages lifted from
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encyclopedias, histories and obscure occult texts.
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Spiritualists denounced her for dismissing mediums as frauds or
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fools, and scientists ridiculed her insistence that astral
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forces and psychic energies were more real than atoms.
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The press labeled her everything from a fraud to a witch.
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She became a magnet for controversy, admired by her
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followers, attacked by everyone else.
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In 1879, Blavatsky and Henry Olcott sailed to India and
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established the Theosophical Society's headquarters in Adyar,
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near Madras. Here, Theosophy attracted
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thousands Hindu reformers, seekers from the West and
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curious officials of the Raj. For a time, she seemed
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unstoppable. But the backlash followed.
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In 1884, the Society for Psychical Research in London
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sent investigators to examine her alleged phenomena.
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Their report, published in 1885, branded her one of the most
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accomplished imposters in history.
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The scandal nearly destroyed her reputation.
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Her health collapsed. She fled India, first to Europe,
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then to London. By the late 1880s she was in
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chronic pain, chain smoking and often bedridden.
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Yet even then she refused to stop.
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In this storm of controversy, she began her greatest work, a
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book that would not just defend her vision but expanded into a
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complete cosmology. In 1888, Helena Blavatsky
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published the work that would define her legacy, The Secret
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Doctrine, The Synthesis of Science, Religion and
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Philosophy, another two immense volumes running over 1500 pages,
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written in London while she was in failing health, she chain
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smoked as she dictated, often from her sickbed Friends,
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described her coughing, pale, exhausted but still thundering
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with words as if they were not her own.
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To her followers, she was not the author, but the channel.
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She said the Mahatmas guided her hand and that the text was built
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on the stanzas of Jayan verses from an ancient book preserved
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in Tibet, written in a sacred language called Senzar.
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The Secret Doctrine was nothing like Isis unveiled.
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Where that book attacked science and theology, this one set out
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to replace them. It presented a complete
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cosmology, a hidden history of the universe and of humanity
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itself. The structure was divided in
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two. Volume 1, Cosmogenesis, explored
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the origin and structure of the cosmos.
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Volume to Anthropogenesis trace the hidden evolution of mankind.
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Together they formed what Blavatsky called the Wisdom
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religion, the primordial truth behind all faiths, myths, and
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sciences. Cosmogenesis was Blavatsky's
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vision of the universe, how it came into being, how it evolves,
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and the laws that govern it. At its heart was the claim that
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the cosmos is not lifeless matter, but living spirit.
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The universe, she said, comes into being through endless
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cycles, vast rounds of birth, death and rebirth.
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Hinduism calls them Manvanteras and Pralayas.
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Ages of manifestation followed by ages of rest.
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Creation is not a single event, but a heartbeat pulsing through
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eternity. She spoke of planes of
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existence, visible and invisible worlds.
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Woven together in a vast hierarchy.
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What science saw as empty space, she called a plenum of hidden
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forces. Every atom of matter, she wrote,
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is alive with consciousness. Karma, too, was not just
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personal law, but cosmic law. Entire worlds rise and fall
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under its balance. Civilizations, planets, even
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stars obey the same justice that governs the soul.
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The Secret Doctrine begins with nothingness.
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The universe, Blavatsky wrote, begins in a state of absolute
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non being. No light, no mind, no time, just
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one breathless, boundless presence.
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She preserved an ancient stanza that reads nor ought, nor not
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existed. Yon bright sky was not the only
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one breathed breathless by itself.
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From this invisible void emerges a seed, a germ, the root of the
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world, still hidden in universal stillness.
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Creation begins not with form, but with pure potential.
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The universe was still concealed in the divine thought and the
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divine bosom. Then the cosmic night stirs like
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a Lotus unfolding. A single ray pierces the
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darkness. The eternal egg begins to hatch.
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Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray
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into the Mother Deep. The eternal Egg condenses into
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the world Egg. From within it, a force appears.
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Fohat, the fiery whirlwind, the cosmic energy that binds spirit
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to matter. He drives the sparks of
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consciousness into motion, spinning them into Suns and
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worlds. They make of him the Messenger.
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Fohat is the steed, and the thought is the rider.
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He places them in the six directions of space and one in
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the middle. The central wheel planes of
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existence unfurl in concentric wheels, layered realities
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animated by divine hierarchies, and within this unfolding, souls
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called sparks begin their descent.
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Some accept form while others refuse, creating separation,
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suffering and the first cosmic rebellion.
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At the 4th, the sons are told to create their images. 1/3 refuses
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to obey. The curse is pronounced.
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They will be born on the 4th, suffer and cause suffering.
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This is the first war. At last life emerges in layers.
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Divine, spiritual and human matter, spirit and consciousness
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fuse into one vast wheel of becoming.
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This was the hidden story of creation itself, a universe born
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from darkness into light, a cosmology as ancient as the
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stars preserved, she claimed in the secret stanzas of Jian.
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Cosmogenesis explained how the universe itself was born, and
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the next step was even more ambitious.
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Blavatsky turned to humanity. She explained how our species
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did not simply crawl up from the mud by blind evolution, but
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emerged in stages, vast epochs of transformation guided by a
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cosmic law. She called these stages the Root
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Races. 7 great cycles of mankind, stretching from ghost
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like beings of pure light, through giants of myth and lost
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civilizations, down to the humanity we know today and
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beyond into futures yet to come. In her vision, this hidden
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history of the Root Races was the true story of our origins
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and our destiny. The first Root Race, Blavatsky
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wrote, were astral beings unlike anything we would call human
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today, beings of pure ether projections rather than flesh
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forms spun out of astral substance.
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They were vast shadow presences, lacking bones, blood, or
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physical density. The first attempts at humanity,
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the outlines or prototypes cast directly from divine
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imagination. They reproduce not through
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physical union, but through a process of budding, dividing
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like cells or splitting like crystals.
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They were dreamlike, moving across the earth in silence,
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ethereal phantoms existing on a plane between spirit and matter.
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Their destiny was to dissolve, to leave behind faint echoes,
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paving the way for denser forms to follow.
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The second race, called the Hyperboreans, grew heavier and
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denser than the first, though they still retained an almost
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otherworldly subtlety. These beings lived in a mythical
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land of eternal spring, a place without night, hunger, or death.
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Blavatsky placed it in Hyperborea, a continent at the
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pole long since vanished. They were not yet human as we
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know it, but they were closer, shimmering figures formed of
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light infused matter. The Hyperboreans reproduced not
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through sex, but through budding and exudation, a more material
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process than their predecessors. They were tall, radiant,
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luminous, and lived in harmony with the forces of nature.
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To Blavatsky, they represented a bridge between pure astral
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spirit and the dawn of physical humanity.
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The third root race was known as the Lemurians.
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These were giants, some set as tall as trees, their forms
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massive and powerful, straddling the line between myth and
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nightmare. At first they were androgynous,
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embodying both male and female principles within themselves.
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But in this epoch, something changed.
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For the first time, humanity discovered sexual reproduction.
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With that discovery came the burdens of passion, conflict,
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and mortality. But it was here, Blavatsky
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taught, that the true drama of humanity began.
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The Lemurians were given mind. Into their vast frames descended
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higher beings, the sons of mind who awakened self-awareness
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within them. It was a moment of intervention,
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a divine spark entering matter. To some it was a gift of
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knowledge, to others a fall from innocence.
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This was the first echo of the Promethean myth of the watchers
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in the Book of Enoch of the Anunnaki, descending from the
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heavens. It was here in Lemuria that man
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became conscious of himself, and history, cult history, began.
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The 4th root race was Atlantis. According to Blavatsky, this was
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a vast civilization of immense power, advanced in both
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technology and psychic ability. The Atlanteans mastered forces
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now forgotten, harnessing energies beyond our science,
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communicating by thought, shaping matter with will.
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They built cities of splendor, and for a time their glory
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surpassed all. But power brought corruption.
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The Atlanteans grew arrogant, intoxicated by their abilities,
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and turned their gifts to domination.
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The great flood myths of the world, from the Bible to Sumer
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to Plato's dialogues, echo their fall.
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In Blavatsky's telling, Atlantis was destroyed in cataclysm,
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earthquakes, fires and floods swallowing continents.
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The few survivors scattered across the globe, seating the
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myths of gods and giants in every culture.
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Their downfall marked the end of an age, but their legacy, both
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noble and cursed, lived on in us.
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The 5th root race is our present humanity, the Aryans as
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Blavatsky called them, using the old linguistic sense of Indo
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European peoples. For her this race represented
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the age of intellect, culture and the flowering of philosophy
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and science. It was a stage of development,
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not a final form humanity caught between its Atlantean
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inheritance and its future transformation.
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This race, she said, is meant to refine mind and master the
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external world. But it remains deeply flawed,
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still ruled by ego, still divided by nations, wars, and
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material obsessions. The 5th root race stands at a
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crossroads. It is the humanity we know, but
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not the humanity we are destined to become.
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Blavatsky foresaw 2 more races to come.
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The 6th would be luminous beings of intuition and telepathy, free
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from division, heralds of a golden age.
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The 7th would be perfected humanity, radiant and divine,
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returning to spirit as the cycle comes full circle in her vision.
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Mankind's story is not an accident of evolution, but a
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cosmic pilgrimage from light into matter and back again.
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The pattern is ancient.
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In Sumer, the Anunnaki descend and fashion mankind from clay
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mixed with their own divine essence.
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In Genesis, the Elohim declare let us make man in our image
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after our likeness. And in the Book of Enoch, the
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watchers descend, altering human destiny by teaching forbidden
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knowledge. Each tradition tells the same
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story, that we became human not by chance but by intervention.
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Blavatsky never used the word Anunnaki, but the pattern is
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unmistakable. Her sons of mind, her master's,
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belong to the same archetype, higher intelligences descending,
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instructing and shaping humanity.
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Blavatsky said she was in contact with hidden adepts, the
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Mahatmas, especially Moria and Koothumi.
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She described them as living in Tibet, keepers of the ancient
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wisdom directing her mission. To her followers, they were real
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men of flesh and blood. To skeptics, they were
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inventions. But what if they were something
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else? If we set aside the Victorian
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imagery, the Masters may fit into a much older tradition of
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intermediaries, messengers, watchers, anunnaki.
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Not gods, not men, but something in between, guardians of
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forbidden knowledge moving behind the veil of history,
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working through chosen emissaries like Blavatsky.
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The question is whether Blavatsky's mahatmas were
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Himalayan Mystics, or whether she had tapped into the same
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current of influence that cultures before her had called
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angels, Titans, or anunnaki. In every tradition, humanity's
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leap into awareness is explained not by chance but by
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intervention. In Blavatsky's theosophy, as in
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Enoch, as in Summer, we find the same story, the descent of
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higher beings in the dawn of mankind.
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The only question left is who they truly were.
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Man cannot perceive wisdom, he cannot understand his meaning
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because the basic keys to his knowledge are still unknown to
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him. In 1880, this parcel of land in
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southern India near Madras was purchased by a Russian woman, a
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woman who dream of the day when people from different parts of
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the world will gather. Here.
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Under one roof to support each other in their search for wisdom
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and truth. To discover their inner power
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and provide a service to humanity by fighting against
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ignorance. To lessen the burden of
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suffering in the world through the dissemination of divine
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wisdom. This world famous woman was a
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pneumatic person even for those who thought they knew her well.
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For some, she was a great being who succeeded in reaching the
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highest levels of wisdom and illumination, a woman who
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explored new paths in the development of humanity.
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For others, she was a heretic who advocated the eradication of
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all religious creeds. There were those who saw her as
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an example of mercy and compassion.
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Others taught her ruthless. Some referred to her as a woman
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of endless patience. To others, she was known for her
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explosive anger. It seems that there were no
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emotional or personality traits lacking in the complex
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personality of this woman. In April 1878, Thomas Edison
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quietly signed up as the 162nd member of the Theosophical
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Society after receiving ISIS unveiled from Olcott and
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Blavatsky. He even added a note.
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I shall read between the lines. The encounter left a mark.
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Edison had already been experimenting with what he
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called etheric force, a subtle energy he believed might connect
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matter and mind. At his lab that year, he tried
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to move a pendulum with will alone, using metal wires and
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fluids as conductors from his forehead.
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Like Blavatsky, he believed that matter might not be inert.
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Perhaps every atom contained intelligence.
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She even sighted him in ISIS Unveiled, quoting him on Adam's
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subtle relationships. Decades later, in 1920, Edison
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publicly revealed he was working on a Spirit phone, a device
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intended to communicate with the afterlife.
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He insisted it would be scientific, not a cult, but the
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ambition echoed his earlier curiosity about unseen forces.
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Edison didn't build his spirit phone, but in a way Blavatsky
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did. Through the Secret Doctrine, she
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mapped the cosmic codes of mind and matter.
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Both were haunted by the same question.
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Could the invisible be made visible?
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky died in London in 1891.
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To her enemies, she left behind a trail of fraud, scandal and
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unanswered questions. But to her followers, she opened
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a doorway to wisdom older than history.
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Her Theosophical Society endured long after her death, spreading
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across the world. In India, it inspired reformers
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who saw in her teaching a bridge between East and West.
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A young Mohandas Gandhi read theosophical texts and later
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said they opened his eyes to the depth of Hindu tradition in
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Europe. Poets like WB Yeats, artists
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like Wasilee Kandinsky and philosophers like Rudolf Steiner
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drew on her vision. Even scientists like Albert
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Einstein kept the secret doctrine on their shelves.
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Curious about her cosmic imagination, was she chosen by
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hidden masters or did she invent them to give voice to her own
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genius? Was she a messenger of the
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divine or a magician of myth? What is certain is this Helena
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Petrovna Blavatsky changed the way the world dreams of its
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origins. She dared to lift the veil of
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ISIS, to speak of masters behind the curtain of history, and to
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give us a story of humanity that stretched from the stars to the
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soul. Was Helena Blavatsky a messenger
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of higher powers, or simply a mirror of humanity's oldest
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dreams? Join us next time as we peer
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deeper into the void of history on the Anunnaki Connection.
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None. For centuries, mankind has gazed
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at the stars, wondering if we are alone.
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Ancient texts. What if the cradle of
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civilization was also the site of our first encounter?