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“Theosophy is of the Devil” begins by declaring Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Movement, to have been an “Occultist and Satan worshipper.” Yes, she was an occultist. But this is a much misunderstood and vilified word, which really has nothing inherently dark or sinister about it.
The argument is that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s explicit sympathy for the Devil should be understood not only as part of an esoteric world view, but that we must also consider the political—primarily feminist—implications of such ideas. Several feminists, it would appear, drew on Blavatsky’s Satanic counter-myth to attack the ...
The imposter in question was Madame Helena Blavatsky. Born in Russia in 1831, she had, by her own account, left home at the age of 18 to wander the world.
Blavatsky argues that Satan – or Lucifer, or the Devil, as she often uses the names interchangeably (e.g. Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. II, 510–3) – brought mankind spiritual wisdom, and is ‘the ...
Four years later, Theosophical Society founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky began publishing a different journal called Lucifer. Theosophist thought combined western occultism, Hindu cosmology, and modern science while aligning itself with women’s suffrage, anti-colonialism, and social reform.
Satan is a greatly emphazised object of clarifying research in many of the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, from many different aspects in a variety of her books. Blavatsky’s first book, Isis Unveiled, was written in order to help the followers of both the scientific and the religious world views to understand better the true essence of ...
Steiner. Waite. v. t. e. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [a] ( née Hahn von Rottenstern; 12 August [ O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
