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May 27, 2022 · One finds this sort of spiritual racism throughout the German occulture, particularly in German theosophical movements. The founder of Theosophy, Madame Helena Blavatsky, outlined a bizarre and racist theory of human evolution in her last book, The Secret Doctrine (1888) written while she was living in Bavaria.
Blavatsky asserted humanity is now in the fifth or Aryan root race, which Theosophists believe to have emerged from the previous fourth root race (Atlantean root race) beginning about 100,000 years ago in Atlantis.
Feb 1, 2008 · Discussions of race in the Theosophy of Helena P. Blavatsky and her followers sometimes evinces suggestions of racism. Any consideration of the topic, however, must be prefaced by defining whose Theosophy is being examined.
- James A Santucci
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Sep 27, 2019 · In "The Secret Doctrine" (1888), Helena Blavatsky uses the term "race" in complicated ways. The idea that she wasn't ultimately a garden variety 19th century...
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Feb 1, 2008 · Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) developed a program of salvation that she called “double evolution,” which was elaborated in a system known as root race theory.
Jan 7, 2022 · In what follows, I will discuss previous approaches to racial Theosophical ideas and propose a combined perspective from religious studies and global history to address two main issues: first, the outright neglect of the subject of race within the study of Theosophy and esotericism more broadly; and second, current efforts to decenter the study ...
Nov 25, 2023 · Today's SMBC: Those first four panels resonated with my recent experience skimming Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy. Vol II — Anthropogensis (1888).
