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Time will tell. “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.
Abstract. This chapter focuses on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine (1888). Blavatsky, the chief ideologist of the Theosophical Society, was the first person to present a positive understanding of Satan in an exclusively esoteric or religious (as opposed to literary or political) context.
Aug 20, 2015 · 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. Her self-reported adventures include ...
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 ...
Jul 29, 2019 · 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. Blavatsky didn’t call for actual Satan worship.
Jan 1, 2012 · 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 ...
Jan 7, 2013 · H. P. Blavatsky’s influential The Secret Doctrine (1888), one of the foundation texts of Theosophy, contains chapters propagating an unembarrassed Satanism. Theosophical sympathy for the Devil also extended to the name of their journal Lucifer, and discussions conducted in it. To Blavatsky, Satan is a cultural hero akin to Pro- metheus. According to her reinterpretation of the Christian myth ...
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