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Blavatsky was a pantheist, [283] and emphasized the idea of an impersonal divinity, referring to the Theosophical God as a "universal Divine Principle, the root of All, from which all proceeds, and within which all shall be absorbed at the end of the great cycle of being". [265]
Helena Blavatsky was a Russian spiritualist, author, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society to promote theosophy, a pantheistic philosophical-religious system. At the age of 17, Helena Hahn married Nikifor V. Blavatsky, a Russian military officer and provincial vice-governor, but they separated.
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Jun 6, 2022 · Madame Blavatsky, as she was often called, was a co-founder of Theosophy, an esoteric late nineteenth-century movement that combined aspects of mystical and magical beliefs with bits and pieces...
Blavatsky, the inspiring force behind the founding of the Theosophical Society, never claimed to be the founder of any new religion or philosophy. She was, she said, only a transmitter, in modern language, of "a few fundamental Truths from the Secret Doctrine of the archaic ages".
To Blavatsky, Satan is a cultural hero akin to Pro-metheus. According to her reinterpretation of the Christian myth of the Fall in Genesis 3, Satan in the shape of the serpent brings gnosis and liberates mankind.
Sep 21, 2017 · Indeed, Blavatsky and Olcott took pansil (Pali: pancha sila) when they visited Ceylon in May 1880, and she had considered herself a Buddhist already back in New York. In an 1877 letter, for example, she frankly declared: ‘I am a Svabhavika, a Buddhist pantheist, if anything at all.
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Blavatsky was a pantheist, [283] and emphasized the idea of an impersonal divinity, referring to the Theosophical God as a "universal Divine Principle, the root of All, from which all proceeds, and within which all shall be absorbed at the end of the great cycle of being". [265]
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