Theosophy is (a) a fringe esoteric/religious movement founded in the 1870s, one of many such marginal sects; or (b) the indispensable key to understanding Western culture in the early twentieth ...

In 1889, the year of the first International Congress of Psychology, James moved to 95 Irving Street, in the Shady Hill neighborhood of Cambridge.[8] He also joined the parent group of the Society for ...

(The Conversation) — Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who ...

In the days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to ...

She was a massive mountain of a woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which ...

In a world still partly dominated by bigotry and by ritualistic religions, it is only natural that the theosophical movement – being rather a non-violent extinguisher of illusions – should be attacked ...

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Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891. HPB, as ...