Blavatsky
Americannoun
noun
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A thread of fraudulence enters Mr. Gutjahr’s story with the self-help fatuities of Helena Blavatsky and L. Ron Hubbard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Blavatsky in the bowl; every year since then, as we mark up our slips, somebody will mutter “H.P. Blavatsky,” and we’ll all laugh.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2018
Established in New York by the Russian émigré Madame Blavatsky, Theosophy was a fast-spreading spiritualist movement that sought to reconcile Eastern philosophy and religion with its Western counterparts.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2018
Madame Blavatsky, as she was known, was a champion of Tibetan esoteric wisdom.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2016
At the home of the prince Tagore I met the renowned Madame Blavatsky, and many Hindoo theosophists.
From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Hans Mattson
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