Blavatsky
Americannoun
noun
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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
Another person who influenced our notion of Tibet very much was a half-Russian lady called Helena Blavatsky.
From Salon • Jun. 16, 2012
Wells’s great fantasies charged the batteries of mystically inclined intellectuals like Madame Blavatsky, G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky and especially Gorky, a celebrated writer on friendly terms with Chekhov, Tolstoy and Lenin.
From New York Times • May 8, 2011
Photographs of the bearded young Mondrian looking half-Rasputin, half-yogi, along with Dutch translations of the lucubrations of Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant may make the Dutch theosophists seem crankier than they were.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2010
The spirit of the Iron Chancellor was dismissed, and that of Madame Blavatsky recalled.
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen
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