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Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study of other religions. In The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888, Blavatsky aims to explain the spiritual origins of the world. Volume 2 looks at the creation of humans and animals, and considers the lost world of Atlantis.… (mer)
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There is no Religion higher than Truth
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
—Shakespeare
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This Work I Dedicate to all True Theosophists, in every Country, and of every Race, for they called it forth, and for them it was recorded.
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An Archaic Manuscript -- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, ad air, by some specific unknown process -- is before the writer's eye.
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The two volume set of "The Secret Doctrine" contains the two volumes published during Blavatsky's life (Volume 1 "Cosmogenesis" and Volume 2 "Anthropogenesis").
Do not combine with three volume or six volume sets which also contain the Volume 3 "Occultism" edited/finished by Annie Besant after Blavatsky's death.
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Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study of other religions. In The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888, Blavatsky aims to explain the spiritual origins of the world. Volume 2 looks at the creation of humans and animals, and considers the lost world of Atlantis.