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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theosophy emerged from this search. Founded by Helena Blavatsky in 1875, it proposed that all religions shared a single ancient wisdom tradition.

On the evening of November 17, 1875, in Mott Memorial Hall, New York, a group of seekers convened to explore life’s profound mysteries. At the centre was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian ...

BENGALURU: I have said that I wish to write of Theosophy in no strain of unreasoning hostility or spirit of vulgar ridicule; yet these essays will be found to be much occupied with criticism and often ...

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 of ...

Apologies in advance for the length of this article. While it is important to highlight this topic, it is not important enough to warrant two articles. In recent discussions on the relative happiness ...

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 ...