Mysterious Universe

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Can’t believe you guys had never heard of Blavatsky before. There’s a direct linkage between XIXth century’s Teosophy and XXth century’s Contactism; George Adamsky was a self-proclaimed professor of Teosophy even before his desert escapades with Orthon.

Still, Teosophy wasn’t all that bad, since it managed to rekindle a love for Hinduism even among the Indians who have grown distant to their native culture. Here’s a picture of one guy who was influenced by Teosophy in a positive way:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/MKGandhi.jpg/200px-MKGandhi.jpg

As a Theosophist, I’d like to note there’s an “H” in the word …

B&A&E, if you really want to get deep into Theosophy, check-out the strange tale of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a part of theosophical history The Society doesn’t discuss anymore (which is sometimes funny – the last time I attended a seminar at the Krotona Institute of Theosophy in Ojai, Calif., it happened to coincide with the World Krishnamurti Festival which shares that town of 6,000 people with the Krotona Institute).
http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae33/Julissa279/jiddu_krishnamurti_cc_wikipedia_com.jpg

Mdme. Blavatsky generally used race terminology in a non-materialistic sense. She referred to the originator race of humankind which existed in tandem with the theosophical idea of the “perennial philosophy”; the idea that all of the world’s great religions were descended from a single, unified religion that existed in antiquity. She didn’t hold-up any extant race as a super-species.

With one or two exceptions, the interest of fascism in Theosophy was mostly a critical interest. Most prominent fascist-era philosophers (e.g. Evola, Guenon, etc.) rejected Theosophy.

Anyway, as an aside the International Theosophy Conference is ongoing right now and being livestreamed at the Society’s website: http://www.theosophical.org/