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Behind the Bastards
It was discussed as a book that Helena Blavatsky wrote to combine her syncretic spiritual ideas with American spiritualism, and was a major success for her.
She wanted to write a book that would synthesize all her knockoff Buddhist and Hindu beliefs with American spiritualism.
— Episode: Part Three: Helena Blavatsky: the woman...
Episode: Part Three: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspir...
It was discussed as a book that Helena Blavatsky wrote to combine her syncretic spiritual ideas with American spiritualism, and was a major success for her.
She wanted to write a book that would synthesize all her knockoff Buddhist and Hindu beliefs with American spiritualism.
It was founded on one major claim. All the religions of the world, both those currently followed and the ones to come, derived from one common source, ancient hermetic philosophy.
She does eventually come out with her book.
Episode: Part Three: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspir...
It was published in 1877, and presented her core belief that all religions stemmed from ancient Hermetic philosophy, including the concept of humans evolving downwards from higher spiritual beings, and the importance of theosophy in spiritual development.
It was founded on one major claim. All the religions of the world, both those currently followed and the ones to come, derived from one common source, ancient hermetic philosophy.
Its basic premises are contained in Corpus Hermeticum, a text of unclear origin translated into Italian and popularized in the 15th century by a Renaissance philosopher, Marsilio Ficino.
Material reality is a product of a complex evolutionary process which subtle spiritual levels of existence create new layers, denser and more physical.
Humans evolved downwards, so to speak, from advanced spiritual beings to more lowly forms.
The human spirit trapped inside the physical body misses the perfection of higher planes of reality.