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The Secret Doctrine

H. P. Blavatsky

Russian occultist, spirit medium, and author Helena Petrovna Blavatsky co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Theosophy is a mystical and occultist philosophy which seeks to reveal the mysteries of life and nature through the exploration of ancient wisdom. First published in 1888, “The Secret...

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Behind the Bastards

It was Helena Blavatsky's final book, in which she incorporated ideas from Jean-Salvain Bailey and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'The Coming Race', and explored themes of Aryan superiority and the supposed degradation of the Semitic race, notably Jewish people.

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And that Jamie Loftus, Sophie Lichterman, brings us all the way back around to our old friend from episode one, Jean-Salvain Bailey, the astronomer who crafted the theory of a hyperborean Atlantis.

— Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman w...

Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspire...

It was Helena Blavatsky's final book, in which she incorporated ideas from Jean-Salvain Bailey and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'The Coming Race', and explored themes of Aryan superiority and the supposed degradation of the Semitic race, notably Jewish people.

"

And that Jamie Loftus, Sophie Lichterman, brings us all the way back around to our old friend from episode one, Jean-Salvain Bailey, the astronomer who crafted the theory of a hyperborean Atlantis.

Blavatsky's text is an anti-Darwinian dissent of man that tells the rise and fall of seven root races.

She quotes his works extensively, no less than 22 times, and credits him with having discovered the truth, or at least part of it, about Atlantis.

Now, while Keid envisioned this underground master race as being like potential conquerors, she sees them as benevolent spirit guides.

Blavatsky just rewrote a couple of other people and like mashed it together with half-understood Eastern religion, and like that's the Asotha Troupe.

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