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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, photographed in New York circa 1874. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Every May 8, thousands of ...

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 ...

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 ...

H. P. Blavatsky made enlightening commentaries on a Tibetan sect which presents itself as Buddhist. The ideas and methods of this sect are relatively fashionable nowadays, due in part to the influence ...

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 ...