Theosophy: the backstory of HPB and the Mahatma Letters

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06 Oct 2013, 8:45 am

I found this on blogtalk radio, an hour podcast by a gentleman whose been quite the invested occultist and scholar for perhaps fifty years or so. He's essentially presenting a lot of the information from a book written by K Paul Johnson called "The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge".

In the end you really find out that yes, the Mahatma letters were real albeit they were from a friend of Blavatski's who she'd met in London and the man who'd written them was a provincial leader in Kashmir, a reform Hindu by the name of Ranbir Singh who was in a lot of ways a bit of a modern-day Ptolemy with respect to his life research of philosophical/religious issues.

If you've ever been curious about making sense of the back story, the politics, the 'what came from where', this is a really neat show.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermet ... comes-west



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08 Oct 2013, 1:09 am

^^
Just a timing check. If no one's interested no worries.



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10 Oct 2013, 2:12 pm

I Know Blavatsky had been very influential in American fantasy literature. Robert E. Howard certainly was inspired by her, even half believing her talk about reincarnation, and Aryan supermen (very influential in he creation of Barbarian characters like Conan and Kull). H.P. Lovecraft, being more of a hard headed self described "materialistic atheist" found her influence good for incorporating into his fiction, but otherwise had little use for her.

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10 Oct 2013, 3:07 pm

The Theosophic Society, despite it's size, has still been a political shaker-and-mover albeit more through Alice A Bailey than Blavatski herself. Still, its awesome to see the veil pierced on it. Blatavatski herself having been thrown into a 'strict observance' lodge at 19 or 20 where she had to sign her last will and testament believing she was about to be killed as part of her initiation, blind obedience to an unknown master, and then her writing about astral/etheric adepts seems to tie in well with the myths that were hammered into her in a near special forces type manner.