The Theosophical Society
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Oct 30, 2026
Helena Blavatsky and the Origins of Ancient Wisdom | Paul van der Velde & Wouter Hanegraaff
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0:54MarcoHOST
Specializing in the history of esotericism in Western culture, so it's the East and the West.
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1:01MarcoHOST
Today we're going to talk about Helena Blavatsky, the co-founder of the Theosophical Society and a hugely influential figure in modern religious and spiritual culture.
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1:13MarcoHOST
At the heart of her theosophy was the idea that behind the world's religions lies an ancient and universal wisdom religion.
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1:21MarcoHOST
But where did that ancient wisdom actually come from? Well, that's the central question in Urs Epp's book, The Mother of All Religions.
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5:12Paul van der VeldeGUEST
And that's the beginning of the 19th century.
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5:14Paul van der VeldeGUEST
And Blavatsky, that's somewhat later, 1831 she was born.
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5:21Paul van der VeldeGUEST
And the Theosophical Society was founded 1875, if I'm correct at that time.
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5:29Paul van der VeldeGUEST
But there were others.
Golden Age of Aquarius 2025, Day 1. Opening Ceremony & Five Ascended Master Dictations
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74:57Mary RaymakersHOST
Some of you have been with me in other lives, in other times, in other chimes.
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75:05Mary RaymakersHOST
As Pallas Athena, I sponsor organizations and have sponsored many Some of you know me through those, the Summit Lighthouse, the Roriks, the Theosophical Society.
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75:25Mary RaymakersHOST
I have placed my jewels also on the altar, and I sponsor this organization for this is what I do.
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75:37Mary RaymakersHOST
I anchor into an organization the light that will keep things in God power so you can step into your fullness of God's will and God's power.
The Cottingley Fairies: The Hoax that Shocked the World
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18:47Simon MattacksNARRATOR
Elsie's mother, Polly, wondered if the photographs might be genuine after all.
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18:56Simon MattacksNARRATOR
In the middle of 1919, Polly attended a lecture at the Bradford branch of the Theosophical Society.
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19:06Simon MattacksNARRATOR
This organization had been founded by the occultist Helena Blavatsky and was devoted to investigating mystical and supernatural subjects.
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19:20Simon MattacksNARRATOR
The lecture happened to be about fairy life.
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19:25Simon MattacksNARRATOR
A few months later, Polly showed two of her daughter's photographs at the society's annual conference in Harrogate.
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19:35Simon MattacksNARRATOR
Here, Edward Gardner, a leading member of the Theosophical Society, first saw the picture.
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19:44Simon MattacksNARRATOR
Gardner was fascinated by fairies, and he was immediately interested in the photographs.
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19:52Simon MattacksNARRATOR
He sent the original glass plate negatives to Harold Snelling, an expert in photography.
Hidden knowledge only taught to the select few! Was Madame Blavatsky a TRUE Psychic?
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At the height of the 19th century, she emerged as a revolutionary figure, challenging the spiritual and scientific norms of her time.
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As a co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Blavatsky served as a bridge between different worlds, diving into occultism with notable psychic abilities.
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Her childhood in Russia revealed a natural affinity with the spiritual world, which would lead her through a life full of mystical discoveries.
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Blavatsky actively delved into spiritual concepts, communicating with ascended masters, highly evolved beings that inhabited higher dimensions.
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Helena Blavatsky's journey was marked by travels that led her to delve into the esoteric traditions of various cultures.
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The Secret Doctrine, her masterpiece, reflects this journey, combining teachings from Buddhist, Hindu and Egyptian traditions with advances in Western science.
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With the founding of the Theosophical Society alongside Henry Steele Olcott and William Kwan Judge, she established an arena dedicated to the study of religion, philosophy and science, pursuing an understanding of the laws governing the universe.
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Her pioneering approach to esoteric Buddhism and the Kabbalah stood out, unveiling traditions rich in occult teachings about the structure of the cosmos.
Between Us | Do We Inherit More Than Our DNA? The Family Patterns We Carry
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33:00Lotte ValentinHOST
So busy.
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33:01Lotte ValentinHOST
So we just said, you know, we should start offering these two-hour classes to the community that I have taught for the Theosophical Society and other people.
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33:10Lotte ValentinHOST
So we're going to start launching some of these two-hour ancestral healing classes.
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33:17Lotte ValentinHOST
And The beauty of these smaller two-hour classes is there's not a big financial expense.
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34:16Lotte ValentinHOST
And then I take you through the steps.
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34:19Lotte ValentinHOST
And then we do a, you know, like a 20-minute healing at the end where I guide you on meditative healing to create healing for this.
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34:28Lotte ValentinHOST
And, I mean, I've taught some of these classes, I think it's the fifth or sixth time now I'm going back to the Theosophical Society.
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34:37Lotte ValentinHOST
They ping me like every year to come teach one of these courses.
The Real Ghosts of Old Money: Secrets, Scandals & Dark Inheritances
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54:19Kiki AstorHOST
It had become an industry.
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54:22Kiki AstorHOST
In 1875 in New York, Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steele Olcott, and others founded the Theosophical Society, promising access to ancient hidden wisdom.
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54:36Kiki AstorHOST
And a few decades later, Harry Houdini made it his mission to expose fraudulent mediums, publishing his investigations in 1924.
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54:47Kiki AstorHOST
The wealthy were prime targets for fake mediums, of course, because they had grief, curiosity, and crucially, money.
#693: Truth in a Time of Universal Deceit | Teace Snyder
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25:55Teace SnyderGUEST
And so it is kind of just the breaking down of the empire, and that's about 250-year cycles that these things happen over and over again.
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26:03Teace SnyderGUEST
And I can think of reading some of Blavatsky's articles and not to be a positive proponent of everything that the Theosophical Society has said or done because – Annie Besant was a Fabian socialist and Alice Bailey was naive as fuck and got used by the UN to try and sell it as a world religion.
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26:22Teace SnyderGUEST
So it's one of those things where it's almost like the machine is trying to grab the shaman, bastardize, poison the way in which they're presented to the world.
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26:30Teace SnyderGUEST
So that bringing it back to your point, people don't think that they deserve any better because anytime that anything better actually presents itself, it's demonized and grounded into the mud.
Ep 299 Daniel Simpson – The Evolution of Modern Yoga
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7:30Adam KeenHOST
There was a certain context around asana which I think changed everything as well.
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7:34Adam KeenHOST
As far as I can see, the Theosophical Society and its influences on pre-20th century India and Vivekananda are seminal to this kind of new context where we take yoga from meaning disunion generally, as you mentioned before, disunion of everything and go off in some kind of ether to union to the modern idea that you'll hear in every yoga class.
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7:54Adam KeenHOST
Well, yoga is union.
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7:56Adam KeenHOST
So how do we get from disunion to union? And I think this is your challenge for 10 while speaking about Vivekananda.
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11:56Daniel SimpsonGUEST
All religions are true, but the highest truth can be known within your experience through these sublime teachings, is basically his message.
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12:04Daniel SimpsonGUEST
And so in that sense, again, he's trying to integrate everything.
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12:07Daniel SimpsonGUEST
But it's also echoing the ideas of the Theosophical Society and those who were on a quest for what Aldous Huxley would call the perennial philosophy, the one true truth underpinning all religions.
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12:20Daniel SimpsonGUEST
And so in this sense, he's speaking absolute cutting edge countercultural discourse of the late 19th century to Westerners who've already been interested in that for various reasons.
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29:32StephenHOST
And Annie Besant Wright, born in 1947, passing away in 1933.
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29:38StephenHOST
She was the president of the Theosophical Society from 1907 until her death in 1933, a major promoter of occult evolution, reincarnation, and spiritual masters, and also humanity's supposed prehistoric existence of other worlds.
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30:00StephenHOST
You'll see people like Timothy Albarino and others out there promoting the book Sidonia.
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30:07StephenHOST
Remember folks, Sidonia is on the Great Awakening map and its purpose is to get people to believe that there were pre-existing civilizations before mankind was created.
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32:37StephenHOST
through a lot of this stuff is uh a part of the akashic records and the history and the timelines of things that they're fed and that they're downloaded to basically come back out of the these states of mind and to just push this information seth uh sethlehem right does a pretty good job of talking about that these are manufactured These are manufactured memories.
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33:02StephenHOST
These are all manufactured by the demonic realm, and I don't disagree with that.
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33:05StephenHOST
Now, their accounts describe, you know, we're talking about Ledbetter and Bassant, which are the two people that pushed the Theosophical Society further.
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33:15StephenHOST
Their accounts describe Martian civilizations, artificial canals, intelligent lunar inhabitants, and prehistoric planetary migrations and spiritual beings directing humanity's evolution.
Drugs Are Demons The Truth Behind the High. (Babbling On In Babylon Podcast Ep 017)
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30:54WillHOST
The well-known occultist Aleister Crowley even wrote about using drugs to perform his rituals and conjurations.
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31:03WillHOST
Helen Bladbatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and highly regarded in occult circles, also talked about these connections extensively.
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31:14WillHOST
Her work influenced Freemasonry and many secret societies, reinforcing the link between drug use and spiritual realms.
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31:28WillHOST
On a different note, let's talk about drug addiction from a medical perspective, especially in parts of the world where addiction has exploded due to drug trafficking.
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