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The Theosophical Society

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Oct 30, 2026

MarcoHOST
0:54
Specializing in the history of esotericism in Western culture, so it's the East and the West.
MarcoHOST
1:01
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.
MarcoHOST
1:13
At the heart of her theosophy was the idea that behind the world's religions lies an ancient and universal wisdom religion.
MarcoHOST
1:21
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.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
5:12
And that's the beginning of the 19th century.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
5:14
And Blavatsky, that's somewhat later, 1831 she was born.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
5:21
And the Theosophical Society was founded 1875, if I'm correct at that time.
Paul van der VeldeGUEST
5:29
But there were others.
Mary RaymakersHOST
74:57
Some of you have been with me in other lives, in other times, in other chimes.
Mary RaymakersHOST
75:05
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.
Mary RaymakersHOST
75:25
I have placed my jewels also on the altar, and I sponsor this organization for this is what I do.
Mary RaymakersHOST
75:37
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.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
18:47
Elsie's mother, Polly, wondered if the photographs might be genuine after all.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
18:56
In the middle of 1919, Polly attended a lecture at the Bradford branch of the Theosophical Society.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:06
This organization had been founded by the occultist Helena Blavatsky and was devoted to investigating mystical and supernatural subjects.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:20
The lecture happened to be about fairy life.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:25
A few months later, Polly showed two of her daughter's photographs at the society's annual conference in Harrogate.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:35
Here, Edward Gardner, a leading member of the Theosophical Society, first saw the picture.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:44
Gardner was fascinated by fairies, and he was immediately interested in the photographs.
Simon MattacksNARRATOR
19:52
He sent the original glass plate negatives to Harold Snelling, an expert in photography.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:31
At the height of the 19th century, she emerged as a revolutionary figure, challenging the spiritual and scientific norms of her time.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:41
As a co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Blavatsky served as a bridge between different worlds, diving into occultism with notable psychic abilities.
speaker_2NARRATOR
1:52
Her childhood in Russia revealed a natural affinity with the spiritual world, which would lead her through a life full of mystical discoveries.
speaker_2NARRATOR
2:01
Blavatsky actively delved into spiritual concepts, communicating with ascended masters, highly evolved beings that inhabited higher dimensions.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:00
Helena Blavatsky's journey was marked by travels that led her to delve into the esoteric traditions of various cultures.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:08
The Secret Doctrine, her masterpiece, reflects this journey, combining teachings from Buddhist, Hindu and Egyptian traditions with advances in Western science.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:20
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.
speaker_2NARRATOR
3:38
Her pioneering approach to esoteric Buddhism and the Kabbalah stood out, unveiling traditions rich in occult teachings about the structure of the cosmos.
Lotte ValentinHOST
33:00
So busy.
Lotte ValentinHOST
33:01
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.
Lotte ValentinHOST
33:10
So we're going to start launching some of these two-hour ancestral healing classes.
Lotte ValentinHOST
33:17
And The beauty of these smaller two-hour classes is there's not a big financial expense.
Lotte ValentinHOST
34:16
And then I take you through the steps.
Lotte ValentinHOST
34:19
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.
Lotte ValentinHOST
34:28
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.
Lotte ValentinHOST
34:37
They ping me like every year to come teach one of these courses.
Kiki AstorHOST
54:19
It had become an industry.
Kiki AstorHOST
54:22
In 1875 in New York, Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steele Olcott, and others founded the Theosophical Society, promising access to ancient hidden wisdom.
Kiki AstorHOST
54:36
And a few decades later, Harry Houdini made it his mission to expose fraudulent mediums, publishing his investigations in 1924.
Kiki AstorHOST
54:47
The wealthy were prime targets for fake mediums, of course, because they had grief, curiosity, and crucially, money.
Teace SnyderGUEST
25:55
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.
Teace SnyderGUEST
26:03
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.
Teace SnyderGUEST
26:22
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.
Teace SnyderGUEST
26:30
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.
Adam KeenHOST
7:30
There was a certain context around asana which I think changed everything as well.
Adam KeenHOST
7:34
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.
Adam KeenHOST
7:54
Well, yoga is union.
Adam KeenHOST
7:56
So how do we get from disunion to union? And I think this is your challenge for 10 while speaking about Vivekananda.
Daniel SimpsonGUEST
11:56
All religions are true, but the highest truth can be known within your experience through these sublime teachings, is basically his message.
Daniel SimpsonGUEST
12:04
And so in that sense, again, he's trying to integrate everything.
Daniel SimpsonGUEST
12:07
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.
Daniel SimpsonGUEST
12:20
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.
StephenHOST
29:32
And Annie Besant Wright, born in 1947, passing away in 1933.
StephenHOST
29:38
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.
StephenHOST
30:00
You'll see people like Timothy Albarino and others out there promoting the book Sidonia.
StephenHOST
30:07
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.
StephenHOST
32:37
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.
StephenHOST
33:02
These are all manufactured by the demonic realm, and I don't disagree with that.
StephenHOST
33:05
Now, their accounts describe, you know, we're talking about Ledbetter and Bassant, which are the two people that pushed the Theosophical Society further.
StephenHOST
33:15
Their accounts describe Martian civilizations, artificial canals, intelligent lunar inhabitants, and prehistoric planetary migrations and spiritual beings directing humanity's evolution.
WillHOST
30:54
The well-known occultist Aleister Crowley even wrote about using drugs to perform his rituals and conjurations.
WillHOST
31:03
Helen Bladbatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and highly regarded in occult circles, also talked about these connections extensively.
WillHOST
31:14
Her work influenced Freemasonry and many secret societies, reinforcing the link between drug use and spiritual realms.
WillHOST
31:28
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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