Theosophy News Worldwide 1st Quarter 2020 - Press outside the movement about Theosophy

_fansided.com

But many have dismissed the legend of the Shortened Season because its main advocate — this believer in Shangri-Las — was a convert to Theosophy, or what writer David Grann refers to as the “wisdom of the gods” (41).
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_patheos.com

But Neopaganism has older roots than the 1960s. We can clearly trace its ancestry back through Gardnerian Wicca and the occult movements of the early 20th century, though Hermetic societies like the Golden Dawn, to Theosophy and Spiritualism.
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_tricycle.org

Perhaps they labeled their instruments “Tibetan”—or accepted that label—for the cultural weight it carried, playing off of the same myth that inspired Helena Blavatsky’s theosophical musings, Evans-Wentz’s “Book of the Dead,” and Leary, Alpert and Metzger’s trips, and Hennings and Wolff’s own music.
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_scroll.in

By the end of the 19th century, various notable Europeans and Americans – the Theosophists Henry Steel Olcott and Helena P Blavatsky, U Dhammaloka and Ananda Metteyya, to mention only a few – had embraced Buddhism. The first publication in the English language making the life of the Buddha and Buddhist ideas accessible to a wider audience was Sir Edwin Arnold’s 1879 narrative poem The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation
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_{eddirtreport.com}

Also, the prior work of Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, Alice A. Bailey and the Roerichs, who were all familiar with the "Masters," are noted in 2025 and the World Teacher. As Chernikeeff writes, "Every 100 years there is a Great Assembly of Hierarchy Masters. These conclaves are intiated to decide on great matters that impact humanity for the following 100 years.
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_{freeweekly.com}

From the Voice of the Silence (Helena Blavatsky) these words are given to the people of the Earth – “Behold the mellow light flooding the Eastern sky. Signs of praise from both heaven & earth, from the four-fold Powers (directions), a chant of love ariseth, from the fire & water, from the sweet-smelling Earth & rushing winds.
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_{The Irish Times}

Russian Flu had played itself out by then, after killing a million people, including at least one Russian celebrity of the period. Madame Blavatsky, occultist, founder of the Theosophical Society, and friend of WB Yeats, succumbed in 1891.
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_{buddhistdoor.net}

Watkins Books is described as London’s oldest esoteric bookshop, established in 1897 by John M. Watkins, a friend of the world traveler and co-founder of Theosophy, Helena Petrovna (commonly known simply as “Madame”) Blavatsky (1831–91).
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_{prnewswire.com}

Dr. Dushkova is often regarded by many experts as one of the spiritual successors of Helena Blavatsky, the 19th century creator of the Theosophical Society. This tradition influenced many of the greatest minds and personalities of the 20th century, including Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Elvis Presley. The ultimate goal of Dr. Dushkova's work is to bring humanity toward divine wisdom, through the cultivation of qualities like love and compassion.
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_{buddhistdoor.net}

As an illustrator of books, she moved masterfully between symbolist myth, narrative mindscapes, and Art Nouveau’s sheer delight in exquisite design. She expected her subjects to sit for paintings. Her work is as finished and beautiful as a fine craftsman’s. For all her apparently modern behavior, she was a creature of a former time, reflecting symbolist art and theosophy.
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_artsy.net

Pelton kept painting, studying life drawing at the British Academy in Rome when she was 29 years old. She began exhibiting in her thirties and got interested in Theosophy, which united Eastern and Western religious traditions (and, in the 1970s, provided the basis for New Age thinking).
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_{hudsonvalleyone.com}

If the name Hilma af Klint suggests a medieval abbess known for her ecstatic visions, you’ve got it half-right. The recently rediscovered Swedish artist lived from 1862 to 1944, but her life’s work was indeed driven by her efforts to contact ethereal presences. Growing up in an era when spiritualism was all the rage, she claimed from girlhood on to be clairvoyant and by 17 was conducting séances. She studied Theosophy and Rosicrucianism, and later Anthroposophy.
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_{pattayamail.com}

Scriabin liked a massive orchestral sound and at times, he turns the orchestra into an ensemble of soloists; each contributing points of detail to a complex web of sound texture. It’s been suggested that his emotionally-charged, highly personal music reflects the notions of nineteenth century existentialism and the mysticism of the famous, if slightly dotty Madame Blavatsky of the controversial Theosophical Society.
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_artnet.com

Pelton’s other comfort was alternative spirituality. In the 1920s, in her 40s, her mother died and she left New York to live in a windmill house on Long Island. She also developed an interest in Theosophy, the epiphanic slurry of pan-religious beliefs pioneered by Russian émigré and occult entrepreneur Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891).
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_{The Telegraph India}

The Theosophical Society — its members believed that India was the cradle of both Western and Oriental religions and philosophy — with Madam Blavatsky and later Anne Besant at its forefront, acted as a “conduit of knowledge” that had a far-reaching effect on not only af Klint but artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Kupka and Piet Mondrian.
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_{frankreport.com}

The faulty underlying premise is much the same as in any cult like NXIVM (founded by a former Waldorf kid) or Scientology (founded by someone with much of the same background as Steiner, such as Theosophy).
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_patheos.com

In his teen years his elder brother died and this opened the doors to that great quest through which many before and since have walked. While at school he was introduced to Theosophy and about the same time Buddhism. It would become a life-long interest. He also followed in the family profession, and after attending Cambridge he became a barrister, and eventually, a judge.
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_{ilawjournals.com}

the Spiritual mentor of these movements became esoteric and mystic Guido von list, author of the pseudoscientific book “the Mystery language of Indo-Germans” and the first neo-pagans. He in his writings he tied the Indian caste system to the real Europe: a theory emerged exceptionalness of certain peoples. In turn, the background Sheet was under the influence of occultist Helena Blavatsky. She spent some time in Tibet and claimed that there exist manuscripts that hides the secrets of power lost civilizations: Hyperborea and Atlantis.
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_{ilawjournals.com}

In the 20-ies of the last century into the hands of Hitler – novice politician – was the first book by Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. In the “Secret doctrine”, in particular, accounted for the seven races, the highest of which was considered to be Aryans. At the time, Hitler read books voraciously Blavatsky. So that some historians even tend to attribute to her the creation of the basic principles of the ideology of the Third Reich.
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_{25yearslatersite.com}

This article will focus on Theosophical teachings and, in particular, the element of Theosophy which draws from Buddhism, as we know that Cooper had a great interest in Tibet and the plight of the Tibetan people. With that in mind, it would make sense for him to follow that path to enlightenment through his subconscious.
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_{worldatlas.com}

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a 19th-century spiritual leader from Russia, who was thought to be a spirit medium and guru. She felt that all religions developed from an ancient, universal faith. In her book The Secret Doctrine, she wrote about a principle similar to the Law of Attraction, in which self-perceptions shape realities and human identities.
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