Theosophy News Worldwide 2nd Quarter 2021 - Press outside the movement about Theosophy

_{The Statesman}

At the tender age of 13, Neru was accepted as a member of the Theosophical Society, where he performed all the ceremonies of initiation under the supervision of Annie Besant.
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_{tlmagazine.com}

From 18 April to 5 September 2021, MASI Lugano presents the first retrospective in Switzerland devoted to the painter and illustrator Luigi Pericle (1916–2001)... As a painter, an illustrator, and all-around scholar, Luigi Pericle, was influenced by theosophy and esoteric doctrines and took part in the cultural debate engendered over the past century by these trends.
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_Forbes

Agni Yoga, theosophy and the teachings of Helena Blavatsky among others. She was not a cultist, nor member of any religion, she was a spiritual seeker.
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_ocula.com

The artist owned a copy of Theosophy co-founder Helena P. Blavatsky's 1888 publication The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy,
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_{Sydney Morning Herald}

Interestingly, Spiritualism, popularised by Russian philosopher Madame Helena Blavatsky, who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, welcomed women, thought to be better suited to the work of mediumship.
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_mutualart

Although featuring some insight into the fascinating spiritual world of Hilma af Klint, the Guggenheims catalogue does not do her justice, at times wronging her outright.
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_{TheTablet.co.uk}

fallen under the spell of Theosophy, an esoteric religious movement founded 35 years earlier in New York by the Russian-born Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
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_{Financial Times}

'Madame Blavatsky’ by Goshka Macuga (2020) © Conradin Frei
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_NewYorker

Both Luhan and Lawrence were profoundly influenced by theosophy, a nineteenth-century occult movement, and Lawrence shared Luhan’s faith in the tonic properties of indigenous life.
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_{Jerusalem Post}

When Madame Blavatsky visited Vermont in 1873, a local mystic named William Eddy summoned seven visible spirits for her in the course of two weeks. These spirits spoke to her in Russian and Kurdish, she claimed.
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_DailyNews

As a result of the published article about this debate, many important persons such as Colonel Henry Steel Olcott and the Russian philosopher and author, Helena Blavatsky, were encouraged to visit Sri Lanka.
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_{San Francisco Examiner}

The existence of these great Teachers was first made known in the West in the late 1800s by Helena Blavatsky, who lived among the Masters of Wisdom in the Himalayas for three years.
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_FreeWeekly

White Lotus Day(Saturday, May 8) celebrates the life of Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of Theosophy, the first level of occult (hidden) teachings offered to the west (the modern world) from the temples and monasteries of Tibet.
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_salon.com

Founder of a religion known as Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky argued that the pineal gland "is that which the Eastern Occultist calls Devāka, the 'Divine Eye,' or the 'Third Eye.'
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_artforum

Pathbreaking feminist art historian and author Moira Roth, who taught at Mills College for more than forty years, died June 14 at the age of eighty-seven.... Roth was born in London in 1933 to a wealthy Scottish-Canadian mother interested in theosophy and a working-class Irish father who was teaching at the London School of Economics.
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_vice

In Western societies, the concept of the akashic records has been around since the 19th century, under the disciplines of theosophy and anthroposophy. Philosophers such as Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and Rudolf Steiner described the presence of this all-knowing ethereal library, referring to it with different names.
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_NewYorker

It became a kind of curiosity, a Victorian fad encountered chiefly in the biographies of artists such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who dabbled in mesmerism; in the footnotes to the modernist poetry of T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats, with their invocations of astrology, sorcery, and Madame Blavatsky;
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