Blavatsky and her teachers : an investigative biography
Fuller, Jean Overton2020
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Few 19th century figures have aroused such controversy as Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91). Accepted by some as a spiritual teacher, outstanding occultist and pioneer of the present New Age movement, she was denounced by others as an impostor, a secret agent for her native Russia, or a deluded fanatic. Jean Overton Fuller has used Russian language material, and is the first biography to have had access to the archives of the London Society for Psychical Research. But she has found the explanation for the life and work of Blavatsky, not in New York where The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875, nor in London where she died, but in the attempts of an oriental fraternity to influence the spiritual climate of Europe in its most materialistic phase. She throws new light on the real identities of Madame Blavatsky's teachers, and their relationship to the complex world of Tibetan Buddhism.
Main title:
Blavatsky and her teachers : an investigative biography / Jean Overton Fuller.
Author:
Fuller, Jean Overton, author
Imprint:
London : East-West Publications, 2020.
Collation:
270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780856921711 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
299.934092920
Local class:
BIO: BLAV
Language:
English
BRN:
2072528