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In October 1874, a Russian woman named Madame Blavatsky arrived on a farm in Chittenden, Vermont. It was no ordinary country outing: She had traveled to the Eddy Brothers’ farm, where, for many months ...

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Madame Blavatsky, as she was often called, was a co-founder of Theosophy, an esoteric late nineteenth-century movement that combined aspects of mystical and magical beliefs with bits and pieces of ...

Mystic, writer and world traveller Helena Blavatsky, a co-founder of the Theosophical Society, wrote many of her philosophical texts in Bombay and was a social reformer in pre-independence India.

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