September 8, 2025 • 40 mins
This episode of The Anunnaki Connection is a full exploration of Helena Blavatsky’s life, teachings, and legacy. From her childhood visions and ill-fated marriage, to her worldwide travels in search of occult knowledge, to her role in founding the Theosophical Society in 1875 — her story is as mysterious as it is controversial.Blavatsky remains one of the most influential and controversial figures in esoteric history. Was she a fraud, a prophet, or a messenger of hidden masters? Her vision still shapes how we think about consciousness, human origins, and the mysteries behind science and religion.Further Reading & SourcesThe Mahatmas in the Soviet Union: Concordia Antarova’s Two Lives — explores how Theosophical ideas continued underground in Soviet Russia.https://newageru.hypotheses.org/5614The Heroic Nature of H. P. Blavatsky — an insightful profile of Blavatsky’s life and mystical mission.https://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/th...Blavatsky, Nikifor Vladimirovich — details about Helena’s father and aristocratic background.https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Blavatsky...Thomas Edison’s Spirit Phone (Weird NJ) — recounts the legend of Edison’s attempts to build a device to communicate with the dead.https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplain...Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. III (1885) — the infamous report investigating Blavatsky’s alleged phenomena.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:P...Additional ResourcesH.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement — journal article exploring her influence on Western esotericism.https://theosophylib.com/cjr/hp-blava...How Blavatsky Shaped Modern Spirituality — essay linking her ideas to New Age concepts like dark matter and awakened consciousness.https://johnkreiter.com/how-helena-bl...This channel doesn’t take on sponsors. It relies heavily on direct support from viewers like you to keep this project going. You can help by making a direct donation, grabbing something from the merch store, or even just using the Amazon affiliate links.
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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to
see if it is possible for personalities which have left
this earth to communicate with us.
Not by any occult, mystifying, mysterious or weird means.
Such as are employed. By so-called mediums, but by
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scientific methods. Thomas Edison.
Not the lone genius history books like to claim, but a
ruthless businessman who built an empire on other men's
patents. Still, even Edison couldn't
escape the pull of the unknown. In 1920, he spoke of a new
invention, what the press calleda spirit phone, a device he
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believed might let the dead speak through machines.
Since 1878, Edison had been a member of the Theosophical
Society, a movement that mixed science with ancient mysticism.
At its center was a woman unlikeany of the modern age had ever
seen. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a
Russian Mystic who claimed to channel hidden masters from
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beyond the Himalayas. A writer who sought to weave
East and West into one great philosophy.
A woman who divided the world, hailed as a prophet, condemned
as a fraud, but never ignored. Helena Blavatsky claimed to
channel wisdom from beyond this world.
The question is, who was she speaking to?
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in 1831 in Yekaterinoslav,
today's Dnipro, Ukraine. She came from nobility.
Her father was Colonel Peter vonHan, a Russian officer of German
descent. The von Han line was part of the
Baltic German nobility with a long record of military service
to the Russian Empire and her mother, Helena Andreyevna
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Fadaeva, a novelist who died young.
She was from the Dolgarukov family, one of the most ancient
and prestigious noble houses in Russia, with roots going back to
medieval Princess. But young Helena was no ordinary
child. From an early age she claimed to
see things others could not, apparitions, forces moving in
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the shadows. She had an uncanny gift, what
her family called second sight. Servants whispered that the girl
was protected by unseen powers. By adolescence, her strange
abilities only grew stronger. She seemed fearless, reckless
even, often riding wild horses with no saddle or slipping into
trances where she spoke of visions no one could explain.
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The natural world, stones, rivers and forests felt alive to
her. She believed they carried
voices, messages from beyond. But these experiences were not
dismissed as childish imagination.
They were the first signs of a life that would be consumed by
the occult. At 17, Helena entered into an
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arranged marriage with Nikifor Vasilyevich Blavatsky, the vice
governor of Arevan in Armenia. He was nearly 40 years her
senior. Within three months, she fled
the Union, some say on horsebackin the dead of night, escaping
to her family and then out into the wider world.
That flight set her on a different path. 1 of endless
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travel from Constantinople to Egypt, from Europe to India, she
wandered for decades, driven by visions and a hunger for hidden
wisdom. It was the beginning of the
quest that would ultimately shape her destiny.
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After her escape, Helena began to wander.
From Ereven, she moved S throughConstantinople and into the
wider world. What followed is one of the most
important periods of her life, aspan of decades where history
and myth blur into one. Some say she joined a circus in
Tiflis, mastering the art of trick riding, taming wild horses
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with a fearlessness that stunnedcrowds.
Others insist she disguised herself as a man, crossing
borders that would have been impossible for a woman of her
station. There are tales of shipwreck in
the Aegean, where she nearly drowned before washing ashore,
and whispers of secret initiations in Egypt, rituals
hidden behind temple walls, passed down by adepts guarding
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ancient knowledge. Whether these stories were
literal truth or carefully wovenmyth, one thing is certain.
She wandered farther than most women of her century could even
imagine, driven by visions, haunted by unseen forces, and
guided, she claimed, by the handof a master.
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Helena said she met him first asa vision in childhood, A
towering figure she called Moria.
Now during her travels, she claimed to meet him in the flesh
and adept from the east, one of the mysterious Mahatmas who
would shape her mission. Blavatsky insisted she was never
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working alone. Behind her, she said, stood the
Mahatmas, the masters of wisdom.For decades, she moved through
Constantinople, Greece, Egypt, India and back again.
She claimed her travels were guided by the unseen hands of
these masters, hidden adepts whoguarded the oldest truths of
humanity. The most important of them was
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Moria, A towering figure she first claimed to see in
childhood visions and later in the flesh during her travels in
India. Alongside him was Koot Humi,
another Eastern adept whose teachings, she said, reached her
through letters that appeared inimpossible ways, sometimes
materializing directly onto paper as if dropped from another
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world. To her critics, they were
inventions, but to Helena Blavatsky, they were the very
source of her mission to deliverfragments of an ancient wisdom
tradition that had survived the fall of Atlantis, Lemuria and
countless forgotten ages. In 1871, in Cairo, she made her
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first attempt to gather followers.
She founded a spiritualist groupshe called the Societe Spirit,
but it collapsed within months, plagued by fraud, quarrels and
scandal. Still, the seeds were planted.
Helena Blavatsky was beginning to test her power to draw others
into her orbit. In 1873, Blavatsky arrived in
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New York, a city buzzing with seances and mediums claiming to
speak with the dead. But she dismissed them as
frauds, insisting they misunderstood the forces they
were playing with. Here she met Colonel Henry
Steele Olcott, a lawyer and journalist drawn to the
paranormal. Together with William Kwan
Judge, they founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
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Its aim was radical for its timeto unite science, philosophy and
religion, to promote the brotherhood of all humanity and
to explore the hidden laws of nature.
In just two years, Blavatsky would publish her first great
work, ISIS Unveiled. It challenged the materialism of
science, the dogma of religion, and introduced the West to the
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vast cosmologies of the East. It was the beginning of a
movement that would ripple across the world.
This was the turning point. The wandering Mystic had become
a leader, and the teachings of the Mahatmas were about to
ripple into the modern world. Two massive volumes, nearly 1300
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pages. It was nothing less than a war
cry against the world of her time.
She attacked modern science for its arrogance, for reducing the
universe to dead matter and blind chance.
She attacked Christianity for twisting older truths into
dogma. And she insisted that behind all
religions, behind every mythology and philosophy, there
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existed a single current of ancient wisdom, a wisdom guarded
by hidden initiates stretching back to Egypt, India and
Atlantis. She pulled from Hermetic texts,
the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and more.
The message was clear. All traditions were fragments of
1 great truth. She spoke of astral and psychic
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forces, unseen energies science had yet to measure.
She spoke of reincarnation and karma, saying the soul passed
through cycles far older than the Church would allow.
To spiritualists, she said theirseances were real, but that they
misunderstood the forces they played with.
To scientists, she warned, theirdiscoveries were only the
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surface of deeper laws. She claimed she was not the
author but the channel, the Mahatmas, the hidden Masters
were behind the work, some said.She wrote in trances, pages
flowing as if dictated from beyond.
Though their presence was not yet explicit, their fingerprints
were all over. The text Isis Unveiled was
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presented as a master key, and the masters themselves were the
silent architects of its knowledge.
The first volume, Science, openswith an attack on modern
materialism. She accused science of
arrogance, of reducing reality to lifeless matter while
ignoring psychic and astral forces.
Here she introduced the idea of the inner man, a spiritual core
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beyond the physical body, and hinted at reincarnation and
karma, ideas that would later become central to theosophy.
She argued that hidden laws of nature were already known to the
ancients. The phenomena studied in
seances, she claimed, were real,but the mediums misunderstood
the forces they were tapping into.
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To her, these were the echoes ofa far older science, the wisdom
religion. The second volume, Theology,
turned her focus to religion. Blavatsky dissected
Christianity, accusing the Church of corruption and
sorcery, and insisted that its doctrines were only fragments of
something older. She compared the faith to
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Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the mysteries
of Egypt, arguing they all traced back to a single primal
source. To her, the veiled goddess Isis
was the symbol of nature itself,hidden, secret, waiting to be
revealed. Philosophers and priests only
glimpsed her veil. Theosophy, she declared, sought
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to lift it. HPB did something, I think, that
people don't fully appreciate it.
What she did was quite unique inthe world of literature.
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She made the resume of all the old classical traditional
knowledge of this subject that had ever been in the world or
written up in books. And she went to the trouble of
finding all the old scriptures, all the old systems of
philosophy, all the old religions, and all the great
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sages, And she somehow or another acquired a knowledge of
what they said, and put it all together.
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The main part of these teachings, these philosophies,
was of course, Eastern India in the late 1870s was a vast and
fascinating world of contradictions where the ancient
E met the Western influences of the British Raj.
Blavatsky and Alcott travelled extensively around the
subcontinent to promote interestin her great work.
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They eventually established in the South, at Adyar near Madras,
the headquarters for the Theosophical Society.
At a time when India was simply the backhoe of Calcutta or Sati
or infanticide, they saw a vision of India.
They saw the magic of India. They saw beyond the poverty and
filth that we still hear today. They saw the thing that drew
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people and still draws people from The Beatles down to any
person who comes today. That magic, that magic that
still exists in India. And I think This is why the
society also still has a headquarters in India.
That from here, I think more than anything else, she
contributed to the image of India in a remarkable way, in
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the sense that India, not just the country or locality, but
India in the sense of a a state of mind.
Levatsky was developing A reputation for producing
astounding psychic phenomena. In an empty room, bells would
ring, furniture move. Most importantly, letters
written to her and her associates by the masters were
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apported. I found it difficult to
understand at first how someone who was attacked by the
spiritualist of whom she's so disapproved, could at the same
time herself receive phenomena. You can't.
Really discuss HP Blavatsky without the phenomena.
She did produce phenomena. Again, she pointed to the fact
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that. This was not her.
Chief aim, but it. It.
Did gain the attention of the world.
Well, she hoped that by demonstrating these faculties
that she would inspire people with interest to explore the
teachings and the ideas that shesought to propagate to, to
humankind. She found that people, when
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presented with phenomenon, were simply excited by that and they
didn't seek to go any further. That's a great pity.
So she really turned away from that.
I think from those who were around her at the time, they had
no doubt that she was very capable.
But this fact alone put her in the midst of controversy.
Controversy that was to, in a way, work against her altruistic
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mission, which was to teach man about the spiritual science and
about man's latent capabilities that he could draw, draw upon.
So it worked for those around her, but it became A2 edged
sword. Yes, I think her, there's plenty
of evidence that she did some amazing things that would excite
the parapsychologists of today. But it didn't serve the purpose
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to which he hoped, which was to draw people towards the
understanding and the questions,the great questions that man has
always asked. What am I?
What is it about human nature that can make these phenomena
possible? ISIS Unveiled made Helena
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Blavatsky a sensation, but fame came with a price.
From the moment the book appeared in 1877, critics
pounced. Good heavens.
What is this nonsense? Academics accused her of
plagiarism, pointing out entire passages lifted from
encyclopedias, histories and obscure occult texts.
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Spiritualists denounced her for dismissing mediums as frauds or
fools, and scientists ridiculed her insistence that astral
forces and psychic energies weremore real than atoms.
The press labeled her everythingfrom a fraud to a witch.
She became a magnet for controversy, admired by her
followers, attacked by everyone else.
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In 1879, Blavatsky and Henry Olcott sailed to India and
established the Theosophical Society's headquarters in Adyar,
near Madras. Here, Theosophy attracted
thousands Hindu reformers, seekers from the West and
curious officials of the Raj. For a time, she seemed
unstoppable. But the backlash followed.
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In 1884, the Society for Psychical Research in London
sent investigators to examine her alleged phenomena.
Their report, published in 1885,branded her one of the most
accomplished imposters in history.
The scandal nearly destroyed herreputation.
Her health collapsed. She fled India, first to Europe,
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then to London. By the late 1880s she was in
chronic pain, chain smoking and often bedridden.
Yet even then she refused to stop.
In this storm of controversy, she began her greatest work, a
book that would not just defend her vision but expanded into a
complete cosmology. In 1888, Helena Blavatsky
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published the work that would define her legacy, The Secret
Doctrine, The Synthesis of Science, Religion and
Philosophy, another two immense volumes running over 1500 pages,
written in London while she was in failing health, she chain
smoked as she dictated, often from her sickbed Friends,
described her coughing, pale, exhausted but still thundering
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with words as if they were not her own.
To her followers, she was not the author, but the channel.
She said the Mahatmas guided herhand and that the text was built
on the stanzas of Jayan verses from an ancient book preserved
in Tibet, written in a sacred language called Senzar.
The Secret Doctrine was nothing like Isis unveiled.
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Where that book attacked scienceand theology, this one set out
to replace them. It presented a complete
cosmology, a hidden history of the universe and of humanity
itself. The structure was divided in
two. Volume 1, Cosmogenesis, explored
the origin and structure of the cosmos.
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Volume to Anthropogenesis trace the hidden evolution of mankind.
Together they formed what Blavatsky called the Wisdom
religion, the primordial truth behind all faiths, myths, and
sciences. Cosmogenesis was Blavatsky's
vision of the universe, how it came into being, how it evolves,
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and the laws that govern it. At its heart was the claim that
the cosmos is not lifeless matter, but living spirit.
The universe, she said, comes into being through endless
cycles, vast rounds of birth, death and rebirth.
Hinduism calls them Manvanteras and Pralayas.
Ages of manifestation followed by ages of rest.
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Creation is not a single event, but a heartbeat pulsing through
eternity. She spoke of planes of
existence, visible and invisibleworlds.
Woven together in a vast hierarchy.
What science saw as empty space,she called a plenum of hidden
forces. Every atom of matter, she wrote,
is alive with consciousness. Karma, too, was not just
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personal law, but cosmic law. Entire worlds rise and fall
under its balance. Civilizations, planets, even
stars obey the same justice thatgoverns the soul.
The Secret Doctrine begins with nothingness.
The universe, Blavatsky wrote, begins in a state of absolute
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non being. No light, no mind, no time, just
one breathless, boundless presence.
She preserved an ancient stanza that reads nor ought, nor not
existed. Yon bright sky was not the only
one breathed breathless by itself.
From this invisible void emergesa seed, a germ, the root of the
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world, still hidden in universalstillness.
Creation begins not with form, but with pure potential.
The universe was still concealedin the divine thought and the
divine bosom. Then the cosmic night stirs like
a Lotus unfolding. A single ray pierces the
darkness. The eternal egg begins to hatch.
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Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray
into the Mother Deep. The eternal Egg condenses into
the world Egg. From within it, a force appears.
Fohat, the fiery whirlwind, the cosmic energy that binds spirit
to matter. He drives the sparks of
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consciousness into motion, spinning them into Suns and
worlds. They make of him the Messenger.
Fohat is the steed, and the thought is the rider.
He places them in the six directions of space and one in
the middle. The central wheel planes of
existence unfurl in concentric wheels, layered realities
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animated by divine hierarchies, and within this unfolding, souls
called sparks begin their descent.
Some accept form while others refuse, creating separation,
suffering and the first cosmic rebellion.
At the 4th, the sons are told tocreate their images. 1/3 refuses
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to obey. The curse is pronounced.
They will be born on the 4th, suffer and cause suffering.
This is the first war. At last life emerges in layers.
Divine, spiritual and human matter, spirit and consciousness
fuse into one vast wheel of becoming.
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This was the hidden story of creation itself, a universe born
from darkness into light, a cosmology as ancient as the
stars preserved, she claimed in the secret stanzas of Jian.
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Cosmogenesis explained how the universe itself was born, and
the next step was even more ambitious.
Blavatsky turned to humanity. She explained how our species
did not simply crawl up from themud by blind evolution, but
emerged in stages, vast epochs of transformation guided by a
cosmic law. She called these stages the Root
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Races. 7 great cycles of mankind, stretching from ghost
like beings of pure light, through giants of myth and lost
civilizations, down to the humanity we know today and
beyond into futures yet to come.In her vision, this hidden
history of the Root Races was the true story of our origins
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and our destiny. The first Root Race, Blavatsky
wrote, were astral beings unlikeanything we would call human
today, beings of pure ether projections rather than flesh
forms spun out of astral substance.
They were vast shadow presences,lacking bones, blood, or
physical density. The first attempts at humanity,
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the outlines or prototypes cast directly from divine
imagination. They reproduce not through
physical union, but through a process of budding, dividing
like cells or splitting like crystals.
They were dreamlike, moving across the earth in silence,
ethereal phantoms existing on a plane between spirit and matter.
Their destiny was to dissolve, to leave behind faint echoes,
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paving the way for denser forms to follow.
The second race, called the Hyperboreans, grew heavier and
denser than the first, though they still retained an almost
otherworldly subtlety. These beings lived in a mythical
land of eternal spring, a place without night, hunger, or death.
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Blavatsky placed it in Hyperborea, a continent at the
pole long since vanished. They were not yet human as we
know it, but they were closer, shimmering figures formed of
light infused matter. The Hyperboreans reproduced not
through sex, but through buddingand exudation, a more material
process than their predecessors.They were tall, radiant,
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luminous, and lived in harmony with the forces of nature.
To Blavatsky, they represented abridge between pure astral
spirit and the dawn of physical humanity.
The third root race was known asthe Lemurians.
These were giants, some set as tall as trees, their forms
massive and powerful, straddlingthe line between myth and
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nightmare. At first they were androgynous,
embodying both male and female principles within themselves.
But in this epoch, something changed.
For the first time, humanity discovered sexual reproduction.
With that discovery came the burdens of passion, conflict,
and mortality. But it was here, Blavatsky
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taught, that the true drama of humanity began.
The Lemurians were given mind. Into their vast frames descended
higher beings, the sons of mind who awakened self-awareness
within them. It was a moment of intervention,
a divine spark entering matter. To some it was a gift of
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knowledge, to others a fall frominnocence.
This was the first echo of the Promethean myth of the watchers
in the Book of Enoch of the Anunnaki, descending from the
heavens. It was here in Lemuria that man
became conscious of himself, andhistory, cult history, began.
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The 4th root race was Atlantis. According to Blavatsky, this was
a vast civilization of immense power, advanced in both
technology and psychic ability. The Atlanteans mastered forces
now forgotten, harnessing energies beyond our science,
communicating by thought, shaping matter with will.
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They built cities of splendor, and for a time their glory
surpassed all. But power brought corruption.
The Atlanteans grew arrogant, intoxicated by their abilities,
and turned their gifts to domination.
The great flood myths of the world, from the Bible to Sumer
to Plato's dialogues, echo theirfall.
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In Blavatsky's telling, Atlantiswas destroyed in cataclysm,
earthquakes, fires and floods swallowing continents.
The few survivors scattered across the globe, seating the
myths of gods and giants in every culture.
Their downfall marked the end ofan age, but their legacy, both
noble and cursed, lived on in us.
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The 5th root race is our presenthumanity, the Aryans as
Blavatsky called them, using theold linguistic sense of Indo
European peoples. For her this race represented
the age of intellect, culture and the flowering of philosophy
and science. It was a stage of development,
not a final form humanity caughtbetween its Atlantean
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inheritance and its future transformation.
This race, she said, is meant torefine mind and master the
external world. But it remains deeply flawed,
still ruled by ego, still divided by nations, wars, and
material obsessions. The 5th root race stands at a
crossroads. It is the humanity we know, but
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not the humanity we are destinedto become.
Blavatsky foresaw 2 more races to come.
The 6th would be luminous beingsof intuition and telepathy, free
from division, heralds of a golden age.
The 7th would be perfected humanity, radiant and divine,
returning to spirit as the cyclecomes full circle in her vision.
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Mankind's story is not an accident of evolution, but a
cosmic pilgrimage from light into matter and back again.
The pattern is ancient.
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In Sumer, the Anunnaki descend and fashion mankind from clay
mixed with their own divine essence.
In Genesis, the Elohim declare let us make man in our image
after our likeness. And in the Book of Enoch, the
watchers descend, altering humandestiny by teaching forbidden
knowledge. Each tradition tells the same
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story, that we became human not by chance but by intervention.
Blavatsky never used the word Anunnaki, but the pattern is
unmistakable. Her sons of mind, her master's,
belong to the same archetype, higher intelligences descending,
instructing and shaping humanity.
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Blavatsky said she was in contact with hidden adepts, the
Mahatmas, especially Moria and Koothumi.
She described them as living in Tibet, keepers of the ancient
wisdom directing her mission. To her followers, they were real
men of flesh and blood. To skeptics, they were
inventions. But what if they were something
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else? If we set aside the Victorian
imagery, the Masters may fit into a much older tradition of
intermediaries, messengers, watchers, anunnaki.
Not gods, not men, but somethingin between, guardians of
forbidden knowledge moving behind the veil of history,
working through chosen emissaries like Blavatsky.
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The question is whether Blavatsky's mahatmas were
Himalayan Mystics, or whether she had tapped into the same
current of influence that cultures before her had called
angels, Titans, or anunnaki. In every tradition, humanity's
leap into awareness is explainednot by chance but by
intervention. In Blavatsky's theosophy, as in
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Enoch, as in Summer, we find thesame story, the descent of
higher beings in the dawn of mankind.
The only question left is who they truly were.
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Man cannot perceive wisdom, he cannot understand his meaning
because the basic keys to his knowledge are still unknown to
him. In 1880, this parcel of land in
southern India near Madras was purchased by a Russian woman, a
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woman who dream of the day when people from different parts of
the world will gather. Here.
Under one roof to support each other in their search for wisdom
and truth. To discover their inner power
and provide a service to humanity by fighting against
ignorance. To lessen the burden of
suffering in the world through the dissemination of divine
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wisdom. This world famous woman was a
pneumatic person even for those who thought they knew her well.
For some, she was a great being who succeeded in reaching the
highest levels of wisdom and illumination, a woman who
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explored new paths in the development of humanity.
For others, she was a heretic who advocated the eradication of
all religious creeds. There were those who saw her as
an example of mercy and compassion.
Others taught her ruthless. Some referred to her as a woman
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of endless patience. To others, she was known for her
explosive anger. It seems that there were no
emotional or personality traits lacking in the complex
personality of this woman. In April 1878, Thomas Edison
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quietly signed up as the 162nd member of the Theosophical
Society after receiving ISIS unveiled from Olcott and
Blavatsky. He even added a note.
I shall read between the lines. The encounter left a mark.
Edison had already been experimenting with what he
called etheric force, a subtle energy he believed might connect
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matter and mind. At his lab that year, he tried
to move a pendulum with will alone, using metal wires and
fluids as conductors from his forehead.
Like Blavatsky, he believed thatmatter might not be inert.
Perhaps every atom contained intelligence.
She even sighted him in ISIS Unveiled, quoting him on Adam's
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subtle relationships. Decades later, in 1920, Edison
publicly revealed he was workingon a Spirit phone, a device
intended to communicate with theafterlife.
He insisted it would be scientific, not a cult, but the
ambition echoed his earlier curiosity about unseen forces.
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Edison didn't build his spirit phone, but in a way Blavatsky
did. Through the Secret Doctrine, she
mapped the cosmic codes of mind and matter.
Both were haunted by the same question.
Could the invisible be made visible?
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky died in London in 1891.
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To her enemies, she left behind a trail of fraud, scandal and
unanswered questions. But to her followers, she opened
a doorway to wisdom older than history.
Her Theosophical Society enduredlong after her death, spreading
across the world. In India, it inspired reformers
who saw in her teaching a bridgebetween East and West.
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A young Mohandas Gandhi read theosophical texts and later
said they opened his eyes to thedepth of Hindu tradition in
Europe. Poets like WB Yeats, artists
like Wasilee Kandinsky and philosophers like Rudolf Steiner
drew on her vision. Even scientists like Albert
Einstein kept the secret doctrine on their shelves.
Curious about her cosmic imagination, was she chosen by
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hidden masters or did she inventthem to give voice to her own
genius? Was she a messenger of the
divine or a magician of myth? What is certain is this Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky changed the way the world dreams of its
origins. She dared to lift the veil of
ISIS, to speak of masters behindthe curtain of history, and to
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give us a story of humanity thatstretched from the stars to the
soul. Was Helena Blavatsky a messenger
of higher powers, or simply a mirror of humanity's oldest
dreams? Join us next time as we peer
deeper into the void of history on the Anunnaki Connection.
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None. For centuries, mankind has gazed
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at the stars, wondering if we are alone.
Ancient texts. What if the cradle of
civilization was also the site of our first encounter?
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to
see if it is possible for personalities which have left
this earth to communicate with us.
Not by any occult, mystifying, mysterious or weird means.
Such as are employed. By so-called mediums, but by
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scientific methods. Thomas Edison.
Not the lone genius history books like to claim, but a
ruthless businessman who built an empire on other men's
patents. Still, even Edison couldn't
escape the pull of the unknown. In 1920, he spoke of a new
invention, what the press calleda spirit phone, a device he
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believed might let the dead speak through machines.
Since 1878, Edison had been a member of the Theosophical
Society, a movement that mixed science with ancient mysticism.
At its center was a woman unlikeany of the modern age had ever
seen. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a
Russian Mystic who claimed to channel hidden masters from
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beyond the Himalayas. A writer who sought to weave
East and West into one great philosophy.
A woman who divided the world, hailed as a prophet, condemned
as a fraud, but never ignored. Helena Blavatsky claimed to
channel wisdom from beyond this world.
The question is, who was she speaking to?
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in 1831 in Yekaterinoslav,
today's Dnipro, Ukraine. She came from nobility.
Her father was Colonel Peter vonHan, a Russian officer of German
descent. The von Han line was part of the
Baltic German nobility with a long record of military service
to the Russian Empire and her mother, Helena Andreyevna
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Fadaeva, a novelist who died young.
She was from the Dolgarukov family, one of the most ancient
and prestigious noble houses in Russia, with roots going back to
medieval Princess. But young Helena was no ordinary
child. From an early age she claimed to
see things others could not, apparitions, forces moving in
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the shadows. She had an uncanny gift, what
her family called second sight. Servants whispered that the girl
was protected by unseen powers. By adolescence, her strange
abilities only grew stronger. She seemed fearless, reckless
even, often riding wild horses with no saddle or slipping into
trances where she spoke of visions no one could explain.
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The natural world, stones, rivers and forests felt alive to
her. She believed they carried
voices, messages from beyond. But these experiences were not
dismissed as childish imagination.
They were the first signs of a life that would be consumed by
the occult. At 17, Helena entered into an
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arranged marriage with Nikifor Vasilyevich Blavatsky, the vice
governor of Arevan in Armenia. He was nearly 40 years her
senior. Within three months, she fled
the Union, some say on horsebackin the dead of night, escaping
to her family and then out into the wider world.
That flight set her on a different path. 1 of endless
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travel from Constantinople to Egypt, from Europe to India, she
wandered for decades, driven by visions and a hunger for hidden
wisdom. It was the beginning of the
quest that would ultimately shape her destiny.
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After her escape, Helena began to wander.
From Ereven, she moved S throughConstantinople and into the
wider world. What followed is one of the most
important periods of her life, aspan of decades where history
and myth blur into one. Some say she joined a circus in
Tiflis, mastering the art of trick riding, taming wild horses
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with a fearlessness that stunnedcrowds.
Others insist she disguised herself as a man, crossing
borders that would have been impossible for a woman of her
station. There are tales of shipwreck in
the Aegean, where she nearly drowned before washing ashore,
and whispers of secret initiations in Egypt, rituals
hidden behind temple walls, passed down by adepts guarding
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ancient knowledge. Whether these stories were
literal truth or carefully wovenmyth, one thing is certain.
She wandered farther than most women of her century could even
imagine, driven by visions, haunted by unseen forces, and
guided, she claimed, by the handof a master.
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Helena said she met him first asa vision in childhood, A
towering figure she called Moria.
Now during her travels, she claimed to meet him in the flesh
and adept from the east, one of the mysterious Mahatmas who
would shape her mission. Blavatsky insisted she was never
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working alone. Behind her, she said, stood the
Mahatmas, the masters of wisdom.For decades, she moved through
Constantinople, Greece, Egypt, India and back again.
She claimed her travels were guided by the unseen hands of
these masters, hidden adepts whoguarded the oldest truths of
humanity. The most important of them was
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Moria, A towering figure she first claimed to see in
childhood visions and later in the flesh during her travels in
India. Alongside him was Koot Humi,
another Eastern adept whose teachings, she said, reached her
through letters that appeared inimpossible ways, sometimes
materializing directly onto paper as if dropped from another
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world. To her critics, they were
inventions, but to Helena Blavatsky, they were the very
source of her mission to deliverfragments of an ancient wisdom
tradition that had survived the fall of Atlantis, Lemuria and
countless forgotten ages. In 1871, in Cairo, she made her
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first attempt to gather followers.
She founded a spiritualist groupshe called the Societe Spirit,
but it collapsed within months, plagued by fraud, quarrels and
scandal. Still, the seeds were planted.
Helena Blavatsky was beginning to test her power to draw others
into her orbit. In 1873, Blavatsky arrived in
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New York, a city buzzing with seances and mediums claiming to
speak with the dead. But she dismissed them as
frauds, insisting they misunderstood the forces they
were playing with. Here she met Colonel Henry
Steele Olcott, a lawyer and journalist drawn to the
paranormal. Together with William Kwan
Judge, they founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
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Its aim was radical for its timeto unite science, philosophy and
religion, to promote the brotherhood of all humanity and
to explore the hidden laws of nature.
In just two years, Blavatsky would publish her first great
work, ISIS Unveiled. It challenged the materialism of
science, the dogma of religion, and introduced the West to the
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vast cosmologies of the East. It was the beginning of a
movement that would ripple across the world.
This was the turning point. The wandering Mystic had become
a leader, and the teachings of the Mahatmas were about to
ripple into the modern world. Two massive volumes, nearly 1300
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pages. It was nothing less than a war
cry against the world of her time.
She attacked modern science for its arrogance, for reducing the
universe to dead matter and blind chance.
She attacked Christianity for twisting older truths into
dogma. And she insisted that behind all
religions, behind every mythology and philosophy, there
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existed a single current of ancient wisdom, a wisdom guarded
by hidden initiates stretching back to Egypt, India and
Atlantis. She pulled from Hermetic texts,
the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and more.
The message was clear. All traditions were fragments of
1 great truth. She spoke of astral and psychic
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forces, unseen energies science had yet to measure.
She spoke of reincarnation and karma, saying the soul passed
through cycles far older than the Church would allow.
To spiritualists, she said theirseances were real, but that they
misunderstood the forces they played with.
To scientists, she warned, theirdiscoveries were only the
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surface of deeper laws. She claimed she was not the
author but the channel, the Mahatmas, the hidden Masters
were behind the work, some said.She wrote in trances, pages
flowing as if dictated from beyond.
Though their presence was not yet explicit, their fingerprints
were all over. The text Isis Unveiled was
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presented as a master key, and the masters themselves were the
silent architects of its knowledge.
The first volume, Science, openswith an attack on modern
materialism. She accused science of
arrogance, of reducing reality to lifeless matter while
ignoring psychic and astral forces.
Here she introduced the idea of the inner man, a spiritual core
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beyond the physical body, and hinted at reincarnation and
karma, ideas that would later become central to theosophy.
She argued that hidden laws of nature were already known to the
ancients. The phenomena studied in
seances, she claimed, were real,but the mediums misunderstood
the forces they were tapping into.
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To her, these were the echoes ofa far older science, the wisdom
religion. The second volume, Theology,
turned her focus to religion. Blavatsky dissected
Christianity, accusing the Church of corruption and
sorcery, and insisted that its doctrines were only fragments of
something older. She compared the faith to
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Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and the mysteries
of Egypt, arguing they all traced back to a single primal
source. To her, the veiled goddess Isis
was the symbol of nature itself,hidden, secret, waiting to be
revealed. Philosophers and priests only
glimpsed her veil. Theosophy, she declared, sought
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to lift it. HPB did something, I think, that
people don't fully appreciate it.
What she did was quite unique inthe world of literature.
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She made the resume of all the old classical traditional
knowledge of this subject that had ever been in the world or
written up in books. And she went to the trouble of
finding all the old scriptures, all the old systems of
philosophy, all the old religions, and all the great
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sages, And she somehow or another acquired a knowledge of
what they said, and put it all together.
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The main part of these teachings, these philosophies,
was of course, Eastern India in the late 1870s was a vast and
fascinating world of contradictions where the ancient
E met the Western influences of the British Raj.
Blavatsky and Alcott travelled extensively around the
subcontinent to promote interestin her great work.
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They eventually established in the South, at Adyar near Madras,
the headquarters for the Theosophical Society.
At a time when India was simply the backhoe of Calcutta or Sati
or infanticide, they saw a vision of India.
They saw the magic of India. They saw beyond the poverty and
filth that we still hear today. They saw the thing that drew
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people and still draws people from The Beatles down to any
person who comes today. That magic, that magic that
still exists in India. And I think This is why the
society also still has a headquarters in India.
That from here, I think more than anything else, she
contributed to the image of India in a remarkable way, in
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the sense that India, not just the country or locality, but
India in the sense of a a state of mind.
Levatsky was developing A reputation for producing
astounding psychic phenomena. In an empty room, bells would
ring, furniture move. Most importantly, letters
written to her and her associates by the masters were
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apported. I found it difficult to
understand at first how someone who was attacked by the
spiritualist of whom she's so disapproved, could at the same
time herself receive phenomena. You can't.
Really discuss HP Blavatsky without the phenomena.
She did produce phenomena. Again, she pointed to the fact
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that. This was not her.
Chief aim, but it. It.
Did gain the attention of the world.
Well, she hoped that by demonstrating these faculties
that she would inspire people with interest to explore the
teachings and the ideas that shesought to propagate to, to
humankind. She found that people, when
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presented with phenomenon, were simply excited by that and they
didn't seek to go any further. That's a great pity.
So she really turned away from that.
I think from those who were around her at the time, they had
no doubt that she was very capable.
But this fact alone put her in the midst of controversy.
Controversy that was to, in a way, work against her altruistic
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mission, which was to teach man about the spiritual science and
about man's latent capabilities that he could draw, draw upon.
So it worked for those around her, but it became A2 edged
sword. Yes, I think her, there's plenty
of evidence that she did some amazing things that would excite
the parapsychologists of today. But it didn't serve the purpose
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to which he hoped, which was to draw people towards the
understanding and the questions,the great questions that man has
always asked. What am I?
What is it about human nature that can make these phenomena
possible? ISIS Unveiled made Helena
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Blavatsky a sensation, but fame came with a price.
From the moment the book appeared in 1877, critics
pounced. Good heavens.
What is this nonsense? Academics accused her of
plagiarism, pointing out entire passages lifted from
encyclopedias, histories and obscure occult texts.
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Spiritualists denounced her for dismissing mediums as frauds or
fools, and scientists ridiculed her insistence that astral
forces and psychic energies weremore real than atoms.
The press labeled her everythingfrom a fraud to a witch.
She became a magnet for controversy, admired by her
followers, attacked by everyone else.
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In 1879, Blavatsky and Henry Olcott sailed to India and
established the Theosophical Society's headquarters in Adyar,
near Madras. Here, Theosophy attracted
thousands Hindu reformers, seekers from the West and
curious officials of the Raj. For a time, she seemed
unstoppable. But the backlash followed.
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In 1884, the Society for Psychical Research in London
sent investigators to examine her alleged phenomena.
Their report, published in 1885,branded her one of the most
accomplished imposters in history.
The scandal nearly destroyed herreputation.
Her health collapsed. She fled India, first to Europe,
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then to London. By the late 1880s she was in
chronic pain, chain smoking and often bedridden.
Yet even then she refused to stop.
In this storm of controversy, she began her greatest work, a
book that would not just defend her vision but expanded into a
complete cosmology. In 1888, Helena Blavatsky
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published the work that would define her legacy, The Secret
Doctrine, The Synthesis of Science, Religion and
Philosophy, another two immense volumes running over 1500 pages,
written in London while she was in failing health, she chain
smoked as she dictated, often from her sickbed Friends,
described her coughing, pale, exhausted but still thundering
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with words as if they were not her own.
To her followers, she was not the author, but the channel.
She said the Mahatmas guided herhand and that the text was built
on the stanzas of Jayan verses from an ancient book preserved
in Tibet, written in a sacred language called Senzar.
The Secret Doctrine was nothing like Isis unveiled.
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Where that book attacked scienceand theology, this one set out
to replace them. It presented a complete
cosmology, a hidden history of the universe and of humanity
itself. The structure was divided in
two. Volume 1, Cosmogenesis, explored
the origin and structure of the cosmos.
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Volume to Anthropogenesis trace the hidden evolution of mankind.
Together they formed what Blavatsky called the Wisdom
religion, the primordial truth behind all faiths, myths, and
sciences. Cosmogenesis was Blavatsky's
vision of the universe, how it came into being, how it evolves,
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and the laws that govern it. At its heart was the claim that
the cosmos is not lifeless matter, but living spirit.
The universe, she said, comes into being through endless
cycles, vast rounds of birth, death and rebirth.
Hinduism calls them Manvanteras and Pralayas.
Ages of manifestation followed by ages of rest.
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Creation is not a single event, but a heartbeat pulsing through
eternity. She spoke of planes of
existence, visible and invisibleworlds.
Woven together in a vast hierarchy.
What science saw as empty space,she called a plenum of hidden
forces. Every atom of matter, she wrote,
is alive with consciousness. Karma, too, was not just
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personal law, but cosmic law. Entire worlds rise and fall
under its balance. Civilizations, planets, even
stars obey the same justice thatgoverns the soul.
The Secret Doctrine begins with nothingness.
The universe, Blavatsky wrote, begins in a state of absolute
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non being. No light, no mind, no time, just
one breathless, boundless presence.
She preserved an ancient stanza that reads nor ought, nor not
existed. Yon bright sky was not the only
one breathed breathless by itself.
From this invisible void emergesa seed, a germ, the root of the
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world, still hidden in universalstillness.
Creation begins not with form, but with pure potential.
The universe was still concealedin the divine thought and the
divine bosom. Then the cosmic night stirs like
a Lotus unfolding. A single ray pierces the
darkness. The eternal egg begins to hatch.
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Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray
into the Mother Deep. The eternal Egg condenses into
the world Egg. From within it, a force appears.
Fohat, the fiery whirlwind, the cosmic energy that binds spirit
to matter. He drives the sparks of
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consciousness into motion, spinning them into Suns and
worlds. They make of him the Messenger.
Fohat is the steed, and the thought is the rider.
He places them in the six directions of space and one in
the middle. The central wheel planes of
existence unfurl in concentric wheels, layered realities
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animated by divine hierarchies, and within this unfolding, souls
called sparks begin their descent.
Some accept form while others refuse, creating separation,
suffering and the first cosmic rebellion.
At the 4th, the sons are told tocreate their images. 1/3 refuses
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to obey. The curse is pronounced.
They will be born on the 4th, suffer and cause suffering.
This is the first war. At last life emerges in layers.
Divine, spiritual and human matter, spirit and consciousness
fuse into one vast wheel of becoming.
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This was the hidden story of creation itself, a universe born
from darkness into light, a cosmology as ancient as the
stars preserved, she claimed in the secret stanzas of Jian.
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Cosmogenesis explained how the universe itself was born, and
the next step was even more ambitious.
Blavatsky turned to humanity. She explained how our species
did not simply crawl up from themud by blind evolution, but
emerged in stages, vast epochs of transformation guided by a
cosmic law. She called these stages the Root
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Races. 7 great cycles of mankind, stretching from ghost
like beings of pure light, through giants of myth and lost
civilizations, down to the humanity we know today and
beyond into futures yet to come.In her vision, this hidden
history of the Root Races was the true story of our origins
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and our destiny. The first Root Race, Blavatsky
wrote, were astral beings unlikeanything we would call human
today, beings of pure ether projections rather than flesh
forms spun out of astral substance.
They were vast shadow presences,lacking bones, blood, or
physical density. The first attempts at humanity,
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the outlines or prototypes cast directly from divine
imagination. They reproduce not through
physical union, but through a process of budding, dividing
like cells or splitting like crystals.
They were dreamlike, moving across the earth in silence,
ethereal phantoms existing on a plane between spirit and matter.
Their destiny was to dissolve, to leave behind faint echoes,
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paving the way for denser forms to follow.
The second race, called the Hyperboreans, grew heavier and
denser than the first, though they still retained an almost
otherworldly subtlety. These beings lived in a mythical
land of eternal spring, a place without night, hunger, or death.
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Blavatsky placed it in Hyperborea, a continent at the
pole long since vanished. They were not yet human as we
know it, but they were closer, shimmering figures formed of
light infused matter. The Hyperboreans reproduced not
through sex, but through buddingand exudation, a more material
process than their predecessors.They were tall, radiant,
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luminous, and lived in harmony with the forces of nature.
To Blavatsky, they represented abridge between pure astral
spirit and the dawn of physical humanity.
The third root race was known asthe Lemurians.
These were giants, some set as tall as trees, their forms
massive and powerful, straddlingthe line between myth and
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nightmare. At first they were androgynous,
embodying both male and female principles within themselves.
But in this epoch, something changed.
For the first time, humanity discovered sexual reproduction.
With that discovery came the burdens of passion, conflict,
and mortality. But it was here, Blavatsky
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taught, that the true drama of humanity began.
The Lemurians were given mind. Into their vast frames descended
higher beings, the sons of mind who awakened self-awareness
within them. It was a moment of intervention,
a divine spark entering matter. To some it was a gift of
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knowledge, to others a fall frominnocence.
This was the first echo of the Promethean myth of the watchers
in the Book of Enoch of the Anunnaki, descending from the
heavens. It was here in Lemuria that man
became conscious of himself, andhistory, cult history, began.
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The 4th root race was Atlantis. According to Blavatsky, this was
a vast civilization of immense power, advanced in both
technology and psychic ability. The Atlanteans mastered forces
now forgotten, harnessing energies beyond our science,
communicating by thought, shaping matter with will.
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They built cities of splendor, and for a time their glory
surpassed all. But power brought corruption.
The Atlanteans grew arrogant, intoxicated by their abilities,
and turned their gifts to domination.
The great flood myths of the world, from the Bible to Sumer
to Plato's dialogues, echo theirfall.
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In Blavatsky's telling, Atlantiswas destroyed in cataclysm,
earthquakes, fires and floods swallowing continents.
The few survivors scattered across the globe, seating the
myths of gods and giants in every culture.
Their downfall marked the end ofan age, but their legacy, both
noble and cursed, lived on in us.
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The 5th root race is our presenthumanity, the Aryans as
Blavatsky called them, using theold linguistic sense of Indo
European peoples. For her this race represented
the age of intellect, culture and the flowering of philosophy
and science. It was a stage of development,
not a final form humanity caughtbetween its Atlantean
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inheritance and its future transformation.
This race, she said, is meant torefine mind and master the
external world. But it remains deeply flawed,
still ruled by ego, still divided by nations, wars, and
material obsessions. The 5th root race stands at a
crossroads. It is the humanity we know, but
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not the humanity we are destinedto become.
Blavatsky foresaw 2 more races to come.
The 6th would be luminous beingsof intuition and telepathy, free
from division, heralds of a golden age.
The 7th would be perfected humanity, radiant and divine,
returning to spirit as the cyclecomes full circle in her vision.
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Mankind's story is not an accident of evolution, but a
cosmic pilgrimage from light into matter and back again.
The pattern is ancient.
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In Sumer, the Anunnaki descend and fashion mankind from clay
mixed with their own divine essence.
In Genesis, the Elohim declare let us make man in our image
after our likeness. And in the Book of Enoch, the
watchers descend, altering humandestiny by teaching forbidden
knowledge. Each tradition tells the same
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story, that we became human not by chance but by intervention.
Blavatsky never used the word Anunnaki, but the pattern is
unmistakable. Her sons of mind, her master's,
belong to the same archetype, higher intelligences descending,
instructing and shaping humanity.
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Blavatsky said she was in contact with hidden adepts, the
Mahatmas, especially Moria and Koothumi.
She described them as living in Tibet, keepers of the ancient
wisdom directing her mission. To her followers, they were real
men of flesh and blood. To skeptics, they were
inventions. But what if they were something
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else? If we set aside the Victorian
imagery, the Masters may fit into a much older tradition of
intermediaries, messengers, watchers, anunnaki.
Not gods, not men, but somethingin between, guardians of
forbidden knowledge moving behind the veil of history,
working through chosen emissaries like Blavatsky.
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The question is whether Blavatsky's mahatmas were
Himalayan Mystics, or whether she had tapped into the same
current of influence that cultures before her had called
angels, Titans, or anunnaki. In every tradition, humanity's
leap into awareness is explainednot by chance but by
intervention. In Blavatsky's theosophy, as in
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Enoch, as in Summer, we find thesame story, the descent of
higher beings in the dawn of mankind.
The only question left is who they truly were.
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Man cannot perceive wisdom, he cannot understand his meaning
because the basic keys to his knowledge are still unknown to
him. In 1880, this parcel of land in
southern India near Madras was purchased by a Russian woman, a
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woman who dream of the day when people from different parts of
the world will gather. Here.
Under one roof to support each other in their search for wisdom
and truth. To discover their inner power
and provide a service to humanity by fighting against
ignorance. To lessen the burden of
suffering in the world through the dissemination of divine
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wisdom. This world famous woman was a
pneumatic person even for those who thought they knew her well.
For some, she was a great being who succeeded in reaching the
highest levels of wisdom and illumination, a woman who
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explored new paths in the development of humanity.
For others, she was a heretic who advocated the eradication of
all religious creeds. There were those who saw her as
an example of mercy and compassion.
Others taught her ruthless. Some referred to her as a woman
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of endless patience. To others, she was known for her
explosive anger. It seems that there were no
emotional or personality traits lacking in the complex
personality of this woman. In April 1878, Thomas Edison
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quietly signed up as the 162nd member of the Theosophical
Society after receiving ISIS unveiled from Olcott and
Blavatsky. He even added a note.
I shall read between the lines. The encounter left a mark.
Edison had already been experimenting with what he
called etheric force, a subtle energy he believed might connect
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matter and mind. At his lab that year, he tried
to move a pendulum with will alone, using metal wires and
fluids as conductors from his forehead.
Like Blavatsky, he believed thatmatter might not be inert.
Perhaps every atom contained intelligence.
She even sighted him in ISIS Unveiled, quoting him on Adam's
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subtle relationships. Decades later, in 1920, Edison
publicly revealed he was workingon a Spirit phone, a device
intended to communicate with theafterlife.
He insisted it would be scientific, not a cult, but the
ambition echoed his earlier curiosity about unseen forces.
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Edison didn't build his spirit phone, but in a way Blavatsky
did. Through the Secret Doctrine, she
mapped the cosmic codes of mind and matter.
Both were haunted by the same question.
Could the invisible be made visible?
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky died in London in 1891.
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To her enemies, she left behind a trail of fraud, scandal and
unanswered questions. But to her followers, she opened
a doorway to wisdom older than history.
Her Theosophical Society enduredlong after her death, spreading
across the world. In India, it inspired reformers
who saw in her teaching a bridgebetween East and West.
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A young Mohandas Gandhi read theosophical texts and later
said they opened his eyes to thedepth of Hindu tradition in
Europe. Poets like WB Yeats, artists
like Wasilee Kandinsky and philosophers like Rudolf Steiner
drew on her vision. Even scientists like Albert
Einstein kept the secret doctrine on their shelves.
Curious about her cosmic imagination, was she chosen by
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hidden masters or did she inventthem to give voice to her own
genius? Was she a messenger of the
divine or a magician of myth? What is certain is this Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky changed the way the world dreams of its
origins. She dared to lift the veil of
ISIS, to speak of masters behindthe curtain of history, and to
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give us a story of humanity thatstretched from the stars to the
soul. Was Helena Blavatsky a messenger
of higher powers, or simply a mirror of humanity's oldest
dreams? Join us next time as we peer
deeper into the void of history on the Anunnaki Connection.
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None. For centuries, mankind has gazed
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at the stars, wondering if we are alone.
Ancient texts. What if the cradle of
civilization was also the site of our first encounter?
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