Essays about: "helena blavatsky"
Found 3 essays containing the words helena blavatsky.
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1. “On an ecliptic Tuesday or Saturday the Tantrik practises several black arts.”
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : This thesis investigates descriptions of Tantra within nineteenth to twentieth century Theosophy. 34 accounts from two Theosophical periodicals, The Theosophist (1879–) and Lucifer (1887–97) published between the years 1879–1941 were analyzed by departing from thematic analysis and postcolonial theory. READ MORE
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2. The Quest for Gnosis : G. R. S. Mead’s Conception of Theosophy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/ReligionshistoriaAbstract : G. R. S. Mead is an important but neglected historical personality of the British fin-de-siècle occult, Theosophical, and post-Theosophical milieu. READ MORE
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3. The Apex of Magic and Science : Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society's Practice and View of Astral Projection
University essay from Stockholms universitet/ReligionshistoriaAbstract : The rise of spiritualism in the late nineteenth century raised new ways to perceive the dead. A new possibility to communicate with the deceased attributed novel characteristics to the human soul. READ MORE