Jyotir-liṅga(m)
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Jyotir-liṅga(m). The limitless
liṅga(m) of light, the form assumed by
Śiva which compelled
Brahma and
Viṣṇu to acknowledge his supremacy.
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Some Sketches from the Life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and opportunism that defined Blavatsky's career. Yet she is not...fascination. In some ways, Blavatsky is such a compelling figure...Some Sketches from the Life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is probably not equal to Kyger...
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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...time the mid 1870s. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was then in her forties...daughter inherited; Helena's sister remembered...That gift was to become Helena's lifelong resource...vice governor named Blavatsky; a few weeks later...
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Flawed `Mesmerist' Still Casts Its Spell
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/28/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the soul and spirit of Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the 19th century Russian...much sleight-of-hand as Blavatsky herself did. But its animating...that it hardly matters. Madame Blavatsky (1831-91), was an almost...
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Catherine Tumber. American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875-1915.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Science of Mary Baker Eddy and the Theosophy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Alternately known by historians as "the New...Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky published her Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to...
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/7/1993; 700+ words
; ...HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement...and interesting imposters in history." She was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), the Russian-born author who...
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`Don Juan' Dissected // Bailiwick Looks at All Sides With 8 Plays
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Tickets: (312) 327-5252. MESMERIZING: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (better known as Madame Blavatsky) was a Russian-born spiritual medium...Europe and the United States. Madame Blavatsky is also the subject of Ara Watson's...
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Mysticism Noel Malcolm finds out how gandhi, hitler and bovril are linked on the astral plane
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...example. Having learned from Mme Blavatsky that the world has been inhabited...Congress, and Annie Besant (Mme Blavatsky's leading disciple) was actually...it seems that the fraudulent Helena Petrovna Blavatsky stands like a distant fairy...
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A QUESTION OF GOOD NEIGHBORS AN ECCENTRIC AND WEALTHY RELIGIOUS SECT IS BUSY CONSTRUCTING A HOLY COMMUNITY AT THE EDGE OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. IT IS NOT GOING OVER WELL WITH MANY IN THIS LAND OF COWBOYS AND CATTLE.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/9/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...by a Russian noblewoman named Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who claimed to communicate with souls on a higher plane. Blavatsky, whose best-known work may...volumes on the occult. But Blavatsky was rehashing even older writings...
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Role of Spiritual Leader Has Actress Mesmerized
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/27/1994; ; 565 words
; ...powerful spiritual leader Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian-born American...to India to investigate Madam Blavatsky, who had been in London with...In Watson's play, Madam Blavatsky's spiritual powers are questioned...
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Joy Dixon. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...founded in New York in 1875 by the Russian emigree, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and an American lawyer, Henry Scott Olcott, was...Annie Besant, became a convert to Theosophy. At Blavatsky's death she became the leading female Theosophist...
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky One of the most influential occult thinkers of the nineteenth century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) left behind conflicting images of adventuress...
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Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891) One of the most influential...thinkers of the nineteenth century, Blavatsky left behind conflicting images of...According to the records of her sister, Blavatsky showed frequent evidence of somnambulism...
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Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn (1831–91), leader of the Theosophic movement...Egypt and India. After a period of spiritualism in America, Mme Blavatsky with the aid of Colonel Henry S. Olcott founded her Theosophical...
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Blavatsky, Madame Helena Petrovna
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Blavatsky, Madame Helena Petrovna (1831–91), a Russian who became interested in spiritualism in New York in 1873, and in 1875 founded, with Col...
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Roerich, Helena (1879-1949)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Roerich, Helena (1879-1949) Author and channeler...with Master Morya, the teacher whom Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the co-founder of the Theosophical...in 1920. Through the early 1920s Helena Roerich received the messages that...
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