May 8
The anniversary of the death of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) is commemorated by members of the Theosophical Society, which was founded in New York in 1875 by Blavatsky and Henry Olcott.
Theosophy, a pantheistic philosophical-religious system that seeks to learn about reality
through mystical experience and by finding esoteric meanings in sacred writings, is
regarded as the precursor of American Hinduism.
Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India in 1878, and the international headquarters for the
Theosophical movement remains in Adyar (near Madras) today.
Blavatsky believed that she possessed extraordinary psychic powers, although in 1884
the Indian press accused her of concocting spiritualist phenomena. When the London
Society of Psychical Research declared her a fraud the following year, Blavatsky left India
and never returned.
She did, however, complete her most important work, The Secret Doctrine (1888), an
overview of Theosophical teachings, along with numerous other books, before her death
in 1891.
Full story:
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Death+of+Blavatsky
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