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Messengers of the Masters or the Great White Brotherhood

By Katinka Hesselink - All Considering | November 19th, 2008

An anonymous reader asks my opinion on the Trans-Himalayan teachings, as they’ve been called, going from H.P. Blavatsky to Mabel Collins Cook to the Temple of the People to Agni Yoga to Alice Bailey etc.
First of all: Mabel Collins wrote during Blavatsky’s life, so it isn’t so much that she replaced Blavatsky as that there [...]

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A short history of brotherhood, sisterhood and religious tolerance

By Katinka Hesselink - All Considering | October 17th, 2008

There are a lot of spiritual traditions which can be said to be of influence to the Theosophical Movement. One of the early ones was freemasonry. It is fairly well known among theosophists that Blavatsky got a masonic diploma for writing Isis Unveiled. Less well known is that Col. Olcott, who founded the Theosophical Society [...]

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