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Helena P. Blavatsky  

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  • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a traveler, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, and a major writer of occult philosophy. Her worldwide journeys and writings drawing from several spiritual traditions lay behind the global influence of modern Theosophy.Blavatsky was born in aristocratic circumstances in Russia as Helena de Hahn. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831–1891)]

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