On that day Olcott and Blavatsky were formally acknowledged as Buddhists, although Olcott noted that they had previously declared themselves Buddhists, while still living in America.

Regarding the concept of race as defined – in a comparatively more limited manner – by Anthropology, Sociology, and other disciplines, Blavatsky did not encourage superiority by any person or group, promoting the idea of the common origin and destiny of all humanity, and establishing the principle of universal brotherhood as the First Object of the Theosophical Society.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

They say that the classification of humanity into races is still practised today and that Blavatsky and subsequent esoteric philosophers who expressed similar lines of thought intended a Universal Brotherhood of humanity.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

* 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian scholar and theosophist ( d. 1891 )

To some extent Smith was influenced in his vision of such lost worlds by the teachings of Theosophy and the writings of Helena Blavatsky.

Examples of esoteric religious movements and philosophies include Alchemy, Astrology, Anthroposophy, early Christian mysticism, Magic, Mesmerism, Rosicrucianism, Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, the Alawites, the Christian Theosophy of Jacob Böhme and his followers, and the Theosophical currents associated with Helena Blavatsky and her followers.

The major exponent of esotericism in the latter part of the 19th century is the Theosophy of H. P. Blavatsky, not to be confused with the Christian Theosophy mentioned above.

It is believed in Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky that each religion ( including Theosophy ) has its own individual Heaven in various regions of the upper astral plane that fits the description of that Heaven that is given in each religion, which a soul that has been good in their previous life on Earth will go to.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, authors such as Godfrey Higgins and the esotericists Eliphas Levi, Helena Blavatsky, and George Gurdjieff articulated specific histories, cosmologies, and some of the basic philosophical principles that would influence the movement.

The third figure was the Russian Helena Blavatsky ( 1831 – 1891 ), one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, through which she propagated her religious movement of Theosophy, which itself combined a number of elements from Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism with Western elements.

At the ceremony, SS Psychic Marianna Blavatsky conjures up dark spirits, which transform three Übersoldaten into Dark Knights, Heinrich's lieutenants.

SS High Priestess Oberführer Marianna Blavatsky is in charge of Operation Resurrection.

At the finale, she transforms three Super Soldiers into Zombie Knights and uses them to revive Heinrich I. Blavatsky pledges her loyalty and servitude to Heinrich only for him to reward her by transforming her into a zombie slave.

Blavatsky and the Death Knights end up being destroyed by Blazkowicz as he arrives to face Heinrich.

The player's final task in the game is to stop the sorceress Blavatsky from reviving him, but this cannot be achieved.

In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.

In 1875 Helena Blavatsky ( 1831-1891 ) and others founded one of these theosophical initiate societies, The Theosophical Society, an organization related to earlier theosophical ideas which also departed from them significantly.

In 1875 Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge co-founded The Theosophical Society.

Blavatsky combined Eastern religious traditions with Western esoteric teachings to create a synthesis she called the Perennial Religion.

There are many differences between traditional Western theosophy and the Theosophical movement begun by Helena Blavatsky, though the differences " are not important enough to cause an insurmountable barrier.

" When referring to the ideas related to Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, the word " Theosophy " is capitalized ; otherwise it is not.

Helena Blavatsky taught that Theosophy is neither revelation nor speculation.

Atomic semantics are defined formally in Lamport's " On Interprocess Communication " Distributed Computing 1, 2 ( 1986 ), 77-101.

The term " maturity " relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to formally defined steps, to managed result metrics, to active optimization of the processes.

More formally design has been defined as follows.

A dynamical system may be defined formally, as a measure-preserving transformation of a sigma-algebra, the quadruplet ( X, Σ, μ, τ ).

The electric field was formally defined as the force exerted per unit charge, but the concept of potential allows for a more useful and equivalent definition: the electric field is the local gradient of the electric potential.

Before the question could be answered, the notion of " algorithm " had to be formally defined.

There is some disagreement amongst authorities about how the concept of a fractal should be formally defined.

The term " first-class cricket " was formally defined by the then Imperial Cricket Conference ( ICC ) in May 1947 as a match of three or more days duration between two sides of eleven players officially adjudged first-class ; the governing body in each country to decide the status of teams.

The Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) has formally defined the term " Free software " in 1986 and requested that people avoid referring to " Free Software " as " freeware ".

More formally, case has been defined as " a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their heads.

It was formally defined as such by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) with the mid-1993 publication of the first proposal for an HTML specification: " Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML )" Internet-Draft by Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly, which included an SGML Document Type Definition to define the grammar.

Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia do not have the special significance that the border with Israel does ; these borders have not always hampered tribal nomads in their movements, yet for a few groups borders did separate them from traditional grazing areas and delimited by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia ) was first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.

Jurisdiction ( from the Latin ius, iuris meaning " law " and dicere meaning " to speak ") is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility.

Knowledge of this language was thus essential for an official career, but it was never formally defined.

Relation is formally defined in the next section.

Kleene formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer would likely reject this formalization as meaningless, given his rejection of the realist / Platonist position.

Since these concepts are formally defined in the article on structures, the present article can content itself with an informal introduction which consists in examples of how these terms are used.

More formally, the environment is modeled as a Markov decision process ( MDP ) with states and actions with the following probability distributions: the instantaneous cost distribution, the observation distribution and the transition, while a policy is defined as conditional distribution over actions given the observations.

A nondeterministic Turing machine can be formally defined as a 6-tuple, where

In 1947, the operational amplifier was first formally defined and named in a paper by Professor John R. Ragazzini of Columbia University.

A PDA is formally defined as a 7-tuple:

A GPDA is formally defined as a 6-tuple:

can not be expressed by the formal regular expressions ( as formally defined below ).

Safe semantics are defined formally in Lamport's " On Interprocess Communication ", published in Distributed Computing 1, 2 ( 1986 ), 77 – 101.

Secondary structure can be formally defined by the hydrogen bonds of the biopolymer, as observed in an atomic-resolution structure.