Dr. Samuel Rosenberg said that the " Book of Dyzan ", referred to by von Däniken, was " a fabrication superimposed on a gigantic hoax concocted by Madame Blavatsky.

Blavatsky said she would try to recover it through occult means.

Blavatsky stated that Theosophy was an attempt at a gradual, faithful reintroduction of a hitherto hidden science called The Occult science in Theosophical literature.

According to Blavatsky Occult science provides a description of reality not only at a physical level but also on a metaphysical one.

" Among some of the ideas that Puthoff supported regarding remote viewing was the claim in the book Occult Chemistry that two followers of Madame Blavatsky, founder of theosophy, were able to remote-view the inner structure of atoms.

Priestess of the Occult, Madame Blavatsky.

Lemuria entered the lexicon of the Occult through the works of Helena Blavatsky, who claimed to have been shown an ancient, pre-Atlantean Book of Dzyan by the Mahatmas.

Although including elements of the science of her day as well as both eastern and western esoteric thought, Blavatsky rejected the Darwinian idea that man evolved from apes, and most subsequent esotericists followed this lead.

Blavatsky attempted to demonstrate that the discoveries of " materialist " science had been anticipated in the writings of ancient sages, and that materialism would be proven wrong.

Blavatsky writes in the preface that Isis Unveiled is " a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom-Religion, as the only possible key to the Absolute in science and theology.

Blavatsky gathered a number of themes central to the occult tradition -- perennial philosophy, a Neo-Platonic emanationist cosmology, adepts, esoteric Christianity -- and reinterpreted them in relation to current developments in science and new knowledge of non-Western faiths.

The term aether ( also written as " ether ") was adopted from ancient Greek philosophy and science into Victorian physics ( see Luminiferous aether ) and utilised by Madame Blavatsky to correspond to akasha, the fifth element ( quintessence ) of Hindu metaphysics.

In the book Guenon claimed that Blavatsky had acquired all her knowledge naturally from other books not from any supernatural masters.

Guenon points out that Blavatsky spent a long time visiting a library at New York where she had easy access to the works of Jacob Boehme, Eliphas Levi, the Kabbala and other Hermetic treatises.

Guenon also wrote that Blavatsky had borrowed passages taken from a translation of extracts from the Kanjur and Tanjur published in 1836 in the twentieth volume of the Asiatic Researchers of Calcutta by Sándor Kőrösi Csoma an eccentric orientalist.

K. Paul Johnson suggests in his book The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White Brotherhood that the Masters that Madam Blavatsky claimed she had personally met are idealizations of certain people she had met during her lifetime.

Robert Todd Carroll in his book The skeptic's dictionary ( 2003 ) wrote that Blavatsky used trickery into deceiving others into thinking she had paranormal powers.

Carroll wrote that Blavatsky had faked a materialization of a tea cup and saucer as well as written the messages from her masters herself.

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.

Blavatsky had posited that humanity evolved through a series of stages called Root Races, the present, the Aryan, being the Fifth Root Race ( of seven ).

However in The Key to Theosophy, Blavatsky had stated that " The Society is a philanthropic and scientific body for the propagation of the idea of brotherhood on practical instead of theoretical lines.

He wrote that while in India, he had received visits and training from some of the " Masters " that according to Blavatsky were the inspiration behind the formation of the Theosophical Society, and were its hidden guides.

Brother to Eleanor C. Donnelly, Donnelly's work had important influence on the writings of late 19th and early 20th century figures such as Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and James Churchward and has more recently influenced writer Graham Hancock.

In 1875 in New York, Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott had founded the Theosophical Society.

Prior to this time, Theosophy had made little headway in Germany ; despite some visits by Helena Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society, to Germany and its prominent Theosophists, it was not until after her death in 1891 that a single Berlin Lodge was officially chartered in 1894.

Originally presented by Helena P. Blavatsky in the 1870s, the idea of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or Mahatmas was adopted by people who at some point had had a connection with the Theosophical movement, such as Alice Bailey, Helena Roerich, and Manly P. Hall.

Blavatsky claimed that its contents had been revealed to her by ' mahatmas ' who had retained knowledge of mankind's spiritual history, knowledge that it was now possible, in part, to reveal.

According to Blavatsky, " The MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity ( the " narrow-brained " savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian ) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had " ( The Secret Doctrine, Vol.

In 1879 he met Henry Steel Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky in Bombay, after they had just established the Theosophical Society's temporary Indian headquarters there.

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.

Alternately, he thought that it might have been adopted from Madame Blavatsky in her book The Secret Doctrine, which refers to the idea of an ultimate power as Kia-yu.

The Stanzas of Dzyan from which Madame Blavatsky claimed to have gotten the information in The Secret Doctrine are believed by some scholars to have been a mistranslation of words Kalachakra tantra ( rGyud-sde in Tibetan ).

In the same work Blavatsky was to assert that there have been, and will be, multiple messianic ( or messianic-like ) instances in human history.

Early proponents of the terms, such as Madame Blavatsky, believed that they were essentially conflatable with Black Magic and White, although this has been criticised by later occultists as being overly simplistic.

* ' A splendidly sustained piece of mystification … such as could otherwise only have been devised by a literary team fielding the Marquis de Sade, Arthur Edward Waite, Sir James Frazer, Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky, C. G. Jung, Aleister Crowley, Franz Kafka ' ( Financial Times )

The work was originally entitled The Veil of Isis, a title which remains on the heading of each page, but had to be renamed once Blavatsky discovered that this title had already been used for an 1861 Rosicrucian work by W. W. Reade.

According to both Schuré and Blavatsky, Plato had been initiated, but instead of speaking openly, he disguised the esoteric truths and put them into a rational, intellectual form which could be taught publicly.

The work had originally, according to Blavatsky, been written in the sacred language of Senzar.

Blavatsky wrote before a standard transcription of Tibetan into the Latin alphabet had been agreed upon ; it took some time to establish that she was referring to what modern scholars write as rGyud-sde, parts of a voluminous Buddhist corpus commonly referred to as the Tantras.

For example, Madame Blavatsky ( 1831 – 91 ), the founder of the Theosophical Society, only practiced mediumship to contact powerful spirits capable of conferring esoteric knowledge.

" Blavatsky connects physical race with spiritual attributes constantly throughout her works: " Esoteric history teaches that idols and their worship died out with the Fourth Race, until the survivors of the hybrid races of the latter ( The Chinese, Africans, & c .) gradually brought the worship back.