The Soul and Personality of Helena Blavatsky

FOTA Special Edition • Summer 2015 Newsletter of the Friends of the Theosophical Archives, 2015

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Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, 2023

She is a specialist on Russian and Ukrainian peasants, women and gender issues, and lived Orthodoxy in the modern era as well as witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine in the early modern and modern periods.

1998

All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms of quotations analyzed are taken from Ostrovsky's Groza and Bespridannitsa, Griboedov's Gore ot uma, and Turgenev's Mesiats v derevne. Chap. 2 uses examples from J. Slowacki's play Fantazy to differentiate between the "raw material" of a literary text and its "narrative structure." Moreover, the author describes the basic components of such structures. Van Holk states that Fantazy was chosen to illustrate the discussion because it has a clear thematic composition and an imaginative textual surface. It is also "a striking example of the literary

AUC PHILOLOGICA

1998

All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms of quotations analyzed are taken from Ostrovsky's Groza and Bespridannitsa, Griboedov's Gore ot uma, and Turgenev's Mesiats v derevne. Chap. 2 uses examples from J. Slowacki's play Fantazy to differentiate between the "raw material" of a literary text and its "narrative structure." Moreover, the author describes the basic components of such structures. Van Holk states that Fantazy was chosen to illustrate the discussion because it has a clear thematic composition and an imaginative textual surface. It is also "a striking example of the literary

Studies in East European Thought, 2021

This is a review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. The book, which falls under the wider umbrella of the academic study of Western esotericism, is concerned with the Russian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), her doctrine of reincarnation, its development through the different phases of her literary work, and her sources, whether these be Indian philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, or nineteenth-century science. Blavatsky’s project, which lies at the crossroads of spiritualism and comparative philology, was to uncover what she believed was a primeval wisdom, parts of which, she thought, has been preserved in diffuse form in the mythologies, religions, philosophies, and science of ancient civilizations (Hindus, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, etc.). According to Blavatsky, one of the fundamental elements of this primitive wisdom-religion is the belief in reincarnation. But—and this is the main focus of the book—it so happens, or so the author claims, that Blavatsky defended two different theories of reincarnation at different stages of her literary career; in Isis Unveiled (1877) she defended the theory of metempsychosis, whereas in The Secret Doctrine (1888) she defended a theory of reincarnation simpliciter. In this review, I briefly present each of these two theories from the author’s perspective before addressing the author’s take on the Ancient Greek and nineteenth-century sources of Blavatsky.

The Slavic and East European Journal, 1998

All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms of quotations analyzed are taken from Ostrovsky's Groza and Bespridannitsa, Griboedov's Gore ot uma, and Turgenev's Mesiats v derevne. Chap. 2 uses examples from J. Slowacki's play Fantazy to differentiate between the "raw material" of a literary text and its "narrative structure." Moreover, the author describes the basic components of such structures. Van Holk states that Fantazy was chosen to illustrate the discussion because it has a clear thematic composition and an imaginative textual surface. It is also "a striking example of the literary