Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Where each worldview places it
"Perhaps the founder of the current New Age movement". She founded the Theosophical Society (1875) and Lucifer Publishing (later Lucis) and published Lucifer magazine[1]. A Third Reich documentary Cooper airs calls her a Russian adventuress whose occult teachings invented the Aryan super race and made the swastika its sign[2]. Cooper says there was "no super race called Aryans" before her[2].
- Aliases
- Madame BlavatskyHelena Blavatsky
- Controls / directs
- founded the Theosophical Society, Lucifer (magazine) and Lucis Trustcreated the Aryan race mythinfluenced Guido von List (1908)[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- initiated into the swastika's mysteries, per her claim[2]
- Lineage
- Tibet → Blavatsky → Theosophy → List → Germanenorden → Thule → Nazism[2]; Theosophy → Unity → the one-world religion[4]
- Dates
- Theosophical Society 1875
- The Secret Doctrine 1888[5]
- Key events
- 1888: The Secret Doctrine, claiming an ancient text shown her in an underground Himalayan monastery[2]
- Members / notable people
- Annie Besant (co-editor)Albert Pike (early Theosophist)Henry Wallace kept a shrine to her in the White House[1]