Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky
The Sources of the Theosophical Doctrine
Celestial India - Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism - Isaac Lubelsky
Isaac Lubelsky [+]
Haifa University
saac Lubelsky is Lecturer in the Comparative Religion Program at Tel Aviv University and in the Dept of Asian Studies at Haifa University, and is co-editor of Racism and Genocide.
Description
The present chapter will examine the degree of the Theosophical doctrine’s uniqueness and originality. The author seeks to show that many of the Theosophical ideas were borrowed from diverse Western sources, and were worked by the theologians of the Society into a single doctrine. The author tries to answer the question under investigation by isolating and analysing these sources, while locating Theosophy on the map of the history of ideas, and show that it was part of an intellectual current that began long before Blavatsky.