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Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow

Behind the Bastards

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What Is the Story of the Cult?

In 1871, Madame Blavatsky moved to India and set up shop in a failed spiritual society. She enlisted two people who were her indentured servants to help her carry out tricks on people for money. In one letter, she complains that a half cigarette that had been left behind to be found by a theosophist named Captain Maitland in India had been like cleaned up by a servant or something. And so when he was telegrammed to like tell him where to find it, it wasn't there because one of his servants had cleaned it up. They want to tear the piece of paper into two pieces with the exception of those which will go back together as if

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