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

Behind the Bastards

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Theosophy, She's an Eron Hubbard Figure

Orientalism was still a thing, but it wasn't necessarily white supremacis. People just believed things and didn't really have any way to confirm them. It's based on stereotypes of asia, many of which were wrong. And also that like, like your saying, like she wasn't actually, she was just interested in the the eyes and ears that spiritualism. Ha, yes. Theosophists are going to be livid with us at the things we leave out.

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