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

Behind the Bastards

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The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton

In 16 12, this like rosecrucian manifesto gets posted up in germany. It goes very viral and becomes a conspiracy theory about the rosicrucians. This is probably why helena later claimed that her great grandfather had been a rosi crucian. Because she loves these books as a kid, and she wants to like tie herself and her family to them. From her favourite book, that become part of her like conspiratorial belief system about the world. I don't even think he's particularly a white supremacist. But his book is going to become extremely influential to the weirdest kind of notes. All that has its origin point in bulwer lytton

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