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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 History of Brahmanism

The jews, as well as every other people that succeeded the er civilization, merely perpetuated a complete cultural system. According to voltaire, these primogenitors of all human knowledge were indian. The belief in the super sophistication of brahmanic culture grew stronger after sir william jones's discovery of sanscrit grammar. But even before the asiatic researchers saw the day, brahmanism was being hailed as the original science. And this is you'll see bits of this to day. If you listen to, like people talk about the bagavad gida, there's a lot of focus, particularly in the west, on like passages that could be talking

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