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The spiritualist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, better known as Madame Blavatsky, had begun her rise to fame after visiting the Eddy Farm (home to Mary Baker Eddy’s daughter and scene of extraordinary mediumistic performances by her grandchildren) in Vermont in 1874. With some psychic ability and much personal presence, she was taken up by one Colonel Olcott and together they formed a ‘Miracle Club’, followed by the Theosophical Society, which they founded in 1875 with William Quem Judge. Inspired first by the mysterious entity ‘Tuit Bey’, Blavatsky moved on to India where further inspirational entities led her to complete an occult cosmography described in Isis Unveiled (1877) and The Secret Doctrine (1888).
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Bloom, C. (2013). Massacre at Trafalgar. In: Victoria’s Madmen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318978_4
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