Theosophy - The Theosophical Movement

The Theosophy Movement was spearheaded by Madame Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky. She founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 to promote
what is termed in the Greek "God Wisdom".

The idea that certain ideals and virtues lead a person closer to
what she called "The Absolute".

A few of these things are Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, even
Philanthropy. Also noted is the belief in a seven layered soul
construct in every being.

Everyone is said to have begun as pure spirit, next becoming great
sexless beings like the people of the mythic "Hyperboria" to the polar
north, moving then on to the giant "Lemurians" who were of human
consciousness and capable of sexual reproduction then as the people
of "Atlantis". Blavatsky claims that most humans now are in the fifth
cycle and working toward a Lemurian cycle next in our evolution.

Blavatsky authored her first tome "Isis Unveiled" in the year 1877 and
her second major work "The Secret Doctrine" in 1888 which contains a
commentary on The "Book of Dzyan".

Some of the most famous, people influenced by Blavatsky and the
Theosophical Movement are, Guido von List and his followers such as
Lanz von Liebenfels, the members of the Nazi "The Thule Society" and later
Rudolf Steiner as well as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

One of her most notable opponent, though one of many, is entertainer
and Magician Harry Houdini.