"Helena Petrovna Blavatsky...is surely among the most original and perceptive minds of
her time....She is among the modern worlds trailblazing psychologists of the
visionary mind."
Theodore Roszak, Unfinished Animal:
Aquarian Frontier & the Evolution of Consciousness."Blavatsky's esoteric synthesis has
served as a basic source for later esotericists, literati,
scientists, and entire movements, including the New Age. Unlike most
of her contemporaries, she is as visible today as any modern
trendsetting guru, and she will most likely remain the most memorable
and innovative esotericist of the 19th century." James A. Santucci in Dictionary
of
Gnosis & Western Esotericism.
"....Madame
Blavatsky...stands out as the fountainhead of modern occult thought, and was either the
originator and/or popularizer of many of the ideas and terms which have a century later
been assembled within the New Age Movement. The Theosophical Society, which she cofounded,
has been the major advocate of occult philosophy in the West and the single most important
avenue of Eastern teaching to the West."
J. Gordon Melton, Jerome Clark and
Aidan A. Kelly, editors, New Age Almanac. |