Recycled Lives : a History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy.
In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes explores the rebirth doctrines of the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), matriarch of Theosophy. Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural lif...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2019.
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| Series: | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; Recycled Lives; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Madame Controversy; Kabbalah, Egyptology, and Rebirth; Chapter Outline; 1. Blavatsky and Reincarnation; Blavatsky in America and Isis Unveiled; When Did Blavatsky Start Teaching Reincarnation?; The Secret Doctrine and Theosophy's Legacy; 2. Isis Unveiled and Metempsychosis; Pythagorean Metempsychosis versus Kardecist Reincarnation; Transmigrations before, during, and after One Life on Earth; Blavatsky's Letters: Immortality and Metempsychosis; Further Exceptional Occurrences; Conclusions
- 3. Reincarnation in The Secret DoctrineThe Monad's Planetary Journey; The Monad's Racial Journey; The Saptaparna; Karma; Conclusions; 4. Spiritualism; Blavatsky and Spiritualism; Blavatsky and French Spiritism; British and American Spiritualism; Emma Hardinge Britten; Paschal Beverly Randolph; The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor; Conclusions; 5. Platonism; Nineteenth-Century Constructions of the Greeks; Alexander Wilder; Blavatsky and Greek Rebirth; Pythagoras; Plato; The Neo-Platonists; Conclusions; 6. Science; Blavatsky, Science, and Materialism; Theosophy between 'Science' and 'Religion'
- The Unseen Universe and Isis UnveiledErnst Haeckel's Monism and The Secret Doctrine; Darwinism; Conclusions; 7. Hindu and Buddhist Thought; Orientalism; The Invention of Hinduism and Buddhism; Mohini Mohun Chatterji; Tallapragada Subba Row; Herbert Spencer; The Vishnu Purana; Adi Buddha; Conclusions; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index