Word: adyar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important question of Madame Blavatsky's occult powers, Biographer Meade takes a view that will seem evenhanded to most readers who are not Theosophists (the society persists throughout the world, including New York City, where it was founded, Lon don, where Blavatsky had her wildest suc cess, and Adyar, a suburb of Madras, where she set up her headquarters). The Victorian age had a great hankering for table rapping, poltergeists, spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo...