Word: chaldean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame Blavatsky's doctrine is a very strange and stringent creed, highly moral despite her own aberrations, bizarre but engrossing as a compendium of comparative religion. Although H.P.B. quoted knowingly and relevantly from such ancient tracts as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Chaldean Kabalah, her main sources turned out to be 1) revelations from a secret inner circle of Eastern arahats ("masters of esoteric philosophy"), with whom she may have communicated by telepathy, and 2) "secret portions of the Book of Dzyan," a work so highly classified that only Madame Blavatsky ever heard of it. Also...