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Word: ental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind; she supported herself and some times the Theosophical Society by prodigious feats of freelance journalism, mostly for Russian newspapers. She did have a powerful need for self-dramatization, however, and a real belief in the spirit-infested cosmology she described in two long, marvelously jumbled works of Ori ental philosophy, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Her Tibetan Masters dictated these volumes to her, she seems to have been convinced, although their San skrit quotations tended to be shaky. If a bit of spiritualist theater in a darkened room helped to shore up the convictions of her fellow Theosophists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Spirit | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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