Recycled lives: a history of reincarnation in Blavatsky's theosophy
"A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is the direct result of the impact of the nineteenth-century's largest and most influential Western esoteric mo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is the direct result of the impact of the nineteenth-century's largest and most influential Western esoteric movement, the Theosophical Society. In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes explains and historicises the rebirth doctrines of the matriarch of Theosophy, the controversial occultist, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891). Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes contextualises them in light of multiple dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural life. In particular, this book explores Blavatsky's readings (and misreadings) of Spiritualist currents, scientific theories, Platonism, and Hindu and Buddhist thought. These, in turn, are set in relief against broader nineteenth-century American and European trends. The chapters come together to reveal the contours of a modern perspective on reincarnation that is inseparable from the nineteenth-century discourses within which it emerged, and which has shaped how people in the West tend to view reincarnation today"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 215 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780190909130 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction I
Madame Controversy 4
Kabbalah, Egyptology, and Rebirth 6
Chapter Outline 12
1. Blavatsky and Reincarnation 19
Blavatsky in America and Isis Unveiled 23
When Did Blavatsky Start Teaching Reincarnation? 30
The Secret Doctrine and Theosophy’s Legacy 41
2. Isis Unveiled and Metempsychosis 45
Pythagorean Metempsychosis versus Kardecist Reincarnation 47
Transmigrations before, during, and after One Life on Earth 50
Blavatsky s Letters: Immortality and Metempsychosis 56
Further Exceptional Occurrences 6l
Conclusions 6 3
3. Reincarnation in The Secret Doctrine 65
The Monad’s Planetary Journey 69
The Monad’s Racial Journey 73
The Saptapama 77
Karma 82
Conclusions 85
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4. Spiritualism 87
Blavatsky and Spiritualism 88
Blavatsky and French Spiritism 90
British and American Spiritualism 95
Emma Hardinge Britten 99
Paschal Beverly Randolph IOI
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor 104
Conclusions 106
5. Platonism 108
Nineteenth-Century Constructions of the Greeks IIO
Alexander Wilder 114
Blavatsky and Greek Rebirth 119
Pythagoras 120
Plato 122
The Neo-Platonists 127
Conclusions 130
6. Science 132
Blavatsky, Science, and Materialism 133
Theosophy between ‘Science’ and ‘Religion 139
The Unseen Universe and Isis Unveiled 144
Ernst Haeckels Monism and The Secret Doctrine 148
Darwinism 153
Conclusions 158
7. Hindu and Buddhist Thought 160
Orientalism 166
The Invention of Hinduism and Buddhism 169
Mohini Mohun Chatterji 175
Tallapragada Subba Row 177
Herbert Spencer 178
The Vishnu Purana 180
Adi Buddha l8l
Conclusions 183
8. Conclusions 184
Bibliography 191
Index 211
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