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The Secret Doctrine

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The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy is a pseudoscientific esoteric work written by Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), founder (1875) of the religious movement known as Theosophy.

From the Wikipedia article The Secret Doctrine, revision 1362142396, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1047005: “non-fiction work by Helena Blavatsky”.

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In the chronology, in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's account.

Her cosmological synthesis, presented as a reading of the Stanzas of Dzyan: cycles of evolution, root races, reincarnation and hidden spiritual hierarchies.