Modern Okültizmde Bir Köşe Taşı: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Yıl 2017, Sayı: 9, 287 - 323, 07.12.2017

Ali Gül

https://doi.org/10.18498/amauifd.363557

Cited By: 1

Öz

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) modern okültist
düşüncenin en önemli isimlerinden birisi olarak kabul edilir. Blavatsky,
yaşamının çoğunu dünyayı gezmekle geçirmiştir. Bu gezilerinde ezoterik ve okült
bilgilerin peşinde koşmuş; dönemin ruhçu/spiritüalist akımına intisap etmiştir.
Blavatsky, 1873 yılında ABD’ye geldiğinde tam anlamıyla ruhçu akımın içindedir.
ABD’de ruh çağırma celselerine bir medyum olarak katılmıştır. Blavatsky,
ilerleyen dönemde ruhçuluğu terk ederek Teosofi Cemiyeti’nin oluşumunda başı
çekmiştir. Bir müddet sonra yol arkadaşı Henry Steel Olcott ile birlikte
Hindistan’a gitmiş ve Teosofi Cemiyeti’nin merkezini de Hindistan’a taşımıştır.
Bu tarihten itibaren Blavatsky, öğretilerinde Batı ezoterik geleneği ile Doğu
düşüncesini birleştirme gayreti gütmüştür. Yaşadığı skandallar yüzünden
Hindistan’dan ayrılmak zorunda kalan Blavatsky, hayatının son dönemini
Avrupa’da geçirmiştir. Blavatsky’nin Isis
Unveiled ve The Secret Doctrine
isimli iki eseri okült düşünce açısından köşe taşı kabul edilmektedir. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

H. P. Blavatsky, Ruhçuluk, Okültizm, Ezoterizm, Hindistan

A Cornerstone in Modern Occultism: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Öz

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) is considered one of the most
important figures in modern occultist thought. Blavatsky spent most of her life
by touring the world. She has been the pursuit of esoteric and occult knowledge
on this trip; finally joined the spiritualist current of that period. When she
came to USA in 1873, Blavatsky was in spiritualist current literally. Attended
the evocation sessions in USA as a medium. Blavatsky abandoned spiritualism
after a while, then she has been a leader in the formation of the Theosophical Society. After
some time, she went to India with her fellow Henry Steel Olcott and moved the
center of the Theosophical Society in India. From this date, she has pursued
the effort to combine Western esoteric tradition with Eastern thought.
Blavatsky because of scandals forced to leave India and has spent her last
peirod of her life in Europe. Blavatsky's two works Isis Unveiled and The Secret
Doctrine are considered the cornerstone for the occult thought.

Anahtar Kelimeler

H. P. Blavatsky, Spiritualism, Occultism, Esotericism, India

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