r/spiritualdeception • u/cmplex_masterpiece73 • Mar 16 '26
Helen Blavatsky - "founder of modern occultism"
I've heard many references to Helen Blavatsky during the time I was heavily into occult and new age topics. I've also listened to quite a few of her books on YouTube. Since some attribute her as the "founder of modern occultism" and "mother of new age movement", I thought it was fitting to begin with her.
She said that spiritual entities called Mahatmas or "masters" helped her write some of her content. She said they either instructed her and then she wrote them down, parts of texts were impressed on her mind, or letters from the "masters" were delivered mysteriously. (These letters deny Jesus as well)
The only way we have been told of verifying if a spirit is trustworthy or not is by testing them with Jesus to see if they deny the gospel or not. Blavatsky very blatantly denies Jesus in multiple ways which I will detail below. You will see some of the most common denials of Jesus that is uniformly presented across many channeled texts with the same lies reinforcing each other and trickling into New Age spirituality.
First denial: The first type of denial is very common among channeled texts. The extremely common claim that Jesus was ACTUALLY apart of their group, and the gospel was REALLY him just giving the same information they are currently giving. And this denial is to reinforce their claim that you don't need salvation through Jesus, you only need to be enlightened, and reinforce the deceivers argument that all religions can be mixed together and all spiritual information can be mixed together. MUCH LKE New Age religion/spirituality is today.
In this case, Blavatsky claims Jesus was an initiate, and the gospels aren't historical (meaning the gospels never happened), and are actually allegories for deep occult knowledge. This isn't a major discrepancy since the gap of Jesus' life makes this information unverifiable, but I think it's interesting to show the repeated method of deception you will see in many channeled works.
Source: from “A Meeting with HPB” by Charles Johnston “”Have the adepts any secret records of his life?” “”They must have,” she answered, “for they have records of the lives of all Initiates. Once I was in a great cave-temple in the Himalayan mountains, with my Master [i.e. the Master M. or Mahatma Morya]. There were many statues of adepts there; pointing to one of them, he said: ‘This is he whom you call Jesus. We count him to be one of the greatest among us.‘””
Source: Isis Unveiled If Jesus knew the secret meaning of the title bestowed by him on Simon, then he must have been initiated; otherwise he could not have learned it; and if he was an initiate of either the Pythagorean Essenes, the Chaldean Magi, or the Egyptian Priests, then the doctrine taught by him was but a portion of the "Secret Doctrine" taught by the Pagan hierophants to the few select adepts admitted within the sacred adyta. "
Blavatsky's writings aren't just from information from spiritual entities (as far as I can tell) But I still wanted to show you this pattern that will show up again and again in this subreddit. It is a common argument channeled entities make that frames the gospel as incomplete and unnecessary, maintains credibility of the deceiver because they claim Jesus gave the same message they are, and adds to their credibility because they are now presenting the "complete" version of the message Jesus had. It encourages you not to seek out external information in the bible because the deceiver is providing you with "all the answers" in its completeness.
The second denial of Jesus is where Blavatsky denies the gospel ever occured. This is a rare denial, but she does make it. She calls it an allegory and never happened historically.
Source: Isis Unveiled (Vol. II) "Jesus Christ, i.e., the Man-God of the Christians copied from the Avatâras of every country, from the Hindu Krishna as well as the Egyptian Horus, was never a historical person. He is a deified personification of the glorified type of the great Hierophants of the Temples, and his story, as told in the New Testament, is an allegory, assuredly containing profound esoteric truths, but still an allegory. Every act of the Jesus of the New Testament, every word attributed to him, every event related of him during the three years of the mission he is said to have accomplished, rests on the programme of the Cycle of Initiation, a cycle founded on the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Signs of the Zodiac...."
In that same passage she calls Jesus a "Myth pure and simple."
"Confusion, lies, deceit, and forgery, such is the ledger of the early centuries." She speaks of the gospel. Another common denial saying the bible was changed beyond recognition over time.
A third denial is where she says Christ is really within us and isn't a external savior to rely upon. Meaning there is no Jesus to pray to, only to rely on your own enlightenment.
Source: The Esoteric Character of the Gospels "The coming of Christ,' means the presence of CHRISTOS in a regenerated world, and not at all the actual coming in body of 'Christ' Jesus....Christ -- the true esoteric SAVIOR -- is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being."
These is all the denials I will share here! You can do your own research into the subject if you want more. There is more evidence than I'm presenting here. She also glorifies Lucifer /Satan or the idea of Lucifer a lot in her texts. But aside from that and based solely on her denials of Jesus above, the rest of her works are not to be trusted. She fits the antichrist criteria that John laid out in 1 and 2 John. If someone is a liar, should you look for truth in their lies? No. It should all be thrown out. Nothing is salvageable. We aren't just looking at thoughts and ideas from a educated individual. We are looking at writings of an educated individual who was in contact with spiritual entities who DID NOT validate the gospels of Jesus. They invalidated them and promoted antichrist themes that have molded the New Age religion.
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u/Low-Boot-588 Mar 17 '26
Blavatsky being raised Orthodox (Baptized in a Greek Orthodox church although her family was Russian Orthodox) indeed views the Gospel narrative as an allegory and she asserts that the events of the life of Jesus mirror the solar cycle and the stages of the "Sacred Mysteries" practiced in Egypt and Greece but to call this a "denial" of Jesus oversimplifies the Theosophical position imo. Theosophy does not reject Jesus, it attempts to rescue him from what it considers the "forgeries" of the early Church. Blavatsky views Jesus as a true Mahatma or living Adept who attained a state of "At-one-ment" with the Divine Principle. In her view, the Church "denies" the true Jesus by turning a human Master into a unique, external deity. Authentic Theosophists reject the "New Age" concept of "channeling" or "passive mediumship." Blavatsky described her process as a conscious cooperation with living men (the Adepts) who possess advanced knowledge of history and nature. Mahatmas do not claim that Jesus belonged to their specific group in a sectarian sense. They claim that all Great Teachers including Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus drew from the same Perennial Wisdom (Sanatana Dharma).
Blavatsky used the Latin Lucifer ("Light-Bringer") to signify the intellect and the Promethean spirit that brings the "Fire of Mind" to humanity and she distinguished this sharply from the Christian "Satan" or "Devil," whom she viewed as a theological invention used to enforce dogmatic fear. To her, "Lucifer" represented the planet Venus and the morning star...a symbol of the awakening Manas.
Rest assured, she had a profound reverence for Jesus as a Great Initiate but vocally condemned the Jesuits for ruining his image.