"Madame Blavatsky, as she was known, was an aristocratic, Russian-born medium who founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and who taught, among much else, that people could contact the spiritual realm with help from higher entities called Masters of Wisdom."
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Gustav Niebuhr in "New Millennium, Great Expectations", The New York Times (20 July 1996)
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