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Diminished Blavatsky,
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This review is from: Shadows and Elephants (Paperback)
I was eager to read a novel about Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott, the now-revered founders of Theosophy, but thought the author did better with Henry Olcott (Ben in the novel) than with Blavatsky (Irinia in the novel). Too often, Irinia is the comic butt of Ben's good sense and serious spiritual quest. I liked the descriptions of India; I loved the supposed excerpts from Blavatsky's tales and Olcott's journals; but SHADOWS & ELEPHANTS makes Blavatsky/Irinia almost wholly a neurotic fraud, giving no explanation of the spiritual power she exerts over followers even today.
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Shadows and Elephants by Edward Hower (Paperback - January 1, 2001)
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