“This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.”

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , book The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

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occult writer 1831–1891

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