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White Lotus Day celebrates the ‘founding mother of occult in America,’ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891. HPB, as followers affectionately call her, is remembered as a co-founder…