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	* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy Spiritualism and Theosophy] at Theosophy World.		* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy Spiritualism and Theosophy] at Theosophy World.

	=== Books ===		=== Books and pamphlets===

	* Podmore, Frank. ''The Naturalization of the Supernatural''. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Available at [https://archive.org/stream/naturalisationof00podmrich/naturalisationof00podmrich_djvu.txt Internet Archive].		* Podmore, Frank. ''The Naturalization of the Supernatural''. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Available at [https://archive.org/stream/naturalisationof00podmrich/naturalisationof00podmrich_djvu.txt Internet Archive].
			* Sinnett, A. P. "Spiritualism as Related to Theosophy". London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1920. Available at [https://archive.org/details/spiritualism-as-related-to-theosophy Internet Archive].

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==
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	* ~~'''~~[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy "Spiritualism and Theosophy"]~~'''~~ at Theosophy World.		* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy Spiritualism and Theosophy] at Theosophy World.

	=== Books ===		=== Books ===

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	[[Category:Western Esotericism]]		[[Category:Western Esotericism]]
	~~[[Category:Theosophical worldview]]~~

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	===Articles===		===Articles===
	* '''[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy "Spiritualism and Theosophy"]''' at Theosophy World.		* '''[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy "Spiritualism and Theosophy"]''' at Theosophy World.

			=== Books ===

			* Podmore, Frank. ''The Naturalization of the Supernatural''. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Available at [https://archive.org/stream/naturalisationof00podmrich/naturalisationof00podmrich_djvu.txt Internet Archive].

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==		== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==

	Mme. Blavatsky regarded ~~the~~ spiritualistic phenomena as a good instance of real phenomena that could not be accounted by materialistic science:		Mme. Blavatsky regarded spiritualistic phenomena as a good instance of real phenomena that could not be accounted by materialistic science:

	<blockquote>Amidst the greatest glow of the self-sufficiency of exact science, . . . in the midst of the deadliest calm of wholesale negations, there arose a breeze from a wholly unexpected quarter.		<blockquote>Amidst the greatest glow of the self-sufficiency of exact science, . . . in the midst of the deadliest calm of wholesale negations, there arose a breeze from a wholly unexpected quarter...
	. . .
	This was brought on by the invasion of “Spirit” manifestations, when mediumistic phenomena had broken out like an influenza all over Europe. However unsatisfactory their philosophical interpretation, these phenomena being genuine and true as truth itself in their being and their reality, they were undeniable; and being in their very nature beyond denial, they came to be regarded as evident proofs of a life beyond—opening, moreover, a wide range for the admission of every metaphysical possibility. This once the efforts of materialistic science to disprove them availed it nothing. Beliefs such as man’s survival after death, and the immortality of Spirit, were no longer to be pooh-poohed as figments of imagination; for, prove once the genuineness of such transcendental phenomena to be beyond the realm of matter, and beyond investigation by means of physical science, and—whether these phenomena contain per se or not the proof of immortality, demonstrating as they do the existence of invisible and spiritual regions where other forces than those known to exact science are at work—they are shown to lie beyond the realm of materialism.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 121-122.</ref></blockquote>		This was brought on by the invasion of “Spirit” manifestations, when mediumistic phenomena had broken out like an influenza all over Europe. However unsatisfactory their philosophical interpretation, these phenomena being genuine and true as truth itself in their being and their reality, they were undeniable; and being in their very nature beyond denial, they came to be regarded as evident proofs of a life beyond—opening, moreover, a wide range for the admission of every metaphysical possibility. This once the efforts of materialistic science to disprove them availed it nothing. Beliefs such as man’s survival after death, and the immortality of Spirit, were no longer to be pooh-poohed as figments of imagination; for, prove once the genuineness of such transcendental phenomena to be beyond the realm of matter, and beyond investigation by means of physical science, and—whether these phenomena contain per se or not the proof of immortality, demonstrating as they do the existence of invisible and spiritual regions where other forces than those known to exact science are at work—they are shown to lie beyond the realm of materialism.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 121-122.</ref></blockquote>

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	== Spiritualism in England ==		== Spiritualism in England ==

			== Spiritualism in France ==

			== Spiritualism in Russia ==

	== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==		== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==

	Mme. Blavatsky regarded the spiritualistic phenomena as a good instance of real phenomena that could not be accounted by materialistic science. :		Mme. Blavatsky regarded the spiritualistic phenomena as a good instance of real phenomena that could not be accounted by materialistic science:

	<blockquote>Amidst the greatest glow of the self-sufficiency of exact science, . . . in the midst of the deadliest calm of wholesale negations, there arose a breeze from a wholly unexpected quarter.		<blockquote>Amidst the greatest glow of the self-sufficiency of exact science, . . . in the midst of the deadliest calm of wholesale negations, there arose a breeze from a wholly unexpected quarter.
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	== See also==		== See also==
	*[[Mediumship]]		* [[Mediumship]]
	*[[Spiritism]]		* [[Spiritism]]
			* [[:Category:Spiritualists\|Spiritualists]]
			* [[:Category:Mediums\|Mediums]]
			* [[:Category:Clairvoyants\|Clairvoyants]]

	==~~Online~~ resources==		== Additional resources ==
	===Articles===		===Articles===
	*[~~http~~://www.theosophy.ph/~~encyclo~~/~~index.php?title=Spiritualism_and_Theosophy#~~ Spiritualism and Theosophy] at ~~Theosopedia~~		* '''[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/spiritualism-and-theosophy "Spiritualism and Theosophy"]''' at Theosophy World.

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==		== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==

			Mme. Blavatsky regarded the spiritualistic phenomena as a good instance of real phenomena that could not be accounted by materialistic science. :

			<blockquote>Amidst the greatest glow of the self-sufficiency of exact science, . . . in the midst of the deadliest calm of wholesale negations, there arose a breeze from a wholly unexpected quarter.
			. . .
			This was brought on by the invasion of “Spirit” manifestations, when mediumistic phenomena had broken out like an influenza all over Europe. However unsatisfactory their philosophical interpretation, these phenomena being genuine and true as truth itself in their being and their reality, they were undeniable; and being in their very nature beyond denial, they came to be regarded as evident proofs of a life beyond—opening, moreover, a wide range for the admission of every metaphysical possibility. This once the efforts of materialistic science to disprove them availed it nothing. Beliefs such as man’s survival after death, and the immortality of Spirit, were no longer to be pooh-poohed as figments of imagination; for, prove once the genuineness of such transcendental phenomena to be beyond the realm of matter, and beyond investigation by means of physical science, and—whether these phenomena contain per se or not the proof of immortality, demonstrating as they do the existence of invisible and spiritual regions where other forces than those known to exact science are at work—they are shown to lie beyond the realm of materialism.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 121-122.</ref></blockquote>

			<blockquote>In truth, its phenomena, its psychic and mesmeric manifestations, were but the cyclic pioneers of the revival of prehistoric Theosophy, and the occult Gnosticism of the antediluvian mysteries. These are facts which no intelligent Spiritualist will deny; as, in truth, modern Spiritualism is but an earlier revival of crude Theosophy, and modern Theosophy a renaissance of ancient Spiritualism.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 123.</ref></blockquote>

			This, however, does not mean that the Spiritualistic doctrines were the same as the Theosophical Teachings. Talking about the "alleged communion between the dead and living" she added a footnote saying:

			<blockquote>We hope that the few friends we have left in the ranks of the Spiritualists may not misunderstand us. We denounce the bogus “spirits” of séances held by professional mediums, and deny the possibility of such manifestations of spirits on the physical plane. But we believe thoroughly in Spiritualistic phenomena, and in the intercourse between Spirits or Egos––of embodied and disembodied entities; only adding that, since the latter cannot manifest on our plane, it is the Ego of the living man which meets the Ego of the dead personality, by ascending to the Devachanic plane, which may be accomplished in trance, during sleep in dreams, and by other subjective means.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 125.</ref></blockquote>

	== Spiritualist publications ==		== Spiritualist publications ==

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	== Spiritualism in England ==		== Spiritualism in England ==

	== ~~TS Founders and Spiritualism ==~~		== Theosophy and Spiritualism ==

	In [[ML20#Page 8\|a letter]] to [[A. P. Sinnett]], [[Mahatma]] [[K. H.]] defined Spiritualism as "the most insane and fatal of superstitions".<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 20 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 74.</ref>

	~~== Other Theosophists~~ and Spiritualism ==

	== Spiritualist publications ==		== Spiritualist publications ==

	== Impact of Spiritualist Movement ==		== Impact of Spiritualist Movement ==

			== See also==
			*[[Mediumship]]

	==Online resources==		==Online resources==
	===Articles===		===Articles===
	*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Spiritualism_and_Theosophy# Spiritualism and Theosophy] at Theosopedia		*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Spiritualism_and_Theosophy# Spiritualism and Theosophy] at Theosopedia
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/SpiritualismAndOccultTruth.htm# Spiritualism and Occult Truth] by H. P. Blavatsky
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/SpiritualismAndSpiritualists.htm# Spiritualism and Spiritualists] by H. P. Blavatsky
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/aspirit-material.htm# About "Spirit" Materializations] by William Q. Judge
	*[http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/before-american-spiritualism.htm# Before American Spiritualism] by William Q. Judge

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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 In [[ML20#Page 8|a letter]] to [[A. P. Sinnett]], [[Mahatma]] [[K. H.]] defined Spiritualism as "the most insane and fatal of superstitions".<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 20 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 74.</ref>
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	== See also==		== See also==
	*[[Mediumship]]		*[[Mediumship]]
			*[[Spiritism]]

	==Online resources==		==Online resources==