"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
- Helena BlavatskyRussian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was instrumental in the late 19th-century founding of the Theosophical Society. She wrote a great deal about esoteric knowledge, metaphysics, and spiritualism, which she thought were present in many ancient cultures. Blavatsky frequently covered ideas in h…