Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-08-30
Books mentioned on Part Three: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow
Robert and Jamie Loftus talk about Helena Blavatsky's time in the United States, inventing the "new age" movement. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky, and The Corpus Hermeticum by Hermes Trismegistus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Coming Race
Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is a nineteenth-century science fiction novel depicting an advanced subterranean civilization of beings who harness a mysterious and powerful energy source known as vril.
Discussed“a huge amount of what she's writing is her taking fiction that other people had written and like repurposing it particularly the works of Edward Bullworth Littton who's the guy who wrote the coming race”
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Isis Unveiled
Discussed“And she does eventually come out with her book. Uh it takes her a couple of years, but Isis Unveiled comes out in September of 1877.”
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The Corpus Hermeticum
Discussed“Its basic premises are contained in Corpus Hermeticum, a text of unclear origin translated into Italian and popularized in the 15th century by a Renaissance philosopher Marcilio Ficino.”
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