Helen Blavatsky was a Russian occultist. She was born in 1831 and died in 1891. She married at the age of seventeen the sixty-year-old Baron Blavatsky, but left him at the end of three months. She made extensive travels in Europe, Asia, and North America, took up the subject of theosophy and Eastern lore, and with ColonelOlcott, an Englishman, founded in 1875 the Theosophic Society, whose leader she continued to be until her death in London in 1891. Besides editing a theosophistic journal, Lucifer the Lightbringer, she published various works, including The Secret Doctrine; Key to Theosophy; Isis Unveiled; etc. Research Helen Blavatsky
The Valentinians were a sect of Gnostics, They were named after Valentinus, a priest of Alexandria, who was excommunicated in Rome, acquired a reputation as a philosophical theologian, and died in Cyprus about 160. He was one of the first to attempt the formation of a syncretistic theosophy by amalgamating Judaism and Christianity with the theogonies and philosophy of ancient Greece and the Orient. Fragments only of his writings are preserved, what is known of him being gathered from the works of Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria. Research Valentinians
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