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1. Snell 1895b, p. 258.
2. Snell 1895a, p. 205.
3. Snell 1895b, p. 259.
4. In March 1891, M. M. Snell expressed his opinion on Theosophy in the pages of The Washington Post , after which the newspaper published W.Q. Judge's comment "Tenets of Theosophy."[12] In 1893, Snell was a head of the science section of the First Parliament of the World's Religions.[13] https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Washington%20Post
5. Snell 1895b, p. 262.
6. Степанянц 2009, p. 822.
7. Prof. Olav Hammer wrote that, according to Blavatsky, the main texts of Indian philosophy, the Upanishads, were "expurgated by the brahmins once it became clear to them that they could not be kept entirely out of the reach of individuals of low caste."(Blavatsky, 1888) This was done by removing the "most important" parts of them, although the brahmins have provided the transfer of the main key "among the initiated," so that they could understand the remainder of the text.[16]
8. A Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov has called the Upanishads the "Theosophical part" of the Vedas.[17]
9. Степанянц 2009, pp. 58–9.
10. Степанянц 2009, p. 445.
11. Snell 1895b, p. 263.
12. Snell 1895b, p. 264.
13. Snell wrote that elements of Buddhism, which are seen in Theosophy (see Fig. 1), have been certainly Hinduized: "When it is remembered that the Advaita and the Yoga are particularly popular among the adherents of the Śaiva form of Hinduism and that the Mahāyāna Buddhism arose from a fusion of Buddhism with the latter, the association of Theosophy with Buddhism, not only in the popular mind, but in that of its adherents, becomes intelligible."[21]
14. As Prof. Goodrick-Clarke noted, Buddhist ideas and Advaita Vedanta were the "common source" of Blavatsky's esoteric doctrine.[22]
15. Snell 1895b, p. 265.
16. According to Prof. Mark Bevir, "the most important" Theosophical conception within India was identification of the "universal religion" with the ancient Brahmanism.[24]
17. Lopez 2009, p. 11.
18. Jones, Ryan 2006b, p. 242.
19. James Skeen, noting that the ancient Greeks and Hindus believed in evolution, has quoted in the Theosophical book by Virginia Hanson: "In Hindu cosmogony, the beginning of the major evolutionary cycle for this earth, known as a Kalpa, is given as 1,960 million years ago. In theosophical terminology, this would identify the arrival of the life wave on this earth."[27][28]
20. Woodroffe 1974, p. 14.
21. Taimni 1969, pp. 189–90.
22. Sellon, Weber 1992, p. 323.
23. Goodrick-Clarke 2008, p. 219.
24. Taimni 1969.
25. According to Encyclopedia of Hinduism, The Secret Doctrine "remains one of the most influential occult works to appear in the West."[33]
26. Blavatsky 1888, p. 18.
27. Taimni 1969, p. 162.
28. Blavatsky 1888, p. 35.
29. Taimni 1969, pp. 50–1.
30. According to Hindu philosophy, during the period of "dissolution", the universe collapses "into a mathematical point" that has not any magnitude. This is the "Shiva-Bindu."[38]
31. A European term "the Logos" is equivalent to the Hindu one the "Shabda-Brahman."(Subba Row, 1888)
32. Taimni 1969, p. 88.
33. In a historian Julie Chajes' opinion, reincarnation is a "fundamental principle of Theosophy", which claims that not only individualities are reincarnated, but also the "universes, solar systems, and planets."[40]
34. For more details, see the third volume of The Secret Doctrine.[41]
35. Driscoll 1912, p. 626.
36. Bevir 2000.
37. Goodrick-Clarke noted that Hindu philosophy, "in particular Samkara's Advaita Vedanta, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita," was widely represented in Blavatsky's articles and books.[22]
38. "Theosophy's eclecticism and relativism were profoundly incompatible with Dayananda's fundamentalism, so rapid mutual disenchantment was inevitable."[43]
39. Goodrick-Clarke 2004, p. 12.
40. According to Paul Johnson's research, these two Indian leaders may have been prototypes of the Theosophical Mahatmas, Morya and Kuthumi.(Godwin, 1994)
41. Hammer 2003, p. 120.
42. Ramanujachary 1993, p. 21.
43. Senkevich stated that, besides Subba Row, there were also other "talented young men from the Brahmin families" who became the Theosophists, for example, Damodar K. Mavalankar and Mohini Mohun Chatterji.[47]
44. Godwin 1994, p. 329.
45. Ramanujachary 1993, p. 37.
46. Ramanujachary 1993, p. 38.
47. Subba Row 1888.
48. Ramanujachary 1993, p. 13.
49. Канаева 2009, pp. 396, 397.
50. "The same [Hindu] family and even the same person may worship different gods."[53]
51. Шабанова 2016, pp. 124–5.
52. Stuckrad 2005, p. 127.
53. Britannica.
54. Emblem.
55. Шабанова 2016, p. 130.
56. Степанянц 2009, p. 586.
57. Purucker 1999.
58. Шохин 2010.
59. According to Shabanova, Blavatsky met this Maharaja during hers first travel to India.[61]
60. Santucci 2012, p. 242.
61. Martin.
62. Шабанова 2016, p. 29.
63. Ellwood noted that the Bhagavad-gita, "an ancient Hindu text, highly valued by many Theosophists".[65]
64. Hammer 2003, pp. 185, 192.
65. Tantric practice of the Hindus has always been associated with the "local religious worldview," for example, with some "forms of Kashmiri Shaivism."[67]
66. When the Theosophical Society was created the investigation "the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man" was proclaimed its third major task.[68]
67. Woodroffe 1974, pp. 12–3.
68. Motoyama 2003, p. 189.
69. Eliade 1958, pp. 241–5.
70. Woodroffe 1974, p. 9.
71. Guénon 2004, p. 100.
72. Guénon 2004, pp. 197, 298.
73. Lopez 2009, p. 186.
74. Vivekananda 2018.
75. Woodroffe 1974, pp. 14, 19.
76. Hammer 2003, p. 124.
77. Дружинин 2012, p. 74.
78. Hartmann 1885, p. 176.