Madame Blavatsky

by Marion Meade

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  Banner of Light, Boston

  Christian College Magazine, Madras

  Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, New York

  Herald of the Star, London

  International Journal of Parapsychology, New York

  The Liberal Christian, New York

  Light, London

  Lucifer, London

  Nineteenth Century Magazine, London

  Occult Review, London

  The Path, New York

  Religio -Philosophical Journal, Chicago

  The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, London

  The Theosophical Forum, New York

  Theosophical Quarterly, New York

  Theosophical Review, London

  The Theosophist, Bombay, Madras

  The Word, New York

  The Two Worlds, London

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