White Lotus Day celebrates the ‘founding mother of occult in America,’ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, photographed in New York circa 1874. Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Marina Alexandrova, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin – Published: 2023 May 05 – Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White …