HOST: Welcome noble viewers to A Journey through Aesthetic Realms on Supreme Master Television.
Today, we will introduce a brief history of the Theosophical Society through a presentation by the Theosophical Society in America and an interview with Mr. Daniel Noga, the Member Services Coordinator at the Theosophical Society in America.

Narrator (m): All over the world, from ancient times until the present, a timeless wisdom has been given to humanity by such great teachers as Lao Tzu, Confucius, Zoroaster and Christ. Other teachers, followers of those great ones, have carried on their work. In modern times, one such follower was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

When she arrived on the shores of the United States in １８７３, she had completed years of world travel and exploration. Her many years abroad had been nothing less than a spiritual pilgrimage.

She had absorbed deeper ideas gleaned from such great Western thinkers as Pythagoras and Plato, and from such Eastern philosophers as the Buddha.A small band of like-minded seekers gathered around her.

Among them was an attorney and gentleman correspondent from New York, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. Together they would form the Theosophical Society.