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Madame Blavatsky co-founded Theosophy by plagiarizing various Eastern religious texts

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Why invent your own mystical religion when you can simply copy-paste from Buddhism and Hinduism and slap your name on it? Helena Blavatsky practically invented the modern New Age movement in the 1800s by mashing up poorly understood Eastern philosophies with Western occultism, claiming she learned it all from hidden masters in Tibet.

Madame Blavatsky co-founded Theosophy by plagiarizing various Eastern religious texts
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