entities: ENT_REC_MAHATMAS

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_REC_MAHATMAS Mahatmas (Theosophical Masters of Wisdom)   Theosophical Revealer Revealer Figure cosmic wisdom; hidden knowledge; spiritual guidance; occult synthesis theosophy; mahatmas; masters of wisdom; blavatsky; 19th-century; modern reception; hidden teachers; revealer     A reviewed Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888); Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon (1999)       Claimed semi-divine superhuman teachers in Theosophy (Theosophical Society founded 1875 by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott), said to guide the Society from Tibet. In The Secret Doctrine (1888) they are cosmic adepts who have transcended ordinary human evolution and transmit occult wisdom to initiates. Hutton (The Triumph of the Moon, 1999) notes Mathers explicitly modelled the Golden Dawn's "Secret Chiefs" on the Mahatmas. Functions as a documented modern-reception parallel to traditional revealer-figure hierarchies (compare Hermes Trismegistus, Gnostic aeons). No independent ancient attestation; documented modern occult invention. prophet

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