> hence, bailly speculated, as the climate cooled, the atlanteans moved from spitzbergen  sometimes identified with ultima thule, the land indicated by ancient geographers as the far north  to siberia, between the obi and yenisei rivers and then to the altai, at the 49th parallel (where today the borders of russia, china, mongolia and kazakhstan meet), from where they spread to india, persia and europe > faithful to the revolutionary spirit, bailly sought to be less nationalist and more universalist, but he did not abandon eurocentrism. he made civilization arise from an imaginary prehistory of the white race, confused with the indo-european or aryan linguistic family whose cradle linguists sought in central asia > from 1851 onwards, helena blavatsky, a young russian aristocrat, bold, independent and fascinated by indian mysticism, travelled to various parts of the world and developed a personal cosmological conception based on buddhist and hindu occult traditions, allan kardec's spiritualism and also on geological, biological and anthropological speculations popular at the time. claiming to have access to forgotten truths through clairvoyance, access to disembodied spirits and secret works, she created the system she called theosophy, officially inaugurated with the founding of the theosophical society on 7 september 1875, when her most important work, isis unveiled, was also published > presenting itself as a synthesis of western and eastern wisdom, theosophy mixed myths, mid-19th century science (charles darwin's the origin of species, published in 1859, was then a controversial work), ideas from donelly, le plongeon and oera-linda, combined with personal fantasies, in a conception of human evolution whose racism, latent in blavatsky, became more explicit in followers such as c. w. leadbeater, annie besant and w. scott-elliot
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