Many don't know that a huge part of the disinformation about both African and Asian spirituality is not just making us look respectively overly "primitive" or overly passive. The effort to shove our legends into the context of Aryan theory is ongoing.
Most people haven't read enough Blavatsky to compare her to Agehananda Bharati or other western born actual academics who explored Asian spirituality.
As relevant today as then:
http://aryasangha.org/rampaism1.htm
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