During a ghost hunt at a Vermont farmhouse, this movement’s founder met Henry Steel Olcott. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this mystical movement based out of Adyar, India. Koot Hoomi was one of the mahatmas, or Ascended Masters, of this esoteric movement.
ANSWER: Theosophy [or Theosophical Society]
[10h] Theosophy founder Helena Blavatsky believed in this idea that a fluid aether consisting of astral light contained all memories and knowledge and could be accessed through clairvoyance.
ANSWER: Akashic records
[10e] Theosophy inspired this synesthetic Russian composer’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire. His Mysterium was intended to be played in the Himalayas to signal the dawn of a new world.
ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin [or Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin]
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