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Henry Steel Olcott  

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  • Henry Steel Olcott, as cofounder and first president of the Theosophical Society and as an advocate for Buddhism in both East and West, was a highly influential figure in the globalization of religion.After investigating fraudulent suppliers for the Union Army during the Civil War, Olcott became a lawyer and a journalist in New York, also maintaining a long-standing interest in spiritualistic phenomena. In 1874, he met the Russian émigré Helena Blavatsky at the site of such alleged activity in Vermont. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Olcott, Henry Steel]

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