User talk:Dematt/History of Vitalism

Okay, this again is the version that Gleng reverted to on Sept 28, 2006 before KV took over.

Will drop various refs etc here, they seemed they might be interesting

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Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" This epithet is applied to people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The word was popularised in theosophical literature in the late 19th century when Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, claimed that her teachers were adepts or Mahatmas who reside in Tibet.