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Mme. Blavatsky was among the first in modern times in calling attention to the sacredness of the number seven. This notion was at first rejected by people in different fields, who criticized Blavatsky. As she wrote in 1883:
<blockquote>We were taunted by ignorant Brahmins and learned Europeans that our septenary divisions of nature and everything in it, including man, is arbitrary and not endorsed by the oldest religious systems of the East.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991), 574.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>We were taunted by ignorant Brahmins and learned Europeans that our septenary divisions of nature and everything in it, including man, is arbitrary and not endorsed by the oldest religious systems of the East.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991), 574.</ref></blockquote>



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Mme. Blavatsky was among the first in modern times in calling attention to the sacredness of the number seven. This notion was at first rejected by people in different fields, who criticized Blavatsky. As she wrote in 1883:

We were taunted by ignorant Brahmins and learned Europeans that our septenary divisions of nature and everything in it, including man, is arbitrary and not endorsed by the oldest religious systems of the East.[1]

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  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991), 574.

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