Apparently, certain ideologies indirectly influenced by Blavatsky's theosophical school (Russian silver age mystical philosophy, traditionalism) have a certain influence on the Russian-Ukraine war. But since there is substantial debate on this question, I think that it is important to be aware of these issues, as Blavatsky is regularly the subject of various degrees of anti-occult scape-goating. Ironically, she is positioned in both right-wing (fascism) and left-wing (globalization) conspiracy theories.
I will try to write a post in her defence on this. For now, I will simply suggest that since her theosophical ideas seem to have an importance in today's political landscape, then a comprehensive and accurate historical and intellectual study of her influence and ideas are necessary. And if this stark reality serves to further encourage the growing field of esoteric history, then I think that is good thing, because it could help to clear up the significant inaccuracies, confusion and misunderstandings that continue to be propagated about her. I can't however complain about the coverage so far. The articles below, I think, give a decent picture of the mystical ideological currents influencing the war.
The rise of the traditionalists: how a
mystical doctrine is reshaping the right
Aleksandr Dugin Is the
Reactionary Prophet of Russian Ultranationalism
An interview with Benjamin Teitelbaum 03.22.2022
by Luke Savage
Mark Sedgwick March 27, 2022
The current
prevalence of anti-Western and Slavophil positions in Moscow certainly helps
explain the invasion of Ukraine, as Jane Burbank, a historian of Russia
from New York University, recently argued in The New York Times. Burbank also
proposed that “Eurasianism was injected directly into the bloodstream of
Russian power in a variant developed by the self-styled philosopher Aleksandr
Dugin.” This is more likely. Dugin has certainly made Eurasianism better known,
and his variant is better adapted to today's world than variants from a century
ago. But Dugin is a participant in a broad discussion, not the sole author of
any playbook.
The Misfortune of Tradition Why
Tradition Needs to Be Protected from Traditionalists
Sergey Horujy, (Post-Secular Conflicts, 2020, pp. 86-110)
in his treatise OrientationNorth (1997) presents a
philosophical transcription or parallel of the Nazi theosophy of Herman Wirth (1885–1981) with its theory of the northern land, Arctogeia, a
land of superhumans called Hyperboreans.
Gary Lachamn (2020)
Review
Review Jason Colavito 01/04/22020All three of these figures were products of Russia's "Silver Age" of 1890 until
1920, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks ended any meaningful philosophy or theology
in Russia,
although Berdyaev and Ilyin made their most significant contributions after
they were exiled. In fact, the Silver Age may be seen as the fulcrum of Russian
thought and spirituality, and Lachman's book is an account of the advance of
Russian thought to this point and then its abrupt disbursal after 1920, with
several Silver Age thinkers being recycled of late, which may--or may
not--presage a genuine renewal and invigoration of Russian thought and
spirituality.
MindMatters: Interview with Gary Lachman
https://www.sott.net/article/438989-MindMatters-Interview-with-Gary-Lachman-The-Return-of-Holy-Russia
The USA and the new world order
(The Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought)
A Debate Between Olavo de Carvalho and Aleksandr Dugin, 167 pp.
Also, this topic provides me with a timely occasion to
make it clear that the Duginian theory of the “war of continents” itself is
every inch a “conspiracy theory,” one which plainly has its roots in the
occult, as for example, in the ideas of Helena P. Blavatski and Alice Bailey.
Since I have no space to explain this here, I would like to draw the readers’
attention to my study entitled “Aleksandr Dugin and the War of Continents”
which, beginning today, May 23, 2011
The Justification of the Good is one of three books which the
Kremlin sent out this January to regional governors and senior members
of the ruling United Russia party. The other two are Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Inequality (written in 1919) and Ivan Ilyin’s Our Tasks (penned in exile after the Second World War).
Next year in Kyiv?
February
24, 2022
When it comes to Russian Orthodoxy, Kyiv is essentially Jerusalem, and
this is a conflict over who will have control of Orthodoxy — Moscow or
Constantinople.
The Role of Religion in Russia’s War on Ukraine
Aidan Houston; Peter Mandaville, Ph.D. March 17, 2022
The battle for Ukraine’s spiritual independence has deep roots in the region’s religious history. 
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