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  About The First Spiritual Temple: Madame Blavatsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Blavatsky went abroad, and, disguised as a man, she fought under Garibaldi and was left for dead in the battle of Mentana.
Blavatsky confessed to manufacturing, in conspiracy with her, a large number of the Theosophical miracles and revealed the secret of the sliding panels of the Shrine in the Occult Room through which, from Mme.
Blavatsky, she was a most remarkable woman, who did possess psychic powers, even though they may have fallen short of the miraculous feats she constantly claimed for herself.
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 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S. August 12, 1831 (N.S. May 8, 1891 London, England), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy.
Her mother, also known as Helena Andreyvna Fadeyev, was a novelist, known as the "Russian George Sand", and died when Helena was eleven.
Blavatsky and the SPR by Vernon Harrison [7]
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 Who Is Helena Petrovna Blavatsky?:  A Sketch of Her Life and Work for Theosophy
Blavatsky (1831-1891) was one of the most extraordinary and controversial figures of the 19th century.
Helena Petrovna von Hahn was born at Ekaterinoslav, a town on the river Dnieper, in Southern Russia, on the 12th of August, 1831.
Helena was an exceptional child, and at an early age was aware of being different from those around her.
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 AllRefer.com - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Miscellaneous Religion, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky[blutvat´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1831–91, Russian theosophist and occultist.
She was the daughter of a German named Hahn who had settled in Russia and who was distantly connected with the Russian aristocracy.
The society soon experienced serious schisms, and in 1878 Madame Blavatsky, as she was known, left for India, where she established headquarters at Adyar near Madras.
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 Madame Helena P. Blavatsky
Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrines of which she professed she derived from the fountainhead in Tibet.
One day when Helena was four she was walking by the river bank with one of her nurses while a serf-boy of fourteen followed them and annoyed Helena by pulling her perambutor.
Helena gave the woman and children her deluxe passage and traveled herself in steerage because that was all she could then afford.
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 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION- Helena Blavatsky
Helena Blavatsky was a poet, pianist, painter, philosopher, spiritualist, educator, occultist and a "tireless warrior for light." To put it very generally, her goals were universal truth and universal brotherhood.
Blavatsky's maternal grandmother, Princess Helena Pavlovna spoke five languages and was an artist, musician, botanist, archaeologist and social reformer with particular concern for the disadvantaged.
Helena Blavatsky died in England on May 8, 1891 and her body was cremated on May 10.
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 The Door Opener: Aritcles: HELENA PETROVA BLAVATSKY
Helena Petrova Blavatsky (or HPB as she preferred to be called) was one of the earliest driving forces in the modern New Age movement.
Helena simply left her husband, (they were not even officially divorced), a testament to her intense free will.
Blavatsky is the name she would keep, despite the short life of their relationship.
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 H. P. Blavatsky
Born of Russian Aristocratic parents, Blavatsky, a flamboyant and charismatic personality, was from an early age aware of her psychic abilities.
Overall, Blavatsky's teachings were strongly syncretic, drawing from Indian, Tibetan, Platonic and Neoplatonic, Kabbalistic (the latter learned from Mathers), and contemporary 19th century occult and scientific sources.
Blavatsky's legacy, through all of the planes and subplanes, and eras and sub-eras, was a new occult vision of reality (further developed by later Theosophical and related esotericists such as Rudolph Steiner, Alice Bailey, etc), which offered a detailed occult analysis of the structure of manifest reality and the spiritual forces and hierarchies behind it.
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 Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Blavatsky (1831 - 1891) was the founder of Theosophy.
Astrocartography of Helena Blavatsky  · cached · Biography of Madame Helena Blavatsky, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Neptune was reflected in her life and work, by astrocartographer Rob Couteau.
The Mystica: Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna  · cached · She was born of Russian nobility and later became the secretary of the Theosophical Society.
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 A Tribute To Helena Petrova Blavatsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Blavatsky reincarnated about forty years ago, and in 1924 she safely arrived at the main Stronghold in her physical body.
Because of the strong and persistent desire of the co-workers of H. Blavatsky to establish a society for the study of esoteric teaching, of all religions and philosophies, with the idea of introducing them to those who were ready, the Mahatma K. gave his consent to direct this society.
Blavatsky did its great work, in that it awakened numerous individual souls all over the world, and the Theosophical Societies everywhere were greatly responsible for this.
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 Lightworks - New Light on Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) and her work attracted both attention and controversy because she credited the source of her information to Mahatmas, or Masters.
She was born in 1831 in the Ukraine, to Peter von Hahn, captain of a horse artillery battery, and Helena Andreyevna, a feminist and outstanding novelist.
In Blavatsky's own words, found on her desk after her death: "There is a road, steep and thorny, beset with perils of every kind -- but yet a road; and it leads to the Heart of the Universe.
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 Helena P. Blavatsky's Works
Madame Blavatsky's magnum opus on the creation of the universe, the evolution of humankind, and the primordial tradition underlying the various religions, mythologies and philosophies of the world.
Blavatsky's first major work outlines the errors of orthodox Christianity and the fallacies of established science against the backdrop of the Esoteric teachings.
Blavatsky to the American Conventions, 1888-1891 - Blavatsky's letters to the Theosophical Society Conventions in the USA.
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 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and the Hindu Epoch - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
Definition: [Astrological Ages] Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [1831-1891 AD] is quoted by some commentators as the originator of the idea of the New Age.
Madame Blavatsky and the Secret Doctrine Blavatsky devotes more than twenty pages to the Zodiac in her book The Secret Doctrine, The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, [published 1888 AD] [Book I. -- Part III Science and the Secret Doctrine Contrasted], called the The Zodiac and it's Antiquity [Chapter 17, pp 647 - 668].
Blavatsky covers the following topics in her work: whether the Zodiac in India predates that of the Greeks/Babylonians [her opinion is that it does]* [p 647], whether the Hindu Zodiac is immensely old [her opinion is that it is]* [p 655]; that the Hindu's have Epochs which each last for 3102 years** [p 661]
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 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Her mother, also known as Helena Andreyvna Fadeyev, was a novelist, known as the "Russian (French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)) George Sand", and died when Helena was eleven.
She returned to Russia for a short stay in 1858 to soon leave with (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera singer Agardi Metrovich.
In 1874, Helena met (Click link for more info and facts about Henry Steel Olcott) Henry Steel Olcott; he was a lawyer, agricultural expert, and journalist who covered the (Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead) Spiritualist phenomena.
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 Blavatsky Net Theosophy - original Theosophy text - focus on Madame Blavatsky
In the 1800's they had been searching for a century for the next messenger and finally settled upon Helena Blavatsky, born to a noble Russian family.
Theosophy is the name Blavatsky gave to that portion of knowledge that she brought from the masters to the world.
The Key to Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky - her introduction to Theosophy.
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 Helena P. Blavatsky - 2
However, Helena already had her defense planned: she said, " their fates were linked by karma, and the marriage was her punishment for `awful pride and combativeness.'" She added that Betanelly had threaten suicide if she did not marry him.
Helena assured Olcott the marriage would not be consummated; although her reason was not clear, it would seem she did so because of her interest in Olcott.
There seems to be no single reason for this difference; one cannot say it was just her childhood, her adolescence, her adult life; the lost of her son, or the child she dearly loved; or her love of occult science.
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 Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Astrocartography of Helena Blavatsky - Biography of Madame Helena Blavatsky, focus on how the planetary metaphor of Neptune was reflected in her life and work, by astrocartographer Rob Couteau.
Blavatsky and Theosophy -- Theosophical Topics - Material on H. Blavatsky, founder of The Theosophical Society, and on her writings on theosophy and theosophical teachings.
The Mystica: Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna - She was born of Russian nobility and later became the secretary of the Theosophical Society.
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 "Helena Petrovna Blavatsky" by New York Daily Tribune
She was the founder of the Theosophical Society, an organization now fully and firmly established, which has branches in many countries, East and West, and which is devoted to studies and practices the innocence and the elevating character of which are becoming more generally recognized continually.
It must suffice to say that for nearly twenty years she had devoted herself to the dissemination of doctrines the fundamental principles of which are of the loftiest ethical character.
That will go on with the impulse it has received, and some day, if not at once, the loftiness and purity of her aims, the wisdom and scope of her teachings, will be recognized more fully, and her memory will be accorded the honor to which it is justly entitled.
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 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helena married the forty-year-old Nikifor (also Nicephor) V. Blavatsky at the age of seventeen, but they never consummated their marriage.
H.P. Blavatsky is well known for her writing, Isis Unveiled (1877), The Secret Doctrine (1888), The Key of Theosophy (1889), and The Voice of Silence (1889).
Her body was then cremated; one third of her ashes were sent to Europe, one third with William Judge to the United States, and one third to India where her ashes were scattered in the Ganges River.
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 New Light on the First Marriage of H.P. Blavatsky
Probably, Helena found in him someone who could understand and help her on the intense interior search in which she was engaged since she was 14 years old.
Helena Pissarev suggests that Prince Galitzin had introduced HPB to an occultist, who tested her psychic capabilities and gave her an address in Egypt, probably Paulus Metamon's, who was her first instructor.
Nikifor Vassilyevich Blavatsky was born in 1809 and belonged to the landed gentry from Province of Poltava, in the Ukraine.
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 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
She died when Helena was twelve, but later Helena would say that her mother had died when she was a baby.
Blavatsky in Erivan, now appearing as a Kurd warrior carrying a feathered spear; a Circassian noukar who bowed, smiled and said, "Tchock yachtchi (all right); a giant muscular fl man in white-and-gold-horned headdress, a conjurer who she had met in Africa.
In the book's preface HPB inserted `a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the ancient universal wisdom." The success of the book was greater than that of the society, which by 1878 almost collapsed.
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 The Theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
For me it is inspiring and there are also a sort of beauty in her way to express her self who H.P. Blavatsky was (they address her with Madame) In this magnificently researched biography, with materials never printed before, Sylvia Cranston tells the remarkable story of the founder of the Theosophical Movement.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, along with Col. Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge, founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
In 1884, while Blavatsky was traveling in Europe, disgruntled TS employees in India went to the missionaries with "forged documents", bringing charges of fraud against her.
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 Astrocartography of Helena Blavatsky's Least-aspected Neptune
Ever since her childhood, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was known for her “sympathy toward those who were in a humbler station in life than herself” (Primary Neptune) and for being a “strange” (Neptune) girl “with a distinct dual nature.
Isis Unveiled (1877), Blavatsky criticized the prevailing trends of science and religion, and she promulgated “direct mystical experience” (Neptune) as the essential element in spirituality.
Blavatsky’s Aunt Nadya to Blavatsky biographer, A.P. Sinnett, in Sinnett,
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 THEOSOPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The atonement on the cross of Jesus Christ is dismissed as a "pernicious doctrine" perpetuating the deplorable ideas that "wrongdoing by one can be set right by the sacrifice of another." Its foremost leaders have led lives rocked by scandal and discord, and tinged by the darkness of the occult, spiritistic arts.
NonChristian pseudoscientific researchers involved in developments in the fields of parapsychology and "metaphysicial" transpersonal psychology believe that some of Blavatsky's supernatural powers are actual powers and abilities of the human psyche, however; this exhibits complete ignorance of the reality of the occult (hidden) realm of spiritual entities, who oppose God, and seek to destroy mankind.
Madame Helena Blavatsky, the Russian princess, who founded the Theosophical Society in the late 19th century, blending Western occultism with Eastern spiritual mysticism, in 1884, wrote to a friend as follows: "I would gladly return, be Russian, be Christian, be Orthodox.
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 H. P. Blavatsky and Theosophy -- Theosophical Topics
Blavatsky and articles on her writings, links to online books by HPB and about HPB, and links to photographs and to material on The Secret Doctrine
Obituary: The "Hodgson Report" on Madame Blavatsky by Walter A. Carrithers, Jr.
Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement by Charles J. Ryan
www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/theos/hpb-selc.htm   (480 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Isis Unveiled (Volumes 1 and 2): Books: H. P. Blavatsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helena P. Blavatsky was a world traveler and fearless investigator of unexplained mysteries in cosmic and human nature.
Blavatsky - and 'Theosophy' generally - have been grossly under-rated and unfairly reviled in recent decades, frequently judged according to ill informed caricatures and distortions.
Blavatsky was very far-sighted in this respect, for her work prefigured the wider search for inter-faith understanding, which characterised the more promising features of religious renewal in the 20th c.
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 Helena Blavatsky --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Helena Blavatsky, detail of an oil painting by Hermann Schmiechen, 1884; in a private collection.
Founded in New York City in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky of Russia, it had as its original inspiration Kabbala (Jewish esoteric mysticism), Gnosticism (esoteric salvatory knowledge), and other forms of Western occultism.
Montana's capital city, Helena, was settled in 1864 by prospectors who had almost given up before they struck gold.
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