Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Madame Blavatsky


  
  About The First Spiritual Temple: Madame Blavatsky
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.
www.fst.org /hpb.htm   (1716 words)

  
  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madame Blavatsky claimed that all religions were both true, in their inner teachings, and false or imperfect, in their external conventional manifestations.
Her body was then cremated; one third of her ashes were sent to Europe, one third with William Quan Judge to the United States, and one third to India where her ashes were scattered in the Ganges River.
Blavatsky and the SPR by Vernon Harrison [7]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_Blavatsky   (1159 words)

  
 3.07: The Medium Is the Medium
Madame Blavatsky was fascinated by science and technology, but horrified by Darwin's conclusions - she saw them not as blasphemous but as demeaning to the human spirit.
According to Madame Blavatsky, the brotherhood remains hidden from all but a few; she was one of the few and charged accordingly.
Blavatsky is vaguely remembered today by mystics and theosophists and a few historians of the period, but she is virtually unknown to most Americans, particularly members of mainstream religions.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.07/katz_pr.html   (2339 words)

  
 Grey Lodge Occult Review :: Issue #9 :: The Theology of Electricity ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Since this later work is permeated with Blavatsky’s septenary view of the macrocosm and microcosm, the result of her increasing revelation of Theosophy as a form of esoteric Buddhism after 1880, we find Fohat closely implicated in the complex numerology and cosmology of the Stanzas of Dzyan.
Blavatsky proved herself a staunch Fluidist, not only by her copious reading and quotation of Mesmer, but also in her explanation of magic and the divine inspiration of the universe.
Blavatsky quoted triumphantly from his propositions, which she equated with the doctrines of the alchemists and kabbalists: "That which men call the world-soul, is a life, as fire, spiritual, fleet, light, and ethereal as light itself.
www.greylodge.org /occultreview/glor_009/theolelec.htm   (5363 words)

  
 Who was Madame Blavatsky
Madame Blavatsky's grandfather was a cousin of Countess Ida Hahn-Hahn, the authoress.
Madame Blavatsky came on to the Russian scene during a year fatal to the Slavic nation, as to all Europe, owing to the decimation of the population by the first visitation of the cholera.
Madame Jelihowsky is authority for the account of the appearance and disappearance of her sister's picture in a medallion containing only the small photograph of K.H. A most baffling display of Madame's gifts took place in the reception room of the Paris Theosophical Society on the morning of June 11th, 1884.
www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/001/04/03.htm   (15159 words)

  
 Madame Blavatsky
The adventures Blavatsky is said to have had before passing through Ellis Island include a brief hitch with Garibaldi's troops in Sicily during Italy's war of unification, an adulterous affair with the great Russian tenor Mitrovich, and an apprenticeship with a shadowy band of Egyptian mystics known as the Brotherhood of Luxor.
Blavatsky returned from her globetrotting with a philosophy cobbled together from, among other places, pharonic wisdom texts, Sanskrit poetry, and renaissance neoplatonist tracts, and attempted to launch a movement of intellectuals and religious thinkers devoted to truth-seeking through supernaturalism.
In particular, Blavatsky inherited from spiritualism a belief in the persistence after death of individual human souls with discernible personalities, the conviction that spirits are caught up in a progressive cycle of development, and the idea that spiritualism is a higher, more rigorous route to knowledge than that provided by the empirical sciences.
www.victorianweb.org /religion/blavatsky.html   (441 words)

  
 While Madame Blavatsky in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It included open declarations that Madame Blavatsky had in several instances been a member of the demi-monde in Paris and the mistress of two Russians mentioned by name, by one of whom she had given birth to a deformed child that died at Kieff in 1868.
Madame Jelihowsky's letters to him and her rebuttal of many of his specific charges, which are appended to his book as a supplement, indicate that the foundation of his accusations is erected on very shifty sands.
Madame Blavatsky had insisted upon this fact, yet the very weight of interest aroused by her own performances in that line exerted its natural gravitational force.
www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/001/04/12.htm   (12245 words)

  
 Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky - compiled from information supplied by her relatives and friends and edited ...
Madame, in the course of her adventures, has often shown that she can meet poverty with indifference, and battle with it in any way that may be necessary, but with her pockets full of money, her impulse has always been to throw it away with both hands.
Blavatsky met at Copau, in Mexico, and whom she soon ascertained to be what is called a “chela”, or pupil of the Masters, or adepts of oriental occult science.
Blavatsky's sister, moved by an irrepressible impulse, and notwithstanding that the hall was full of servants, jumped up from her place at the table, and, to the amazement of all, rushed herself to open the door.
www.theosophical.ca /IncidentsLifeBlavatsky1.htm   (13137 words)

  
 Books In Review: Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
Madame Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, kept a stuffed baboon in her study to symbolize her rejection of Darwinian materialism.
Blavatsky accepted evolution in a sense, but she insisted it was part of a process by which humans can evolve into higher spiritual beings under the guidance of a secret brotherhood of spiritual masters.
Madame Blavatsky's successor as the world's most famous spiritualist was the delightful Annie Besant, a true believer who spent her long life going from one ideological obsession to another.
www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9506/reviews/johnson.html   (1155 words)

  
 The Plagiarisms of Madame Blavatsky (July 7, 2005)
In a number of instances Madame Blavatsky, in Isis claimed to possess or to have read certain books quoted from, which it is evident she neither possessed nor had read.
Madame Blavatsky not only borrowed from this writer the general idea of the derivation of Eastern civilisation, mythology, etc., from Atlantis; but she coolly appropriated from him a number of the alleged detailed evidences of this derivation, without crediting him therewith.
(1) Madame Blavatsky was a spiritualistic medium many years before she became a theosophist, and in its inception theosophy was an off-shoot from spiritualism; and from this source was a large part of her theosophy taken.
educate-yourself.org /cn/blavatskyplagiarisms07jul05.shtml   (3756 words)

  
 Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatma Letters, by Hugh Shearman
The committee's report ended with the words, "For our part, we regard her (Madame Blavatsky) neither as the mouthpiece of hidden Seers, nor as mere vulgar adventures; we think that she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting imposters in history".
Madame Blavatsky was persuaded by her friends not to attempt personally to meet this attack.
Sinnett seemed to believe that Madame Blavatsky' s own mediumship greatly reduced the value of the letters and for this reason he held that they ought not to be published.
www.katinkahesselink.net /his/shearman8.html   (2238 words)

  
 The Truth About Madame Blavatsky by Walter A. Carrithers, Jr.
Madame Blavatsky’s apologists contend, with some reason, that her foes, unable to stem the irresistible logic of her philosophy and the intractable vitality of her pen, have struck the foulest of all blows -- and have sought to discredit her writings by personal defamation.
Madame Blavatsky’s most formidable claim to recognition, her literature, is dismissed by "scholars" as "inaccurate plagiarisms," and is the product of a ludicrous "fumbling" with Eastern Philosophy.
Madame Blavatsky was "exposed" in "flagrant fraud" by the English Society for Psychical Research; and one of her "confederates," a Mme.
www.blavatskyfoundation.org /carrith1.htm   (7312 words)

  
 theosophy
Theosophic esotericism begins with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) usually known as Madame Blavatsky, one of the co-founders of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875.
Her harshest critics consider Madame Blavatsky to be "one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history."* Her devoted followers consider her to be a saint and a genius.
Blavatsky claims she spent several years in Tibet and India being initiated into occult mysteries by various "masters" (mahatmas or adepts) especially the Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi, who had "astral" bodies.
skepdic.com /theosoph.html   (1738 words)

  
 Madame Blavatsky
H. Blavatsky was born in 1831, the daughter of a Russian colonel.
Blavatsky was deeply involved in writing the great volumes upon which the foundation of the Society still rests.
Initially the research team was persuaded of Madame's powers and were going to report favorably but suspicions of fraud soon were satisfied by accident when a faithful disciple, in his glee, slapped the rear wall of a shrine, popping open the panel which revealed another room.
psychicinvestigator.com /Occult/Blat2.htm   (1307 words)

  
 The Plagiarisms Of Madame Blavatsky
Madame Blavatsky not only borrowed from this writer the general idea of the derivation of Eastern civilisation, mythology, etc., from Atlantis; but she coolly appropriated from him a number of the alleged detailed evidences of this derivation, without crediting him therewith.
The Book of Dzyan was the work of Madame Blavatsky, - a compilation, in her own language, from a variety of sources, embracing the general principles of the doctrines and dogmas taught in the Secret Doctrine.
(1) Madame Blavatsky was a spiritualistic medium many years before she became a theosophist, and in its inception theosophy was an off-shoot from spiritualism; and from this source was a large part of her theosophy taken.
www.rense.com /general66/blav.htm   (3726 words)

  
 Blavatsky Net Theosophy - original Theosophy text - focus on Madame Blavatsky
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.
Voice of the Silence by Madame Blavatsky - her inspirational book - translation into English of verses memorized by disciples.
www.blavatsky.net   (891 words)

  
 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.
www.kheper.net /topics/Theosophy/Blavatsky.htm   (1310 words)

  
 Madame Helena P. Blavatsky - Crystalinks
She was better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy.
Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrines of which she professed she derived from the fountainhead in Tibet.
The question is why did Helena Blavatsky deny the existence of her mother in her childhood.
www.crystalinks.com /blavatsky.html   (3435 words)

  
 Mrs. Besant and Madame Blavatsky by Annie Besant
Professor Patterson says Madame Coulomb was not paid for the letters: Major General Morgan says (pamphlet published in 1884, “Reply to a Report,” andc) that the Scottish missionaries “paid them (the Coulombs) Rs.
Madame Blavatsky tells me she asked, and was refused; Mr.
Madame Blavatsky is poor, a worn-out invalid; she is not likely to go to India to prosecute him.
www.blavatskyarchives.com /besant2.htm   (354 words)

  
 Controversies Surrounding Madame Blavatsky's Work & the Teachings of Theosophy
A forceful and gifted individual, H.P. Blavatsky wrote in a forthright and powerful style challenging the confusion and absurdities of religious orthodoxy, exposing some of the fallacies of materialistic science, and assailing some of the claims of 19th century Spiritualism.
An examination of Richard Hodgson's Report of 1885 against Madame Blavatsky with a special study of the handwriting of the Mahatma Letters.
Shows that many elements of Blavatsky's Theosophy can be found in Tibetan Buddhism - in both relatively esoteric and relatively exoteric sources - but not available to western students or scholarship in her time.
www.blavatskyarchives.com /hpbcontro.htm   (426 words)

  
 theosophy
Theosophic esotericism begins with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) usually known as Madame Blavatsky, one of the co-founders of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875.
Her harshest critics consider Madame Blavatsky to be "one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history."* Her devoted followers consider her to be a saint and a genius.
Blavatsky claims she spent several years in Tibet and India being initiated into occult mysteries by various "masters" (mahatmas or adepts) especially the Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi, who had "astral" bodies.
www.skepdic.com /theosoph.html   (1777 words)

  
 Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
Interestingly, the rigidly hierarchical organization Blavatsky and the theosophists sought to impose on the democratically chaotic world of spiritualism did not prevent the Theosophical Society from interceding on behalf of the indigenous nationalist movement early in India's struggle for independence from British rule.
Blavatsky, whatever intellectual legitimacy she had secured for spiritualism, was debunked; in 1885 she moved to London, Maycot cottage in Norwood, where she spent her final six years putting together her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine.
It was during her English period that Blavatsky first impressed and, ultimately, converted Annie Besant, the well known feminist, birth-control advocate, and political radical.
www.victorianweb.org /religion/theosophy.html   (601 words)

  
 Who Are You, Madam Blavatsky is a DVD Film about Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky by Karine Dilanyan
This is a unique opportunity to obtain an important Russian film (with English overdubbing) profiling the fascinating life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the 19th-century Russian mystic and founder of the Theosophical Society.
Blavatsky was the first person to state that all world religions are from the same source.
Filming took place in the house where Blavatsky was born as well as in India and a Mongolian Buddhist Monastery where areas and activities seldom witnessed by foreigners were filmed live.
www.hpblavatsky.com /blavatskyfilm.html   (339 words)

  
 When Colonel Olcott met Madame Blavatsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Madame Blavatsky became one of history's most renowned spiritualists.
Though she eventually was found to use trickery in seeming to make objects appear from the spiritual world, she was a remarkable woman with considerable intellectual powers whose researches and writings on occult phenomena are voluminous and of enduring interest, especially in this time of New Age spiritualism.
The story of Theosophy, and of Olcott and Blavatsky's curious and enduring collaboration in the United States and later in India and Sri Lanka, is extraordinary.
smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues95/may95/olcott.html   (159 words)

  
 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.
Madame Blavatsky’s legendary2 travels through Tibet, where she supposedly obtained “mystical wisdom” (Primary Neptune) from Hindu spiritual masters, occurred directly under the setting position of her Primary Neptune.
Blavatsky’s Aunt Nadya to Blavatsky biographer, A.P. Sinnett, in Sinnett,
www.dominantstar.com /b_blav.htm   (442 words)

  
 = Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
The book’s title is derived from a stuffed baboon that stood prominently among Blavatsky’s exotic paraphernalia in her flat in New York.
Blavatsky saw herself as Ancient Wisdom’s counterpoint to that "strutting gamecock" of science, whom she often railed against in her two fantastic, notoriously plagiarized tomes,
A biography of Blavatsky was also written by Theosophist Sylvia Cranston, who clumsily tries to portray HPB as a maligned saint of the New Age.
www.csj.org /infoserv_bookreview/csjbkrev112madame.htm   (876 words)

  
 THEOSOPHY
Madame Blavatsky traveled to India in 1879, declaring the Theosophists' headquarters would be located in a suburb of Madras called Adyar.
Madame Blavatsky's "truths" and her psychic abilities have been challenged over the years.
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.
www.bloomington.in.us /~lgthscac/theosophy.htm   (852 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.