H
P Blavatsky
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
She was born on
Her child-life was one
of surpassing interest to any student of the beginnings of human greatness, for
even then she gave promise of the spiritual and intellectual energies which
later were to blossom forth in splendor in her mature age. She was a born
Mystic in the ancient sense of the word; that is to
say, one whose inner
life was controlled by a dominating influence of spiritual type, surging
through the mere personality as a stream of intimations and intuitions that
could neither be stayed nor turned aside, and which ruled the destiny of the
mere personality through which its spiritual stream passed.
On July 7, 1849, when
she was seventeen years old, she entered into a formal marriage with Nikifor V. Blavatsky, Vice-Governor of the Province of Yerivan' in the Caucasus, who was 23 years her senior. But
this marriage was a mere formality and within a few months at most it
eventuated in a permanent separation. Thereupon began the series of travels at
her father's expense in
It was in 1851 that she
first met her Teacher personally in
In 1855 she was in
In 1867 she returned to
the Orient, and some years afterwards revisited
In the following year
she met Colonel Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge, both of whom were to
play important parts as collaborators with her in her great work and as
co-founders of The Theosophical Society.
In 1874 H. P. Blavatsky
began writing for various American publications. On
September 7, 1875, at a
meeting in her own rooms in New York, there was proposed the formation of a
society for the study of various mystical and quasi-mystical subjects. On the
following day, the Theosophical Society was formed there at her home. There
were then present H. P. Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, William Quan Judge, and
thirteen others. On September 13, the name 'The Theosophical Society' was
adopted.
In 1877 H. P.
Blavatsky's first great book,
On
In this year she founded
and edited the magazine Lucifer in
Under her inspiration
and directing genius the various branches and centers of the Theosophical
Society in European countries grew apace, while the literary and
propaganda-work which she had inaugurated in India some years before pursued
its own course, a course which can hardly be characterized otherwise than as
rather slow and painful, because her departure from India had removed from the
Indian sphere the immediate influence and inspiration of her pen, her tireless energy,
and her wonderful mind. The work in America, meanwhile, even from a time as far
back as 1882, had been growing steadily, and at the time of H. P. Blavatsky's
passing the 'American Section,' as it was then called, was the most active,
widely spread, and strong in membership of any of the various Sections of the
Theosophical Society.
The Great Teacher, the
Mover of men's hearts, and the inaugurator in very truth of a new civilization
among men, a civilization founded upon spiritual ideals and cosmic verities,
passed away quietly in her armchair, surrounded by a few of her attendants and
friends, on the morning of May 8, 1891.
Legend has begun but has
not yet succeeded in weaving around her memory and her personality those
outlines of figure and type, based on reverential but imperfect knowledge,
which at the present time portray to us Occidentals the distorted figures of
other great World-Teachers of the past. True reverence should need no such
fictitious embellishments of truth.
A World-Teacher stands
firm through the ages upon the basis of fact which is the work that he wrought;
and let us hope that this grand and imposing figure, H. P. Blavatsky, may
forever remain clear in our memories and sharp in the outlines of truthful
delineation, untouched by the blurrings and
embellishments of fancy and story, however reverential in origin such later
fancy may be. We must see her as she was, not as fancy would portray her to
have been; we must see her as she passed across the pages of history: grand,
truthful, powerful, clear-cut, splendid, a martyr to her world-work, and a much
misunderstood benefactor of her fellow-men.
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This brief chapter gives
only an outline-sketch of the life of H. P. Blavatsky, considered as a
personality. Some of the dates given are uncertain, as available information is
often contradictory. One of these days someone with full leisure at his
disposal and with a mind stocked with wide reading on the fascinating events in
the life of the Great Theosophist, will give to the world a full, truthful, and
fascinating study of the great Russian woman who, without any reservation
whatsoever, is to be called the most remarkable and interesting figure of her
age -- indeed, of any age known to history.
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