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Blavatsky Archive
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Road, Cardiff CF24 – 1DL
THE LIFE OF H P BLAVATSKY
H P Blavatsky
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H P Blavatsky
and
Countess Constance Wachtmeister
Countess
Constance Wachtmeister
Countess
Constance Wachtmeister was an English lady who married a Swedish Count and
became an active Theosophist and close associate of H P Blavatsky.
She
wrote the work "Reminiscences of H.P. Blavatsky" and "The Secret
Doctrine" and narrates in this book that she joined the T.S. in 1881. In
May, 1884, when in Paris, she received a letter
from H.P.B. inviting the Countess to visit her. The Countess accepted the
invitation and took the train from Paris to Enghien, where she
met W.Q. Judge and H.P. Blavatsky. On May 10, H.P.B. invited the Countess to
travel to Paris with her, and they made the trip
together. In the autumn of 1885, the Countess offered to stay with H.P.B. in Wurzburg, Germany - during the period
that H.P.B. was writing "The Secret Doctrine". In her book, the Countess
narrates how she assisted H.P.B.
The
Countess became H P Blavatsky's guardian angel, domestically speaking, during
the years of the composition of The Secret Doctrine in Germany and Belgium, has printed her
account of a number of extraordinary occurrences of the period. She speaks of a
succession of raps in H.P.B.'s sleeping room when there was special need of her
Guardians' care. She also tells of the thrice-relighted lamp at the sleeper's
bedside, she herself having twice extinguished it. She tells of her receiving a
letter from the Master, inside the store-wrapper of a bar of soap which she had
just purchased at a local shop.
It
was under the Countess Wachtmeister's notice that there occurred the last of
Madame Blavatsky's "miraculous" restorations to health. She had
suffered for years from a dropsical or renal affection, which in those latter
days had progressed to such an alarming stage that her highly competent
physicians at one crisis were convinced that she could not survive a certain
night. The great work she was writing was far from completed; the Countess was
heart-broken to think that, after all, that heroic career was to be cut off
just before the consummation of its labors for humanity; and she spent the
night in grief and despair. Arising in the morning she found Madame at her
desk, busy as before at her task. She had been revivified and restored during
the night, and would not say how.
The Countess records the occasion of an intercession of the Masters in her own
affairs, on behalf of their messenger. At her home in Sweden, while she was packing
her trunks in preparation for a journey to some relatives in Italy, she clairaudiently
heard a voice, which told her to place in her trunk a certain note-book of her
containing notes on the Bohemian Tarot and the Kabala. It was not a printed
volume but a collection of quotations from the above works in her own hand.
Surprised, and not knowing the possible significance of the order, she
nevertheless complied. Before reaching Italy she suddenly changed
her plans, and postponed the trip to Italy and visited Madame
Blavatsky in Belgium instead. Upon arriving
and shortly after greeting her beloved friend, she was startled to hear Madame
say to her that her Master had informed her that her guest was bringing her a
book dealing with the Tarot and the Kabala, of which she was to make use in the
writing of The Secret Doctrine.
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Cardiff Blavatsky Archive
Theosophical Society, Cardiff Lodge, 206 Newport Road,
Cardiff CF24 – 1DL