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THE LIFE OF

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY   

 

H P Blavatsky

 

 

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Helen Petrovna Blavatsky

By Her Sister

Madame De Jelihowsky

 

This is a translation of an article which appeared in the “Russian Review” of Moscow. The article is included in ‘Reminiscences of H P Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine’ by The Countess Constance Wachtmeister and Others. Published 1893.

 

In the summer of 1886 I again visited my sister in Germany, where she was staying in Elberfeld, with her friends the Gebhards. As usual she was always surrounded by lots of people, some of whom came with the special aimof making her acquaintance and other to renew old friendships; but in Elberfield, it seemed to me ,she had more friends with kindly feelings towards her personality than drawn through her teachings.

 

At the beginning of our stay there Helena Petrovna was not able to work, but as soon as she was better all our time was spent in very interesting lively conversations on the terrace of in the garden, and sometimes in reading the materials for The Secret Doctrine she was also writing. During these readings two characteristic points struck me especially, viz,. the wonderful picturesqueness of language and detailed descriptions when Helena Petrovna spoke, giving explanations on all kinds of questions asked her by specialists, and at the same time her perfect inability to keep to a purely scientific presentation of the evidences and formulae.

 

Her talk was always entrancing, but as soon as she came to mathematical data, it constantly occurred that she was not able to read the algebraical and geometrical conclusions written down by her personality. Very often when left alone with her, I expressed my astonishment to her:-

 

“How can it be, that you, having calculated and written all this down yourself, can’t read it ?”

 

To this question my sister always replied with hearty laughter,

 

“Do you expect me to know the problems of the higher mathematics ? Your daughters are bas bleus and have learnt all these erudite matters, but, as to you and myself, have not we learned side by side, and did we not have the greatest trouble to master the first four rules of arithmetic ?”

 

“Then how is it that you have written all this without knowing

anything about it ?”

 

“Come now don’t be so naïve ! As if you don’t know there are many things in my writings of which I never dreamed before. I do not write them, I only copy out what is ready made before my eyes. I know that you always disbelieved me,

but in this you se one more proof that I am only the tool and not the master ?”

 

“This does not prevent your descriptions from being masterly. It sounds as if you saw all this personally, and have visited all the places you speak about.”

 

“I am not so sure about visiting, but as to seeing – of course I saw them, and I see constantly everything I describe.”

 

Such were her usual and constant answers.

 

 

 

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