Madame blavatsky

“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. ” ― H. P. Blavatsky “It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.” ― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky “Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit,...

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In 1934, an unpublished middle-aged writer named Henry Miller, living in poverty in Paris, had what he termed “an awakening.” He had read occult literature all his life, had just been reading Madame Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled, but was not given to mystical experience. As he recalled years later, One day after I had looked at a photograph of [Madame Blavatsky’s] face—she had the face of a pig, almost, but fascinating—I was hypnotized by her eyes and I had a complete vision of her as if she were in the room. Now I don’t know if that had anything to do with what happened next, but I had a flash, I came to the realization that I was responsible for my whole life, whatever had happened. I used to blame my family, society, my wife . . . and that day I saw so clearly that I had nobody to blame but myself. I put everything on my own shoulders and I felt so relieved: Now I’m free, no one else is responsible. And that was a kind of awakening, in a way. One suspects that Madame Blavatsky herself, the founder of Theosophy, would have delighted in this story; it has the same mysterious, inexplicable, slightly hokey quality of many of the stories from her own life. What credibility she has in the world today seems largely to rest with the people who were impressed and influenced by her: William James, Abner Doubleday, George Russell (the Irish poet Æ), and W. B. Yeats. Thomas Edison belonged to the Theosophical Society. Albert Einstein reportedly had a copy of the Secret Doctrine on his ...

What is New on the Site: 1. HPB Articles: Zoroatrianism 2. WQJ Articles are now all up. 3. We have uploaded Reed Carson Newsletters. BNet News We are happy to announce that the first twelve chapters of Key To Theosophy are now up, we will be completing all chapters in the next few weeks. Much is going on, more of Reed Carson's newletters have been added in the last few weeks. Happy reading. To all BNet visitors, welcome to the site. Here we hope that you will be able to find answers to those questions that religion nor science can answer. For example, why do young children die, and where is the justice for wrongdoing when the evil ones go free. Why do we sense we have had another life in some distant past or future? We are continuing toupgrade our pages, for example; HPB's articles are now all uploaded, same for WQJ's articles. Also, please note that throughout the website we are adding links of interest and which are related to the subject matter of that particular page; for example on the page Madame Blavatsky, we have added a very good article by William Q. Judge on HPB's life, " Esoteric She," which he wrote after her death. BNet hopes that in this manner we add to the students' knowledge and aid their personal studies. " Helpful background and introduction to Blavatsky's magnum opus - the monumental source book for esotericism in our age. The masters of Theosophy, located in Tibet and around the world, preserve and extend this ancient wisdom. Periodically they send f...

With these words, published in 1885, the Cambridge-based The imposter in question was Madame Helena Blavatsky. Born in Russia in 1831, she had, by her own account, left home at the age of 18 to wander the world. Her self-reported adventures include fighting alongside Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi; pursuing Native American magicians in Quebec; and, most pertinent to her later life, studying with mystics in remotest Tibet. When she reappeared onto the historical record around 1870, Blavatsky quickly insinuated herself into the 19th century’s booming séance circuit. Since the late 1840s, people on both sides of the Atlantic had been flocking to mediums who claimed they could channel the spirits of the dearly departed. Then, as now, ghosts thrilled the public—even when the thrills involved were a little dubious. (The A photo of a seance taking place in 1872, in England. (Photo: But the usual ghosts weren’t good enough for Blavatsky. In 1875, in a Manhattan drawing room, she launched a group with the grand title of the Theosophical Society. Setting ghosts aside, it would search out a higher class of supernatural beings: the “Mahatmas,” whom Blavatsky had allegedly met in Tibet. These men, she said, could ship their souls anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice through “astral projection.” They could also ship other things—notably letters. Theosophists marveled at the projectile missives that flew through the windows of moving trains or were delivered by enigmatic ...

Harvard Divinity School Library Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) was born in Russia and was one of the most influential writers in the occult world. In 1875, along with Henry Olcott and William Quan Judge, she founded the Theosophical Society to promote universal brotherhood, investigate laws of nature and latent human powers, and study comparative religion, philosophy, and science. Harvard Divinity School Library Blavatsky, H.P. (Helena Petrovna) Letters, 1885-1890 Madame Blavatsky, as she is known, studied the occult for nearly 25 years and claimed to be able to perform mental and physical feats such as levitation, clairvoyance, and telepathy. She wrote the primary text of the Theosophical Society, Background information about these letters was published in the October-January, 1992-1993, double issue of Skinner, J. Ralston Papers James Ralston Skinner (1830-1893) was an attorney, freemason, and kabbalist from Cincinnati, Ohio. Ralston wrote Harvard Divinity School Library Rare Books on Theosophy By Timothy Delong Jr., MDiv '20 Our collection features various books that contain inscriptions from important figures in the history of theosophy. Some of the books come from the personal collection of Ernest Temple (E.T.) Hargrove. Hargrove was born in 1870 in London and moved to New York to work as a journalist in 1892. He became acquainted with theosophy through August Nereheimer, whose daughter Hargrove married in 1899. He was William Quan Judge’s personal secretary in...