08/05/2025
This is a new short biography of H. P. Blavatsky to commemorate the coming 150th anniversary of the founding of the Theosophical Society on 17th November 1875. We post it on 8th May to honour her great sacrifices on the day of her passing.
It has much information, some of it little known, on her reforming and extraordinarily courageous life, devoted to the re-establishment of truth for its own sake and for the human family whom she loved.
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Excerpts
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"In large part, Helena was cared for and classically educated by professional tutors and her maternal grandmother, Princess Helena Palovna Fadeyev, a self-taught botanist and archeologist, as well as superb artist and musician who studied Classical Greek and spoke five languages fluently. And it was from her grandmother’s library, inherited from Prince Paul, that H.P.B. consumed hundreds of books on alchemy, magic, and other occult sciences, all before the age of 15."
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"Some of the remarkable, magical and hair-raising events occurring on both of these trips through the Indian subcontinent (in the 1850s) were described by her in a series of articles under the pen name ‘Radha Bai’, which appeared in popular Moscow periodicals years afterward. Translated into English, portions were compiled into book form and titled The Caves and Jungles of Hindustan, published in 1892. In 2012, Russian author, historian and Indologist Alexander Senkevich wrote that these essays by Blavatsky were a "stunning success" in Russia. He called them a work of “enviable erudition”, a country-specific encyclopedia, which "to this day has not lost its scientific value as an objective assessment and condemnation of English colonial rule”. They offered a “psychological document reflecting many facets of the Indian spiritual world” and “of traditional Indian society.""
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"H.P.B. continued her unceasing foundational labor in India. In 1889, she wrote:
"When we arrived in India, in February 1879, there was no unity between the races and sects of the Peninsula, no sense of a common public interest, no disposition to find the mutual relation between the several sects of ancient Hinduism, or that between them and the creeds of Islam, Jainism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism….Social and religious, as well as material and physical differences, were breeding race hatreds, sectarian and social antipathies that seemed insurmountable…Ten years have passed and what do we see'?…throughout India unity and brotherhood have replaced the old disunity, one hundred and twenty-five Branches of our Society have sprung up in India alone, each a nucleus of our idea of fraternity, a centre of religious and social unity."
(Our Three Objects, article by HPB)"
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The full article is on the link.
