I forgot to
include this in my Lachman post, nice article:
Who was Madame
Blavatsky?
Gary Lachman
- Friday 13th, March 2015
Colin Wilson once remarked about Rasputin, Blavatsky’s countryman,
that he seemed “to possess the peculiar quality of inducing shameless
inaccuracy in everyone who writes about him.” The same could be said for Madame
Blavatsky.
New World Encyclopedia entry (they publish
cleaned-up wikipedia articles), not bad, fairly balanced:
Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August
12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky
(Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena
von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. Although her role as a
medium would prove controversial and the Theosophical Society would split
following her death, her writing represents a significant contribution to the
development of reformist and universal tendencies within Indian thought. Mahatma
Gandhi wrote that her Key to
Theosophy was one of the texts that stimulated him to ‘read books on
Hinduism’ and ‘disabused [him] of the notion fostered by the missionaries that
Hinduism was rife with superstition.’ [1] Perhaps the fact that Blavatsky was not in
any way affiliated with the imperial project in India freed her of the
obligation to value everything European at the cost of everything Indian.
Nice bio post:
Well-intentioned, but less than accurate posts: Helena P. Blavatsky -
H. P. Blavatsky: Her Extraordinary Life and Influence
May 5, 2017 - Theosophy
Watch |
“The portrayal of Blavatsky is
neutral, though more sympathetic than works of this kind. The index contains 16
references to her. What Horowitz manages to do, and successfully so, is to show
the contribution to the inner life of America by these often disparate figures
who were united in their vision of a world made better by better people.”
Well-intentioned, but less than accurate posts: Helena P. Blavatsky -
Theosophical Society Sue and Michael Treanor
The
Mysterious Madame Blavatsky – Psychic or Charlatan?
Paul Andrews July 23, 2017
Someone made an
audio version of the Secret Doctrine – wow:
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