Blavatsky on Embryology, Pregnancy, Childbirth and Abortion

Due to Blavatsky's concern with the doctrine of reincarnation and her theory of spiritual evolution in general, she wrote some fairly elaborate explanations concerning embryology, the development of the foetus and the gestation process, which can be found in the references below:

The mysteries of Embryology

Isis Unveiled Vol. 1,  384-402

 https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-11.htm

 

Is Foeticide a Crime?

[The Theosophist, Vol. IV, No. 11(47), August, 1883, pp. 282-283.]

Blavatsky Collected Writings, Vol. 5 , 106 -108

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v5/y1883_110.htm

 

Discussion of the recapitulation theory of gestation of the human foetus  

The Secret Doctrine Vol. 2, 255-260

https://www.sacred-texts.com/the/sd/sd2-1-14.htm 

 

Esoteric Embryology

Esoteric Instructions No. 1, 9-14

Blavatsky Collected Writings, Vol. 5 , 521-524

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v12/y1890_053.htm

 

Abortion & the Reincarnation of the Soul 

James Colbert , 2013

discusses statistics, history, various religions, medical cases, women & men's rights, Blavatsky passage in recent Secret Doctrine study class transcrition  https://theosophyforward.com/index.php/medley/783-abortion-and-the-reincarnation-of-the-soul.html

 

Julie Chajes Blavatsky and the Lives Sciences 

2018, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 258-286

On page 276, Chajes discusses  a short passage on embryology from the Secret Doctrine and the scientific writings of the time

https://www.academia.edu/37245722/Blavatsky_and_the_Lives_Sciences