Blavatsky & H.P. Lovecraft

The Blavatsky Occult Files #1 

The Strange Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island

 

Active File - Case currently under investigation

 

The big three of pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales and the Lovecraft Circle most popular works seem to be the most-theosophically influenced ones:“The starting point of our examination of fictions dealing with ‘lost worlds’as cultural productions drawing on Theosophical ideas is the publication of Weird Tales, an American horror and fantasy pulp fiction magazine of the 1920s, which was the vehicle for distributing the works of Howard Philips (H. P.) Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. These were the three main contributors to Weird Tales evidencing Theosophical influences in their fiction”. (Garry W. Trompf and Lauren Bernauer “Producing lost civilisations: Theosophical concepts” in Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, BRILL, 2012, p. 113)

Case description – Surprising flourishing of interest in Lovecraft. Morning of the Magicians, Ritual Magic, Role Games, Film, Library of Congress, Philosophy, French Pleiade. As such there’s a considerable amount of study on the Theosophical side of Lovecraft, theology, cosmic hierachies

File Card 1 – Lovecraft had already assimilated the 19^th century supernatural literature that had various connections and influences with Theosophy, and was familiar with occult traditions and it’s centuries of relations to literature, although he showed little knowledge of the Theosophical connection to supernatural literature in the 19^th century (but he did mention it in his study of horror literature).

File Card 2- Blavatsky herself penned some intriguing Occult Tales, published in Theosophical magazines, gathered in Nightmare Tales

File Card 3 –Considerable presence of Theosophical concepts in the American pulp magazine field

File Card 4– Lovecraft’s discovery of Theosophical concepts was enthusiastic and inspirational. Atlantis Scott Eliott E Hoffmann Price

File Card 5- Theosophy concepts per se

File Card 6- Case study- The Silver Key

File Card 7- Verdict: Occultism in Lovecraft Imagination and Rationality 

The Book of Dzyan (1888) by Helena Blavatsky December 2, 2020 Bobby Derie

https://deepcuts.blog/2020/12/02/the-book-of-dzyan-1888-by-helena-blavatsky/

Lovecraft, Theosophy and Extraterrestrial Claims for the Book of Dzyan 1/14/2012 Jason Colavito 

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/lovecraft-theosophy-and-extraterrestrial-claims-for-the-book-of-dzyan 

HPL and HPB: Lovecraft's Use of Theosophy  
Robert M. Price Crypt of Cthulhu, Roodmas 1982, vol.1, no. 5

https://web.archive.org/web/20141018102241/http://crypt-of-cthulhu.com/lovecrafttheosophy.htm

Exploring HP Lovecraft’s Gothic roots Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes

 Sept 04 2018

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/exploring-hp-lovecraft-s-gothic-roots-1.3612929

Supernatural Horror in Literature H. P. Lovecraft 

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature

Theosophy and Literature 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy_and_literature 

HP Lovecraft, the "lost worlds" and Theosophy May 16, 2021 Miranda Gurzo 

https://axismundi.blog/en/2021/05/16/h-p-lovecraft-i-mondi-perduti-e-la-teosofia/ 

H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to E. Hoffmann Price & R. F. Searight

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.-p.-lovecraft/collected-letters/h.-p.-lovecraft-letters-to-e.-hoffmann-price-and-richard-f.-searight

Robert E. Howard Cross Plains Pilgrimage, Bobby Derie

https://spiraltower.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-of-bobby-derie-cross-plains.html

Through the Gates of the Silver Key By H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price. Narrated by AI Ranni

https://youtube.com/watch?v=B65T0RoghUo

Cultural and Historical Context of the Mythmaking of H.P. Lovecraft

January 2019 Denis D. Pyzikov

https://religio.amursu.ru/index.php/en/new-archive/58-articles-en/1-2019-en/609-cultural-and-historical-context-of-the-mythmaking-of-h-p-lovecraft 

Fiction in the Desert of the Real:Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos

In: Aries Wouter J. Hanegraaff 01 Jan 2007 

https://www.academia.edu/1170524/Fiction_in_the_Desert_of_the_Real_Lovecrafts_Cthulhu_Mythos_2007_ 

Chapter 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky’s Theosophy

In: Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination

Marco Frenschkowski

https://brill.com/display/book/9789004466005/BP000007.xml?language=en

LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from

Claremont Graduate University Volume 3 | Issue 1 Article 14 2013

Structurally Cosmic Apostasy: The Atheist Occult World of H.P. Lovecraft Brian J. Reis

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=lux 

Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works Jun 20, 2024 Allen Baird

https://www.thecollector.com/theology-cosmic-horror-hp-lovecraft/

The Influence of H P Lovecraft on Occultism
K R Bolton The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 9

https://irishgothicjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/kc2a0rc2a0bolton.pdf

 https://greydogtales.com/blog/h-p-lovecraft-lords-venus/

https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2015/12/theosophical-writers-in-weird-tales.html

https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-lost-world-of-lemuria.html

https://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/169733/remid_0145.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.academia.edu/49281728/The_Esoteric_Roots_of_Science_Fiction_Edward_Bulwer_Lytton_H_G_Wells_and_the_Occlusion_of_Magic

https://axismundi.blog/en/2021/08/20/hp-lovecraft-the-new-babel-and-the-witch-hunt-2-0/comment-page-1/