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desert, and, after many adventures, been conducted back by a party of horsemen. The years from 1848 to 1858 were alluded to subsequently as "the veiled See also:

period " of her See also:

LIFE

life, and she spoke vaguely of a seven years' sojourn in " Little and See also:

GREAT

Great Tibet," or preferably of a "Himalayan See also:

RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat." In 1858 she revisited Russia, where she created a sensation as a spiritualistic See also:

MEDIUM

medium. About 187o she acquiredprominence among the spiritualists of the See also:

UNITED

United States, where she lived for six years, becoming a naturalized See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen. Her leisure was occupied with the study of occult and kabbalistic literature, to which she soon added that of the sacred writings of India, through the medium of See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations. In 1875 she conceived the See also:

plan of combining the spiritualistic " See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control " with the Buddhistic legends about Tibetan sages. Henceforth she determined to exclude all control See also:

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that of two Tibetan adepts or " mahatmas." The mahatmas exhibited their " astral bodies " to her, " precipitated " messages which reached her from the confines of Tibet in an instant of See also:

time, supplied her with See also:

sound See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine, and incited her to perform tricks for the See also:

con-version of sceptics. At New See also:

York, on the 17th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1875, with the aid of Colonel See also:

Henry S. Olcott, she founded the " Theosophical Society "with the See also:

OBJECT

object of (I) forming a universal brotherhood of man,(2) studying and making known the See also:

ancient religions, philosophies and sciences, (3) investigating the See also:

LAWS

laws of nature and developing the divine See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers latent in man. The Brahmanic and Buddhistic literature supplied the society with its terminology, and its doctrines were a curious See also:

AMALGAM

amalgam of See also:

EGYPTIAN

Egyptian, kabbalistic, occultist, See also:

INDIAN

Indian and See also:

MODERN

modern spiritualistic ideas and formulas.

Mme Blavatsky's See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal books were See also:

ISIS (Egyptian Ese)

Isis Unveiled (New York, 1877), The See also:

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Secret Doctrine, the See also:

SYNTHESIS (Gr. a6vOeacs, from avvrcBivac, to put together)

Synthesis of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science, See also:

Religion and See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy (1888), The See also:

Key to See also:

THEOSOPHY (from Gr. Oe6s, god, and vogbta, wisdom)

Theosophy (1891). The two first of these are a See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

mosaic of unacknowledged quotations from such books as K. R. H. See also:

Mackenzie's Royal Masonic See also:

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia, C. W. See also:

King's Gnostics, See also:

ZELLER, EDUARD (1814-1908)

Zeller's See also:

PLATO

Plato, the See also:

WORKS

works on magic by See also:

DUNLOP, JOHN COLIN (1785-1842)

Dunlop, E. Salverte, See also:

Joseph Ennemoser, and See also:

Des Mousseaux, and the-mystical writings of Eliphas See also:

Levi (L. A. See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

Constant). A Glossary of Theosophical Terms (1890-1892) was compiled for the benefit of her disciples. But the See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of See also:

Home's See also:

LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

Lights and Shadows of See also:

SPIRITUALISM

Spiritualism (1877) had a pre-judicial effect upon the propaganda, and Heliona P.

Blavatsky (as she began to See also:

style herself) retired to India. Thence she contributed some See also:

CLEVER

clever papers, " From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan " (published separately in See also:

ENGLISH

English, See also:

LONDON

London, 1892) to the Russky Vyestnik. Defeated in her object of obtaining employment in the Russian secret service, she resumed her efforts to gain converts to theosophy. For this purpose the See also:

EXHIBITION

exhibition of " See also:

PHYSICAL

physical phenomena " was found necessary. Her jugglery was cleverly conceived, but on three occasions was exposed in the most conclusive manner. Nevertheless, her cleverness, volubility, See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy and will-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power enabled her to maintain her ground, and when she died on the 8th of May 1891 (See also:

White See also:

LOTUS

Lotus See also:

Day), at the theosophical headquarters in the See also:

AVENUE (the past participle feminine of Fr. avenir, to come to)

Avenue Road, London, she was the acknowledged See also:

head of a community numbering not far See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short of 1oo,000, with journalistic See also:

ORGANS

organs in London, See also:

Paris, New York and See also:

MADRAS

Madras. Much See also:

INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information respecting her will be found in V. S. Solovyov's Modern Priestess of Isis, translated by See also:

Walter See also:

LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

Leaf (1895), in See also:

Arthur Lillie's Madame Blavatsky and Her Theosophy (1895), and in the See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report made to the Society for Psychical See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

Research by the See also:

Cambridge See also:

GRADUATE (Med. Lat. graduale, to admit to an academical degree, gradus)

graduate despatched to investigate her doings in India.

End of Article: BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA (1831-1891)

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