Blavatsky, Madame : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), born at Ekaterinoslav: daughter of Col. Peter Hahn of a noble family of Mecklenburg, settled in Russia: married at 17 a husband of 60 but soon separated: travelled widely, in Europe, America & Asia round the Cape to Bombay: after an unsuccessful attempt to enter Tibet via Nepal, she entered it in disguise in 1855 via Kashmir, was lost in the desert & brought back to the frontier: after numerous adventures & further travel in India, she went to USA in 1873 & studied spiritualism: in 1875 founded, with Col. Alcott, the Theosophical Society, wrote books & pamphlets promoting Theosophy, an occult philosophical-religious system. Theosophists believe in a pantheistic evolutionary process integrating deity, cosmos, & self. She came to India in 1879 & established a Theosophical temple at Ādyār near Madras. [Buckland]
... Contemporaries and on Contemporary Problems Letters on Himself and the Ashram Remarks on European Writers on Occultism Helena Petrovna Blavatsky On reading La Vie de Mme Blavatsky, I had the impression that there is nothing but vital occultism in her. Her life and work are concerned mostly with the supraphysical worlds and spirits and miraculous powers and... Recently someone gave me a book called With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet by Madame Alexandra David-Neel. I am sending you a photograph of her. I was impressed by the hardships she endured and by her study of Tibetan mystics. But I don't know whether what she writes is authentic. This is a photograph of Madame David-Neel taken long ago when she was much younger. Her story about her travels ...
... Grand Master; the Scottish philosopher Peter Davidson was the Order's frontal Chief. Blavat-sky, Olcott, Barlet and many others were its members. But in 1877 Blavatsky and Olcott severed their relation with the H. B. of L. It is known that Blavatsky's first Master was the magus Paulos Métamon, whom she had Page 50 met in Asia Minor in 1848 and again in Cairo in 1870. Métamon was either... All about him was shrouded in mystery. Even his name. "He had two assumed names. He had adopted an Arab name when he took refuge in Algeria — I don't know for what reason —after having worked with Blavatsky and founded an occult society in Egypt. After that he came to Algeria; and there he was first called 'Aia Aziz' —a word of Arabic root, meaning 'the beloved'; and then, when he began setting up his... line. A rebel at heart he, like Mira Ismalun, abhorred limitation. Any limitation. With the vast knowledge at his command, he soon found out the limitations of the H. B. of L. At the time of Blavatsky's and Olcott's dissension, he too became a dissenter, resigned from his post of Grand Master and broke completely with the H. B. of L. in Egypt. He left Egypt and went to England. With his ...
... not as a hostile and incredulous outsider but as an earnest and careful inquirer and practical experimentalist in those fields which Theosophy seeks to make her own. Theosophy was not born with Madame Blavatsky, nor invented by the Mahatmas in the latter end of the nineteenth century. It is an ancient and venerable branch of knowledge, which unfortunately has never, in historical times, been brought ...
... in 1941. SRI AUROBINDO: Who is that? SATYENDRA: He is claimed by those people who dissociated from the Theosophists. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, one more of their romances! SATYENDRA: Didn't Madame Blavatsky have something real in her, something mystic? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but the romance was also there. When one deals with mysticism one has to be very careful. There is any amount of truth and ...
... take pleasure in removing things, then they put them back, but at times they also don't put them back! They displace them, indeed they have all sorts of little diversions. They are intolerable. Madame Blavatsky made much use of them, but I don't know how she managed to make them so amiable, because generally they are quite unpleasant. I had the experience—among innumerable instances—but precisely ...
... been founded by H.E. Blavatsky and Colonel Henry Olcott in America in 1875. The Theosophical Society permitted itself to speak denigratingly of the H.B. of L. only after the latter had collapsed in such an inglorious way. When he moved to France, Théon was accompanied by his wife of one year, Mary Christine Woodroffe Ware, called by some Alma, i.e. ‘Soul.’ Like her husband, Madame Théon already had... which Louis Bimstein must have belonged. He left Eastern Europe around 1870. It is quite possible that he spent some time with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91) in Egypt, as the Mother remembered him telling her, to found an occult society. Blavatsky travelled from Egypt via Great Britain to America in 1873, and possibly Bimstein was in London in the same year. ‘London [at that time] was the haven... conscientiously all those fir trees were planted … Four or five years later [and thanks to Madame Théon’s occult intervention] those fir trees had not only survived, they had become magnificent. When I went to Tlemcen, the mountains all around were absolutely green, full of splendid trees! ‘… Then, [Madame Théon] told me, three years after the fir trees had been planted, suddenly one day or rather ...
... Besant told her friends that, at last she had found her own guru. She was so besotted with the professor that she proclaimed Chakravarti’s daughter to be the reincarnation of the recently deceased Madame Blavatsky.’ 30 Mirra must have met Chakravarti on one of his subsequent trips to Europe, in 1898 or 1899. The occasion on which he gave her the key to the Gita was probably the only time she met... See Dilip Kumar Roy, Yogi Krishnaprem , pp. 53 ff. × Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon , p. 107. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1955 , CWM7 p. 39. ... turpentine and wood, and the many interesting people who came to visit his parents. Late in life he still remembered that there he was once introduced to Madame Fraya, ‘a very pretty lady with a very big hat and a pleasant way of talking.’ Madame Fraya was a clairvoyant and became so famous that most of the great politicians of the time – Briand, Clemenceau, Jaurès, Daladier, even President Poincaré ...
... are sometimes and rarely Indians, the theocrats and the bulk of the prophets are Russian, American or English. An Indian here and there may quicken the illumination of the Theosophist, but it is Madame Blavatsky or Mrs Besant, Sinnett or Leadbeater who lays down the commandments and the Law. It is strange to see the present political condition of India reproducing itself in a spiritual organisation; it ...
... Munich towards the end of 1918 and became part of the Russian community there. During the troubled times in their country, most Russian intellectuals had been profoundly influenced by Theosophy (Madame Blavatsky was a Russian, after all) and many of them also by spiritism (remember Rasputin). The imperial court had set the example by its practice of spiritism and other forms of occultism, and there was ...
... × Id., p. 220. × Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon , pp. 7, 36. × The Mother, Questions and Answers 1957-58 , CWM 9 p. 364. ... had already been practising Buddhism in the minister’s box at the opera. This time, while listening to Madame David-Néel, who was a convinced and practising Buddhist, she saw the Buddha present near the speaker, ‘not above the head but a little to the side.’ When the talk was over and Mirra told Madame David-Néel about her vision, she received the indignant repartee that such a thing was impossible because... socialism, idealism and enthusiasm for human progress was hidden an urge for power for which we will soon be able to account. He, too, had certainly heard or read about all those Western occultists, H.P. Blavatsky being the foremost, who had been initiated and received power from some eastern guru, and the people who met with Richard on his arrival in Pondicherry report that one of his very first questions ...
... Page 451 who should speak of what he termed Sri Aurobindo's Cosmic Consciousness and not preach to me of the "White Lodge" and the "Great Masters" and the Isis-unveiling Madame Blavatsky - this was a touch of Sri Aurobindo's Grace already. What made it the more Graceful was that the Theosophist told me: "Nobody except Sri Aurobindo will satisfy the complex problem that you are ...
... attending to Theon's Revue Cosmique. Five years, in fact. She even translated into French the experiences of Madame Theon, while in trance, had dictated to her English secretary. Finally, Theon was to disappear one day as mysteriously as he had appeared, without leaving a trace. Madame Theon was dashed upon the rocks on the Isle of Wight while walking along the cliffs in trance. Perhaps, she had... is symbolic, representative—symbolic of concentrated universal action allowing divine forces to incarnate and work concretely.'² Theon had received his initiation in India. After working with Blavatsky and having founded an occult society in Egypt, he had gone to Algeria, where he first called himself 'Aia Aziz' (a word of Arabic origin meaning 'the beloved'). Then, he began to set his 'cosmic group'... And it remained in the background of the consciousness, not active, but constantly present.¹ This was around 1904. Soon thereafter, she went to Tlemcen in Algeria where Max Theon and his wife Madame Theon lived. Theon was European, either Polish or Russian, but more probably Russian, of Jewish descent. When she saw him, she recognised him as a being of great power. _____________________ ...
... Little is known about the years of his life before he met Mirra Alfassa. It seems he had spent some time in India, for he knew Sanskrit and the Vedas. He is also said to have been a collaborator of Madame Blavatsky in Egypt. It was in this country that he got acquainted with the French occultist Charles Barlet, who brought him into contact with France. After Théon had left Egypt for some obscure reason,... that, even while in trance, it allowed her to go about her normal daily occupations. For hours on end she scribbled down her inexhaustible occult experiences and has left over twelve thousand pages. ‘Madame Théon was an extraordinary occultist. She possessed exceptional abilities, that woman, exceptional!’ 6 said the Mother, who was not lacking in such abilities herself. For Alma it was a simple matter ...
... where he was born, nor his age nor anything. He had assumed two names: one was an Arab name he had adopted when he took refuge in Algeria (I don't know for what reason). After having worked with Blavatsky and having founded an occult society in Egypt, he went to Algeria, and there he first called himself 'Aïa Aziz' (a word of Arabic origin meaning 'the beloved'). Then, when he began setting up his... a tradition which he called the 'cosmic tradition' and which he claimed to have received—I don't know how—from a tradition anterior to that of the Cabala and the Vedas. But there were many things (Madame Theon was the clairvoyant one, and she received visions; oh, she was wonderful!), many things that I myself had seen and known before knowing them which were then substantiated. Page 219 ...
... the Standard-Bearer. From it we have thought of a being with great spiritual realisation. SRI AUROBINDO: It was purely a play of the poetic imagination. DR. MANILAL: What do you think of Madame Blavatsky? SRI AUROBINDO: She was a remarkable woman. DR. MANILAL: Were you ever a freemason? SRI AUROBINDO: My eldest brother was. I gathered that there was nothing in it. But it certainly had ...
... take pleasure in removing things, then they put them back, but at times they also don’t put them back! They displace them, indeed they have all sorts of little diversions. They are intolerable. Madame Blavatsky made much use of them, but I don’t know how she managed to make them so amiable, because generally they are quite unpleasant. I had the experience—among innumerable instances—but precisely ...
... should bump into a Theosophist who should speak of what he termed Sri Aurobindo's Cosmic Consciousness and not preach to me of the "White Lodge" and the "Great Masters" and the Isis-unveiling Madame Blavatsky - this was a touch of Sri Aurobindo's Grace already. What made it the more Grace-ful was that the Theosophist told me: "Nobody except Sri Aurobindo will satisfy the complex problem that you ...
... names and forms, true only as a psychic symbol or an instrumental representation, of the two main powers that are behind them, one governing their thought, the other influencing their action. In Madame Blavatsky they found a sufficient instrument who could as it were incarnate and harmonise both their forces. Her successors have not been able to do that, but have only responded to partial indications ...
... out an original plan of converting even non-Hindus to Hinduism. The growing spirit of nationalism derived a great impetus from the Arya Samaj movement. The Theosophical Movement, founded by Madame Blavatsky, 87 proclaimed the greatness of Indian wisdom and the superiority of Indian spiritual culture to all other cultures of the world. It thus helped, to a certain extent, restore the faith of the... cultural inheritance, and turn their minds from a blind worship of the materialistic thought and civilisation of the West. It is interesting to note that it was Swami Dayananda who had invited Madame Blavatsky to come to India. Contemporaneous with Swami Dayananda was Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, the embodiment of the highest synthesis of spiritual experience till then achieved. He was a living ...
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