One of the most influential occult thinkers of the nineteenth century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891)left behind conflicting images of adventuress, author, mystic, guru, occultist, and charlatan. With the aid of Col. Henry Olcott and William Q....

BLAVATSKY, H. P. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) was the principal founder of the modern theosophical movement. Blavatsky, née von Hahn, was born in Ekaterinoslav, Russia, of distinguished parentage. Her father, of German descent,...

(1831–1891), founder of theosophy. The granddaughter of a Russian princess, the woman known to the world as Madame Blavatsky was born Helena Petrovna Hahn in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovs'k) in the Caucasus. At age fifteen she began to...

Born Russia, midnight 30/31 July, 1831. Co-founder with Col. Olcott (q.v.) of Theosophical Society; author of Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, The Voice of the Silence, etc. Declared herself a Buddhist at Galle (Ceylon) in 1880...

(1831–91) the cofounder, with Colonel Olcott, of the Theosophical Society, in 1875, and the author of voluminous works based on Hindu and Buddhist teachings which had some influence on the neo-Hindu reform...

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AMONG ASIAN BRIC-A-BRAC IN THE New York apartment where occult impresario Helena Blavatsky lived in the 1870s stood a stuffed baboon. Bespectacled, in wing collar and morning coat, holding a lecture on Darwin, it was her emblem of "the Folly of Science as...

It goes without saying, almost, that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the question biographers need to ask themselves is whether the minutely examined life is worth reading. And the answer to this question, taken in the abstract, is that it...