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James P. Have a correction or comment about this article? Please contact us. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. Join Our Newsletter. More Stories. Turkey or Tofurkey? Stuffing or dressing? In this manner she composed at the pace of twenty-five pages per day. The book was a success, but the Theosophical Society—at least in the United States—was not.
People seemed interested only in spiritualist phenomena, not in the philosophy behind them, and Madame Blavatsky refused to demonstrate her powers in public, though she showed them rather freely in private. That experience was the chief factor in his deciding to leave with Madame Blavatsky for India. The Society had a great impact there, where it actually inspired a revival of the ancient traditions.
Both Gandhi and Nehru said that the Society helped lead them back to Hinduism. It was also instrumental in reviving Buddhism. A growing number of educated men in India and Sri Lanka felt, as the Japanese did about the same time, that they had no alternative but to adopt the Western system with all that it entails.
The occultist Arthur Sinnett, supposedly under the influence of Koot Hoomi, wrote the important text Esoteric Buddhism. Olcott and Madame Blavatsky founded the journal The Theosophist in , and it became a major outlet for her writing. Madame Blavatsky resigned as secretary of the Society and returned to Europe.
Her relationship with Olcott was effectively over. Her health had been failing for some time. Sylvia Cranston claims that her teachers gave her the choice of whether she wanted to die or go on to write The Secret Doctrine , and she chose to compose what would become her most famous book. The unedited manuscript was reputedly three feet high. The book is founded on three propositions:. Henry Miller listed it as one of the ten greatest books ever written. Madame Blavatsky published two more books— The Key to Theosophy and The Voice of the Silence —before her death in , which came in bed, in London, after a long period of illness.
It is certainly easy to make fun of Madame Blavatsky, and anyone who takes her seriously faces some knotty questions, most of which seem unanswerable more than a century after her death. What a woman! In , when I came into the movement, I knew a number of people who had known her well, and on this they were agreed, that after meeting her nothing was quite the same again. Thank you for subscribing to Tricycle! As a nonprofit, we depend on readers like you to keep Buddhist teachings and practices widely available.
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She is a writer and researcher. Blavatsky Published Works: Isis Unveiled, The Secret Doctrine, The Voice of the Silence, The Key to Theosophy Notable Quote: "It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
Cite this Article Format. Rudy, Lisa Jo. Helena Blavatsky, Occultist and Founder of Theosophy. What Is Theosophy?
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