The life of Madame Blavatsky is rather too well known to require an elaborate discussion at this time. Rather, it seems more profitable to attempt to integrate her place and the descent of what might be termed esoteric philosophy in the West. For practical…

…group in Western civilization. And at the critical moment when this appeared to be most valuable and most greatly desired. Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Alcott founded in New York in 1875 the Theosophical Society. This society was composed of many interesting…

…of many interesting and brilliant persons. While it surrounded largely the personality and the immediate personal achievements of Madame Blavatsky, it cannot be said that she was entirely alone in her activity. Through the inspiration which she provided,…

…of the devil, set up to interfere with the development of literary Christian orthodoxy. Of course, in the time of Madame Blavatsky, the situation was still worse, although undoubtedly it was considerably improved over an earlier time in which all liberals…

…published, we are aware that her own peculiar and particular insight still makes these works unique, remarkable, and valuable. Madame Blavatsky herself was the first to admit that the books which she wrote would prove highly controversial. She frankly…

…which is already known. It cannot be merely what you might term a rehash. In order to meet these requirements, therefore, Madame Blavatsky was not required and would not be required by a modern university today to prove beyond question every point that she…

…fundamental positions which she held. and to provide an adequate bibliography, an adequate annotated reference frame for her work. Madame Blavatsky did this perhaps more adequately than most highly respected scientific writers. And I think it would be safe to…

…intense controversy is not open to any criticism so far as the methodology of its presentation is concerned. Now, how did Madame Blavatsky come into contact with the information by which this work, these volumes, were made possible? Here we come into a…

…professors in any university. They taught in their own ancient Eastern way. And there is no question on the part of Madame Blavatsky that these teachers were real, that they communicated with her, that they taught her, that she regarded herself as their…

…however, these later travelers have not been able to confirm the stories which she told. For a long time, it was denied that Madame Blavatsky was ever in Tibet, and she is still not upon the official list of those known to have reached this country at…

…have usually been demonstrated to be correct as she listed them. Although she lived in a time of rather genteel femininity, Madame Blavatsky was by no means simply a titled Russian lady. She was one of those unusual persons who defy convention and…

…the 19th century. At that time, if a lady rode horseback, she rode side saddle with a very voluminous riding habit. When Madame Blavatsky wished to ride, she rode Western American style and made no apology for it. in traveling through the country on a…

…the seat in front. Now of course such things as this were a scandal. they offended all of the people who, as Madame Blavatsky herself points out, never did anything in this world except be offended by somebody. She offended people who had never a thought…

…which was believed to be a symbol of the human heart. In any event, Buddhism is a living example of the point that Madame Blavatsky attempted and affirmed that she could prove namely that there has been and is in the principle religions of the world a…

…infinites that this knowledge is simply beyond the capacity of man's finite faculties. On the basis of the esoteric tradition, Madame Blavatsky affirms that the answer lies in the cultivation of faculties latent in man, that these faculties have always been…

…one translator of the Greeks who really had insight into the meaning of these ancient rites and ceremonies. But Madame Blavatsky, studying among the American Indians, observing the ruined monuments and symbols of Central America, wandering in the Gobi desert…

…landmarks of this esoteric discipline of life by means of which man alone can come to the apperception of truth. Madame Blavatsky also realized that there is further proof of the availability of this extrasensory band in man's consciousness. And this proof…

…experience conditions of consciousness, states of being, areas of activity that are closed to the objective physical sensory perceptions. Madame Blavatsky was convinced that this burden of concept is also set forth in the original teachings of Buddhism. She is…

…manuscripts were preserved as sacred objects almost too precious even to be touched by human hands Thus it is, according to Madame Blavatsky, she was able to discover the primitive text which were to be the basis of her commentary on the great stanzas…

…almost immediately clothed in the most magnificent thoughts of the person who was able to decode the ancient symbols. Madame Blavatsky described how these actual manuscripts were which they consisted principally of designs, figures and emblems each of which…

…the same name of that which was given many years ago into the book by Mr. Seneff a theosophist who studied with Madame Blavatsky, he published a book called Esoteric Buddhism when you were asked in the Orient to bury, particularly in Japan or China, what…

…secret art in Asia. The art, the mysterious science of the unfurlment of the powers in man by which he can know. Madame Blavatsky, in her own writings, except in the case of the esoteric instructions to her disciples and personal students, does not go…

…saviors, prophets, and seers of his race. So man gradually gained a certain knowledge of these esoteric matters. According to Madame Blavatsky, the time came in the closing years of the 19th century when the tremendous advancement of material science, when a…

In the studies that she made into the Hatha yoga and Vajra yoga practices of India, Madame Blavatsky set in motion a controversy which I suspect the subject rather looks to deserve. she points out clearly that the greatest part of our general study in…

…of rules for the direction of the sincere truth seeker. It is actually an effort to westernize the basic concepts. Madame Blavatsky assumes in this book, obviously, that there is no essential transformation of material to meet the needs of Western people.…

…Buddhist texts themselves, there can only be one other clear statement of the path, and that is the northern spirit. Madame Blavatsky, following also the Buddhist position almost exactly, refers to this school as the heart doctrine, and the southern school…

…the confusion, mystery, and moans of human life. The only answer to those problems is commonly breaking all of us. Madame Blavatsky took these two systems, and said the other, did something that had always been completely permissible nature, but has never…

…permissible nature, but has never ever led to a horrible situation when it was attempted in the Western world. Momentum, Madame Blavatsky followed the processes of the rare greetings and high hats of Asia. He brought the elements together in a new…

…of belief, tradition, universal attitude, everything necessary to strongly defend and support this primitive eternal part of salvation. Madame Blavatsky brought this material together in the Secret Doctrine, in a way that the length of this evidence, the…

…the obscuration of matter seemed to break apart. And through this break came forth the radiance of the eternal. And Madame Blavatsky, deriving her studies of this symbolism, bases it very wisely upon the descent of the great orders of celestial beings…

…God in the Nordic mythology. Even in Central America we find We find it wherever men have investigated, and at one time, Madame Blavatsky was in San Jose, New Mexico. She was often, for a short time, in California. But while in New Mexico, she…

…is, does this esoteric knowledge actually exist? And here the debate has rose frantically. Not only since the time of Madame Blavatsky, but wherever mysticism has been revealed to mankind. Unless this secret knowledge did exist, and has existed, all of them…

…It is all still alive. It is something that belongs to one or the other. There's no doubt whatever is in my mind that Madame Blavatsky found alive in her day. It had to have been, or it could not be alive now. She found, therefore, in researching a…