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The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky: Volume 2 1879-1883

The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky: Volume 2 1879-1883

Blavatsky, H. P.
Knebel, John

Hardcover

Religion General

Publisher Price: $79.95

ISBN10: 0835609391
ISBN13: 9780835609395
Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
Published: Mar 24 2025
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.46
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Helena Blavatsky, in an 1877 letter to her aunt, called herself a psychological enigma, a puzzle for future generations, a Sphinx! Fourteen years later a New York Tribune obituary compared her with the greatest thinkers, not alone of the present day, but of all time. That obituary went on to predict, Madame Blavatsky has made her mark upon the time, and thus, too, her works will follow her. Her works have indeed done so, including the groundbreaking Isis Unveiled (1877); her fictionalized travel account, From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan (1883-1886); her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine (1888); an introduction to her teachings, The Key to Theosophy (1889); her mystical handbook for spiritual development, The Voice of the Silence (1889); and her newspaper and magazine articles (1874-1891), now collected in fourteen volumes. In addition to those published works, H.P.B. was a prolific correspondent with her family and colleagues, friends and foes, the learned and the simple. Her published works present the public Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Her correspondence represents the private H.P.B., the enigmatic, puzzling sphinx. That correspondence, of which this is the second volume, is presented in the H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings series. The letters within volume 2 include the period of February, 1879 to December, 1883. Writing in 1879, HPB describes her arrival by steamship in Bombay, accompanied by Col. Henry Olcott and Edward Wimbridge:

Imagine the deputies of the Society coming out to greet us in boats, decorated with garlands of flowers, accompanied by an orchestra of musicians, blowing on trumpets and horns; no sooner had they got on board our vessel than we were surrounded. I raged and laughed at the same time, at the spectacle we presented to the eyes of all the loafers assembled on the bridge and on the quay.

In November 1883, HPB writes from Adyar, Madras, India, to Parbati Churn Roy:

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