Blavatsky biography
Helena blavatsky biography
Helena Blavatsky, Occultist and Founder of Theosophy...
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891)
One of the most influential occult thinkers of the nineteenth century, Blavatsky left behind conflicting images of adventuress, author, mystic, guru, occultist, and charlatan.
Born at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, July 31, 1831, she was the daughter of Col. Peter Hahn, a member of a Mecklenburg family settled in Russia. With the aid of Col. Henry Steel Olcott and William Q. Judge, she founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875.
Blavatsky biography
In order to gain converts to Theosophy, she felt obliged to appear to perform miracles. This she did with a large measure of success, but her "methods" were on several occasions detected as fraudulent. Nevertheless, her commanding personality secured for her a large following.
An enigmatic personality, she was brought up in an atmosphere saturated with superstition and fantasy.
She loved to surround herself with mystery as a child and claimed to her playmates that in the subterranean corridors of their old ho