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H P Blavatsky’s Life
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1831 - Madame Blavatsky
born, at Ekaterinoslav, Russia at midnight between 30 and 31 July. Daughter of
Col. Peter Von Hahn and Helena Andreyevna, née de Fadeyev, renowned novelist
who died at only 29 years old. Granddaughter on maternal side of Privy
Councillor Andrey de Fadeyev and Princess Helena Pavlovna Dolgorukov, who
survived her education at Saratov and Tiflis, Caucasus. Endowed from childhood
with remarkable psychic powers and talented pianist.
1849- She married General
Blavatsky, a very elderly man, from whom she soon separated.
1849-50 Left him and
traveled in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, and France. She studied magic in Egypt with
an aged Copt and joined 'The Druses of Lebanon,' a secret society
1851 - Met her Master in
London. When walking with her father, she saw a tall and stately Rajput whom
she recognized as a Protector known in her visions from childhood. He spoke to
her of a future work she was to do under His direction after preparation in the
East.
1852 - Embarked for Canada
late in the year, went to New Orleans, Mexico, South America, West Indies,
thence via the Cape and Ceylon to India.
1853 - Attempted but
failed to enter Tibet. Returned to England via Java.
1854 - Came to America
again, crossing the Rockies with a caravan of immigrants. May have visited
South America again.
1855 - Left for India late
in the year, via Japan and the Straits (Malaya).
1856-57 - Traveled thought
India, Kashmir, Ladakh, parts of Tibet, Burma.
1858 - Returned to Europe
via Java, staying in France and Germany. Then returned to Russia reaching Pskov
on Christmas night.
1860 - Left for the
Caucasus early in the year, where she traveled among the native tribes,
remaining there until 1864-65. Experienced several physical and psychic crisis
acquiring complete control over her occult powers.
1866-67 Left Russia again
and traveled extensive in Balkans, Egypt, Syria, Italy. Returned to Italy in
1867 and paid a short visit to Southern Russia. Blavatsky also was with
Garibaldi at the battle of Mentana and 'was picked out of a ditch for dead with
her left arm broken in two places, musket balls embedded in right shoulder and
leg, and a stiletto wound in the heart.
1868 - Went to India and
Tibet with her Master.
1870 - Returned to Greece.
1871 - Embarked for Egypt
and was shipwrecked near the Island of Spetsai, July 4. 1871-72 Settled in
Cairo, she made an unsuccessful attempt to found a spiritual society upon the
basis of phenomena. Then as 'Madame Laura,' she did concert tours in Italy and
Russia. Traveled to Syria, Palestine, Lebanon in 1872, returning for a short
time to Odessa.
1873- After brief travels
in Eastern Europe, went to Paris where she lived with her brother, painting and
writing (in addition to her other accomplishments she was a fine artist and a
very clever caricaturist). Whilst in Paris on her Masters orders she left to
New York, landing July 7. She was in New York, without personal funds, having
exchanged her first class passage to steerage class (the cheapest) in order to
buy steerage class for a poor woman and children who had been swindled.
Although she had in her trunk 23,000 francs entrusted to her by her Master, she
earned her living by working for a maker of cravats. Still acting under orders
she finally took the money to the town of Buffalo and gave it to an unknown man
just in time to prevent him from committing suicide. An unsuccessful business
venture in a Long Island Farm, used up the 1,000 Ruble legacy she had received on
the death of her father.
1874 - She was ordered to
go to the Eddy homestead in Chittenden. This was the scene of various occult
phenomena being investigated by Colonel H.S. Olcott.
1875- September 8, founded
the Theosophical Society, together with Col. Olcott, William Q. Judge and
others. Inaugural address of Col. Olcott delivered November 17.
The Theosophical Society
gets off the Ground
1877 - Published her first
great work, Isis Unveiled, in the autumn. Her magnificent attack upon the
materialism of religion and science. She sent the first proceeds together with
money received for her various articles published by Russian newspapers and
journals, to the Red Cross in Russia to help her compatriots wounded in the
Russo-Turkish war.
1878 - 1878 - She became
an American citizen. Later that year, acting 'under orders,' she and Olcott
sailed for India; they landed in Bombay in February 1879.
1879- Launched her first
magazine, The Theosophist, in October, which resulted in rapid growth of
Theosophical work in India, 1879-83.
1880 - Blavatsky and
Olcott the two founders of the Theosophical Society toured Sri Lanka on behalf
of Buddhism
1881 - Blavatsky and
Olcott converted themselves to the Buddhism
1882 - The headquarters of
the Society was moved to its present site in Adyar, Madras. She made various
tours of India between her arrival in 1879 and her visit to Europe in 1884. In
the absence of the Founders, came the one sided report of the Society for
Psychical Research, in an attempt to show her up as an impostor. Since then,
the S.P.R. has retracted the allegations against her. Despite the intervention
of her Master to restore her health, it deteriorated and she was unable to
remain at Adyar for more than a short visit paid later that year.
1884 - Left for Europe,
February, 20, accompanied by Col. Olcott and others. After visiting Nice,
settled for a while in Paris to work on the Secret Doctrine. Briefly visited
London. Moved to Elberfeld, Germany, in the autumn. Went to London in October
and soon after sailed to India, reaching Adyar December 21.
1885- Gravely ill, she
sailed to Naples March 31, leaving India for good. After a brief stay at Torre
del Greco, settled at Wurzburg, Germany, where she wrote a large part of The
Secret Doctrine.
1886 - Moved to Ostende in
July, visiting Elberfeld on her way.
1887 - Transferred her
residence to London in May, where the Blavatsky Lodge was established, and her
second magazine, Lucifer, was launched in September.
1888 - Published the first
two volumes of the Secret Doctrine, late autumn. Founded the Esoteric School.
1889 - Published the key
to Theosophy and the Voice of the Silence.
1890 - Established European
Headquarters of the Theosophical Society, at 19 Avenue Road, London, where she
died.
1891- She passed away in
London. Her ashes were divided between New York, India, and London, and part of
it is interred under her statue in Adyar.
In her will she requested
that each year, on the anniversary of her death, her friends should assemble
and read from The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita. By Colonel Olcott's
wish, this anniversary came to be known as 'White Lotus Day.' Colonel Olcott
summed up the secret of H.P.B.'s remarkable power in producing swift changes in
the lives of those about her as due to: Her amazing occult knowledge and
phenomena-working powers, together with her relation to the hidden Masters. Her
sparkling talents, especially as a conversationalist with her social
accomplishments, wide travels, and extraordinary adventures. Her insight into
problems of philology, racial origins, fundamental bases of religions, and keys
to old mysteries and symbols. Unflinching self-consecration to the Great Ones
irradiated the life of H.P.B. and she will ever be known as the 'Light-Bringer'
of the Nineteenth Century.
H P Blavatsky Brief Life Chronology
Her Teachers Morya & Koot Hoomi
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