Helena Petrovna Hahn was born on August 12, 1831 in Russia and died May 8, 1891 London, England. She was better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy.
Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrines of which she professed she derived from the fountainhead in Tibet.
She was born of Russian nobility and later became the secretary of the Theosophical Society. Also, she was referred to as HPB. She did much to spread Eastern religious, philosophical and occult concepts throughout the Western world.
From time to time, in the news, reference is made to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who was one of the founders of The Theosophical Society. Because she was an unusual woman who made a considerable impact on the thought of the Western world, speculation about her has often exceeded information and understanding. She was able to exercise extraordinary powers of E. S. P., and because of the unusual nature of these powers, she endured public derision and slander. She also was a controversial figure because of her forthright and outspoken nature and her fearless attacks on hypocrisy and bigotry. At the same time, she won fame for her great metaphysical knowledge and she left as proof of this knowledge an immense quantity of literary work that has, in the years since her death in 1891, greatly influenced the thinking of enquiring minds all over the world.
I was born as Helena Petrovna Hahn in Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), in Ukraine,on avgust 11th 1831. At 18 only, I merried Nikifor Vassilievitch Blavatsky, vice-governor of Erivan. After three unhappy months, I took a horse, and escaped back over the mountains to my grandfather.
I spent the years 1848 to 1858 traveling the world, have visited Egypt, France, Quebec, England, South America, Germany, Mexico, India, Greece and especially Tibet to study for two years with the men named "Brothers" and Mahatmas.It was in Cairo that I formed the first "Societe Spirite" for occult phenomena.
While living in New York City, I founded the Theosophical Society and write several books : "Isis Unveiled", a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology (1877), "The Secret Doctrine", the synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy (1888) and "The Voice of the Silence", among the others.
The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Puranas.
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
"Keep the link unbroken! Do not let my last incarnation be a failure."
Kimle tanışmak isterim:
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Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
Thanks for letting me in, Helena Petrova. It was nice meeting you together with the Sigwicks, I still remember the meal we had together in Cambridge. Fred
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
February Webcast Schedule for Theosophical Society
All Lectures to be Webcast at 7:30 P.M. CST. and free to web viewers. If you live near National Center in Wheaton Illinois stop in to listen to lecture in our auditorium.
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Thursday, 7:30 CST - February 1 by Anton Lysy The Remarkable Life of Col. Henry Steele Olcott - (HSO)
HSO was the first International President of the TS and served in this office for 32 years. During his travels around the world, he was able to establish rapport with people from different religions and walks of life. His work in Sri Lanka is honored with a statue of him that is an object of reverence, even today 100 years after his death. Tonight readings from his works and testimonies from those who knew him will be augmented by songs of his time, selected by professional tenor Martin Pazdioch. Come celebrate Colonel Olcott’s unique contribution to the Theosophical tradition.
Anton Lysy, PhD, is Dean of the Olcott Institute.
This National Lodge-sponsored program is open to all and is followed by a reception with refreshments.
Thursday, 7:30 CST - February 8 by Richard Smoley Our Gnostic Legacy: the Western Esoteric Tradition
What is the Western esoteric tradition? What role has it played in the development of our civilization, and where is it headed now? Western esotericism has influenced Greek philosophy, Christianity, and even modern scientific thought as well as Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, traditions of ritual magic, and Theosophy. Mr. Smoley will give an overview of some of the key themes of the Western esoteric tradition, explore where it is now, and how it may help us face the challenges of the new millennium. He’ll also address current subjects including Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus, the Gnostic revival, and esoteric themes in the mass media.
Richard Smoley is an authority on the esoteric and mystical traditions of the West. He is the coauthor of Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (Quest Books). His other works include Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to The Da Vinci Code; Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition; and The Essential Nostradamus. He is the former editor of Gnosis magazine and today is editor of Quest Books.
Book signing after the program
Thursday, 7:30 CST - February 15 by Carol Ward Shamanic Healing Techniques
Shamans believe that disturbances can be treated in the luminous body or aura before they manifest in the body. The process provides techniques for assisting a client in shedding her/his past before those wounds manifest as illness. Some of this work is similar to Jungian analysis in that it works with archetypes and the mythical, but the effects are felt more quickly. Carol will give a short overview of depth psychology and describe how a shaman can intervene to remove negative patterns.
Carol Ward is a Medicine Carrier who is training with the Four Winds Society in their Healing the Light Body School. A life-long Theosophist, she serves on the National Board of Directors and is Chair of Pumpkin Hollow Farm Retreat, the Northeastern Theosophical Retreat Center. She holds a MA in counseling and trained for two years as a Jungian analyst.
Thursday, 7:30 CST - February 22 by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Special Program
Buddhist Ethics: Pro-life or Pro-choice? Examine traditional and contemporary Buddhist points of view on abortion, reproductive choice, and reproductive ethics, from a critical feminist perspective. We will analyze the few brief references to reproductive ethics that appear in the Buddhist scriptures, how they are variously interpreted in Buddhist societies, and the practical application of Buddhist ethical thinking to the increasingly complex set of issues raised by reproductive technologies today.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a professor of Buddhism at San Diego University, President of Sakyadhita, the International Buddhist Women’s Organization, and the author of many books.
Our prayers and supplications are vain, unless to potential words we add potent acts, and make the aura which surrounds each one of us so pure and divine that the God within us may act outwardly, or in other words, become as it were an extraneous Potency. Thus have Initiates, Saints and very holy and pure men been enabled to help others as well as themselves in the hour of need, and produce what are foolishly called 'miracles,' each by the help and with the aid of the God within himself, which he alone has enabled to act on the outward plane.
H.P. Blavatsky Coll. Wr. Vol. XII
More Blavatsky quotes - From one Blavatsky to another :)
"We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes
down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me?'
into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my
choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'"
~Dee Wallace Stone
American Actress
(She played the mom in "ET")
Happy thanskgiving ,from this Theosophist from San Juan ,Puerto Rico,this 10 years have been a lot to grow up from the spiritual and internal self.
blessings, pagoda
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the end, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." -Mother Teresa
Dear Madame,
Thanks kindly for the add.
Aside from having led a fascinating adventure filled life, you also seem to have excellent taste in music on your MySpace page! ;)
Bring me my Bow of burning gold!
Bring me my Arrows of desire!
Bring me my Spear! O clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire!
W.Blake
What a picture it paints!.........xX
1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
2. It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.
3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
4.It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
6. Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything
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