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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
August 11, 1831 - May 8, 1891






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The Writings of H. P. Blavatsky

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H. P. Blavatsky
The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine
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An Exposition of the Ethics, Science, and Philosophy
The Key to Theosophy
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The Secret Doctrine Vol 1
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The Secret Doctrine Vol II
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The Theosophical Glossary
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The Voice of the Silence
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Isis Unveiled Vol I
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ARTICLES

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African MagicThe Ahkoond of Swat - The Founder of Many Mystical SocietiesAn Astral Prophet
An Unsolved MysteryAncient Doctrines Vindicated by Modern ProphecyAncient Magic in Modern Science
Animated StatuesAnswers to QueriesAntiquity of the Vedas
Apollonius Tyaneus and Simon MagusAre Chelas "Mediums"?Are Dreams But Idle Visions?
The Arya Samaj  

B
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The Babel of Modern ThoughtBlack Magic in ScienceThe Blessings of Publicity
The Bright Spot of LightBuddhism in AmericaBuddhism, Christianity and Phallicism

C
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Can the Double Murder?Can the Mahatmas Be Selfish?Case of Obsession, A
ChelasChelas and Lay ChelasChinese Spirits
Christmas Then and Christmas NowCivilization Death of Art and BeautyThe Claims of Occultism
Classification of "Principles"Count St. GermainCross and Fire
The Cycle Moveth  

D
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The Denials and the Mistakes of the Nineteenth CenturyThe Devil's Own-Thoughts on Ormuzd and AhrimanDiagnoses and Palliatives
Dialogue on the Mysteries of the After LifeDialogues between the Two EditorsDo the Rishis Exist?
Does Vaccination Prevent Smallpox?Dr. Beard CriticizedDreamland and Somnambulism
The Drift of Western SpiritualismThe Dual Aspect of Wisdom 

E
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Echoes from India. What is Hindu Spiritualism?The Eddy ManifestationsEditorial Appendix
Editorial CommentThe Eighth WonderThe Electric and Magnetic Affinities Between Man and Nature
ElementalsElementariesEsoteric Axioms and Spiritual Speculations
"Esoteric Buddhism" and its Critic"Esoteric Buddhism" and the "Secret Doctrine"The Esoteric Character of the Gospels

F
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Fakirs and TablesThe Fall of IdealsThe Fate of the Occultist
Few Thoughts on Some Wise Words from a Wise Man, AForce of PrejudiceFragments
French View of Women's Rights, A  

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GeniusThe Grand Inquisitor 

H
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"H. M." and the TodasH. P. Blavatsky on Precipitation and Other MattersH. P. Blavatsky's Masonic Patent
Have Animals Souls?Hindu Widow-MarriageThe History of a "Book"
The History of a PlanetThe Holmes ControversyHolmes Controversy(continued)
Huxley and SladeHypnotismHypnotism, and Its Relations to Other Modes of Fascination

I
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The Imperfections of ScienceIndian MetaphysicsIntro-Version of Mental Vision
Is Creation Possible for Man?Is Denunciation a Duty?Is Foeticide a Crime?
"Is it Idle to Argue Further?"Is Suicide a Crime?Is the Desire to "Live" Selfish?
Is Theosophy a Religion?"Isis Unveiled" and the "Theosophist" on ReincarnationIsis Unveiled and the Vishishtadwaita
"It's the Cat!"  

J
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The Jews in Russia  

K
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The Kabalah and the KabalistsKabalistic Views of "Spirits"Karmic Visions
The Knout As Wielded by the Great Russian TheosophistKosmic Mind 

L
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The Lack of Unity among SpiritualistsLamas and DrusesLand of Mystery, A
The Last Song of the SwanLe Phare de L'InconnuThe Leaven of Theosophy
Leo Tolstoi and His Unecclesiastical Christianity"Let Every Man Prove His Own Work"Life and Death
Literary JottingsLodges of MagicLogic versus Peripatetic

M
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Madame Blavatsky on "The Himalayan Brothers"MagicMahatmas and Chelas
Memory in the DyingThe Mind in NatureThe Missing Link
Missionaries MilitantMistaken Notions on "The Secret Doctrine"Modern Apostles and Pseudo-Messiahs
The Mote and the BeamMr. A. Lillie's DelusionsMy Books
Mysterious Race, A  

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Nature's Human MagnetsThe Negations of ScienceThe New Cycle
(New) York against Lankester. A new War of the Roses"Not a Christian"!Note on "Memory", A
Note on Eliphas Levi, ANotes on some Aryan-Arhat Esoteric TenetsNotice to Mediums
The Number SevenThe Number Seven and Our Society 

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Occult or Exact Science?Occult PhenomenaOccultism or Magic
Occultism versus the Occult ArtsOld Hindu ShipsOld Philosophers and Modern Critics
The Omnipresent ProteusOn Pseudo-TheosophyOn The New Year's Morrow
"Oppressed Widowhood" in AmericaThe Organisation of the Theosophical SocietyThe Origin of Evil
Our Cycle and the NextOur Three Objects 

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Paradoxical World, AParting WordsPersian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism
Pertinent QueriesPertinent QuestionsPhilosophers and Philosophicules
The Popular Idea of Soul-SurvivalPosthumous Publication, APractical Occultism
The Pralaya of Modern Science"Precipitation"Premature and Phenomenal Growths
Progress and CultureProtest, APsychic and Noetic Action
Psychic Warning, APsychology - The Science of the SoulPuzzle from Adyar, A
Puzzle in "Esoteric Buddhism", A  

Q
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Queries and AnswersQuestions Answered about Yoga Vidya 

R
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Re-Classification of PrinciplesRebuke, ARecent Progress in Theosophy
Reincarnations in TibetReply to Our Critics, A. Our Final Answer to Several ObjectionsRepublican Citizen, A
The Retort CourteousThe Roots of Ritualism in Church and MasonryRussian Atrocities

S
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The Sacred Tree of Kum BumThe Science of LifeThe Science of Magic
"Scrutator Again"The Search after OccultismSeeming "Discrepancies"
The Seventeen-Rayed Sun-DiscShe Being Dead Yet SpeakethSignal of Danger, A
The Signs of the TimesThe Six-Pointed and Five-Pointed StarsSociety Without a Dogma, A
Some Scientific Questions AnsweredSpiritual ProgressSpiritualism and Occult Truth
Spiritualism and SpiritualistsSpiritualism in RussiaSpiritualistic Tricksters
Star-Angel-Worship in the Roman Catholic ChurchStars and NumbersStray Thoughts on Death and Satan
The Substantial Nature of Magnetism  

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TetragrammatonThe Life Principle"The Theosophical Mahatmas"
Theories about Reincarnation and SpiritsThe Theory of CyclesThe Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future
The Theosophists and their OpponentsTheosophy and SpiritualismTheosophy or Jesuitism?
The Thoughts of the DeadThoughts on the ElementalsTibetan Teachings
The Tidal Wave"To the Readers of 'Lucifer'"The Todas
Transmigration of the Life AtomsTrickery or Magic? 

U
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The Universe in a Nut-Shell  

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Views of the Theosophists  

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War in OlympusWarning to Mediums, AWas Cagliostro a "Charlatan"?
Washing the Disciples' FeetWhat Are the Theosophists?What is Occultism?
What is Theosophy?"What Is Truth?"What of Phenomena?
What Shall We Do for Our Fellow-Men?What's in a Name? - Why the Magazine is called "Lucifer"Which First - the Egg or the Bird?
Why Do Animals Suffer?Why I Do Not Return to IndiaWhy the "Vahan"?
"Word with Our Friends, A"World-Improvement or World-Deliverance 

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The Year is Dead, Long Live the YearYear of Theosophy, AThe Yoga Philosophy







Man, a Distinct Kingdom

In the first volume of the lately published "Introduction a l'atude des Races Humaines," by M. de Quatrefages, there is proof that since the post-tertiary period and even before that time — since many Races were already scattered during that age on the face of the Earth — man has not altered one iota in his physical structure. And if, surrounded for ages by a fauna that altered from one period or cycle to another, which died out, which was reborn in other forms — so that now there does not exist one single animal on Earth, large or small, contemporary with the man of that period — if, then, every animal has been transformed save man himself, this fact goes to prove not only his antiquity, but that he is a distinct Kingdom. Why should he alone have escaped transformation? Because, says de Quatrefages, the weapon used by him, in his struggle with nature and the ever-changing geological conditions and elements, was "his psychic force, not his physical strength or body," as in the case of animals. Give man only that dose of intelligence and reason with which other mammalia are endowed, and with his present bodily organization he will show himself the most helpless of creatures of Earth. And as everything goes to prove that the human organism with all its characteristics, peculiarities and idiosyncrasies existed already on our Globe in those far distant geological periods when there was not yet one single specimen of the now-existing forms of mammalia, what is the unavoidable conclusion? Why this: Since all the human races are of one and the same species, it follows that this species is the most ancient of all the now-living mammalia. Therefore it is the most stable and persevering of all, and was already as fully developed as it is now when all the other mammalia now known had not made even their first approach to appearance on this Earth. Such is the opinion of the great French Naturalist, who gives thereby a terrible blow to Darwinism.

H. P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine, ii 56 fn.
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