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Helen 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 Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy
The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky
Vols. I & II

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H. P. Blavatsky

The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine
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H. P. Blavatsky
An Exposition of the Ethics, Science, and Philosophy
The Key to Theosophy
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H. P. Blavatsky
A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology
Isis Unveiled Volume II
The "Infallibility" of Modern Religion

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H. P. Blavatsky
A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology
Isis Unveiled Volume I
The "Infallibility" of Modern Science

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The Voice of the Silence
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H. P. Blavatsky
Theosophical Glossary
The Theosophical Glossary
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H. P. Blavatsky
The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy
The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky
Vol. II

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H. P. Blavatsky
The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy
The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky
Vol. I

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ARTICLES

A
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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  

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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?A Case of Obsession
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  

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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

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

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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 (Cont'd)
Huxley and SladeHypnotismHypnotism, and Its Relations to Other Modes of Fascination

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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!"  

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The Jews in Russia  

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

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The Lack of Unity among SpiritualistsLamas and DrusesA Land of Mystery
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
A Mysterious Race  

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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"!A Note on Eliphas Levi
A Note on MemoryNotes 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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A Paradoxical WorldParting WordsPersian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism
Pertinent QueriesPertinent QuestionsPhilosophers and Philosophicules
The Popular Idea of Soul-SurvivalA Posthumous PublicationPractical Occultism
The Pralaya of Modern Science"Precipitation"Premature and Phenomenal Growths
Progress and CultureA ProtestPsychic and Noetic Action
A Psychic WarningPsychology - The Science of the SoulA Puzzle from Adyar
A Puzzle in "Esoteric Buddhism"  

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Queries and AnswersQuestions Answered about Yoga Vidya 

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Re-Classification of PrinciplesA RebukeRecent Progress in Theosophy
Reincarnations in TibetA Reply to Our Critics: Our Final Answer to Several ObjectionsA Republican Citizen
The Retort CourteousThe Roots of Ritualism in Church and MasonryRussian Atrocities

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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 SpeakethA Signal of Danger
The Signs of the TimesThe Six-Pointed and Five-Pointed StarsA Society Without a Dogma
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
To TheosophistsThe Theosophists and their OpponentsTheosophy and Spiritualism
Theosophy or Jesuitism?The Thoughts of the DeadThoughts on the Elementals
Tibetan TeachingsThe Tidal Wave"To the Readers of 'Lucifer'"
The TodasTransmigration of the Life AtomsTrickery or Magic?

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The Universe in a Nut-Shell  

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Views of the Theosophists  

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War in OlympusA Warning to MediumsWas 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"?
A Word with Our FriendsWorld-Improvement or World-Deliverance 

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The Year is Dead, Long Live the YearA Year of TheosophyThe Yoga Philosophy







The Current Cycle

In Isis Unveiled we wrote that which we now repeat: "We are at the bottom of a cycle and evidently in a transitory state. Plato divides the intellectual progress of the universe during every cycle into fertile and barren periods. In the sublunary regions, the spheres of the various elements remain eternally in perfect harmony with the divine nature, he says, 'but their parts,' owing to a too close proximity to earth, and their commingling with the earthly (which is matter, and therefore the realm of evil), 'are sometimes according, and sometimes contrary to (divine) nature.' When those circulations – which Eliphas Levi calls ' currents of the astral light' – in the universal ether which contains in itself every element, take place in harmony with the divine spirit, our earth and everything pertaining to it enjoys a fertile period. The occult powers of plants, animals, and minerals magically sympathize with the 'superior natures,' and the divine soul of man is in perfect intelligence with these 'inferior' ones. But during the barren periods, the latter lose their magic sympathy, and the spiritual sight of the majority of mankind is so blinded as to lose every notion of the superior powers of its own divine spirit. We are in a barren period: the eighteenth century, during which the malignant fever of scepticism broke out so irrepressibly, has entailed unbelief as an hereditary disease upon the nineteenth. The divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone philosophizes." And philosophizing alone, how can it understand the "SOUL DOCTRINE"?

H. P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine, ii 70–74
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