Madame Blavatsky

Madame Blavatsky
Author: Gary Lachman
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1585428639

Chronicles the life of the cofounder of the Theosophical Society, examining her legacy and the controversy surrounding her.

Studies in Occultism

Studies in Occultism
Author: H. P. Blavatsky
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-01-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 3736807147

Occultism is not magic. It is comparatively easy to learn the trick of spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon awakened; the forces which his love, his hate, his passion, can call into operation, are readily developed. But this is Black Magic — Sorcery. For it is the motive, and the motive alone, which makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white, beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ spiritual forces if there is the slightest tinge of selfishness remaining in the operator. For, unless the intention is entirely unalloyed, the spiritual will transform itself into the psychic, act on the astral plane, and dire results may be produced by it. The powers and forces of animal nature can equally be used by the selfish and revengeful, as by the unselfish and the all-forgiving; the powers and forces of spirit lend themselves only to the perfectly pure in heart — and this is DIVINE MAGIC.

The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky

The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780835608367

Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) is widely celebrated as the leading esoteric thinker of the nineteenth century who influenced an entire generation of artists and intellectuals and introduced Eastern spirituality to the West. Until now, however, readers have been able to know this fascinating woman only through her public writings. Few may have realized that H.P.B. was also a tireless correspondent with family and colleagues, friends and foes, the learned and the simple. Her personal correspondence reveals for the first time the private H.P.B. in all of her sphinx-like complexity rarely visible in her published material. This unparalleled offering contains all known letters H.P.B. wrote between 1860 and the time just before she left for India in 1879. Meticulously edited by John Algeo, former President of the Theosophical Society in America and current Vice President of the international Society, the volume also contains letters to and about Blavatsky, articles, and editorial commentary.

H.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement

H.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement
Author: Charles J. Ryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1975
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780911500806

With careful documentation and persuasive exposition the author presents an authentic account of the chief incidents in H P Blavatsky's life, her ideals, and her unswerving dedication to the service of Humanity. Controversial matters and H P Blavatsky and controversy go hand in hand -- about which today there may still be differences in opinion, are examined because they touch closely on fundamentals. They are discussed with the author's penetrating insight, yet with an impersonal touch not lacking in persuasive charm. Includes an important record of the later history of the Theosophical Society and a listing of world-wide Theosophical Societies and Groups representative of the Theosophical Movement today.

HPB

HPB
Author: S. L. Cranston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

H. P. Blavatsky, on the Gnostics

H. P. Blavatsky, on the Gnostics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Gnosticism
ISBN: 9780913004937

In this volume, you learn of the course of Gnosticism. It upholds Blavatsky's startling declaration of the once universal religion from which Gnosticism, and indeed Buddhism and Brahmanism, and early Christianity spring. Basic beliefs of the Gnostics are clarified, and made understandable as we recognise that there is always a direct continuation from age to age of this secret knowledge of hidden and spiritual things.

Defining Magic

Defining Magic
Author: Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317545044

Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor