The Organisation and Religion to Re-unite All Religions

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

(1831-1891)

Blavatsky was born in the Ukraine to an army Colonel in 1831.  From the age of 18 she began to spend her time travelling and learning lots of different mystic traditions worldwide.  Blavatsky was also interested in all esoteric wisdom, and spent a great deal of effort and time learning many areas in order that she could preserve the knowledge.

It was when she realised that there was not a philosophy or religion for which she would be able to find suitable for her own needs, or beliefs, that herself and Colonel Olcott began the Theosophical Society.  She spent much of her life learning all these different areas and would also have clairvoyant abilities accredited to her. Even though, just as things started to take off it was the belief in the occult masters, which would bring her crashing back to earth and discredit her.  She would be accused by people of fraud concerning, her supernatural abilities, which she believed she possessed.

 

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Author: Robert Worrall
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