INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MADAME BLAVATSKY Compiled From Information Supplied By Her Relatives and Friends — By A.P. Sinnett — 1st Edition / 2nd Printing, 1913 — Scarce Theosophy Christian Mysticism Occult Publisher: The Theosophical Publishing Society, London (1913)
A scarce 1913 edition of "Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky" by noted Theosophist A.P. Sinnett, in well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight with light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for previous owner's inscription on the first blank page and spots of light foxing on the first three pages. A very personal and unique perspective of the intimate spiritual experiences of one of the most noted Christian mystics and co-founder of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky. Please see below for more information on the author, AP Sinnett, and Blavatsky, her life, and profound influence.
Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky (12 August [O.S.
31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891) was a Russian occultist/esoteric philosopher, and
author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an
international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric
religion that the society promoted. In the early 1870s, Blavatsky was involved in the Spiritualist
movement; although defending the genuine existence of Spiritualist phenomena,
she argued against the mainstream Spiritualist idea that the entities contacted
were the spirits of the dead. Relocating to the United States in 1873, she
befriended Henry Steel Olcott and rose to public attention as a spirit medium,
attention that included public accusations of fraudulence. In New York
City, Blavatsky co-founded the Theosophical Society with Olcott and William
Quan Judge in 1875. In 1877 she published Isis Unveiled, a book outlining her
Theosophical world-view. Associating it closely with the esoteric doctrines of
Hermeticism and Neoplatonism, Blavatsky described Theosophy as "the synthesis
of science, religion and philosophy", proclaiming that it was reviving an
"Ancient Wisdom" which underlay all the world's religions. In 1885 she returned to Europe, there
establishing the Blavatsky Lodge in London. Here she published The Secret
Doctrine, a commentary on what she claimed were ancient Tibetan manuscripts, as
well as two further books, The Key to Theosophy and The Voice of the Silence.
She died of influenza. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in
the West as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like The
Theosophical Society,The United Lodge of Theosophists, Universal Theosophy,
Ariosophy, Anthroposophy, and eventually degrading into what is now known as
the New Age Movement. -Wikipedia
Alfred Percy
Sinnett (18 January 1840, in London – 26 June 1921) was an English author and
theosophist.
In 1880 Helena
Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott visited the Sinnetts at their summer home in
Simla. The Mahatma Letters, which generated the controversy that later helped
lead to the split of the Theosophical Society were mostly written to Sinnett or
his wife Patience. The letters started at this time when Sinnett asked
Blavatsky whether if he wrote a letter to her Mahatmas, she could arrange to
have it delivered. By 1884 Sinnett
was back in England, where that year Constance Wachtmeister states that she met
Blavatsky at the home of the Sinnetts in London. Sinnett asked
Charles Webster Leadbeater to come back to England to tutor his son Percy and
George Arundale. Leadbeater agreed and brought with him one of his pupil
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa. Using "astral clairvoyance" Leadbeater
assisted William Scott-Elliot to write his book The Story of Atlantis, for
which Sinnett wrote the preface. Sinnett was
later president of the London Lodge of the Society. -Wikipedia
