H. P. B. Speaks (Vol-1)

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H. P. BLAVATSKY (1831-1891), considered by many the greatest occultist of the West, was an outstanding messenger who presented the Ancient Wisdom for the modern age. Scion of a Russian aristocratic family, from childhood she displayed remarkable psychic gifts, artistic and literary talents and intellectual accomplishments. Widely travelled the world over and seasoned by extraordinary adventures, she was well prepared by her Teachers to redeem humanity from the enveloping darkness of materialism. Her great achievements were twofold: founding, jointly with a distinguished American, Col. H. S. Olcott, the Theosophical Society in 1875; and writing on a prodigious scale spiritual and occult literature which entitled her to be known as 'the Light Bringer'.

THERE exist in the Archives of the Theo- sophical Society at Adyar certain manuscripts of H.P.B. Among them all, the most interest- ing historically is her Diary for 1878, which is published in this work.

A certain amount of the material in this Volume I, about half, was published by me in The Thesophist from March 1922 to April 1925 under the title "The Early History of the T. S." New material found since then has been added, particularly the letters written by H.P.B. to her aunt in 1877 from New York and in 1880 from India.

When Mr. A. P. Sinnett was planning to write his work Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky, he asked H.P.B.'s sister, Madame V. P. Jelihovsky, to give some parti- culars of H.P.B.'s life. As this lady had already published a work in Russian des- cribing H.P.B.'s early years, H.P.B. translated from this book. However, Mr. Sinnett used only the first part, containing but a few pages of the manuscript. The remaining pages of the translation in H.P.B.'s hand- writing are at Adyar and will be published in the second volume of this series. As H.P.B. translates she adds footnotes and comments.

At Adyar there is also a long statement in H.PB.'s handwriting, written in 1885, in defence of her colleague, Colonel H. S. Olcott; that too will appear in Volume II.

In one of the forthcoming volumes of H.P.B's Speaks I shall publish all the letters which she wrote to her friend Prince Dondu- koff-Korsakoff. These are chatty letters writ- ten about 1881-4 concerning her travels in India, but they are curious in that H.P.B. begins to write in French and then passes on to some paragraphs in Russian. I pre- sume this was to puzzle the police censors, who at the time, under the impression that H.P.B. was some kind of a Russian spy, would be apt to open her letters. The way that these letters came to Adyar makes an interesting story, which will be narrated when the letters are published.