Showing posts with label hpb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hpb. Show all posts

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Theosophy and the Theosophical Society

The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 at a time when the West was just becoming seriously aware of the existence of religions and people elsewhere. Intelligent people could no longer classify Islam as devilish for instance, or Hinduism as barbaric. But what then? The serious study of religion was started at universities - the first professor of comparative religion got his post in 1875.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

More Blavatsky

Just gathering some Blavatsky links here.

First a repeat: the Blavatsky Collected Writings.

Second: Her letters - the ones she Blavatsky before going to India.

Third and not least: Read about her life 'the Extraordinary life of H.P.B.'.

If you don't want to read that, read this about her life: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

Then her most famous book: The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Blavatsky Collected Writings

Big news: the Blavatsky Collected Writings (BCW) are online again. This time on Katinka Hesselink's site: http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/

Blavatsky's collected writings is all her known articles gathered together. 15 volumes worth.

You can buy them here: H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings for sale.