Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (100 page)

5. While Gribble believed that H.P.B. had written the Coulomb letters, he did not think her the author of the Mahatma letters. Shown several letters while visiting Adyar on October 3, 1884, he decided that "Koot Hoomi's handwriting is very peculiar, upright and somewhat rounded," unlike Helena's running hand.

6. Richard Hodgson to Frank Podmore, January 9, 1885, Podmore, p. 177.

7. Solovyov, p. 111.

8. Ibid., p. 105.

9.
Theosophist,
October, 1931.

10. ODL, vol. 3, p. 206.

11. CW, vol. 6, p. 322.

12. ODL, vol. 3, p. 101.

13. Ibid., p. 208.

14. Eek,
Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement,
p. 17.

15. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 17, 1885, ML, p. 468. In the fall of 1885 or early winter of 1886, she wrote to Franz Hartmann that if reports of Damodar's death were true, "why I think I would commit suicide; for it is out of pure devotion for me that he went. I would never forgive myself for this, for letting him go." (H.P.B. to Franz Hartmann,
The Path,
February, 1896.)

16. S.P.R.,
Proceedings,
p. 311.

17. S.P.R.,
Proceedings,
vol. ix, p. 159.

18. LBS, p. 94.

19. ODL, vol. 3, p. 217.

20. S.P.R.,
Proceedings
, vol. ix, p. 135.

21. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, July 8, 1885,
Theosophist,
October, 1932.

22. ODL, vol. 3, p. 221.

23. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, July 8, 1885,
Theosophist,
October, 1932.

24. ODL, vol. 3, p. 222.

25. Ibid.

26. Soon after H.P.B.'s departure, Emma withdrew her legal action against Maj.-Gen. Henry Rhodes Morgan. Little is known of her subsequent life, except that she and her husband soon separated and Alexis returned to Egypt. By 1886, she was said to be living in Bombay in poverty. According to Sven Eek
(Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement):
"It has been presumed that she ended her days in some evangelical home for the aged."

27. H.P.B. quoting Olcott in a letter to A. P. Sinnett, August 19, 1885, LBS, p. 115.

28. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, April 1, 1885,
Theosophist,
October, 1932.

29. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, August 19, 1885, LBS, p. 111.

30. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, September 2, 1885, LBS, p. 119.

31. CW, vol. 11, p. 388.

32. Solovyov, p. 123.

33. H.P.B. to V. Solovyov, April 29, 1885, Solovyov, p. 119.

34. Ibid.

35. H.P.B. to Patience Sinnett, July 23, 1885, LBS, p. 104.

36. H.P.B. to Mohini Chatterji, May 17, 1885, LBS, p. 97.

37. Solovyov, p. 18.

38. H.P.B. to V. Solovyov, May 23, 1885, Solovyov, p. 124.

39. Ibid., p. 122.

40. H.P.B. to Patience Sinnett, July 23, 1885, LBS, p. 105.

41. H.P.B. to Mohini Chatterji, May 17, 1885, LBS, p. 97.

42. Ibid.

43. Quoted in H.P.B. letter to Patience Sinnett, July 23, 1885, LBS, p. 102.

44. Ibid., p. 103.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid.

48. H.P.B. to Mary and Francesca Arundale, June 16, 1885, LBS, p. 95.

49. Ibid.

50. Solovyov, p. 133.

51. Ibid., p. 134.

52. Ibid., p. 135.

53. Ibid., pp. 135-136.

54. Ibid., p. 136.

55. H.P.B. to Francesca Arundale, August 29, 1885, Arundale, p. 60.

56. ML, p. 130.

57.
Theosophist,
January, 1884.

58. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 6, 1886, LBS, p. 480.

59. Ibid.

60. In
Modern Priestess of Isis,
Solovyov gives the impression that he was alone at Wttrz- burg, but from other sources it is known that he was accompanied by Glinka.

61. Solovyov, p. 150.

62. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, September, 1885,
The Path,
August, 1895.

63. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, October 10, 1885, LBS, p. 134.

64. Wachtmeister, p. 98.

65. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, November 25, 1885, De Zirkoff,
Rebirth of the Occult Tradition
, p. 10.

66. Neff, p. 187.

67. Ibid.

68. Ibid.

69. ODL, vol. 3, pp. 319-320.

70. Neff, p. 187.

71. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 4-6, 1886, LBS, p. 177.

72. Dr. Gideon G. Panter, New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center. Interview with author.

73. Neff, p. 187.

74. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 4-6, 1886, LBS, p. 177.

75. Wachtmeister, p. 11.

76. Ibid., p. 4.

77. Ibid., p. 7.

78. Ibid., p. 9.

79. Ibid., p. 12.

80. Russell,
Herald of the Star,
May 11, 1916.

81. H.P.B. to Franz Hartmann, April 3, 1886,
The Path,
March, 1896.

82. Wachtmeister, p. 12.

83. Ibid., p. 14.

84. Ibid., p. 33.

85. Ibid., p. 18.

86. Ibid.

87. C. Wachtmeister to A. P. Sinnett, January 1,1886, LBS, p. 270.

88. S.P.R.,
Proceedings
, pp. 313- 317.

89. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, January 6,1886,
Theosophist
, August, 1931.

90. S.P.R.,
Proceedings
, p. 207.

91. H .P.B. to Henry Olcott, January 6, 1886,
Theosophist
, August, 1931.

92. Wachtmeister, p. 19.

93. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, January 6, 1886,
Theosophist
, August, 1931.

94. Ibid.

95. C. Wachtmeister to A. P. Sinnett, January 4,1886, LBS, p. 272.

96. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 1, 1886, LBS, p. 135.

97. C. Wachtmeister to A. P. Sinnett, January 26, 1886, LBS, p. 279.

98. Ibid., p. 282.

99. Ibid., p. 281.

100. Henry Olcott to C. Wachtmeister, March 2, 1886, LBS, p. 331.

101. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, April 6, 1886, LBS, p. 199.

102. H.P.B. to F. Hartmann, undated, 1886,
The Path
, February, 1896.

103. Ibid.

104. Five years earlier, Walther Gebhard's identical-twin brother had also taken his own life with a pistol.

105. De Steiger, p. 260.

106. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, October 9, 1885, LBS, p. 123.

107. Ibid.

108. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 3, 1886, LBS, p. 192.

109. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, circa October 12, 1885, LBS, p. 127.

110. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 13, 1886, LBS, p. 189.

111. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 29, 1886, LBS, p. 178.

112. Ibid.

113. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, February 7, 1886, LBS, p. 181.

114. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, March 28, 1886, Solovyov, p. 315.

115. Ibid.

116. Ibid., p. 193.

117. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, February 7, 1886, quoting V. Solovyov, LBS, p. 180.

118. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, February 2-7, 1886, LBS, p. 175.

119. Ibid.

120. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, February 7, 1886, LBS, p. 179.

121. Solovyov, pp. 176-181.

122. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 15, 1886, LBS, p. 150.

123. Ibid.

124. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, April, 1886, LBS, p. 148.

125. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 15, 1886, LBS, p. 154.

126. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, April 3, 1886, LBS, p. 142.

127. Ibid.

128. Ibid., p. 145.

129. Ibid.

130. C. Wachtmeister to A. P. Sinnett, March 9, 1886, LBS, p. 293.

131. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 3, 1886, LBS, p. 194.

132. Henry Olcott to H.P.B., March 17, 1886, LBS, p. 133.

133. H.P.B. to Franz Hartmann, April 3, 1886,
The Path,
February, 1896.

134. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 17-18, 1886, LBS, p. 201.

135. Ibid., p. 200.

136. Wachtmeister, p. 48.

137. Ibid.

138. Ibid., p. 49.

139. Ibid., p. 93.

140. Ibid., p. 50.

141. Ibid.

142. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, August 18, 1886, LBS, p. 216.

143. Ibid.

144. Wachtmeister, p. 51.

145. H.P.B. to William Judge, August 22, 1886,
Theosophical Forum,
November, 1933.

146. Wachtmeister, p. 50.

147. H.P.B. to William Judge, October 3, 1886, CW, vol. 7, p. 136.

148. Ibid., p. 137.

149. Maitland, vol. 2, pp. 253, 274.

150. Blavatsky,
The Secret Doctrine,
1928 edition, Theosophical Press, vol. 1, p. 31.

151. Ibid., p. 22.

152. Ibid., p. xxi.

153. Ibid., p. 28.

154. Ibid., p. 29.

155. Solovyov, p. 359.

156. Scholem, pp. 388-389.

157. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 6, 1886, ML, p. 481.

158. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, January 6, 1886, De Zirkoff,
Rebirth of the Occult Tradition,
p. 23.

159. Ibid.

160. C. Wachtmeister to A. P. Sinnett, December 13, 1885, LBS, p. 266.

161. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, October 21, 1886,
Theosophist,
March, 1925.

162. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, January 5,1887,
Theosophist,
August, 1931.

163. Wachtmeister, p. 56.

164. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, February 16, 1887, LBS, p. 205.

165. Wachtmeister, p. 78.

166. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, undated 1887,
The Path,
September, 1895.

167. Wachtmeister, pp. 59-64, H.P.B. must have destroyed the will because it was not found among her papers at her death.

168. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, April, 1887,
The Path,
October, 1895.

169. H.P.B. to Nadyezhda Fadeyev, Easter Sunday, 1887,
The Path,
September, 1895.

170. Wachtmeister, p. 78.

171. Ibid.

LONDON

1.
Religio-Philosophical Journal,
September 21, 1890.

2. Wachtmeister, p. 65.

3. Ibid.

4. CW, vol. 8, pp. 427- 429.

5. Ibid., p. 430.

6. De Steiger, p. 241.

7. Maskelyne, p. 62.

8. Ibid., pp. 62-63.

9. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, May, 1887,
The Path,
October, 1895.

10. B. Keightley,
Theosophist,
September, 1931.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Cleather,
As I Knew Her,
p. 3.

14.
Theosophical Forum,
April-July, 1900.

15. B. Keightley,
Theosophist,
September, 1931.

16. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, May, 1887,
The Path,
October 1895.

17. Cleather,
As I Knew Her,
p. 9.

18. He left the Society in 1888 and died two years later of blood poisoning.

19. ODL, vol. 4, p. 22.

20. Wachtmeister, p. 79.

21. A. Keightley,
Theosophical Quarterly,
October, 1910.