by Marion Meade
122. ML, p. 243.
123. Ibid. pp. 43, 241.
124. Ibid. p. 166.
125. Ibid., p. 431.
126. Ibid., pp. 36,302,428.
127. The word is the feminine of the Pali word Upasaka (disciple). "The nearest Western translation would be Lay Brother and Lay Sister. H.P.B. said that during her residence with the Masters in Tibet, she took the vows of a Lay Sister.
128. James, Psychical Research, p. 50.
129. Jung, p. 101.
130. Christian College Magazine, September, 1884.
131. INC, p. 189.
132. H.P.B. to Adelberth de Bourbon, September 4, 1881, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 7.
133. H.P.B. to Mary Hollis Billing, October 2, 1881, Theosophi- cal Forum, May, 1936.
134. Christian College Magazine, September, 1884.
135. ML, p. 260.
136. Ibid., pp. 213-214.
137. Ibid., p. 214.
138. Coulomb, p. 44.
139. LBS, p. 50.
140. ML, p. 220.
141. Ibid., pp. 203-204.
142. Ibid. p. 221.
143. INC, p. 193.
144. ML, p. 207.
145. Coulomb, p. 42.
146. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, August 28, 1881, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 14.
147. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 2, 1881, LBS, p. 10.
148. ML, pp. 440-441.
149. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, received November 10, 1881, LBS, p. 11.
150. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 2, 1881, LBS, p. 9.
151. Ibid., p. 10.
152. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, November, 1881, The Path, April, 1895.
153. ODL, vol. 2, p. 236.
154. William Judge to Damodar Mavalankar, October 26, 1881, Eek, p. 73.
155. ML, pp. 52, 56.
156. Smith, pp. 93, 96.
157. ODL, vol. 2, p. 327.
158. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, May 8, 1882, LBS, p. 15.
159. Allan Hume to H.P.B., January 4, 1882, LBS, p. 306.
160. Ibid.
161. Ibid., p. 307.
162. ML, p. 264.
163. Ibid., p. 268.
164. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, February 7, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 43.
165. Ibid., p. 45.
166. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff- Korsakoff, March 1, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 53.
167. ODL, vol. 2, p. 342.
168. Subba Row to H.P.B., February 3, 1882, LBS, p. 317.
169. ODL, vol. 2, p. 342.
170. Ibid., p. 343.
171. Ibid., p. 344.
172. Ibid., pp. 347-352.
173. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, May 17, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 74.
174. Ibid., p. 75.
175. Theosophist, March, 1926.
176. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, June 25, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 81; October 1, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 95.
177. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, June 20, 1882, LBS, p. 18.
178. Linton and Hanson, p. 268.
179. Theosophist, June, 1882.
180. Hume, p. 11.
181. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, August 26, 1882, LBS, p. 34.
182. Ibid., p. 31.
183. ML, p. 288.
184. S.P.R., Proceedings, p. 397.
185. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, p. 351.
186. Light, July 8, 1882.
187. Theosophist, September, 1882.
188. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, June 25, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 87.
189. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, September 1, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 94.
190. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, Received September 19, 1882, LBS, p. 37; H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, September, 1882, The Path, September, 1895.
191. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, Received September 19, 1882, LBS, p. 37.
192. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, October 1, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 98.
193. Ibid., pp. 99-100.
194. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, circa October, 1882, The Path, September, 1895. In an undated letter to M. Biliere, Paris, Helena supplied further details on Master Mo- rya's medical treatment. "He gave only a potion to drink seven times a day, from a plant of the Himalayas." (Theosophist, December, 1930.)
195. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, October 9, 1882, LBS, p. 38.
196. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, December 15, 1882, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 104.
197. Christian College Magazine, September, 1884.
198. Henry Olcott to Emma Coulomb, September 25, 1882, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
199. LMW, vol. 2, pp. 116-117.
200. H.P.B. to Franz Hartmann, April 3, 1886, The Path, March, 1896.
201. ML, p. 446.
202. Barborka, The Mahatmas and Their Letters, p. 323.
203. Ibid., p. 329.
204. Ibid.
205. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, December 5, 1881, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 17.
206. H.P.B. to Nadyezhda Fadeyev, circa January, 1883, The Path, September, 1895.
207. ODL, vol. 2, p. 392.
208. Theosophist, February, 1883.
209. James, William James on Psychical Research, p. 145.
210. ML, p. 201.
211. In a letter to Sinnett, dated January 9, 1886, H.P.B. made a general admission that the materialized vases and other "apports" pre-existed as objects and were purchased from a shop. The point of these phenomena, she asserted, did not rest on the vases themselves but on their having been made to pass through walls and doors before appearing in a closed cabinet.
212. Coulomb, p. 66.
213. S.P.R., Proceedings, p. 325.
214. Blavatsky, The People of the Blue Mountains, pp. 109- 113.
215. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, August 15, 1883, LBS, p. 45.
216. Ibid., p. 43.
217. H.P.B. to either Vera or Nadyezhda, July or August, 1883, Theosophist, May, 1959.
218. Marryat, p. 98.
219. Christian College Magazine, September 1884.
220. S.P.R., Proceedings, p. 322.
221. Ibid.
222. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, July 15, 1883, LBS, p. 43.
223. Coulomb, p. 65.
224. Ibid.
225. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, September 27, 1883, LBS, p. 57.
226. Light, September 1, 1883.
227. Ibid.
228. Ibid., September 22, 1883.
229. Ibid., November 17, 1883.
230. Lillie, Modern Mystics, p. 117.
231. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 17, 1883, LBS, p. 66.
232. ML, pp. 421-422.
233. Ibid., p. 422.
234. Theosophist, October, 1931.
235. It is possible that H.P.B. recognized Brown's symptoms at once. In a letter of April 3, 1886, to Franz Hartmann, she wrote: "Brown was crazy before he came to us, unasked and unexpected." (The Path, March, 1896.)
236. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, September 27 and November 17, 1883, LBS, pp. 55, 67-68.
237. Coulomb, p. 66.
238. Ibid., p. 69.
239. Ibid.
240. Ibid., pp. 68- 69.
241. ODL, vol. 3, p. 36.
242. Ibid., p. 40.
243. Barborka, The Mahatmas and Their Letters, p. 243, quoting Brown's pamphlet, My Life.
244. Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 23, 1887.
245. Conway, pp. 195-205.
246. CW, vol. 6, p. 162.
247. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 25, 1884, LBS, p. 75.
248. H.P.B. to N. D. Khandalavala, February 5, 1884, Theosophist, August, 1931.
249. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, January 25, 1884, LBS, p. 75.
250. Ibid., p. 74.
251. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 17 and 26, 1883, LBS, pp. 66, 71.
252. Maitland, vol. 2, p. 81.
253. Anna Kingsford to Lady Caithness, June 8, 1883, Ibid., p. 120.
254. De Steiger, p. 167.
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bsp; 255. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, August 23, 1883, LBS, p. 52, quoting Sinnett.
256. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 26, 1883, LBS, p. 69.
257. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, November 26, 1883, LBS, p. 70, quoting Anna Kingsford's letter to H.P.B., October 26, 1883.
258. Ibid.
259. Ibid., p. 71.
260. Ibid.
261. Besant, H.P.B. and the Masters of Wisdom, p. 26.
262. Coulomb, p. 74.
263. Conway, p. 213.
264. Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
265. Besant, H.P.B. and the Masters of Wisdom, p. 26.
266. H.P.B. to Nadyezhda Fadeyev, circa February, 1884, The Path, May, 1895. H.P.B. mentioned learning of her uncle's death before leaving Bombay in a letter to Emma Coulomb, dated April 1, 1884.
267. Besant, H.P.B. and the Masters of Wisdom, p. 27.
EUROPE
1. H.P.B. to Emma Coulomb, circa March 4, 1884, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
2. Henry Olcott to Alexis Coulomb, March 4, 1884, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
3. H.P.B. to Emma Coulomb, circa March 4, 1884, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
4. ODL, vol. 3, p. 76.
5. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 21, 1884, LBS, p. 83.
6. Ibid.
7. The Path, May, 1895.
8. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, March 21, 1884, LBS, p. 81.
9. Ibid.
10. LMW, vol. 2, p. 111.
11. William Judge to Damodar Mavalankar, January 11, 1883, Eek and de ZirkofT, p. 76.
12. William Judge to Henry Olcott, August 1, 1882, Theosophist, September, 1931.
13. William Judge to Henry Olcott, January 16, 1882, Theosophist, May, 1931.
14. The Word, March, 1912.
15. Ibid., April, 1912.
16. H.P.B. to Emma and Alexis Coulomb, April 1, 1884, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
17. Henry Olcott to Emma Coulomb, April 2, 1884, Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
18. LMW, vol. 1, p. 43.
19. The Word, April, 1912.
20. Leadbeater, p. 37.
21. Ibid.
22. Maitland, vol. 2, p. 166.
23. A. Keightley, Theosophical Quarterly, October, 1910.
24. The Path, November, 1895.
25. William Judge to Henry Olcott, April 30, 1884, Theosophist, November, 1931.
26. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, circa March-April, 1884, The Path, May, 1895.
27. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, April 27, 1884, LBS, p. 84.
28. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, circa April, 1884, The Path, May, 1895.
29. Ibid.
30. Solovyov, pp. 11-24.
31. Theosophist, May, 1959.
32. Solovyov, p. 34.
33. Justine Glinka to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, January 3, 1884, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 158.
34. Ibid., p. 157.
35. Ibid., pp. 149-151.
36. Ibid.
37. H.P.B. to Henry Olcott, spring, 1884, NefT, p. 182.
38. H.P.B. to Alexander Dondoukoff-Korsakoff, June 3, 1884, HPBSP, vol. 2, p. 151.
39. Ibid., p. 145.
40. Ibid., pp. 155-156. The petition, granted later in 1884, is chiefly interesting because she signs herself Nikifor Blavatsky's wife, not widow, the only public admission she had made of this fact in thirty-five years.
41. Solovyov, p. 39.
42. Coulomb, p. 109.
43. Ibid., p. 111.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid., p. 112.
46. Theosophist, August, 1931.
47. Solovyov, p. 47.
48. Ibid., p. 43.
49. Ibid., p. 59.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid., p. 65.
52. Theosophist, May, 1959.
53. CW, vol. 6, p. 274.
54. LMW, vol. 1, p. 84.
55. The Path, May, 1895.
56. The Path, June, 1895.
57. Theosophist, December, 1882.
58. Theosophist, July, 1882.
59. Podmore, p. 165.
60. Ibid., p. 186.
61. Ibid.
62. ODL, vol. 3, p. 99.
63. Hastings, New Universe, Try, no. 1.
64. S.P.R., Proceedings, p. 352.
65. Leadbeater, p. 24.
66. LBS, p. 102.
67. Arundale, p. 51.
68. Sinnett, The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe, p. 60.
69. Arundale, p. 52.
70. Ibid., p. 36. In 1960, when Theosophist Walter A. Carrithers petitioned the S.P.R. to examine unpublished documents pertaining to its examination of the Theosophical Society, he discovered that both Myers and Edmund Gurney had heard H.P.B.'s astral bell. While not ruling out trickery, Gurney thought it a free sound unlike that produced by mechanical objects concealed in clothing, and Myers mentioned that he could not discern any deadening of the clear tingling sound. Both men's comments were deleted from the final draft of the S.P.R.'s 1884 preliminary report on the Society.
71. Sidgwick, p. 105.
72. Ibid., p. 59.
73. Eek, Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement, p. 625.
74. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, July, 1884, The Path, June, 1895.
75. Arundale, p. 30.
76. Maitland, vol. 2, p. 182.
77. ML, p. 355.
78. LMW, vol. 1, p. 147.
79. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, Received November 4, 1884, LBS, p. 93.
80. LMW, vol. 1, p. 157.
81. CW, vol. 6, p. 271.
82. De Steiger, pp. 176-179.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. The Word, July 1912.
86. Sinnett, The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe, p. 73.
87. Solovyov, p. 73.
88. The Path, June, 1895.
89. ODL, vol. 3, p. 175.
90. The Path, June, 1895.
91. Solovyov, p. 78.
92. Ibid., p. 81.
93. Ibid., p. 85.
94. Ibid., p. 87. According to Solovyov, the medical diagnosis for H.P.B.'s poor health at that time was "fatty heart, diabetes, and acute rheumatism" (Solovyov, p. 298).
95. Ibid., p. 88.
96. Christian College Magazine, October, 1884.
97. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, September, 1884, Theosophist, August, 1932.
98. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, November 25, 1884, Theosophist, August, 1932.
99. Solovyov, p. 96.
100. Ibid., p. 94.
101. Ibid.
102. Ibid., p. 99.
103. Ibid., p. 100.
104. Ibid., p. 104.
105. Theosophist, August, 1931.
106. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, circa September- October, 1884, The Path, June, 1895.
107. Solovyov, p. 101.
108. Ibid., p. 102.
109. Besant, H.P.B. and the Masters of Wisdom, p. 36.
110. Solovyov, p. 72.
111. Ibid., p. 97.
112. S.P.R., Proceedings, p. 224.
113. Henry Olcott to Francesca Arundale, April 1, 1885, Theosophist, October, 1932.
114. Occult Review, January, 1908.
115. Ibid.
116. LMW, vol. 1, p. 102. Alfred Cooper-Oakley died of an overdose of barbiturates around 1890.
117. Solovyov, p. 104.
118. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, October, 1884, ML, p. 461.
119. The Path, June, 1895.
120. H.P.B. to A. P. Sinnett, October, 1884, ML, p. 460.
121. Podmore, p. 170.
122. Solovyov, p. 104.
123. Pall Mall Gazette, October 23, 1884, Reprinted in CW, vol. 6, p. 308.
124. Ibid.
125. Ibid.
126. Lillie, p. 158.
127. Pall Mall Gazette, op. cit.
128. Henry Olcott to H.P.B., January 19, 1886, LBS, p. 327.
129. Nethercot, The First Five Lives of Annie Besant, p. 325, quoting Leadbeater's col
lection of stories, The Perfume of Egypt and Other Weird Stories.
130. M. Lutyens, p. 202.131. Jinarajadasa, The "KM." Letters to C. W. Leadbeater, p. 106.
132. Leadbeater, p. 18.
133. LMW, vol. 1, p. 30.
134. Leadbeater, pp. 50-56.
135. Ibid., p. 57.
136. ML, p. 467.
137. Leadbeater, p. 58.
138. Ibid., p. 59-66.
139. Ibid., p. 67.
140. H.P.B. to Vera Zhelihovsky, November, 1884, The Path, July, 1895.
141. Eek, Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement, p. 574.
142. Solovyov, p. 107.
143. Ibid.
144. ODL, vol. 3, p. 189.
145. Solovyov, p. 107.
146. Lucifer, June, 1891.
147. Solovyov, p. 107.
148. Leadbeater, p. 76.
149. Leadbeater, p. 95.
150. Lucifer, June, 1891.
151. Leadbeater, p. 96.
152. Solovyov, p. 109.
153. Leadbeater, p. 98.
154. Ibid.
155. ODL, vol. 3, p. 189.
156. Ibid., p. 190.
157. Ibid., p. 195.
158. Ibid., p. 192.
159. Solovyov, p. 112.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE
1. James, William James on Psychical Research, p. 111.
2. Ibid., p. 32.
3. Society for Psychical Research, Proceedings, p. 220.
4. Christian College Magazine, April, 1885.
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.)
