Helena Blavatsky: A Short Biography In Spiritual Adventures

Madam Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a free spirit in a time when women were not free to roam the world alone. She dreamt about her teacher of Theosophy at an early age and then met him many years later in London. Weeks before her seventeenth birthday, she was married to a 44 year old man, Vassilievich Blavatsky. This marriage was never consummated according to Madame Blavatsky who claimed to be a virgin even in her later years after a second failed marriage. After three months, she stole a horse and headed for her grandfather's house in the mountains.
She traveled with a sea captain, went to throughout Europe, Egypt, North America, South America, India and finally spent two years in Tibet where she became Buddhist and learned from them. She renamed this knowledge, Theosophy. She sought to spread the information to the world. During that era, America was alive with a new belief system, started in Rochester, NY. It was spiritualism. Blavatsky fit in perfectly for the times and inclinations in the Eastern United States. She practiced mediumship, levitation, clairvoyance, astral projection and thoughtform, the materialization of objects.
Her biggest feat was the introduction of Theosophy to the world and the huge volumes of books she authored in her lifetime. She traveled throughout the world learning more about the secrets of the inner being. Visits to India and Egypt brought new dimension to her beliefs. Her philosophy entailed the belief that what we see is not real but what is an unseen, thought and mental condition were real. Her quasi religion Theosophy was a plea for religions to drop the rhetoric that separated them and come together for meeting of the minds to help solve the plagues of the human condition.
Madame Blavatsky was not born clairvoyant, telepathic or otherwise special. She learned the gifts from her teachers. Although it was said she was chosen to bring their message to the world, the abilities came from years of training and a thirst for knowledge of the spirit and mental abilities available to all humans. She lived as a citizen of the world and this was reflected by her cremation and the division of her ashes. A third went to her native land, Russia, a third remained in America and finally the last third went her home in India.
There is still great controversy surrounding Madame Blavatsky. Some people believed her to be a fraud that plagiarized materials written by others. The latest belief is that she was a legitimate psychic that wrote the volumes attributed to her. Regardless of which position people believe, all agree that she introduced Eastern philosophy to the Western world and made its citizens aware of the magnificent capabilities of humans.