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Blavatsky, Madame Helena Petrovna  ( 1831 - 1891)
      Legend says that the ancient masters, in Tibet and around the world, periodically send forth one a messenger to help spread this Truth to all of humanity. In the 1800's they had been searching for a century for the next messenger and finally settled upon Helena Blavatsky, born to a noble Russian family. She saw the master who would be her teacher in her dreams as a child. She met him in Hyde Park in London when she was 20. She managed to enter Tibet and was trained by those masters in Tibet from 1868 to 1870.

       Madame Blavatsky was born in Russia. She spent her early years in travel, arriving in New York in 1873. Together with Colonel Henry Steele Olcott, William Q. Judge and others, she formed the Theosophical Society. She published her first book, Isis Unveiled, in 1877. The following year HPB and Olcott went to India to establish the TS there, leaving Judge to continue the work in the United States. HPB edited the magazine The Theosophist while in India. She moved on to England in 1887 and established the Blavatsky Lodge in London. She also started a magazine, Lucifer (from the Latin

Photograph of H. P. Blavatsky
"Luciferus", meaning the Light-bringer, the Morning Star). HPB's master-work, The Secret Doctrine, was published in 1888.

HPB suffered from a chronic kidney disease for many years. She contracted the flu and died on May 8, 1891.

The Secret Doctrine - online