Helena Blavatsky: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Biographies include Howard Murphet, When Daylight Comes (1975); Marion Meade, Madame Blavatsky (1980); and Sylvia Cranston, HPB (1993). Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru (1993), traces the growth and influence of the theosophical movement.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. May 04, 2026
Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - Madame Blavatsky. May 02, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: World Religious and Spirituality Project - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Jun 27, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC - Madame Blavatsky: a seeker of truth � and a fraud. Nov 29, 2024
Add new Web site: The Theosophical Society in Australia - H.P. Blavatsky and Her Writings. Oct 18, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Learn Religions - Helena Blavatsky, Occultist and Founder of Theosophy. Dec 22, 2023
Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Madame Blavatsky. Sep 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Theosophical Society in America - H.P. Blavatsky and Her Writings. Jun 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Mar 10, 2023
Number of volumes of her Collected Writings changed from 16 to 15. Oct 11, 2016
Article revised to mention that the Society for Psychical Research disavowed the contents of the Hodgson Report a century after it was issued in 1885. Sep 27, 2016
Add new Web site: First Spiritual Temple - Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Aug 25, 2015
Add new Web site: Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of the Ages - H P Blavatsky. Aug 25, 2015
Added new Web site: The New Zealand Theosophical Society Inc - History of the Theosophical Society. Jan 25, 2008
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Theosophy. Jan 24, 2008
Article revised. Dec 07, 1999
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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