This story impacted me deeply. Many times in history, women involved in spiritual studies have been discredited for their unscientific skills and methods.
Madame Blavatsky is one of them. Her entire life was dedicated to the tireless search for spiritual truth. She was born in Russia, she came from a very noble and erudite family and she had certain views since she was a child.
She was born at 00:00 between August 11th and 12th. Which in the theosophical reduction says that the 11th (1+1), that is, the number 2, carries the archetypal impression of duality (earth, matter) and the 12th (1+2), that is, the number 3, which represents the holy trinity (heaven, spirit). She then says she is a bridge between these two worlds. Her story doesn't contradict that.
At the age of 20, she met El Morya, considered a master, with whom she had dreamed several times. To be his student, she had to pass through several tests to prove her real intentions and as a form of purification.
In 1851, she began a travel itinerary that would last 17 years. Imagine what a woman traveling alone around the world meant during this period!
On this journey, she spent periods with Yamabushi monks in Japan, Druze in Serbia (who don't even allow their wives to participate in rituals, but she managed), indigenous tribes in Quebec, voodoo people in New Orleans, Mormons in the USA, Mayan shamans from Mexico and many others, including the time she spent in Tibet after three attempts to be part of an isolated group.
Her objective was to learn what was in common, what was repeated, even under different names, in each of these communities.
Hers search was for the divine and one nature of everything. In the USA, she founded the Theosophical Society and released her first book Isis Unveiled, which soon became a bestseller. The Society was joined by businessmen such as Thomas Edison. She also mentored Mahatma Gandhi when he lived in England.
Her visit to India is of great importance, as she encourages Indians to seek their convictions in their own culture, contradicting the scientific ideas of the English. Which caused a lot of discomfort.
In 1885, a couple that she had taken out of poverty and put to work at the Society betrayed her for money, saying that everything she did was a sham. However, the Society for Psychical Research issued a report that corroborated the couple and which only in 1986 was proven false through several documents.
She becomes ill at this time, goes to England and starts writing the Secret Doctrine, very afraid that she will die before finishing it.
She dies in 1891, sitting at her desk. Two nights earlier she would have told her disciples: “Maintain the Union. Do not allow my last incarnation to be a failure.”
Her determination and qualifications were the size of her great mission. Awakening materialistic humanity to the knowledge of Eastern and Western traditions of the past was not just any mission. She was great, reconciled cultures and inspired names such as Dalai Lama, Einstein, Tolstoy, Aldous Huxley, Kandinsky, Carl Jung, Mahatma Gandhi among others.