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Isis Unveiled (book)

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[[File:Isis 1886 edition from Joma Sipe Facebook.jpg|thumb|1886 edition. Photo by Joma Sipe.]]
== Writing the book ==

Between September 17 and October 16, 1875, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] was visiting with Professor and Mrs. [[Hiram Corson]] in Ithaca, New York for about three weeks. Their son Eugene Corson reported that,
<blockquote>
She spent her time at her desk, writing, writing, writing most of the day and way into the night, carrying on a huge correspondence by long letters. Here she started ''Isis Unveiled'', writing about twenty-five closely written foolscap pages a day. She had no books to consult; my father's very extensive library was almost wholly on English literature, Early English, Anglo-Saxon, English poetry, and classic literature, and she rarely consulted him about anything.

On one occasion she asked him for a Greek word on some text in the New Testament, and when my father said he could not remember it but would look it up for her at once, she said to him, half irritated and half joking: "You school-boy! Why, don't you know it?" My father got the Greek for her, and she went on with her writing.<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'', London: Rider & Co., 27-28.</ref>
</blockquote>

During 1876 and 1877, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote, and then reworked it with the assistance of [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]]. His sister [[Isabelle Olcott Mitchell]] and [[John Henry Judge]], brother of [[William Quan Judge]] helped prepare the manuscript for publication.

== Involvement of Alexander Wilder ==

After HPB finished the text, she involved [[Alexander Wilder]].
<blockquote>
When the work was ready, we submitted it to Professor Alexander Wilder, the well-known scholar and Platonist of New York, who after reading the matter, recommended it to Mr. Bouton for publication. Next to Colonel Olcott, it is Professor Wilder who did the most for me. It is he who made the excellent ''Index'', who corrected the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew words, suggested quotations and wrote the greater part of the ''Introduction'' 'Before the Veil.' If this was not acknowledged in the work, the fault is not mine, but because it was Dr. Wilder's express wish that his name should not appear except in footnotes. I have never made a secret of it, and every one of my numerous acquaintances in New York knew it."
<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "My Books" in ''Theories about Reincation and Spirits and My Books'' (Point Loma, California: Theosophical Publishing Co., 1922), 33-34. Written April 27, 1891.</ref>
</blockquote>

As [[Boris de Zirkoff]] pointed out,
<blockquote>
"Many statements by HPB, particularly in Isis Unveiled, the Key and the Glossary are taken from Dr. Alexander Wilder's small booklet: New Platonism and Alchemy, Albany, N.Y., 1869.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff to Armand Courtois. January 18, 1970. Boris de Zirkoff Papers. Records Series 22. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>
</blockquote>

== Sources of the material ==

Madame Blavatsky's mode of writing was unconventional. She wrote of very complex and abstract concepts, quoting many sources accurately, but rarely referring to any book in the process. Witnesses speculated that she was engaged in automatic writing, or clairvoyantly saw the words in the astral plane.

The Corson family gave this account:
<blockquote>
But quite aside from any evidence during her visit at Ithaca, many very reliable witnesses have repeatedly testified to her writing without the books before her or within her grasp. Olcott, who was longest associated with her intimately, who followed her by day while she wrote Isis Unveiled, and much of her other writing, can testify that she wrote automatically or clairvoyantly. She herself never took any credit for what she wrote, but always insisted that she was simply the amanuensis..<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, 31.</ref>
</blockquote>

Antiquarian bookseller [[Charles Sotheran]], another of the [[Founding of the Theosophical Society|founding members]] of the Theosophical Society, provided assistance in finding quotations and in locating books.<ref>Josephine Ransom, ''A Short History of The Theosophical Society'' (Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1938), 114.</ref>

[[File:Isis Unveiled advertisement.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Advertisement from ''New York Tribune'', Saturday, September 29, 1877.]]

== Publication ==
''Isis Unveiled'' was published on [[September 29]], 1877. The first printing consisted of 1,000 copies that were sold within ten days. This original edition had a red binding with a symbolic figure of Isis in gold on the spine.

The first copy off the Press was secured by James Robinson, a lawyer, and taken to the newspaper for advance notice.

As far as it is known, the original manuscript was destroyed.

== About the title ==

Initially the title was to be ''The Veil of Isis''. However, an editorial footnote to a letter by [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky]] discussed the change to the final title:
<blockquote>
This was the original title of ''Isis Unveiled'', changed to this latter after Vol. I had been printed off, upon the discovry that book entitled ''The Veil of Isis'' existed already.<ref>C. J. [C. Jinarājadāsa], "Two Glimpses of HPB (II) 1888," ''The Theosophist'' 53.12 (September,1932), 726. Note: ''The Veil of Isis'' was probably a work written by Thomas E. Webb in 1885, published by Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, & Co.</ref>
</blockquote>

== Impact of the work ==

Despite the important impact this book had at the time, it was regarded by [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] and the [[Masters of Wisdom]] as having several flaws, some due to the fact that it was the first, tentative effort, to bring to the West a certain truths. [[Koot Hoomi|Mahatma K.H.]], for example, was ready to admit that from the point of view of Westerners the book "often and purposely mislead the reader by withholding the necessary explanations and have given but portions of the truth".<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 92 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 295.</ref>

== Isis on Reincarnation ==

Controversy was aroused in the 1880's when reincarnation was taught by [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] and her [[Adept]] teachers because the concept had allegedly been previously rejected in ''Isis Unveiled'':

<blockquote>Reincarnation, i.e., the appearance of the same individual, or rather of his astral monad, twice on the same planet, is not a rule in nature; it is an exception.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Isis Unveiled'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 351.</ref></blockquote>

In light of later teachings, it is obvious that by [[Monad#The astral Monad|"astral monad"]] the author was not referring to the reincarnating entity, that is, to the [[Ego#Higher Ego|higher ego]]. As Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

<blockquote>In Isis we refer to the personality or the finite astral monad, a compound of imponderable elements composed of the fifth and fourth principles.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991), 185.</ref></blockquote>

Thus, in ''Isis'', Mme. Blavatsky was challenging the teaching of the [[Spiritism|Spiritists]], who were teaching the reincarnation of the [[Ego#Lower ego|personal ego]], something that in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] view only happens in exceptional cases:

<blockquote>It is preceded by a violation of the laws of harmony of nature, and happens only when the latter, seeking to restore its disturbed equilibrium, violently throws back into earth-life the astral monad which had been tossed out of the circle of necessity by crime or accident. Thus, in cases of abortion, of infants dying before a certain age, and of congenital and incurable idiocy, nature’s original design to produce a perfect human being, has been interrupted. Therefore, while the gross matter of each of these several entities is suffered to disperse itself at death, through the vast realm of being, the immortal spirit and astral monad of the individual — the latter having been set apart to animate a frame and the former to shed its divine light on the corporeal organization — must try a second time to carry out the purpose of the creative intelligence.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Isis Unveiled'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 351.</ref></blockquote>

However, as it was recognized by the [[Masters of Wisdom|Masters]], the passages in ''Isis'' can be misleading. [[Morya|Master Morya]] wrote to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|Mr. Sinnet]]:

<blockquote>By-the-bye, I’ll re-write for you pages 345 to 357, Vol. I., of Isis — much jumbled, and confused by [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]], who thought he was improving it!<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 44 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 123.</ref></blockquote>

To this, [[Koot Hoomi|Master Koot Hoomi]] commented:

<blockquote>If [[Morya|M.]] told you to beware trusting Isis too implicitly, it was because he was teaching you truth and fact — and that at the time the passage was written we had not yet decided upon teaching the public indiscriminately.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 44 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 259.</ref></blockquote>

For more information see:

*[http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1882_058.htm# Seeming “Discrepancies”] by H. P. Blavatsky.

*[http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1882_091.htm# Isis Unveiled And The Theosophist On Reincarnation] by H. P. Blavatsky.

*[http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v7/y1886_006.htm# Theories About Reincarnation and Spirits] by H. P. Blavatsky.

== Online versions ==
* Volumes 1 & 2 in [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Blavatsky_H.P._-_Isis_Unveiled HTML format] and several [https://disk.yandex.ru/d/SYgQwJzb3SfiqS/Text/English/Theosophy/Blavatsky%20HP/Blavatsky%20HP%20-%20Isis%20Unveiled PDF editions] from Teopedia.
* [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu-hp.htm# Volumes 1 & 2 - HTML format] from Theosophical University Online.
* [http://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/isisunveiled.html# Volumes 1 & 2 - HTML format] with corrected spelling of foreign terms [in progress] at Universal Theosophy
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/the/iu/index.htm Volumes 1 & 2 - HTML format] from Sacred-Texts.com.
* [http://phx-ult-lodge.org/isis_unveiled1.htm Volumes 1 & 2 - HTML format] from PHX-ULT-Lodge.org.
* [http://theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Isis%20Unveiled/isis_unveiled1.htm Volumes 1 & 2 - HTML format] from Theosophy.org.
* [https://archive.org/details/IsisUnveiledAudiobookUnabridgedComplete Volumes 1 & 2 - Audiobook] from Internet Archive.
* [https://theosophytrust.org/Online_Books/Isis_Unveiled_Vol_1_V3.4_eBookSecure.pdf Volume 1 - PDF format] from TheosophyTrust.org, 2017 edition.
* [https://theosophytrust.org/Online_Books/Isis_Unveiled_Vol_2_V2.7_eBookSecure.pdf Volume 2 - PDF format] from TheosophyTrust.org, 2017 edition.
* [https://archive.org/details/isisunveiledama08blavgoog/page/n8 Volume 1 - PDF of 1919 edition] from Internet Archive.
* [https://archive.org/details/BlavatskysIsisUnveiledAudiobook Volume 1 - Audiobook] from Internet Archive.
* [https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Isis-Unveiled_Volume-I.pdf Volume I, 1877 edition] from TheosophyOnline.com.
* [https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/isis-unveiled-volume-ii/ Volume 2, 1887 edition] from TheosophyOnline.com.

== Popular references ==

* '''"Isis Unveiled" song''' by American alternative rock band [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…And_You_Will_Know_Us_by_the_Trail_of_Dead And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead], on the 2009 album ''The Century of Self''.
* [https://www.last.fm/music/Damh+the+Bard/_/Isis+Unveiled '''"Isis Unveiled" song'''] by Damh the Bard.
* [https://isisunveiled.bandcamp.com/ '''Isis Unveiled band'''].
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== Additional resources ==

=== Articles ===
* [http://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/17-hpblavatsky/hpb-articles/186-my-books My Books] by H. P. Blavatsky.
* [http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/StudiesInIsisUnveiled-Series/index.html# "Studies in ''Isis Unveiled''"] at WisdomWorld.org.
* [http://www.easterntradition.org/article/Isis%20Unveiled%20-%20A%20Perspective.pdf# Isis Unveiled: A Perspective] by David Reigle.
* [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-extraordinary-story-behind-isis-unveiled/ "The Extraordinary Story Behind ''Isis Unveiled''"] by Geoffrey Farthing at BlavatskyTheosophy.com.
* [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbwritingsisis.htm# Online articles about ''Isis Unveiled''] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell.
* [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-tm/hpbtm-7.htm "Chapter 7: 'Isis Unveiled'"] in ''H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement'' by Charles J. Ryan. Theosophical University Press, 1975. In this chapter Ryan has assembled much useful information about the writing of ''Isis Unveiled''.
* [https://www.fringepop321.com/isis-unveiled.htm "Isis Unveiled"] at FringePop321.com.

=== Video ===
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJq3iKJwng "A Look at ''Isis Unveiled'' by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]" by Dr. Michael S. Heiser at FringePop321 YouTube channel. November 19, 2018. Useful as basis for group discussions, but has non-theosophical viewpoint on Ascended Masters, plagiarism, etc.

== Notes ==
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Hodgson Report

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Pavel Malakhov:

The '''Hodgson Report''' was a document that arose from an investigation by the [[Society for Psychical Research]] (SPR) on [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]], her performance of psychic [[phenomena]], and the production of the [[The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)|Mahatma letters]]. In November, 1884, [[Richard Hodgson]] of the SPR went to India and visited the [[Adyar (campus)|Adyar]] headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society]]. He was deceived by [[Emma Coulomb]] and her husband [[Alexis Coulomb|Alexis]] into believing that Madame Blavatsky had faked phenomena and forged letters. Hodgson wrote a 200-page report that he presented to the SPR. Even though the Society the Psychical Research never officially endorsed the report, the public invested Hodgson's writings with the full authority of the London Society. An international scandal ensued, and Hodgson's denunciation of Blavatsky was treated as authoritative in many books and enclopedias for decades, to the great detriment of her reputation and that of the Theosophical Society.

The case was re-examined a hundred years later by Dr. Vernon Harrison, an expert on forgery, which led to the SPR to publish a report taking exception of the methods used by Richard Hodgson.

== Coulomb affair ==

[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] met briefly [[Emma Coulomb|Emma Cutting]] and her husband-to-be [[Alexis Coulomb|Monsieur Coulomb]] in Cairo, in 1871. When [[Founders#"The Founders"|the Founders]] arrived to Bombay in 1878, the Coulombs were in Galle, Sri Lanka, where they had opened a boarding house. This venture, however, was about to collapse, and Mme. Coulomb wrote to HPB asking for a loan. The latter answered that, if she and her husband would come to India, she could help them finding jobs. They eventually ended up working for the Founders and when they moved to Madras in 1882, the Coulombs came with them and resided at the new Headquarters at [[Adyar (campus)|Adyar]].

In February 1884 the Founders left for Europe and the management at Adyar was put in the hands of a [[Board of Control]]. Difficulties soon arose between the Board and the Coulombs. Monsieur Coulomb, who was an expert carpenter, secretly tampered with the [["The Shrine"]] where the [[Masters of Wisdom]] used to precipitate letters. This shrine was a small wooden wall cabinet hanging up on one of the walls of H. P. Blavatsky's writing room.

The Masters were obviously aware of was going on there, as shown in a letter [[Precipitation|precipitated]] to [[Henry Steel Olcott|Col. Olcott]] in a railway compartment in motion, in England, on [[April 5]], written by [[Koot Hoomi|Master K.H.]]. It was published as '''[[Mahatma_Letter_to_H._S._Olcott_-_LMW_1_No._18|Letter 18]]''' in [[Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom (book)|''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series'']]:

<blockquote>Do not be surprised at anything you may hear from Adyar. Nor discouraged. It is possible—tho’ we try to prevent it within the limits of [[karma]]—that you may have great domestic annoyances to pass thro’. You have harboured a traitor and an enemy under your roof for years, and the missionary party are more than ready to avail of any help she may be induced to give. A regular conspiracy is on foot. She [Emma Coulomb] is maddened by the appearance of [[George Lane-Fox|Mr Lane Fox]] and the powers you have given to the Board of Control. We have been doing some [[phenomena]] at Adyar since H.P.B. left India to protect Upasika from the conspirators.<ref>Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, ''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom'' First Series No. 18 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1977), 46-47, 149.</ref></blockquote>

Finally, on [[May 14]], 1884, the General Council of the Theosophical Society dismissed Emma and Alexis Coulomb from their positions, based on numerous affidavits about their behavior. Alexis was charged with disobedience to the Board and with aiding and abetting his wife in her scurrilous activities. Ten charges were alleged against Emma, including attempts at extortion and blackmail; lying and backbiting; dissuading people from joining the Theosophical Society; denying the [[phenomena]] at Adyar; and making claims of anti-British activities by Theosophists.<ref>''Proceedings'' of the General Council of the Theosophical Society, May 14, 1884. Reprinted in Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 38-39.</ref> The couple moved away from the Adyar compound on May 25.

Four months later, Rev. George Patterson, editor of the ''Madras Christian College Magazine'', began to publish a series of letters turned over to him by the Coulombs. '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/pattersonoct/patterson1884contents.htm "The Collapse of Koot Hoomi"]''' was a first installment of fifteen letters written in French or English "giving instructions from Blavatsky to the Coulombs for the execution of fraudulent phenomena."<ref>Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 15.</ref> The Coulombs made charges that the shrine had been used to deceive the recipients of the letters which appeared, alleging that they were really inserted through secret panels and holes in the wall.<ref>Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, ''The "K. H." Letters to C. W. Leadbeater'' (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 25-26.</ref>

After Madame Blavatsky saw the magazine in September, she refuted the charges in interviews with ''The Times'' and ''The Pall Mall Gazette''. She and Colonel Olcott departed England for India, traveling separately. She stopped in Egypt to collect evidence against the Coulombs, arriving in Madras on December 21 to a triumphant welcome by local members and citizens. Although H.P.B. was determined to take the case to court, Colonel Olcott and a committee of fourteen distinguished Indian members persuaded her that such a course of action would be unproductive. She became very ill from the stress of injustice.

=== Missionaries' involvement ===

The Christian missionaries of Madras played an important role in the plot created by the Coulombs, in an attempt to thwart the TS efforts to bring about the Hindu and Buddhist revival it had started to stimulate. Thus, they took up the Coulombs, financed them, and launched an attack on the Society in their most respected journal, ''Madras Christian College Magazine'', offering so-called evidence that the Masters were Mme. Blavatsky's invention, their letters written by her, and put in [["The Shrine"]] with the Coulombs' assistance.<ref>Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, ''The "K. H." Letters to C. W. Leadbeater'' (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 26-27.</ref> The missionaries later published a pamphlet by Emma Coulomb entitled '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/coulomb/coulombcontents.htm "Some Account of my Association with Madame Blavatsky from 1872 to 1884."]'''

== Richard Hodgson in India ==

The [[Society for Psychical Research]], established in 1882, was interested in the situation after the publication of "fraudulent" letters. Its investigation began in England, with interviews of [[Henry Steel Olcott]], [[H. P. Blavatsky]], [[Mohini Mohun Chatterji]], and [[A. P. Sinnett]]. The SPR Committee issued a '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/sprrpmaintext.htm "preliminary and provisional Report"]''' in December 1884 that was circulated privately.<ref>Grace F. Knoche, [https://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/th-sprgk.htm "H. P. Blavatsky and The Society for Psychical Research."]</ref> Then after the Coulomb letters had been published, a young Australian, [[Richard Hodgson]], was selected to investigate in India. He arrived at the Theosophical Society's Adyar headquarters in December, 1884, and received the full cooperation of the Theosophists there.
<blockquote>
He had been present at the December Convention and had stayed at Adyar as the guest of the [[Founders]] where, as he admits, he was "treated with perfect courtesy."<ref>R. Hodgson, S.P.R. ''Proceedings'' 3 (Deember 1885), 208.</ref> At first he seemed sympathetic, giving advice, taking evidence from the Theosophists; then he visited the Coulombs, the missionaries and all the Society's enemies in Bombay.<ref>Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 11.</ref>
</blockquote>

Hodgson received a diagram of the Shrine Room drawn by [[William Quan Judge]] some months earlier, which was later presented as his own work in his report. In Bombay he came up with evidence that he felt proved Blavatsky's motive for fraud – that she was a Russian spy. He returned to England in April, 1885.

== The report ==
Hodgson arranged for ten items from Blavatsky's purported correspondence to be evaluated by Mr. F. G. Netherclift, who declared that the handwriting was that of Madame Blavatsky. On June 26, 1885, at the SPR's General Meeting, he presented his theory that Madame Blavatsky had been acting as a Russian spy.

The SPR Committee accepted Hodgson's report at face value. The December, 1885 ''Proceedings'' contained Hodgson's "Account of Personal Investigations in India and Discussion of the Authorship of the 'Koot Hoomi' Letters" with this introduction:

<blockquote>
For our own part, we regard her [H. P. Blavatsky] neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think that she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history. 
::-- Statement and Conclusions of the Committee<ref>"Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate Phenomena Connected with The Theosophical Society," ''Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research'', Part IX, December 1885, p. 207.</ref>
</blockquote>

Major charges made against Madame Blavatsky are these:<ref>Paraphrased from [https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/vania-intro.pdf K. F. Vania.</ref>

::1. Letters were written by H.P.B. to the Coulombs instructing them to produce fraudulent [[phenomena]] for the benefit of the witnesses.

::2. Holes and trap-doors were used to drop fraudulent Mahatma letters.

::3. The astral journeys of a chela, Damodar K. Mavalankar, was prearranged with H. P. Blavatsky.

::4. A dummy head was used to simulate astral visits of the Mahatmas.

::5. A cupboard, called [[The Shrine]], was used fraudulently by means of "sliding-panels" and other "trick apparatuses."

::6. The letters from the two Mahatmas were alleged to have been handwritten by H. P. Blavatsky.

::7. The motive of H. P. Blavatsky in producing her fraudulent phenomena was political and that she was a Russian spy.

The report included interview transcripts, replicas of letters, and other documents as exhibits in support of its allegations.

== International reaction ==
[[File:Boston Courier title.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Boston Courier'', July 18, 1886]]
[[File:Boston Courier article.jpg|right|thumb|120px|''Boston Courier'', July 18, 1886]]After the Hodgson Report was published, with its startling allegation of espionage, it drew international attention in the press, in articles ranging from reasoned arguments to wild speculation. The ''Melbourne Age'' embraced the theory of Russian espionage motivating a system of fraud.<ref>"The Theosophical society. Russian Intrigue or Religious Evolution?" ''Melbourne Age'', September 12, 1885. Quoted by Michael Gomes in "The Coulomb Case" page 14.</ref>

The '''''Boston Courier''''' printed a lengthy and scathing article, saying the SPR "has made no more egregious blunder than its report on Theosophy." It quoted a letter signed by almost seventy citizens of Negapatam (now Nagapattinam), India, regarding one of Richard Hodgson's major assertions:
<blockquote>
The existence of the Mahatmas or Sadhus was not invented by Madame Blavatsky or any other individual. Our forefathers who had lived and gone long before the birth of Madame Blavatsky and the Coulombs had full belief in the existence of the Mahatmas and their psychical powers, and even had personal interviews with them. There are persons in India, even at the present day,who have no connection with the Theosophical Society, and yet have interviews with such Superior Beings... Let Mr. Hodgson and the Committee, if they are in earnest, make deep researches into the matter and find that their conclusions were not only hasty but also entirely unfounded. The report of Mr. Hodgson and the conclusion of the Committee thereon, cannot at all affect in the least our belief in the existence of the Mahatmas, but will only betray their grossest ignorance of the Occult history of the Hindus.<ref>"Theosophy and the Psychical Society," ''Boston Courier'' 63:21 (July 18, 1886). The entire article is reproduced in the "''Boston Courier'' reaction" section of this wiki page.</ref>
</blockquote>

The article went on to criticize Hodgson's qualifications and the quality of his work:
<blockquote>
The truth is that Mr. Hodgson, sent out by the London society to India, to investigate Madame Blavatsky, was so entirely unfitted for the work confided to him that he fell a victim to errors the most egregious. He set down to the credit of Madame Blavatsky's inventive powers theories and statements which may be found even in plenty of English works upon Indian religions published in London a century or more ago; and the society can hardly be willing to attribute to Madame a term of life so extended as to suppose her to have instigated the writing of books so old.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
</blockquote>

== Responses by contemporary Theosophists ==

=== A. P. Sinnett ===

[[A. P. Sinnett]] refuted the report in a 60-page booklet, ''The Occult World Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research'', published in 1886.<ref>A. P. Sinnett, ''The Occult World Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research'', London: George Redway, 1886. Available online at [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/sinnett_occult_world_phenomena_and_spr.pdf Blavatsky Archives.]</ref>

=== Annie Besant ===

After [[Annie Besant]] reviewed Madame Blavatsky's 1888 work [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']], she went the meet the author on [[May 10]], 1889. Blavatsky expressed her wish to have Besant joining the [[Theosophical Society]], and recommended that she read Hodgson's report. Mrs. Besant wanted to join, but was aware that this step would produce a rift with all her previous Freethinker and Socialist associates. However, after reading the report, she immediately became a member of the Society on [[May 21]], 1889.<ref>Annie Besant, ''An Autobiography'' (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1984), 314.</ref> "She gave two evening lectures on 'Why I Became a Theosophist,' before a packed Hall of Science in London on August 4 and 11."<ref>Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 15.</ref> After the lecture she answered a question about the Coulomb controversy with flawless reasoning about how the report was illogical and slanderous. This brought the Hodgson Report squarely in the public eye again.

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The conversion of the country's leading female orator, atheist, socialist, promulgator of birth-control, a member of the London School Board, at the height of her career, 'Struck the whole of England like a thunderbolt!,' to use H.P.B.'s words.<ref>Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 15.</ref>
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Mrs. Besant followed up with an exchange of letters in ''The Methodist Times'' with Rev. Patterson, and defense of H.P.B. in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. In a ''Pall Mall Gazette'' article entitled "I Believe in Madame Blavatsky" she summarized her views unequivocally:
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I consider that Mr. Hodgson was simply befooled by the Coulombs, and that the tricks which they alleged they had helped Madame Blavatsky to perform were a tissue of lies; that the 'Blavatsky Letters' which they produced were forgeries; and that all the sliding panels which they revealed had been constructed by them without Mme. Blavatsky's knowledge.<ref>"I Believe in Madame Blavatsky," ''Pall Mall Gazette''m July 13, 1891. Quoted by Michael Gomes in "The Coulomb Case" page 17.</ref>
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=== Testimony by C. W. Leadbeater ===

In an article published in [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], [[Charles Webster Leadbeater|C. W. Leadbeater]] wrote the following:

<blockquote>I was at Adyar myself when Mr. Hodgson came out there to make that investigation. He was very young and obviously not very well acquainted with psychic matters. I had my own opinion of the way in which he carried out his investigation! I gave him a considerable amount of testimony, but he did not refer to that in any way in drawing up his decision, and I know the same was the case with several others of our people there. He cross-examined us but apparently made no use whatever of what we told him of the honesty of Madame Blavatsky; perhaps he did not believe us; at any rate he sent in a report which induced people to condemn her.<ref>Charles Webster Leadbeater, "Theosophy and the T.S." ''The Theosophist'' vol:1, No. 11 (November, 1930), 941.</ref></blockquote>

He also wrote to the ''Indian Mirror'' an account of his visit to the Cairo hotel formerly owned by the Coulombs, and that the reputation Mme. Coulomb had there was of being manipulative and deceitful.<ref>C. W. Leadbeater letter to ''Indian Mirror''. December 14, 1884. Also printed in Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X (Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005) 52.</ref>

== Defense of H. P. Blavatsky by Theosophists ==

Defenses were mounted immediately in newspapers around the world. Evidence of the '''Mahatmas' existence''' was known long before H. P. Blavatsky was born. '''Phenomena''' such as those attributed to H.P.B. were likewise well documented. The '''handwriting analysis''' was widely challenged, as were the '''writing style and language''' of the letters – the use of "Italianisms" and the quality of the French wording. '''Physical alternations''' to [[The Shrine]] were examined closely.

The bizarre proposition that H.P.B. had acted as a '''Russian spy''' was quickly dismissed: "Here was a highly suspected Russian woman sending conspiratorial letters galore, and this during the years when we [the English] were fearing a Russian invasion of Afghanistan. And nobody 'pinched' her!"<ref>Beatrice Hastings, "The Coulomb Pamphlet" ''Defence of Madame Blavatsky'' Volume II (Worthing, England: The Hastings Press, 1937), 66, 69.</ref>

Several major refutations and analyses were published:

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1884 – '''[[Franz Hartmann|Dr. Franz Hartmann]]''' wrote his first-hand account of 1884 events that he experienced as President of the Board of Control at Adyar: '''''Report of Observations Made During a Nine Months' Stay at the Head-quarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar (Madras), India'''''<ref>Self-published in Madras, 1884.</ref> and a German-language treatise '''''Warheit und Dichtung''''' that gave a more critical view of events.<ref>Translated in 1997 by Robert Hûtwohl as ''Truth and Fiction: The "Theosophical Society" and the Miracle-Cabinet of Adyar''. Santa Fe: Spirit of the Sun Publications, 1997.</ref>

1886 – '''[[A. P. Sinnett]]''' published '''''The 'Occult World' Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research''''' in January, and his '''''Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky''''', a few months later.

1920 – '''''Theosophy''''' magazine presented a series of essays on the subject.<ref>"The Society for Psychical Research and the Theosophical Phenomena: The Report of the S.P.R. on Madame Blavatsky," ''Theosophy'' (Los Angeles, CA, USA), June, 1920, pp. 230-241 and July, 1920, pp. 257-270. A slightly edited and revised version was published as Chapter V, "The S.P.R. and The Theosophical Movement," pp. 59-74 and as Chapter VI, "The Report of the S.P.R.," pp. 75-93 in the book titled ''The Theosophical Movement 1875-1925: A History and a Survey'' (First edition, 1925).</ref>

1927 – '''[[William Kingsland]]''' wrote '''''Was she a Charlatan? A Critical Analysis of the 1885 Report of the Society for Psychical Research'''''.<ref>William Kingsland, ''Was she a Charlatan? A Critical Analysis of the 1885 Report of the Society for Psychical Research''. London: The Blavatsky Association, 1927.</ref>

1934 – '''[[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]]''' wrote '''[https://archive.org/details/JinarajadasaDidMadameBlavatskyForgeTheMahatmaLetters1934 ''Did Madame Blavatsky forge the Mahatma Letters?'']''', which offered several facsimile reproductions of the handwritings of the Mahatmas and H. P. Blavatsky, and also pointed out that the graphoanalyst Mr. F. G. Netherclift had been thoroughly discredited in three other highly publicized cases.<ref>C. Jinarājadāsa, ''Did Madame Blavatsky Forge the Mahatma Letters?'' (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1934), 2-4. Available from [[https://archive.org/details/JinarajadasaDidMadameBlavatskyForgeTheMahatmaLetters1934 Internet Archive] and also from [http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MADAME_BLAVATSKY-LETTERS___.pdf Independent Lodge of Theosophists].</ref> Mr. Jinarājadāsa also noted that Hodgson did not examine the numerous letters written by [[Morya|Master M.]], and did not consider the possibility that [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] might have committed forgery.<ref>C. Jinarājadāsa, 26.</ref>

1937 – '''[[Beatrice Hastings]]''' wrote two excellent volumes called '''''Defence of Madame Blavatsky''''', covering earlier events such as the [[Kiddle Incident]] as well as the Coulomb affair, which she researched with aid from Adyar archivist [[Mary K. Neff]]. She devoted 105 pages to examination of Emma Coulomb's pamphlet.<ref>Beatrice Hastings, ''Defence of Madame Blavatsky'', Volumes I and II. Worthing, England: The Hastings Press, 1937. [https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/hastings-defence-of-hpb.pdf Volume I] and Volume II are available at Theosophy Canada website.</ref>

1951 – '''K. F. Vania''' presented events from 1874-1885 in chronological order, followed by details of the "Coulomb-missionary-S.P.R. conspiracy in his 488-page book '''''Madame Blavatsky: Her Occult Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research'''''. It was the first thorough examination of the subject.<ref>K. F. Vania. ''Madame Blavatsky: Her Occult Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research''. Bombay: Sat Publishing, 1951. 488 pages. His [https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/vania-intro.pdf Introduction] is avaiable on the Theosophy Canada website.</ref>

1963 – '''[[Walter A. Carrithers, Jr.]]''', under the pen name of Adlai E. Waterman, wrote a massive study, '''''Obituary: the “Hodgson Report” on Madame Blavatsky 1885-1960''''' that includes exhibits of original documents. During years of research, Mr. Carrithers obtained numerous documents from the S.P.R. Library in London. Among them he discovered a copy of Madame Coulomb's pamphlet, ''Some Account of My Intercourse with Madame Blavatsky from 1872 to 1884'' in which Blavatsky herself had written marginal notations.<ref>Published by Theosophical Publishing House in Adyar, India. Preface by N. Sri Ram.</ref>

2005 – '''Michael Gomes''' presented '''"The Coulomb Case"''' in ''Theosophical History'', summarizing all the previous defenses along with historical material from his own research.<ref>Michael Gomes, "The Coulomb Case" ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X. Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005.</ref>
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== Re-examination of handwriting samples ==

Whether H. P. Blavatsky had authored the letters signed by [[Koot Hoomi|Master K.H.]] was an important issue in the Hodgson Report.

In the 1960s, '''Dr. Paul L. Kirk''', Professor of Criminology at Berkeley University, "compared photographic specimens of the two handwritings, as shown in Hodgson's Report – without any knowledge of the identities of the principals involved – and gave a decision against the Hodgson/Netherclift conclusions. Dr. Kirk's verdict was that the H.P.B. and K.H. handwritings were ''not'' by the same person.<ref>Howard Murphet, ''Yankee Beacon of Buddhist Light: Life of Colonel Henry S. Olcott'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 215.</ref>

'''Dr. Vernon Harrison''', an expert on forgery, examined the evidence of the case using Twentieth Century forensic methodology. He published an article in the April 1986 issue of the ''Journal of the Society for Psychical Research'', followed by a book, '''''H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR. An Examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885''''', in which he outlined flaws in Hodgson's work. On [[May 8]], 1986, the Society for Psychical Research issued a press release in support of Harrison's findings, and rejecting the Hodgson report.<ref>Press Release of Society for Psychical Research, May 8, 1986. Available at [http://www.blavatsky.net/gen/refute/sprpress.htm# Blavatsky Net.</ref>

== Additional Resources ==

=== Articles and pamphlets ===

* Besant, Annie. [http://blavatskyarchives.com/besantspr.htm# "The Great Mare's Nest of the Psychical Research Society."] Reprinted from ''Time' (London), March 1891, pp. 193-204.
* Caldwell, Daniel H. [http://blavatskyarchives.com/mahatmasapparitions.htm#1# "Paranormal Features of Some of the Appearances of the Mahatmas."] Blavatsky Study Center website.
* Gomes, Michael. "The Coulomb Case." ''Theosophical History'' Occasional Papers Volume X. Fullerton, California: Theosophical History, 2005.
* Hodgson, Richard; et al. [https://archive.org/details/proceedingssoci00britgoog/ Hodgson, Richard; et al. "Report of the committee appointed to investigate phenomena connected with the Theosophical Society"] in ''Proceedings of the Society for Psychic Research'' Volume III. 1885. Pages 201–400.
* Knoche, Grace F. [http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/th-sprgk.htm# "H. P. Blavatsky and The Society for Psychical Research."] Reprinted from ''Sunrise'' magazine, June/July 1997.
* Price, Leslie. [http://www.theosophyforward.com/theosophy-and-the-society-in-the-public-eye/133-notes-by-the-way-white-lotus-day# "Notes By The Way: White Lotus Day."] On Vernon Harrison.
* Price, Leslie. [http://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/hodgson-report-theosophy "The Hodgson Report (Theosophy)"] at Psi Encyclopedia website. London: The Society for Psychical Research. Accessed 30 May 2020.
* [http://www.blavatsky.net/gen/refute/sprpress.htm# Press Release of Society for Psychical Research, 1986] at Blavatsky Net. DEAD LINK.
* [http://blavatskyarchives.com/sprhpb.htm# "The Society for Psychical Research and the Theosophical Phenomena. The Report of the S.P.R. on Madame Blavatsky"] at Blavatsky Study Center website. First published in ''Theosophy'' (Los Angeles, CA, USA), June, 1920, pp. 230-241 and July, 1920, pp. 257-270. A slightly edited and revised version was published as Chapter V, "The S.P.R. and The Theosophical Movement," pp. 59-74 and as Chapter VI, "The Report of the S.P.R.," pp. 75-93 in the book titled ''The Theosophical Movement 1875-1925: A History and a Survey'' (First edition, 1925).

=== Books ===
* [http://blavatskyarchives.com/sprrpcontents.htm# First Report of the Committee of the Society for Psychical Research] at The Blavatsky Archives Online.
* [http://www.blavatskyfoundation.org/obituary.htm# Obituary: The "Hodgson Report" on Madame Blavatsky] by Walter A. Carrithers, Jr.
* [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-spr/hpbspr-h.htm# H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR. An Examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885] by Vernon Harrison, Ph.D.
* [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-tm/hpbtm-13.htm# The Coulomb Conspiracy against Theosophy] by Charles J. Ryan, from ''H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement'', Ch. 13.
* [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/sinnett_occult_world_phenomena_and_spr.pdf# The "Occult World Phenomena" and the Society for Psychical Research] by A. P. Sinnett.
* Baird, A. T. Baird. ''Richard Hodgson''. London: Psychic Press Limited, 1949. Biography.
* Hartmann, Franz. ''Report of the Result of an Investigation into the Charges against Madame Blavatsky Brought by the Missionaries of the Scottish Free Church of Madras, and Examined by a Committee Appointed for That Purpose by the General Council of the Theosophical Society'' Madras, India: Scottish Press, 1885. Franz Hartmann wrote on behalf of the General Council of the Theosophical Society.
* Vania, K. F. ''Madame Blavatsky: Her Occult Phenomena and the Society for Psychical Research''. Bombay: Sat Publishing, 1951. 488 pages. Mr. Vania wrote the first thorough account of the affair.

=== Bibliography ===
* [http://blavatskyarchives.com/coulombcase.htm# "The Coulomb Case. Some Suggested Reading - Pro and Con"] at Blavatsky Study Center. Thhis website maintained by Theosophical historian Daniel H. Caldwell provides text of documents representing both sides of the controversy.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Controversies]]
[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Events, in India]]
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Patience Sinnett and her son Dennie (Percy Edensor Sinnett). Taken by Arthur King, London.

Availabe at Winterthur Library, USA, item No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/portrait-of-a-woman-and-child/91949 SA 1318.12] (see [http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/asc1198.htm description]).

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Patience Sinnett

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'''Patience Edensor Sinnett''' was an English Theosophist who knew [[H. P. Blavatsky]] in the earliest days of the [[Theosophical Society]] in India, and wife of [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]]. Both Mme. Blavatsky as Mahatmas [[Koot Hoomi|K.H.]] and [[Morya|M.]] expressed great affection for her and trust in her good judgement and discretion. Her husband, who always called her "Pattie",<ref>A. P. Sinnett, ''Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnet (London: Theosophical History Centre, 1986), 12.</ref> commented on her fine qualities in his autobiography, and mentioned that she "studied [[astrology]] profoundly".<ref>A. P. Sinnett, ''Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnet (London: Theosophical History Centre, 1986), 3.</ref>

== Biographical data==

In 1844, Patience Edensor was born to Richard and Clarissa Edensor in Sherston, Derbyshire, England.<ref>1861 England Census and 1871 England Census.</ref> She married [[Alfred Percy Sinnett]] on [[April 6]], 1870 at St. John's <nowiki>[</nowiki>parish church<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Notting Hill, in London.<ref>London Metropolitan Archives, Saint John The Evangelist, Ladbroke Grove, Register of marriages, P84/JN, Item 018.</ref>

In 1872, George Allen, the proprietor of the Anglo-Indian newspaper [[The Pioneer (periodical)|''The Pioneer'']], offered Mr. Sinnett the editorship. The couple moved to India where they lived until 1883.

[[File:Sinnetts, Patience and Dennie (SA 1318.12).jpg|200px|thumb|right|Patience Sinnett and her son Dennie]]

On [[May 16]], 1877, they had a son, [[Percy Edensor Sinnett]], better known as "Dennie". His health was fragile throughout his rather short life. In March, 1881, the family went to England for a holiday. Alfred returned to India but Patience, who was expecting a second child, remained in Notting Hill with her mother. On [[July 14]] the baby was delivered still-born.<ref>A. P. Sinnett, ''Autobiography'', 19-20.</ref> She returned to India on [[January 10]], 1882 per P. and O. steamer "Cathay".

On [[February 11]], 1883, the Sinnetts left Allahabad to return to England, where Patience would spent the rest of her life.

Dennie died of tubercolosis on [[May 11]], 1908, at 31 years of age. Patience died of cancer the same year, at midnight on [[November 9]], despite her husband's efforts at [[Mesmerism|mesmeric healing]].

==Theosophical Society involvement ==

After reading that [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] had arrived in Bombay and started publishing their magazine [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], Mr. Sinnett invited them to visit. The Theosophists visited the Sinnetts at their house in Allahabad and remained there as their guests for six weeks.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett,''The Occult World'', 42. Available at [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Occult_World/Recent_Occult_Phenomena#Page_42 WikiSource].</ref> On December 25, 1879, both [[A. P. Sinnett]] and his wife [[Patience Sinnett|Patience]] formally became members.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entries 245 and 246 (website file: 1A/16).</ref> [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky]] was very fond of Patience Sinnett. The [[Mahatma|Mahatmas]] seem to have regarded her well, and provided assistance to her and to her son during illnesses.<ref>[[Mahatma Letter of Sinnett to/from KH - 1882 or 1883]].</ref><ref> A. Trevor Barker, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett Letter No. IV, (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 5 and 79.</ref><ref>[[Mahatma Letter No. 80]].</ref>

=== Portraits of Mahatmas ===

Patience was present with Mme. Blavatsky and other at the studio of young German artist [[Hermann Schmiechen]] when he attempted to paint portraits of the Mahatmas Morya and Koot Hoomi.<ref> Laura C. Holloway, “The Mahatmas and Their Instruments Part II,” The Word (New York), July 1912, pp. 200-206, available at The Blavatsky Archives as [http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/holloway2.htm#The Portraits of the Mahatmas]</ref>

=== Pink note phenomenon ===

On [[September 29]], 1880, Mrs. [[Patience Sinnett]], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Col. Olcott]] went for a picnic to the top of Prospect Hill at [[Simla, India|Simla]]. There, Mrs. Sinnett received a [[Pink Note (phenomenon)|note on pink paper]] from one of the [[Masters of Wisdom|Masters]]. It was left in a tree and read: "I believe I was asked to leave a note here. What can I do for you?" The original of this "pink slip" is in the British Library.

== Diaries ==

The diaries that Mrs. Sinnett kept were highly useful to her husband as he wrote [[The Occult World (book)|''The Occult World'']] and later books. It was "a record of events which anybody might read, not a private diary of thought and feelings, and she kept this up all through our married life so that it now consists of 31 volumes of manuscript."<ref>A. P. Sinnett, ''Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnet (London: Theosophical History Centre, 1986), 12.</ref>

Many people have sought the diaries, but their location is unknown. Boris de Zirkoff corresponded with C. R. Groves, General Secretary of the Theosophical Society in England:

<blockquote>I have recently had considerable correspondence both with [[John B. S. Coats|John Coats]] and with [[Nilakanta Sri Ram|Sri Ram]] regarding some diaries of Mrs. Patience Sinnett which were once in the possession of Miss [[Maud Hoffman]]. As you know, John says he distinctly remembers seeing the diaries in this office [TS in England headquarters] in a suitcase with other things brought by Miss Hoffman, but after that he does not know what became of them. We do not have them here in our archives nor were they ever sent either in my time or in the time of my predecessor to [[Adyar (campus)|Adyar]], but they might nevertheless have reached Adyar in some way and be in the archives there. 
I have also contacted Mrs. [[Adelaide Gardner]] who preceded John as General Secretary. She says she met Miss Hoffman who had some personal memoirs of Mrs. Sinnett, had read them and doubted the advisability of letting them become public property, as they were too personal and not always to Sinnett's credit. But Mrs. Gardner thinks it quite possible that they were destroyed by Miss Hoffman, or they may easily be among [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|Brother Raja's]] papers at Adyar. At any rate it is certain that we do not hold them and cannot do any more than we have done in attempting to trace them.<ref>C. R. Groves letter to Boris de Zirkoff. July 4, 1955. Theosophical Society in England correspondence. Boris de Zirkoff Papers. Records Series 22. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref></blockquote>

== Writings ==

Mrs. Sinnett wrote two pamphlets in the '''Adyar Pamphlets''' series, number 193 and 194, called "The Purpose of Theosophy". Col. Olcott described them as "an introductory manual for beginners." They are available at :
* [https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/AdyarPamphlet_No193.pdf The Purpose of Theosophy: Part I] from Canadian Theosophical Association. First published 1885, 2nd Indian edition 1886, 3rd edition 1902, 4th edition 1935. Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House.
* [https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/AdyarPamphlet_No194.pdf The Purpose of Theosophy: Part II] from Canadian Theosophical Association. First published 1885, 2nd Indian edition 1886, 3rd edition 1902, 4th edition 1935. Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Received Mahatma Letters|Sinnett, Patience]]
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Blavatsky photographs and portraits

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[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

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| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

Another print hung in the parlor of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gibson of [[Krotona in Hollywood]].<ref>"A Rare Photo of HPB" ''The American Theosophist'' 77 no.4 (July, 1898): 118.</ref>

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1865-1868
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.

|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1870
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Early 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown spiritualist photographer
| Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.

|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].

|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Edsall Photographic Studio
| Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.

|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>

|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles T. Scowen
| Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].

|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | May 18, 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Payagala Badalge Karolis
| This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.
[[File:HPB with fan, 1880.jpg|140px|right|thumb|Similar pose]]
A variation of this pose was found among slides of the TS in France that were transferred to the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880 group.jpeg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Group in Ceylon, 1880.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Group in Ceylon, 1880]]
Closeup of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] from a group photo in Ceylon, 1880.

''The Golden Book of the T.S.'' has a copy of this photo on page 48, with the caption "Sitting: [[Damodar K. Mavalankar|D. K Mavlankar]], [[Henry Steel Olcott|H. S. Olcott]], [[Sorabji J. Padshah|S. J. Padshah]], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. B.]], [[Edward Wimbridge|E. Wimbridge]], Mrs. P. Anandji. Standing, (extreme right) P. Anandji." The closeup presented here is derived from slide mc_0078 of a slide collection from the TS in France that were transferred to the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1882
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1882-1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.

Availabe at Winterthur Library, USA, item No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/photograph-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91958 SA 1318.8]. At the back: “Inscribed on back with message “to my faithful Barker[?],” signed by Mme Blavatsky, London, July 1884”

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Detail from the previous portrait.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway. Original is in Winterthur Library, USA. No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/photograph-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91956 SA 1318.9]

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan (SA1318-2).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway. Original is in Winterthur Library, USA. No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/portait-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91946?item=91948 SA13.18.11].

|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]] This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| style="text-align:center;" | Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.

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| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William Quan Judge]]
| [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.

|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].

|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.

|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.

Also availabe at Winterthur Library, USA, item No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/portait-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91946 SA 1318.10-11]

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]

|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London. Availabe at Winterthur Library, USA, item No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/photograph-of-james-m.-pryce-and-helena-p.-blavatsky-and-g.r.s.-meal/91951 СА 1318.18], where it is attributed to year 1891.

|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Reginald Machell]]
| Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1893
| style="text-align:center;" | P. Vishnevsky
| This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.

|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1896
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| style="text-align:center;" | Ferdinand Schirren
| This plaster sculpture was created by the Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944) and since 2007 has been located in Brussels in the museum complex "[https://fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/ferdinand-schirren-portrait-de-madame-blavatsky The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium]". According to the museum description, this sculpture, designated as "Portrait of Madame Blavatsky", has no name, but only a date in the lower right corner, its dimensions are 55 x 56 x 21 (unit of measurement is not specified).

|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| style="text-align:center;" | Govinda Pillai
| This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| style="text-align:center;" | James Montgomery Flagg
| This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.

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| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.

|- valign=top
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - Medal (E.M.Groshev, 1991).png|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| style="text-align:center;" | Evgeniy Groshev
| This medal was created by Evgeniy Groshev, famous Ukrainian artist. There is a mistype in HPB's surname. Scripture in Russian:
* Obverse (face): ELENA PETROVNA BLAVACKAYA 1831 1891 (ЕЛЕНА ПЕТРОВНА БЛАВАЦКАЯ 1831 1891)
* Reverse (back): THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THEN TRUTH (НЕТ РЕЛИГИИ ВЫШЕ ИСТИНЫ)

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Rudolf Strauch
| Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.

|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.

|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing by Victor Melendez.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2024
| style="text-align:center;" | Victor Daniel Meléndez
| Drawing executed in graphite and chalk on French cotton rag paper. Original drawing and a high-resolution digital image are in Theosophical Society in America Archives. Artist retains rights, and prospective publishers can contact him through the TSA archives, mailto:archives@theosophical.org.
|}

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg

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Pavel Malakhov:

[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. Also availabe at Winterthur Library, USA, item No. [https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/photograph-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91958 SA 1318.8].

[[Category:H.P.Blavatsky pictures]]

File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg

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Pavel Malakhov: Pavel Malakhov uploaded a new version of File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg

File:HPB with fan (SA1318-2).jpg

2024-12-21T13:43:41Z

Pavel Malakhov: Photograph of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky with a fan. Original is in Winterthur Library, USA. No. SA13.18.11 (https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/portait-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91946?item=91948) Category: H.P.Blavatsky pictures

== Summary ==
Photograph of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] with a fan. Original is in Winterthur Library, USA. No. SA13.18.11 (https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/portait-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91946?item=91948)

[[Category: H.P.Blavatsky pictures]]

File:HPB with fan.jpg

2024-12-21T13:26:47Z

Pavel Malakhov:

Photograph of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] with a fan. Original is in Winterthur Library, USA. No. SA 1318.9 (https://digitalcollections.winterthur.org/Documents/Detail/photograph-of-helena-p.-blavatsky/91956)

[[Category: H.P.Blavatsky pictures]]

File:HPB with fan.jpg

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Pavel Malakhov: Pavel Malakhov uploaded a new version of File:HPB with fan.jpg

Photograph of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] with a fan.

[[Category: H.P.Blavatsky pictures]]

Anita Atkins

2024-09-05T11:33:27Z

Pavel Malakhov: + link to Russian page

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Anita Atkins was a ULT student from the NY Lodge. She wrote under the name Sylvia Cranston. See "A Few Memories of Anita Atkins" by Dara Eklund at [http://www.esoteric-philosophy.com/2010/12/few-memories-of-anita-atkins.html Esoteric-Philosophy.com].

== Articles ==
* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/atkins-anita Anita Atkins] at Theosophy World
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Blavatsky Lodge

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Pavel Malakhov: /* Additional resources */ updated links to phx-ult-lodge.org

The '''Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society''' was organized in London, on [[May 19]], 1887. The first President was Mr. [[G. B. Finch]].

== First meeting ==

The inaugural meeting was held in [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]]'s small quarters at Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood. According to the Minute Book,<ref>Richard Groves letter to Boris de Zirkoff, quoting the Minute Book of the Blavatsky Lodge. March 6, 1956. Theosophical Society in England correspondence. Boris de Zirkoff Papers. Records Series 22. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> those present included:
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[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky]] 
[[Mabel Collins|Mrs. Mabel Cook]] 
Miss Louisa S. Cook 
Mr. G. Thornton 
[[T. B. Harbottle|Mr. T. B. Harbottle]] 
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Mr. W. B. Hamilton 
Mr. Edouard Coulomb 
[[Bertram Keightley|Mr. Bertram Keightley]] 
[[Archibald Keightley|Mr. Archibald Keightley]] 
[[G. B. Finch|Mr. G. B. Finch]]
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The resolutions adopted at that meeting were these:
::# That a new Lodge be formed.
::# That the undersigned be members of such Lodge.
::# That it be called 'The Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society'.
::# That the aim of the Lodge be active work.
::# That Mr. Finch be President for the first year.
::# That Mr. Thornton be Vice-President.
::# That Mr. Arch. Keightley be Secretary and Treasurer.
::# That the council consist of the undersigned members.
::# That a copy of these Resolutions be forwarded to Adyar with a request for a Charter.
::# That the next meeting be held at 'Maycot' on 26th May at 6 p.m.

== Activities ==
The Lodge was quite active and its members produced a monthly Theosophical magazine, [[Lucifer (periodical)|'''''Lucifer''''']], and formed a Theosophical Publishing Company. [[Reginald Machell]] became a member on December 1, 1888.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 4703 (website file: 1B/47).</ref> Other early members during [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky's]] lifetime included [[Isabelle Cooper-Oakley|Isabel Cooper-Oakley]], [[A. J. Cooper-Oakley|Alfred J. Cooper-Oakley]], [[William Kingsland]], Sydney H. Old, [[William Wynn Westcott]], [[Annie Besant]], [[Herbert Burrows]], [[Mabel Besant-Scott]], [[Esther Bright]], amd [[Ernest Temple Hargrove]].<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/].</ref>

In early October, 1887, the Lodge moved to a large house on '''17, Lansdowne Road''', where is held public and private meetings. On this month, [[G. B. Finch]] resigned his office as President of the Lodge, as well as membership in the [[Theosophical Society]]. Other resignations followed. According to [[Josephine Ransom]] the main reason for the rift seems to be the determination on the part of the Lodge to do public propaganda, its policy being that of spreading "[[Theosophy|Theosophical]] teachings and Brotherhood by the individual and collective work of its members".<ref>Josephine Ransom, ''A Short History of The Theosophical Society'' (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1989), 241.</ref>

In January 1889 [[William Kingsland]] became the President of the Lodge until [[January 2]] (other sources say [[January 17]]), 1890, when [[Annie Besant]] was elected.

In July of 1890 Besant's rented home in 19 Avenue Road became the new headquarters for the Blavatsky Lodge (and also for the European Section of the TS). Finally, on [[September 21]], 1899, took place the last meeting in this venue, before relocating to a less expensive quarters.

A glimpse of the group's dynamics was provided by the Minute Book, dated Thursday, March 31, 1892:
<blockquote>
Annie Besant in the chair. Mr. Pryse was to have spoken but, owing to there not being a full attendance, refused to do so. Annie Besant apologised to the lodge for his behaviour and gave an interesting lecture.<ref>"Two Theosophical Lecturers," ''The American Theosophist'' 32.2 (February, 1944), 45.</ref>
</blockquote>
The Pryse involved was probably [[James Morgan Pryse]] rather than his brother [[John Morgan Pryse]].

== Additional resources ==

=== Books ===
*[http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/assets/Transactions_of_the_Blavatsky_Lodge.pdf '''''Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge'''''] (PDF book) at ULT Phoenix's website and at [https://disk.yandex.ru/d/SYgQwJzb3SfiqS/Text/English/Theosophy/Blavatsky%20HP/Blavatsky%20Lodge%20notes%201890-91 '''Teopedia'''].
*[http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/SD-Diialogues.htm# '''''The Secret Doctrine Dialogues'''''] (PDF book) at ULT Phoenix's website.

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[Category:Theosophical lodges and branches]]

The Perfect Way (book)

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'''''The Perfect Way''''' is a book written by [[Anna Bonus Kingsford]] and [[Edward Maitland]], offering an [[Esotericism|esoteric]] interpretation of the [[Christianity|Christian]] teachings. It is one of the most influential books written by early Theosophists. Originally the material was presented as a series of nine lectures in London, during the months of May, June, and July, in 1881.

== Concepts presented ==
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== Editions and publication ==
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This book was published in London in 1888, and in New York in 1882.

The New York edition is available from the [https://archive.org/details/perfectwayorfin00unkngoog Internet Archive].

The revised American edition is available from the [https://cdn.website-editor.net/e4d6563c50794969b714ab70457d9761/files/uploaded/PerfectWay_ABKingsfordEMaitland.pdf# Canadian Theosophical Association website].

The third edition, edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart, was published in 1913 and is available at [https://ia801209.us.archive.org/15/items/b24873020_0002/b24873020_0002.pdf Internet Archive - the link refers to E. Maitland's biography of A. Kingsford].

== Reviews ==

[[Edward Maitland]] wrote that "among the earliest resuilts of the introduction of that book to an American public was the following paragraph in a Boston paper:"
<blockquote>
''The Perfect Way'' is the title of a book which has excited great attention in London, and in Boston circles of modern scientific and theosophic discussion, and the name of the author has been sought in vain. [[Clara Erskine Clement Waters|Mrs. Waters]] (Clara Erskine Clement), who has just returned from Europe, solves the mystery. The author of these remarkable lectures is Dr. Anna Kingsford of London, a woman described as having the face and figure of a Greek goddess, so perfect is her beauty. She is of the golden-blonde type, and her manner is one of exceptional dignity and grace. The Metaphysical Club of Boston were deeply interested in ''The Perfect Way'' last year. A remarkable book it is, whether one accepts its ideas or not. Dr. Kingsford's theory of life, in brief outline , is that it is a series of reincarnations, by means of which the soul acquires its experiences; that the deeds and aspirations of one life predetermine entirely the quality of the next incarnation.<ref>Edward Maitland, ''Anna Kingsford: Her Letters, Diary, and Work'' Volume II, Third Edition, edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. (London: John M. Watkins, 1913), 229. Available at [https://ia801209.us.archive.org/15/items/b24873020_0002/b24873020_0002.pdf Internet Archive]].</ref>
</blockquote>

== The Master's comments ==

[[Koot Hoomi|Master K.H.]] commented positively on the book writing to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett]]:

<blockquote>Well may you admire and more should you wonder at the marvellous lucidity of that remarkable seeress, who ignorant of [[Saṃskṛta|Sanskrit]] or [[Pāli|Pali]], and thus shut out from their metaphysical treasures, has yet seen a great light shining from behind the dark bills of exoteric religions. How, think you, did the "Writers of the Perfect Way" come to know that Adonai was the Son and not the Father; or that the third Person of the Christian Trinity is — female? Verily, they lay in that work several times their hands upon the keystone of [[Occultism]]. Only does the lady — who persists using without an explanation the misleading term "God" in her writings — know how nearly she comes up to our doctrine when saying: — "Having for Father, Spirit which is Life (the endless Circle or [[Parabrahman|Parabrahm]]) and for Mother the Great Deep, which is Substance ([[Prakṛti|Prakriti]] in its undifferentiated condition) — Adonai possesses the potency of both and wields the dual powers of all things." We would say triple, but in the sense as given this will do.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 379.</ref></blockquote>

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[Category:Books|Perfect Way, The]]

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Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East

2023-10-27T10:36:04Z

Pavel Malakhov: +links to Russian and Spanish

Gems from the East
<center>H. P. Blavatsky</center>
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{{Gem for a month
| month name = January
| month number = 1
| text = UTTISTHA! — Rise! Awake! 
Seek the great Teachers, and attend! The road 
Is narrow as a knife-edge! Hard to tread! 
But whoso once perceiveth HIM that IS; — 
Without a name, Unseen, Impalpable, 
Bodiless, Undiminished, Unenlarged, 
To senses undeclared, without an end, 
Without beginning, Timeless, Higher than height, 
Deeper than depth! Lo! Such an one is saved! 
Death hath not power upon him!
| source = Edwin Arnold, “The Secret Of Death”
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:1
| text = The first duty taught in Theosophy, is to do one's duty unflinchingly by every duty.
| source = H. P. Blavatsky
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:2
| text = The heart which follows the rambling senses leads away his judgement as the wind leads a boat astray upon the waters.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0804.htm "Bhagavadgita", ch. 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:3
| text = He who casts off all desires, living free from attachments, and free from egoism, obtains bliss.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0804.htm "Bhagavadgita", ch. 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:4
| text = To every man that is born, an axe is born in his mouth, by which the fool cuts himself, when speaking bad language.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1035.htm “Sutta Nipata”, III. Mahâvagga, ver. 657]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:5
| text = As all earthen vessels made by the potter end in being broken, so is the life of mortals.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1035.htm “Sutta Nipata”, III. Mahâvagga, ver. 577]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:6
| text = Wise men are light-bringers.
| source = “Sutta Nipata”, II. Kûlavagga, ver. 348
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:7
| text = A just life, a religious life, this is the best gem.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1034.htm “Sutta Nipata”, II. Kûlavagga, ver. 273]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:8
| text = Having tasted the sweetness of illusion and tranquillity, one becomes free from fear, and free from sin, drinking in the sweetness of Dharma (law).
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1034.htm “Sutta Nipata”, II. Kûlavagga, ver. 256]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:9
| text = False friendship is like a parasitic plant, it kills the tree it embraces.
| source = Joseph Hall, “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk”, 
[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xjVGAAAAYAAJ&hl=ru&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PR1 ch. “Occasional Meditations”, “The Ivy Tree”], p. 375
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:10
| text = Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand! Cherish the road of peace.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1022.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XX, ver. 285]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:11
| text = Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1013.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XI, ver. 155]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:12
| text = As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or scent, so let a Sage dwell in his village.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1006.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. IV, ver. 49]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:13
| text = As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1003.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. I, ver. 13]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:14
| text = He who hath too many friends, hath as many candidates for enemies.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:15
| text = That man alone is wise, who keeps the mastery of himself.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/bg02.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch. 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:16
| text = Seek refuge in thy soul; have there thy Heaven! Scorn them that follow virtue for her gifts!
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/bg02.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch. 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:17
| text = All our dignity consists in thought, therefore let us contrive to think well; for that is the principle of morals.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/phi/pascal/pens.txt Blaise Pascal, “Pensees”, 347]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:18
| text = Flattery is a false coin which circulates only because of our vanity.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=cQfTC1UaHAkC&pg=PA172&dq=Flattery+is+a+false+coin&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiv6-3ciNLMAhXoHpoKHXJFCOEQ6AEINjAB#v=onepage&q=Flattery%20is%20a%20false%20coin&f=false François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, “Maxims”, № 158]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:19
| text = Narrowness of mind causes stubbornness; we do not easily believe what is beyond that which we see.
| source = [https://www.thomaswhichello.com/?page_id=831 François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, “Maxims”, № 265]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:20
| text = The soul ripens in tears.
| source = [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+126&version=KJV Psalm 126, 5-6, “A Song of Ascents”]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:21
| text = ..this is truth the poet sings, // That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
| source = [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45362 Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:22
| text = Musk is musk because of its own fragrance, and not from being called a perfume by the druggist.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LVI
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:23
| text = Not every one ready for a dispute is as quick in transacting business.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XLII
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:24
| text = It is not every graceful form that contains as graceful a disposition.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XLIV
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:25
| text = If every pebble became a priceless ruby, then pebble and ruby would become equal in value.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XLIII
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:26
| text = Every man thinks his own wisdom faultless, and every mother her own child beautiful.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XXX
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:27
| text = If wisdom were to vanish suddenly from the universe, no one yet would suspect himself a fool.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XXX
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:28
| text = A narrow stomach may be filled to its satisfaction, but a narrow mind will never be satisfied, not even with all the riches of the world.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XXXI
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:29
| text = He who neglects his duty to his conscience, will neglect to pay his debt to his neighbor.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № XXXIV
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:30
| text = Mite added to mite becomes a great heap; the heap in the barn consists of small grains.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LX
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 1:31
| text = He who tasteth not thy bread during thy lifetime, will not mention thy name when thou art dead.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LXIII
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = February
| month number = 2
| text = Behold, we know not anything; 
I can but trust that good shall fall 
At last — far off — at last, to all, 
And every winter change to spring. 
 
So runs my dream: but what am I? 
An infant crying in the night: 
An infant crying for the light: 
And with no language but a cry.
| source = [http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/718/ Lord Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”, LIV]

}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:1
| text = Two things are impossible in this world of Maya: to enjoy more than Karma hath allotted; to die before one's hour hath struck.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LXV
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:2
| text = A student without inclination for work is like a squirrel on its wheel; he makes no progress.
| source = Ivan Krylov, “The Squirrel” (rephrased)
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:3
| text = A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LXXI
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:4
| text = A learned man without pupils, is a tree which bears no fruit; a devotee without good works, is a dwelling without a door.
| source = Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi, “The Gulistan, or Rose Garden”, ch. 8, № LXXI
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:5
| text = When Fate overtakes us, the eye of Wisdom becomes blind.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 269
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:6
| text = Keep thine eyes open, or Fate will open them for thee.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 270
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:7
| text = He who kisses the hand he cannot cut off, will have his head cut off by the hand he now kisses in the next rebirth.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:8
| text = He who keeps to his business, he who loves his companions, he who does his duty, will never be poor.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 268
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:9
| text = A thousand regrets will not pay thy debts.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 264
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:10
| text = Fallen flowers do not return to their stems, nor departed friends to their houses.
| source = Eastern Proverbs
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:11
| text = To feel one's ignorance is to be wise; to feel sure of one's wisdom is to be a fool.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1007.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. V, ver. 63]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:12
| text = One proof is better than ten arguments.
| source = [http://proverbicals.com/american/ American proverb]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:13
| text = Rain in the morn brings the sun after noon. He who weeps today, may laugh tomorrow.
| source = Friedrich Rückert
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:14
| text = The soothsayer for evil never knows his own fate.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:15
| text = Like oil, truth often floats on the surface of the lie. Like clear water, truth often underlies the seeming falsehood.
| source = [https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4037220.Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Don Quixote”]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:16
| text = Often vinegar got for nothing, is sweeter to the poor man than honey bought.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 270
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:17
| text = Every tree hath its shadow, every sorrow its joy.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 270
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:18
| text = The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind by passion. Blessed are the patient, and the passionless.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1026.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XXIV, ver. 356]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:19
| text = The virtuous man who is happy in this life, is sure to be still happier in his next.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1003.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. I, ver. 18]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:20
| text = What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done. The sins of the unruly are ever increasing.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1023.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XXI, ver. 292]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:21
| text = Without Karma, no fisherman could catch a fish; outside of Karma, no fish would die on dry land, or in boiling water.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:22
| text = Let every man first become himself that which he teaches others to be.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1014.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XII, ver. 158]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:23
| text = He who hath subdued himself, may hope to subdue others. One's own self is the most difficult to master.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1014.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XII, ver. 159]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:24
| text = Hatred is never quenched by hatred; hatred ceases by showing love; this is an old rule.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1003.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. I, ver. 5]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:25
| text = The path of virtue lies in the renunciation of the seven great sins.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:26
| text = The best possession of the man of clay is health; the highest virtue of the man of spirit is truthfulness.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:27
| text = Man walks on, and Karma follows him along with his shadow.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12b008.htm Mahabharata, Book 12, Mokshadharma, section CLXXXI]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:28
| text = Daily practical wisdom consists of four things: – To know the root of Truth, the branches of Truth, the limit of Truth, and the opposite of Truth.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 2:29
| text = Know, will, dare, silence!
| source = Moto of Esoteric Section in TS (this day is skipped in ''Gems'')
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = March
| month number = 3
| text = Say not 'I am,' 'I was,' or 'I shall be,' 
Think not ye pass from house to house of flesh 
Like travellers who remember and forget, 
Ill-lodged or well-lodged. Fresh 
Issues upon the universe that sum 
Which is the lattermost of lives. It makes 
Its habitation as the worm spins silk 
And dwells therein.
| source = [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8920/8920-h/8920-h.htm Edwin Arnold, “Light of Asia”, Book 8]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:1
| text = Four things increase by use: health, wealth, perseverance, and credulity.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:2
| text = To enjoy the day of plenty, you must be patient in the day of want.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:3
| text = Expel avarice from your heart, so shall you loosen the chains from off your neck.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:4
| text = Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, greediness by liberality, lie by truth.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1019.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XVII, ver. 223]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:5
| text = Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are so spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1012.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. X, ver. 133]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:6
| text = This life is in the world of work and retributive justice; the life that follows is in the world of great reward.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:7
| text = Excuse is better than disputation; delay is better than rashness; unwillingness of strife is better than eagerness in seeking it.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:8
| text = Cut down the whole forest of lust, not the tree. When thou hast cut down every tree and every shrub, then thou wilt be free.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1022.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XX, ver. 283]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:9
| text = The avaricious go not to the world of the gods (devas), for the fool commands no charity.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&ots=DUrTSe8IWX&dq=%22avaricious%20go%20not%22&hl=ru&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=%22avaricious%20go%20not%22&f=false “Udānavarga”, X:2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:10
| text = He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, is called a real driver; other people are but holders of the reins.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1022.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XVII, ver. 222]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:11
| text = The fool who is angered, and who thinks to triumph by using abusive language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&ots=DUrTSe8IWX&dq=%22avaricious%20go%20not%22&hl=ru&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=%22avaricious%20go%20not%22&f=false “Udānavarga", XX:14]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:12
| text = The best of medicines is death; the worst of diseases is vain anticipation.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:13
| text = An easy temper is a good counsellor, and a pleasant tongue is an excellent leader.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:14
| text = A good word in time is better than a sweet pie after meals.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:15
| text = Foolish pride is an incurable malady; a bad wife is a chronic disease; and a wrathful disposition is a life-long burden.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:16
| text = Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:17
| text = All has an end, and will away. Truth alone is immortal, and lives for ever.
| source = [https://www.biblestudytools.com/kjva/1-esdras/4.html 1 Esdras, 4:35-38]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:18
| text = The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul – truth everlasting.
| source =
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{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:19
| text = The road to sin is a wide highway; the way out of it, a steep and rugged hill.
| source = [https://www.biblestudytools.com/kjva/matthew/7.html Matthew, 7:13-14]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:20
| text = The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1022.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XVIII, ver. 252]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:21
| text = Good people shine from afar like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot at night.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1023.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XXI, ver. 304]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:22
| text = Where two women meet, there a market springs; where three congregate, a bazaar is opened; and where seven talk, there begins a fair.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:23
| text = Extensive knowledge and science, well-regulated discipline and well-spoken speech, this is the greatest blessing.
| source = “Mahāmangala Sutta”, v.4
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:24
| text = The subtle self is to be known by thought alone; for every thought of men is interwoven with the senses, and when thought is purified, then the self arises.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15020.htm “Mundaka Upanishad”, III, 1, 9]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:25
| text = Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality!
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15054.htm “Brihadâranyaka Upanishad”, I.2:27]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:26
| text = The Sage who knows Brahman moves on; on the small, old path that stretches far away, rests in the heavenly place, and thence moves higher on.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15076.htm “Brihadâranyaka Upanishad”, IV.4:8]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:27
| text = Neither by the eyes, nor by spirit, nor by the sensuous organs, nor by austerity, nor by sacrifices, can we see Brahma. Only the pure, by the light of wisdom and meditation, can see the pure Deity.
| source = Upanishad
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:28
| text = By perfection in study and meditation the Supreme Spirit becomes manifest; study is one eye to behold it, and meditation is the other.
| source = “The Vishnu Purana”, chapter VI
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:29
| text = Alas! We reap what seed we sow; the hands that smite us are our own.
| source = “The Path”, v. 1 № 8, 1886, p. 256
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:30
| text = Thoughts alone cause the round of rebirths in this world; let a man strive to purify his thoughts, what a man thinks, that he is: this is the old secret.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15117.htm “Maitrâyana Brâhmana Upanishad”, Sixth Prapâthaka, 3]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 3:31
| text = "My sons are mine; this wealth is mine": with such thoughts is a fool tormented. He himself does not belong to himself, much less sons and wealth.
| source = “Dhammapada”, ch. V, ver. 62
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = April
| month number = 4
| text = "The untouched soul, 
Greater than all the worlds (because the worlds 
By it subsist); smaller than subtleties 
Of things minutest; last of ultimates; 
Sits in the hollow heart of all that lives! 
Whoso hath laid aside desire and fear, 
His senses mastered, and his spirit still, 
Sees in the quiet light of verity 
Eternal, safe, majestical – HIS SOUL!"
| source = Edwin Arnold, “The Secret Of Death”, from The Katha Upanishad
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:1
| text = He who leaves the society of fools, cleaves unto the wise.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:2
| text = The self is hidden in all beings, and does not shine forth; but it is seen by subtle seers, through their sharp and subtle intellect.
| source = “Katha-Upanishad”, 1:3:12
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:3
| text = Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:4
| text = Three things make a poor man rich: courtesy, consideration for others, and the avoidance of suspicion.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:5
| text = When trust is gone, misfortune comes in; when confidence is dead, revenge is born; and when treachery appears, all blessings fly away.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:6
| text = The world exists by cause; all things exist by cause; and beings are bound by cause, even as the rolling cart-wheel by the pin of an axle-tree.
| source = “Vāsettha Sutta”, v. 61
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:7
| text = The living soul is not woman, nor man, nor neuter; whatever body it takes, with that it is joined only.
| source = “Shvetashvatara Upanishad”, Adhyâya V, 9-10
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:8
| text = He who wishes to reach Buddhahood, and aspires to the knowledge of the Self-born, must honour those who keep this doctrine.
| source = “Saddharma-Pundarîka or, the lotus of the true law”, Chapter X “The preacher”, stanza 1
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:9
| text = As the spider moving upward by his thread gains free space, thus also he who undertakes moving upward by the known word OM, gains independence.
| source = “Maitrâyana Brâhmana Upanishad”, Sixth Prapâthaka, 22
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:10
| text = The wheel of sacrifice has Love for its nave, Action for its tire, and Brotherhood for its spokes.
| source = Upanishads
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:11
| text = Man consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap.
| source = “Brihadâranyaka Upanishad", IV.4:5
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:12
| text = A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; the beast a man; a man a Spirit; and the Spirit – GOD.
| source = Kabalistic axiom
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:13
| text = There exists no spot on the earth, or in the sky, or in the sea, neither is there any in the mountain-clefts, where an evil deed does not bring trouble to the doer.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=ru&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false “Udānavarga", IX, v. 5]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:14
| text = Whoever, not being a sanctified person, pretends to be a Saint, he is indeed the lowest of all men, the thief in all worlds, including that of Brahma.
| source = [http://www.budaedu.org/en/budaedu/III-03main.php3 “Vasala Sutta”, v. 20]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:15
| text = If a man consorting with me (Buddha) does not conform his life to my commandments, what benefit will ten thousand precepts be to him?
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/jras/os19-14.htm “Sūtra of the 42 Sections”, section 38]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:16
| text = He who smites will be smitten; he who shows rancor will find rancor; so, from reviling cometh reviling, and to him who is angered comes anger.
| source = “Udānavarga”, XIV, v. 3
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:17
| text = "He abused me, he reviled me, he beat me, he subdued me"; he who keeps this in mind, and who feels resentment, will find no peace.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1003.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. I, ver. 3]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:18
| text = Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1006.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. IV, ver. 51]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:19
| text = When your mind shall have crossed beyond the taint of delusion, then will you become indifferent to all that you have heard or will hear.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0804.htm “The Bhagavadgita”, ch. 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:20
| text = The wise guard the home of nature's order; they assume excellent forms in secret.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10005.htm “Rig Veda”, X, 5, 2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:21
| text = If thou losest all, and gettest wisdom by it, thy loss is thy gain.
| source = The moral in Aesop's fable [http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/lestrange/59.htm “A Dog and a Butcher”]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:22
| text = Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.
| source =
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{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:23
| text = Great works need no great strength, but perseverance.
| source = Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, chapter 13
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:24
| text = Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.
| source =
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{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:25
| text = To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.
| source =
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{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:26
| text = Every man contains within himself the potentiality of immortality, equilibrated by the power of choice.
| source = “The Path”, v. 3, № 12, 1889, p. 401
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:27
| text = He who lives in one color of the rainbow is blind to the rest. Live in the light diffused through the entire arc, and you will know it all.
| source = “The Path”, v. 3, № 12, 1889, p. 401
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:28
| text = Every time the believer pronounces the word OM, he renews the allegiance to the divine potentiality enshrined within the Soul.
| source = “The Path”, v. 3, № 12, 1889, p. 401
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:29
| text = People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 4:30
| text = The Higher Self knows that highest home of Brahman, which contains all and shines so bright. The wise who without desiring happiness worship that SELF, are not born again.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15021.htm “Mundaka Upanishad”, III, 2, 1]
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = May
| month number = 5
| text = I'm weary of conjectures, – this must end 'em. 
Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, 
My bane and antidote, are both before me: 
This in a moment brings me to an end; 
But this informs me I shall never die. 
The Soul, secured in her existence, smiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years; 
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, 
Unhurt amidst the war of elements, 
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
| source = [http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/addison-cato-a-tragedy-and-selected-essays Joseph Addison, “Cato”, Act V. Scene 1]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:1
| text = The eternal Spirit is everywhere. It stands encompassing the whole world.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15102.htm Svetâsvatara Upanishad, 3:16]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:2
| text = He who feeds the hungry before he has assuaged his own hunger, prepares for himself eternal food. He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker brother is – a god.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:3
| text = The altar on which the sacrifice is offered is Man; the fuel is speech itself, the smoke the breath, the light the tongue, the coals the eye, the sparks the ear.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01101.htm Khândogya Upanishad, V:7]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:4
| text = One moment in eternity is as important as another moment, for eternity changeth not, neither is one part better than another part.
| source = [https://archive.org/details/zoroaster02crawgoog Francis Marion Crawford, “Zoroaster”]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:5
| text = Better it would be that a man should eat a lump of flaming iron than that one should break his vows.
| source = [https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&ots=DUrTSe8IWX&dq=%22avaricious%20go%20not%22&hl=ru&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=%22flaming%20iron%22&f=false Udānavarga, IX:2]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:6
| text = Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deeds have not ripened; but when they have ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1011.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. IX, ver. 120]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:7
| text = By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself the evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1014.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XII, ver. 165]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:8
| text = Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1014.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XII, ver. 165]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:9
| text = Self is the lord of self: who else could be the lord! With self well subdued, a man finds a master such as few can find.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1014.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. XII, ver. 160]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:10
| text = If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of the two conquerors.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1010.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. VIII, ver. 103]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:11
| text = Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life – he is a man indeed!
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/jras/os19-14.htm “Sūtra of the 42 Sections”, 13]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:12
| text = If thou hast done evil deeds, or if thou wouldst do them, thou mayest arise and run where'er thou wilt, but thou canst not free thyself of thy suffering.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=ru&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false “Udānavarga”, IX:4]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:13
| text = There is a road that leads to Wealth; there is another road that leads to Nirvana.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/sbe1007.htm “Dhammapada”, ch. V, ver. 75]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:14
| text = An evil deed does not turn on a sudden like curdling milk; it is like fire smoldering in the ashes, which burns the fool.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=ru&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Udānavarga, IX, v. 16]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:15
| text = An evil deed kills not instantly, as does a sword, but it follows the evil-doer into his next and still next rebirth.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=ubplAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=ru&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Udānavarga, IX, v. 17]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:16
| text = The calumniator is like one who flings dirt at another when the wind is contrary, the dirt does but return on him who threw it.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OP-GXB44HwkC&pg=PA36&dq=%22who+flings+dirt+at+another%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv-Zj3iOrNAhVCPBQKHYogARkQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=%22who%20flings%20dirt%20at%20another%22&f=false “Sutra of the 42 Chapters”, ch. 8]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:17
| text = The virtuous man cannot be hurt, the misery that his enemy would inflict comes back on himself.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=Q3ROYNlTlZAC&pg=PA194&dq=%22who+flings+dirt+at+another%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv-Zj3iOrNAhVCPBQKHYogARkQ6AEIOzAD#v=onepage&q=%22who%20flings%20dirt%20at%20another%22&f=false “Sutra of the 42 Chapters”, ch. 8]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:18
| text = Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
| source =[http://www.emersoncentral.com/considerations.htm R. W. Emerson, “The Conduct of Life”, ch. 7]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:19
| text = If a man understands the self saying "I am He," what could he wish or desire that he should pine after the body?
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15076.htm Brihadâranyaka Upanishad, IV.4:12]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:20
| text = That word which all the Vedas record, which all penances proclaim, which men desire when they live as religious disciples, that word I tell thee briefly, it is OM.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15011.htm Katha-Upanishad, I, 2:15]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:21
| text = As a person having seen one in a dream, recognizes him afterwards; so does one who has achieved proper concentration of mind perceive the SELF.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0831.htm Anugita, 4:25]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:22
| text = It is better to do one's own duty, even though imperfectly, than to perform another's duty well.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0820.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch.18]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:23
| text = The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15011.htm Katha-Upanishad, I, 2:22]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:24
| text = The path of virtue lies in the renunciation of arrogance and pride.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:25
| text = He who wrongs another unjustly will regret it, though men may applaud him; but he who is wronged is safe from regret, though the world may blame him.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:26
| text = There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:27
| text = True clemency is in foregoing revenge, when it is in one's power; true patience is in bearing up against disappointments.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:28
| text = The happy man must prepare ere the evil day comes; and when it does, let the thought that every good and great man has been made to suffer at some time console him.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:29
| text = Wealth in the hands of one who thinks not of helping mankind with it, is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:30
| text = Like as the night follows the day, so misfortune is the shadow of joy; Karma bestowing her lots with both hands.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 5:31
| text = The eagle catcheth not flies; but even the eagle is disturbed by them.
| source = Roman proverb
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = June
| month number = 6
| text = There is “true” Knowledge. Learn thou it is this: 
To see one Changeless Life in all that lives, 
And in the Separate, One Inseparable. 
There is imperfect Knowledge: that which sees 
The separate existences apart, 
And, being separated, holds them real. 
There is false Knowledge: that which blindly clings 
To one as if 'twere all, seeking no cause, 
Deprived of light, narrow, and dull, and “dark”.
| source = [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/bg18.htm The Bhagavad Gita, chapter 18, verses 19-22]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:1
| text = Judge the tree by its fruits, man by his deeds.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:2
| text = Theosophy is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:3
| text = Neither is Theosophy the pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is sacrifice, the second, renunciation.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:4
| text = Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:5
| text = Theosophy is the science of life, the art of living.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:6
| text = Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 14
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:7
| text = Through joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, the soul comes to a knowledge of itself.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 14
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:8
| text = The eyes of wisdom are like the ocean depths; there is neither joy nor sorrow in them. Therefore the soul of the disciple must become stronger than joy, and greater than sorrow.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 14
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:9
| text = We hate but those whom we envy or fear.
| source = H. P. Blavatsky, “From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher”,
“Lucifer”, № 1, p. 80
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:10
| text = Self-knowledge is unattainable by what men usually call "self-analysis." It is not reached by reasoning or any brain-powers.
| source = “Self-knowledge”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 89
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:11
| text = Real self-knowledge is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature of man.
| source = “Self-knowledge”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p .89
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:12
| text = Will is the offspring of the Divine, the God in man; Desire, the motive power of the animal life.
| source = “Will and Desire”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p .96
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:13
| text = Will is the exclusive possession of man. It divides him from the brute, in whom instinctive desire only is active.
| source = “Will and Desire”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 96
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:14
| text = To obtain the knowledge of self, is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future.
| source = “Self-knowledge”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 89
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:15
| text = The great watchword of the True is this – in last analysis all things are divine.
| source = Jasper Niemand, “The Path”
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:16
| text = Fear is the slave of Pain, and Rebellion her captive.
| source = (L. S. C.) “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 122
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:17
| text = Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
| source = (L. S. C.) “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 122
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:18
| text = The husband of Pain is Rapture, but the souls are few in whom that marriage is consummated.
| source = (L.S.C.) “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 122
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:19
| text = Spirituality is not what we understand by the words "virtue" and "goodness." It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences.
| source = Jasper Niemand, “The Path”
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:20
| text = The discovery and right use of the true essence of Being – this is the whole secret of life.
| source = Jasper Niemand, “The Path”
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:21
| text = When desire is for the purely abstract – when it has lost all trace or tinge of "self" – then it has become pure.
| source = “Desire Made Pure”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 133
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:22
| text = Adepts are rare as the blossom of the Udumbara tree.
| source =[https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/voice/voice2.htm H. P. Blavatsky, “The Voice of the Silence”, part II]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:23
| text = The one eternal, immutable law of life alone can judge and condemn man absolutely.
| source = ∴ “Thoughts on Theosophy”, “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 134
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:24
| text = Will and Desire are both absolute creators, forming the man himself and his surroundings.
| source = “Will and Desire”, “Lucifer” № 2, p. 96
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:25
| text = Will creates intelligently; Desire blindly and unconsciously.
| source = “Will and Desire”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 96
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:26
| text = Man makes himself in the image of his desires, unless he creates himself in the likeness of the Divine, through his will, the child of the light.
| source = “Will and Desire”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 96
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:27
| text = Theosophy is the vehicle of the spirit that giveth life; consequently, nothing dogmatic can be Theosophical.
| source = ∴ “Thoughts on theosophy”, “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 134
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:28
| text = Some pluck the fruits of the tree of knowledge to crown themselves therewith, instead of plucking them to eat.
| source = L.S.C., “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:29
| text = It is not necessary for truth to put on boxing-gloves.
| source = L.S.C., “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 6:30
| text = You cannot build a temple of truth by hammering dead stones. Its foundations must precipitate themselves like crystals from the solution of life.
| source = L.S.C., “Lucifer”, № 2, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = July
| month number = 7
| text = The mind, enlightened, casts its grief away! 
It is not to be known by knowledge! man 
Wotteth it not by wisdom! learning vast 
Halts short of it! Only by soul itself 
Is soul perceived – when the soul wills it so! 
There shines no light save its own light to show 
Itself unto itself!
| source = [https://archive.org/stream/secretdeathfrom01arnogoog/secretdeathfrom01arnogoog_djvu.txt Edwin Arnold, “The Secret Of Death”] from The Katha Upanishad
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:1
| text = One cannot fill a vacuum from within itself.
| source = L.S.C., “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:2
| text = When a certain point is reached, pain becomes its own anodyne.
| source = L.S.C., “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:3
| text = Many a man will follow a mis-leader. Few will recognize truth at a glance.
| source = “Lucifer”, № 1, p. 155
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:4
| text = Esteem that to be eminently good, which, when communicated to another, will be increased to yourself.
| source = Demophilus, “Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus”, “Lucifer”, № 3, p. 215
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:5
| text = Be persuaded that those things are not your riches which you do not possess in the penetralia of the reasoning power.
| source = Demophilus, “Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus”, “Lucifer”, № 3, p. 215
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:6
| text = As many passions of the soul, so many fierce and savage despots.
| source = Demophilus, “Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus”, “Lucifer”, № 3, p. 215
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:7
| text = No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
| source = Demophilus, “Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus”, “Lucifer”, № 3, p. 215
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:8
| text = It is the business of a musician to harmonize every instrument, but of a well-educated man to adapt himself harmoniously to every fortune.
| source = “Similitudes of Demophilus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:9
| text = It is excellent to impede an unjust man; but if this be not possible, it is excellent not to act in conjunction with him.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:10
| text = Sin should be abstained from, not through fear, but for the sake of the becoming.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:11
| text = Vehement desires about any one thing render the soul blind with respect to other things.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:12
| text = Many men who have not learnt to argue rationally, still live according to reason.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:13
| text = The equal is beautiful in everything, but excess and defect do not appear so.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:14
| text = It is the property of a divine intellect to be always intently thinking about the beautiful.
| source = Democritus, “Golden Sentences of Democritus”, “Lucifer”, № 4, p. 310
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:15
| text = As two pieces of wood may come together in the ocean, and having met, may separate again; like this is the meeting of mortals.
| source = Charles Johnston (from the Sanskrit), “Lucifer”, № 13, p.44
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:16
| text = Youth is like a mountain-torrent; wealth is like the dust on one's feet; manhood is fugitive as a water-drop; life is like foam.
| source = Charles Johnston, “Sanskrit Proverbs”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p.53
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:17
| text = Who fulfills not duty with steadfast mind, duty which opens the portals of bliss, surprised by old age and remorse, he is burned by the fire of grief.
| source = Charles Johnston, “Sanskrit Proverbs”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 53
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:18
| text = Even in a forest hermitage, sin prevails over the unholy; the restraint of the senses in one's own house, this is asceticism.
| source = Charles Johnston (from the Sanskrit), “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 60
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:19
| text = Who performs a right action, free from impurity, the house of that man is a forest hermitage.
| source = Charles Johnston (from the Sanskrit), “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 60
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:20
| text = As the streams of a river flow on, and return not, so pass away the days and nights, taking away the lives of men.
| source = Charles Johnston, “Indian Proverbs”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 78
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:21
| text = Unenduring are youth, beauty, life, wealth, lordship, the society of the beloved; let not the wise be deluded by these.
| source = “Book of Friendly Instruction”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 88
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:22
| text = In this world, fugitive as tempest-driven waves, death for another is a rich prize earned by virtue in a former birth.
| source = “Book of Friendly Instruction”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 88
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:23
| text = The shadow of a cloud, the favour of the base, new corn, a flower, these last only a little time; so it is with youth and riches.
| source = “Book of Friendly Instruction”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 88
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:24
| text = Let the wise think on wisdom as unfading and immortal; let him fulfil his duty as though Death grasped him by the hair.
| source = “Book of Friendly Instruction”, “Lucifer”, № 13, p. 88
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:25
| text = If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
| source = Epictetus, “Lucifer”, № 16, p. 300
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:26
| text = Pagodas are measured by their shadows, and great men by their enviers.
| source = Chinese Aphorism, “Lucifer”, № 17, p. 398
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:27
| text = The sage does not say what he does; but he does nothing that cannot be said.
| source = Chinese Aphorism, “Lucifer”, № 17, p. 398
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:28
| text = The man who finds pleasure in vice, and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both.
| source = Chinese Aphorism, “Lucifer”, № 18, p. 455
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:29
| text = The wise man does good as naturally as he breathes.
| source = Chinese Aphorism, “Lucifer”, № 18, p. 455
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:30
| text = He is a man who does not turn away from what he has said.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 267
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 7:31
| text = The heart of the fool is in his tongue; the tongue of the wise is in his heart.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 267
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = August
| month number = 8
| text =Death has no power th' immortal soul to slay, 
That, when its present body turns to clay 
Seeks a fresh home, and with unlessened might 
Inspires another frame with life and light. 
So I myself (well I the past recall), 
When the fierce Greeks begirt Troy's holy wall, 
Was brave Euphorbus: and in conflict drear 
Poured forth my blood beneath Atrides' spear. 
The shield this arm did bear I lately saw 
In Juno's shrine, a trophy of that war.
| source = John Dryden, “Fables, Ancient and Modern”, translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 15
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:1
| text = The man who neglects the truth he finds in his soul, in order to follow its dead-letter, is a time-server.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:2
| text = He who does not recognize the bread and salt is worse than a wild wolf.
| source = Turkish proverb, , “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 268
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:3
| text = Man who has not hesitated to project his image in space and call it the Creator, sculpted not to endow God with his own vices.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:4
| text = He who has been once deceived, dreads evil, and suspects it even in truth.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:5
| text = Krishna, the golden-haired god, replied not to the reviling of the King of Chedi. To the roar of the tempest, and not to the jackal's howl, the elephant trumpets a reply.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:6
| text = Not the tender pliant grass is uprooted by the storm, but the lofty trees. The mighty war only with the mighty.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:7
| text = The sandal tree has snakes; the lotus tank, alligators; in happiness there is envy. There are no unmixed pleasures.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:8
| text = No creature, no thing is free from evil. The sandal tree has its roots sapped by snakes, its blossoms attacked by bees, its branches broken by monkeys, its top eaten by bears. No part of it is secure from pain.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:9
| text = Grieve not about thy sustenance; nature will supply it. When a creature is born, the mother's breast supplies milk.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:10
| text = Who gave the swan his whiteness, the parrot his wings of golden green, the peacock his iris-hues? Will not that which provided for them provide for thee?
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 306
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:11
| text = All good fortune belongs to him of contented mind. Is not the whole earth leather-covered for him who wears shoes?
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 340
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:12
| text = This world is a venomous tree, bearing two honey-sweet fruits: the divine essence of poetry and the friendship of the noble.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 10, p. 340
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:13
| text = By the fall of water-drops the pitcher is gradually filled; this is the cause of wisdom, of virtue, and of wealth.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:14
| text = Let one who would live in the memory of his fellow men, make every day fruitful by generosity, study, and noble arts.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:15
| text = No plunge in clear cool water delights so much the heat-oppressed, no pearl necklace the maiden, as the words of the good delight the good.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:16
| text = Good men vary. Some are like cocoa-nuts, full of sweet milk; others, like the jujube, externally pleasing.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:17
| text = Like an earthen vessel, easy to break, hard to reunite, are the wicked; the good are like vessels of gold, hard to break and quickly united.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:18
| text = Be not a friend to the wicked – charcoal when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the fingers.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:19
| text = Shun him who secretly slanders, and praises openly; he is like a cup of poison, with cream on the surface.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:20
| text = A chariot cannot go on one wheel alone; so destiny fails unless men's acts co-operate.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:21
| text = The noble delight in the noble; the base do not; the bee goes to the lotus from the wood; not so the frog, though living in the same lake.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 11, p. 409
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:22
| text = Like moonbeams trembling on water, truly such is the life of mortals. Knowing this, let duty be performed.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 12, p. 433
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:23
| text = Bathe in the river of the soul, O man, for not with water is the soul washed clean.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 12, p. 433
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:24
| text = The pure soul is a river whose holy source is self-control, whose water is truth, whose bank is righteousness, whose waves are compassion.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 12, p. 433
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:25
| text = Of a gift to be received or given, of an act to be done, time drinks up the flavour, unless it be quickly performed.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 12, p. 433
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:26
| text = When the weak-minded is deprived of wealth, his actions are destroyed, like rivulets dried up in hot seasons.
| source = Indian Proverbs, “Lucifer”, № 12, p. 433
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:27
| text = He who wants a faultless friend, must remain friendless.
| source = Turkish proverb,
“A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 268
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:28
| text = Eat and drink with your friends, but do not trade with them.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 267
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:29
| text = Without trouble one gets no honey. Without grief and sorrow no one passes his life.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 268
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:30
| text = Vinegar does not catch a fly, but honey. A sweet tongue draweth the snake forth from the earth.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 268
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 8:31
| text = What good is advice to a fool?
| source = “Universal proverbs”, “Lucifer”, № 19, p. 77
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = September
| month number = 9
| text = Shall there not be as good a 'Then' as 'Now'? 
Haply much better... 
:::...Therefore fear I not; 
And therefore, Holy Sir! my life is glad, 
Nowise forgetting yet those other lives 
Painful and poor, wicked and miserable, 
Whereon the Gods grant pity! But for me, 
What good I see, humbly I seek to do, 
And live obedient to the law, in trust 
That what will come, and must come, 
:::shall come well.
| source = Edwin Arnold, “Light of Asia”, Book 6
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:1
| text = To him who has subdued self by SELF, his self is a friend; but to him who has not subdued senses by mind, that self is an enemy.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0808.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch. 6]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:2
| text = The eye is a window which looks into the heart. The brain is a door through which heart escapes.
| source = Turkish proverb, , “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 269
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:3
| text = Devotion and clear vision are not his who eats too much, nor his who eats not at all; not his who sleeps too much, nor his who is too awake.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0808.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch. 6]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:4
| text = At the end of a life of study, the man possessed of knowledge approaches Deity; and at the end of many lives, the wise man becomes one with the ALL.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0809.htm “Bhagavadgita”, ch. 7]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:5
| text = Grief and wrath, avarice and desire, delusion and laziness, vindictiveness and vanity, envy and hatred, censoriousness and slander – are the twelve sins destructive of man's bliss.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0825.htm Sanatsugatiya, ch. 5]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:6
| text = The wolf changes his coat, and the serpent his skin, but not their nature.
| source = Turkish Proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 269
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:7
| text = The young of the raven appears to it a nightingale.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 269
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:8
| text = The dog howls at the moon, but the moon heeds it not; be like the moon.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:9
| text = Let your soul work in harmony with the universal intelligence, as your breath does with the air.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 8, item 54
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:10
| text = Let no bitterness find entrance into the heart of a mother.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre), “Lucifer”, № 21, p. 225
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:11
| text = Pervert not the heart of a man who is pure, for he will turn thine own first enemy.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre), “Lucifer”, № 21, p. 225
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:12
| text = Do not make a wicked man thy companion, or act on the advice of a fool.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre), “Lucifer”, № 21, p. 225
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:13
| text = Save not thy life at the expense of another's, as he will take two of thy lives in future births.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre), “Lucifer”, № 21, p. 225
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:14
| text = Mock not the deformed; assume not a proud demeanor with thy inferiors; hurt not the feelings of the poor; be kind to those weaker than thyself, and charitable to all beings.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 4, v. 141
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:15
| text = Sacrifice not thy weaker child to the stronger, but protect him.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre), “Lucifer”, № 21, p. 225
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:16
| text = Amuse not thyself at the expense of those who depend on thee. Mock not a venerable man, for he is thy superior.
| source = “Moral Precepts” (Translated from an Egyptian Papyrus in the Louvre),
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:17
| text = Death is a black camel that kneels at everybody's door. Death is a friend and a deliverer.
| source = Turkish proverb,
“A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 266
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:18
| text = A little hill in a low place thinks itself a great mountain.
| source = Turkish proverb, “A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language”, p. 266
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:19
| text = Men are gnomes condemned to forced toils in the kingdom of darkness (or ignorance).
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”], “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 379
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:20
| text = We are the true troglodytes, cave-dwellers, though we call our cavern the world.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”], “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 379
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:21
| text = Living for ages in the night-realm, we dream that our darkness is full day.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 379]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:22
| text = All life is but a perpetual promise; an engagement renewed, but never fulfilled.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 379]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:23
| text = Man is a king, dethroned, and cast out from his kingdom; in chains and in a dungeon.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 379]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:24
| text = The heart of a beggar will not be content with half the universe; he is not born to a part, but to the whole.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 380]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:25
| text = Our life is the ante-room of the palace where our true treasure lies – immortality.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 380]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:26
| text = Useless to seek to seize the ocean-echo, by clasping the shell in which it lies hid; as useless to try to seize this essence, by grasping the form in which for a moment it shone.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer” № 23, p. 380]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:27
| text = When the leaden clouds clash together, the fair glimpse of heaven is shut out.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer” № 23, p. 380]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:28
| text = When the silence falls upon us, we can hear the voices of the gods, pointing out in the quiet light of divine law the true path for us to follow.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer” № 23, p. 381]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:29
| text = All the air resounds with the presence of spirit and spiritual laws.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 382]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 9:30
| text = The spirit it is, that, under the myriad illusions of life, works steadily towards its goal; silently, imperceptibly, irresistibly, moving on to divinity.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”, “Lucifer”, № 23, p. 382]
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = October
| month number = 10
| text = The consciousness of good, which neither gold, 
Nor sordid fame, nor hope of heavenly bliss, 
Can purchase; but a life of resolute good, 
Unalterable will, quenchless desire 
Of universal happiness; the heart 
That beats with it in unison; the brain 
Whose ever-wakeful wisdom toils to change 
Reason's rich stores for its eternal weal. 
This "commerce" of sincerest virtue needs 
No mediative signs of selfishness, 
No jealous intercourse of wretched gain, 
No balancings of prudence, cold and long: – 
In just and equal measure all is weighed; 
One scale contains the sum of human weal, 
And one, THE GOOD MAN'S HEART!
| source = [http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/mab5.html Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Queen Mab”, book V]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:1
| text = The glamour of Time conceals from the weak souls of men the dark abysses around them, the terrible and mighty laws which incessantly direct their lives.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/articles/johnston/oriental-gleanings/ “Oriental Gleanings”], “Lucifer” № 23, p. 382
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:2
| text = There is no death without sin, and no affliction without transgression.
| source =[http://www.come-and-hear.com/shabbath/shabbath_55.html “The Babylonian Talmud”, Tractate "Shabbath”, Folio 55a]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:3
| text = Man's actions are divided, as regards their object, into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp161.htm Maimonides, “The Guide of the Perplexed”, part 3, ch. 25]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:4
| text = The sun causes day and night, divine and human. Night is for the sleep of beings, day for the performance of their duty.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 1, v. 65
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:5
| text = If we were convinced that we could never make our crooked ways straight, we should for ever continue in our errors.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp172.htm Maimonides, “The Guide of the Perplexed”, part 3, ch. 36]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:6
| text = Where there are not virtue and discrimination, learning is not to be sown there, no more than good seed in barren soil.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 112
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:7
| text = A teacher is more venerable than ten sub-teachers; a father, than one hundred teachers; a mother, than a thousand fathers.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch .2, v. 145
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:8
| text = Let not a man, even though pained, be sour-tempered, nor devise a deed of mischief to another.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 161
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:9
| text = One is not aged because his head is grey: whoever, although a youth, has wisdom, him the gods consider an elder.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 156
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:10
| text = A wise man should ever shrink from honour as from poison, and should always be desirous of disrespect as if of ambrosia.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 162
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:11
| text = Though despised, one sleeps with comfort, with comfort awakes, with comfort lives in this world; but the scorner perisheth.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 163
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:12
| text = Trust not in business one ever caught asleep by the sun rising or setting, for thereby he incurs great sin.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 221
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:13
| text = Those who prefer to swim in the waters of their ignorance, and to go down very low, need not exert the body or heart; they need only cease to move, and they will surely sink.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp097.htm Maimonides, “The Guide of the Perplexed”, part 2, ch. 10]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:14
| text = As a man digging comes to water, so a zealous student attains unto knowledge.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 218
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:15
| text = A good man may receive pure knowledge even from an inferior; the highest virtue from the lowest.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 238
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:16
| text = Ambrosia may be extracted even from poison; elegant speech even from a fool; virtue even from an enemy; and gold from dross.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch. 2, v. 239
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:17
| text = Whoever offers not food to the poor, raiment to the naked, and consolation to the afflicted, is reborn poor, naked, and suffering.
| source = Cūla Kamma Vibhaṅga Sutta, verse 13
(uncertain)
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:18
| text = As a sower gets not his harvest if he sow seed in salt soil, so the giver gets no fruit by bestowing on the unworthy.
| source = “The ordinances of Manu”, ch .3, v. 142
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:19
| text = There are three things of which one never tires: health, life and wealth.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:20
| text = A misfortune that cometh from on high cannot be averted; caution is useless against the decrees of Fate.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:21
| text = The worst of maladies is envy; the best of medicines is health.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:22
| text = Three things can never be got with three things: wealth, with wishing for it; youth, with cosmetics; health, with medicine.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:23
| text = Trifling ruins earnestness, lying is the enemy of truth, and oppression perverts justice.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:24
| text = Caution can never incur disgrace; imbecility can never bring honour with it.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:25
| text = Whomsoever riches do not exalt, poverty will not abase, nor calamity cast him down.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:26
| text = Night and day are the steeds of man; they hurry him on, not he them.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:27
| text = Whoso heeds not a plaint, confesses his own meanness; and whoso makes a merit of his charity, incurs reproach.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:28
| text = There are four things of which a little goes on a long way: pain, poverty, error, and enmity.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:29
| text = He who knows not his own worth, will never appreciate the worth of others.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:30
| text = Whosoever is ashamed of his father and mother, is excluded from the ranks of the wise.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 10:31
| text = He who is not lowly in his own sight, will never be exalted in the sight of others.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = November
| month number = 11
| text = As large as is the unbounded Universe, 
So large that little, hidden Spirit is! 
The Heavens and Earths are in it! Fire and air, 
And sun and moon and stars; darkness and light, 
It comprehends! Whatever maketh Man, 
The present of him, and the past of him, 
And what shall be of him; – all thoughts and things 
Lie folded in the eternal vast of It!
| source = [https://archive.org/stream/secretdeathfrom01arnogoog/secretdeathfrom01arnogoog_djvu.txt Edwin Arnold, “The Secret Of Death”] from The Katha Upanishad
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:1
| text = In every blessing think of its end, in every misfortune think of it removal.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:2
| text = If justice predominates not over injustice in a man, he will speedily fall into ruin.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:3
| text = Vain hopes cut man off from every good; but the renunciation of avarice prevents every ill.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:4
| text = Patience leads to power, but lust leads to loss.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:5
| text = By wisdom is the gift of knowledge displayed; by knowledge are high things obtained.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:6
| text = In calamity are men's virtues proved, and by long absence is their friendship tested.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:7
| text = That man who accurately understands the movement and the cause of the revolutions of the wheel of life is never deluded.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0857.htm Anugita, ch. 30]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:8
| text = Days end with sunset, nights with the rising of the sun; the end of pleasure is ever grief, the end of grief ever pleasure.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0856.htm Anugita, ch. 29]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:9
| text = All action ends in destruction; death is certain for whatever is born; everything in this world is transient.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/sbe0856.htm Anugita, ch. 29]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:10
| text = In information is shown the wit of man, and in travel is his temper tried.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:11
| text = In poverty is benevolence assayed, and in the moment of anger is a man's truthfulness displayed.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:12
| text = By truth alone is man's mind purified, and by right discipline it doth become inspired.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:13
| text = By shaking hands with deceit, one is tossed on the billows of toil.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:14
| text = Fear of judgment will deter from wrong, but trifling with it leads to destruction.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:15
| text = An act may seem right, but it is by its results that its purpose is shown.
| source =[http://www.universaltheosophy.com/legacy/works/ancient-iranian-and-zoroastrian-morals/ The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:16
| text = Intelligence is shown by good judgment.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:17
| text = Learning clears the mind, and ignorance cobwebs it.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:18
| text = Whoso takes good advice is secure from falling; but whoso rejects it, falleth into the pit of his own conceit.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:19
| text = By a trusty friend is man supported in life, and by reward are friendships increased.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:20
| text = Whoso cannot forgive wrong done to him shall learn to know how his good deeds are undone by himself.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:21
| text = He who bestows bounty on mankind, makes of mankind his debtor in a future birth.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:22
| text = The envious man is never satisfied, nor can he ever hope to become great.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:23
| text = The more a man clothes himself in modesty, the better does he conceal his faults.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:24
| text = The best policy for a man is not to boast of his virtues.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:25
| text = The kindest policy for a strong man is not to flourish his power in the sight of a weaker man.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:26
| text = The contentious man induces antagonism; people cannot often repress anger when contending with fools.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:27
| text = Intelligence is not shown by witty words, but by wise actions.
| source = Russian proverb
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:28
| text = Of the eloquence of the pleasant speaker all men are enamored.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:29
| text = Craft has the best of men; boldness conquers cities; the first is despised, the last admired.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 11:30
| text = The brave man of whose prowess all men stand in need, will never be distressed by adversaries.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a month
| month name = December
| month number = 12
| text = Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow: 
The year is going, let him go; 
Ring out the false, ring in the true. 
 
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, 
For those that here we see no more; 
Ring out the feud of rich and poor, 
Ring in redress to all mankind.
| source = [http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/718/ Lord Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”, CVI]
}}
{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:1
| text = The most precious gift received by man on earth is desire for wisdom.
| source =[https://books.google.ru/books?id=OZNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=%22Maxims+of+Hosheng%22&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ9tLyypzNAhXrbZoKHeLuC1QQ6AEIKzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Maxims%20of%20Hosheng%22&f=false The maxims of Hosheng]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:2
| text = In health and wealth man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:3
| text = Of all the animals on earth, man alone has the faculty of causing moral trouble.
| source =
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:4
| text = Man contains three kinds of evil: the evil caused by his (lower) nature; the evil done by man to man; and the evil caused by man to himself.
| source =[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp148.htm Maimonides, “The Guide of the Perplexed”, part 3, ch.12]
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:5
| text = A great man is he who is proof against flattery, vanity, injustice, and the love of pomp and power.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, , “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 1, item 16
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:6
| text = The wise man is he who can either take or leave those so-called necessities of life with which other people are intemperate.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 1, item 16
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:7
| text = To hold on with fortitude in one condition, and sobriety in the other, is a proof of a great soul and an impregnable virtue.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 1, item 16
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:8
| text = Let every action be done with perfect gravity, humanity, freedom, and justice, and perform it as though that action were your last.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 5
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:9
| text = A man can rarely be unhappy by being ignorant of another's thoughts; but he that does not attend to the motions of his own is certainly unhappy.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 8
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:10
| text = Do not let accidents disturb, or outward objects engross your thoughts; but keep your mind quiet and disengaged, to be ready to learn something good.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:11
| text = Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you can at any moment quit life.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 11
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:12
| text = What matters dying? If the gods are in being, you can suffer nothing, for they will do you no harm.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 11
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:13
| text = And if the gods are not, or take no care of mortals – why, then, a world without gods is not worth a man's while to live in.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 11
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:14
| text = The being of the gods, and their concern in human affairs, is beyond dispute.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 2, item 11
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:15
| text = Remember that life is wearing off, and a smaller part of it is left daily.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 3, item 1
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:16
| text = Depend not upon external supports, nor beg your tranquillity of another. In a word, never throw away your legs to stand upon crutches.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 3, item 5
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:17
| text = If you examine a man that has been well-disciplined and purified by philosophy, you will find nothing that is unsound, false, or foul in him.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 3, item 8
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:18
| text = Life moves in a very narrow compass; yes, and men live in a small corner of the world too.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 3, item 10
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:19
| text = Poor transitory mortals know little even of themselves, much less of those who died long before their time.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 3, item 10
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:20
| text = Death and generation are both mysteries of nature, and resemble each other; the first does but dissolve those elements the latter had combined.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 5
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:21
| text = Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases. Cease your complaint, and you are not hurt.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 7
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:22
| text = That which does not make man worse, does not make his life worse; as a result, he has no harm either within or without.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 8
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:23
| text = At present your nature is distinct; but ere long you will vanish into the whole: you will be returned into that universal reason which gave you your being.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 14
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:24
| text = Do but return to the principles of wisdom, and those who take you now for a monkey or a wild beast will make a god of you.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 16
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:25
| text = Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something, while you live, and it is in your power.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 17
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:26
| text = He that is so anxious about being talked of when he is dead, does not consider that all who knew him will quickly be gone.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 19
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:27
| text = If you depend too servilely upon the good word of other people, you will be unworthy of your own nature.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 19
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:28
| text = Whatever is good has that quality from itself; it is finished by its own nature, and commendation is no part of it.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 20
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:29
| text = Do not run riot; keep your intentions honest, and your convictions sure.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 22
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:30
| text = He that does a memorable action, and those who report it, are all but short-lived things.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 35
}}

{{Gem for a day
| id = 12:31
| text = Put yourself frankly into the hands of Fate, and let her spin you out what fortune she pleases.
| source = Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 34
}}

== See also ==

* ''Gems from the East'' in Teopedia in [[:teopedia-ru-lib:Blavatsky_HP_-_Gems_from_the_East|English]] and [[:teopedia-ru-lib:Блаватская_Е.П._-_Драгоценности_Востока|Russian]] with text of original source and some comments.
* ''[[:teopedia-en-lib:Malakhov P. - Sources of the Gems|Sources of the Gems]]'' by Pavel Malakhov -- a research on sources where H. P. Blavatsky took thoughts for this book.

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[[File:Divina_Comedia.jpg|right|200px|left|thumb|Dante's view of life after death]]
'''[[Life after Death]]''' is a topic of perpetual interest. According to the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] teachings after the [[death]] of the body, [[consciousness]] undergoes a series of transformations. The tendencies, emotions, thoughts, memories, and aspirations that were part of the [[Principle#Individuality_and_personality|personality]] are sorted out. Anything that belonged to the entirely personal and selfish aspect is discarded, while all that was of a generous or unselfish nature is preserved and assimilated by the [[Soul#Human soul|soul]].

In the writings of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]] and the [[Masters of Wisdom]] the most frequent description of the different stages after physical death include: a) [[kamaloka]], b) [[gestation period]], c) [[devachan]], and d) [[reincarnation]].

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Blavatsky writings/Gems from the East

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Emily Kislingbury

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Pavel Malakhov: /* Articles */

'''Emily Kislingbury''' (1840 - 1927) was a [[Spiritualism|Spiritualist]] and one of the founders of the [[British Theosophical Society]], the first official lodge of the [[Theosophical Society]].

== Personal life ==

Emily Kislingbury was born in Holborn, Middlesex, England, on [[October 31]], 1840, to William Kislingbury, a wine merchant, and his wife Maria Pink Kislingbury. The family had two brothers and two sisters. The household was large: in 1841 there were five "assistants in the trade" and four servants living with the family.<ref>1841 England Census. HO107/670 Folio 21 Page 5 ED 5.</ref> Emily attended a boarding school in Kent.<ref>1851 England Census. HO107/1612 Folio 521 Page 24 ED 4 HSN 81.</ref> She was employed at times as a "daily governess" or "daily teacher," or tutor.<ref>1881 England Census. RG11/25 Folio 92 Page 71 ED 12a HSN 445.</ref><ref>1891 England Census. RG12/104 Folio 69 Page 20 ED 13 HSN 13 – 19 Avenue Road St. Marylebone London.</ref> She never married.

She died on [[January 19]], 1927 at Lewes, Sussex, England.
[[File:July 1891 London HQ workers.jpg|right|450px|thumb|London HQ workers, July, 1891]]
== Theosophical involvement ==
In February, 1877, Miss Kislingbury joined the [[Theosophical Society]]. At the time, she was the secretary of the British National Association of Spiritualists of London. In August of that year she went to the U.S.A. on a holiday, and wrote a letter to [[Henry Steel Olcott|H. S. Olcott]] from Niagara Falls to announce her arrival in New York and her desire to meet [[Founders#"The Founders"|the Founders]]. When Col. Olcott opened the letter he found at the bottom of the last page a [[Precipitation|precipitated]] message from [[Narayan|Master Narayan]] saying:

<blockquote>She is a sweet, truthful, sincere nature. Would to heavenly powers there were a few more like her in London. Teach her and take care of her. 
[Signature in unknown script] 
Tell her I was several times with her at the Hdqrs.<ref>Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa, ''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom'' First Series No. 54 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1988), 118.</ref></blockquote>

"Headquarters" evidently refers to the offices of the Spiritualist Association, in London, since the [[British Theosophical Society]] was not yet established.

During her stay with the Founders she witnessed several [[phenomena]] performed by Mme. Blavatsky. After returning to London, in a speech she gave describing the phenomena, Miss Kislingbury talked about her friendship with HPB: "a friendship to last I hope for life and for ever, with the being called Madame Blavatsky".

On [[December 11]], 1877, she met in London with [[C. C. Massey]], [[William Stainton Moses|W. S. Moses]], and [[John Storer Cobb|J. S. Cobb]], to read [[Henry Steel Olcott|Col. Olcott]]'s instructions concerning the formation of a Branch. On [[June 27]], 1878, the [[London Lodge|British Theosophical Society]] had its first meeting and Miss Kislingbury is chosen as Secretary.

In May 1878, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] wrote in a letter to [[Hurrychund Chintamon]]:

<blockquote>Another brave loyal heart is Miss Emily Kislingbury, secretary, guiding spirit and in fact soul of the B.N.A. of Spts. She has courage enough to make herself a heroine, and her motives and character are as pure as gold. But, like most women her emotional nature calls for a proof to lean upon; and for lack of that (since we all repudiate mediumship) she feels as though she would turn to the Xn church for support.<ref>Jeffrey D. Lavoie, ''The Theosophical Society: The History of a Spiritualist Movement'' (Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press, 2012), 74.</ref></blockquote>

In another letter, written to [[A. P. Sinnett]], she described Irish Theosophist Miss Parker as "Miss Kislingbury's greatest friend, and went on to say:
<blockquote>
And though Miss K. deserted us to become a Roman Catholic, still she is the best she theosophist London ever had.<ref>See Letter Number 27 in [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/hpb-aps/bl-27.htm ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett''].</ref>
</blockquote>

In the month of May, 1886, Miss Kislingbury visited Mme. Blavatsky at Wurzburg.

She was a member of HPB's [[Inner Group]], formed in August, 1890 in London, and was faithful to HPB to the end. She attended the first convention of the European Section on July 9 and 10, 1891, and served as Treasurer.<ref>Henry S. Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' Fourth Series. Page 316.</ref>

== Writings ==

Miss Kislingbury wrote many articles for Theosophical journals, according to the [[Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals]]. There are 33 articles under the name [http://www.austheos.org.au/cgi-bin/ui-csvsearch.pl?search=Kislingbury Kislingbury], and those signed as [http://www.austheos.org.au/cgi-bin/ui-csvsearch.pl?search=EK&method=perfect&header=field4 EK] may be hers as well.

==Online resources==
===Articles===
*[http://hpb.narod.ru/MysticSideOfChristianityEK.htm The Mystic Side of Christianity] by Emily Kislingbury
*[http://hpb.narod.ru/SpiritualismRelationTheosophyEK.html# Spiritualism In Its Relation to Theosophy] by Emily Kislingbury
*[https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-2-66 Spiritualism in America] by Emily Kislingbury (Scrapbooks, 2:66)

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Associates of HPB|Kislingbury, Emily]]
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[[Category:Nationality English|Kislingbury, Emily]]
[[Category:Writers|Kislingbury, Emily]]
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Blavatsky photographs and portraits

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[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

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! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
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| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
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| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1865-1868
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.

|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1870
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
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| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Early 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown spiritualist photographer
| Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.

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| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."

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| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.

|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].

|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Edsall Photographic Studio
| Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.

|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>

|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles T. Scowen
| Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].

|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | May 18, 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Payagala Badalge Karolis
| This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1882
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1882-1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Detail from the previous portrait.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."

|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]] This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| style="text-align:center;" | Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.

|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William Quan Judge]]
| [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.

|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].

|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.

|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]

|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.

|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Reginald Machell]]
| Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1893
| style="text-align:center;" | P. Vishnevsky
| This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.

|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1896
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| style="text-align:center;" | Ferdinand Schirren
| This plaster sculpture was created by the Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944) and since 2007 has been located in Brussels in the museum complex "[https://fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/ferdinand-schirren-portrait-de-madame-blavatsky The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium]". According to the museum description, this sculpture, designated as "Portrait of Madame Blavatsky", has no name, but only a date in the lower right corner, its dimensions are 55 x 56 x 21 (unit of measurement is not specified).

|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| style="text-align:center;" | Govinda Pillai
| This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| style="text-align:center;" | James Montgomery Flagg
| This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.

|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.

|- valign=top
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - Medal (E.M.Groshev, 1991).png|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| style="text-align:center;" | Evgeniy Groshev
| This medal was created by Evgeniy Groshev, famous Ukrainian artist. There is a mistype in HPB's surname. Scripture in Russian:
* Obverse (face): ELENA PETROVNA BLAVACKAYA 1831 1891 (ЕЛЕНА ПЕТРОВНА БЛАВАЦКАЯ 1831 1891)
* Reverse (back): THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THEN TRUTH (НЕТ РЕЛИГИИ ВЫШЕ ИСТИНЫ)

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Rudolf Strauch
| Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.

|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.

|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

H.P.Blavatsky's heritage in the modern world

2023-06-20T22:08:14Z

Pavel Malakhov: /* The USA */ +White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia

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=H.P.Blavatsky's life=

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(Main article: [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]])

Great minds of the world are born at all times. They are destined to become the mediators of the evolutionary powers. Some of them go unnoticed, others become hubs of global change. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is one of such great people. Her life and work help us broaden our consciousness, understand the world around us in new terms. She worked for the future of every man for the new age, the dawn of which illuminated the progressive minds of the 19th century.

Helena Petrovna faced her birthday 60 times, including the day of birth itself. It was 96 days until the 61st one. She took her first breath in August 12, 1831 (July 31 according to the Julian calendar, which Russia used at that time), in Yekaterinoslav city (now it is Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine). She took her last breath in May 8th, 1891 in London.

On the day when a person passes away, his or her mission on Earth has been completed. All the seeds were sown and it is for future generations to see which seeds will produce, and which will not. The passing away of H.P. Blavatsky was not final: her activity and energy have ignited many spiritual organizations and movements throughout the world. We feel that she is still with us today.

We remember a person because his or her ideas and deeds spark new generations. H.P. Blavatsky still inspires seekers for the truth: her numerous writings guide readers into the spiritual world. Her devotion to the Masters, her efforts to bring their teachings to the world, her service for mankind have made great changes in our minds. She inspires our thoughts and lights up our hearts.

Death and birth are the points where worlds share their experience in an everlasting cycle. Every death is an impulse for birth. Every birth attracts our attention toward life and existence, to something obvious for us, to something we can feel and analyse, to something we accept as real. These two important days of HPB's life turn our attention to the fact that her ideas and thoughts have spread widely through the world, that they are still alive. Her works are under constant study on every continent, they have been translated into many languages, they are constantly reprinted in new editions, and this process, once started, never stops.

The Theosophical Society (of which she was co-founder) according to the 2013 annual report has 26 000 members, 947 branches and 175 Official Study Centres in 56 countries. There are other organizations which were inspired by H.P. Blavatsky on educational and enlightenment work, on exploring the hidden powers of nature and humanity, on strengthening the brotherly relationship between people and all living beings. The entire 'New Age' movement is sometimes attributed to Madame Blavatsky.

A short report below on some countries reflects HPB's influence on the modern world. It does not contain the final information. New data continues to develop.

=H.P.Blavatsky in the world=
==Argentina==

In Argentina H.P. Blavatsky’s books are read in Spanish. Her works are very popular - the most requested are:

* The Secret Doctrine (La Doctrina Secreta)
* The Voice of the Silence (La Voz del Silencio)
* Isis Unveiled (Isis Sin Velo)
* The Key to Theosophy (La Clave de la Teosofia)

==Austria==

Blavatsky’s works are well honored among Austrian theosophists, especially her best known works: "The Voice of the Silence", "The Key to Theosophy" and "The Secret Doctrine".
Original teachings of Blavatsky and "The Mahatma Letters" are the main source of their spiritual activities.

TS Lodge in Graz is named after H.P. Blavatsky.

==Belgium==

[[Image:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg| 200px | right | H.P.Blavatsky mask by Ferdinand Schirren]]
The Belgians read H.P. Blavatsky in English, Dutch and French. All the main HPB works are translated into Dutch (see Netherlands) and more of them into French (see France).

The most popular books in the country are “The Key to Theosophy”, “Practical Occultism” and “The Voice of the Silence”. The theosophists who have studied these books usually want to continue with “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Mahatma Letters”.

In Brussels, Belgium, there was a Lodge called "Branche Blavatsky" for one hundred years, but it did not continue after 2012.

The Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren made an H.P. Blavatsky mask.

==Bolivia==

TS Members in Bolivia study theosophy basics in regular groups, including “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Voice of the Silence”.

Two study groups in Santa Cruz are studying “The Secret Doctrine” and one study group in Tarua meets three times a week and studies “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Theosophical Glossary”. The Oruro City study group meets weekly to study “The Voice of the Silence”.

==Brazil==

All the main works by H.P. Blavatsky have been translated into Portuguese:
* “The Secret Doctrine”
* “Isis Unveiled”
* “The Key to Theosophy”, translated by Celia Moraes, 1st edition 1991, 4th edition 2011
* “Practical Occultism”
* “The Voice of the Silence”
* “Moments of Wisdom” - her quotations for daily life

There are also:
* “Foundations of Esoteric Philosophy”, 1st edition 1991, 3rd edition 2001
* “H.P.B. The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky” by Sylvia Cranston, translated by Murillo Nunes de Azevedo

All these books are available to anyone who wants to buy them from the Brazilian Theosophical Publishing House. The most popular among theosophists are “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Key to Theosophy”.

There is a Lodge of the Theosophical Society in the city of Vitoria, Espirito Santo State, in the east of Brazil, called “Blavatsky Lodge”.

==Canada==

There are Blavatsky Lodges of TS in Burnaby, British Columbia.

==Chile==

Theosophists in Chile read H.P. Blavatsky books mostly in Spanish.
Currently the following works are translated:

* The Secret Doctrine (La Doctrina Secreta)
* Isis Unveiled (Isis Sin Velo)
* The Key to Theosophy (La Clave de la Teosofia)
* The Voice of the Silence (La voz del Silencio)
* Practical Occultism (Ocultismo Práctico)
* From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan (Por las grutas y selvas del Indostan)
* H.P.Blavatsky - Collected Writings, volumes 1 - 9 (10 - 15 have not been translated yet)
* many articles

The most popular HPB book among thesophists in Chile is “The Key to Theosophy”. The members of TS in Chile study “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Voice of the Silence” on their regular meetings.

==China==

The Key to Theosophy (證道學的關鍵 (Traditional), 证道学的关键 (Simplified)) is being translated by Chinese Project Team, TS Asia, East & South East

==England==

H.P. Blavatsky and her works are the cornerstones of Theosophical study in England. Her three main works are the ones most studied with weekly study groups at HQ – Mondays: “Isis Unveiled”; Tuesdays: “The Secret Doctrine”; and every other Wednesday; “The Key to Theosophy”. HPB’s work is also studied in regular study groups in Lodges throughout the UK.

Blavatsky Lodge (of the TS in England), based in London, is one of the oldest in the world (2nd in England, 3rd in Europe), formed in 1887 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky_Lodge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky_Lodge] ).
The distinguishing factor in the Blavatsky Lodge was that Madame Blavatsky herself was present at the Lodge every Thursday.
Those discussions were collected in the “Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge” and contain many commentaries on the Secret Doctrine. The Lodge still meets on Thursdays at HQ.

There is also HPB Lodge of the TSE, a peripatetic Lodge currently based in the Midlands.

There is The Blavatsky Trust, formed by Geoffrey Farthing, a past president of the TSE, specifically to promote Blavatsky Theosophy ([http://www.blavatskytrust.org.uk/ http://www.blavatskytrust.org.uk]).

H.P. Blavatsky spent a considerable amount of time in and around London and at the TS in England, and passed away there. This, and the importance of her works, may account for why she is more celebrated there than the other two founders of the TS.

==Finland==

A lot of Blavatsky’s works have been translated into Finnish:
* The Secret Doctrine I and II and III (Salainen Oppi I ja II ja III), original translation by V.H.V. and P.E. in 1917, revised translation by P Carpelan in 1988 and 2012 to ebooks
* Index to the Secret Doctrine I and II (Salaisen Opin hakemisto osat I ja II), translated by P Carpelan in 1988
* The Secret Doctrine abridgement and the Stanzas of Dzyan (Salainen Oppi, johdanto ja Dzyanin runot), original translation by V.H.V. and P.E. in 1917, revised in 1988
* Isis Unveiled (Hunnuton Isis), translation by V.H.V. and P.E. in 1917
* The Key to Theosophy (Teosofian avain), first translation in 1906 and second in 1925 by P Ervast
* The Voice of the Silence (Hiljaisuuden ääni), translated in 1907 and 1973
* Practical Occultism (Käytännön okkultismi), translated early 1900s
* Theosophical glossary (Teosofinen sanakirja), translated by group in 1980s
* H.P. Blavatsky – a Herald of Light (H.P. Blavatsky – Valon airut), 45 writings of HPB compiled by P&K Salonen in 1981
* Esoteric instructions I, II and III (Esoteeriset ohjeet I, II ja III), translation by P Carpelan in 2012 to ebook
* Buddhist writings (Buddhalaisia kirjoituksia), a compilation of 8 articles by HPB about buddhism, with explanation of Sanskrit words

There are also published:
* Foundations of Esoteric Philosophy according to HPB (Esoteerisen filosofian perusteet HPB:n mukaan), translated by EH and VA in 1988

There is also a bi-weekly study group dedicated to "The Secret Doctrine".

One [http://www.kolumbus.fi/elonpyora/index.htm Helsinki TS lodge] is named as Blavatsky Lodge.

Secret Doctrine seminars are held around Finland approximately 3-4 times a year.

==France==

All the main H.P.Blavatsky works are translated into French:

* The Secret Doctrine (La Doctrine Secrète), 3 volumes
* Isis Unveiled (Isis Dévoilée)
* The Voice of the Silence (La Voix du silence)
* Theosophical Glossary (Le Glossaire Théosophique)
* Practical Occultism (Occultisme pratique)

These books could be purchased in web-store “Les Editions Adyar”, [http://www.editionsadyar.com/index.php?page=auteur&auteur=5 http://www.editionsadyar.com/index.php?page=auteur&auteur=5]

==Germany==

All major works of H. P. Blavatsky have been translated into German even longer time ago. This is especially:

* The Secret Doctrine (Geheimlehre) was translated first. In 1895 Annie Besant gave the permission for translating it. The Translation was initiated by Franz Hartmann, the translator was Dr.  Robert Froebe. Since then, other translations appeared, also abbreviated editions. The most popular abbreviated edition is the translation by Hank Troemel, finished in 2003.
* Isis Unveiled (Isis entschleiert)
* The Key to Theosophy (Der Schlüssel zur Theosophie)
* The Voice of the Silence (Die Stimme der Stille)

All her books one can buy in German section of Amazon ([http://www.amazon.de/ www.amazon.de]).

The German Section of the TS dates to 1902. In the first half of the 20th century, many German esoterics and occultists took over ideas from Blavatsky without mentioning her. The most popular of them was Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the so-called "Anthroposophie".

After having been forbidden in the "Third Reich", the work of the TS started up immediately in 1945 and the following years.

The Berlin lodge of TS is named ‘Blavatsky Lodge’.

H.P. Blavatsky lived in Würzburg, Ludwigstraße, 6 during the years 1885/1886, in Mme Constance Wachtmeister’s home. There she worked on the first part of The Secret Doctrine. There is the plaque on the building in Würzburg where she once resided.

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==Greece==

There are several works by H.P. Blavatsky which are translated into the Hellenic language. They are:

* The Secret Doctrine (ΜΥΣΤΙΚΗ ΔΟΞΑΣΙΑ), 3 volumes, 3rd volume was finished in 2013, published in 2 books titled "Mystics, Occult and Magical Arts" (ΜΥΣΤΕΣ, ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΟ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΓΙΚΕΣ ΤΕΧΝΕΣ, vol. Α & B)
* Isis Unveiled (ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΜΕΝΗ ΙΣΙΣ) published in 7 small volumes
* The Key to Theosophy (ΤΟ ΚΛΕΙΔΙ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΟΣΟΦΙΑΣ)
* The Voice of the Silence (Η ΦΩΝΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΙΓΗΣ)
* Practical Occultism (ΤΑ ΠΡΩΤΑ ΒΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΜΟ), the Hellenic title of the first book means: "The First Steps in Occultism"
* Yoga and occultism (ΓΙΟΓΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΙΣΜΟΣ (ΑΝΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΕΣΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΓΝΩΣΗΣ) ) – an anthology of her writings under this title

TS Lodge in Athens named after HPB “Blavatsky Lodge”.

The White Lotus Day is celebrated by Greek theosophists every year.

==Hungary==

In Hungary up to now the following H.P.Blavatsky works have been translated and published:

* The Secret Doctrine (Titkos Tanítás), 1st volume is complete, 2nd is being done
* The Voice of the Silence (A Csend Hangja)
* Practical Occultism (Gyakorlati okkultizmus)

“The Voice of the Silence” (first translated HPB book), “The Practical Occultism” and in the same volume her two articles (“Is Theosophy a Religion?” and “The Origin of Evil”) have translated and published, with the Foundation of Esoteric Philosophy (ed. by I. Hoskins).

The most of H.P. Blavatsky’s writings were (and are) translated by Mr. János Szabari and can be downloaded from the site of TS in Hungary: [http://teozofia.hu/index.php?fent=olvasnivalo http://teozofia.hu/index.php?fent=olvasnivalo] .

H.P. Blavatsky’s books can be bought in some great bookstores (such as Alexandra, Lira, Elixir), in some yearly exhibitions and during regular public lectures.

Hungarians usually say “Blavatsky”, spelling as in English and sometimes “Blavatskyné” (= Mrs. Blavatsky)

==India==

There is the international headquarter of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai (former Madras until 1996) of which H.P.Blavatsky was the co-founder. There are founder's statue, “Blavatsky bungalow” and “Blavatsky banyan” on Adyar territory.

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HPB's works are studied at annual School of Wisdom in Adyar. The Theosophical Publishing House publishes H.P.Blavatsky works constantly.

==Ireland==

The majority of the TS members in Ireland are now studying notes on “The Voice of the Silence” by HPB, which is favourite and much loved mystical booklet of hers some of Irish theosophists have at their bedsides and frequently refer to.

Personal libraries of theosophists in Ireland include all major works by H.P.Blavatsky.

==Israel==

The following Helena Blavatsky's (הלנה בלבצקי) books are translated into the Hebrew language:
* "Key to Theosophy" (מפתח לתאוסופיה) was translated and published at the end of the 1970-s. The translation was done by a professional translator Mr. Tuvia Ornan and edited by Mr. Vitally Rubissa.
* "The Voice of Silence" (קול הדממה) was translated and published in the beginning of the 1990-s by Mrs. Anava Kantor a long time Theosophist and edited by Abraham Oron.
* "Practical Occultism" (תורת הנסתר המעשית) was translated by Mrs. Anava Kantor and edited by Abraham Oron somewhen at the end of the 1990-s
* "The abridgment of The Secret Doctrine" () (not yet published), was translated by Mr. Ezion Becker and is being still checked and edited .

First 3 books can be bought from TS in Israel website, http://theosophia.co.il/

==Italy==

A lot of Blavatsky’s works have been translated into Italian:

* The Secret Doctrine (La Dottrina Segreta) and “The Secret Doctrine abridgement” (La Dottrina Segreta versione di studio). A new edition of the latter has been recently published.
* The Voice of the Silence (La voce del Silenzio)
* The Key to Theosophy (La chiave della Teosofia)
* Isis Unveiled (Iside svelata)
* The Stanzas of Dzyan (Le Stanze di Dzyan)
* Raya Yoga or Occultism (Raja Yoga o occultismo)

Italian theosophists are much obliged to H.P.Blavatsky and they highly regard her works, ''in primis'' the “The Voice of the Silence” and “The Secret Doctrine”.

The official website of the Italian Theosophical Society ([http://teosofica.org/ http://teosofica.org]) speaks widely about H.P. Blavatsky. Her biography is also present on the website. Many biographies have been published in Italian, the most important by Sylvia Cranston,  and by Sinnett.  Other books written by two  Italian Theosophists are the following: 

* “Helena Petrovna Blavatsky e la Società Teosofica” by Paola Giovetti; 
* “Blavatsky e Besant – il fulmine e il tuono” by Livia Lucchini.

The Italian version of the DVD  "The Life of Helena Petrovna BLAVATSKY" by Ian Wilson (“La vita di HPB”) was also published.

As for H.P.Blavatsky presence in Italy and her contacts with  Giuseppe Garibaldi one could read an article by Patrizia Calvi: “Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Italy“, which was also published in the May 2012 issue of "The Theosophist". 

There is a Lodge in Milan, named after HPB, the same in Rome, and in Piea d’Asti where a Study Group is present with her name.

==Japan==

Currently the following H.P.Blavatsky works are translated into Japanese:

* The Secret Doctrine, volume 1, published under the title “Secret Doctrine. Universe Generation Theory” (シークレット・ドクトリン　宇宙発生論《上》). The second volume is being translated and published in the bi-monthly The Japanese Theosophist. The translators are Emiko Tanaka (田中恵美子) and Jeff Clark (ジェフ･クラーク).
* 365 days words of Blavatsky (ブラヴァツキーのことば365日) – the translation of “Madame Blavatsky’s Words for Each Day of the Year”. Translator: Yamaguchi (山口多一).
* Isis Unveiled, volume I - Science (ベールをとったイシス第１巻科学上), translator: Oimatsu Katsuhiro (老松克博)
* Proceedings of the Secret Doctrine (シークレット・ドクトリンの議事録), the translators are Emiko Tanaka (田中恵美子) and Jeff Clark (ジェフ･クラーク).
* History of the Secret Doctrine (シークレット・ドクトリンの沿革), translator: Matsuda Katsurahate (松田桂果)

The TS Lodge in Tokyo which is consist of 51 members study H.P.Blavatsky works in their native language.

==Myanmar (Burma)==

TS members in Myanmar study “The Secret Doctrine” among other spiritual literature on their meetings.

==Netherlands==

Some of H.P. Blavatsky works have been translated into Dutch:

* The Secret Doctrine (Geheime Leer) was first translated and published in 1907. The “Introduction” in The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, together with some other parts of vol. 1 and 2 and the ‘Bowen notes’ are published in a book titled “Een introductie tot De Geheime Leer”
* The Voice of the Silence (De stem van de stilte) was first translated and published 1907
* The Key to Theosophy (De sleutel tot de theosofie) was first translated and published 1906
* Isis Unveiled (Isis ontsluierd) was first translated and published in 1911
* Transactions of the Blavatksy Lodge (Een toelichting op De Geheime Leer stanza;s I – IV; Handelingen van de Blavatsky Lodge) published in 1995
* H.P. Blavatsky to the American Conventions: 1888-1891 published in 1980 under the title “H.P. Blavatsky aan de Amerikaanse conventies: 1888-1891”
* Occult stories of H.P. Blavatsky and W.Q. Judge, collected and translated into Dutch and published in 1999 under the title “Occulte verhalen van H.P. Blavatksy and W.Q. Judge”.
* Many essays and articles of H.P. Blavatsky have been translated into Dutch and published in booklet.

Many Internet sites in Dutch give information about her.

Books by H.P.Blavatsky issued by UTVN Publishing House could be purchased from web-store http://theosofie.nl.

There are always lectures and study groups of HPB works in The International Theosophical Centre in Naarden. At the headquarters two study groups have taken up “The Secret Doctrine” and “The Mahatma Letters” for study.

“The Theosophical Society Point Loma – Blavatskyhouse The Haque” uses HPB name in its own name to indicate the priority of their activity as to follow the H.P.Blvatsky vision of theosophical movement.

==Nicaragua==

There is a TS branch “H.P.Blavatsky Lodge” in the country, which consist of 12 members.

==Peru==

The Blavatsky Lodge in Peru celebrated its 90th anniversary on 1 June 2014.

==Poland==

HPB (Helena P. Blawatska) works translated into Polish are:
* The Secret Doctrine (Doktryna Tajemna), volumes 1,2,3, published by Loka-Rybnik
* The Voice of the Silence (Glos Ciszy), published by Wieluń in 2014

[[File:HPB - SD v.1-2 (cover, pol).JPG | 100px]]
[[File:HPB - SD v.3 (cover, pol).JPG | 100px]]
[[File:HPB - Voice of Silence (cover, pol).JPG | 90px]]

==Qatar==

There is a TS branch “H.P.Blavatsky Lodge” in the State of Qatar.

==Russia==

Soon after revolution of 1917 the theosophy in Russia was forbidden as well as many other mystical and religious organizations. Elena Petrovna Blavatsky's (Елена Петровна Блаватская) works got under a ban almost until the time of the Soviet Union disintegration in 1991. One year prior to this event in May, 1990 the first officially opened action devoted to return of name and heritage of H.P.Blavatsky to Russia took place. There were the exhibition “Sphinx of XIX century” (where most people could see the photo of HPB and other Russian and foreign theosophists for the first time) and the special evening meeting devoted to her life and creativity. Opening of an exhibition was shown on the central channel of television. The TS international President Radha Burneir came to USSR and took part in the opening ceremony. She brought two volumes of “The Secret Doctrine” as a gift and gave the inspiring speech. In 1991, the 160th anniversary of H.P. Blavatsky's birthday and the 100th anniversary of her passing away, there were 4 editions of “The Secret Doctrine” at once issued by 4 independent publishing houses in different cities of Russia. This fact made obvious that there was a great interest to the works of the world-known compatriot among the citizens, despite a ban. Since then different works by H.P.Blavatsky are published every year to satisfy constant interest of readers.

Nowadays all her books, most articles and majority of letters have been translated and published, most of them several times and in different translations. The major publications are:

* The Secret Doctrine (Тайная Доктрина) – volumes 1 and 2 are translated by H.I.Roerich (first publication was in 1937), volume 3 is translated by A.P.Heidok. “The Secret Doctrine” is issued almost every year. There were no less than 17 issues by 15 different publishing houses from 1991 till 2014 ([http://ru.teopedia.org/lib/Блаватская_Е.П._-_Тайная_Доктрина_(публикации) see the list] in Russian). There was another translation of “The Secret Doctrine” by A.A.Kamensky at the beginning of 20th century, but it is lost for now.
* Isis Unveiled (Разоблачённая Изида) – translated by A.P.Heidok and published by several publishing houses. There was an attempt to correct the translation by publishing houses “Sfera” ("Сфера", Moscow) and Lotac ("Лотаць", Minsk, Belarus). The work started at 2000 and still going on.
* The Voice of the Silence (Голос Безмолвия) – translated by H.F.Pisareva. The book was published by several publishing houses.
* The Key to Theosophy (Ключ к теософии) – have several translations and published by several publishing houses.
* Theosophical Glossary (Теософский словарь) – have several translations and published by several publishing houses in 1994, 2003, 2004, 2009.
* Articles were published in several volumes by different publishing houses in their series:
** White Lotus series (серия «Белый Лотос»), Sfera Publishing House, the series started in 1993, 21 volumes were published
** H.P.Blavatsky series (серия «Е.П.Блаватская»), MCF Publishing House, 1994-1999, 4 volumes were published
** Great Adepts series (серия «Великие посвящённые»), Eksmo-Press, the series started in 2001, 7 volumes were published
** H.P.Blavatsky for the offspring series (серия «Е.П.Блаватская – потомкам»), Sfera Publishing House, the series started in 2004, 9 volumes were published
** Delphis Publishing House (издательство «Дельфис»), started its series at 2014 (without special name) and 6 volume already issued
* From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan (Из пещер и дебрей Индостана) originally published in Russian magazine “Russky Vestnik” («Русский Вестник», Russian Messenger) in 1883 and was issued in a separate book in 1912 in Saint-Petersburg. Recently it was published in 1994, 2001 and 2008 by different publishing houses.

There are more than dozen H.P.Blavatsky's biographies were translated into Russian and published. Those written by Constance Wachtmeister, Sylvia Cranston, Murphy Howard are among them. The biographies by V.P.Zhelihovskaya and H.F.Pisareva were written in Russian originally, they published as well. The modern authors made their contribution also:

* Kim Kiuru – HPB (Ким Киуру. «Е.П.Б.») published in 2010 by Belovodie Publishing House (издательство «Беловодье»)
* O.G.Boldyrev – Blavatsky. Shambhala messanger (О.Г.Болдырев, «Блаватская – вестница Шамбалы») published in 2013 by Veche Publishing House (издательство «Вече»)

Except literature Elena Petrovna's name became constant to sound at various conferences (not only theosophical). There are also works devoted to H.P.Blavatsky in poetry and fine arts. Moscow Theosophical Society issued the poetry collection book “Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's Memories”.

There are several communities in every large Russian-speaking social network in Internet devoted to H.P.Blavatsky. Almost each large web-site of the mystical and/or educational content has the page devoted to her. There are some resources:

* http://www.theosophy.ru/hpb.htm
* http://www.theosophist.ru
* http://ru.teopedia.org/hpb/
* http://hpblavatsky.ru
* http://www.lomonosov.org/section/epblavatskaya.htm

All her works can be read and purchased on-line or downloaded for free.

Numerous groups of researchers continue work on studying H.P.Blavatsky's heritage. They make an effort to restore the interest to her works in Russia and show the meaning of HPB activity in true light. The following are some of them, which currently continue their activity (in chronological order of their appearance):

* International Centre of the Roerichs (Международный Центр Рерихов) founded in 1989, http://en.icr.su/, and other Roerich organizations
* Scientific Philosophical Society “Peace via culture” (Научно-философское общество "Мир через культуру") founded in 1991 by V.M.Sidorov, http://nfo-mir.com
* Public organization “H.P.Blavatsky Russian Esoteric School of Theosophy” (Русская эзотерическая школа теософии имени Е.П.Блаватской) founded in 1993 by V.A.Bakanov, [http://resht.ru/eng/index.htm http://resht.ru]
* Nonprofit organization “Charity foundation of preservation and development of cultural values “Delphis” (Некоммерческая организация "Благотворительный фонд сохранения и развития культурных ценностей "Дельфис") founded in 1997, http://delphis.ru
* Moscow Theosophical Society
* Internet project “Teopedia” (Теопедия) founded in 2007 by P.N.Malakhov, http://teopedia.org/
* Logaeva's Theosophical Group (Теософская группа Логаевой) founded in 2010 by H.A.Logaeva, http://www.theosophist.ru/
* TS in Russia has 7 branches, the first was founded in 2011 in Moscow. The TS branch in Kemerovo named “H.P.Blavatsky Lodge”.

==Serbia==

There are some H.P.Blavatsky's books translated into Serbian by "Metaphysica" Publishing House in Belgrade:
* The Secret Doctrine (Tajna doktrina I-III. Kosmogeneza, Antropogeza, Okultizam. Metaphysica, Beograd 2007).
* The Key to Theosophy (Ključ teozofije. Metaphysica, Beograd 2006).

[[Image:Secret Doctrine 1-2 (Serbian).jpg | 100px]]
[[Image:Secret Doctrine 3 (Serbian).jpg | 100px]]
[[Image:Key to Theosophy (Serbian).jpg | 90px]]

==Singapore==

Some talks and lectures the Singapore Lodge of TS organize are devoted to H.P.Blavatsky.

==Slovenia==

There are 3 HPB's books were translated into Slovenian language:
* The Voice of the Silence
* The Key to Theosophy
* The Stanzas of Dzyan

==Sweden==

There are some books of H.P.Blavatsky translated into Swedish:

* The Secret Doctrine (Den Hemliga Läran), translated by F. Kellberg in 1898
* The Key to Theosophy (Nyckel till Teosofin), translated by Barbro Melander and Märta Wiklund
* The Voice of the Silence (Tystnadens röst), translated by Carin Scholander
* Practical Occultism (Praktisk Ockultism), translated by Ingeborg Schönmeyr

H.P. Blavatsky’s books are studied very well in Sweden. There is a study group of “The Secret Doctrine” for 40 years. “The Voice of the Silence” is very popular.

==Ukraine==

All Ukrainian theosophists study H.P.Blavatsky's works. Being born on the south of modern Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk city (former Ekaterinoslav) Helena Petrovna is deeply esteemed by the compatriots for her broad enlightenment work which she conducted worldwide.

The house where she has born is under government protection and has a status of museum. There are annual meetings of adherents in there since 1991. In 2011 these meetings are transformed into scientific readings, which have a goal to study the heritage of the outstanding compatriot, the researcher, the philosopher and the writer and also to study a scientific and creative heritage of her family members. Currently the museum is under construction.

The Voice of the Silence (Голос Безмовностi) was translated in 2010 by H.Gordienko.

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Ukrainian sculptor Alexey Leonov modeled H.P.Blavatsky's head and sculpture named [http://leonov.idea.in.ua/galereya/category/8-svetochi "19 centure Sphynx"]:

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==Uruguay==

Uruguayans read H.P.Blavatsky's works in Spanish. The most popular is The Secret Doctrine and The Voice of the Silence.

==The USA==

The works of H.P. Blavatsky are still popular among the general public in the USA and members of the Theosophical Society in the USA. The most popular of her works is “The Secret Doctrine” followed by “Isis Unveiled”.

Theosophical Publishing House '''Quest Books''',(Wheaton, Illinois, http://www.questbooks.net) publishes:
* "Collected Writings of H.P.Blavatsky", 15 volumes
* "The Letters of H.P. Blavatsky", 1-st volume
* numerous other HPB's works and other theosophical books in text, audio and video.

The following Internet sites are devoted to H.P. Blavatsky:

* http://www.blavatskyarchives.com
* http://www.blavatsky.net
* http://theosophy.wiki (partly)

There are many links to the Internet resources devoted to H.P.Blavatsky on [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm Blavatsky Archives web-page]

There is the TS branch “The Miami-Dade Blavatsky Lodge” located in Florida.

[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/30/style/out-there-philadelphia-from-muffin-shop-to-salon.html White Dog Cafe] in Philadelphia is named after an incident in the life of H. P. Blavatsky. The cafe is located in the building where HPB staid for a while. She had injured a leg at that time and cured it by having a white dog lay on it.

==Zambia==

In Zambia, in the 1980s efforts were made to translate some H.P. Blavatsky's works into a local language Bemba. One such was “The Key to Theosophy” but somewhere along the way this work was not continued. So theosophists in Zambia read HPB in English.

Mufulira and Kitwe Lodges have copies of the six Volume of the Secret Doctrine. Senior, serious students keenly study and share with others on excerpt from “The Secret Doctrine”, “Isis Unveiled” and “Practical Occultism”.

=Internet resources=

H.P.Blavatsky's works can be bought read or downloaded on several languages:

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* [http://www.theosophycompany.org/cart_blavatsky.html TheosophyCompany.org]
* [http://www.questbooks.net/author.cfm?authornum=22 QuestBooks.net]
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* [http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/early_theosophical_publications_authors.htm BlavatskyArchives.com]
* [http://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/links-support-theosophy-blavatsky-reading-seeker Blavatsky.net]
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* [https://yadi.sk/d/UMsReuQG4xhOI/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%28%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C%20%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C%20%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8%29/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F/_English Teopedia.Text]
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* [http://blavatskynews.blogspot.de/ Blavatsky News] - world news regarding H.P.Blavatsky name
* [http://theosophy.wiki/ Theosophy.Wiki] - provides quotes from HPB, collected under different topics
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* [http://www.delphis.ru/search/books?category=544 Delphis.ru]
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* [http://ru.teopedia.org/lib/Перечень_трудов_Е.П.Блаватской Teopedia.org]
* [http://www.theosophy.ru/byauthor.htm Theosophy.ru]
* [http://www.ligatma.org/ LigAtma.org]
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* [http://www.roerich.com/7_2.htm Roerich.com]
* [http://ru.teopedia.org/pool/Категория:Труды_Блаватской_ЕП Teopedia.org]
* [http://www.theosophist.ru/index_works.shtml Theosophist.ru]
* [https://yadi.sk/d/UMsReuQG4xhOI/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%28%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C%20%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C%20%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8%29/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%20%D0%95%D0%9F Teopedia.Text]
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=See also=

* This article [[:ru:Наследие Е.П.Блаватской в современном мире | in Russian]]

[[Category: Blavatsky Helena Petrovna]]
[[ru:Наследие Е.П.Блаватской в современном мире]]

Blavatsky photographs and portraits

2023-06-11T03:14:16Z

Pavel Malakhov: +text on Medal by Groshev

[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

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| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
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| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1865-1868
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.

|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1870
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Early 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown spiritualist photographer
| Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.

|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].

|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Edsall Photographic Studio
| Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.

|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>

|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles T. Scowen
| Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].

|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | May 18, 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Payagala Badalge Karolis
| This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1882
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1882-1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Detail from the previous portrait.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."

|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]] This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| style="text-align:center;" | Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.

|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William Quan Judge]]
| [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.

|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].

|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.

|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]

|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.

|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Reginald Machell]]
| Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1893
| style="text-align:center;" | P. Vishnevsky
| This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.

|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1896
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| style="text-align:center;" | Ferdinand Schirren
| This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.

|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| style="text-align:center;" | Govinda Pillai
| This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| style="text-align:center;" | James Montgomery Flagg
| This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.

|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.

|- valign=top
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - Medal (E.M.Groshev, 1991).png|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| style="text-align:center;" | Evgeniy Groshev
| This medal was created by Evgeniy Groshev, famous Ukrainian artist. There is a mistype in HPB's surname. Scripture in Russian:
* Obverse (face): ELENA PETROVNA BLAVACKAYA 1831 1891 (ЕЛЕНА ПЕТРОВНА БЛАВАЦКАЯ 1831 1891)
* Reverse (back): THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THEN TRUTH (НЕТ РЕЛИГИИ ВЫШЕ ИСТИНЫ)

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Rudolf Strauch
| Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.

|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.

|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

Blavatsky photographs and portraits

2023-06-11T03:04:37Z

Pavel Malakhov:

[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:98%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1865-1868
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.

|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1870
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Early 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown spiritualist photographer
| Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.

|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].

|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Edsall Photographic Studio
| Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.

|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>

|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles T. Scowen
| Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].

|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | May 18, 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Payagala Badalge Karolis
| This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1882
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1882-1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Detail from the previous portrait.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."

|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]] This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| style="text-align:center;" | Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.

|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William Quan Judge]]
| [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.

|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].

|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.

|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]

|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.

|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Reginald Machell]]
| Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1893
| style="text-align:center;" | P. Vishnevsky
| This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.

|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1896
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| style="text-align:center;" | Ferdinand Schirren
| This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.

|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| style="text-align:center;" | Govinda Pillai
| This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| style="text-align:center;" | James Montgomery Flagg
| This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.

|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.

|- valign=top
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - Medal (E.M.Groshev, 1991).png|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| style="text-align:center;" | Evgeniy Groshev
| This medal was created by Evgeniy Groshev, famous Ukrainian artist. There is a mistype in HPB's surname.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Rudolf Strauch
| Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.

|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.

|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

Blavatsky photographs and portraits

2023-06-11T03:02:09Z

Pavel Malakhov: +Medal by Groshev

[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:98%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="width: 100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Late 1840s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1865-1868
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.

|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1870
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Early 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown spiritualist photographer
| Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."

|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | October 3 or 4, 1875
| style="text-align:center;" | Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.

|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].

|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Edsall Photographic Studio
| Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.

|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| style="text-align:center;" | Napoleon Sarony
| This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>

|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.

|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles T. Scowen
| Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].

|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | May 18, 1880
| style="text-align:center;" | Payagala Badalge Karolis
| This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1882
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1882-1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Detail from the previous portrait.

|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.

|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."

|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884
| style="text-align:center;" | Elliott & Fry, London
| This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]] This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."

|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884-1885
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| style="text-align:center;" | Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.

|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | [[William Quan Judge]]
| [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.

|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].

|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" |1888
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.

|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]

|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.

|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,

|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].

|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Reginald Machell]]
| Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| style="text-align:center;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1893
| style="text-align:center;" | P. Vishnevsky
| This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.

|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | ca1896
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| style="text-align:center;" | Ferdinand Schirren
| This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.

|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| style="text-align:center;" | Govinda Pillai
| This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| style="text-align:center;" | James Montgomery Flagg
| This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.

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| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| style="text-align:center;" | [[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.

|- valign=top
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - Medal (E.M.Groshev, 1991).png|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| style="text-align:center;" | Evgeniy Groshev
| This medal was created by Evgeniy Groshev, famouse Ukranian artist. There is a mistype in HPB's surname.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.

|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexey Leonov
| This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.

|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Rudolf Strauch
| Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.

|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.

|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
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[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:98%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| 1840s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s. It is now located in private collection.

|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| 1865-1868
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1860s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| ca1870
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| Early 1875
| Unknown spiritualist photographer
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.
|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" |Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Edsall Photographic Studio
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.
|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].
|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| 1878
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| 1880
|Charles T. Scowen
| style="text-align:left;" | Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| May 18, 1880
| Payagala Badalge Karolis
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |ca1882
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1882-1884
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Detail from the previous portrait.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."
|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| 1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" |This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:120px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" |
[[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]]This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1885
| Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.
|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| [[William Quan Judge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.
|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.
|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]
|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.
|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1892
| [[Reginald Machell]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| style="text-align:left;" | A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1893
| P. Vishnevsky
| style="text-align:left;" | This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.
|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1896
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1898
| Ferdinand Schirren
| style="text-align:left;" |This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.
|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1907
| Govinda Pillai
| style="text-align:left;" | This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| James Montgomery Flagg
| style="text-align:left;" | This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.
|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
|[[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2004
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2008
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Rudolf Strauch
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.
|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.
|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

Blavatsky photographs and portraits

2023-06-08T11:01:15Z

Pavel Malakhov: +Medallion of late 1840s

[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:98%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| 1840s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB medallion late 1840s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Medallion with young Helena's portrait and a curl of her hear. Medallion was found in German city of Trier (Trèves) in 2000s.
|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| 1865-1868
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1860s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| ca1870
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| Early 1875
| Unknown spiritualist photographer
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.
|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" |Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Edsall Photographic Studio
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.
|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].
|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| 1878
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| 1880
|Charles T. Scowen
| style="text-align:left;" | Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| May 18, 1880
| Payagala Badalge Karolis
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |ca1882
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1882-1884
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Detail from the previous portrait.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."
|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| 1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" |This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:120px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" |
[[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]]This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1885
| Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.
|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| [[William Quan Judge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.
|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.
|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]
|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.
|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1892
| [[Reginald Machell]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| style="text-align:left;" | A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1893
| P. Vishnevsky
| style="text-align:left;" | This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.
|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1896
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1898
| Ferdinand Schirren
| style="text-align:left;" |This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.
|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1907
| Govinda Pillai
| style="text-align:left;" | This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| James Montgomery Flagg
| style="text-align:left;" | This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.
|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
|[[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2004
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2008
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Rudolf Strauch
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.
|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.
|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

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Pavel Malakhov: Category: HPB

[[Category: HPB]]

Purnendu Narayan Sinha

2023-06-08T06:43:01Z

Pavel Malakhov: tag references corrected

Dewan Bahadur '''Purnendu Narayan Sinha''' (his first name being variously spelled as Purmendu, Purnedu, Purnanda, or Purnendra) was a member of the [[Theosophical Society]] and an educator in India. He held the BL (Bachelor of Laws) and MA (Master of Arts) degrees. He was a graduate of Patna University.<ref>http://www.patnauniversity.ac.in/hist6.html Patna University web page.</ref> In 1924 Mr. Sinha was awarded with the '''[[Subba Row Medal]]''' by the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Society]] for his contributions to Theosophical literature. He died in 1923.

== Work in law and education ==

For 21 years, Purnendu Narayan Sinha worked as a government pleader (an attorney representing the government in civil suits). He was also active in civic matters such as the Patna Industrial Improvement Society, and he founded many schools in Bankipore and Patna from 1895 to 1902. He was especially concerned with the education of girls:

<blockquote>
Unfortunately, there were many social prejudices against female education in Bihar. Realising these prejudices, Purnendu Narayan Sinha, a prominent public figure and Government pleader at Patna said that the question of female education should be dealt with cautiously in Bihar. He wanted to proceed on the lines of least resistance by finding out the existing materials and improving them. The Government, therefore, tried to encourage female education through ''Parda-schools'', and the Director of Public Instructions tried to get ''Parda-nashin'' girls and Hindu lady teachers...

But even this moderate scheme did not cut much ice because of the conservatism prevailing in the society.<ref>Shreedhar Narayan Pandey, ''Education and social changes in Bihar, 1900-1921'' (Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 1975). This book refers to a letter from Sinha to the Private Secretary to Lt. Governor of Bengal, 24 July 1905.</ref>
</blockquote>

"Parda," often spelled "purdah," refers to the practice of keeping girls in seclusion from males and strangers. Finding teachers for the girls was a significant problem. Brahmo Samaj and Christian teachers were available, but orthodox Hindu and Muslim families would place their daughters only in the hands of teachers who shared their orthodoxy. After years of patient effort, education gradually became available for girls of all ages, and teacher training colleges were developed.

In 1909, Purnendu Narayan Sinha spoke on the subject "Education in India" at the Benares conference on "Education and the Theosophical Society."<ref>Ernest Binfield Havell, ''The Basis for Artistic and Industrial Revival in India'' (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophist Office, 1912), 190.</ref>

== Activities in the Theosophical Society ==

Babu Purnendu Narayana Sinha was an early member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in India, admitted on December 14, 1882.<ref>"Sinha, Dewan Bahadur Purnendu
Narayan" ''Theosophical Year Book, 1937'' (Adyar, Bombay, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1937), 236.</ref> He was the leader of the branch at Bankipore, Patna, called the Behar Theosophical Society, located on the Ganges River in northeast India. Later he served as General Secretary of the Indian Section of the [[Theosophical Society]] from 1919 to 1923.

On April 22, 1883, Sinha was one of a group who witnessed a mesmeric healing by [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] and signed a statement attesting to its success:
<blockquote>
The undersigned certifies that he has just been restored to speech by Col. Olcott, after a mesmeric treatment of not more than five minutes; and also had strength restored to his right arm, which, until then, was so powerless that he could not lift a pound's weight. He lost the power of articulating words in the month of March 1882.<ref>Old Diary Leaves, Second Series (1878-83)'', 431-432. See [http://theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl228.html online version].</ref>
</blockquote>

The colonel also wrote of him in 1898:
<blockquote>
In the case of Bankipore, for many years we have had at the head of the Branch one of the most intelligent, best educated and devoted men of India, Babu Purnendu Narayana Sinha, the Government Pleader, whose contributions to literature are well known throughout India. Hence the Branch is always active, always prosperous and at no station do our travelling lecturers, like Mrs. Besant. Miss Edger, Mr. Leadbeater and myself, receive a warmer or more ungrudging aid.<ref>''Old Diary Leaves, Sixth Series (1896-98)'', 277. See [http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl618.html online version].</ref>
</blockquote>

[[Annie Besant]] mentioned his work as a lecturer:
<blockquote>
Interesting items of news come in from time to time, bearing on the question of the coming of the supreme [[World Teacher|Teacher]]. Rai Bahadur Purnendu Narayana Sinha, one of our oldest and best-read members, made a deep impression on his Hindu hearers at the Behar Federaton, by showing them that in the Puranas the home of the [[Bodhisattva]] was called Badarikashrama, and that the masters are therein spoken of as the [[Rishi|Rishis]] of Badarikashrama, among them being mentioned Vyasa and [[Maitreya]] Rishi.<ref>Annie Besant, "The Coming World-Teacher," ''The Theosophist'' 33.10 (July 1912), 510.</ref>
</blockquote>

== Writings==

=== Books ===

Babu Sinha wrote in English, Hindi and Bengali, quoting Sanskrit passages.

* '''''The System of Government in Ancient India'''''. Calcutta: Printed by B.B. Mozumdar, 1888.
* '''''A Study of the Bhâgavata Purâna or Esoteric Hinduism'''''. Benares: Freeman & Co., 1901. The dedicated reads "To Annie Besant, The Bhagavata of Bhagavata these pages are respectfully dedicated by her most devoted brother." Available at [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39442 Project Gutenberg] and [https://archive.org/details/astudyofthebhaga00sinhuoft Internet Archive].
* '''''Theosophy in the Light of Hinduism'''''. Adyar, Bombay, India: Theosophical Pub. House, 1921.
* '''''The Chandi Or Great Plan'''''. Translated by P. N. Sinha. Adyar, Bombay, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1922.
* '''''God through Nature'''''. Adyar, Bombay, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1923.
* '''''Religious Thought in the East'''''.

These two works may have been written by a later writer with a similar name:

* '''''Population Growth and Global Stability'''''. See [https://indiaclub.com/products/15765-population-growth-and-global-stability India Club web page].
* '''''Population Education and Family Planning'''''.

=== Articles ===

He was a frequent contributor to [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], writing the following articles:

* March 1883 (supplement) v4 p4 - The Behar Theosophical Society - Rules & Bye-Laws
* June 1883 (supplement) v4 p5 - Colonel Olcott at Bankipore
* June 1891 v12 p540 - Linga Purana
* December 1891 v13 p141 - Some Mythologies in relation to the Vedas
* March 1893 v14 p352 - Yellow, Blue & Violet
* June 1893 v14 p548 - Colours
* July 1893 v14 p592 - Colours (1)
* September 1893 v14 p749 - Esoteric Hinduism
* November 1893 v15 p110 - Colours (2)
* July 1894 v15 p639 - Avataras, or the Guardians of the Universe
* April 1895 v16 p434 - The Vedic Pranayama
* May 1895 v16 p510 - Some Thoughts on Vedic Pranayama
* July 1895 v16 p644 - Some Thoughts on Vedic Pranayama (2)
* November 1895 v17 p86 - Thoughts on Vedic Sandhya (1)
* December 1895 v17 p155 - Thoughts on Vedic Sandhya (2)
* April 1912 v33 p79 - Chaitanya, The Prophet of Bengal

He also wrote for ''Theosophy in India'', and his article "The Influence of Lord Maitreya on the Bhagavata Purana" was reprinted in the July 1915 issue of ''The Messenger''.

In February 1891 he wrote the article "The Religious Ideas & Practices of India & Their Growth" in the periodical ''Branch Work'' published at Adyar, Madras, India.

"The Religion of the Future, an Aspect of Vaishnavism" was printed in the ''Transactions of the First Congress of the Federation of European Sections of the Theosophical Society Held in Amsterdam June 19th, 20th and 21st, 1904''.

== Awards and honors ==

In 1924 Mr. Sinha was awarded with the '''[[Subba Row Medal]]''' by the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Society]] for his contributions to Theosophical literature.

The British Raj granted him the high honor of the '''title "Dewan Bahadur"'''. In 1906 he received the gold '''"Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India"''', a medal awarded by the British monarch between 1900 and 1947 to civilians of any nationality who rendered distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British colonial government. The Gold Medal honored his work in education.

The Dr. Purnendu Narayan Sinha Memorial Foundation was founded in his honor, but does not seem to be active.<ref>[http://drpnsinhamf.blogspot.com/ Dr. Purnendu Narayan Sinha Memorial Foundation]. Last reported activity in 2009.</ref>

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:Writers|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]
[[Category:Nationality Indian|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]
[[Category:Educators|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]
[[Category:TS Adyar|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]
[[Category:Attorneys|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]
[[Category:People|Sinha, Purnendu Narayan]]

File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant), 1892.jpg

2023-05-21T09:27:56Z

Pavel Malakhov: Category: HPB

[[Category: HPB]]

Blavatsky photographs and portraits

2023-05-21T08:16:09Z

Pavel Malakhov: + 2 images: in Shi Lanka and a caricature on A. Besant

[[File:HPB collage.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]

These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted.

This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the website, and to [[Geoffrey Barborka]] for the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref><ref>Rogelle Pelletier email to Janet Kerschner. September 15, 2017. Rogelle wrote, "Further to your wondering about the slides and narrative, our understanding is that Geoffrey Barborka assembled them and wrote the descriptions. He had also written an introduction, which has been included in the presentation."</ref>

Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.

'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''

'''>>> See also a [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbportraits1874-1891.htm gallery of closeups of HPB] compiled by Daniel H. Caldwell and a [https://www.facebook.com/cees.slob/videos/3205231342872824/ video] provided by Cees Slob.'''

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:98%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| 1840s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.

The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. Caldwell.
|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| 1865-1868
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Young HPB dressed in furs. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1860s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I.
|-
| [[File:HPB 1870.jpg|200px]]
| ca1870
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB around 1870. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| Early 1875
| Unknown spiritualist photographer
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait by a [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]] photographer in New York. HPB wrote of this in a May 20, 1875 letter to [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]]:
<blockquote>
You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. But I am not to be blamed. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about; but neither you nor Mrs. Andrews, nor [[Epes Sargent|Mr. Sargent]], or even [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]] got one, and have to wait.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to Hiram Corson. May 20, 1875. ''Some Unpublished Letters of H. P. Blavatsky'', compiled by E. R. Corson. Available at [https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/corson/cors-lt1.htm Theosophical University Press.]</ref>
</blockquote>

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume I and XIV.

This photo was scanned from the [[Geoffrey Barborka]] book ''Tibet and Tulku'', and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet [[Epes Sargent]]. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to [[Hiram Corson]]. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two.
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |[[File:Back of Beardsley photo.jpg|160px|thumb|HPB inscription to Nadezhda Andreyevna]]Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>

A print of this photo is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, can be roughly translated as "Sweet and dear Nadezhda Andreyevna, comrade of childhood and nightly dinners. From the secretary of the Theosophical Society, E. Blavatsky."
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| October 3 or 4, 1875
| Jefferson Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. The date can be established by a letter from Mrs. Corson to her son Eugene, which describes events between October 2 and October 5:
<blockquote>
"We went next to Beardsley for her picture. She has a magnificent sort of gold-embroidered cloak, worn in the Caucasus, which she drapes around her in a fanciful fashion." [quoting Mrs. Corson]

Mrs. Corson had a photograph of herself taken in it, feeling that she never had a better picture taken, but for some reason it would not develop. [narrative by Michael Gomes]<ref>Michael Gomes, ''The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 214. He quoted Mrs. Corson's letter to Eugene Corson. 5 October 1875. Corson Papers, Cornell University.</ref>
</blockquote>

This photo appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], labelled "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect. Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV.
|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" |Sarony took this photo of HPB in 1876 in New York. It was offered for sale for 50 cents in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']].

One extant print of this photograph was printed by the Beardsley studio in Ithaca, New York. [It was not unknown in those days for one studio to make prints from the work of another studio.] That print, found in a [[William Stainton Moses|Stainton Moses]] collection in the College of Psychic Studies archives, has a handwritten notation: "The Mulligan of 1878."<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref><ref>Leslie Price, "Two Photos of HPB Given to Stainton Moses with Unusual Signatures" ''FOTA Newsletter'' No. 3 (November, 2014), 17.</ref> Mulligan was a nickname that [[Henry Steel Olcott]] used for Madame Blavatsky.

The Sarony photo was printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and VI, and has served as the inspiration for an 1878 engraving, and also for a newer watercolor (shown below).

This image was provided by [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume III and other works.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Edsall Photographic Studio
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume IV.
|-
| [[File:HPB Sarony portrait 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] by Napoleon Sarony in 1877. This image is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The back of the print is stamped "Sarony’s Imperial Portraits, 37 Union Square, New York."

A scan of the print is available at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].
|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | This photograph was printed as a ''carte de visite'' by the Sarony studio in 1877.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref> The image shown here was scanned from a framed print in the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| 1878
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving derived from the 1876 photograph by N. Sarony. Mr. Buchanan wrote a profile of HPB for ''The Phrenological Journal'' and the journal added this illustration. An editorial note says:
<blockquote>
For the admirable photograph from which our portrait was engraved we are indebted to M. Sarony, of Broadway, while our acknowledgments are due to Prof. J. R. Buchanan, M.D., for contributions to our phrenological notes."<ref>James Rodes Buchanan ''The Phrenological Journal and Science of Life'' Vol. 66-67 (March, 1878), 137. Thanks to Pat Deveney for pointing out this article in "New Blavatsky Photograph?" ''FOTA'' No. 1 (March, 2014), 8.</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
| [[File:Wimbridge portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[Edward Wimbridge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Edward Wimbridge]] was an artist and architect who embarked for India with HPB and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] in 1878. He designed the cover for the first issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']]. In her diary, HPB noted that on September 11, 1878, Wimbridge prepared this image for engraving. It was etched on copper and appeared in the 1878 fourth edition of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] published by J. W. Bouton in New York.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky, "Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky" in ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I, page 409.</ref><ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner. 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

From Joma Sipe's copy of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| 1880
|Charles T. Scowen
| style="text-align:left;" | Charles T. Scowen was a British photographer who worked in Sri Lanka and India from 1871–1890. He set up a studio in Kandy by 1876, and later opened a second in Colombo. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

Image from [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:H P Blavatsky in Benares 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Benares (now Varanasi), India, in 1880. This photo was downloaded from the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua]. It was scanned from the photo album of HPB's sister Vera Jelihovsky, in the State Archives of the Russian Federation.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle 1880.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is from Blavatsky Archives website, and also appears in Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 400. The original is in the Adyar Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle from CW2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in Galle, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. HPB and Colonel Olcott visited Ceylon from May 16 to July 13, 1880.

This image is scanned from Volume II of Blavatsky ''Collected Writings'', where it is opposite page 464.

|-
| [[File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg|200px]]
| May 18, 1880
| Payagala Badalge Karolis
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was found by Senaka Weeraratna in family album and published in ''[https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230129/75th-independence/rare-images-in-family-photos-509909.html The Sunday Times]'' (Sri Lanka) in January 29, 2023 in ''Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky’s historic visit to the island in 1880'' by Yomal Senerath-Yapa.

|-
| [[File:HPB 1882-1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |ca1882
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This photo was used as a ''carte de visite'' made in Madras (now Chennai), India.<ref>Joma Sipe email to Janet Kerschner, 20 December 2018. Theosophical Society in America Archives. He also wrote, "This photo appeared for the first time on an Exhibition for the Celebrations of the 180th birthday of HPB on the Nicholas Roerich Museum."</ref>

The image shown here was presented in 2006 at an exhibition called ""Helena Blavatsky: Destinies and Faces ..." The Roerich Research Foundation (St. Petersburg) and the Adamant Cultural and Educational Center (Lomonosov) sponsored this event at the N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk to honor the 175th anniversary of HPB's birth:
<blockquote>
The exhibition in Novosibirsk for the first time presents the original of an unknown portrait of E.P. Blavatsky, made in the photographic studio of Madras. On the back is her autograph, not previously published: "To Princess Olga Petrovna Volkonskaya as a sign of respect, love and devotion from the nineteenth-century Indian avatars Radda Bai. Elena Blavatsky. Nice. March 1884." Unfortunately, about Princess Volkonskaya (nee Kleinmichel) so far very little information has been found.<ref>A. P. Sobolev, "E.P. Blavatsky - Sphinx of the XIX Century" at Rossasia website, [http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204 http://rossasia.sibro.ru/voshod/article/31204]. November 2011. Accessed 2 January 2019. This quotation was translated from the Russian using Google.</ref>
</blockquote>

Another version of the image is available at [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com], where the publication history of the photo is given.<ref>R. Jagganathiah, "Blavatsky Defeats an Atheist" in [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com]. The photo was previously published as "The Great Teacher H.P.B. As I Saw Her" in ''The Adyar Bulletin'', May 1909. It was later republished in ''The Canadian Theosophist'', May-June 1983 and in the biography ''HPB: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky'' by Sylvia Cranston.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1882-1884
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection]. A ''carte de visite'' at the Winterthur Library seems to be from the same studio in Madras that printed the "ca1882" photo shown above.

Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume V.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan - cabinet card.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB is posed with a large fan. [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] [[File:HPB with fan - from The Word Dec 1915.jpg|right|100px|thumb|From ''The Word'', 1915]]Volume V, page 257 states that [[Laura Holloway]] was the photographer, but [[Alice L. Cleather|Alice Cleather]] wrote of the photograph as being taken for Laura Holloway:

[[File:HPB note to Skinner on photo1887.jpg|right|200px|thumb|HPB note to Ralston Skinner]]
<blockquote>
The portrait which forms the frontispiece to the present volume was taken in London in 1884 for Mrs. Laura Langford. H. P. B. gave me a copy, but it has never before been published to my knowledge. - A.L.C.<ref>Alice Cleather, ''H. P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work'' (Calcutta:Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922), 125. See [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/cleather_h_p_blavatsky_her_life_and_work_1922.pdf Blavatsky Archives website].</ref>
</blockquote>

In May, 1887, HPB sent a signed copy to [[James Ralston Skinner]]. It is at the Harvard-Andover Library.<ref>'''[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/12/resources/966 "Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston), 1853-1887"]'''. Personal papers at Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard University. This collection includes '''six letters from H. P. Blavatsky'''. </ref>

''The Word'' magazine published this version in Volume 22, No. 3, December 1915, facing p. 136.

The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Detail from the previous portrait.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Another pose of HPB with a fan, almost certainly from the same photography session as the previous photographs taken for Laura Holloway.
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" | Possibly a detail from the previous portrait, or a separate close-up pose. Described in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VI as HPB "in her forties," and "reproduced from a photograph given by [[William Quan Judge]] to Mrs. Harriet Farrar in New York."
|-
| [[File:HPB 1884 from Russian State Archives.jpg|200px]]
| 1884
| Elliott & Fry, London
| style="text-align:left;" |This portrait is from the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. An inscription on the back of the photo, in HPB's handwriting, is roughly translated as " Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. In a difficult moment of life..."

The image shown here is scan of the original, posted at the Ukrainian website [http://art-roerich.org.ua/ art-roerich.org.ua].

The Russian Archives dates the photo as 1867-1868, but that is clearly incorrect. Based on the clothing, this must be one of the photos taken for [[Laura Holloway]] in 1884. The photo was first published in ''The Review of Reviews'', 1893, page 493. It is also in Geoffrey Barborka's work, ''Tibet and Tulku'', on page 160.
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen painting 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:120px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" |
[[File:HPB portrait.jpg|130px|thumb|Fragment]]This is the first painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. It "was made at [[Elberfeld, Germany|Elberfeld]] in September, 1884, and was later presented by Mrs. Toni Schmeichen to the [[Esoteric Section|Esoteric School]]; for some years past, it has been in [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarajadasa's]] home, 33 Covington Square, London," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]], writing in 1954.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. [[Boris de Zirkoff[[ wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Note the positions of the hands, with the right hand pointing up, and the left pointing down. This represents the [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] principle of "as above, so below."
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is the second painting of HPB by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. "The second portrait, reproduced herewith, was for many years at the London Headquarters, 19 Avenue Road. It is now in the Hall of the Indian Section, at Benares," according to [[Boris de Zirkoff]].<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume VI, 1883-1884-1885'' (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), 299. Boris de Zirkoff wrote the caption of an illustration that showed the second version of this painting.</ref>

Edmund Russell wrote of HPB's reaction to the painting:
<blockquote>
The Schmeichen portrait at Adyar I have always liked. A suggestion of prophetess in the dim cave. It was just this that
did not please her. She thought it made her look too much like a Sybil.<ref>Edmund Russell, "Isis Unveiled: Personal Recollections of Madame Blavatsky" ''Occult Review'' 28.5 (November, 1918), 263.</ref>
</blockquote>

This portrait is reproduced facing page 553 in the HPB Centenary Number of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], published in August, 1931. [[Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa|Mr. Jinaranadasa]] provided the dimensions of the painting: 4 ft. 6 3/4 inches by 3 ft. 2 3/4 inches [139 cm x 98.4 cm].

It also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1885
| Giulia Hoffman Tedesco
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Italian HPB Postcard Portrait reverse.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Reverse side of postcard.]] A portrait of HPB was painted by prominent German artist Giulia Tedesco - probably inspired by an earlier photograph. It was printed in a postcard format by Alfieri & LaCroix in Milan. This postcard is in the collection of Joma Sipe.
|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| [[William Quan Judge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.
|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
|-
| [[File:Fragment of family photo 1888.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | While this photo has sometimes been identified as one of the [[Enrico Resta|Resta]] series from January 8, 1888, it has more likely been cropped from the previous family photo.

[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives] provided this image, which was also printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume VIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "H.P.B.'s tobacco-basket [under HPB's hand] is now in the possession of Geoffrey Watkin, London," [[Boris de Zirkoff]] wrote in 1964.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, ed. ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume X, 1883-1884-1885'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1964), 176.</ref>

The photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'' Volume X, page 176, shows the following message handwritten by HPB: "To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes," London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>

|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.

This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. including [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XI. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.
|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]. Printed in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume X.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 5.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Scanned from [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XII. See also [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos27.htm Blavatsky Archives.]
|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.
|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. It was reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky,'' 2nd edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition.<ref>Daniel Caldwell email to Janet Kerschner. February 21, 2019. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931, and also in [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XIII.
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].
|-
| [[File:HPB listening to Quill Pen - from Nightmare Tales.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1892
| [[Reginald Machell]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Illustration of HPB listening to a quill pen in the story "A Bewitched Life (as Narrated by a Quill Pen)." It is the first story in '''''Nightmare Tales''''' written by HPB and published posthumously. See page 4 in most editions. The caption under the illustration says,
<blockquote>
I noticed a light flashing from under his pen. A bright colored spark that became instantaneously a sound. It was the small voice of the quill.
</blockquote>

An account in [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']] relates that both the cover art of ''Nightmare Tales'' and this illustration were created by [[Reginald Machell]], along with "some clever tailpieces, consisting of Japanese monsters of indescribable curliness."<ref>"Nightmare Tales" ''Lucifer'' 10.57 (May, 1892), 264.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.

|-
| [[File:May P - On the brain (of Mrs. Besant) 1892.jpg|200px]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 1892
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_May_(caricaturist) Phil May]
| style="text-align:left;" | A caricature "On the Brain [of] Mrs. Besant". Words on image from top to bottom: "Mahatmaism", "Blavatksy". Published in [https://archive.org/details/philmayalbum00mayp/page/36/mode/2up The Phil May album], 1900, p. 36. The place of first publication is unknown yet.

|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1893
| P. Vishnevsky
| style="text-align:left;" | This engraving is modeled after the 1876 photo by Napoleon Sarony. It has been scanned from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) The book is a compilation of articles originally printed in the Russian magazine Ruskii Viestnik (Russian Messenger) during the years 1883-1886 when HPB was supporting herself by writing travel stories.<ref>See also pamphlet by H. P. Blavatsky, translated by Mary G. Langford: ''Mr. Peters and the Goddess''.</ref>. The position of the left hand is an exaggeration of that in the 1877 photo, and may be a Masonic hand gesture.

Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev for providing the image. The location of the original art is unknown.
|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1896
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Yost typewriting machine, ca 1896.png|120px|right|thumb|Yost typewriter, ca 1896]] This is the title page art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the Introductory Explanation to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP mask (Ferdinand Schirren).jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1898
| Ferdinand Schirren
| style="text-align:left;" |This plaster sculpture called "Portrait de Madame Helena Blavatski" was created by Belgian artist Ferdinand Schirren (1872-1944). It is in a private collection in Brussels, according to the [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferdinand-Schirren-Portrait-de-Madame-Helena-Blavatski-1898-Plaster-Private_fig9_303552954 ResearchGate website], where it was posted by Clerbois Sébastien.
|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1907
| Govinda Pillai
| style="text-align:left;" | This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Flagg portrait of HPB.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1920-30s
| James Montgomery Flagg
| style="text-align:left;" | This sketch was made from the Jefferson Beardsley photograph of 1875. James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) was a well-known portraitist and the highest-paid American magazine illustrator of his time. He is famous for the 1917 recruitment poster of Uncle Sam saying "I want you for the U. S. Army." Flagg is known to have been at a Star Camp in Ojai, California in 1928, so he had some familiarity with the Theosophical Society and [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]].<ref>Craig Walker, "Star Camp Congress 1928" blog post in [http://ojaihistory.com/star-camp-congress-1928/ Ojai History website]. 18 August 2011. Accessed 26 November 2019.</ref> He also sketched [[Annie Besant]]<ref>''The Channel'' 1.2 (April-June, 1916), frontispiece. See [http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/channel/channel_v1_n3_apr-may-jun_1916.pdf IAPSOP database].</ref>, Krishnamurti,<ref>"Mr Krishnamurti - June 5 1923" ''The Herald of the Star'' 12 (September, 1923), 360.</ref><ref>"Krishnaji (Portrait over fireplace)" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (July, 1930), 556.</ref><ref>"Portrait of Krishnaji" ''The Star'' 1.1 (January, 1928), 2.</ref> and [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]]<ref>"Portrait of Bishop CW Leadbeater" ''The Theosophist'' [Hollywood] vol 1 (February, 1930), 122.</ref> from photos for Theosophical journals. His wife Dorothy was a member of the [[American Theosophical Society]] in New York from 1930-1934.<ref>"Flagg, Mrs. Dorothy" Membership Ledger Cards Roll 3. Membership Microfilm Records. Theosophical Society in America Archives.</ref>

This image is from [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project].<ref>Mark Casady, 28 December 2018 blog entry [https://theosophyproject.blogspot.com/2018/12/ Montreal Theosophy Project]. Accessed 11 November 2019.</ref> It appears on the cover of [[Collected Writings (book)|''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'']] Volume XV, and in works by Howard Murphet.
|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
|[[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky and the Masters by Knapp.JPG|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
| J. Augustus Knapp
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting displaying an imaginative representation of HPB and her Masters. A black and white image of this painting has been in circulation with the false claim that it was an actual photograph taken at Adyar. The original painting is held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, California.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2004
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This work, entitled "Sphinx of XIX century," is made of a ceramic called "grog" (also known as firesand and chamotte). It is in a private collection in Moscow.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2008
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This original sculpture is in the [http://museum-blavatsky.com.ua/ Museum of H.P.Blavatsky and her family] (Dnepr, Ukraine).<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>

In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2011
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | This sculpture is on permanent exhibition at "Великие Учителя человечества" (Great Teachers of Humanity) in the ethnographic park "Этномир" (Ethno-world), Kaluga region, Russia.<ref>Information provided by Ukrainian artist via Pavel Malakhov.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:Rudolf Strauch engraving.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Rudolf Strauch
| style="text-align:left;" | Engraving by Rudolf Strauch of Leipzig, from the [https://arkivkopia.se/sak/aboaka-1254 Archive of Swedish Cultural Common]. Copied from 1889 Resta photograph. Contact Åbo Akademie for high-resolution image or commercial use.
|-
| [[File:HPB watercolor from 1877 Sarony.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Watercolor derived from photograph by N. Sarony in 1876. Location of original is unknown. Scanned from photograph.
|-
| [[File:HPB painting from 1887 Maycot photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting derived from 1887 photograph taken at Maycot. Artist and location of original are unknown. Scanned from photograph in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|}

== Notes ==
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[[RU:Фотографии и портреты Е.П. Блаватской]]

[[Category:Art works|Blavatsky photographs]]

File:HPB in Galle with Devendra 1880.jpg

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[[Category: HPB]]

File:HPB in 1880s.jpg

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Photo of H. P. Blavatsky in 1880s.

[[Category: H.P.Blavatsky pictures]]
[[Category:Images of Russian people|Blavatsky, H. P.]]
[[Category:Images of Naturalized American people|Blavatsky, H. P.]]
[[Category:Images of Founders|Blavatsky, H. P.]]

Brahmo Samaj

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'''Brahmo Samaj''' (Bengali: ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ Bramho Shômaj) is a monotheistic reform movement within the Hindu religion. Adherents are referred to as"Brahmos," and in modern days Brahmoism is a legally recognized religion in India. The name literally means a community (Sanskrit: 'samaj') of men who worship [[Brahman]], the highest reality.

Debendranath Tagore, the father of poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]], was an early leader in the '''Brahmo Sabha''', along with Ram Mohun Roy. That group formed in 1828. In 1866, Tagore's disciple Keshub Chandra Sen created a schism that was took the name '''Brahmo Samaj'''.

Some aspects of Brahmo Samaj would have been attractive to [[Theosophy|Theosophists]], particularly in its rejection of the authority of scriptures, and its lack of distinction between people of different castes and creeds. However the [[Founders]], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] and [[Henry Steel Olcott]], experienced hostility from some Brahmo Samaj practitioners such as Sen.<ref>See the [[Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 1 No. 16#Context and background|Context and background]] section of Letter 16 in ''Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom''.</ref>

== Additional resources ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmo_Samaj Brahmo Samaj] in Wikipedia.

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[[Category:Organizations|Brahmo Samaj]]