Julia Keightley

Julia van der Planck was married to Dr. Archibald Keightley. Using name "Jasper Niemand" she wrote many articles in Theosophical periodicals. She and her husband were active in the Theosophical Society in America, later renamed Theosophical Society, headed by Ernest Temple Hargrove in New York.

After Mme. Blavatsky died she had the following experience:

A few days after Madame Blavatsky died, HPB awoke me at night. I raised myself, feeling no surprise, but only the sweet accustomed pleasure. She held my eyes with her leonine gaze. Then she grew thinner, taller, her shape became masculine; slowly then her features changed, until a man of height and rugged powers stood before me, the last vestige of her features melting into his, until the leonine gaze, the progressed radiance of her glance alone remained. The man lifted his head and said, "Bear witness!" He then walked from the room, laying his hand on the portrait of HPB as he passed. Since then, he has come to me several times, with instructions, in broad daylight while I was busily working, and once he stepped out from a large portrait of HPB.