HPB's Diagram of Meditation

The Diagram of Meditation is a tool for occult study used by Theosophists. It was transmitted by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky to her student E. T. Sturdy.

History

Some time between 1887 and 1891, Mme. Blavatsky dictated a Diagram of Meditation to E. T. Sturdy, one of her close students. The latter, gave the Diagram to his friend Christmas Humphreys who published it for the first time in the Nov/Dec. 1942 issue of Buddhism in England (later renamed The Middle Way, in which journal it was reprinted in May/June 1944).

John Cooper, the Australian authority on Theosophical history, reports that in a "Draft Catalogue of Volumes and Pamphlets" dated 1957 and kept at the home of Mr. Christmas Humphreys, under item 344 it says: "Envelope addressed to Christmas Humphreys from E. T. Sturdy with 'A diagram of meditation made under H.P.B.'s direction over 50 years ago.' (This diagram was later published in The Middle Way and offprints taken.) Also letter from Sturdy dated 14.8.42."

The original diagram is in a private collection, but a scan has been published, with permission, at BlavatskyArchives.com.

Diagram

Additional resources

Articles

• Diagram of Meditation by Mary Anderson. Originally published in The Theosophist (August, 2002) and Theosophy In Australia (March, 2003).
• H.P.B. on Meditation & Yoga by Geoffrey Farthing. The Theosophist (December, 1992).
• HPB's Diagram of Meditation and the Process of Spiritual Transformation by Roger Price. The Theosophist (May, 2003): 300-309.

Videos

• Blavatsky's Diagram of Meditation: An Overview by Michele Sender
• HPB's Diagram of Meditation, Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV by Pablo Sender and Michele Sender
• HPB's Diagram of Meditation by John Algeo.

Additional resources

• Blavatsky Diagram of Meditation in BlavatskyArchives.com. This is the original of H.P.B.'s Diagram of Meditation that E.T. Sturdy sent to Christmas Humphreys in 1942.
• Blavatsky's Diagram of Meditation at DzyanTheosophy.org