H-P-Blavatsky-Collected-Writings-Volume-VIII-1887.pdf

Collected Writings VOLUME VIII

1887

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Chronological Survey

Compiler’s Introductory Note

September, 1887

What’s in a Name

Aphorisms

The History of a Planet

The Last of a Good Lama

Literary Jottings

Theosophical and Mystic Publications

From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher

Fausses Conceptions

Misconceptions

[The Blossom and the Fruit]

[October, 1896]

Modern Idealism, Worse Than Materialism

October, 1887

The Signs of the Times

Self-Knowledge

Will and Desire

The Origin of Evil

The Great Paradox

Desire Made Pure

“An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians”—Review

Theosophical and Mystic Publications

From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher

Miscellaneous Notes

November, 1887

Tetragrammaton

“Let Every Man Prove His Own Work”

The Esoteric Character of the Gospels ( continued in December, 1887, and February, 1888 )

Compiler’s Notes

The Science of Life

Sin Against Life

Footnotes to “Blood-Covenanting”

“Esoteric Buddhism”

“The Real History of the Rosicrucians”—Review

From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher

[H. P. Blavatsky and the Keely Motor]

December, 1887

“Lucifer” to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Greeting!

“God Speaks for Law and Order”

Answers to Queries

Literary Jottings

Miscellaneous Notes

[September, 1894]

[“Lucifer” and The Theosophical Publishing Company]

[September, 1891]

The Substantial Nature of Magnetism

[October, 1896]

Psychology, the Science of the Soul

December, 1887

[Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbé Roca]

Esotericism of Christian Dogma (Abbé Roca)

Notes sur « L’Ésotérisme du Dogme Chrétien » de M. l’Abbé Roca (H.P.B.)

Notes on Abbé Roca’s “Esotericism of Christian Dogma” (translation)

[May, June, July, 1900]

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

APPENDIX:

Note on the Transliteration of Sanskrit

ILLUSTRATIONS:

H.P. Blavatsky about 1887

Miss Francesca Arundale

Ruins of the Temple of the Sibyl

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

John Worrell Keely

H.P. Blavatsky

Birth scenes from the Temple of Luxor

Mabel Collins

Dr. Franz Hartmann

Gerald Massey

Facsimiles

Sepulchral Inscription of Ancient Greece

Inscriptions by Mabel Collins in Light on the Path

Portion of a letter from Master M. to Dr. F. Hartmann

Collected Writings VOLUME VIII

COMPILER’S INTRODUCTORY NOTE

At this point in the chronological sequence of H. P. B.’s writings, begins the period of her brilliant and

dynamic Editorials, as well as other essays and articles, in the pages of the newly-started monthly journal

Lucifer. The first issue of this magazine is dated September 15, 1887, and the title-page describes it as: A

Theosophical Magazine, designed to “bring to light the hidden things of darkness,” a description fully

justified by the many remarkable articles which appeared in its pages as time went on.

Lucifer began to be published only four months after H. P. B. had settled in London, having come over

from Ostende, Belgium, at the insistent urging of Bertram and Archibald Keightley and others. For a short

time, the magazine was published by George Redway, in York Street, Covent Garden, but the same Fall the

Theosophical Publishing Company was organized with a capital of £1,500, and took over the publication of

Lucifer and whatever else was being brought out by the indefatigable workers in London.

From the very first issue, and until October, 1888, the Editorial responsibility for Lucifer was shared by

H. P. B. with Mabel Collins, which was the nom de plume of Mrs. Kenningale Cook. Considering the

important role that she played in the Movement, it has been thought advisable to include a rather

comprehensive biographical sketch of her career in the Bio-Bibliographical Index of the present Volume, to

which the student is referred.— Compiler.

Collected Writings VOLUME VIII

FOREWORD TO VOLUME EIGHT

The material in the present Volume is in direct chronological sequence to the writings

contained in Volume VII, and includes several very important and scholarly contributions

from H. P. B.'s pen.

With this Volume we enter her Lucifer cycle of writing which produced some of her

most brilliant Editorials and some of her most scholarly essays. We also reach at this stage

the beginning of her famous controversy with the Abbé Roca.

No special acknowledgements are required in connection with this Volume, as the same

individuals have helped in its production as those already fully mentioned in the Foreword to

Volume VII.

We are deeply grateful for the continued interest they have shown in this endeavor, and

the willing help they have given, each in his or her way, towards the successful completion

of the Manuscript.

B ORIS DE Z IRKOFF ,

Compiler.

L OS A NGELES , C ALIFORNIA , U.S.A.

August 11th, 1958.

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