"Ergo sum qui sum" - An axiom of Hermetic Philosophy. "We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of today disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfathomable mysteries." - BULWER'S "ZANONI" There exists somewhere in this wide world [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
Isis Unveiled: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891)
"Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born on August 12, 1832, at Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav), Ukraine, daughter of Colonel Peter Alexeyevich von Hahn and novelist Helena Andreyevna. In 1849 she married N. V. Blavatsky, and shortly thereafter began more than 20 years of extensive travel, bringing her in contact with mystic traditions the world over. In 1873 [...]