The journal of the famous occultist's travels with her Teacher and members of her Theosophist Society in the second half of the nineteen century, the book is an impressionist painting of a land of mystery and magic with hidden dangers and disturbing experiences. The small group of Europeans and Indi

I had never before read this HPB book. The style, the magnificence of the descriptions, the colorfulness of the characters and the depth of the issues treated in the guise of travelling episodes, is absolutely brilliant!

Gulab Singh comes out in full size as a very SPECIAL character... and I will say

A brief description of India in the 19th century from a Russian traveller's perspective.

one of my all time favorite esoteric nonfiction works ! ! madame blavatsky’s humorously mordant yet richly insightful quips on her lengthy journey throughout the mystical parts of india have lit a light for my love for this country

Fantastic read

So, this woman, who is one of the members of the Theosophical Society that produced the likes of Krishnamoorthi and a society that believes in spirit but not spiritualism, ventures from America accompanied by few others who in the name of scientific bent of mind were only cynical about

I had a very different version of this book to the one listed here on Goodreads. My version had over 700 pages and, based on the reviews I have read here by other readers, my version was quite different.

When reading these articles I was surprised to read Blavatsky's very strong views on the British

The only complete translation of this spiritual adventure that Blavatsky wrote for Russian magazines in the 1880s. The other version translated in 1892 by Vera Johnston is less than half the size.
Not merely a travelogue, but sprinkled with occult, philosophical and magical events. This edition was t