She married young, but left her husband after only a few weeks. She kept his name, Blavatsky, for the rest of her life. She was probably a lesbian and definitely a cross-dresser. Disguised as a man, she fought for the Carbonari and was seriously wounded at the battle of Metana. This seems to have ended her youthful vigor, she became fat and unhealthy, had a poor diet, smoked tobacco and probably hashish as well. At the same time, she was excellent on the piano and a good painter. She had a powerfully captivating personality, and easily captured the attention of prominent Europeans. She travelled the world and gained admittance into secret societies such as the Druse and Sufis, and entered Tibet before any other European had been allowed in that country.

     Her book _Isis Unveiled is something like an anthology of existing works on anthropology and mythological lore. Later, _The Secret Doctrine set the standard for the modern age of literature, taking her "true" mythology mixed with her own ideas to make a product that is either fascinating, or stupid, depending on your point of view. I have studied this material for years and find it to be extremely interesting, and almost impossible to comprehend. Almost all metaphysical or new age literature is a derivative or spinoff from _The Secret Doctrine. It has been a favorite book of people from Einstein to Elvis.

     Whether or not there is any substance behind it, by doing this work, she was able to bind many people to her will, and possibly manipulate their thoughts. What she was in fact doing is simple enough. Like the Illuminati, she sought to overthrow the then oppressive powers of the Pope and the European Empires. With the Carbonari, she was fighting the Pope and the Austrian Empire. Later, she weakened the British Empire by inciting the people of India, Britain's most important colony. She also wished to resolve the conflict in Ceylon, which unfortunately continues to this day.

     Madame Blavatsky brutally attacked the ideas of Christianity and materialistic science. She vindicated the name and idea of Lucifer. What is weird, though, is although she was born only a few miles from Kurdistan, she denounced the Yezidi as devil-worshippers.

     Pictured above, she sits in front of her "fictional" (?) Mahatmas (great souls) or Masters. Morya was supposed to have been a prince and military commander of Rajput. Kuthumi Lal Singh was a Sikh who chiefly resided in Tibet. The European-looking one is the Count St. Germain, most likely Prince Eduard Rakoczy, whose father had lost a rebellion in Hungary against the Austrians. Perhaps she really met or "channelled" these great souls. Perhaps her charades were designed to misguide the gullible, and the constant controversy over her charlatanism allowed her to do her real work, which was no fiction, but involved people at the highest levels who intended to usurp the corporate powers and bring freedom and free thinking to the poor and downtrodden of all nations. In this, she was at least somewhat successful. Theosophical ideas are directly available to anyone interested, and have wormed their way into the universal subconscious via entertainment and media such as Dungeons and Dragons or Dragonball Z. Who had thought that the dice in that first fantasy role-playing game were, in fact, the "dice of Bacchus", being the Platonic solids, which in Plato's "God geometrizes" philosophy tell the tale of the spiritual birth of the material world. Without her bravery and self-sacrificing efforts, unrewarded and mocked, we would still probably be living in the 19th century.