⁵This summary is drawn from Marion Meade’s biography, MadameBlavatsky, The Woman Behind the Myth (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980), pp. 413—417.

⁶H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Com pany, 1947), vol. ii, p. 743. This is a facsimile of the original 1888 edition.

⁷Ibid., ii, 303.