Penitent Squirrels Kim Farnell

# Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004]

## Author

Kim Farnell

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## Intro

The following is extracted from the forthcoming book “One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins” to be published later in 2004.

Minna Mabel Collins was born 9 September 1851, the daughter of the writer Mortimer Collins. She is primarily remembered as the author of “Light on the Path”, an acknowledged spiritual classic. Mabel wrote at least forty-six books and innumerable articles in her lifetime, she was widely known as a novelist in the US and UK. She married Keningale Robert Cook in 1871, although the couple later separated and Robert, (as he was known), died in 1886. Mabel developed mediumistic skills during her marriage to Robert. Mabel described how in a vision she was led by the hand in her astral body to a hall of learning where she saw jewels and writing. The writing that she returned to note down was eventually to form the text of “Light on the Path”. She was introduced to theosophy in 1881 by the artist Isabelle de Steiger and first met Blavatsky in November of 1884.

In May 1887 Archibald and Bertram Keightley brought Blavatsky from Ostend to spend some time at Mabel’s house, Maycot, a cottage in Norwood, south London.

Blavatsky hated Maycot, and didn’t trust Mabel. Numerous visitors called at Maycot and three weeks after Blavatsky’s arrival the Blavatsky Lodge was founded. At its second meeting the Lodge decided to launch the magazine “Lucifer”, and Mabel was appointed as co-editor along with Blavatsky. With Maycot only being a temporary location for Blavatsky, the Keightleys located a house at 17 Lansdowne Road, in Notting Hill to become the new centre of theosophy. The household moved there except for Mabel. This is where we pick up the story.

## Publication History

* FOHAT
* Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2004
* Title: Penitent Squirrels
* By Kim Farnell
* Editor: Robert Bruce MacDonald
* Publisher: Edmonton Theosophical Society, Edmonton Alberta
* ISSN 1205-9676
* Pages 8-13

## Links

* https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf
* https://www.theosophycanada.com/fohat.php

## Citations

**APA:** Farnell, K. (2004). Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004]. *Fohat - An ETS Publication*, *3*(1), 8–14. https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf.

**MLA:** Farnell, Kim. “Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [Extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004].” *Fohat - An ETS Publication*, 2004, pp. 8–14, www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf. Accessed 22 Feb. 2021.

**Chicago:** Farnell, Kim. “Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [Extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004].” *Fohat - An ETS Publication* 3, no. 1, 2004. https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf.

**Harvard:** Farnell, K. (2004) “Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004],” Fohat - An ETS Publication, pp. 8–14. Available at: https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf (Accessed: February 22, 2021).

**Vancouver:** Farnell K. Penitent Squirrels - Episodes from the Life of Mabel Collins [extract One Mystic Vampire: A Biography of Mabel Collins 2004]. Fohat - An ETS Publication [Internet]. 2004 [cited 2021Feb22];3(1):8–14. Available from: https://www.theosophycanada.com/files/fohat-spring-2004.pdf