Helena Blavatsky

Author, visionary, occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (12 August 1831–8 May 1891) is often called the “Mother of the New Age.” Together with Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832–17 February 1907), she founded the Theosophical Society, responsible for introducing Eastern ideas of reincarnation and karma to Western occultism. Many theories of the lost lands of Atlantis and Lemuria are based on her writings.

Madame Blavatsky, or HPB, as she was called, was born at midnight on the threshold between 30 and 31 July according to the Western calendar; her birthday of 12 August reflects the Russian calendar. A member of the Russian nobility, she left home to travel around the world, working as a concert pianist in Serbia, a bareback rider in a Turkish circus, a lady’s companion, and a spirit medium. She laboured in sweatshops in the United States, so poor that she once faced eviction from her apartment. In 1856, she may have been among the first Europeans to travel to Tibet, where she may have lived for seven years. She may have studied with Vodouistes in New Orleans and Kabbalists in Egypt.

HPB Demonstrated strong magic powers, allegedly able to make things move without touching them, as well as make things dematerialize or materialize at will. Her own personal spirituality seems to have been a merger of Buddhism, occultism, and Russian Orthodoxy.

Always a controversial, strong-minded woman, people either adored or loathed her. In death, she has evolved into an Ascended Master and may be invoked by mediums, shamans, and students and practitioners of esoteric and magic arts. Madame Blavatsky was very poor for much of her life; she may be petitioned for financial as well magical assistance. She was an extremely successful author; ask her for publishing advice. She may be invoked on behalf of those wrongly accused.

Blavatsky’s two opuses, Isis Unveiled (1877) and The Secret Doctrine (1888), remain in print. Many biographies of her exist: some treat her as a goddess; others as a charlatan. Sylvia Cranston’s H.P.B.: The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky (Tarcher, 1993) is an unbiased, neutral look at Blavatsky’s life and accomplishments.

**Offerings:** Vodka and cigarettes on a regular basis, plus traditional Russian food; candles

**See Also:** Ascended Master; Morya; Serapis Bey

## Fate Lore

A female occultist from the 19th Century, a founder of theosophy. Despite having married young to a Russian aristocrat, she soon eloped and then lived gorgeously in the magic world. Popularly known as Madame Blavatsky. She is considered to have immersed herself on mysticism out of belief in the existence of the Lemurian continent, eventually coming in contact with a higher existence ("Mahatma") and its collective body ("Hierarchy"\*), acquiring many wisdoms in the process. If that is indeed the case, she might have caught a glimpse of a possibility towards the Root.

**Height/Weight:** 145cm・38kg

**Source:** Historical Fact

**Region:** Europe

**Alignment:** Chaotic Good

The country she likes is India. The organization she hates is the SRP (the English paranormal research society).

A prodigy magus born as a sudden mutation. She designated the predecessors who reached the Root as "Mahatma" and "Hierarchy", and stipulated (assumed) them to be higher existences. Helena herself said to always have felt their messages, but in order for others to feel the same thing, the same kind of talent (a unique magic circuit) as her would be necessary. Chances are high that the Lemurian continent and Mahatma do not actually exist, and she is "merely a prodigy, who performed a peculiar interpretation of the world".

**Item Construction: B**

Production of devices that carry magical power. Upon manifesting, Blavatsky will always create multiple copies of a small-size automata patterned after the right-hand man who once served her, "Colonel Olcott", conveniently using them for this and that in replacement to maids. By the way, they are not very suited for combat.

**Venusian God, Heavenly Lord of the Flame**

**Rank:** A

**Type:** Anti-Army

**Range:** 1~50

**Maximum Targets:** 150 people

Sanat Kumara. A flying object reveals itself and attack the surroundings. Although she is pleased to say that "*this is a secret art of theosophy, which temporarily 'reproduces' the power of Sanat Kurama (The Defender Demon Lord), a divinity assumed to have came flying from Venus to Earth and one of the Earth's creation deities!*", the true identity of that flying object is unknown.

## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes