Collected Writings

Collected Writings d'Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

Collection en 15 volumes de l'ensemble des écrits d'Helena Blavatsky, articles et essais publiés dans différents périodiques, journaux et revues durant son vivant, ainsi que des échanges épistolaires de lettres et correspondances avec des étudiants spiritualistes. L'ensemble des écrits peut être trouvé, en anglais, sur le site H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Online.

On peut citer, pour l'illustration, un extrait de la préface publiée pour la première fois en 1950, dans le volume V de cette collection (traduction d'Esopedia).

Extrait de la Préface

The first articles written by H. P. B. were polemical in nature and trenchant in style. They were published in the best known Spiritualistic journals of the day, such as the Banner of Light (Boston, Mass.), the Spiritual Scientist (Boston, Mass.), the Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago, Ill.), The Spiritualist (London), La Revue Spirite (Paris). Simultaneously, she wrote fascinating occult stories for some of the leading American newspapers, including The World, The Sun and The Daily Graphic, all of New York.

After she went to India, in 1879, she contributed to The Indian Spectator, The Deccan Star, The Bombay Gazette, The Pioneer, The Amrita Bazaar Pâtrika, and other newspapers.

For over seven years, namely during the period of 1879-1886, she wrote serial stories for the well-known Russian newspaper, Moskovskiya Vedomosty (Moscow), and the celebrated periodical, Russkiy Vestnik (Moscow), as well as for lesser newspapers, such as Pravda (Odessa), Tiflisskiy Vestnik (Tiflis), Rebus (St. Petersburg), and others.

After founding her first theosophical magazine, The Theosophist (Bombay and Madras), in October, 1879, she poured into its pages an enormous amount of invaluable teaching, which she continued to give forth at a later date in the pages of her London magazine, Lucifer, the shortlived Revue Théosophique of Paris, and The Path of New York.

While carrying on this tremendous literary output, she found time to engage in polemical discussions with a number of writers and scholars in the pages of other periodicals, especially the Bulletin Mensuel of the Société d’Études Psychologiques of Paris, and Le Lotus (Paris). In addition to all this, she wrote a number of small pamphlets and Open Letters, which were published separately, on various occasions. In this general survey no more than mere mention can be made of her voluminous correspondence, many portions of which contain valuable teachings, and of her private Instructions which she issued after 1888 to the members of the Esoteric Section.

After 25 years of unremitting research, the individual articles written by H. P. B. in English, French, Russian and Italian, may be estimated at close to one thousand.