Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky

The first volume of the memoirs of Henry Steel Olcott, president-founder of the Theosophical Society. He recounts meeting Blavatsky in 1874, the founding in New York and the writing of Isis Unveiled, as an eyewitness.

Henry Steel Olcott

The first popular book on Theosophy (1881). Sinnett describes the phenomena he witnessed with Blavatsky in Simla and his correspondence with the Mahatmas, the letters that shaped the early movement.

A. P. Sinnett

Countess Wachtmeister lived with Blavatsky while she wrote The Secret Doctrine. Her memoir, with testimonies from other close students, shows the daily life and working methods behind the book.

Constance Wachtmeister

Published in 1883 from the teachings in the Mahatma Letters, this was the first systematic account of theosophical doctrine: the constitution of man, the planetary chain, devachan, karma and the Buddhas.

A. P. Sinnett