Publisher's Synopsis
From the introductory.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY, the Foundress of the present Theosophical Movement, is called the 'lion-hearted' by her followers, and I can conceive of no better name for her, because in every act of her life there was a superb courage - a courage of a quality which we rarely hear of except when, under peculiar circumstances, a man is aroused to his highest motive and most superb effort by some stirring emergency. I mean spiritual courage, of a quality which marks one who has realized that he is essentially divine, which endows him with a measure of knowledge that can come to him only through his inner nature, which at that moment makes him conscious that he is something more than he seems, part of the universal scheme of life, and in harmony with the wonderful forces of nature. In spite of his having made mistakes, in spite of having faltered, of having done injustice to others, once he realizes that he, and every man, inherits the power to be his own savior and can make his life an expression of divine law, - that very fact will bring to him a superb courage such as Madame Blavatsky possessed in so marked a degree and which she carried through her whole life.
* As Foundress of the original Theosophical Society she brought again to the world the teachings of Theosophy, the principles of which are as old as the ages, but which, although so old - having been lost sight of for so many years- appeared as new, as something very optimistic, something very inspiring, for all the world's children to receive.
* The great purpose of the Theosophical Society, as originated by Madame Blavatsky, is to teach Brotherhood. She brought from the storehouse of the past the great teachings of the Wisdom-Religion, Theosophy, and they have been preserved by those members who stood faithfully by her and her successors, and who have sustained the original Theosophical Society, which is now called the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.
* She knew her mission for Humanity. Nothing could throw her aside, no one could discourage her - the more she was persecuted, the more she worked, and the same is true of William Q. Judge, her successor - with the result that this Society is today established on a basis of honor and dignity and integrity that is unassailable, with its World-Center and International Headquarters at Point Loma, California.
* At the time she came to the Western World a great wave of materialism was sweeping over this country and over all Europe. It was a marked time. The minds of men were turning away from the possibility of the higher spiritual thought; they had become weary of creeds and dogmas; they had found so much professed in the name of religion and so little practised in daily life that in their despair they had fallen back upon the power of mere reason as an anchorage, ignoring and in many instances attacking and seeking to tear down and to deny the divine principles of life and nature.
