Publisher's Synopsis
IT was a dark, chilly night in September, 1884. A heavy gloom had descended over the streets of A--, a small townon the Rhine, and was hanging like a black funeral-pall over the dullfactory burgh. The greater number of its inhabitants, wearied by their long day's work, had hours before retired to stretch their tired limbs, and lay theiraching heads upon their pillows. All was quiet in the large house; all wasquiet in the deserted streets...Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric religion that the society promoted.
