Notice: I have written in other languages, many interesting articles that you
can read translated in English
in these links:
Part 1 and Part 2.


BLAVATSKY’S SCRAPBOOKS

 

 
Blavatsky used to cut out articles and images from newspapers and magazines that were related to her activities and paste them into scrapbooks, which are currently in the Adyar archives, and below is a photo of those albums:
 
 



 
 
Volume I
 
The Adyar Theosophical Society has digitized the first volume covering 1874 to 1876 and you can see it at this link.
 
To give an example of an illustration, below I show you the facsimile of the last page 206 [214] where appears an article titled "Cremation of the body of a Spiritualist":
 
 
 
 
 
The articles where Blavatsky added her comments were transcribed by the Theosophist Boris de Zirkoff and can be read in English at this link.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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