Franz Hartmann claimed that Blavatsky in a previous incarnation had been Cagliostro. In an article titled "A Double Personality: Cagliostro and H.P. Blavatsky," he wrote:
« It is usually said that Cagliostro died on August 26th, 1795 in his prison in Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome. The fact is, he disappeared from that prison about this time, but nothing reliable is known about his death.
On the other hand, it is asserted by very reliable sources that Cagliostro stayed in the house of H.P. Blavatsky’s grandparents in Russia for a long time after this alleged day of death, and that strange things took place during his stay there. For example, once in the middle of winter he mysteriously brought out a plate full of strawberries for a sick person who wanted them.
Whether H.P. Blavatsky was actually a reincarnation of Cagliostro, who had previously incarnated in G. Balsamo, every reader may think as he likes. I don’t want to make any assertion here either, but only to mention that when I once asked H.P. Blavatsky for her portrait, she gave me Cagliostro’s portrait instead of hers. I didn’t question her further about it. But it is possible that Cagliostro will soon appear among us again in a new personal appearance and under a new name. Hopefully next time it will be better understood. »
(Sphinx, April 1896, pp. 207-214)
OBSERVATIONS
I am suspicious of this assertion that Blavatsky had previously been Cagliostro, for several reasons.
1) First, because when Blavatsky spoke about Cagliostro in her "Theosophical Glossary," she was somewhat dismissive of Cagliostro, saying:
« His fate was that of every human being who proves that he knows more than do his fellow- creatures; he was “stoned to death” by persecutions, lies, and infamous accusations, and yet he was the friend and adviser of the highest and mightiest of every land he visited.
He was finally tried and sentenced in Rome as a heretic, and was said to have died during his confinement in a State prison.
Yet his end was not utterly undeserved, as he had been untrue to his vows in some respects, had fallen from his state of chastity and yielded to ambition and selfishness. »
(p.72)
I get the impression that if Blavatsky had previously been Cagliostro, she would have been more lenient towards Cagliostro's failings.
2) When Master Kuthumi spoke to Mr. Alfred Sinnett about Blavatsky , he informed him that:
« After almost a century of fruitless searching, our leaders had to seize the only opportunity they had to send a European body [i.e., Blavatsky] to Western soil to serve as a connecting link between your world and ours. »
(ML 26, p.203)
Blavatsky indicated that Cagliostro was an agent of the trans-Himalayan masters:
« Mesmer was also an initiated member of the Brotherhoods of the Fratres Lucis and of Lukshoor (or Luxor), or the Egyptian Branch of’ the latter. It was the Council of “Luxor” which selected him —according to the orders of the “Great Brotherhood”— to act in the XVIIIth century as their usual pioneer, sent in the last quarter of every century to enlighten a small portion of the Western nations in occult lore.
It was St. Germain who supervised the development of events in this case; and later Cagliostro was commissioned to help, but having made a series of mistakes, more or less fatal, he was recalled.
Of these three men who were at first regarded as quacks, Mesmer is already vindicated. The justification of the two others will follow in the next century. »
(Theosophical Glossary, pp. 213-214)
Therefore, it makes no sense that if the Masters were going to use Cagliostro again as their agent in the 19th century, they would spend almost a century looking for someone else.
Furthermore, Blavatsky specified that Cagliostro made several important mistakes that caused the failure of his mission, and in such a case the Masters would at least have waited for Cagliostro's soul to be perfected before entrusting him with another mission.
And if Cagliostro died in 1795 (and according to Franz Hartmann, Cagliostro would have died years later) that is much less than a century before the appearance of Blavatsky who was born in 1831.
Therefore, the Masters were looking for another soul other than Cagliostro, since Kuthumi specified that they had been searching for almost a century.
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