Helena Blavatsky - Others' Comments About H.P. Blavatsky

Others' Comments About H.P. Blavatsky

«I admire a great spirit and fiery heart of our great compatriot, and I know that in future Russia her name will be put up to the proper mark of honoring. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is really our national pride. She was a great Martyr for the Light and True. Eternal glory to her!

— Helena Roerich, a Russian philosopher

«The more of just and good words will be said about a Great Russian woman, the more necessary it is now. Recently, we have heard again that some people do not read books but at once, they say gloatingly and with injustice of ignorance about that they do not know and do not wish to know. It is sad that certain people wish to fight but only at all not there where their struggle is needed. Helena Ivanovna is convinced that an institute named after H.P. Blavatsky will be established at her Motherland».

— Nicholas Roerich, a Russian painter, philosopher and scientist

«Whatever the critics said about m-me Blavatsky or colonel Olcott or Bezant, their contribution to development of humanism will already be very important».

— Mahatma Gandhi, one of the leaders and ideologists of the movement for India independence, philosopher

«Perhaps, H.P. Blavatsky, after her long stay in India, firstly established a strong connection between these “barbarians” and our culture. This gives rise to one of the greatest spiritual movements which unites today (1910) many peoples in Theosophical society».

— Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter, graphic artist, one of the founders of abstract art.

«Here, near Madras, at a suburb Adyar (near a little river with the same name), a center of new original brotherhood has been established. An American colonel Olcott was a friend and active assistant of H.P. Blavatsky, known in Russian literature as Radda-Bay. Some periodicals were especially dedicated to statements of inexplicable psychic phenomena related to yogism, i.e. magical acts of the human’s will which ignore the conditions of space and time. Blavatsky has drawn a storm of charges in charlatanism and nearly because of suspiciousness of the English had forever leaved this loved by her and full of miracles peninsula. But her art to excite the disinterested liking and devotion of the natives, their dim thirst for unity under the banner of this strange northern woman from the people which is quite alien to England, her regular travels over the country in order to draw closer to Magi for the purpose of getting of right to access to various hidden secrets of Brahmans and Jainism – all this together creates for Blavatsky an exclusive position which nobody has from the ancient times, perhaps, from the distant days when, at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the clairvoyants said with their primitively thinking congeners in the language of Gods. For the present and future India, Blavatsky is not died and will not die never».

— Prince Esper Ukhtomsky, diplomat, poet, near to Emperor Nicholas II.