Quotes:Hellenbach, Lazar von

Zirkoff, Boris

Hellenbach, Lazar, Freiherr von. Austrian politician and philosopher, b. in the Castle of Paczolay, Sept. 3, 1827; d. there Oct. 24, 1887. His political activity was during the period of 1860-67, in the Croatian Parliament. As a philosopher, he was influenced by Schopenhauer, but developed gradually an occult viewpoint, and conceived reality as the sum of individual wills or entities endowed with wills. His works are: Eine Philosophie des gesunden Menschenverstandes (1876); Der Individualismus im Lichte der Biologie und Philosophie der Gegenwart (1878); Die Vorurteile der Menschheit (1879-80, 3 vols.).

H.P.B. had considerable respect for his views and one of her most serious students and supporters, Dr. William Hübbe-Schleiden (vide Vol. VII, pp. 375-77 of present Series, for comprehensive biogr. sketch of him, with portrait), wrote a book about von Heilenbach, entitled Hellenbach, der Vorkämpfer für Wahrheit und Menschlichkeit (1891).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 511