Zirkoff B. - The Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky: Difference between revisions

Letters received: From E.K.{{Footnote mark|3}}—to Moloney{{Footnote mark|4}}—sends back the astral letter. Dr. Bloede, acknowledges his error as to his pitching into H.P.B. for accepting diploma and Sotheran writing his letter to the “Banner.”

''February'' 7. H.P.B. writes letters the whole day. At four comes Dr. Bloede,—to dinner Paris, Wimbridge{{Footnote mark|5}} and John Marshall the engraver. Letter from M∴ Jun.{{Footnote mark|6}} from Boston. Announces return home early on Friday morning. Wimbridge brings the London Illustrated News.—Holkar’s and Some One’s portraits among others.

2 Letters from N. A. Fadeew{{Footnote mark|7}}—Odessa. H.P.B. 4 feuilletons definitely lost. Asks to write others. Letter from Bundy. Conciliatory and stupid. Package of Sat B’hai{{Footnote mark|8}} from Yarker.

Pope dead.—Panic in England. Russians at Constantinople. Gortchakof hoodwinks Disraeli.—I∴{{Footnote mark|9}} ! ! !

''February'' 9. H.P.B. added P.S. to the letter sent to Hurrychund Chintamon.{{Footnote mark|10|}} Enquiry about Holkar and Bhurtpur, Letter from Franklin Register. Today St.<ref>James M. Stewart, Editor of the ''Franklin Register'', Franklin, Mass.</ref> send 50 ''copies''!! of H.P.B.’s answer to masons. Rel. Ph.<ref>''Religio-Philosophical Journal'' published in Chicago, Ill.</ref> full of letters which pitch into O.

{{Footnote return|4}} Nickname which H.P.B. gave to Col. Olcott.

{{Footnote return|5}} Edward Wimbridge. See ''Bio-Bibliogr. Index'' for data.

{{Footnote return|6}} A manner in which Col. Olcott used to refer to himself.

{{Footnote return|7}} Miss Nadyezhda Andreyevna de Fadeyev (1829-1919), H.P.B.’s favorite aunt, her mother’s sister who was only two years her {{Page aside|435}}senior. Many of her letters to H.P.B. are in the Adyar Archives. For a time she was on the Council of the T.S. She remained unmarried and died in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

{{Footnote return|8}} The “Seven Brothers,” a secret organization then existing in India, having as a Ritual something akin to Masonry. John Yarker who issued to H.P.B. her Masonic certificate in the “Rite of Adoption” had evidently a copy of the Sat B’hai ritual and sent it to H.P.B At the time a ceremony of admission for members of the T.S. was planned, but nothing further was done in this matter.

{{Footnote return|9}} The Adept-Brother known as Hilarion, Ilarion, and Hillarion Smerdis, who, among other things, collaborated with H.P.B. in the writing of her occult stories.