H. P. Blavatsky interview in The Star newspaper. December 18, 1888.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress of the United States of America. THEOSOPHY AND THEOSOPHISTS. An Interview with Madame Blavatsky, and an Evening with the Brothers. There are nearly as many Madame Blavatskys as you please. There is, for example, the Madame Blavatsky of the Psychical Research Society, which, if I remember rightly, has in one of its oracular reports assigned her a distinguished place on the roll of the world’s impostors. There is the Madame Blavatsky, of popular repute and report, who looks large and uncertain, Monstrum informe, ingens, horrendum in the imagination of Europe — a sort of female Cagliostro, or wonder-worker, who is wafted through stone walls, like Mrs. Guppy, and bodily up into the heavens like the just Enoch. There is then the Madame Blavatsky (known to the Brotherhood as "H. P. B.") of her own Theosophical Society, the members of which look upon her as a searcher after and teacher of truths not known to or not understanded of the many, as the...