A study in theosophy and a memoir of a great soul. The author's object in this work was not so much to write a biography to record the incidents in the eventful life of that remarkable woman, H.P. Blavatsky, as to endeavor in the first place to show from the existing records in connection with her history how the great modern Theosophical Movement originated, and what are the fundamental facts and principles on which it is based. In the second place, to disclose as far as may be possible the soul of the woman who was the central figure in the inception of that Movement.