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H.P. Blavatsky The Light-Bringer

By GEOFFREY A. BARBORKA

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Writing By A Process Analogous To Tulku

THE LAST of the seven methods of writing chosen for consideration could be termed Writing by means of a process analogous to Tulku.* This description endeavours to express the significance of the idea suggested by the word Tulku, for there is no single English word equivalent to the Tibetan one. To some extent it explains the state or condition in which Mme. Blavatsky functioned from time to time. She referred to this state in a rather vague manner, leaving it to one's intuition to determine what was meant. For instance here is a passage from one of her letters to A. P. Sinnett:
m one of her letters to A. P. Sinnett: I too was made a reflection several times and during months; but I never abused of it, to try and palm off my personal schemes on those who mistook H.P.B. of Russia, for the high Initiate of xxx whose telephone she was at times. And this why the MASTERS have never withdrawn Their confidence from me, if all others (saving a very few) have.

In similar vein she wrote this significant statement in her own copy of her book The Voice of the Silence : 'H.P.B. to H. P. Blavatsky with no kind regards.

Here is another citation, selected from one of her articles :
I once slept for eleven weeks, believing myself to be awake the whole time and walking around like a ghost of Pontoise, without being able to understand why no one appeared to see me and to answer me. I was entirely unaware that I was liberated from my old carcase which, at that time, however, was a little younger. That was at the beginning of my studies.

Then there is this passage, which occurs in a letter to her sister Vera; consequently no technical terms are used : 
Several times a day I feel that besides me there is someone else, quite separable from me, present in my body. I never lose the consciousness of my own personality; what I feel is as if I were keeping silent and the other one—the lodger who is in me—were speaking with my tongue...

Do not be afraid that I am off my head. All that I can say is that someone positively inspires me...more than this : someone enters me. It is not I who talk and write : it is something within me, my higher and luminous Self, that thinks and writes for me.*
Col. Olcott was aware of this change that would occur to H. P. Blavatsky when she was engaged in the writing of I sis Unveiled, for he narrates : 
...the H.P.B. manuscripts varied at times, and that there were several variants of the one prevailing script; also that each change in the writing was accompanied by a marked alteration in the manner, motions, expression, and literary capacity of H.P.B.