Henry Steel Olcott (1832 1907), co-founder of the Theosophical
Society, was a versatile man. He is regarded as one of the pioneers
of American agricultural education and also served in the U.S. War
Department. Later Olcott was admitted to the New York Bar and
became interested in psychology and spiritualism, travelling to
India and Sri Lanka with Madame Blavatsky to explore eastern
spiritual traditions, especially Buddhism. In this volume
(published in 1900) Olcott chronicles how he and Madame Blavatsky
journeyed to India and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in the years 1878 to
1883 to oversee the foundation of new branches of their Society.
This is part classic travel writing in which the author gives
breathless descriptions of the beauty of Indian nature, culture and
philosophy and part characterisation of Madame Blavatsky's
'psychological eccentricities' as Olcott experiences them. To him
she was and remained 'an insoluble riddle'.
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