It is hard to fathom Blavatsky, who was like those 7-fold Chinese dolls, each of which holds another inside. This book has many anecdotes by people who relate their impressions of the phenomenon that was Helena Blavatsky.
http://www.theosophical.org/resources/book...world/index.phpHere are some incidents from chapter two, before her TS mission came to fruition:
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