The modern Theosophical movement inaugurated in 1875 by H.P. Blavatsky and others with the formation of the Theosophical Society had nearly perished by the time Madame Blavatsky moved to London in May of 1887. Although a worldly success attacks from without and a lack of support from within had rendered the Society almost lifeless. The Secret Doctrine H.P. Blavatskys magnum opus published in 1888 proved to be a tremendous catalyst for serious student inquiry. Questions about the book and its sub