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    The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Madame Blavatsky

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    Helena Blavatsky is one of the most famous occultists of all time. Founder of The Theosophical Society, she has developed a polarising reputation; her supporters see her as a visionary and a spiritual genius, her detractors as a charlatan and a fraud. First published in 1892, 'The Ensouled Violin' is one of her lesser-known tales. Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 3, 2014
    ISBN9781447480150
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      The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Madame Blavatsky

      Violin

      HELENA BLAVATSKY

      Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in Yekaterinoslav, the Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine) in 1831. Writing was in her family; her mother, who wrote under the pseudonym George Sand, was a world-famous author, and her sister was a prolific writer of occult and fantastic fiction. Blavatsky fled her unhappy first marriage when she was just eighteen, and began a life of travel by abandoning her family and sailing to Istanbul.

      Between 1848 and 1858, she travelled far and wide, exploring almost every continent and spending several extended spells in Tibet. By this time, Blavatsky had established herself as a medium and begun to hold séances, and when she emigrated to New York City in 1873, people were impressed with her professed psychic abilities. At a time when mediumship was a burgeoning (and not so sceptically viewed) psychical science, she became a popular figure. Throughout her career she claimed to have demonstrated feats including levitation, clairvoyance, telepathy and telekinesis.

      In 1875, she founded The Theosophical Society, and in 1877, she published her Isis Unveiled–her first major work on theosophy, examining religion and science in the light of Western and Oriental ancient wisdom and occult and spiritualistic phenomena. The book was a major success, further cementing her fame. In 1879, she moved to Bombay, India, where she converted to Buddhism and continued to expand the Society. In 1888, she published her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine.

      Suffering from Bright’s disease and complications from influenza, Blavatsky died in her London home in 1891. Her last words were Keep the link unbroken! Do not let my last incarnation be a failure. After her death, she has developed a polarising reputation; her supporters see her as a visionary and a spiritual genius, her detractors as a charlatan and a fraud.

      The ensouled violin

      Madame Blavatsky

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      In the year 1828, an old German, a music teacher, came to Paris with his pupil and settled unostentatiously in one of the quiet faubourgs of the metropolis. The first rejoiced in the name of Samuel Klaus; the second answered to the more poetical appellation of Franz Stenio. The younger man was a violinist, gifted, as rumour went, with extraordinary, almost miraculous talent. Yet as he was poor and had not hitherto made a name for himself in Europe, he remained for several years in the capital of France–the heart and pulse of capricious continental fashion–unknown and unappreciated. Franz was a Styrian by birth, and, at the time of the event to be presently described, he was a young man considerably under thirty. A philosopher and a dreamer by nature, imbued with all the mystic oddities of true genius, he reminded one of some of the heroes in Hoffmann’s Contes Fantastiques. His earlier existence had been a very unusual, in fact, quite an eccentric one, and its history must be briefly told–for the better understanding of the present story.

      Born of very pious country people, in a quiet burg among the Styrian Alps; nursed ‘by the native gnomes who watched over his cradle’; growing up in the weird atmosphere of the ghouls and vampires who play such a prominent part in the household of every Styrian and Slavonian in Southern Austria; educated later, as a student, in the

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