Introduction The Theosophical Society was founded in late 1875 in New York City by a Russian noblewoman, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and an American, Colonel Henry Olcott, together with lawyer William Quan Judge and other individuals interested in Madame Blavatsky's ideology. Madame Blavatsky Madame Blavatsky was the first Russian woman to get US citizenship. As a young lady, she travelled the world in search of information about the nature of life and the purpose of human exi