India - cradle of mankind

“India is the cradle of mankind, the prophetess of all other nations, the seedling of all the lost arts and sciences of antiquity, who were already lost in the Cimmerian darkness of the archaic centuries for the oldest India. We argue that if Egypt gave Greece to its civilization, and the latter handed it over to Rome, then Egypt itself to those unknown centuries when Menes reigned (the first Egyptian king, ser. IV thousand. BC), received his own laws, his own, his own Public institutions, their arts and sciences from premeditical India, and therefore it is there, in the ancient cradle of all clergymen - adherents of all other countries - we must look for the key to all the great secrets of mankind. ”
To study India means to follow the traces of mankind to its origins. Thus, in one of her works, our outstanding Russian female subsidiary, the founder of the theosophical movement Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) wrote. This edition presents her two works about India - “Mysterious tribes on the Blue Mountains”, “Durbar in Lachore”, as well as the head of the famous work “Explined Isis”. The book precedes the biographical essay E.P. Blavatsky, written by the Russian philosopher,
the writer is a prominent figure of the Theosophical movement of pre -revolutionary Russia Elena Fedorovna Pisareva (1853-1944)