Blavatsky began more than 20 years of extensive travel all over the world, which is extremely difficult to trace in any coherent manner. Between 1848 and 1875 she went around the world three times in search of wisdom about the nature of life and the reason for human existence. This brought her into contact with mystic traditions all over the world..

• In July 1875, HPB wrote in her scrapbook: Orders received from India direct to establish a philosophico-religious society and choose a name for it, also to choose Olcott
• Blavatsky’s then Co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875