 In her 1877 work "Isis Unveiled", Blavatsky wrote that the trance must be induced through drugs rather than sexual exhaustion.Later, Blavatsky altered her understanding of the rite to mean that drug-induced trance-like state in which a new initiate first comprehends spiritual things.This was described in Blavatsky's 1888 work "Secret Doctrine," and she taught that the ritualistic state allowed the individual to either commune with the gods, descend into hell, or perform spiritual acts.