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Theosophical Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Henrietta Müller | Drawn by its ideals of spiritual and sexual equality, Henrietta Müller
joined the TheosophicalSociety
and increasingly connected her feminist politics to her spiritual ideals. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press, 1995. 167 Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 174 |
| Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Having resigned from the Order of the Golden Dawn
, FF
joined the LondonTheosophical Society
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 92 |
| Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Brought up as an Anglican
, she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn
and then in the... |
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | Her first object in India was to attend the eighteenth annual convention of the Theosophical Society
. She also toured Theosophical branches. Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 269, 274 |
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | By 1907 she was the president of the Theosophical Society
. Dinnage, Rosemary. Annie Besant. Penguin, 1986. 10 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 7 |
| Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for... |
| Cultural formation | Mona Caird | MC
's mother was German and her father was Scots (as was the man she later married). Both before and after her marriage she belonged to families that were in comfortable financial circumstances: her birth... |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | AK
was elected president of the British Theosophical Society
. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 107 |
| Cultural formation | Clara Codd | CC
joined the French Section of the Theosophical Society
. She first attended the Lodge Dharma
in Geneva and became interested in the Masters of the Wisdom. Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 42 Codd, Clara. The Way of the Disciple. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1964. 5 The International Theosophical Year Book: 1938. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1937. 173 |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society
to form the... |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | She was recommended to take over as president of the Society by Charles Massey
, a past president who had temporarily taken up the position again after the resignation of Dr George Wyld
. Once... |
| Cultural formation | Clara Codd | While in Geneva, CC
was first exposed to Theosophy. Her neighbour Madame von Pachten
brought her to Theosophical Society
meetings, one of which was a lecture by Colonel Henry Olcott
. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951. 25-6 |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | Theosophical Society
member Henry Olcott
had suggested that rather splitting the society into two factions, AK
should get a charter and create their own society. The Hermetic Society was inaugurated two days after Kingsford's application... |
| Employer | Clara Codd | In 1906 CC
became the first National Lecturer for the English Section of the Theosophical Society
. The International Theosophical Year Book: 1938. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1937. 173 |
Timeline
1875: Madame Blavatsky, now in New York, who had...
Building item
1875
Madame Blavatsky
, now in New York, who had been a spiritualist medium and claimed first-hand knowledge of Eastern religious practice, founded the Theosophical Society
with support from Henry Steele Olcott
and William Q. Judge
.
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