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November 2024

November 28, 2024

Occultism And The Irish Literary Society In America

I have previously written about Charles Johnston, W.B. Yeats, George Russell, and their role in...

August 2024

August 03, 2024

Modern Olympics And Secret Societies

As they were held on the sacred soil of Elis, the Olympic games...

August 01, 2024

Theodora Dodge: A Flagrant Insurrection

PART VI A FLAGRANT INSURRECTION The longer I stayed in Brussels, the more I...

July 2024

July 10, 2024

Theodora Dodge: Life In Occupied Belgium

PART V LIFE IN OCCUPIED BELGIUM After that terrible night when the Germans had come...

July 06, 2024

Theodora Dodge: The Fall Of Antwerp

PART IV THE FALL OF ANTWERP The fall of Antwerp was one of the most...

July 05, 2024

Theodora Dodge: The Race To The Sea

PART III THE RACE TO THE SEA About the middle of September 1914, the world...

July 03, 2024

Theodora Dodge: “It’s War.”

PART II IT’S WAR It is with a peculiar reticence, difficult perhaps to explain, that...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

Theodora Dodge: The Creeping Shadow

During the Great War, Theodora Dodge (1871-1936,) one of the first women Egyptologists from America,...

June 23, 2024

Legends Of Ascension

Last year I wrote a piece titles "Where The Sandstone Yawns," about the...

June 22, 2024

The Dharma Of “Dixie.”

I had wanted to write about the Theosophical Society in the American South, and when...

June 15, 2024

Foulke Implosion

Henry B. Foulke.[1] Henry Bellerjeau Foulke (1856-1938) was a well-known Philadelphia real estate agent of...

June 02, 2024

The Occult Nationalists Of California: Pt. II.

In the previous post, we left off in 1891 with the rise of Theosophy...

June 01, 2024

The Occult Nationalists Of California

As mentioned in a previous post, the first “Theosophical Society” in California began on...

May 2024

May 17, 2024

President Coffin And A Korean’s Cremation

For three days, Soh Kwang-pom’s body laid in state at his residence at 2819...

May 05, 2024

Hargrove (XI): “The Hair Line Of Duty”

On May 11, 1905, their ship, the S.S. Grosser Kurfurst, arrived in New York, and...

May 05, 2024

Hargrove (X): “The White Stag”

In Brussels, the Hargrove’s visited Dr. Leyds in Holland where Ernest received a commission from...

May 05, 2024

Hargrove (IX): “The Séances Of Thomas Welton Stanford”

Ernest and Aimée were only three days out at sea, en route to the...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (VII) “The Conciliator Of South Africa”

General Sir Redvers Buller And Staff Going On Board Dunottar Castle, October 14, 1899.[1]...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (VI): “The South African Situation”

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION. Ernest Temple Hargrove. The history of South Africa is known,...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (V): “Dr. Leyds & Occultation Of World Politics”

Church of the Holy Apostles.[1] On January 17, 1899, Ernest and Aimée were...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (IV): “Villa Maria”

Towards the end of March 1898, Tingley issued a notice to the stockholders of the...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (III): “Kitty Tingley, Despot”

A few days after the homecoming for the Theosophical Crusade at Madison Square...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (II): “The Purple Mother”

Katherine A. Tingley.[1] Katherine Augusta Tingley (1847–1929) was born Katherine Westcott to...

May 04, 2024

Hargrove (I): “Refined English Atmosphere”

Ernest Temple Hargrove.[1] Ernest Temple Hargrove was born on December 17, 1870, at Laurel...

March 2024

March 09, 2024

The Lost Canon Of Proportion Of The Ancient Egyptians

THE LOST CANON OF PROPORTIONS OF THE EGYPTIANS September 7, 1875. Judge and Castle...

March 08, 2024

To Hear The Dewy Echoes Calling

THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE STRANGER August 22, 1875. Olcott used to go to The Sun...

March 08, 2024

“Chela Bill”

When Olcott returned to New York, he was approached by William Quan Judge, a young...

March 08, 2024

The Flower Goddess of Boston

HEATHER FROM THE GRAMPIAN HILLS July 4, 1875.[1] Colonel Henry Steel Olcott fastened the...

February 2024

February 23, 2024

The Ivory Tower Of Theosophy

William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge,...

February 17, 2024

Miss Cremers And The Ripper

Mabel Collins (1851-1927) was born Minna Mabel Collins in 1851 at St Peters Port,...