Myra Phelon
(1 April 1831 − 23 February 1896)
American occultist (born Ruth Lamira Morse, 1831–1896), a niece of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, born in Vermont. With her husband William P. Phelon she co-founded the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in Chicago around 1875 and co-edited its journal The Hermetist; both joined the Theosophical Society in 1884 and helped found the Ramayana Theosophical Society in Chicago in 1887. She lectured and taught in her own right at the Brotherhood, and co-authored with her husband the book Three Sevens: A Story of Ancient Initiations (1889). Contributed "A Parable of Reincarnation" (January 1892) to The Path, read before the Ramayana T. S., an allegory of reincarnation and Devachan drawn from the life cycle of a flowering shrub. She died in Chicago in 1896, after which her husband moved to San Francisco.
Some links:
- Works: Phelon, Myra (works)
- CTD article in Russian: Фелон, Майра
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