Quotes:Buck, Jirah Dewey

Zirkoff, Boris

Buck, Dr. Jirah Dewey. American physician and writer, b. at Fredonia, N. Y., November 20, 1838; d. in 1916 or 1917. Educated at Belvidere, III.; graduated at Cleveland Homeopathic College, 1864; married, 1865, Melissa M. Clough. Prof, of physiology at Cleveland Homeop. Coll., 1866-71. Settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, in active practice of medicine. Became, 1880, Dean of Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati; and in 1890 President of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Dr. Buck was a 33° Mason and a lifelong student of occultism. He joined the Theosophical Society in the very early years of its existence. It is stated in The Path (Vol. VII, Jan. 1893, pp. 319-20) that at one time “as H.P.B. was just about to go on the steamer en route to India, she wrote him a friendly letter, using the top of a barrel for table, and telling him of her intended departure, and Dr. Buck then thought he would never see her. Later, in the year of her death, he sailed for London with Mrs. Buck and Annie Besant to make H. P. B.’s personal 499 acquaintance. But while they were on the ocean H. P. B.’s body was deserted by its soul, and the travellers saw nothing on arrival but her empty room.”

Dr. Buck was the center around whom the Cincinnati Branch of the T. S. coalesced; he worked indefatigably in the cause of Theosophy and served for a number of years on the Executive Committee of the American Section. He was a valued contributor to the pages of The Path, The Theosophist, and Lucifer magazines. In outer appearance, he was a man over six feet tall, of light complexion and hair. His mind was analytical and used to concentrated work. Among his many books, the following should be mentioned:

The Nature and Aim of Theosophy, 1887.—A Study of Man and the Way to Health, 1888.—Mystic Masonry, 1896.—The Genius of Freemasonry, 1908.—Constructive Psychology, 1909.—The Lost Word Found, 1909.—The Soul and Sex in Education, 1909.—Modern World Movements, 1913.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, pp. 498-499

Buck, Dr. Jirah Dewey (1838-1916). *Modern World Movements. Indo-American Book Co., Chicago, 1913. 191 pp.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 421