Quotes:Glanvill, Joseph

Zirkoff, Boris

Glanvill, Joseph. English divine, b. 1636, at Plymouth; d. Nov. 4, 1680, at Bath. Grad, from Exeter College, Oxford, 1655; MA., Lincoln Coll., 1658, becoming chaplain to Francis Rous, provost of Eton. Rector at Wimbish, Essex, 1660. Friend of Henry More, though not a Platonist himself. One of the first Fellows of Royal Society. Rector of Abbey Church, Bath, 1666. Chaplain in ordinary to Charles II, 1672. Tried to find empirical ground for belief in supernatural, and defended witchcraft. Formed, with Henry More, an association for “psychical research” and investigated various phenomena. Accepted More’s theory of pre-existence of souls. Prolific writer. Author of: The Vanity of Dogmatizing. London, 1661. 8vo. Contains anticipations of electric telegraph. — Lux Orientalis: or, an inquiry into the opinion of the Eastern Sages concerning the Pre-existence of Souls, etc., 1662. 8vo. — Sadducismus Triumphatus: or full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. Done into English by A. Horneck. London, 1681. 8 vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 374