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| A Bewitched Life
First published in The Theosophist in August–September 1885; an expanded version appeared in Lucifer ...
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| Abdul Ghafur
Religious leader of Swat (<span ...
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| Abercrombie, John
Scottish physician who combined medical research with metaphysical interests; author of Inquiries ...
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| Abeywardan, P. Perera | |
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Abich, Otto Hermann Wilhelm von
(1806-1886) German geologist (1806-1886), known for his scientific work in the Caucasus. He held the chair of ge ...
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| Abrew, Peter de
Ceylonese Buddhist philanthropist and supporter of Buddhist education, particularly Musaeus College ...
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| Abrew, William de
Ceylonese Buddhist Theosophist and interpreter who accompanied Henry Olcott’s delegation from Colomb ...
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| Abu'l-Faraj
Syriac and Arabic author (1226-1286) and senior prelate of the Jacobite Church. His Syriac Chronic ...
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| Acilius Glabrio
Roman magistrate and consul in 191 BC, who commanded the successful campaign against Antiochus III i ...
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| Adams, Charles Frederick
Lawyer and member of the Hiraf group associated with an early controversy involving [[Blavatsky, Hel ...
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Addison, Joseph
(1672-1719) English essayist, poet and politician, particularly known for his contributions to the daily Spectat ...
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| Aderji, Bezonji | |
| Adhav, Ballaji Khanderav | |
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Aeschylus
(525 BCE - 456 BCE) Bibliographical references include: Choëphoroe (The Libation-Bearers). Also an un-identified referen ...
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Agassiz, Louis
(1807-1873) Co-author with Augustus A. Gould of Principles of Zoology (Boston, 1848), subsequently reissued ...
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Aglio, Agostino
(1777-1857) Italian painter, engraver and lithographer (1777-1857), resident in England from 1803. He collaborat ...
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| Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius
(1486-1535) German writer, soldier, physician and magician, in the service of Emperor Maximilian I and later of ...
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| Aiyar, A. Mahadeva
Corresponding secretary of the Vellore Theosophical Society in 1884.
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| Aiyar, C. Kuppuswami | |
| Aiyar, N. Soondram | |
| Aiyar, P. Sesha | |
| Aiyar, S. A. Saminada
• S. A. Saminada Aier Secretary of the Negapatam Theosophical Society in 1883.
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| Aiyar, T. R. Venkatarama
Secretary of the Pollachi Theosophical Society; signed the report of its founding meeting in June 18 ...
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| Aiyer, C. Narayanasawmi | |
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Aksakov, Alexander Nikolayevich
(1832-1903) Russian author, philosopher and a leading figure among writers on Spiritualism. Introduced to Sweden ...
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| Alagona, Pietro
Sicilian Jesuit theologian versed in canon law; taught philosophy and theology at Palermo and Messin ...
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| Albizzi, Francesco
Italian cardinal and jurist who opposed Jansenism and wrote legal works. He became a cardinal in 165 ...
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| Alcock, Nathaniel
Surgeon-major in the Army Medical Department.
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| Alden, William Livingston
(1837-1908) American author and journalist. Leader-writer for New York newspapers (World, Times, Graph ...
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| Aldrovandi, Ulysse
Italian naturalist and physician (1522-1605), professor at Bologna and organizer of botanical and na ...
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| Alexander I
B. de Zirkoff discusses the theory identifying Alexander I with the elder Feodor ...
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| Alexander II
The assassination of Alexander II on 1/13 March 1881 deeply shocked [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. ...
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| Alexander Trallianus
Physician from Tralles active in the sixth century. His twelve-book medical treatise drew on extensi ...
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| Alexander, Otho
Theosophist based in Corfu and corresponding secretary of the Ionian Theosophical Society.
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| Alexandre, Charles
Editor of Oracula Sibyllina, cited in several Paris editions <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90 ...
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| Algya-Pap, Zoltan de
An associate of the Adyar Archives who assisted with the preparation of the second volume of [[Blava ...
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| Ali, Mansaih | |
| Ali, Omrah | |
| Ali, Omrao
Secretary of the Dumraon Theosophical Society in 1891.
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| Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie
Canadian novelist and popular scientific writer, known for explaining Darwinian ideas. His works inc ...
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| Allen, G. W.
Clergyman associated with the Christo-Theosophical Society in London, formed to study Theosophy alon ...
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| Allinson, Thomas Richard
(1858–1918) British physician, writer and dietary reformer who advocated vegetarianism and wholemeal bread.
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| Alphonso X
(1221-1284) King of Castile and León (1252-1284), patron of vernacular historiography, law, poetry and astronomy ...
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| Amadeus of Portugal
Portuguese Franciscan reformer, also known as João Mendes de Silva. He founded convents in Italy and ...
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| Amarasinha
Sanskrit lexicographer, also called Amara, associated with Buddhism. His Amarakosa, a dictionary ...
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| Ambrosius, Saint
Author of De fide ad Gratianum Augustum libri quinque, included in volume 30 of Hurter's Sanctorum P ...
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| Amico, Francesco
Italian Jesuit theologian. Began his novitiate, 1596. At first taught philosophy for some years, the ...
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| Amiot, Joseph-Maria
French Jesuit missionary in China (1718-1793), a student of Chinese music, languages and culture. Mu ...
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| Ammianus Marcellinus
(около 330 - после 395) Zirkoff's bibliography cites his History in the Loeb Classical Library. <span style="color: grey ...
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| Ampère, André Marie
French physicist and professor at the École Polytechnique; developed a mathematical account of elect ...
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| An Explanation Important to All Theosophists
A twelve-page pamphlet published by Allen Scott & Co., London, in 1888, probably October. Its text i ...
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| An Open Letter to All the Fellows of the American Section of The Theosophical Society
Originally issued as a four-page pamphlet printed by A. Bonner, 34 Bouverie Street, London E.C. It i ...
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| Anagarika Dharmapala
(1864–1933) • Don David Hewavitharane Sri Lankan Buddhist reformer and founder of the Maha Bodhi Society. Born Don David Hewavitharane, he ...
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| Anandagiri
Commentator on Samkaracharya and author of Samkaravijaya, also known as Anandajnana. Zirkoff des ...
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| Ancient Astronomy. The Great Pyramid
The autograph in the Adyar archives comprises three sheets. First published in the November 1963 The ...
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| Anderson, James
Bibliographical references include: The Book of Constitutions for Freemasons, London, 1723 <span sty ...
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| Anderson, Jerome A.
(1847–1903) American physician and theosophical writer active in San Francisco. Joined the Theosophical Society ...
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| Andreae, Johann Valentin
German theologian and writer, educated at Tübingen and associated with the Rosicrucian literature di ...
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| Andrew, E. | |
| Angudram Shastri | |
| Annesley, Francis | |
| Annie Besant and the Esoteric Section
Two documents preserved in the Theosophical Society archives at Adyar. The first is in [[Mead, Georg ...
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| Answers to Questions
The Adyar manuscript consists of two sheets written on both sides. Some information parallels Blavat ...
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| Anthon, Charles
American classical scholar. Grad. of Columbia Univ. 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar, 1819 ...
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| Apollonius Rhodius
Greek epic poet and grammarian of Alexandria, pupil of Callimachus and author of the Argonautica, an ...
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| Appointment of Bertram Keightley
The document in H. P. Blavatsky’s handwriting is preserved in the arc ...
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| Apuleius, Lucius
The bibliography cites De Deo Socratis in a Latin-French collection published by Firmin-Didot in ...
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| Aratus
Greek didactic poet of the third century b.c. contemporary with Aristarchus of Samos and Theocritus ...
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| Ardisher, Rustamji | |
| Ariamnes II
King of Cappadocia, son and successor of Ariarathes II; shared his royal power with his son, the fut ...
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| Aristides, P. Aelius
Greek rhetorician of the second century, surnamed Theodorus; travelled widely and lived for many yea ...
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| Aristophanes
(444 - ок. 387-380 до н. э.) His comedy The Frogs is cited through Benjamin Bickley Rogers’s edition and translation of The ...
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Aristotle
(384-322 до н. э.) The bibliography refers to the treatise on the generation of animals through Philoponus’s commentary ...
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| Arne, Thomas Augustine
English composer associated with Drury Lane and Covent Garden; his music for Alfred (1740) inclu ...
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| Arnobius the Elder
Bibliographical references include: Adversus Gentes. In Migne, Patr. C. Compl. Ser. Lat. IV, 349. Al ...
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| Arnold, Sir Edwin
(1832-1904) Author (1832-1904) of The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana), an accou ...
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| Arrian
(ок. 86 – ок. 160) Greek historian from Nicomedia, active in the second century under Hadrian and the Antonines; a pupi ...
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| Arty, D. S. C. | |
| Arundale, Francesca Eliza
(1842–1924) English Theosophist and educator, a close associate of H. P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant. Worked in e ...
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| Ashburner, John
Zirkoff suggests that Blavatsky's unspecific reference may concern Facts in Clairvoyance (1848) ...
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| Ashmole, Elias
English antiquary with interests in heraldry, astrology and alchemy. His collection, presented to Ox ...
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| Assier, Adolphe d’
French scientist, philosopher and student of language, born in 1828. His Essai sur l’Humanité Post ...
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| Asvaghosha
• Aśvaghoṣa • Ashvaghosha Sanskrit poet and Buddhist philosopher, traditionally credited with the biography of the Buddha, the ...
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Athenagoras
(ca. 133-190) A Platonic philosopher of Athens, who wrote a Greek Apology for the Christians in A.D. 177, addresse ...
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| Atkinson, Edward
(1827–1905) An American economist and publicist who wrote on manufacturing, trade and social questions. His inte ...
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| Atkinson, Henry George
(1812–1890) English writer interested in mesmerism and naturalistic philosophy. With Harriet Martineau he co-aut ...
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| Atreya, N. B. | |
| Atticus Herodes, Tiberius Claudius
Greek rhetorician of an ancient family traditionally tracing its descent to the Aeacidae <span style ...
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| Atwood, Mary Anne
English writer and student of the Hermetic tradition, author of A Suggestive Inquiry into the Herm ...
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Augustine, Saint
(0354-0430) Bibliographical references include: De civitate Dei. Transl. by M. Dods. Edinburgh: Clark 1897. 2 vo ...
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| Avadhani, V. V. S. | |
| Babaji
• S. Krishnaswami Iyengar • Dharbagiri Nath • Bawajee Indian member of the early Theosophical Society, also known as S. Krishnaswami Iyengar. Worked at it ...
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| Babinet, Jacques
(1794-1872) French physicist, professor at the Lycée Saint-Louis and later the Collège de France, and member of ...
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| Babula
A Gujarati servant who entered H. P. Blavatsky’s household in March 1 ...
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Bacon, Francis
(1561-1626) • Lord Verulam was an English philosopher, historian and statesman. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism ...
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Bacon, Roger
(ca. 1214-1292) Bibliographical references include: De mirabili potestate artis et naturae, 1256-57, a work usually ...
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| Bacon, William Thompson
American clergyman. Graduated at Yale, 1837, delivering the valedictory poem. Studied later at Yale ...
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Bailly Jean Sylvain
(1736-1793) French astronomer, statesman and historian. Educated at home in the art of painting; later devoted h ...
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Bain, Alexander
(1818-1903) Zirkoff lists The Correlations of Nervous and Mental Forces as unidentified and refers to BCW VI ...
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| Baissac, Jules
(1827-1898) French theologist, who viewed Satan as a 'Centrifugal Energy of the Universe’ in a cosmic sense [[Ca ...
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| Bakhtawar Lal | |
| Bala Sastri
A pandit associated with Benares. Olcott’s later account identifies Pandit Bala Shastri as a former ...
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| Balachandrier, N. P. | |
| Balachandum, R. P. | |
| Balakistnah, V. | |
| Baldwin, Samuel Spencer
(1848–1924) • Samri Baldwin American stage conjurer who performed demonstrations of tricks used by fraudulent mediums.
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| Ballard, Anna
(1828–1923) American journalist and member of the Theosophical Society. As a reporter for the [[Sun, The|New Y ...
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| Bandyopadhyay, Kalipada | |
| Banerjee, Brojendra Nath | |
| Banerjee, Jogesh Chandra
Secretary of the Behar Theosophical Society at Bankipore in 1884.
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| Banerjee, Preo Nath | |
| Banerji, Avinas Chandra
A physician who attended H. P. Blavatsky during dengue fever at Allah ...
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| Banerji, B. | |
| Banerji, Bipin Bihari | |
| Banerji, Raj Kumar | |
| Banerji, Rustik Lal | |
| Banerji, Tarapada | |
| Bannerjee, Nobin K.
• Nobin Krishna Bannerji • Nabin K. Sarman Banerjee An early Indian Theosophist and president of the Berhampore branch. He served as deputy magistrate a ...
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| Bapu Deva Shastri
Indian Sanskrit scholar, mathematician and astronomer, professor at the Government College of Benare ...
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| Barberi, Andrew
Bibliographical references include: Bullarii Romani Continuatio, Rome, 1835-57. 19 vols. fol. Extend ...
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| Barborka, Geoffrey
Assisted with the early volumes of H. P. Blavatsky’s collected writin ...
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| Baring-Gould, Sabine
Author of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, first published in London in 1866; de Zirkoff also l ...
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Barker, Alfred Trevor
(1893-1941) English Theosophist who deciphered, edited and published The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (1 ...
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| Barker, Virginia
Assisted with editing manuscripts for H. P. Blavatsky’s collected wri ...
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| Barlow, Peter
English mathematician, physicist and optician, known for experimental research on induced magnetism, ...
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Baronius, Caesar
(1538-1607) Italian ecclesiastical historian. Educated at Veroli and Naples. Joined Oratory at Rome, 1557, and b ...
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| Barras, Charles M
Bibliographical references include: The Black Crook. Light Opera <span style="color: grey; font-size ...
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| Barrett, William Fletcher
Physicist at Dublin and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research.
British physicis ...
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| Barth, Auguste
French Orientalist (1834-1916), an authority on Indian religions and author of Religions de l’Inde ...
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Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, Jules
(1805-1895) His Le Bouddha et sa religion was published in Paris in 1860. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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| Bary, Ruttun Chund
(c. 1849–1890) • Ratan Chand Bary • Rattan Chand Barry Punjabi clerk in the Lahore Accountant-General’s Office and joint secretary of the Lahore Arya Samaj ...
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| Baryatinsky, Vladimir
Author of Le Mystère d'Alexandre I, published in Paris in 1925, with a second edition in 1929. I ...
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| Basilides
Extensive work on the interpretation of the Gospels, in 24 volumes. Mentioned by Cassels, Supernatur ...
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Bastian, Adolf
(1826-1905) German ethnologist (1826-1905) whose extensive travels supplied material for studies of cultures wor ...
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| Basu, Baroda Prasad | |
| Basu, Kedarnath | |
| Basu, Upendranath
Indian lawyer and Theosophist. Served as joint General Secretary of the Indian Section with Bertram ...
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| Bates, R.
English schoolteacher and member of the Theosophical Society, from which she was expelled in 1880. S ...
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| Batten, G. H. M.
A correspondent who communicated the Viceroy’s position on the Theosophical Society in a letter date ...
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Bauer, Bruno
(1809-1882) German theologian and historian (1809-1882), associated in his early studies with the Hegelian schoo ...
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| Bawa, Ramamrit Sagara | |
| Bax, Clifford
Bibliographical references include: The Distaff Muse. London: Hollis & Carter, 1949 <span style="col ...
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| Beal, Samuel
(1825-1889) Author of A Catena of Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese, published in London by Trübner & Co. ...
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Beale, Lionel Smith
Criticised material explanations of life in an address to the Victoria Philosophical Institute in Lo ...
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| Beale, W. S.
Theosophist active in Surat and Bombay, author of an essay on jealousy.
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| Beard, George Miller
(1839–1883) American neurologist known for his work on neurasthenia. He criticized Spiritualist phenomena, and h ...
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| Beatson, Stuart Brownlow
(1854–1914) British Indian Army officer and early member of the Theosophical Society. He witnessed the brooch ph ...
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| Beatson, William Stuart
(?–1857) Captain in the 1st Bengal Light Cavalry and father of Stuart Brownlow Beatson. Extracts from his dia ...
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| Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
(1732-1799) French dramatist, author of Le Barbier de Séville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1778), th ...
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| Bebutov, Vasily Osipovich
Russian general and statesman of the princely Bebutov family. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 9 ...
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| Bede
(672 (673) - 26 May 735) Author of Historia ecclesiastica, completed in 731; the bibliography cites Charles Plummer's Oxford ...
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| Beecher, Henry Ward
Passage quoted from one of his sermons; has not been traced to any source <span style="color: grey; ...
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| Beechey, Katherine A.
As keeper of the Adyar Archives, supplied material and information for Volume VI of [[Blavatsky, Hel ...
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| Beglar, Joseph David
Author of a report on tours in the south-eastern provinces of India in 1874-75 and 1875-76, undertak ...
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| Beharee, Hardeva | |
| Beke, Charles Tilstone
English explorer and biblical researcher (1800-1874), active in Abyssinia, Syria and Palestine. His ...
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| Beliy, Elizabeth Petrovna
Paternal half-sister of H. P. Blavatsky and her companion on a journe ...
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| Bell, Lydia
Theosophist associated with the Aryan Theosophical Society in New York. Her election as its vice-pre ...
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| Bellachini, Samuel
Court conjurer to the German emperor whose testimony was cited in defence of the medium [[Slade, Dr. ...
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| Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo
Italian cardinal and theologian who joined the Society of Jesus in 1560, studied at Padua and taught ...
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| Benedict XIV
Pope, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (1675-1758). His treatise on beatification and canonization a ...
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| Benedict, H. M.
President of the New York Gold Exchange. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced ...
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| Bennett, De Robigne Mortimer
(1818–1882) American freethinker, editor and publisher. He founded The Truth Seeker in 1873 and joined the T ...
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| Benson, Arthur Christopher
(1862–1925) English poet and essayist, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. Served as Maste ...
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| Bentley, Richard
English classical scholar and critic (1662-1742), keeper of the Royal Library and master of Trinity ...
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| Benzengr, Vassiliy Nikolayevich
Physician who treated H. A. von Hahn while she was staying with her ...
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| Bernheim, Hippolyte
French physician. Was first professor at the Univ. of Strassburg, 1868, but settled later at Nancy, ...
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| Berridge, Edward William
(1844–1920) British homoeopathic physician. Trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and obtained medical d ...
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| Bert, Paul
Bibliographical references include: La morale des Jésuites. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. xliv, 666 p ...
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| Berthelot, Marcellin Pierre Eugène
Bibliographical references include: Les origines de l’alchimie. Paris: G. Steinheil, 1885. Nouveau t ...
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| Bertrand, François Marie
Author of a four-volume historical and comparative dictionary of the world’s religions, published at ...
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Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
(1779-1848) Swedish chemist (1779-1848), professor in Stockholm and secretary of its Academy of Sciences. His re ...
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Besant, Annie
(1847–1933) British writer, lecturer and social reformer; second president of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, ...
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| Besant, Walter
Author of the three-volume novel Herr Paulus: his rise, his greatness, and his fall (London, 1888) < ...
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| Bhagavan Das
(1869–1958) Indian philosopher, educator and Theosophist. Collaborated with Annie Besant in establishing the Cen ...
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| Bhagwan Chand | |
| Bhalchandra Krishna | |
| Bhanap, G. V. | |
| Bhargava Sarma | |
| Bhargava, Kundan Lal | |
| Bharucha, Dorab F. | |
| Bharwaria, Pestonji H. | |
| Bhashyacharya, Nadaduri
Indian Sanskrit scholar and theosophist, director of the Adyar Library.
Sanskrit and Oriental schol ...
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| Bhatkal, Ramrao Mangeshaya | |
| Bhatta, Nuffer Chandra | |
| Bhatta, Tridhara Charan | |
| Bhattacharji, Kunja B. | |
| Bhattacharya, Adityaram
A Sanskrit scholar who joined the Theosophical Society around late December 1879, during the Founder ...
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| Bhattacharya, Beni Madhab
Purchased a plot of land for a Theosophical hall during the establishment of the Prayag Theosophical ...
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| Bhattacharya, Guru Charan | |
| Bhattacharya, Konja V. | |
| Bhawani Pershad | |
| Bhojapatra, Jaswant Roy
An Indian surgeon. (<span style= ...
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| Bhola Deva Sarma
• Bholadeva Sharma Disciple of the Mahatma Morya and a signatory of the protest published in The Theosophist in Sep ...
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| Bhugwandas Munmohundas | |
| Bianchini, Francesco Giuseppe
Italian historian, astronomer and antiquary associated with the papal court. He studied historical a ...
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| Bibesco, Martha
Author of Katia, translated into English by Priscilla Bibesco and published in New York by Doubl ...
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| Bichat, Marie François Xavier
French physiologist and anatomist (1771-1802), a pupil of P. J. Desault. He developed the study of t ...
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Bigandet, Paul-Ambroise
(1813-1894) French missionary and Apostolic Vicar of Burma, noted for educational work, knowledge of Burmese lan ...
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| Billimoria, N. F. | |
| Billing, Mary Hollis
In January 1879 H. P. Blavatsky and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcot ...
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| Bing, L. Levy | |
| Binsfeld, Pierre
Theologian and suffragan bishop at Trier, known for defending the credibility of confessions in witc ...
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| Bishnu Chandru | |
| Bisvas, Amrita Lal | |
| Bisvas, Nakur Chandra
Translator of Sanskrit aphorisms from the work of Shiva Narayan Swami.
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| Biswas, I. N. | |
| Bjerregaard, Carl Henrik Andreas
(1845–1922) Danish-born librarian and writer on mysticism and Eastern thought. Worked at the Astor Library and l ...
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| Blake, Charles Carter
(1840–1897) British anthropologist, palaeontologist and comparative anatomist; a founding fellow of the Anthropo ...
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| Blayton, Thomas | |
| Blech, Charles
Author of Contribution à l'Histoire de la Société Théosophique en France (Paris: Éditions Adyar, ...
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| Bleuler, Eugen
Swiss psychiatrist, born in 1857, director of the Rheinau institution and later professor at Zürich ...
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| Bochart, Samuel
French Protestant pastor and Oriental scholar; his Geographia sacra (1646), comprising Phaleg' ...
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| Bodin, Jean
French jurist and political thinker (1530-1596). His Six livres de la République examines the st ...
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| Boerhaave, Hermann
Dutch physician and famous professor of medicine. Graduated in philosophy at Leyden and in medicine ...
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Boethius
Philosopher and statesman influenced by Neoplatonism and Stoicism, and a Latin translator and commen ...
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Bogle, George
Scottish diplomat in East India Company service, sent by Warren Hastings to the Tashi Lama to establ ...
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| Boldetti, Marco Antonio
Italian antiquary (1663-1749), Vatican Hebrew scribe and inspector of the Roman catacombs under Clem ...
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| Bonesetter, Fakirji R. | |
| Bonggren, Jacob
(1854–1940) Swedish-American writer and publicist who contributed to Theosophical periodicals. Author of The S ...
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| Bonnet, Charles
Swiss naturalist and philosopher (1720-1793), whose studies ranged from insects and plants to psycho ...
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Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
(1608-1679) Italian physiologist and physicist, professor of mathematics at Messina and Pisa. Author of De mot ...
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| Borrichius, Olaus
Danish chemist and philologist. His father was a preacher. Distinguished himself as a teacher at Cop ...
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| Bosak, Purnachandra | |
| Boscovich, Roger Joseph
Mathematician and natural philosopher from Ragusa, a Jesuit and an early supporter of Newton's gravi ...
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| Bose, Khetter Chunder | |
| Bose, Nritya Gopal | |
| Bose, Raj Narain
(1826–1899) • Rajnarayan Basu Bengali writer, educator and religious reformer associated with the Adi Brahmo Samaj. He was a promi ...
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| Bose, Sris Chandra
Indian Sanskrit scholar and translator associated with the Theosophical Society. Published English t ...
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| Bossuet, Jacques Benigne
Bishop of Meaux (1627-1704). His Traité de la Connaissance de Dieu is cited as a posthumous work ...
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Bouché-Leclercq, Auguste
(1842-1923) Bibliographical references include: Histoire de la divination dans l’antiquité, Paris, 1880. 3 vols ...
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| Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste
French physician and professor at La Charité, author of physiological and psychological studies; ele ...
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| Bourbon, A. de | |
| Bourbon, Adelberth de
Dutch Spiritualist and corresponding secretary of the Post Nubila Lux Theosophical Society at The Ha ...
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| Brahmachari, Rajani Kant | |
| Braid, James
Physician and investigator of hypnotism, who studied altered states induced by a fixed gaze and call ...
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| Brainard, M. L.
Secretary of the Chicago Branch of the Theosophical Society. Presented a paper on colour symbolism, ...
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| Braunsberger, Otto
Bibliographical references include: Petri Canisii epistulae et acta, Freiburg, 1896 ff <span style=" ...
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| Bretschneider, Karl Gottlieb
German theologian (1776-1848), lecturer at Wittenberg and later general superintendent at Gotha. Whi ...
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| Brewster, Sir David
(1781-1868) Scottish physicist and one of the founders of the British Association, known for his investigations ...
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| Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François
French physician specializing in mental disorders (1798-1881). His work on hallucinations examined v ...
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| Britten, Emma Hardinge
(1823-1899) • Britten, E. H. • Hardinge-Britten, Emma • Hardinge, E. English-born Spiritualist medium, lecturer, editor and author, active mainly in the United States an ...
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Broca, Pierre-Paul
French surgeon and anthropologist (1824-1880), known for research on cerebral localization and the s ...
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| Brodie, Benjamin Collins
English physiologist and surgeon, known for research on joint diseases and Psychological Inquiries ...
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| Brodie-Innes, Frances Annesley
(1853–1942) • Frances Annesley Voysey Daughter of Charles Voysey and wife of John William Brodie-Innes, whom she married in 1879. Contribu ...
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| Brodie-Innes, John William
(1848–1923) British lawyer and writer on occult subjects; author of fiction and works on comparative law.
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| Brown, David Paul
(1795–1872) American lawyer, playwright and abolitionist, active in Philadelphia.
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| Brown, Elbridge Gerry
(1849-1928) American spiritualist, publisher and chief editor of the Boston journal Spiritual Scientist <spa ...
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| Brown, Robert, Jr.
(1844-2026) English author, writer on comparative mythology. Works include The Great Dionysiak Myth (1877) a ...
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| Brown, William Tournay
Early member of the Theosophical Society who travelled in India with Henry S. Olcott in 1883. Author ...
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| Browne, Thomas
English author and physician. Educ. at Winchester college, 1616, and Oxford, 1623-26. Studied medici ...
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| Browne, Walter Raleigh
(1842–1884) English civil engineer and psychical researcher. He addressed the Newcastle Church Congress on Spiri ...
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| Browning, Robert
The bibliography lists his poem Pheidippides. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: ...
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| Brugsch-Bey, Heinrich Karl
German Egyptologist. Started very early egyptological studies, publishing Scriptura Aegyptiorum demo ...
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| Buchanan, Claudius
Clergyman (1766-1815), educated at Glasgow and Cambridge, and vice-principal of the College of Fort ...
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Buchanan, Joseph Rodes
(1814–1899) American physician and writer who developed the concept of psychometry.
His Manual of Psychometry: ...
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| Buchanan, Robert Williams
(1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. An extract from his letter on modern civilization was reprodu ...
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| Buck, E.
Identified in The Theosophist as Director of Agriculture in the North-Western Provinces. A lette ...
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Buck, Jirah Dewey
(1838–1916) American physician, Freemason and Theosophical writer. He helped establish the Cincinnati Theosophic ...
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Buckle, Henry Thomas
(1821-1862) English historian, author of History of Civilization in England. Also known as a chess player. < ...
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| Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de
(1707-1788) The bibliography cites his discussion of the nature of animals in Histoire naturelle and his wri ...
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| Bulwant Trimbak | |
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
(1803-1873) Works listed are Zanoni (1842), A Strange Story (1862), The Coming Race (1871), and The House and th ...
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| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
British statesman and son of the novelist E. Bulwer-Lytton. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90% ...
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| Bundy, F. E. | |
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Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias, Baron von
(1791-1860) His five-volume Aegypten’s Stelle in der Weltgeschichte (1845-1857) appeared in C. H. Cottrell’s Eng ...
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| Burenin, Victor Petrovich
Russian poet, journalist and literary critic associated with Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti and, from ...
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| Burigny, Jean Lévesque de
French historian (1692-1785), who worked on a dictionary of universal knowledge and wrote on pagan p ...
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| Burmichon, Joseph
Bibliographical references include: La Compagnie de Jésus en France, 1814-1914. Paris: G. Beauchesne ...
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| Burnouf, Emile Louis
(1821-1907) La Science des religions first appeared as articles in La Revue des Deux Mondes (1864-1868). A secon ...
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| Burr, Frances Ellen
Contributor to The Path, author of "A Word on Pronouns" (April ...
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| Burritt, Elihu
Called “the Learned Blacksmith.” American reformer. Son of a shoemaker; educated in the common schoo ...
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| Burton, Richard Francis
(1821-1890) British consul, explorer, Orientalist and translator of The Thousand Nights and a Night (sixteen ...
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| Burzorjee, H. | |
| Busembaum, Hermann
Moral theologian. Entered the Soc. of Jesus in his 19th year. Taught the classics, philosophy and mo ...
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| Butler, Alban
English Catholic priest and hagiographer; The Lives of the Saints was the result of thirty years ...
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| Butler, Samuel
English satirical poet (1612-1680), best known for Hudibras, whose first part appeared in 1663. ...
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Butlerov, Alexander Mihaylovich
(1828-1886) Renowned Russian chemist, founder of the so-called "Butlerov School." Took great interest in Spiritu ...
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| Buultjens, Alfred Ernest
Ceylonese Buddhist educator and principal of Ananda College in Colombo from 1890 to 1898.
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Byron, George Gordon
(1788-1824) The bibliography lists Lara and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, while noting that some attributed passag ...
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| Bysack, Surji Kumar | |
| Böckh, August
(1785-1867) Bibliographical references include: Corpus inscriptionum graecarum. 4 vols. fol. 1828-77. Section on ...
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Büchner, Ludwig
(1824-1899) German philosopher and physician, a leading figure of 19th-century scientific materialism. Studied a ...
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| Cables, Josephine
(1843 or 1844–1917) American Theosophist, a founder and secretary of the Rochester branch of the Theosophical Society. E ...
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Cabral, Pedro Alvarez
Portuguese navigator who commanded the fleet that reached Brazil on 22 April 1500, then continued to ...
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Caesar, Gaius Julius
(102?-44 b.c.)
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Cahagnet, Louis-Alphonse
(1805–1885) French artisan and writer on animal magnetism, somnambulism and spiritualism. His works include Ar ...
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| Cailletet, Louis Paul
French industrialist and experimental scientist, known for work on the liquefaction of gases, conduc ...
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| Caine, William Sproston
English politician and temperance advocate. Educated privately. Entered as partner in his father’s b ...
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Caithness, Marie, Countess of
Provided accommodation for H. P. Blavatsky and [[Olcott, Henry Steel| ...
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| Calmeil, Juste-Louis
Author of De la folie considérée sous le point de vue philosophique, published in Paris in 1845. ...
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| Campbell, J. M.
Member of the Indian Civil Service and editor of the Bombay Gazetteer. He supplied an account of ...
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| Campbell-Pread, Rosa C
Bibliographical references include: Affinities: A Romance of Today. London: Bentley & Son, 1885. 2 v ...
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| Carayon, August
Bibliographical references include: Bibliographie historique de la Compagnie de Jésus. Paris: Durand ...
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| Carducci, Giosuè
Italian poet and long-serving professor of Italian literature at Bologna, an advocate of classical m ...
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Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881) Bibliographical references include: Jesuitism, in Works, II, 259-485. Boston, 1885 <span style="colo ...
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| Carmichael, Sara M.
According to her letter reproduced by A. P. Sinnett, [[Blavatsky, Helena P ...
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| Carpenter, Mary
Editor of The Last Days in England of the Rajah Rammohun Roy (1866; second edition, 1915). <span ...
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| Carrithers, Walter A. Jr.
Assisted the preparation of H. P. Blavatsky’s collected writings thro ...
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| Carroll, A.
General secretary of the Australasian Section of the Theosophical Society in 1891.
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| Carroll, Lewis
His Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is listed in London and Boston editions; Lewis Carroll is ident ...
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| Carson, John | |
| Carter, Howard | |
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Cassels, Walter Richard
(1826-1907)
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| Castren, Matthias Alexander
(1813-1852) His Nordische Reisen und Forschungen was published by Anton Schiefner in St Petersburg in twelve vol ...
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| Castro, Adolphe de
Author of a late recollection of meeting H. P. Blavatsky in Berlin ar ...
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| Cederschiöld, Amélie
Corresponding secretary of the Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society, named among the signatori ...
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| Cedrenus, George
Greek monk and chronicler of the eleventh century, author of a historical compilation known as Syn ...
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| Censorinus
(3 в. н.э.) De Zirkoff places him in the third century CE and refers readers to volume VII, page 364, of Colle ...
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| Chabas, François-Joseph
French Egyptologist (1817-1882), who combined scholarship with a commercial career and published stu ...
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| Chaho, J.-Augustin
French writer. Travelled a great deal in Spain, and studied deeply the language and the literature o ...
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| Chakravarti, Gyanendra Nath
(1861–1936) • Gyanandra Nath Chakravarti • Gyanendra N. Chakravarty • Gyanendro N. Chackerbuti Indian Theosophist and professor at Muir College, Allahabad. Participated in the World’s Parliament ...
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| Chakravarti, Jugendra Nath | |
| Chakravarti, K.
Secretary of the Calcutta Psycho-Religious Society and writer on Tantra and Hindu religious practice ...
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| Chakravarti, Mohendra N. | |
| Chakravarti, N. | |
| Chakravarti, V. R. | |
| Chambers, Ephraim
English encyclopaedist, author of the two-volume Cyclopaedia; or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts ...
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Champollion, Jean François
(1790-1832) His Monuments de l’Égypte et de la Nubie is cited in the Paris edition of 1835-1845, published b ...
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| Chandan Gopal | |
| Chandler, William Eaton
American government official who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and later as Secretar ...
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| Chandrasekharam, C. | |
| Chaney, William Henry
American astrologer born in Maine on 13 January 1821. He worked as a government surveyor, district a ...
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Charaka
(50 - ?) A writer on Medicine who lived in Vedic times. He is believed to have been an incarnation (Avatara ...
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Charcot, Jean-Martin
(1825-1893) French physician (1825-1893), professor of pathological anatomy and researcher of nervous disorders. ...
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| Chari, N. Ragunatha | |
| Charlu, A. Govinda
Indian engineer employed on the Mysore State Railway and writer on Vishishtadvaita philosophy. He tr ...
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| Charlur, A. Sreenivasa | |
| Charry, Arcot Hanumuntha | |
| Chary, S. T. K.
Member of the Theosophical Society, described as a chela among the signatories of the protest publis ...
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| Charyar, R. Padmanabha | |
| Chatterjee, Jagadishwar | |
| Chatterjee, K. C. | |
| Chatterjee, Kheroda P. | |
| Chatterjee, Sreenath
Bengal government employee and correspondent of The Theosophist. Described a Tibetan lama’s repo ...
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| Chatterji, Kedar Nath | |
| Chatterji, M. D. | |
| Chatterji, Mohini Mohun
(1858–1936) • Mohini Mohan Chatterji • Mohini Mohun Chatterjee Bengali lawyer and scholar who joined the Theosophical Society in 1882. Assistant secretary of its B ...
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| Chatterji, Pasupati N. | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey
Passage has not been identified ...
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| Chaudhuri, Ranjan Vilas Rai | |
| Cheda Lal
• Cheda Lall Indian government pleader in the North-Western Provinces and a member of the Theosophical Society.
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| Cherubini, Laertius
Bibliographical references include: Bullarium, sive collectio diversarum Constitutionum multorum Pon ...
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| Chettiar, A. Vythialingam | |
| Chetty, Narayana Swamy
Indian lawyer at Nellore and member of the local Theosophical branch. He read its address of welcome ...
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| Chevreul, Michel Eugène
French chemist. At 17, went to Paris and entered the Vauquelin chemical laboratory; became assistant ...
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| Chhatre, Nilkant K. | |
| Chinese Spirits
Intended as an appendix to an early draft of The Secret Doctrine but not included in the 1888 editio ...
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| Chinesingh, S. M. | |
| Chiniquy, Charles
Bibliographical references include: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome; 1st ed. 1885; upward of sixty ...
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| Chomel, Auguste François
French physician (1788-1858), professor of clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu and author of a docto ...
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| Chowdry, Narsing Dass | |
| Christianizing Pagan Ideas
An autograph fragment from the Adyar archives; the publication also preserves lines struck out by th ...
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| Chromatius
(died ca. 406 or 407) The appendix dates him to the fourth and fifth centuries and refers to volume VIII, page 422, for fu ...
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| Chuckerabutty, P. N. | |
| Chuckerabutty, Parash Nath | |
| Chuckerbutty, B. | |
| Church, Frederick Stuart
(1842-1924) American artist.
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| Chwolson, Daniel Avraamovich
(1819-1911) The bibliography associates him with the Book of Nabathean Agriculture and refers readers to vol ...
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| Cicero, Marcus Tullius
The bibliography cites the Tusculan Disputations in the Loeb Classical Library. <span style="color: ...
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| Cisco, John J.
American financier and former Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York. A testimonial co ...
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| Civilization, the Death of Art and Beauty
Published in Lucifer in place of the expected continuation of The Negators of Science, using an arti ...
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| Clapp, Samuel H. | |
| Clarke, Edward Daniel
English collector and travel writer. Son of clergyman, also noted traveller and author, and grandson ...
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Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel
(1822-1888) German physicist who taught in Berlin, Zürich and Würzburg. His research helped establish thermodyna ...
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Clavigero, Francisco Javier Mariano
(1731-1778) Mexican historian (1721-1787) and Jesuit who studied the antiquities of his homeland. His history of ...
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| Cleather, Alice Leighton
(1846–1938) English Theosophist, a member of H. P. Blavatsky’s Inner Group. Wrote the series “Theosophy in Weste ...
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| Clement XIV, Pope
Bibliographical references include: Dominus ac Redemptor noster.. Bibliographical information may be ...
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Clement of Alexandria
(ок. 150-215) De Zirkoff lists his Stromateis and directs readers to volume VIII, page 423, of Collected Wri ...
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| Clifford, William Kingdon
(1845-1879) English mathematician and philosopher. Appointed prof. of mathematics at Univ. College, London, 1871 ...
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| Clinton, Henry Fynes
English chronologist (1781-1852), whose studies concerned the chronology of classical antiquity. <sp ...
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| Clovis
King of the Salian Franks, son of Childerich I, whom he succeeded in 481 at the age of 15. The Salia ...
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Cobb, John Storer
(1838-1904) English barrister and Doctor of Laws; at one time Editor of the New Era magazine, the organ of t ...
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| Cocker, Benjamin Franklin
(1821 – ?) Author of Christianity and Greek Philosophy, a study of Greek thought in relation to Christian t ...
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| Cocquelines, Charles
Bibliographical references include: Bullarum, privilegiarum ac diplomatum Romanorum Pontificum ampli ...
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| Colebrooke, Henry Thomas
(1765-1837) His essays on Hindu religion and philosophy appeared in Asiatic Researches VII (Calcutta, 1801), pp. ...
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| Coleman, Benjamin
Author of the article “Materialized Spirit Forms”, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blava ...
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Coleman, Charles
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Coleman, William Emmette
(1843-1909) American author and lecturer. Settled in San Francisco in 1880; lectured widely on scientific subjec ...
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| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
His poem Kubla Khan was published in 1816. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: ...
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| Collier, Jeremy
English nonjuring divine. Educated at Ipswich free school, and Caius Coll. Cambridge. Appointed to r ...
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| Collins, F. S.
Contributor to The Path, author of [[Collins FS - The Theosophical Meaning of Goethes Faust|"The ...
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Collins, Mabel
(1851–1927) English Theosophist and novelist, author of Light on the Path and The Idyll of the White Lotus ...
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| Collins, Wilkie
English novelist (1824-1889), friend and literary collaborator of Charles Dickens. His best-known no ...
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| Comte, Auguste
(1798-1857) His Catéchisme positiviste was published in Paris in 1852. Richard Congreve’s English translation, T ...
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| Confucius
(c. 551–479 BCE) Ancient Chinese teacher and philosopher whose teachings became the basis of Confucianism and had a l ...
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| Conger, Margaret Guild
Assisted with the early volumes of H. P. Blavatsky’s collected writin ...
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| Connelly, James H.
American journalist and writer, acquainted with H. P. Blavatsky in New York in the late 1870s. Contr ...
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| Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
An unfinished autograph in the Adyar archives, possibly the beginning of an article. First published ...
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| Constantine, A. | |
| Conway, Moncure D.
(1832–1907) American writer, abolitionist and religious reformer. He served as a Unitarian minister and became a ...
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| Cook, Joseph
Boston preacher who visited India in 1882 and publicly attacked Spiritualism and the Theosophical So ...
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| Cook, L. S. | |
| Cook, Sidney Albert
• Sydney Albert Cook As vice-president of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, supplied material and information from the A ...
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Cooke, Josiah Parsons
(1827-1894)
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| Cooper-Oakley, Alfred John
(1855–1899) English Theosophist who accompanied H. P. Blavatsky to India with his wife Isabel in 1884. Served as ...
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| Cooper-Oakley, Isabel
(1854–1914) English Theosophist, lecturer and writer, associated closely with H. P. Blavatsky. Joined the Theoso ...
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Coquerel, Athanase Josué
(1820-1875) French Protestant theologian and advocate of religious freedom (1820-1875). He helped establish the ...
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| Corbyn, George
Author of an article entitled “Rosicrucianism” criticising Hiraf and [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. ...
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| Corelli, Marie
Bibliographical references include: The Romance of Two Worlds. New York: H.M. Caldwell, 1887. 324 pp ...
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| Cornelis, K. K. | |
| Corson, Caroline Rollins | |
Corson, Eugene Rollin
(1855-1946)
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Corson, Hiram
(1828-1911) American educator and author. Professor of rhetoric and English literature at Cornell University fro ...
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| Cory, Isaac Preston
His Ancient Fragments first appeared at London in 1828 with Greek and English in parallel column ...
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Coryn, Herbert A. W.
(1863-1927) English physician and Theosophist, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London; practised me ...
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| Cossa, Pietro
Italian dramatist who fought for the Roman Republic in 1849; after years of precarious literary work ...
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| Cotton, Louise
Writer on palmistry and dowsing; author of Palmistry and Its Practical Uses (London, George Redw ...
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| Coues, Elliott
• A Psychic Researcher Bibliographical references include: Kuthumi, etc. See p. 315, footnote for data <span style="color: ...
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| Coulomb, Emma
Author of Some Account of My Association with Madame Blavatsky from 1872 to 1884, published by E ...
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| Courmes, Dominique Albert
(1843–1914) French naval officer and Theosophist. Edited Le Lotus Bleu and translated theosophical works int ...
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| Courtney, Herbert L
Author of The New Gospel of Hylo-Idealism or Positive Agnosticism (1888), reprinted from Our Corner ...
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| Covajee, Nosherwanjie | |
| Covajee, Rustomjee A. | |
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Cox, Edward William
(1809-1879) English Serjeant-at-Law. Founded the Law Times in 1843. On Feb. 22, 1875, founded in London the ...
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| Cox, Ross
Author of Adventures on the Columbia River (London, 1831, two volumes), whose third edition appe ...
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| Coyaji, B. S. | |
| Crawford, Francis Marion
American novelist who studied Sanskrit and edited the Indian Herald in Allahabad; his first nove ...
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| Crawford, J. F. | |
| Crawford, John Martin
Translated the Kalevala into English verse; the translation appeared in two volumes in New York in 1 ...
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| Cripps, T. N. | |
| Crookes, William
(1832-1919) His Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism, reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Scien ...
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| Crowe, Catherine
English writer (1800-1876), best known for The Night Side of Nature, or Ghosts and Ghost Seers ( ...
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| Cruden, Alexander
(1699-1770) The quotation attributed to him remains untraced in Zirkoff’s bibliography; no specific work is iden ...
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| Crétineau-Joly, Jacques
Bibliographical references include: Clément XIV et les jésuites, Paris, 1847. Histoire religieuse, p ...
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| Csoma de Kőrös, Alexander
For his biography, de Zirkoff refers readers to the appendix of Collected Writings, volume I, pa ...
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| Cumberland, Stuart
(1857–1922) English mentalist known for demonstrations of “thought reading”. He explained his performances by th ...
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| Cunningham, Alexander
(1814-1893) British military engineer and archaeologist, director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India ...
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| Cunningham, Ernest
Assisted with the early volumes of H. P. Blavatsky’s collected writin ...
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| Curtius, Georg
German classical philologist. Held philological appointments at Prague, Kiel and Leipzig, between th ...
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| Cuvier, Frédéric
The bibliography cites his account of Buffon’s life in Biographie universelle and refers also to ...
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| Cuvier, Georges
(1769-1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist.
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| Dadoba Pandurang | |
| Dahlin, Ture
Assisted with the early volumes of H. P. Blavatsky’s collected writin ...
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| Daji, Jehanghir Cursetji | |
| Dajiraj
Indian prince and president of the Saorashtra Theosophical Society in Kattyawar in 1882.
Ruler of W ...
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| Dall, Charles Henry Appleton
(1816–1886) American Unitarian minister and missionary who worked in India from 1855. Was active in education in ...
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| Dalton, Edward Tuite
Author of Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutt ...
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| Daly, John Bowles
(1844–1916) Irish writer and former Anglican clergyman who joined the Theosophical Society and worked for Buddhi ...
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Damodar K. Mavalankar
(1857–?) An Indian Theosophist from Ahmedabad. He joined the Theosophical Society in 1879 and worked at its h ...
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| Dana, C. A.
American journalist and Assistant Secretary of War during the American Civil War. A testimonial conc ...
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| Dane, Louis W.
British Indian government official who served as private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of the ...
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| Dante, Alighieri
Bibliographical references include: La Divina Comedia <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font ...
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| Darabjee | |
| Darbhagiri Nath
• Bawaji • Babaji • S. Krishnamachari Member of the Theosophical Society, described as a chela among the signatories of the protest publis ...
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| Darmesteter, James
(1849-1894) The appendix refers readers to the Avesta entry, which lists his translations in Sacred Books of t ...
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Darwin, Charles Robert
(1809-1882)
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| Das, Alberto de | |
| Dasabhy, Darabji | |
| Dass, Bulake | |
| Dass, Kalee Mohun | |
| Dass, Kanya Lal | |
| Dass, Narottum | |
| Dass, Parmashri | |
| Dass, Parshotam | |
| Datta, Akshay Kumar
(1820–1886) • Akshay Kumar Dutta • Akkhaya Kumar Datta Bengali writer and intellectual associated with the Bengal Renaissance. He promoted rational inquiry ...
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| Davar, Cowasji Dossobhoy | |
| Davar, Rustom S. | |
| Davar, Sorabji | |
| Davidson, Peter
(1837–1915) Scottish occultist, writer, publisher and violin-maker. He was a leading figure in the Hermetic Brot ...
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Davis, Andrew Jackson
(1826-1910) American Spiritualist and Seer, known as "the Poughkeepsie Seer." While in trance, 1845-47, he deliv ...
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| Davison, William Ruxton
(1850–1893) British ornithologist and collector. He worked for Allan Octavian Hume as a collector and museum cur ...
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Davy, Humphry
(1778-1829) English chemist and lecturer at the Royal Institution, known for electrochemical investigations and ...
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| Dax, Marc
French physician born in Sommières in 1771, where he practised medicine and died on 3 June 1837. <sp ...
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| Dayabh, Motilal | |
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Dayanand Saraswati
(1824–1883) A Hindu religious reformer and founder of the Arya Samaj. He advocated a return to the Vedas. The Th ...
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| De, Amritalal
Indian Theosophist elected vice-president of the Jeypore Theosophical Society at its establishment i ...
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| Dean, Richard
English author and clergyman (c. 1727-1778), a curate and schoolmaster at Middleton, whose writings ...
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| Decharme, Paul
(1839-1905) French professor and hellenist. After prelim, studies joined the Ecole d’Athènes, becoming later Pro ...
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| Dee, John
English mathematician and astrologer favoured by Elizabeth I, interested in calendar reform and psyc ...
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| Deekshitar, Venkatesvara | |
| Del Duca, Antonio
Sicilian priest instrumental in establishing the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome. His c ...
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| Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François
(1753-1835) French naturalist (1753-1835), associated with the natural history museum from 1795 and its libraria ...
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| Delrio, Martin Anton
Author of Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, cited in the three-volume Louvain edition of 1599 ...
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| Demjanenkowa, A. | |
| Demosthenes
Bibliographical references include: De corona. Loeb Classical Library <span style="color: grey; font ...
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| Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote
The bibliography jointly credits William Denton and Elizabeth M. Foote Denton with The Soul of Thing ...
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Denton, William
(1823-1883) A geologist and lecturer who wrote on psychometry. His publications include The Soul of Things. ...
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| Deshmukh, Gopalrao Hari
(1823–1892) • Lokhitwadi • Gopalrao Hurree Deshmukh • Gopalrao Hurry Deshmukh A writer, judge and social reformer from Maharashtra. He advocated women’s education and opposed chi ...
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| Desideri, Ippolito
Italian Jesuit missionary who travelled through India to Tibet and reached Lhasa in 1716; studied Or ...
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| Deslon, Charles
(1738-1786) French physician, regent of the Paris medical faculty and first physician to the Comte d’Artois. He ...
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Destouches, Philippe
French dramatist (1680-1754), whose family name was Néricault. After diplomatic service he returned ...
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| Deutsch, Immanuel Oscar Menahem
(1829-1873) German Orientalist of Jewish extraction. Studied at the Univ. of Berlin; appointed, 1855, assistant ...
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| Deva Muni
Chela described in the Mahatma correspondence as a confidential pupil of the Chohan. One of the sign ...
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| Dexiphanes
Vide Sostratus the Cnidian (<spa ...
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| Dey, Koomud Lall | |
| Dey, Prosonno Coomar
Secretary of the Punjab Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society at Lahore in 1881.
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| Dhame, Dinanath Pandurang | |
| Dharani Dhar Kauthumi
• Dharanidar Kauthumi Theosophical contributor described in the literature as a chela. Wrote on occult subjects in The T ...
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| Dhorghosh, Chhatra | |
| Dialogue Between the Two Editors
Published in two instalments in Lucifer, December 1888 and January 1889. BCW includes the first; the ...
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Diaz del Castillo, Bernal
Spanish soldier and chronicler who participated in Cortés’s campaigns. His Historia verdadera de la ...
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| Dick, Frederick J.
(1856–1927) Irish civil engineer and Theosophist. Served as secretary of the Dublin Lodge and later taught mathe ...
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Dickens, Charles John Huffam
(1812-1870)
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| Dickinson, Edmund
English physician and alchemist, physician to Charles II and James II; studied chemistry under the i ...
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| Dieu, Louis de
Theologian and Orientalist associated with Leiden, known for studies of biblical languages and comme ...
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| Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi
An Indian judge and amateur mathematician. His essay “Aryan Trigonometry” appeared in the first issu ...
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| Dioastillo, Juan de
Theologian. Entered noviciate of Society of Jesus, 1600; prof. of theology for 25 years at Toledo, M ...
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| Diodorus Siculus
(ок. 90 – 30 гг. до н. э.) The appendix refers the reader to volume V, page 373, for information. <span style="color: grey; fon ...
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