Massey, Gerald

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Gerald Massey

1828–1907

Gerald Massey

(English: Gerald Massey)

(29 May 1828 − 29 October 1907)

(1828–1907)

English poet, freethinker and writer on comparative mythology. His books include A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural Genesis, which Helena Petrovna Blavatsky discussed in her writings.

Author of A Book of the Beginnings, published in London by Williams and Norgate in two volumes in 1881. (BCW 3:515).

The appendix refers to his biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW 4:657).

English poet and Egyptologist. He was the son of Wm. Massey, a canal boatman, and his wife Mary. His father brought up a large family on a weekly wage of some ten shillings (BCW 8:465-467).

Bibliographical references include: “The Name and Nature of the Christ,” in the Agnostic Annual of 1888. The Natural Genesis. London: Williams and Norgate, 1883. 2 vols. Vide Volume VIII, pp. 465-67, for comprehensive sketch about the author and his work (BCW 9:444).

See Vol. VIII, pp. 465-67, for biogr. data (BCW 11:581).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Мэсси, Джеральд
• Theosophy Wiki: Gerald Massey

Mentions

Mentioned in: Editors Note to The Theosophists – H. P. Blavatsky’s reply to questions about elementals in G. Massey’s article in Light, reprinted in The Theosophist. (BCW 3:381)

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