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The material contained in the following pages is of necessity a selective one, and is intended to serve three purposes: (a) to give condensed information, not otherwise readily available, about the life and writings of some individuals mentioned by H. P. B. in the text, and who are practically unknown to the present-day student; (b) to give similar data about a few well-known scholars who are discussed at length by H. P. B., and whose writings she constantly quotes; and (c) to give full information regarding all works and periodicals quoted or referred to in the main text and in the Compiler’s Notes, with or without biographical data of their authors. All such works are marked with an asterisk (*).
The material contained in the following pages is of necessity a selective one, and is intended to serve three purposes: (a) to give condensed information, not otherwise readily available, about the life and writings of some individuals mentioned by H. P. B. in the text, and who are practically unknown to the present-day student; (b) to give similar data about a few well-known scholars who are discussed at length by H. P. B., and whose writings she constantly quotes; and (c) to give full information regarding all works and periodicals quoted or referred to in the main text and in the Compiler’s Notes, with or without biographical data of their authors. All such works are marked with an asterisk (*).
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'''Aeschylus (525-456 b.c.)'''. *Choephoroe (The Libation-Bearers).— Also an un-identified reference “I C”.
'''Aeschylus (525-456 b.c.)'''. *Choephoroe (The Libation-Bearers).— Also an un-identified reference “I C”.
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'''Andreae (Andreas or Andrea)''', Johann Valentin. German theologian and writer, b. at Herrenberg, Württ., Aug. 17, 1586; d. at Adelsberg, June 27, 1654. After completing academic courses at Tübingen, travelled for some years as tutor in noble families. Became, 1614, deacon at Vaihingen, Württ., where he labored zealously for six years as preacher and writer. Superintendent at Calw, 1620-39. When city was sacked, 1634, he lost his library and barely escaped alive; worked tirelessly as physician, minister, grave-digger. Removed, 1639, to Stuttgardt, as court preacher, with seat in the Consistorium; active in the reorganization of Church system and schools after the ruin of the Thirty Years’ war. His life was based on practical Christian ethics, and he mourned the frivolous learning and the pedantry of his times. Adopted wit and satire as his weapons, and planned to combat with these the idols of the day in literature and religion. Prolific writer who is said to have written about one hundred works. The best known are: Menippus, 1618, directed against orthodoxy and worldly folly; Alethea Exul, against abuses in mystical thought; Die Christenburg, 1612, an epic allegory dealing with the struggles and ultimate triumph of the Christian soul; Turbo, 1616, a satire on pedantry; Reipublicae christianopolitanae descriptio, 1619, an account of an ideal Christian State, similar to Campanella’s City of the Sun; Theophilus, 1622 (publ. in 1649), which expresses his ideas on the public regulation of private morals, and contains a dissertation on the education of the young; this work entitles him to serious consideration as predecessor of the renowned Pestalozzi.
'''Andreae (Andreas or Andrea)''', Johann Valentin. German theologian and writer, b. at Herrenberg, Württ., Aug. 17, 1586; d. at Adelsberg, June 27, 1654. After completing academic courses at Tübingen, travelled for some years as tutor in noble families. Became, 1614, deacon at Vaihingen, Württ., where he labored zealously for six years as preacher and writer. Superintendent at Calw, 1620-39. When city was sacked, 1634, he lost his library and barely escaped alive; worked tirelessly as physician, minister, grave-digger. Removed, 1639, to Stuttgardt, as court preacher, with seat in the Consistorium; active in the reorganization of Church system and schools after the ruin of the Thirty Years’ war. His life was based on practical Christian ethics, and he mourned the frivolous learning and the pedantry of his times. Adopted wit and satire as his weapons, and planned to combat with these the idols of the day in literature and religion. Prolific writer who is said to have written about one hundred works. The best known are: Menippus, 1618, directed against orthodoxy and worldly folly; Alethea Exul, against abuses in mystical thought; Die Christenburg, 1612, an epic allegory dealing with the struggles and ultimate triumph of the Christian soul; Turbo, 1616, a satire on pedantry; Reipublicae christianopolitanae descriptio, 1619, an account of an ideal Christian State, similar to Campanella’s City of the Sun; Theophilus, 1622 (publ. in 1649), which expresses his ideas on the public regulation of private morals, and contains a dissertation on the education of the young; this work entitles him to serious consideration as predecessor of the renowned Pestalozzi.
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Andreae was an outstanding linguist, perfecting himself in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian and English; he was a profound student of mathematics, having studied with Maslin, the teacher of Kepler. In 1614, he published a series of lectures on mathematics. Having been for some years Spiritual Counsel of the Landgrave of Hesse, he became later Prelate of Adelberg, and Almoner of the Duke of Württemberg, and died respected by all men.
Andreae’s Autobiography was publ. in German by D. C. Seybold, 1799, and in the original Latin by F. H. Rheinwald, Berlin, 1849.
Consult the following sources: Hassbach, Andreä und sein Zeitalter, Berlin, 1819; A. Landenberger. J. V. Andreä, Barman, 1886; P. Wurm, J. V. Andreä, Calw, 1887.
No attempt is being made here to deal with the controversial evidence concerning Andreae’s role in the launching of the early Rosicrucian movement.
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'''Anstey, F. (pseud, of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856-1934)'''. * A Fallen Idol. New York: J. W. Lovell Co., 1866; new ed., London: Smith Elder & Co., 1886 and 1892. Reviewed at length by N. C. in The Theosophist, Vol. VII, September, 1886, pp. 791-96.
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'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Ante-Nicean Fathers, The'''. Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to a.d. 325. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Editors. American reprod. of the Edinburgh ed., rev. with Notes by A. Cleveland Coxe. New York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1908-13. 10 vols.; also Buffalo: The Christian Liter. Publ. Co., 1885-97.
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'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Apostolic Constitutions'''. See pp. 221-22 of the present Volume.
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'''Aristophanes (ca. 448-385 b.c.)'''. *Plutus.
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'''Arnobius the Elder or Afer (fl. ca. 290 a.d.)'''. *Adversus Gentes. In Migne, Patr. C. Compl., Ser. Lat., IV, 349. Also Ante-Nicean Fathers, Vol. VI, p. 425.
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Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904). *The Light of Asia: or The Great Renunciation (Mahabhinishkramana). London: Trübner & Co., 1879.
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'''Atticus Herodes, Tiberius Claudius'''. Celebrated Greek rhetorician, b. ca. 104 a.d., at Marathon, in Attica; d. ca. 180. Belonged to a very ancient family which traced its origin to the famous Aeacidae. After completing his studies under the most famous rhetoricians of the time, he opened a school of rhetoric at Athens, and afterwards at Rome, where Marcus Aurelius was among his pupils. Raised to the consulship, 143; for a time entrusted with the administration of the free towns in Asia; performed the functions of high-priest at the festivals celebrated at Athens in honour {{Page aside|419}}of Marcus Aurelius and L. Verus. Principally known for the vast sums he expended on public purposes, arousing some antagonism from jealous people. He built at Athens a race-course of white Pentelic marble, and the magnificent theatre of Regilla, with a roof made of cedar-wood. He erected a stadium at Delphi, hot baths at Thermopylae, and an aqueduct at Canusium, in Italy. He also restored partially ruined cities in Greece. Most of his speeches, specified by the ancients, are no longer extant.
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'''Augustine, Saint (Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430)'''. *De civitate Dei. Transi, by M. Dods. Edinburgh: Clark 1897. 2 vols.; also London: Dent, 1947.
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'''Bailly Jean Sylvain'''. French astronomer, statesman and historian, b. in Paris, Sept. 15, 1736; d. there Nov. 12, 1793. Educated at home in the art of painting; later devoted himself to poetry and belles-lettres, until his acquaintance with Father Nicolas Lacaille, when he became an ardent student of astronomy. Calculated an orbit for the comet of 1759 (Halley’s); published, 1766, his Essai sur la théorie des satellites de Jupiter, followed in 1771 by another treatise on the light of the satellites. Admitted to the Academy of Sciences, 1763, to the French Academy, 1783, and to the Académie des Inscriptions, 1784. His remarkable astronomical works are: Histoire de l’astronomie ancienne. Paris: Frères Debure, 1775; 2nd ed., 1781. 4to.—Histoire de l’astronomie moderne. Paris, 1785. 3 vols.—* Traité de l’astronomie indienne et orientale. Paris: Debure l’aîné, 1787, cixxx, 227 pp., 4to. These works contain many intuitive and independent theories.
 
Bailly espoused the democratic cause in the Revolution. He was elected, 1789, first deputy from Paris to the tiers état, and became president of the National Assembly. He was the mayor of Paris during 26 months packed with dangerous events and trying circumstances (July 15, 1789—Nov. 16, 1791). The dispersal by the National Guard, under his orders, of the riotous assembly in the Champ de Mars, July 17, 1791, lost him his popularity, and he retired to Nantes where he wrote his Mémoires d’un témoin oculaire, etc. (publ. posthumously by Berville and Barrière, 1821-22), an incomplete narrative of the events of the Revolution. In 1793, Bailly left Nantes to join his friend Pierre Simon Laplace at Melun; he was recognized, arrested and brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal at Paris. On Nov.. 12, 1793, he was guillotined.
 
At one time in his life he was connected with Franklin, and made an adverse report on Mesmer and his work. Though not an orator, he was an impressive speaker, acted with dignity and moderation, but was not appreciated at a time when mob violence was the order of the day.
 
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His other works are: Lettres sur l’origine des sciences, 1777.—Lettres sur l’Atlantide de Platon, London, 1779.—Essai sur les fables, et sur leur histoire, posthumously publ. in Paris, 1799.
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