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'''Burnouf, Smile Louis (1821-1907)'''. *“Le Bouddhisme en Occident,” Revue des Deux-Mondes, Vol. 88, July 15, 1888.

'''Castaldus, Johann Thomas''' (sometimes Gastaldi). Dominican monk from Albenga, who attained to some prominence as preacher and writer under Innocent X. After serving as Qualificator at the Sacred Office, he became, 1652, Bishop of Brugneto, and died in 1655, at Sestri. Among his several works, mention should be made of the four volumes entitled * De Angelis. He was suspected of having propounded certain teachings contrary to the Church.

'''Collins Mabel (1851-1927)'''. *Light on the Path, London, 1885. See Bio-Bibliographical Index in Vol. VIII, for comprehensive data.

'''Crawford F. Marion (1854-1909)'''. *Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1882.

'''Crawford, John Martin (1845-1916)'''. *The Kalevala, the Epic Poem of Finland. Transl. into English Verse. New York: J. B. Alden, 1888. 2 vols. 8vo.

'''Duca (or Del Duca), Antonio'''. Sicilian priest born in Cefalu, June 15, 1491; d. in Rome, Oct. 30, 1564. Mainly responsible for the erection of the Church known as the Basilica di S. Maria degli Angeli. For an account of his visions and difficulties, see Mariano Armellini, Le Chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Rome, 1942 (Vol. II, p. 1018); P. de Angelis, La Chiesa di S. Maria degli Angeli alle Terme Diocleziane, Rome, Cooper, 1920 (chap, i, ii, and iii); and the history of the erection of this Church based on Del Duca’s correspondence, and preserved by Matteo Catalani, who was for eighteen years the confident of Del Duca. This MS is in the Vatican Library, and is numbered 696-8735.

'''Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of'''. British diplomatist, b. at Florence, June 21, 1826; d. Feb. 12, 1902. On leaving Oxford, took up management of his Irish estates. Favourite both at Court and in London society. In political life, followed Lord Russell. Enlarged his experience by foreign travels, and held various diplomatic positions, trying by his conscientious endeavours to be just to all parties. Under-secretary for India, 1864-66, under-secretary for war, 1866, in Palmerston’s and Earl Russell’s ministries. Appointed Governor-General of Canada, 1872. Became known as a man of culture and political distinction, as well as a powerful orator. Ambassador to Russia, 1879; at Constantinople, 1881. After a {{Page aside|417}}period in Egypt, was appointed viceroy of India, 1884, to succeed Lord Ripon. Ambassador at Rome, 1888; and in Paris, 1892. Retired, 1896.

'''Fuller, Thomas (1654-1734)'''. *Gnomologia: Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, etc. Collected by T. F. London, 1732. 297 pp.; new ed., 1817.

'''Gastaldi. Vide Castaldus.'''

'''George of Laodicea''' in Syria, often called the Cappadoclan, b. probably at Epiphania, in Cilicia. After many wanderings, in which he amassed a fortune, first as an army-contractor and then as a receiver of taxes, he reached Alexandria, where in 356 he was promoted by the prevalent Arian faction to the vacant see, and remained archbishop until 361. A semi-Arian himself, he instigated the second Sirmian formula, promulgated by the third Council of Sirmium, 357, which was conciliatory towards strict Arianism, but was opposed at the Council of Ancyra, 358. Owing to his persecutions of the orthodox, a rebellion took place, and he was compelled to flee for his life; his authority was restored somewhat later by the military. On the accession of Julian, he was killed by the people, Dec. 24, 361. Though of brutal character, he had some cultivated literary tastes, and collected a valuable library, which Julian conveyed to Antioch for his own use.

'''Gestefeld, Ursula Newell (1845-1921)'''. *Mrs. N. G.’s Statement of Christian Science. 3rd ed., Chicago, 1889; 4th ed., New York, 1889.

'''Glycas, Michael'''. Byzantine historian, a native either of Constantinople or of Sicily. There are great doubts with regard to the time when he lived; some scholars think he flourished as late as the fifteenth century; others place him in the twelfth. It is certain, however, that he lived after 1118, because his Annals or Chronicle go down to the death of the emperor Alexis I Comnenus in that year. Glycas was probably an ecclesiastic, possessed an extensive amount of knowledge, and was proficient in several languages. His style is clear and concise, and he is placed among the better Byzantine historians. He was also the author of a treatise and a number of letters on theological subjects. Some offence committed by him against a neighbour resulted in his confinement, and it is said that he was deprived of his eye-sight by the emperor’s order. The best edition of his chief work is by I. Bekker, in the Bonn collection of the Byzantines, 1836.

'''Hardy, Robert Spence'''. English Wesleyan missionary and Buddhist scholar, b. at Preston, Lancashire, July 1, 1803; d. at Headingly, {{Page aside|418}}Yorkshire, April 16, 1868. He was admitted to the British Conference, 1825, and subsequently appointed missionary to Ceylon. After a faithful service of twenty-three years, he returned to England and served on several important circuits. He was a man of wide culture and the author of several authoritative works on Buddhism in Ceylon and on Pali literature, such as: Eastern Monachism. London: Partridge & Oakey, 1850; A Manual of Buddhism, etc., ibid., 1853; The Legends and Theories of the Buddhists, etc. London: Williams and Norgate, 1866; 2nd ed., 1881.

'''Hare, H. E. and W. L. Hare'''. *Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1936. 326 pp.

'''Hasselquist, Fredrik'''. Swedish naturalist, b. at Tornevalla, East Gothland, 1722; d. at Smyrna, Feb. 9, 1752. Went to the Univ, of Uppsala, 1741, where his talents and industry drew the attention of Linnaeus. Published in 1747 a dissertation, De viribus plantarum. Spent some time at Jerusalem, studying natural history of Palestine. Swedish Queen, Louisa Ulrica, purchased entire collection of plants, minerals, reptiles, insects, etc., he had made during his travels, and deposited it in the Drottningholm’s Castle. Linnaeus prepared from his various papers a work entitled Iter Palaestinum, 1757.

'''Herschel, Sir John F. William (1792-1871)'''. *Treatise on Astronomy. New ed., London, 1851.

'''Hesiod'''. *Theogony. Loeb Classical Library.

'''Hippolytus''' (second half of 2nd cent. a.d.). *Philosophumena. Attributed to him by some scholars. Vide Bio-Bibliographical Index in Vol. IX of the present Series, for more specific data.

'''Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 b.c. - 8 b.c.)'''. *Odes.— *Satires. Loeb Classical Library.

'''Jinarajadasa, C. (1875-1953)'''. *Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. Transcribed and Compiled by C. J. First Series. With a Foreword by Annie Besant. Adyar, Madras: Theos. Publ. House, 1919. 124 pp.; 2nd ed., 1923; 3rd ed., 1945; 4th ed., with new and additional Letters, covering period 1870-1900, same publisher, 1948.

'''Judge, William Quan (1851-1896)'''. *E.S.T. Circular: “By Master’s Direction,” issued November, 1894.—*Excerpts from Letters. {{Page aside|419}}Published in The Word, New York (ed. by Harold W. Percival), Vol. XV, April, 1912, pp. 17-18.—*Practical Occultism. From the Private Letters of W. Q. Judge. Pasadena, Calif.: Theos. University Press, 1951. 307 pp.

'''Juvenal. Decimus Junius Juvenalis (ca. 60-ca. 140 a.d.)'''. *Satires. Loeb Classical Library.

'''King, Charles William (1818-1888)'''. *The Gnostics and Their Remains. London, 1864. 8vo; 2nd ed., with bibliogr. appendix by J. Jacobs. London: D. Nutt, 1887. 8vo. xxiii, 466 pp.

'''Kingsland, William'''. English engineer, scientist and author, b. at Devizes in Wiltshire, May 5, 1855, at 8:40 a.m. His father, a Congregational Minister at Devizes, came from Kent, and died of rapid consumption when 49. His mother, however, lived to be 93. In 1862, the family moved to Bradford in Yorkshire, where William, his sister (later Mrs. Mary Higgs, M.A., well known for her social work) and his brother were brought up, first by their parents, and later in Bradford High School, where William entered when 14. As he has remarked himself, “not having any intellectual qualifications for any profession, it was decided that I should go into the Bradford trade.” Accordingly, at the age of 16, he went to the firm of A. & S. Henry & Co., as office boy at 5 shillings per week, to sweep and dust out the office every morning. About a year later, he was transferred to the warehouse for similar duties.

At about this time a profound psychological change took place in him, and he woke up to the deeper issues of life. He began to study and educate himself, attending evening classes and reading scientific works. His work became to him a soul-killing drudgery; he had no desire to become wealthy, but he wanted to know and to experience, and describes himself as an idealist, “deeply responsive to the call of the beauties of nature, to music, and to art.” For a while longer he endured the “purgatory” of the warehouse, but at 22 he took a job in a music shop. For some time past, he had studied music and some recitals by the great Rubinstein had fired him to study and practice with redoubled vigour; he soon realized, however, that he had begun too late in life to develop the necessary technique.

In March, 1881, he left Glasgow and went to London to take up an appointment with the Brush Electric Light Company, and until 1884 superintended various installations of electric light in different parts of the country, such as Scarborough, Chesterfield, Exhibitions at the Crystal Palace, the Dome at Brighton, etc. In 1884 he returned to London and took up some experimental work with Desmond D. Fitzgerald on a new form of secondary battery plates, subsequently marketed under the name of Lithanode. He remained with the firm until about 1888.

It was in 1888 that William Kingsland established his first contact with the Theosophical Movement. He writes:

of June of that year, and which proved to be the turning point of my whole life. That event was a first visit to Madame H. P. Blavatsky, who was then living in London and gathering round her an earnest group of eager students of her teachings. I had previously read some of her writings, as also those of Mr. A. P. Sinnett expounding the teachings of the Tibetan Masters or Mahatmas, and they had made a very strong appeal both to my intellect and to my intuition; in fact I might say that they appealed to me with a strange familiarity, as of something previously known but put away or forgotten. I think this can only be accounted for on the theory of reincarnation and acquaintance with the teachings in a previous life. . . .”<ref>The Art of Life, pp. 94-95.</ref>

In 1891, Kingsland published his first works: The Mystic Quest. A Tale of Two Incarnations (London: Allen & Unwin. 215 pp.), and the First part of The Esoteric Basis of Christianity (London:  

{{Style P-No indent|Theos. Publ. Society. 38 pp.), which appeared in April of that year. This was originally a paper read before the Blavatsky Lodge, and was followed in 1893 by the Second Part, treating mainly of Genesis (51 pp.). In 1895, the same Publishers issued another edition which combined both Parts of this essay (195 pp.).}}

From 1905, Kingsland gave himself up entirely to literary work, and commenced writing what he considered to be his most important work to date, Scientific Idealism, which was published in 1909 (London: Robman Ltd. 427 pp.). The year before, he had written a small booklet entitled A Child's Story of Atlantis (London: Theos. Publ. Soc., 84 pp.), embodying certain information about the sunken continent and its civilization given by a child in a peculiar state of psychic receptivity.

In 1910 Kingsland published his work on The Physics of the Secret Doctrine (London: Theos. Publ. Soc., 152 pp; reviewed in The Theos., Vol. XXX, Aug., 1910, p. 1475). This work, while somewhat out of date now, is still valuable as a succinct presentation of the relation which exists between modern science and the bases of the Esoteric Philosophy.