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Ogygia +

An ancient submerged island known as the isle of Calypso, and identified by some with Atlantis. This is in a certain sense correct. But then what portion of Atlantis, since the latter was a continent rather than an “enormous” island! [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oitzoe +

The invisible goddess whose voice spoke through the rocks, and whom, according to Pliny, the ''Magi ''had to consult for the election of their kings [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Oka, M. +

Manager of a Buddhist Ladies’ Association at Shimochaya Machi, Nagoya. Wrote to Henry Steel Olcott about plans for a girls’ school and invited him to become an honorary member. +

Okhal +

The “High”priest of the Druzes, an Initiator into their mysteries [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Okhema +

A Platonic term meaning “vehicle” or body [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Okuthor +

The same as Thor, the “thunder god” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Olaus Magnus +

Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (1490-1558), long resident in Rome. His Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) became an influential account of northern peoples; John Streater’s English translation appeared in London in 1653. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#538|2:538]][[SMW::on]]). +

Olcott H.S. - Important to Spiritualists +

A circular of 1875 associated with the Brotherhood of Luxor and support for ''Spiritual Scientist'' ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Olcott H.S. - Important to Spiritualists#85|BCW 1:85-88]]). +

Olcott H.S. - Mrs. Watts Hughes Sound-Pictures +

Published in the September 1890 Theosophist, vol. XI. Describes geometrical figures formed in powder by sound vibrations and is cited as a parallel to the discussion of sound and form in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Pistis Sophia commentary. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Pistis Sophia: Commentary and Notes#53|BCW 13:53]]) +

Olcott H.S. - The Golden Rules of Buddhism +

[[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] began compiling this work during the lecture tour of Ceylon for which he sailed on 22 January 1887. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.7)#xxviii|BCW 7:xxviii]]) A work by [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] published in November 1887. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.8)#xxiii|BCW 8:xxiii]]) +

Olcott H.S. - The Theosophical Society +

A New York circular of 1878, prepared by [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] with the participation of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], who wrote part of the text ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Olcott H.S. - The Theosophical Society#375|BCW 1:375-378]]). +

Olcott H.S. - Theosophy, Religion and Occult Science +

An expanded edition of [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s Collection of Lectures on Theosophy and Archaic Religions delivered in India and Ceylon, issued in Madras about May 1883. The expanded work appeared in London from George Redway in 1885. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxx|BCW 4:xxx]]) According to [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]’s chronology, [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] supervised the printing of this book at G. Redway’s London press in June 1884. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.6)#xxxii|BCW 6:xxxii]]) +

Olcott, Emmet Robinson +

Brother of [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]], born on 12 October 1846 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky#439|BCW 1:439]]). +

Olcott, Henry Steel +

American agriculturist, military officer, journalist and lawyer; President-Founder of The Theosophical Society, together with H. P. Blavatsky, in 1875, and its first and life-long President (1875-1907). His contribution towards the revival of Buddhism in Ceylon is one of the most significant by-products of his Theosophical activity, the repercussions of which are heard even today in various parts of the Buddhist world. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#503|1:503-518]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists People from the Other World (1875), the first series of Old Diary Leaves (1895; second edition, 1941), and the original daily diaries preserved in the Adyar Archives. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#538|2:538]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography includes his diaries from 1878 onward, preserved in the Adyar Archives, ''Buddhist Catechism'' (1881), ''Theosophy, Religion and Occult Science'' (1885), and ''Old Diary Leaves'' (1895; second edition, Adyar, 1941). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#516|3:516]][[SMW::on]]). Zirkoff lists his ''Buddhist Catechism'' (Colombo, 1881), translation of Adolphe d’Assier’s ''Posthumous Humanity'', and six-volume history of the Theosophical Society, ''Old Diary Leaves'' (1895-1935). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#379|5:379]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff lists ''A Buddhist Catechism'' (1881), ''People from the Other World'' (1875), the six volumes of ''Old Diary Leaves'', and thirty volumes of diaries preserved in the Adyar archives. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#442|6:442]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Old Diary Leaves. The True History of The Theosophical Society. Vol. I. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Madras: The Theosophist, 1895. x, 2, 491 pp. pl (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#446|9:446]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists the second and third series of Old Diary Leaves, published in 1900 and 1904 respectively (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#426|10:426]][[SMW::on]]). Served as secretary of the National Insurance Convention in New York in 1871 and compiled its two-volume official report with his own prefaces. On page 124 of the first volume he pencilled a note that he had been paid $5,000. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - A Word with our Friends|BCW 3:13]]) Assumed legal and editorial responsibility for The Theosophist on 1 November 1887. On 23 December he began transferring books to the new Adyar Library premises; the first book transferred was Isis Unveiled. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.8)#xxii|BCW 8:xxii-xxiii]]) In spring 1888 he recuperated with the Morgans at Ootacamund and bought land for the future cottage Gulisthan, intended as a retreat for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]], himself and friends. He returned to Adyar on 12 June. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.9)#xxiv|BCW 9:xxiv-xxv]]) In August 1888 he travelled to Europe to address disagreements within the Theosophical Society. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] dates his receipt of K. H.’s letter aboard the Shannon to 22 August 1888, correcting the year 1884 given in the third series of Old Diary Leaves. That autumn he took part in establishing the British and Esoteric Sections. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.10)#xxiv|BCW 10:xxiv-xxviii]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - An Explanation Important to All Theosophists#135|BCW 10:135-136]]) Made a lecture tour of Japan in February–May 1889, meeting representatives of Buddhist schools in Kyoto on 19 February. That autumn he visited Britain and Ireland; travelling with [[Keightley, Bertram|B. Keightley]], he stayed with [[Dick, Frederick J.|F. J. Dick]] in Dublin. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.11)#xxiii|BCW 11:xxiii-xxvi]]) On 8–12 January 1891, with Buddhists from Burma, Ceylon and Japan, formulated fourteen clauses intended to express beliefs common to Northern and Southern Buddhism. In July–August of that year studied experiments in hypnotism in Paris and Nancy with [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.13)#xxiii|BCW 13:xxiii]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.13)#xxvi|BCW 13:xxvi-xxvii]])

Olcott, Mary Epplee +

Wife of [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]], née Morgan ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky#437|BCW 1:437-438]]). +

Old Diary Leaves +

The second series (1878-1883) appeared in 1900. Eight of the first edition’s nine views of the Adyar estate were omitted from the 1928 edition because the originals had faded. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxx]]) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxxii|4:xxxii]][[SMW::on]]) +

Old, Walter Richard +

English astrologer and Theosophist, known as Sepharial and later as Walter Gornold. Served as General Secretary of the British Section and belonged to H. P. Blavatsky’s Inner Group in London. His article on the seven mystery names and their correspondences followed J. Bonggren’s study in Lucifer, IV, July 1889, pp. 407-415. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#32|BCW 10:32]]) +

Oliphant, Laurence +

Author of ''The Land of Gilead, with Excursions in the Lebanon'', published in Edinburgh and London by W. Blackwood & Sons in 1880. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#516|3:516]][[SMW::on]]). British author and traveller (1829-1888), formerly a diplomat and parliamentarian. He joined Thomas Lake Harris’s community, later broke with it, and settled at Haifa; his writings include travel books, novels and works on spiritual religion. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#386|7:386-387]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Sympneumata; or, evolutionary forces now active in man. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood & Sons, 1885. 8vo. Vide Vol. VII, pp. 386-87, for biographical sketch of the author (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#446|9:446]][[SMW::on]]). Author of Scientific Religion, or Higher Possibilities of Life and Practice through the Operation of Natural Forces (Edinburgh and London, 1888) (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#426|10:426]][[SMW::on]]). +

Oliver, George +

English clergyman, topographer and prolific Masonic writer (1782-1867). Blavatsky cited his ''History of Initiation'' and ''The Pythagorean Triangle, or the Science of Numbers''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#516|3:516]][[SMW::on]]). +

Olshausen H. - Proof of the Genuineness of the Writings of the New Testament +

An English translation of H. Olshausen’s work by Fosdick (Andover, 1838). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] located the beginning of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s quotation about the Hebrew Matthew in the German original but not its final sentence. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#233|BCW 8:233]]) +