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Mead G.R.S. - Simon Magus +

Published by the Theosophical Publishing Society, London, in 1892, following serialization in Lucifer, vols. X–XI, June–December 1892. Contains translations of the principal patristic accounts of Simon Magus. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#571|BCW 12:571-573]]) +

Mead G.R.S. - The Sibyl and her Oracles +

A study by [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]] published in The Theosophical Review, volume XXII, July and August 1898; recommended by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] for studying Sibylline traditions. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#228|BCW 8:228]]) +

Mead G.R.S. - The Sibyllists and the Sibyllines +

A study by [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]] published in The Theosophical Review, volume XXIII, September–November 1898, including bibliographical information on Sibylline literature. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#228|BCW 8:228]]) +

Mead, George Robert Stow +

was an English Theosophist, scholar, and writer; H. P. Blavatsky’s private secretary since 1889. His ''Apollonius of Tyana'' was published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in London and Benares in 1901; a second edition appeared through University Books in New York in 1966. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#515|3:515]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists his studies of the Sibyl and Sibylline literature, Pistis Sophia and Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?, with articles published in The Theosophical Review (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#468|8:468]][[SMW::on]]). Omitted the Lucifer commentaries from his 1896 book translation of Pistis Sophia. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] reports an intended separate volume of commentaries; J. M. Watkins found no corresponding manuscript among his papers. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#238|BCW 8:238-239]]) As secretary of the Blavatsky Lodge, he explained in the November 1889 Lucifer that publication of the Transactions was delayed because the shorthand reports required rewriting and final revision by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of The Theosophical Society#299|BCW 10:299]]) In summer 1889 [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] summoned him to Jersey to read The Voice of the Silence. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.11)#xxv|BCW 11:xxv]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Notes on the Gospel according to John#483|BCW 11:483]]) Began publishing his English translation of Pistis Sophia in the April 1890 Lucifer. Publication was suspended in May 1891 with an announced six-month interval; the translation was never completed in the magazine. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Note by the Compiler#150|BCW 12:150]]) The revised edition of his Pistis Sophia translation (1921) was checked against C. Schmidt’s German translation. Mead was general secretary of the first European Convention of the Theosophical Society in July 1891. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Introductory Notes to H.P.B.s Commentary on the Pistis Sophia#3|BCW 13:3-5]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.13)#xxvi|BCW 13:xxvi]]) In Lucifer in July 1897 stated that he had not edited the main body of the posthumous third volume of The Secret Doctrine. In The Occult Review in May 1927 said that he had persuaded [[Besant, Annie|A. Besant]] to add the esoteric instructions. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] compares these statements and points out their inconsistencies. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xxxvii|BCW 14:xxxvii-xl]])

Medhora, Dhunjibhoy Jamsetjee +

Parsi Theosophist of Bombay who wrote on Zoroastrian religion and ethics. +

Medhora, Jamsetjee +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Medhurst, Walter Henry +

The bibliography lists his Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (1847). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#536|2:536]][[SMW::on]]). English missionary and translator in China; the bibliography cites ''A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese'' (1847). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#658|4:658]][[SMW::on]]). +

Medini +

The earth; so‐called from the marrow (''medas'') of two demons. These monsters springing from the ear of the sleeping Vishnu, were preparing to kill Brahmâ who was lying on the lotus which grows from Vishnu’s navel, when the god of Preservation awoke and killed them. Their bodies being thrown into the sea produced such a quantity of fat and marrow that Nârâyana used it to form the earth with [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Medium and Daybreak, The +

To remedy the problems with Human Nature (and expand his subscription list), in the spring of 1869 James Burns bought out the provincial monthly Daybreak (June 1868-March 1870) by assuming the outstanding "few pounds of debt" incurred by Rev. John Page Hopps (1834-1911) in publishing the journal. Hopps was a newly minted spiritualist and a Unitarian minister, radical, and well-regarded poet and composer of hymns. Burns continued the journal from London, changing it from a monthly to a fortnightly and back again, searching for a successful formula. In April 1870, urged on by the American medium John Murray Spear and funded only by a ВЈ5 note left by a Mrs. E. Dickson at the Spiritual Institution, and with "no contributors, no means, no experience, no ambition, no end to serve," Burns changed the tiny journal Daybreak into a weekly eight-page newspaper under the name Medium and Daybreak, "A Weekly Journal Devoted to the History, Phenomena, Philosophy and Teachings of Spiritualism." Its masthead was, in its final variant, a line of beautiful spirits emerging from a dawning sun to enlighten a hoary man surrounded by dusty tomes. The journal began with 8 pp. and progressed to 16 pp. in December 1873. This was the leading weekly spiritualist periodical in England in the number of its subscribers. Frank Podmore, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, claimed that the journal had the largest circulation in Britain. Unlike its more upscale and erudite competitors, the journal was devoted to provincial middle- and laboring-class interests. Burns (1833-1894) was a true enthusiast but a poor businessman and had to resort constantly to elaborate (and fraudulent) dodges to support the journal, and at times, like so many others, he set his own type. (IAPSOP) London weekly devoted to the history, phenomena, philosophy and teachings of Spiritualism; de Zirkoff lists it from 1870 onward. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#450|6:450]][[SMW::on]]). A weekly journal devoted to the history, phenomena, philosophy and teachings of Spiritualism. London, 1870, etc. Fol (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#479|8:479]][[SMW::on]]).

Medwin, Thomas +

English author. Educated at Sion House, Brentford, where he was in close association with his cousin, Shelley (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#581|11:581]][[SMW::on]]). +

Megacosm +

The world of the Astral light, or as explained by a puzzled Mason “a great world, not identical with Macrocosm, the Universe, but something between it and Microcosm, the little world” or man [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mehen +

In popular myths, the great serpent which represents the lower atmosphere. In Occultism, the world of the ''Astral light'', called symbolically the Cosmic Dragon and the Serpent. (See the works of Eliphaz Lévi, who called this light ''le Serpent du Mal'', and by other names, attributing to it all the evil influences on the earth.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Mehta, Batukram S. +

Military medical officer at Wartcha, Baroda, and a writer on Indian religious and medical subjects. Described “A Physiological Test for Thief-Catching”, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] appended a concluding note. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (10)|BCW 2:511]]) +

Mehta, Damoderdas K. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Mehta, Mahiputram Govindram +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Mehta, Parasuram H. +

Secretary of the Surat Theosophical Society in 1891. +

Mehta, Pherozeshaw Rustomji +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Meister, The +

English-language quarterly of the London Branch of the Wagner Society, edited by William Ashton Ellis. Published in London from 13 February 1888 to 25 November 1895. It printed translations of Richard Wagner’s prose, studies of his operas, book reviews and reports of performances. [https://ripm.org/journals/mei RIPM] The complete run comprised eight annual volumes and 32 issues. George Redway published the first two volumes. [https://thewagnerjournal.co.uk/blogs/free-content-the-wagner-journal/faithful-all-too-faithful The Wagner Journal] +

Melekh +

Lit., “a King”. A title of the Sephira Tiphereth, the V, or ''vau ''in the tetragrammaton — the son or ''Microprosopus ''(the Lesser Face) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Melhas +

A class of fire‐gods or Salamanders [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +