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Bennett, De Robigne Mortimer +

American freethinker, editor and publisher. He founded ''The Truth Seeker'' in 1873 and joined the Theosophical Society during his visit to India in 1882. American freethinker, editor, writer and lecturer, associated with ''The Truth Seeker''. Zirkoff recounts his prosecution and imprisonment, world journey, membership of the Theosophical Society and friendship with Blavatsky and Olcott, and provides a bibliography of his writings. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#625|4:625-633]][[SMW::on]]). Arrived in Bombay on 10 January 1882 and was met by [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]], Damodar and Shroff. On 19 January he attended [[Cook, Joseph|J. Cook]]’s lecture attacking Theosophy and Bennett himself, together with the Founders. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxvii]]) The Mahatma correspondence describes him as an unwitting agent in freeing Western thought from superstitious creeds; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] cites letters XXXVII and XLIII and the Second Series of [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s Old Diary Leaves. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Travelling Truthseeker#369|BCW 4:369]]) +

Benoo +

A word applied to two symbols, both taken to mean “Phœnix”. One was the ''Shen‐shen ''(the heron), and the other a nondescript bird, called the ''Rech ''(the red one), and both were sacred to Osiris. It was the latter that was the regular Phœnix of the great Mysteries, the typical symbol of self‐creation and resurrection through death — a type of the Solar Osiris and of the divine Ego in man. Yet both the Heron and the Rech were symbols of cycles; the former, of the Solar year of 365 days; the latter of the tropical year or a period covering almost 26,000 years. In both cases the cycles were the types of the return of light from darkness, the yearly and great cyclic return of the sun‐god to his birth‐place, or — his Resurrection. The Rech‐Benoo is described by Macrobius as living 660 years and then dying; while others stretched its life as long as 1,460 years. Pliny, the Naturalist, describes the Rech as a large bird with gold and purple wings, and a long blue tail. As every reader is aware, the Phœnix on feeling its end approaching, according to tradition, builds for itself a funeral pile on the top of the sacrificial altar, and then proceeds to consume himself thereon as a burnt‐offering. Then a worm appears in the ashes, which grows and developes rapidly into a new Phœnix, resurrected from the ashes of its predecessor [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Benson, Arthur Christopher +

English poet and essayist, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. Served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. +

Bentley, Richard +

English classical scholar and critic (1662-1742), keeper of the Royal Library and master of Trinity College. His work included editions of classical authors and a proposal for a new edition of the Greek New Testament. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#357|7:357]][[SMW::on]]). +

Benzengr, Vassiliy Nikolayevich +

Physician who treated [[Hahn, Helena Andreyevna von|H. A. von Hahn]] while she was staying with her children in Poland in the summer of 1839 ([[:t-ru-lib:Бенценгер, Василий|BTS: Benzengr, Vassiliy Nikolayevich]]). Physician to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s mother who accompanied the family to Odessa during her final illness in 1842 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xxxii|BCW 1:xxxii]]). +

Berasit +

The first word of the book of Genesis. The English established version translates this as “In the beginning,” but this rendering is disputed by many scholars. Tertullian approved of “In power”; Grotius “When first”; but the authors of the ''Targum of Jerusalern'', who ought to have known Hebrew if anyone did, translated it “In Wisdom”. Godfrey Higgins, in his Anacalypsis, insists on Berasit being the sign of the ablative case, meaning “in” and ''ras, rasit, ''an ancient word for ''Chokmah'', “wisdom”. [ w. w.w.] Berasit or Berasheth is a mystic word among the Kabbalists of Asia Minor [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bergelmir +

The one giant who escaped in a boat the general slaughter of his brothers, the giant Ymir’s children, drowned in the blood of their raging Father. He is the Scandinavian Noah, as he, too, becomes the father of giants after the Deluge. The lays of the Norsemen show the grandsons of the divine Bun — Odin, Wili, and We — conquering and killing the terrible giant Ymir, and creating the world out of his body [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bernheim, Hippolyte +

French physician. Was first professor at the Univ. of Strassburg, 1868, but settled later at Nancy, where he devoted himself to the study of hypnotism and suggestion (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#420|8:420]][[SMW::on]]). +

Berosus +

A priest of the Temple of Belus who wrote for Alexander the Great the history of the Cosmogony, as taught in the Temples, from the astronomical and chronological records preserved in that temple. The fragments we have in the ''soi‐disant ''translations of Eusebius are certainly as untrustworthy as the biographer of the Emperor Constantine — of whom he made a saint (!!) — could make them. The only guide to this Cosmogony may now be found in the fragments of the Assyrian tablets, evidently copied almost bodily from the earlier Babylonian records; which, say what the Orientalists may, are undeniably the originals of the Mosaic Genesis, of the Flood, the tower of Babel, of baby Moses set afloat on the waters, and of other events. For, if the fragments from the Cosmogony of Berosus, so carefully re‐edited and probably mutilated and added to by Eusebius, are no great proof of the antiquity of these records in Babylonia — seeing that this priest of Belus lived three hundred years after the Jews were carried captive to Babylon, and they may have been borrowed by the Assyrians from them — later discoveries have made such a consoling hypothesis impossible. It is now fully ascertained by Oriental scholars that not only “Assyria borrowed its civilization and written characters from Babylonia,” but the Assyrians copied their literature from Babylonian sources. Moreover, in his first Hibbert lecture, Professor Sayce shows the culture both of Babylonia itself and of the city of Eridu to have been of ''foreign importation''; and, according to this scholar, the city of Eridu stood already “6,000 years ago on the shores of the Persian gulf,” i.e., about the very time when Genesis shows the Elohim creating the world, sun, and stars out of nothing [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Berridge, Edward William +

British homoeopathic physician. Trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and obtained medical degrees in London and Philadelphia. +

Bert, Paul +

Bibliographical references include: La morale des Jésuites. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. xliv, 666 pp.; also 1883 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#406|9:406]][[SMW::on]]). +

Berthelot, Marcellin Pierre Eugène +

Bibliographical references include: Les origines de l’alchimie. Paris: G. Steinheil, 1885. Nouveau tirage, Paris: Librairie des Sciences et des Arts, 1938 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#420|8:420]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: La Synthèse chimique. Paris: G. Baillière, 1876, 8vo (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#567|11:567]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bertrand F.M. - Dictionnaire universel historique et comparatif de toutes les religions du monde +

Listed in the appendix by a cross-reference to François Marie Bertrand. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#366|7:366]][[SMW::on]]). [[Bertrand, François Marie|F. M. Bertrand]]’s four-volume dictionary, published in Paris in 1848–1850 as volumes 24–27 of [[Migne, Jacques Paul|J. P. Migne]]’s Encyclopédie théologique. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s quotation summarises a longer explanation. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Animated Statues#214|BCW 7:214]]) +

Bertrand, François Marie +

Author of a four-volume historical and comparative dictionary of the world’s religions, published at Paris in 1848-1850 as volumes 24-27 of Migne’s ''Encyclopédie théologique''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#357|7:357]][[SMW::on]]). +

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob +

Swedish chemist (1779-1848), professor in Stockholm and secretary of its Academy of Sciences. His research concerned physiological chemistry, atomic theory, chemical composition and electrochemistry; he also developed chemical nomenclature and the radical theory. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#497|3:497]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bes +

A phallic god, the god of concupiscence and pleasure. He is represented standing on a lotus ready to devour his own progeny (Abydos). A rather modern deity of foreign origin [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Besant A. - Hypnotism and Mesmerism +

The Centenary Edition, 1847–1947, was issued by the Theosophical Publishing House at Adyar in 1948, 65 pages. It includes a brief fragment ascribed to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and reproduced in volume XIII of the Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - On Mesmerism and Hypnotism#362|BCW 13:362]]) +

Besant A. - Theosophy and the Society of Jesus +

A. Besant’s article in The Theosophist, XIV, December 1892, pp. 147-151, directly responding to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Theosophy or Jesuitism. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#317|BCW 9:317]]) +

Besant, Annie +

British writer, lecturer and social reformer; second president of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, from 1907 to 1933. Worked for Indian self-government and education. Bibliographical references include: “Theosophy and the Society of Jesus,” The Theosophist, Vol. XIV, December, 1892 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#406|9:406]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Why I became a Theosophist, July, 1889; 3rd ed. 1891 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#568|11:568]][[SMW::on]]). Endorsed Adyar’s collaboration on [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s collected writings in 1930 and permitted use of the Society’s archival material. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Preface (BCW vol.4)#xv|BCW 4:xv]]) According to [[Johnston, Charles|C. Johnston]], joined the Theosophical Society on 10 May 1889. Visited [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] at Fontainebleau that summer. In August she arranged to vest her property at 19 Avenue Road in trustees as headquarters for the Society’s British Section. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.11)#xxiv|BCW 11:xxiv-xxv]]) Chaired a meeting of the Blavatsky Lodge in London for the first time on 21 November 1889 and was elected its president on 2 January 1890. With L. Cooper she was placed in charge of the Working Women’s Club opened with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s participation on 16 August 1890. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.12)#xxiii|BCW 12:xxiii-xxv]]) Sailed from Liverpool for the United States on 1 April 1891 carrying [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s final letter to the American Convention. Addressed the Aryan Theosophical Society in New York on karma on 14 April, quoting Blavatsky’s answer concerning the universality of suffering. Became the principal editor of Lucifer after Blavatsky’s death. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.13)#xxiv|BCW 13:xxiv-xxv]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (65)#170|BCW 13:170]], [[Zirkoff B. - There is a Road, Steep and Thorny#219|BCW 13:219]]) Prepared the posthumous third volume of The Secret Doctrine (1897). Her preface states that she arranged the manuscripts into sections, corrected grammar and enclosed her additions in square brackets. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] points to discrepancies between this preface and her interview with W. Mulliss on 6 October 1926 concerning the provenance of the manuscripts. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xxx|BCW 14:xxx-xxxii]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Secret Doctrine - Volume III#xlii|BCW 14:xlii-xliv]])

Besant, Digby +

Sent the English Theosophical Society a copy of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s rules for residents at 19 Avenue Road; these were published in News and Notes in July–August 1949. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Rules for the Residents of the London Headquarters#212|BCW 12:212]]) +