Arundale, Francesca Eliza

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Francesca Eliza Arundale

(1842–1924)

English Theosophist and educator, a close associate of H. P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant. Worked in education in India and wrote My Guest, H. P. Blavatsky.

Her letter defending Theosophists appeared alongside letters by A. P. Sinnett and E. W. Wade in Light on 28 July 1883, pp. 343–344. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 5:332)

Wrote out the petition for the formation of the London Lodge’s Inner Group in 1884. According to her account, that summer she obtained H. P. Blavatsky’s permission to have a stone cut with interlaced triangles and the word Sat, following Blavatsky’s ring design. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 6:250-256, BCW 6:xxxiv)

Her manuscript book preserved a copy of the Maha-Chohan communication used by C. Jinarajadasa in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 12:239)

Some links:

• CTD article in Russian: Арундейл, Франческа
• Theosophy Wiki: Francesca Arundale
• Other resources: The Theosophist, vol. 6, June 1885, p. 201-203

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