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'''Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867)'''. Renowned English surgeon who was associated for some forty years with St. Bartholomew’s Hospital {{Page aside|754}}in London. He was Professor of anatomy and surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, and was appointed, 1857, as sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. Created Baronet in 1867. *Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, etc., London, 1848, 8vo.
'''Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867)'''. Renowned English surgeon who was associated for some forty years with St. Bartholomew’s Hospital {{Page aside|754}}in London. He was Professor of anatomy and surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, and was appointed, 1857, as sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. Created Baronet in 1867. *Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, etc., London, 1848, 8vo.
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'''Lee, Ann (1736-1784)'''. English religious visionary; was born in Manchester, where she was first a factory hand and afterwards a cook. She is especially remembered by her connection with the sect known as Shakers. She died at Watervliet, near Albany, New York.
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'''Lenclos, Ninon de (1615-1705)'''. French courtesan, daughter of a gentleman of good position in Touraine. As the mistress to a succession of well-known men of the time, acquired considerable influence, and eventually settled down to the social leadership of Paris. Her long friendship with Saint-Evremont deserves notice. Voltaire’s letter on her was the chief authority of subsequent biographers.
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'''Lermontov, Mihail Yuryevich (1814-1841)'''. *Poem to Alexandra Osipovna Smirnova, 1840.
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'''Levi, Eliphas''' (pseud, of Alphonse-Louis Constant, 1810-75). *“Stray Thoughts on Death and Satan” (notes and footnotes by H.P.B.), The Theosophist, Vol. Ill, October, 1881, Cf. Collected IP citings, Vol. Ill, pp. 287-91.
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'''Linton, Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn (1822-1898)'''. English novelist who was married to W. J. Linton, engraver. She wrote a large number of novels and stories and became very well known in her time. One of the best works is: *The True History of Joshua Davidson, 1872.
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'''Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)'''. *Nature Series. Not definitely identified.
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'''Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)'''. *Santa Filomena, 1857.
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'''Lumholtz, Carl Sofus''', Norwegian explorer and naturalist, b. 1851 at Faaber in Gudbrandsalen; d. in the Saranac Lake Sanatorium, New York, May 5, 1922. After graduating in theology at the Univ, of Oslo, 1876, was sent by the Univ, to Australia, where he spent four years, 1880-84, collecting various scientific data. In 1890, he went to Mexico on behalf of the Amer. Museum of Nat. History, bringing back a valuable collection of photos. His work: Blandt Mexicos Indianere (1902-03) describes his trips. He also worked in Borneo, {{Page aside|755}}1915-17, gathering much new information on the Dyaks, recorded in his work: Through Central Borneo (New York, 1920, 2 vols.).
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'''Machell, Reginald Willoughby'''. Outstanding English painter and carver, and a devoted Theosophist. Born June 20, 1854 at the family home Crackenthorpe, Westmoreland, he was the second surviving son of Rev. Beverly Machell, Canon of York Cathedral, and Emma Willoughby Machell, who was the sister of Lord Middleton. The Machells are an old Westmoreland family whose name is recorded in Doomsday Book. He was educated at Uppingham and Owen’s College, Manchester, and took many prizes for drawing and in the Classics. In 1875, he went to London to study art, and the following year to Paris, where he made great progress at the celebrated Academic Julien in the Passage des Panoramas, winning several medals in the school. He had married Ada Mary Simpson in 1875. He returned to London in 1880, devoting himself to portrait painting, and exhibited a full length portrait of a lady in the Royal Academy of that year. In 1885, he painted a large canvas of the “Temptation of St. Anthony”; in 1887, his “Bacchante” was exhibited at the Royal Academy. In that year Reginald discovered Theosophy through one of his aunts, a friend of Lady Malcolm (H.P.B.’s close friend), who had given her a copy of the magazine Lucijer that had just then been launched in London. The contents of that magazine were sufficient for Reginald to become convinced he had found what he was looking for in a philosophical approach to life. He met H.P.B. and joined The Theosophical Society. When H.P.B. had moved to 19 Avenue Road, Regents Park, London, at about July, 1890, Reginald Machell did some interior decorating there at her request, and she soon suggested he have his studio in the same building. From about that time, the character of his paintings changed greatly. They became mystical in nature and symbolic of some of the great truths of Theosophy. The famous “Dweller on the Threshold” was followed by “The Birth of a Planet” (owned by the Pioneer Club of London), “Lead Kindly Light,” “The Mystic Troth,” “The Bard,” “The Exiles,” and others. One of his most renowned canvases is ‘The Path,” owned by the Point Loma Theosophical Society (now at Pasadena), used for many years on the cover of the magazine The Theosophical Path and which is reproduced in the present Volume. In the words of Alice Leighton Cleather:
“I went to see Mr. Machell’s last picture, “The Path,” the other day, in the Suffolk Street Gallery, where it is now being exhibited. It is certainly one of his very best, and his most intricate and {{Page aside|756}}mystical. These words are inscribed at the bottom, in one corner: “If wisdom thou wouldst gain, be strong, be bold, be merciful. But when thou hast attained them let compassion speak. Renounce thy goal: return to earth a Saviour of Mankind”; and they give the key-note to the picture. The whole of the life of man, as outlined in the Esoteric philosophy, is here given—suggested, rather—by Mr. Machell, in symbolic form; so you may imagine how almost impossible it would be to enter into a full description of it. But I believe that if the picture could be widely exhibited, especially among the poorer classes, it would do more to bring the teachings of H.P.B. home to the hearts and minds of the people, than reams of literature.”<ref>In her London Letter, dated February, 1895, The Theosophist, Vol. XVI, April, 1895, p. 464.</ref>
In 1893, Reginald Machell was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and since that time exhibited most of his paintings in the galleries of the Society.
As an illustrator Mr. Machell’s principal works are two original and sumptuous books written by the gifted American, Irene Osgood (1875-1922), who was a natural mystic. The first was An Idol's Passion (London and New York, The Transatlantic Puhi. Co., 1895), which contains seventeen finely executed mystical plates. The second was The Chant of the Lonely Soul (London, Gay and Bird, 1897), a work based on litanies to Tanit and adapted from Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac’s Les Chauves-Souris. Mr. Machell’s illustrations are large photogravures with the text worked in by the artist.
After H.P.B.’s body had been cremated in May of 1891, one third of her ashes was to be kept at the London Headquarters of The Theosophical Society. It was Reginald Machell who designed the symbolical urn or casket to be the receptacle of the ashes. The urn, as shown in our reproduction, was the work of Sven Bengtsson (1843-1916), a famous artist and carver from Lund, Sweden, who was a Fellow of the T.S. When the Headquarters at 19 Avenue Road, London, N.W. were given up, the ornamental urn with the ashes were taken by Annie Besant to India. Eventually, that one-third portion of the ashes was dropped into the Ganges, as was done with a portion of Col. Olcott’s ashes in 1907. Bengtsson’s urn is now at Adyar.
(Incidentally, that portion of H.P.B.’s ashes which Col. Olcott took with him to India was buried under H.P.B.’s statue in the Headquarters Hall at Adyar. The other third portion was for many years
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<center>'''REGINALD WILLOUGHBY MACHELL'''</center>
<center>1854-1927</center>
<center>Personal pupil of H.P.B. and outstanding painter and wood carver. From a photograph taken during his years at Point Loma, California.</center>
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<center>'''SYMBOLICAL URN'''</center>
<center>Designed by Reginald W. Machell as the receptacle for the ashes of H.P.B.</center>
<center>It was produced by Sven Bengtsson, of Lund, Sweden, and is now at the International Theosophical Headquarters at Adyar.</center>
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{{Style P-No indent|at Point Loma, and is now in the Archives of the Theosophical Society at Pasadena, California.)}}






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