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'''Hellenbach, Lazar, Freiherr von'''. Austrian politician and philosopher, b. in the Castle of Paczolay, Sept. 3, 1827; d. there Oct. 24, 1887. His political activity was during the period of 1860-67, in the Croatian Parliament. As a philosopher, he was influenced by Schopenhauer, but developed gradually an occult viewpoint, and conceived reality as the sum of individual wills or entities endowed with wills. His works are: Eine Philosophie des gesunden Menschenverstandes (1876); Der Individualismus im Lichte der Biologie und Philosophie der Gegenwart (1878); Die Vorurteile der Menschheit (1879-80, 3 vols.).

H.P.B. had considerable respect for his views and one of her most serious students and supporters, Dr. William Hübbe-Schleiden (vide Vol. VII, pp. 375-77 of present Series, for comprehensive biogr. sketch of him, with portrait), wrote a book about von Heilenbach, entitled Hellenbach, der Vorkämpfer für Wahrheit und Menschlichkeit (1891).

'''Higgins, Godfrey (1773-1833)'''. *The Celtic Druids. London: R. Hunter, 1827. Rpr. Ly Philosophical Research Soc., L.A. 1977.

'''Horace, Q.H.F. (65-8 b.c.)'''. *Satires. Loeb Class. Libr.

'''Huc, Abbé Évariste Régis (1813-1860)'''. *Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Tibet et la Chine pendant les années 1844, 1845, et 1846. Paris, 1850, 2 vols. 8vo.—Engl, transi, as Travels, etc. by W. Hazlitt. London, 1851-52, 2 vols.; abbreviated by Μ. Jones, 1867.

'''Hunt, Chandos Leigh'''. *Private Practical Instructions in the Science and Art of Organic Magnetism. No information.

'''Hyde, Thomas'''. English Orientalist, b. at Billingsley, June 29, 1636; d. at Oxford, Feb. 18, 1703. Studied Oriental languages at Cambridge; assisted Walton in his edition of the Polyglot Bible. After various scholarly tasks, was appointed, 1691, Laudian professor of Arabic, and in 1697, regius professor of Hebrew and a canon of Christ Church. Discharged duties of Eastern interpreter to the Court. In his chief work, *Historia religionis veterum Persarum (Oxford, 1700, 4to; 2nd ed., 1760), he made the first attempt to correct from Oriental sources the errors of the Greek and Roman historians who had attempted to describe the religion of the ancient {{Page aside|512}}Persians. He also published a Catalog of the Bodleian Library in 1674.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Idrah Rabbah or The Greater Holy Assembly'''. See Vol. VII, pp. 269-72, for pertinent information on the Zohar and its contents.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Jatakas'''. Birth stories. A work of the Buddhist Theravada Canon containing a collection of 550 stories of the former lives of Gautama Buddha. Translated under the editorship of Prof. E. B. Cowell. Cambridge: University Press, 1895-1913. Seven Vols.—Also transl. by T. W. Rhys Davids. London: Triibner & Co., 1880.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Javidan Kherad, or “Eternal Wisdom”''' a Practical Manual of the Philosophy of Magic. Edited by Manekje Limji Hooshang Haturis, 1882.

'''Jones, M'''. *The Natural and the Supernatural. No information.

'''Josephus, Flavius (37?-95? a.d.)'''. *Antiquities. Loeb Class. Libr.

'''Jost, Isaac Marcus (1793-1860)'''. *The Israelite Indeed. No information.

'''Kenealy, Edward Vaughan Hyde (1819-1880)'''. *The Book of Enoch, the Second Messenger of God. London: Triibner & Co., approx. 1865. Two vols.—*The Book of God. Part II: An Introduction to the Apocalypse. London: Triibner & Co. [1867]. See Vol. VIII, p. 462, for biogr. data.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Kennicott MS. No. 154'''. There is a Catalog of Hebrew MSS. originally numbered by Benjamin Kennicott and which was published by Giovanni Bamardo de Rossi at Parma, 1784-88, under the title of Variae Lectiones Veteris Testamenti ex Immensa MSS. Editorumque Codicum . . . Haustae. Manuscript No. 154 occurs on page LXVII in Vol. I thereof. It is a MS. of the Prophets (in Hebrew) with the Targum (i.e., Aramaic translation) from the year 1106 from a Codex published by Reuchlin and which is now at Karlsruhe. Older Hebrew MSS. have been found since.

'''Kepler, Johann (1571-1630)'''. *The Principles of Astrology. This is most likely his De Fundamentis Astrologiae Certioribus. Kepler’s extensive literary remains, purchased by the Empress Catherine II in 1724 from some Frankfurt merchants, and long inaccessibly deposited in the observatory of Pulkovo, near St. Petersburg, were fully brought to light under the able editorship of Dr. Ch. Frisch, in the first complete edition of his works. This important publication, {{Page aside|513}}entitled Joannis Kepleri opera omnia (Frankfurt, 1858-71, 8 vols. 8vo), contains also a vast amount of his correspondence and a carefully drawn biography. The Fundamentis Astrologiae may be found in Vol. I, pp. 417-38, of the Opera omnia.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Khiu-ti or Kiu-ti'''. See Vol. VI, p. 425, for informative data.

'''Khunrath, Henry (1560-1605)'''. See Vol. V, pp. 376-77, for data.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Lalitavistara'''. A Hinayana work of the Mahâsanghika School of Buddhism written in Sanskrit. It is a biography of the Buddha which develops the legendary aspect of his life. Transi, by R. Mitra in Bibliotheca Indica, New Series, Vol. 90.

'''Lamralle, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy-Carignano, Princesse de'''. The fourth daughter of Louis Victor of Carignano (d. 1774), b. at Turin, September 8, 1749; d. Sept. 3, 1792. Married, 1767, Prince de Lamballe (son of Duke de Panthièvre), who died the next year. Companion and confidante of Marie Antoinette, she was appointed superintendent of the royal household. From 1785 to the revolution she was the Queen’s closest friend. After an appeal for the royal family, 1791, she returned from England to the Tuileries and shared the Queen’s imprisonment on August 10th. Refusing to forswear the monarchy, she was beheaded.

Her letters were published by Ch. Schmidt in La Revolution Française, Vol. XXXIX, 1900.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Lamrim'''. A Tibetan term applied to sundry mystical writings, since Zam(-gyi) rim(-pa) signifies “a degree of advance,” especially in reference to the steps on the path towards perfection, and lam means a way, road or path. Connected with Lamrim, as a term, are the words chen-mo or chen-po, both signifying “great”; hence, Lam-rim chen-mo, “the Great Road to Perfection.” H.P.B. stated (Coll. Writings, IX, 158) that the Lamrim “is a work of practical instructions, by Tsong Kha-pa, in two portions, one for ecclesiastical and exoteric purposes the other for esoteric use.”

Tsong Kha-pa also wrote a concise version expressing the heart of the Lamrim teachings. See: Essence of Refined Cold, tr. by G. H. Mullin, with commentaries by the Third & Fourteenth Dali Lamas, 1982; and Ch. VI of The Door of Liberation, tr. by Geshe Wangyal, 1978.

'''Layard, Sir Austen Henry'''. British author and diplomatist, the excavator of Nineveh, b. in Paris, March 5, 1817; d. in London, July 5, 1894. Educated in Italy, France, England and Switzerland. Encouraged by Sir Stratford Canning, who had employed him in various unofficial diplomatic missions in Turkey, he went to Assyria and started excavations at Kuyunjik and Nimrud, 1847; a year later he returned to England. His second expedition took place in 1849, and the results of his labors are embodied in his works: *Nineveh and its Remains, etc. (1848-49, 2 vols.), and Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1855). It was he who sent to England the specimens which now form the greater part of the Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum. After a number of years in diplomatic service and in politics, Layard retired, 1878, to Venice, and devoted his time to art and writing.

'''Lévi Zahed, Éliphas (pseud, of Alphonse-Louis Constant) (1810-1875)'''. *Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, Paris: Germer-Bail- lière, 1856, 2 vols.; 3rd ed., 1894.—*La Science des esprits, Paris, 1865. —*La Clef des grands mystères, Paris, 1861. Consult Vol. I, pp. 491-95, of the present Series for a comprehensive account of Lévi’s life and work.

'''Lillie, Arthur (1831-?)'''. *Buddha and Early Buddhism. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1882, ill.

'''Littré, Maximilien Paul Émile'''. French lexicographer and philosopher, b. at Paris, Feb. 1, 1801; d. June 2, 1881. Educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Studied modem languages, classical and Sanskrit literature and philology. Taught the Classics and became director of the National to which he contributed a great many articles. At first a disciple of Comte, he popularized his ideas, but diverged from them at a later period. Took part in the revolution of July, 1848. After the siege of Paris in 1871, entered political life as a member of the Senate at Versailles. In 1844 he began his great Dictionnaire de la langue française (1844-1873), a work of sound scholarship. Other works: Paroles de la philosophie positive, Paris, 1859.—* Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive, 2nd ed., Paris, 1864.—OEuvres completes d’Hippocrate, Paris, 1839-69, in ten volumes, the only complete translation of the Hippocratic Collection extant.

'''Livingstone, David (1813-1873)'''. *Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa, etc. London: J. Murray, 1857; Philadelphia, Pa., 1858; also 1861.

Lubbock, Sir John (1834-1913). See Vol. VII, p. 381, for data.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Mahdparinirvanasutra'''. Important Mahayana Scripture written in Sanskrit and translated into Chinese many times, first by Dharmaraksha in 423. Sometimes called the Paradise Sutra, and treating of the Buddha nature and its relation to Nirvana. No complete translation in English. To be distinguished from the Pali Sutta of equivalent name, the Mahaparinibbana Sutta.

'''Markham, Sir Clements Roberts (1830-1916)'''. *Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa (edited by Sir Markham), London, 1876, 8vo. See Vol. VI, p. 441, for biogr. data.

'''Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)'''. *A Book of the Beginnings. London: Williams and Norgate, 1881, 2 vols.

'''Mead, G.R.S. (1863-1933)'''. *Apollonius of Tyana. London and Benares: Theos. Publ. Soc., 1901; 2nd ed., New York: University Books, Inc., 1966.

'''Miller, William Allen (1817-1870)'''. English chemist; studied at Birmingham Gen. Hospital and King’s College, London. Worked in Libig’s laboratory, 1840; chemical demonstrator, King’s College; M.D., London, 1842; prof, of chemistry, King’s Coll., 1845; F.R.S., 1845. Experimented in spectrum analysis, and (with Dr. Wm. Huggins) investigated the spectra of heavenly bodies, obtaining the first trustworthy information on stellar chemistry, 1862. Was assayer to the Mint. Published Elements of Chemistry, 1855-57.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Mishnah Nazir'''. Part of the Talmud.

'''Molinos, Miguel de'''. Spanish divine, b. at Patacina, Dec. 25, 1640; d. in prison in Rome, Dec. 28, 1697. He was the chief apostle of the religious revival known as Quietism. In 1675 Molinos published his Guida spirituale which, some six years later, aroused the suspicion of the Jesuit Signeri; the matter was referred to the Inquisition, but the work was pronounced orthodox. However, the matter was revived by Father La Chaise who secured the support of Louis XIV, and Molinos was arrested in May, 1685. As a result of various inimical and false accusations, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Pope Innocent XI condemned Molinos’ work. Molinos was a genuine mystic, struggling to free himself from the clutches of ecclesiastical dogmas; he regarded disinterested love as the hallmark of true sanctity.

'''Monier-Williams, Sir Monier (1819-99)'''. *“The Religion of Zoroaster,” in Nineteenth Century, Vol. IX, January, 1881.

'''Montfaucon, Bernard de'''. French scholar and critic, b. at the Château de Soulage in France, Jan. 13, 1655; d. at St.-Germain-des-Pres, Dec. 21, 1741. Entered the army, 1672, but in 1675 became a monk, and lived at various abbeys, going to Italy, 1698. Apart from editing a number of writings of the Church Fathers, such as Athanasius and John Chrysostom, he wrote a work entitled F Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (1719) which laid the foundation of archaeology. (2nd rev. & enl. ed., Paris: F. Del au Ine, 1722; 5 vols, in 10. French & Latin. Engl, transi, by David Humphreys. London: J. Touson & J. Watts, 1721-22; 5 vols.) His Palaeographia graeca (1708) illustrated the history of Greek writing.

'''Motwani, Kewal'''. *Colonel H. S. Olcott. A Forgotten Page of American History. Madras: Ganesh & Co., 1955. Pamphlet.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>New American Cyclopaedia, 1858-63, 16 vols.; ed. by George Ripley and Chas'''. A. Dana. New ed., as American Cyclopaedia, 1873-76, 16 vols., prepared by the same authors.

'''Olcott, Col. Henry Steel (1832-1907)'''. *Diaries. From 1878 to his death, now in the Adyar Archives.—*Buddhist Catechism, 1881.—*Theosophy, Religion and Occult Science, 1885,—*Old Diary Leaves, New York and London, 1895; 2nd ed., Adyar, 1941.

'''Oliphant, Laurence (1829-1888)'''. *The Land of Gilead, with Excursions in the Lebanon. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1880. xxxvii, 538 pp. See Vol. VII, pp. 386-87, for biogr.

'''Oliver, George'''. English topographer and writer on Freemasonry, b. at Papplewick, Nov. 5, 1782; d. at Lincoln, March 3, 1867. After receiving a liberal education at Nottingham, he became, 1803, second master of the grammar school at Caistor, and six years later, head master of King Edward’s grammar school at Great Grimsby. Was ordained deacon, 1813, and priest, 1814. After various intermediary stages, he obtained the rectory of Scopwick, Lincolnshire, which he held till his death. A Lambeth degree of D.D. was conferred upon him, 1835, and he was prominently associated with the Masonic Order in Lincolnshire. Oliver was an indefatigable writer on subjects of history and antiquities; he also produced a large number of Masonic works, among which should be mentioned: *The History of Initiation, etc., London, 1829 and 1841; and The Pythagorean Triangle, or the Science of Numbers, 1875, both of which H. P. B. quotes from. (Rpr. by Wizards Bks., 1977)

'''Ouseley, Sir William'''. English Orientalist, b. in Monmouthshire in 1767; d. at Boulogne in Sept., 1842. Was educated privately until 1787, when he went to Paris to study. After a short time in military service, he sold out and went to Leyden to resume Oriental, and especially, Persian studies. Published, 1795, his Persian. Miscellanies, on the subject of Persian handwritings. His great scholastic achievements brought him various degrees and a knighthood (1800). He accompanied his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, on his mission to the Shâh of Persia, 1810, where he remained for three years. The account of this journey is contained in his Travels in Various Countries of the East, etc. (1819, 1821, 1823, 3 vols.). He also published *Oriental Collections (1797-99, 3 vols.), and contributed extensively to the Transactions of the Royal Soc. of Lit.

'''Paléologue, Maurice-Georges (1859-1944)'''. *Le Roman tragique de l'Empereur Alexandre II Paris: Librarie Plon, 1923; pp. 254, ill.

'''Paley, William (1743-1805)'''. English ecclesiastic. Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge; senior wrangler, 1763; College lecturer, 1766. Installed as prebendary at Carlisle, 1780, and appointed, 1782, archdeacon thereof. Wrote a number of works among which are: Horae Paulinae (1790), his most original book which was, however, the least successful; *A View of the Evidences of Christian ity (1794; Philad., 1795; 12th ed., London, 1807; latest ed., 1860), whose brilliant success secured him ample preferment; it is a compendium of a whole library of arguments produced by the orthodox opponents of the deists of the 18th century.

'''Patanjali'''. *Yogasûtra or Patanjala.—See Vol. V, pp. 368-69.

'''Paul, Dr. N.C'''. (in India as Navînachandra Pala). *A Treatise on the Yoga Philosophy, 2nd ed., Calcutta: “Indian Echo” Press, 1883, ii, 52 pp. 8vo.; 3rd ed. by T. Tatya. Bombay, 1888. Very scarce.

'''Pausanias'''. *Hellados Perriêgêsis (Grecian Itinerary). Loeb Class. Library.

'''Pétis de la Croix, François'''. Renowned French Orientalist, b. in Paris towards the end of 1653, and who died in his native city, December 4, 1713. A famous scholar, he mastered all the known dialects of the Persian language and learned all the intricacies of the Arabic and Turkish. In this he was the equal to his own father. He travelled widely in the countries where these languages are spoken and served, as his father had done, as official interpreter to the French Court. A scholar endowed with enormous energy and concentration, he became the author of a large number {{Page aside|518}}of works, many of which were French translations of Persian and other works on history. At the time of his death, many of his works remained in MS form and were deposited in the Library of Paris. His son, Alexandre-Louis-Marie (1698-1751) followed in the footsteps of his father and made a record for himself as another famous Orientalist. Considering the years in which François Pétis de la Croix lived and worked, H. P. B.’s reference must be to him, but no information concerning him in connection with the writings of the Druses has been found, and so her statement has not been identified. There is little doubt, however, of the fact that Pétis de la Croix had contact with the Druses and may have known a great deal about their teachings and beliefs.

'''Philostratus (170-245 a.d.)'''. *Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Transl. by Rev. E. Berwick, London, 1809.

'''Plato'''. *Republic.—*Theages.—*Timaeus. Loeb Class. Library.

'''Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) (23-79 a.d.)'''. *Naturalis Historia. Loeb Class. Library.

'''Plummer, L. Gordon'''. *The Mathematics of the Cosmic Mind. Privately printed, 1966 & 1970 by Theos. Pub. Hse., Wheaton, IL.

'''Porphyry (233-304?)'''. *De Vita Pythagorae. Gr. & Lat., Amsterdam, 1707; ed. Kiessling, Leipzig, 1816.

'''Prideaux, Humphrey'''. English divine and Oriental scholar, b. at Place, Cornwall, May 3, 1648; d. at Norwich, Nov. 1, 1724. Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Hebrew lecturer at Christ Church, 1679-86, and Dean of Norwich, 1702-24. His most important work was The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews, 1716, which stimulated research.

'''Purchas, Samuel (1575?-1626)'''. English compiler of works on travel and discovery, b. at Thaxted, Essex; studied at Cambridge and Oxford; became, 1614, rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London. His information is not always accurate, but some of his works are the only source upon questions on the history of exploration. His largest work in four volumes is Hakluytus Posthumus (1625). He also wrote two other works, both entitled 'Purchas, his Pilgrimage, etc., one in 1616 and the other in 1619.

'''Ragozhin, Z'''. *The Last Trial of the Nihilists. Not traced.

'''Randolph, Paschal Beverly'''. American Negro, b. in New York City, October 8, 1825. His mother, Flora, was said by him to have been {{Page aside|519}}the granddaughter of “a bom Queen of Madagascar”; she died in the Bellevue almshouse in New York about 1832. His father is said to have been William Beverly Randolph “of the Randolphs of Virginia.” Paschal was raised for a time by his half-sister Harriet, then fell into the hands of “a ci-devant English actress” and “her husband—on the European plan—who drove her to the sale of her charms to supply the domestic exchequer.” He received less than a year of formal schooling before fifteen; in his seventeenth year “got religion at a revival meeting” and “lost it that same night for a pretty girl . . .” Went to sea for about five years; then entered apprenticeship as a dyer; worked also as a barber, and became a convert to Roman Catholicism. Investigated Spiritualism in its earliest stages and became a trance medium. Went to England in 1853 and again in 1857 where he delivered addresses allegedly inspired by Sir Humphrey Davy and other illustrious men. Became acquainted with Hargrave Jennings who introduced him to such students of Rosicrucianism as Bulwer-Lytton and Kenneth R. H. MacKenzie. In 1858 he announced his “conversion to Christianity” and denounced Spiritualism and mediumship as “slavery worse than Southern bondage.”

In 1861, Paschal visited Paris where he became acquainted with a few reputed Rosicrucians and “after sounding their depths found the water very shallow and very muddy—as had been the case with those I met in London—Bulwer, Jennings, Wilson, Belfedt, Archer, Corvaja and other pretended adepts . . .” He studied for a while with Eliphas Levi and became a mesmeric subject for the great magnetist Baron Dupotet; so remarkable were these experiments in clairvoyance, that he was summoned to the Tuileries by command of Napolen III. The same and the following year, he visited Asia Minor and the Middle East. “I have,” he wrote, “been over Egypt and Syria and Turkey; on the borders of the Caspian and Arabia’s shores, over sterile steppes and weltered through the deserts—and all in search of the loftier knowledge of the soul that could only there be found . . .” In Egypt, according to his own claim, he became a neophyte and entered the “Gate of Light,” beyond which stood the “Door of the Dawn,” and beyond it “The Dome” or what “in the Orient is known among its members as The Mountain.” He declared his spiritual “Chief” to be a Persian.

At this point, Randolph settled in Boston, assuming the title of “Dr.” and entered into the practice of medicine, in which he had done “much reading.” On the side, he put his energies into the propagation of his “Rosicrucian doctrines.” His first published work appears to have been The Grand Secret, a treatise on “the Affectional Nature” published under the pseudonym of “Count de St. Leon.” His next work, Pre-Adamite Man, Demonstrating the Existence of the Human Race upon this Earth 100,000 Years Ago, claimed more attention and went through three printings in the first eight months (2nd ed., New York, 1863; 4th ed., 1869). Other books embodying his ideas are: Dealings with the Dead, etc., Utica, 1861-62, pp. 268; Ravalette, the Rosicrucian s Story, Utica, 1863, and Quakertown, 1939; After Death, or Disembodied Marv, 2nd ed., Boston, 1868; 4th ed., 1873; Love and its Hidden History, etc. (under the pseudonym of Count de St. Leon), 4th ed., Boston, 1869; 5th ed., 1870; Seership, Boston, 1870, and Toledo, 1892 & 1930; Eulis, etc., 2nd ed., Toledo, 1874; 5th ed., Quakertown, 1930.

In his writings, despite all the chaff and fantastic claims, one finds evidence that Randolph was an American pioneer propagandist in reasserting the power of the Will, the validity of Magic and of ancient philosophies over the chaotic burgeoning of mid-Nineteenth Century psychism. He dwells at length on the perfecting of conscious control in the phenomena of “mental telegraphy,” the projection “of an image of oneself’ and detection of the “images” of others. He writes of spiritual beings from other planets, of creatures of the elements, the mysteries of the human aura, and alludes to seven universes, each with seven counterparts, making forty-nine in all. Throughout all of these there is progress, transmigration and reincarnation, not only of the “inhabitants of the countless myriads of worlds in this material or aromal universe, but also the material and aromal worlds themselves ... By aromal worlds I mean the aerial globes that attend each planet . . . Every world and assemblage of worlds is periodically reduced by exhaustion, but at enormously long intervals, into chaos, and is then {{Page aside|521}}reformed or created anew...” Though calling these ideas “Rosicrucianism,” Randolph said that he borrowed “nothing from anyone,” and that the system was his own.

'''Rangampalli Jagannathiah'''. Hindu worker in the early Theosophical Movement in India, born in May, 1852, at Cuttack, near Puri (Jagannathpur) in Orissa. His father was a native officer in the 30th Madras Infantry. The young man was enlisted in the regiment as a pension boy on his father’s death, when only one year old, remaining there six years. Education was furnished by his cousin, and since his tenth year he lived in Cuddapah and Bellary. In 1872, he was matriculated from the Government Provincial College, and afterwards served as teacher in the Provincial and Wardlaw Colleges, and as second headmaster in the High School at Secunderabad, Dekkan, for eight years. In religion he was a staunch Vaish- nava of the Visishtadwaita School, but in 1874 his faith was shaken and he eventually joined the National Secular Society of England, then under Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant; he also associated himself with the Freethought Union of Madras.

He first heard of Theosophy in 1882, from a friend who was a Vedantin and a good Sanskrit scholar. His reading of various issues of The Theo sophist led to a correspondence with Damodar K. {{Page aside|522}}Mávalankar at the Ady ar Headquarters, and later to a visit there. He met H. P. B. who had in her possession some of his contributions to newspapers. It is said that she discussed Theosophy with him “for three days for about three hours a day.” Jagannathiah said: “She satisfied me completely. I admired her genius very much, and her fund of knowledge on science, philosophy, and religion. I observed above all that her replies to my questions were complete answers to the main as well as to all possible side questions. On the 30th of December, 1882, she asked me if I had anything more to ask. I said, None, and she directed me to search the old Aryan religion and Upanishads, ending by suggesting that I join the T. S., with which I complied.” He then began to write for Theosophy.