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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | == [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Keightley, Bertram}}'''. English Theosophist and staunch friend and collaborator of H. P. B. during the London days. He was born at Birkenhead, April 4, 1860. His father was a Liverpool solicitor and owner of much land which later greatly increased in value. Both his parents were to some degree influenced by the mystical Christianity of Swedenborg, so that Bertram escaped the more orthodox forms of faith. His education began at Charterhouse, a famous school, and was then carried on in Germany and France, and finished at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he majored in mathematics. He also took the degree of Master of Arts. Being endowed with an eager intelligence, he was especially attracted by philosophy and science, and combined the critical acumen of the student with a genuine love and intuition for mysticism. While still at Cambridge, he studied mesmerism and was led to the reading of Éliphas Lévi, mediaeval mystics and neo-platonic writers. He came into Theosophy quite naturally. Having come across Sinnett’s ''Esoteric Buddhism'' and recognizing in it the outline of a system which would co-ordinate previous study and furnish a complete philosophy of life, he promptly made the acquaintance of the author. He first merely attended the meetings of the London | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Keightley, Bertram}}'''. English Theosophist and staunch friend and collaborator of H. P. B. during the London days. He was born at Birkenhead, April 4, 1860. His father was a Liverpool solicitor and owner of much land which later greatly increased in value. Both his parents were to some degree influenced by the mystical Christianity of Swedenborg, so that Bertram escaped the more orthodox forms of faith. His education began at Charterhouse, a famous school, and was then carried on in Germany and France, and finished at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he majored in mathematics. He also took the degree of Master of Arts. Being endowed with an eager intelligence, he was especially attracted by philosophy and science, and combined the critical acumen of the student with a genuine love and intuition for mysticism. While still at Cambridge, he studied mesmerism and was led to the reading of Éliphas Lévi, mediaeval mystics and neo-platonic writers. He came into Theosophy quite naturally. Having come across Sinnett’s ''Esoteric Buddhism'' and recognizing in it the outline of a system which would co-ordinate previous study and furnish a complete philosophy of life, he promptly made the acquaintance of the author. He first merely attended the meetings of the London | ||
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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Keightley, Bertram (1860-1945)}}'''. See Vol. IX, Bibliogr. Index, for comprehensive biographical sketch. | |||
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|author=Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title=H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail=vol. 11, p. 579 | |||
|link=Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#579 | |||
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