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Barlaam and Josaphat +

A Christian adaptation of a Buddha legend, transmitted in many European and Eastern languages. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] traces Josaphat to Bodhisattva through intermediate Persian forms and regards the traditional attribution of the Greek text to John of Damascus as questionable. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Philological and Archaeological Difficulties#240|BCW 5:240]]) +

Barlow, Peter +

English mathematician, physicist and optician, known for experimental research on induced magnetism, his ''Essay on Magnetic Attractions'' (1820), and work in optics; elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#621|4:621]][[SMW::on]]). +

Baronius, Caesar +

Italian ecclesiastical historian. Educated at Veroli and Naples. Joined Oratory at Rome, 1557, and became superior in 1593 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#566|11:566]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barras, Charles M +

Bibliographical references include: The Black Crook. Light Opera (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#420|8:420]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barrett, William Fletcher +

Physicist at Dublin and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. British physicist and a principal founder of the Society for Psychical Research, serving as its first vice-president. Zirkoff also discusses the status of the Hodgson report on Blavatsky, reproducing a 1968 letter explaining that the Society did not adopt its authors' conclusions as corporate opinions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#622|4:622-625]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barth, Auguste +

French Orientalist (1834-1916), an authority on Indian religions and author of ''Religions de l’Inde'' (1879), translated into English by J. Wood as ''The Religions of India'' (1882). His collected works appeared in two volumes in 1914. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#370|5:370]][[SMW::on]]). +

Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, Jules +

His Le Bouddha et sa religion was published in Paris in 1860. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#522|2:522]][[SMW::on]]). Zirkoff’s bibliography identifies no particular work for the quotation attributed to him and records its source as untraced. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#357|7:357]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bary, Ruttun Chund +

Punjabi clerk in the Lahore Accountant-General’s Office and joint secretary of the Lahore Arya Samaj. He joined the Theosophical Society and contributed to the publication of Sabhapati Swami’s writings on yoga. +

Baryatinsky Family +

A Russian princely family descended from the princes of Chernigov. Its members included Field Marshal A. I. Baryatinsky. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Book|BCW 2:351-352]]) +

Baryatinsky, Vladimir +

Author of ''Le Mystère d'Alexandre I'', published in Paris in 1925, with a second edition in 1929. Its Russian text was published in St Petersburg in 1912 and 1913. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#496|3:496]][[SMW::on]]). +

Basileus +

The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an initiated layman, and magistrate at Athens, the ''Basileus ''of the ''inner ''Temple was of the staff of the great Hierophant, and as such was one of the chief ''Mystæ ''and belonged to the inner mysteries [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Basilidean +

Named after Basilides; the Founder of one of the most philosophical gnostic sects. Clement the Alexandrian speaks of Basilides, the Gnostic, as “a philosopher devoted to the contemplation of divine things”. While he claimed that he had all his doctrines from the Apostle Matthew and from Peter through Glaucus, Irenaeus reviled him, Tertullian stormed at him, and the Church Fathers had not sufficient words of obloquy against the “heretic”. And yet on the authority of St. Jerome himself, who describes with indignation what he had found ''in the only genuine Hebrew copy ''of the Gospel of Matthew (See ''Isis Unv.'', ii., 181) which he got from the Nazarenes, the statement of Basilides becomes more than credible, and if accepted would solve a great and perplexing problem. His 24 vols. ''of Interpretation of the Gospels'', were, as Eusebius tells us, burnt. Useless to say that these gospels were not our ''present ''Gospels. Thus, truth was ever crushed [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Basilides +

Extensive work on the interpretation of the Gospels, in 24 volumes. Mentioned by Cassels, Supernatural Religion, Vol. II, Part II, chap. vi (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#420|8:420]][[SMW::on]]). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] lists Hippolytus’s Philosophumena, Clement’s Stromata, Agrippa Castor’s lost work as quoted by Eusebius, and the Acts of the Disputation of Archelaus and Mani among sources on his teachings. He suggests that Hippolytus may have had access to Basilides’s Exegetica. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#579|BCW 12:579-580]]) +

Bassantin +

James. A Scotch astrologer. He lived in the 16th century and is said to have predicted to Sir Robert Melville, in 1562, the death and all the events connected therewith of Mary, the unfortunate Queen of Scots [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Bastian, Adolf +

German ethnologist (1826-1905) whose extensive travels supplied material for studies of cultures worldwide. He co-founded the Berlin Anthropological Society with Rudolf Virchow in 1869. His works include Der Mensch in der Geschichte and Die Völker des östlichen Asien. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#522|2:522-523]][[SMW::on]]). German ethnologist. educated as a physician, but from early years devoted himself to travel. Going to Australia as surgeon on a vessel, he had visited every part of the world before his return in 1859 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#567|11:567]][[SMW::on]]). +

Basu, Baroda Prasad +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol9|vol. 9]] (1887–1888). +

Basu, Kedarnath +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Basu, Upendranath +

Indian lawyer and Theosophist. Served as joint General Secretary of the Indian Section with Bertram Keightley and was one of the founders of the Central Hindu College at Benares. +

Bat, The +

London, 1885-1888 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#461|9:461]][[SMW::on]]). +

Bates, R. +

English schoolteacher and member of the Theosophical Society, from which she was expelled in 1880. She appears as Miss B*** in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s ''[[Blavatsky H.P. - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan]]''. This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). Accompanied [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] from England to India in 1879. She remained at the Bombay headquarters during their 1880 visit to Ceylon. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxv,xxxi-xxxii]]) On 27 February 1881 she joined [[Wimbridge, Edward|E. Wimbridge]] and Krishnarao in distributing circulars against the Founders of the Theosophical Society during [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s lecture in Bombay. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxiv]]) +