Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00534)

Friday, December 28, 2001

Dear Friends:

The following notes may of use in trying to trace the Adept
influence in the "West" culminating with the work and "Message"
of H P B

Best wishes,

Dallas


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PREDECESSORS OF H.P.B.


"But there are some cases in which we can judge with a degree of
certainty that such adepts were incarnated and what they were
named. Take Thomas Vaughn, Raymond Lully, Sir Thomas More, Jacob
Boehme, Paracelsus, and others like them...These souls were as
witnesses to the truth, leaving through the centuries in their
own natures, evidence for those who followed, and suggestions for
keeping spirituality bright--seed-thoughts, as it were, ready for
the new mental soil. And as well as these historical characters,
there are countless numbers of men and women now living who have
passed through certain initiations during their past lives upon
earth, and who produce effects in many directions quite unknown
to themselves now. They are, in fact, old friends of "the sacred
tribe of heroes," and can therefore be more easily used for the
spreading of influences and the carrying out of effects necessary
for the preservation of spirituality in this age of darkness."
WQJ Art I 192-4




THE 100 YEAR CYCLE OF ADEPT WORK IN THE "WEST."
H.P.B. Articles, II p. 308

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Dates	Chief Figures	Others	Notes & References
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14th Century


1358-1419	Tson-Ka-Pa
[ TM 7-p. 25; TM 8-p. 141; HPB Art. 3-331;
[ TM 11-140; 15-105; 25-200; 5 Yr. T 113;
[ THY 16-179; 26-118; 43-126; Is II 609;
[ Glos. 305 ] HPB Art 331-3; SD I 108;
5 Yrs. Thy. 113; TM 7-p.25; 8-p.140;
A Lamrin Compendium TM	v.20-122; 14-1
Is II 609 616;	TM	25-7; [ Glos. 186 ]

Of Importance:

1304-1374	Francesco Petrarch (poet & Platonist)
1328-1384	John Wyclif (reformer, Trans. Bible in English)
forerunner of Reformation
1369-1415	John Huss (Reformer, precursor of Reformation)
1379-1421	Thomas a'Kempis (Imitation of Christ)

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15th Century


1493-1541	Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus)
Glos 248	T v.8-344, 376; T 197, 242 v.26
T v. 10 series; T 97, 151 v.24
[Bio. G. West] . T M 152, 193 v.59
TM v.49-412, 455; TM 34 v.11


1463-1494	G. Pico della Mirandola (Platonic Academy, Florence)
IS I 226 Glos. 254, 253, 80
Is II 20 SD II 200 600
The Greatness of Man TM 250 v. 25
T. Mvt. in Renaissance TM 252, 305 v. 39

Of Importance:

Gemistus Pletho (Platonic MSS to Florence)
1433-1499	M. Ficino (Library - Florentine Platonist)
1389-1464	Cosimo de Medici (Library & Platonic Academy)
1449-1492	Lorenzo de Medici (Library & Platonic Academy)
[Patron of: Boticelli, Michelangelo, Lippi]
1401-1464	Nicholas de Cusa (Renaissance reformer)
[ mystic & Neo-Platonist ]
1455-1522	John Reuchlin (Reformation)
1462-1516	Trithemius
1466-1536	D. Erasmus (Reformation)
1473-1543	N. Copernicus
1478-1535	Sir. Thomas More (Platonist)
1486-1535	Cornelius Agrippa
1483-1546	Martin Luther

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16th Century


1575-1624
Jakob Boehme	T v.4-366; v.5-433; v.6-127; T 26-386
Glos. 60; T. v.31-497; series v. 31
J. Boehme & Secret Doctrine	WQJ Art 270 v. 1
J. Boehme - Life - F. Hartmann TM v.44- 92, 59
On Boehme . . . TM v.11-27; v.36-270

1574-1637	Robert Fludd	Glos. 120; IS II 309-10; TM v.60-17

1548-1600	Giordano Bruno	T v .6-385; v.67-341;
T v.73-170; T v. 26-330
Theos. of Bruno T v. 26-74; TM 51, 76-v.14
Is I xxxiii 93-8 338-9 431 582 II 528 531

Of Importance:

1509-1564	John Calvin
Van Helmont [ pupil of Paracelsus ]
1501-1576	Jerome Cardan
1502-1598	Henry Khunrath
1586-1654	C. Rosenkreuz (Rosenkranz) [ Rosicrucians ]
Johan Valentin Andrea
1515-	George Postel
Joseph Borri
Bragadini
1564-1616	Shakespeare

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17th Century


1622-1666	E. Philalethes (Thomas Vaughn) [ Glos. 252 ]
Mod. Pan. 42-4; CWB 4-575; Glos. 14, 168
HPB Art I-40, 3-155; Is I xxv 51 67 167
Is I 191 193 226 255-7 306-9 504

Of Importance:

1605-1682	Thomas Brown (Religio Medici)
1614-1687	Henry More (Cambridge Platonist)
1617-1688	Henry Cudsworth (Cambridge Platonist)
1617-1692	Elias Ashmole (1st Mason)
1632-1677	Baruch Spinoza
1688-1772	E. Swedenborg (mystic)
1628-1688	John Bunyan
1646-1716	Baron C. W. Leibnitz
Thomas Taylor

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18th Century

?	Count de St. Germain
T v.4-241, 321; v.24-155; T 3	v. 27
Glos. 308-9, TM v.13-33; 33-416;	390	v. 21
Lucifer 10-246-7, CWB v.3-523; HPB Art 149	v. 3
Mod. Panarion 371; TM 416-33; TM	190	v. 50
Is I 575 II 403

1743-1803
Count de St. Martin	T v.27-p.9;	T 482	26
Glos. 284; Lucifer 19-324; T 368	2


1743-1795	Count Cagliostro (Henri Balsamo)
[ Glos. 72 ] T v.2-110; T 530	v.26
Was Cagliostro a Charlatan ?	HPB Art 152 v. 3
HPB on Cagliostro	.	TM	153	v. 8
Prince Talleyrand--Cagliostro	WQJ Art 472 v. 1
Is I xxxiii 100 128 509; II 403


1733-1815	Anton Mesmer	[Glos. 214 ]
Thy. V.26-434; WQJ Art I-524, 541, 545
[ see Index, back of WQJ Art. v. 2;
see Index, back of HPB Art. v. 3;
HPB Art. II 477, 355;

Of Importance:

1700-	Martinez Paschalis
1706-1790	Benjamin Franklin
1707-1809	Thomas Paine
1787-1854	J. Ennemoser (Hypnotism)
1724-1804	I. Kant (philosopher)
1749-1832	J. W. Goethe
1758-1835	Thomas Taylor (Platonist)
Ragon (Masonry)
Eliphas Levi [Abbe Louis Constant]
1788-1860	A. Schopenhauer
1799-1850	Henri Balzac
1799-1888	Bronson Alcott (Educationist)

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19th Century


1831-1891	H. P. Blavatsky	Theosophy
1851-1896	W.Q.Judge
1832-1907	H.S.Olcott
1851-1919	R. Crosbie

Of Importance:

1803-1882	Ralph W. Emerson (Transcendentalist)
1805-1872	G. Mazzini
1807-1882	G. Garibaldi
1809-1865	A. Lincoln
1812-1870	Charles Dickens
1817-1862	Henry D. Thoreau (Transcendentalist)
1819-1892	Walt Whitman
1828-1910	Leo. Tolstoy
1823-1913	A. R. Wallace
1832-1919	Prof. Wm. Crookes
1840-1902	Emile Zola
1842-1925	C. Flammarion
1850-1898	Edward Bellamy
T. A. Edison


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Articles and References


The 100 year cycle	.	.	Secret Doctrine I xxxvii-iii Key, pp.
306-7
The Hundred Year Cycle	.	.Theosophy Vol. 19 - p. 449
The Theosophical Movement in Other Ages	. T. Mvt. V. 35, p. 93
The Precursors of H.P.Blavatsky	Theosophy, V. 23, p. 529
Precursors of H.P.B.	.	.	series Theosophy, Vol. 24
Footsteps of the Predecessors	.	Theos. Mvt. V. 2, p. 49
Chelas and Lay Chelas	.	.	HPB Art. II 308 (bot.)
Landmarks in Theosophical History	T. Mvt. V. 39, p. 30
A History of Theosophy Down the Ages	T. Mvt. V. 33, p. 421
A History of the Theosophical Movement	T. Mvt. V. 38, p. 107
Plain Theosophical Traces	.	WQJ Articles I p. 244
Years of Preparation in America	T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 232
The Adepts in America in 1776 WQJ.Art. II, p. 70;

On Tson-Ka-Pa	.	.	.	T. Mvt. Vol. 7 - p. 25
T. Mvt. Vol. 8 - p. 141
Aryan Path, March 1945
Spiritual Yeast in 14th Cent. Europe	T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 200
The Theosophical Renaissance	.	Theosophy, V. 26, p. 98
The T. Movement in the Renaissance	T. Mvt. V. 39, p. 252, 305
Italian Renaissance & Ancient Wisdom	T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 223
Jacob Boehme and the Secret Doctrine	WQJ Art. I, p. 270;
Was Cagliostro a Charlatan?	.	HPB Art. III p. 152;
HPB was the 6th Mission since Tson-Ka-Pa Theosophy 26, p. 118
Theosophy 15, p. 1
Seven Centuries Culminating	.	T. Mvt. Vol. 19, p. 73

WQJ on the Nature HPB	.	.Pract. Occultism, p. 162-4
On HPB, Her Work and Position	Theosophy 54 - p. 161-2
The next "Messenger"	.	.	W .Q. J. Art. II 153
HPB an Occultist	.	.	Theosophy 6 - p. 111
RC on HPB	.	.	.	.Theosophy 8 - p. 8
Future and past Incarnations of HPB	C. Wachmeister	Reminiscences
p. 127
Previous Incarnation of HPB	.	WQJ	Forum Answers p. 66
W.Q.J. on Cycles	.	.	WQJ Art. I 58, 183, 159, II 127. 152,
The Theosophical Movement	.	WQJ Art. II, p. 124;
Our Cycle and the Next	.	.	HPB Art. I p. 367;
HPB on Cycles	.	.	.	HPB Art. I 355, 397;
The Cycle Moves on	.	.	T. Mvt. Vol. 18, p. 145
The Cycle Moveth	(Series)	.	Theosophy 13 - 1 - 481
Obscured Adepts	.	.	.T Mvt. Vol. 16, p. 9; III 69;
Plato and his Successors	.	.	Theosophy, V. 84, p. 144
The Neo-Platonic Revival	.	.Theosophy, V. 26, p. 146, 156