Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00238)

New articles added to the Theosophical Encyclopedia:

People

Mabel Besant: Daughter of Annie Besant.
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George Alexander Sullivan: With Mabel Besant-Scott, George Alexander
Sullivan organized a rosicrucian theatre company. In 1938, also on
Catherine Chalk's land, they built Christchurch Garden Theatre, which
called itself "The First Rosicrucian Theater in England." It presented
Sullivan's mystically-themed plays during June-September 1938. Gerald
Gardner (1884-1964), the reviver of British witchcraft ("Wicca"),
claimed to have been initiated into traditional witchcraft ...
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Gerald Gardner: ...published some of the definitive texts for modern
Wicca, which he was instrumental in founding.... Through the
Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship he claims to have met a family of
traditional witches. The leading local witch Dorothy Clutterbuck, he
says, initiated him into the craft in 1939...
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Dorothy Clutterbuck: ...her involvement in the community including
many indications that she was at the very least involved in or aware
of alternative spiritual traditions such as theosophy, Rosicrucianism,
and offshoots of freemasonry...
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Eddy Brothers: Henry Steel Olcott a respected attorney and war hero
(he even sat on the three-man commission looking into the Lincoln
assassination), Olcott became intrigued with the Eddy brothers after
reading about them in a spiritual newspaper. In 1874 he headed to
Vermont to meet with the brothers and decide for himself whether they
were charlatans or a validation of that period's Spiritualist movement.
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Anagarika Dharmapala: The young Dharmapala helped Colonel Olcott in
his work, particularly by acting as his translator. Dharmapala also
became quite close to Madame Blavatsky, who advised him to study Pali
and to work for the good of humanity - which is what he did. It was at
this time that he changed his name to Dharmapala...
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James Churchward: Col. James Churchward 1852-1936) was a Britishoccult
writer. In 1926 he published The Lost Continent of Mu, which claimed
to prove the existence of a lost continent, called Mu, in the Pacific
Ocean...
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Sir Edwin Arnold: His chief work with this object is The Light of
Asia, which appeared in 1879 and was an immediate success, going
through numerous editions in England and America, though its permanent
place in literature must remain very uncertain. It is an Indian epic,
dealing with the life and teaching of the Buddha, which are unfolded
with ample local color and comely prosody. The poem contains many
lines of unquestionable beauty; and its immediate popularity was
rather increased than diminished by the twofold criticism to which it
was subjected....
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Henry Steel Olcott: Olcott Road, a major street in Colombo, has been
named after him. A statue of him has been built in Maradana. He is
still fondly remembered by many Sri Lankans and especially the
students of these schools who have gone on to become Prime Ministers
and industry leaders of the country... 
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Organizations

Ananda College: An English school for the Buddhist children was set up
by the Buddhist Theosophical Society on 1st November 1886...
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Halcyon, California: It was founded in 1903 as a Theosophist
Intentional Community|intentional community and is the home and
headquarters of a religious organization, The Temple of the People
(not to be confused with Jim Jones and the People's Temple...
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Maha Body Society: Founded by Anagarika Dhammapala, the Maha Bodhi
Society is a South Asian Buddhist society. The organization's initial
efforts were to restore various Buddhist shrines that had been
neglected under Hindu administration, and to open to the public
various Buddhist sites and temples that had been destroyed in various
periods of Muslim invasion...
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Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship: The Rosicrucian Order Crotona
Fellowship was a supposedly-Rosicrucian group founded by George
Alexander Sullivan in about 1924...
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