Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00470)

The First Leaf of T.S. History.  
by Henry S. Olcott 

I have just come across a fragment of the MS. of my first Anniversary 
Address as President-Founder, and hope to interest our members in its 
contents.  Its date is October 4, 1876, and it was delivered at our 
rooms in Mott Memorial Hall, in the city of New York.  The seeing of 
it brought back in a rush all the memories of that baby-age of our 
Theosophical movement; that time of bright hopes, perfect trust, and 
fond illusions.  It also recalled the recollection of the crumbling 
away of certain illusions we had been under when the Irving Place 
group of ladies and gentlemen agreed, upon my motion, to form a body, 
which became in due course the Theosophical Society.  The imminence 
of its coming Fifteenth Anniversary lends an interest to this first 
leaf of the Society's history, and induces me to point the lesson it 
contains. 

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Daniel
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