Theos-Talk Archives (January 2009 Message tt00270)

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  From: Drpsionic@aol.com 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:32 AM
  Subject: Re: Theos-World Bulwer-Lytton and Bunsen


  Which is weird as she knew him quite well when she was living in Paris and 
  the Shrine Room in the London Lodge building was an exact duplicate of the 
  chamber layout he created when he invoked the shade of Appollonius of Tyana.

  Of course Levi was a romantic at heart and did have fun with a lot of things 
  at the expense of accuracy.

  Chuck the Heretic


  In a message dated 1/9/2009 5:39:21 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
  silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

  Eliphas Levi obviously didn't get it either as HPB often rebukes some of his 
  interpretations
  Cass

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  From: "_Drpsionic@aol.Drp_ (mailto:Drpsionic@aol.com) " <_Drpsionic@aol.Drp_ 
  (mailto:Drpsionic@aol.com) >
  To: _theos-talk@yahoogrotheos-t_ (mailto:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com) 
  Sent: Saturday, 10 January, 2009 2:48:37 AM
  Subject: Re: Theos-World Bulwer-Lytton and Bunsen

  I've read it once, fell asleep 14 times in the process.

  BL was very influential in Euro occult circles. He was one of Eliphas 
  Levi's sources of inspiration and a lot of the stuff in the Golden Dawn 
  comes 
  right out of his work.

  Chuck the Heretic

  In a message dated 1/9/2009 6:56:21 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
  silva_cass@yahoo. com writes:

  Yes Paul, I would be very interested in reading those extracts. My first 
  teacher pointed me to Bullwer Lytton's Zanoni, but still haven't read it. 
  Perhaps this is the cue I needed

  Cass

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  Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 6:51:55 PM
  Subject: Theos-World Bulwer-Lytton and Bunsen

  Hello all but especially Cass and Frank,

  I have noticed the recent references to Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Ernest 
  Bunsen, and while these were made in other contexts I want to point out 
  that there is an important connection between these individuals and the 
  founding of the Theosophical Society. The first two books published by 
  a Founder of the TS, in the first year of its existence, were Art Magic 
  and Ghost Land by Emma Hardinge Britten. Robert Mathiesen's monograph 
  The Unseen Worlds of Emma Hardinge Britten is an amazing tour de force, 
  establishing beyond reasonable doubt that Bunsen was the "Chevalier 
  Louis" of those two books, and that the "Orphic Circle" depicted in 
  them was a genuine occult research group whose most eminent member was 
  Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Emma and Bunsen first met as adolescent trance 
  mediums used in the experiments of this group around 1840; then renewed 
  acquaintance years later after the emergence of the Spiritualist 
  movement.

  When I read Marion Meade's HPB biography years ago, I found ridiculous 
  her assertion that a primary basis for HPB's description of the Masters 
  was the novels of Bulwer-Lytton. Why, I thought, would someone with 
  such vast documented experience with so many authentic teachers have to 
  rely on silly Victorian novels for her inspiration? What Meade and I 
  both missed was that it wasn't B-L's *novels* that inspired HPB, it was 
  the man himself and his nearly lifelong devotion to occultism. In a 
  letter written NOVEMBER 16, 1875, THE DAY BEFORE THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
  OF OLCOTT, HPB wrote to Stainton Moses of Bulwer-Lytton that "He was an 
  *adept* [italicized in the book, presumably underlined in the letter] 
  and kept it secret-- first for fear [of] ridicule..and then because his 
  vows would not allow him to explain himself plainer than he did." 
  (Letters I:202) At the moment I'm reading Leslie Mitchell's 2003 
  biography of Bulwer-Lytton, and if any here is interested will share 
  some excerpts about his occult preoccupations. HPB was very accurate 
  about his fear of ridicule over his occult involvements.

  Paul

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