Word: besant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...finally found her stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
Paradoxically, it was a Westerner who first brought Nehru to Hinduism: his Irish tutor was a Theosophist, and such an influence that at the age of 13 Nehru was inducted into the Theosophical Society by Mrs. Annie Besant* in person...
...Born Annie Wood, in London (1847), Mrs. Besant was a Suffragette, a Fabian Socialist, a fighter for birth control and companionate mar riage. When George Bernard Shaw took a brief romantic interest in her, she drew up a "contract of cohabitation" which caused Shaw to beat a hasty retreat. "Good God," he exclaimed, "this is worse than all the vows of all the churches on earth! I had rather be legally married to you ten times over!" She was converted to Theosophy (a watered-down Western copy of Hinduism) while reviewing a book by its founder, Mme. Blavatsky, went...
...Krishnamurti days, Mrs. Besant was converted to socialism by Bernard Shaw. A warm friendship on the lecture platform and over piano duets led to talk of marriage, but since Mrs. Besant was still legally married, she suggested instead a detailed, written contract of cohabitation, which Shaw rejected with "Good God! This is worse than all the vows of all the churches on earth. I had rather be legally married to you ten times over...