Word: occult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonders that TIME'S Religion editor felt that the book Priestess of the Occult rated 2½columns of its valuable space [TIME, Nov. 11]. Gertrude Marvin Williams' book so obviously is written from a biased point of view that it will be surprising to many of her readers to discover that men of such proven intellectual caliber as Thomas Edison, Sir William Crookes, and Alfred Russell Wallace were members of The Theosophical Society. ... If we are not to class them as dupes, then their association with Madame Blavatsky would argue that the Williams portrait...
...Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the occult, semi-religious Theosophical Society, had something that brought savants and social leaders to her feet and keeps her memory hallowed by the 50,000-odd Theosophists scattered around the world. What she had and how she used it is expertly told in a new biography, Priestess of the Occult, by ex-journalist Gertrude Marvin Williams (Knopf; $3.50). Loyal Theosophists will wince at this well-documented story of the Society's origins...
...Labor Government showed little desire to press damage charges against squatters or ask heavy sentences for the five Communists arrested on conspiracy charges during the squat. Meanwhile, the Communist Party line had become almost as occult as the Indian rope trick: to disclaim responsibility for inciting the squatters, while claiming credit for all progress made in the housing situation...
...Buddhist. He settled near Toronto and bought into a dairy partnership, but the enterprise soon failed. For the next nine or ten years he drifted around Canada and the U.S., losing what little money he had left. He slept in public parks, took up with raffish friends, read occult works, underwent what he later described as "mystical, psychic" experiences. For a time he tried gold mining in the Canadian backwoods, and discovered at least the atmosphere later used in Running Wolf and The Wendigo. In Manhattan he made eau-de-cologne, reported for the Sun and the Times, learned something...
...have Pierced the occult, I have Pennatrated the future," proclaimed the Sage of the Age. "I say Swegan Cowen the Elis, LeBartsity will crush the Faberites, no need to be scared O'Leary of that Yale team, we Foster no pessimism here. These pusillanimous petrels who say that the Eli-Scanelliminate our team. Overlock the facts. 'Allen all,' they say "They'll probably put us through the Miller knock us higher than the Miellke Way. We've been playing in Fritts and starts all season.' 'GOdell,' I tell them, 'I still have Hoopes.'" He started to Walkerway...