Word: priestess
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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...
...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...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...
Last week, the clouds were lifting. Priestess Aiko had sent Wu charging back into competition. Without so much as a practice jump he squelched squat Utaro Hashimoto, the come-lately champion, breezed through the Yomiuri newspaper's big tournament, hoped to reclaim his old title by early 1947 (one hard-fought go match took him three years to finish). Wu explained that he was not using his own mind at all; his moves were divinely inspired...
...Jesus overcomes the Goddess' chief priestess, Mary the Hairdresser (Mary Magdalene) in a tremendous spiritual combat in her "House of Spirals," casting out Mary's seven devils...