Word: theosophists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied authorship...
...kindergartens. And she was still quite capable of laying down the law. In the shade of a giant banyan tree in the oceanside colony of Adyar, India, she had just laid it down to members of the Indian Theosophical Society. When someone asked her if she had become a theosophist, the self-confident old (77) Dottoressa snapped: "I am a Montessorian...
...Allan Octavian Hume, a British theosophist and retired civil servant, founded the Congress in 1885. He persuaded the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, that the best way to combat growing unrest in the villages was to let Indian leaders discuss political development...
...Masters. It was in India-eventually she set up Theosophy's permanent international headquarters at Adyar, Madras-that the pattern of the Society began to crystallize. Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala. Here she incorporated the key Theosophist doctrine of reincarnation and developed to the full her hierarchy of "Masters"-Tibetan superbeings who guide mankind through Theosophy...
...Cyril, who became a professional soldier, was killed in France in 1915. Vyvyan, now 60, studied law, lives in London, works for the BBC. In 1943 he married Australian-born Thelma Besant, a great-great niece of Theosophist Annie Besant. They have one son, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan, born in 1945. Says Vyvyan Holland (the Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that...