Word: theosophists
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...write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full of Lowry's preoccupations with alcohol, mythologems, cabalistic gewgaws and theosophist arcana. In 1957, two months before he died after a bout of heavy drinking, Lowry was still struggling to tame the surge of words and images...
...deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found the theosophist society the following year-and spent the rest of her life writing the society's doctrine. Controversial wherever she went, she was accused in 1885 by the Society for Psychical Research in London of fraud, forgery and even of spying for the czar...
...Tonight show, might all have been intensively trained, brainwashed triggermen of a type envisaged by Novelist Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate; their purpose could be to drive the U.S. to its knees by assassinating public persons-a theory, Capote claimed, that was once expounded by 19th century Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sirhan, Capote noted, asked for a copy of Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine soon after his arrest...
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...
...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 to India where she dressed in the native sari, became the leader of the world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared to be a reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours...