Initiates of Theosophical Masters

الغلاف الأمامي
State University of New York Press, 20‏/07‏/1995 - 255 من الصفحات
The author examines the careers of the most distinguished disciples of the Theosophical Masters. He begins by examining the concept of initiation promoted by the Theosophical movement's founders. Each section investigates a separate category of initiates, focusing consecutively on Hindus, Muslims, Bahais, Buddhists, and the Western female occultists.

More than just a study of Theosophy, this book explores many related developments in political and religious history. Among the figures it illumines in new ways are Anagarika Dharmapala, Alexandra David-Neel, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and Isabelle Eberhardt. Its approach brings needed objectivity and balance to a topic too long mythologized by cultists and ignored by scholars.
 

المحتوى

Initiation in Theosophical History1
1
Hodgsons Mistake17 Pilgrimage to Darjeeling22 Proving
44
Endings and Beginnings48 The Tragedy of Babaji53
53
Chelas and the Raj60
60
The Secret World of Jamal adDin71
71
Dharma Heirs113
113
The Great White Sisterhood161
161
Notes209
209
Bibliography229
229
Index241
241
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

نبذة عن المؤلف (1995)

K. Paul Johnson is the author of The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge, also published by SUNY Press.

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