Theosophical Society

When CC returned to England, she found Annie Besant had arranged for a wealthy American to pay her salary as a lecturer. These wages enabled her to travel throughout England lecturing for the Theosophical Society

CC continued lecturing for the Theosophical Society until her death in 1971. Her correspondence with other Theosophists and her recorded lectures are readily available at the Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library in Wheaton, Illinois.

FF presents her work as a solution to the mystery of the Kabalists [which] has puzzled occult students . . . [f]or many centuries. She distances the work from its connection to the Jewish...

Having resigned from the Order of the Golden Dawn , FF joined the LondonTheosophical Society .

Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...

Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan , her mentor nearly ten years earlier at the Theosophical Society , wrote to FF when his school was nearly completed. In preparation for her new position of principal, she returned to...

MG begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Born English therefore, she...

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

AK was elected president of the British Theosophical Society .

Anna Kingsford , described by W. T. Stead as one of the most interesting and fascinating of the women of the Victorian era, was a successful physician, religious leader, and woman...

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

Together, AK and Edward Maitland explored the supernatural, becoming involved with the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Society , and worked tirelessly for the abolition of vivisection. In 1882...

She was recommended to take over as president of the Society by Charles Massey , a past president who had temporarily taken up the position again after the resignation of Dr George Wyld . Once...

Theosophical Society member Henry Olcott had suggested that rather splitting the society into two factions, AK should get a charter and create their own society. The Hermetic Society was inaugurated two days after Kingsford's application...

The Perfect Way was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, though it received a one-line notice in W. T. Stead 's Review of Reviews: Mystical, and very suggestive from the standpoint of the Christian...