Henry Steele Olcott

Standard Name: Olcott, Henry Steele

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Clara Codd
While in Geneva, CC was first exposed to Theosophy. Her neighbour Madame von Pachten brought her to Theosophical Society meetings, one of which was a lecture by Colonel Henry Olcott .
Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951.
25-6
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Annie Besant
Stead had previously given her what became a highly influential book for her, Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. With Henry Steele Olcott , Madame Blavatsky had founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. AB , delighted...
Family and Intimate relationships Clara Codd
CC was never married; however, she believed in past lives in which she had been married many times. In one former life, she believed, Henry Olcott had been her son.
Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951.
30, 153
Travel Annie Besant
AB attended the Chicago World's Fair (where other speakers included Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe ) as Theosophist Henry Steele Olcott 's representative at the Chicago Parliament of Religions.
Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992.
264

Timeline

1875
Madame Blavatsky , now in New York, who had been a spiritualist medium and claimed first-hand knowledge of Eastern religious practice, founded the Theosophical Society with support from Henry Steele Olcott and William Q. Judge .