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  A look at the October 4, 1900, edition of The New York Tribune might provide some insight into Ernest's motivation for returning to America:  

“It is not true that I was converted to Spiritualism by the Fox sisters,” said Emily B. Ruggles, to a reporter of The New York World in late March 1893. Emily was the “guardian angel" of the young Spiritualist girls, and her home was their haven.

  Mabel Collins (1851-1927) was born Minna Mabel Collins in 1851 at St Peters Port, Guernsey, and though never formally educated, she proved a It was borne in her mind that this alleged “doctor friend” was nothing more than a figment in D’Onston’s imagination, invented to conceal his own identity with Jack the Ripper. She was now convinced, beyond all doubt, that the man standing before her was in fact the Whitechapel murderer.

  BERHAMPORE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY   The ascendency of the Bhadra Lok created a social ecology in Bengal curious about Western scholarship,

  GHOST MOSUKE ACT III. X. ⸻   “I belong to the Society because of my personal affection for Madame Blavatsky and Olcott,” Balwantrao told

    Marie Sinclair. (wiki)   Marie Sinclair (1830-1895) was the only surviving daughter of Don José de Mariategui, of Santa Catalina, the

INTENDED FROM ABOVE XI. ⸻   Colonel Olcott was writing, at a side table. Blavatsky was playing Patience (as she did nearly every evening.) Charley

Founded in 1882 by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, the Poona Lodge Theosophical Society still draws followers in Pune, though the numbers have been dwindling.

DOMOVOY V. ⸻ Blavatsky sat at her desk facing a large window looking which looked into the green leafy trees of Holland Park. Before her, and all around

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Hundred years ago, on 1st May 1923, at the height of British Colonialism, when the education of Sinhala Buddhist children greatly suffered, the foundation was laid for a major change that ultimately pervaded beyond the Matara District. A small Buddhist school, with 54 pupils and nine teachers, started in a rented […]