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William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. (It was here where James William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

VEROCHKA’S LETTERS Vera Johnston April 14, May 4, May 11, 1889   In Verochka’s next letter, dated (Berhampore) April 14, 1889, she mentions a visit

  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.

  Sylvester Baxter, 1889.   Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927,) a New Englander with a pedigree on both side which stretched back to the original

  Hiram Erastus Butler (1841-1916.) Butler was born in Pennsylvania in 1841, was never attracted to “book learning,” and had a deep affinity for

THE DECAY OF LYING ACT III. VIII. ⸻ Willie Yeats joined the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society just before Christmas 1888. He took no exception

  An excessive heatwave blanketed New York in July 1911. Acton Griscom, a month shy of his twentieth birthday, was grateful for the evening sea

BEFORE THE ATMA AWAKES ACT III. V. ⸻ Immediately after the Notice of the formation of the Esoteric Section in Lucifer, Blavatsky sent out a formal

  SHADE OF SATTAY. ⸻ This is a "long-read" version of the story of Govindarao Sattay, the first male-Brahmin to visit America in 1884. He would

THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT. April 27, 1907 The Brevoort Hotel New York, New York.   Charles Johnston, Chairman of the Executive Committee, acting as