May 8, 2022
Last change: July, 26, 2026
Hartmann, Franz – In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom (1890)
↓ Further interesting photos from the books
↓ Traditional Theosophy before 1875
Table of books etc. mainly in English and German language
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Ailinger, Albert SJ – Gibt es eine Seelenwanderung? Gemeinverständliches über Theosophie und Anthroposophie. 47 pp., 1921 | 2nd rev. ed. 1952.
First as article in Deutsches Volksblatt, Stuttgart Jan., 15 1920.
article, broschure | Jesuit view on soul wandering; reincarnation, rebirth | none
Anon. – Horoskop der TG Adyar [Fragment; 1908]
paper | fragmentary horoscope | Steiner-Besant split; TS history | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Amneus, Nils – Long-Hartley succession – Letter April 2, 1951
photocopy | leadership; successorship; Point Loma; split 1951 | theoarchive
Anon. – Das theosophische Fotoalbum Wilhelm von Hübbe-Schleidens (2020)
article | photo album of Hübbe-Schleiden in Dornach; TS history; TS Germania | Die Drei
Anon. – Flugblatt Theosophie Elberfeld (07.12.1884)
photocopy | TS Germania; TS history; probably first German flyer | theoarchive, original sold by Antiquariat Kiefer
Anon. – ‘The Coming Christ’. ‘Alcyone’s’ Father v. Annie Besant (1913), in: New Zealand Truth, Aug. 13, 1913
newspaper article | Krishnamurti; Alcyone; messiah craze; TS history | Papers past
B
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Baillie-Weaver, Harold – H. P. Blavatsky (1920), White Lotus Day, 17 pp.
broschure | memorial address | theoarchive
Bain, Alan – The Leadbeater Affair (1996)
pdf from art., circulars, letters; in html from theos-talk chats | pedo affair; TS history
Bain, Wilhelmina Sherriff – Katherine Tingley and Point Loma (1908)
pdf from art. | TS history | Papers past
Becher, Theobald – Die Tattwas und ihre Bedeutung
broschure | tattvas, skandhas | none
Becher, Theobald & Holz, Gisela – Die Entwicklung der T.G. in Deutschland [1922]
Suppl. to Hartmann, Franz – Was ist Theosophie? 3. A., pp. 273-304
book | TS history in Germany | Internet Archive
Benjamin, Elsie – The Significance of the Monad Divine. Devine? Or Human? (1971)
article | human constitution | Theosophy Canada
Benjamin, Elsie – The Significance of the Seven Principles of Man (1970)
article | human constitution | Theosophy Canada
Besant, Annie – To the Members of the Theosophical Society [Leadbeater Case, 07 Sept. 1908]
circular | pedo affair; TS history | Alan Bain
Besant, Annie – Centenary Book 1847-1947 (1947), 264 p.
book | biography | TS history
Bevir, Mark – The West Turns Eastward: Madame Blavatsky and the Transformation
of the Occult Tradition (1994), in: JSTOR, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 747-767 (21 p.)
study | India, East-West, TS History | pdf to buy
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna – Blavatsky Collected Writings – Vol I-XV (1874-1891), edited by Boris de Zirkoff (grand nephew)
15 vols. + cover text + common preface + (17 files) + 1 folder about changes by the editor (11 files)
books | first-hand Theosophy | T.P.H.
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna – Letter to her aunt Nadyezhda Andreyevna de Fadeyev (July 19, 1877)
Printed in The Path 9 (Jan. 1895):301, reprints in: Theosophical Quarterly 5 (Oct. 1907): 126-35; Theosophist 53 (Oct.
1931): 32-40 and (Nov. 1931): 161-6; HPB Speaks 1:165-88 and The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, T.P.H, Wheaton 2003, p. 314 f.
letter | Isis Unveiled, “against exact science, against Theology and for Religion” | unknown
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna – Letter to her sister Vera [Wera] Zhelikhovskaya, Nov. 6, 1877
Photo Transcript
letter | biography | Bakhmut Roerich Society
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna – The Key to Theosophy (1st ed. 1889)
pdf | doctrines | Internet Archive, TUP html as pdf
Blavatsky’s Family (by Blavatsky Museum) English Russian German (Google Translator)
article | Blavatsky genealogy; biography | Blavatsky Museum
Blavatsky’s Father Peter von Hahn/Petr Gan (by Blavatsky Museum)
English Russian German (Google Translator)
article | Blavatsky genealogy; biography | Blavatsky Museum
Bowen, Robert – The Secret Doctrine and its Study (1891)
pdf from html | Blavatsky | Can. Theos. Association
Brailsford-Bright, J. – Theosophy and Modern Socialism (1889)
pdf from art. | Socialism | Can. Theos. Association
Bulwer-Lytton, Eduard – Margrave. Die seltsame Geschichte eines schwarzen Magiers (1913)
book | occult fiction | Internet Archive
Burrows, Herbert & Mead, G.R.S. – The Leadbeater Case
The Suppressed Speeches of Burrows and Mead (1908)
broschure | pedo affair; TS history | Alan Bain
Butler, Ronald Kenneth – The Influence of Theosophy on the Tradition of Speculative and Esoteric Theories of Music (2013)
Thesis (PhD Doctorate) | arts | Griffith Univ.
C
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Caldwell, Daniel – Theosophy an Introduction by HPB (2012)
pdf | beginners guide | Theosophy World
Caldwell, Daniel H.: A Casebook of Encounters with the Theosophical Mahatmas (2020)
book | mahatmas, masters adepts | none
Chajes, Julie – Reincarnation in H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret (2017)
paper | rebirth | Correspondences Journal
Cleather, Alice L. – H. P. Blavatsky, a Great Betrayal (1922)
booklet | apologetics | Internet Archive
Cleather, Alice L. – H. P. Blavatsky as I knew her (1923)
booklet | apologetics | Internet Archive
Cleather, Alice L. – H. P. Blavatsky, her Life and Work (1922)
booklet | apologetics | Internet Archive
Collins, Mabel – Das Lied von der weissen Lotos (1889)
book | mystic | none
Cooper-Oakley, Isabel – The Comte De St. Germain [1912]
book | messengers | Internet Archive
Cranston, Sylvia & Carey Williams – The Extraordinary and Influence of Life H. P. Blavatsky (3rd ed. 1994)
pen name for Anita Atkins, see Theosophy World and Theosophy Forward. TS Pasadena: “1915-2000. Author, known by her pen name Sylvia Cranston or S. L. Cranston, who wrote books on reincarnation. Anita Atkins was born on December 12, 1915, and spent her childhood and youth living in the Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Her formal academic education ended with high school, after which she became a self-taught scholar.”
book | biography; TS history; apologetics; Franz Hartmann; SPR; Coulomb | Sylvia Cranston
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Däniken, Erich von – Die Geheimlehre der Frau Blavatsky erschütterte die Welt (1985), 1 p., in: Swiss newspaper Blick, Sept. 19, 1985.
article | Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, ancient manuscripts and technology, vimanas, space flights, ancient astronauts | Tatjana Ingold
Das, Bhagavan – The Central Hindu College and Mrs. Besant. The Rise of the Alcyone Cult (1913)
book | Krishnamurti, messiah craze; Alcyone | TS history | Theosophy Canada
Deinhard, Ludwig – Die ‘Theosophische Kreuzspinne’ (1891)
broschure | TS history, Prof. Sellin; Hübbe-Schleiden | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Detering, Dr. Hermann: Spuren indischer Philosophie bei Basilides – Basilides referiert Sāṃkhya (2018) Teil 1 – Teil 2
pdf | Q question, early Christianity, Christianity-Buddhism relationship, Indian influence | Radikalkritik
Translation: Detering, Hermann: Traces of Indian Philosophy in Basilides
Part 1: Basilides References to Sāmkhya (2018)
Part 2: Religious Historical Intersections (2018)
Devaranne, Theodor – Seelenwanderung und Wiederverkörperung. (Reincarnation und Karma), in: Die Okkulte Welt, Bd. 43.
Pfullingen i. Württ., Johannes Baum Verlag, (1921)
broschure | soul wandering; reincarnation; rebirth | none
Devi, Rukmini – The Artistic Side of Annie Besant (1947)
Excerpt from the Besant Centenary book
book | biography | Theosophy (Formerly theos-talk)
Dilloo-Heidger, Erik & Eike, Christine – Alois Mailänder und der Theosoph Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden.
Briefe, Notizen, Aufzeichnungen aus dem Hauskreis 1885 -1900 (BOD 2025).
book | biography; German TS history; | none
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Edge, Henry T. – Some perverted presentations of theosophy corrected. 1900s. 7 pages
broschure | TS split; Besant; Leadbeater; pedo affair | none
Einbeck, Walter – Zum Gedächtnis an Dr. Franz Hartmann (1838 – 1912), (1925)
booklet | biography | none
Elsas, Edeltraud, Dr. Dagmar Uecker – Stufen der Seelenentwicklung – Theosophie und Rosenkreuz im Dialog, 79 pp.
broschure | rosicrucians | none
Ervast, Pekka – Die Botschaft der Theosophie (1919-2012)
broschure | TS in Finland | unknown
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Fergus, John W. – Stanzas of Dzyan – Critical Edition (2022)
pdf draft | The Book of Dzyan; The Secret Doctrine | Universal Theosophy
Frater Apollonius – The Annotated Book of Dzyan (2011)
pdf | The Book of Dzyan; The Secret Doctrine | Archidox
Friedrich, Wilhelm – Über Lessings Lehre von der Seelenwanderung. Preisgekrönt von der August Jenny-Stiftung. 114 pp., Oswald Mutze, Leipzig, 1890
broschure | soul wandering; Lessing; reincarnation; rebirth | none
Fullerton, Alexander – Letter extracts to Marie B. Russak (1907)
letter extract | succession Besant-Olcott; Leadbeater pedo affair | Alan Bain
Fussell, Joseph H. – Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Theosophischen Bewegung
broschure | TS history; affairs; split 1895; Coulomb, Fullerton | none
Fussell, Joseph H. – Etwas, das die Öffentlichkeit wissen sollte
flyer | pedo affair; Leadbeater; Besant; Fullerton; TS history | none
Fussell, Joseph H. – Incidents in the History of The Theosophical Movement (1920 3rd rev. ed.)
broschure | TS history; affairs; split 1895; Coulomb, Fullerton | Internet Archive
Fussell, Joseph H. – Mrs. Besant and the Leadbeater Advice [1913]
broschure | pedo affair | Internet Archive
Fussell, Joseph H. – Mrs. Annie Besant and the Moral Code. A Protest (1909)
broschure | pedo affair | Internet Archive
Fussell, Joseph H. – Some Reasons Why the Members of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society
Do Not Endorse Mrs Besant Nor the Society of Which She is President (1913)
broschure | pedo affair | none
Fussell, Joseph H. – Something the Public Should Know (1910)
flyer | pedo affair; Leadbeater; Besant; Fullerton; TS history | none
Fussell, Joseph H. – William Kingsland – An Open Letter to Annie Besant
flyer | pedo affair; Leadbeater; Besant; TS history | none
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Geering, Rudolf – Einladung Hauptversammlung D.T.G. (1895)
circular | invitation general meeting at Febr. 17, 1895; TS history in Germany | theoarchive, photocopied at Goetheanum
Geppert, Alexander C.T., Andrea B. Braidt (Hg.) – Orte des Okkulten (2003)
studies; booklet | occult & TS history in Germany | Univ. of Berlin
Göring, Hugo – Dr. Franz Hartmann, ein Vorkämpfer der Theosophie (1896, Transcript)
booklet | biography | unknown
Göring, Hugo: Dr. Franz Hartmann, ein Vorkämpfer der Theosophie (1896, scan)
booklet | biography | none
Greusel, John Hubert – Katherine Tingley, humanity’s friend (1907)
booklet | TS history | Internet Archive
Gruffman, Paulina – The Quest for Gnosis. G. R. S. Mead’s Conception of Theosophy (2020)
study | gnosis, early Christians | Univ. of Stockholm
Guignette, Jean-Paul – Bibliography of H. P. Blavatsky (1987)
broschure | bibliography | theohistory
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Hammer, Walter (pen-name of Walter Hösterey) – Die Generalanzeiger-Presse kritisch beurteilt als ein Herd der Korruption. 55 p., Theosophisches Verlagshaus, Leipzig, Hugo Vollrath, 1st and 2nd. ed. 1911; 4th ed. 1912, 56 p. Publisher of the Jugendbewegung. Biographies: 1. dissertation of Jürgen Kolk (2010), 2. Axel Flake/Heiko Schmidt:
“Der in Elberfeld geborene Verleger und Publizist Walter Hammer (1888-1966). Ein Beitrag zu Jugendbewegung, Pazifismus und Widerstand.” 3. Walter Hammer und Erna Hammer-Hösterey: 2Die bleibende Spur: Ein Gedenkbuch für Walter Hammer. 1888 – 1966″, Hamburg: Janssen, 1967, 296 S.
broschure | corruption in the press | none
Hanegraaff, Wouter – The Theosophical Imagination (2017)
article | clairvoance; Leadbeater; psychometry; astral world | Correspondences Journal
Harlass, Ulrich – Die orientalische Wende der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Eine Untersuchung der theosophischen Lehrentwicklungen in der Zeit zwischen den Hauptwerken Alfred Percy Sinnetts (2021) [publisher ad only]
book | doctrines; study | pdf to buy
Harris, Iverson L. – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – A refutation of slanders against the foundress of the Theosophical Society (1921)
Professor of law, the Theosophical University. Student under Katherine Tingley, Leader and Official Head of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society and successor to H. P. Blavatsky and William Q. Judge. Reprint in: Tingley, Katherine – Helena Petrowna Blavatsky (1921), pp. 15-21.
broschure | apologetics, biography | none
Harris, Iverson L. Jr. – Katherine Tingley’s Raja-Yoga System of Education [1922]
broschure | school reform, spiritual education, Point Loma | Internet Archive
Harte, Richard – Introduction to ‘Keely’s Secrets’ (1888)
pdf from html | technology; Bloomfield Moore | Can. Theos. Association
Harte, Richard – The Hebrew Talisman (1888, scan)
html | pdf backup of htm | bio of Harte
booklet | banking system | Internet Archive, Theosophy Canada
Hartmann, Franz – Postcard to Blavatsky, Jan. 03, 1889 from Vienna to London
“My dear H. P. B. Your “Secret Doctrine” will be “The Bible” of the coming millenium.
Yours truly, F. Hartmann”
postcard | The Secret Doctrine | Bakhmut Roerich Society
Hartmann, Franz (Transl.) – Atma Bodha
(Selbsterkenntnis) (1895)
book | self-knowledge | none
Hartmann, Franz – Sozialismus und Theosophie (1898)
article; broschure | socialism | Theosophische Informationsstelle
Hartmann, Franz – Autobiography (Occult Review Jan. 1908)
article | biography | Internet Archive
Hartmann, Franz – In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom (1st. ed. London 1890)
Ad title in The Key to Theosophy, 1889: “Gossip about the true & false Rosicrucians and the Fire Philosophers”
1st. US ed. Boston 1890
book | traditional theosophy; Hermetism | Internet Archive
Hartmann, Franz – Magic, Black and White (5th ed., London 1904)
Hartmann, Franz – Magic, Black and White (8th Am. Ed. rev., Philadelphia 1904)
book | doctrines | Blavatsky Archives, Internet Archive
Hartmann, Franz – Pansophia (1924)
book | Rosicrucians | Internet Archive
Hartmann, Franz – Populäre Vorträge über Geheimwissenschaft, Band 2 (1900)
book | articles collection | none
Hartmann, Franz – Was ist Theosophie 3. A. [1922]
Collection of his former articles and lectures (with changes) and supplement of the TS history, see Becher, Th.
book | articles collection; TS history in Germany | Internet Archive
Head. Joseph & Cranston, Sylvia – Reincarnation; an East-West anthology
including quotations from the world’s religions & from over 400 Western thinkers (1961)
book | rebirth | Internet Archive
Hess, Karolina Maria – The Beginnings of Theosophy in Poland (2015)
study | TS history in Poland | ResearchGate
Hoffmann, Baron Oskar von – Letter to Alfonso – [About his visit to Blavatsky in Elberfeld] (17. Sept. 1884, fragmentary, Limburg version)
letter; partial, transcript via Horst E. Miers | Blavatsky in Elberfeld; TS Germania; TS history in Germany | theoarchive
Hoffmann, Baron Oskar von – Letter to Alfonso – [About his visit to Blavatsky in Elberfeld] (17. Sept. 1884, fragmentary, Dornach version)
letter; partial, variant transcript | Blavatsky in Elberfeld; TS Germania; TS history in Germany | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Holzweber, Brigitte – Die okkulten Wege der Wiener Moderne. Eine religionswissenschaftliche Analyse der „Wiener Rundschau“
book | master’s thesis; Vienna; Franz Hartmann; Rudolf Steiner; Friedrich Eckstein | Univ. of Vienna
Hübbe-Schleiden, Wilhelm – Letter to Seiler (March 1, 1894)
letter | TS Theosophische Vereinigung, successor of TS Germania, precursor of Adyar section; TS history in Germany | theoarchive photocopied at Goetheanum
I+J
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Jeremias, Alfred – Buddhistische und theosophische Frömmigkeit. Mit einer zusammenfassenden Einleitung über das Wesen der Frömmigkeit und über das Verhältnis der Religion zur christlichen Frömmigkeit (1927), 44 p. He was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Leipzig, which became in 1912 the first German university with a chair of comparative religious science. He is said to have planned the world-wide first chair for Theosophy (sic), but political developments prevented it. (oral information by Hermann Rudolph-Fischer, son and after-war succeccor as head of the Hartmann TS ITV, which existed for 40 years from 1897-1937, when they were forbidden). Reviews: 1. by Richard Karutz in: Die Drei, 1927; 2. J. Lippl in Theologische Revue; 27(1928), 11, Seite 398-399; 3. N. Schlögl, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 1929, Vol.36 (1), p.150.
broschure | buddhistic and theosophistic piety | none
Jinarajadasa, C. – The Golden Book of the Theosophical Society (1925)
Compiled by us into one large file compressed in 71 MB and original in 755 MB
book | TS history | Theosophy World
Judge, Rajbir Singh – Dusky Countenances – Ambivalent Bodies and Desires in the TS (2021)
pdf | TS history; Esoteric Section; sex problems | Rajbir Judge
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Kaiser, Tomas – Zwischen Philosophie und Spiritismus (2006)
study | Carl du Prel; TS Germania; TS history in Germany | Univ. of Lüneburg
Kämpfer, Friedrich – Der Tod… und was dann? [1915] p. 47 is missing.
broschure | death, reincarnation | theoarchive
Kerning, Johann B. – Weisheit der Orients. Ediert von Franz Hartmann (1901) Pen name for Johann Baptist Krebs
book | mystic, wisdom | Internet Archive
Kirsebom, Klara – Letter to Emmi Haerter, Gelsenkirchen Lodge, May 1, 1951
letter | leadership; successorship; Point Loma; split 1951 | theoarchive
Klatt, Norbert – n. n. [a criticism of the Mahatma Letters]. He has viewed them in an unknown theological journal at first as forgeries, but after his research of the Hübbe-Schleiden estate he changed his view and didn’t want his paper to be circulated anymore (oral information from him to us), ca. 1992.
paper | Mahatma Letters | higher beings | none
Klatt, Norbert – Theosophie und Anthroposophie. Neue Aspekte zu ihrer Geschichte aus dem Nachlaß von Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden (1846-1916) mit einer Auswahl von 81 Briefen (1993). Review: Die Drei, 7, 1995.
Kalliope-Verbund: “… die von Norbert Klatt nicht ermittelten Briefe Alois Mailänders befinden sich im Rudolf Steiner Archiv in Dornach im Nachlass von Emil Bock; freundlicher Hinweis von Dr. Martina Maria Sam, Nov. 2021.”
book; find book | TS Germania; TS history in Germany | none
Klatt, Norbert – Der Nachlass von Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden in der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Verzeichnis der Materialien und Korrespondenten (1996)
book; find book | TS Germania; TS history in Germany | none
Klatt, Norbert – Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden – Indisches Tagebuch. 1894/1896. Mit Anmerkungen und einer Einleitung herausgegeben von Norbert Klatt. Göttingen 2009.
book | travel diary; India; Adyar; TS history in Germany | Norbert Klatt
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Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Lamprecht, Dr. Harald – Überblick über die Geschichte der Theosophischen Gesellschaften in Deutschland
article | TS history in Germany | Neue Rosenkreuzer
Laun, Friedrich – Moderne Theosophie und katholisches Christentum (2. ed.., 1922), 44 p. Quote p. 42:
“… [E]in überzeugter Katholik, der zugleich ein wissendes Mitglied der theosophischen oder anthroposophischen Gesellschaft wäre, ist so unmöglich wie ein Lamm in Gesellschaft der Füchse, ein Theosoph in katholischer Gesellschaft vielleicht ein Fuchs im Schafskleid.”
broschure | Catholic view on theosophy | none
Laur, Dr. Peter – Ein deutschbaltischer Hintergrund der ‘Theosophie’? (2006)
Review: Reitemeyer, Frank – Open Questions in H. P. Blavatsky’s Genealogy, in: Fohat, summer 2006
article | Blavatsky genealogy, ancestors | theoarchive
Lavoie, Jeffrey – Saving Time. Time, Sources, and Implications of Temporality
in the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky (2015)
theses | chronology, darwinism; geological ages | Core
Leadbeater, Charles W. – An Occult View of the War (1916)
Cp. Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s occult views on WWI, who came to quite opposite results as well as Katherine Tingley. Recent historical research confirms Steiner and Tingley.
broschure | World War I | Anand Gholap
Lechner, Gerhard – Der theosophische Einfluss auf Rudolf Steiners fünftes Evangelium (2024), 18 pp.
Leese, Kurt – Moderne Theosophie (2nd ed. 1921)
book | Protestant view on theosophy | Internet Archive
Levy, Eugene – Mrs Besant and the Present Crisis in The Theosophical Society (1913)
book | Krishnamurti; Alcyone; messiah craze; TS history | Internet Archive
Lindtner, Dr. Christian: Geheimnisse um Jesus Christus (Süderbrarup 2005, 396 p.). Website: jesusisbuddha. The publisher ad flyer.
book | Q question, early Christianity, Christianity-Buddhism relationship, Indian influence, Buddhism in Europe | none
Lindtner, Dr. Christian – More Than 500 Witnesses – All False – Buddhist Sources (2009)
Reprint from Lockwood, Dr. Michael – Buddhism’s Relation to Christianity (2010-2015), pp. 278-79.
article | Buddhism, Christianity, Q question | Adyar News Bulletin (scholarly)
Lindtner, Dr. Christian – 500 Brothers Alexandrian Crypto-Buddhism… MORE THAN 500 BOUTTA WITNESSES… (Århus handout 2015), 2 p.
Handout | Q question, early Christianity, Christianity-Buddhism relationship, Indian influence, Buddhism in Europe | jesusisbuddha
Lobanova, Marina: Mystiker, Magier, Theosoph, Theurg: Alexander Skrjabin und seine Zeit. Hamburg: von Bockel 2004. 364 p. : Ill., Noten.
book | music, arts | none
Lockwood, Dr. Michael – Buddhism’s Relation to Christianity (2010-2015)
book | Buddhism, Christianity, Q question | Academia
Lockwood, Dr. Michael – Dr. Christian Lindtner and Gematria-Isopsephy (2021)
pdf | Buddhism in Europe, pre-christian | jesusisbuddha
M
Marfels, Wilfried – Kleine Einführung in die Theosophie, n. d. [1986]
broschure | introduction | theoarchive
Marvell, Leon – The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science (2016, Crotona Verlag)
Marvell, Leon – Einheit. Die hermetischen Grundlagen der Wissenschaft (2018, Crotona Verlag)
book | gnosis | none
M., V. – The strange little girl, a story for children [c. 1911]
booklet | children | Internet Archive
Mead, G.R.S. – Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (1900)
book | gnosis; pistis sophia | Bahai
Mead, G. R. S. – Pistis Sophia (1896)
Mead, G. R. S. – Pistis Sophia (rev. ed. 1921)
book | gnosis; pistis sophia | Internet Archive
Mead, G. R. S. et. al. – The Leadbeater Case. Reply to the President’s Letter (1908)
circular | pedo affair; TS history; | Alan Bain
N
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Nair, Taravath Madhavan – The Evolution of Mrs. Besant (1918) Pen name “The editor of “Justice”, Madras”
book | Krishnamurti; Alcyone; messiah craze; TS history; Judge; pedo affair; Leadbeater; letters from Mrs. Dennis etc. | Internet Archive
O
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Oberth, Hermann – Ist Jenseitsforschung überhaupt möglich? 39,5 pp. manuscript fragment, intended as part 1 of
a projected series “Träger des Lebens. Schriftenreihe über Seele, Theosophie und Okkultismus“
unfinshed, unpublished manuscript; | the beyond; theosophy; soul; rocket science | none
Olcott, Henry S. – Inaugural Address (1875)
lecture | TS launch | Isis invokes
Olcott, Henry S. – The Count de Saint-Germain and H. P. Blavatsky – Two Messengers of the White Lodge (1905-1918)
pdf from html | messengers | Can. Theos. Association
P
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Pelletier, Ernest – The Judge Case Vol. 1+2 (2004)
book | Judge case; split 1895; successorship | Theosophy Canada
Pelletier, Ernest – Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Liberal-Catholic Church (2013)
book | Leadbeater affair; TS history; LCC | Theosophy Canada
Penzig, Prof. Dr. Otto – Die Theosophie und die Theosophische Gesellschaft (1921)
book | TS history | Warburg Institute
Point Loma daily time schedule (1909)
pdf from flyers | Sightseeing ad for Lomaland; TS history | UC San Diego
Priem, Georg – Franz Hartmann, sein Leben u. Wirken. Eine Gedenkschrift zur Erinnerung an den
Gründer der Internationalen Theosophischen Verbrüderung (1912)
booklet | TS history; ITV; biography | none
Pryse, James M. – An Important Statement [on SD vols. III+IV] (1926)
article | missing SD volumes; | IAPSOP
Pryse, James Morgan – The restored New Testament I (1914)
Pryse, James Morgan – The restored New Testament I (4th ed.)
Pryse, James Morgan – The restored New Testament I (1914, OCR)
Theosophy Wiki
books | Holy Bible; gospels; forgery; Early Christianity; | Internet Archive
Price, Leslie – Madame Blavatsky, Buddhism and Tibet (2005). A Spoken Paper at the Theosophical History Conference, London, Sunday 15 June 2003, with revisions.
lecture | TS history, Masters, Buddhism, Tibet | Blavatsky Archives
Pryse, James Morgan – The restored New Testament II (1925)
book | Holy Bible; gospels; forgery; primordial Christianity; | none
Purucker, Gottfried von – Blavatskys wissenschaftliche Vorwegnahmen (1927)
quote | science; Blavatsky’s scientific anticipations | theoarchive
Q+R
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Raatz, Paul – Letter to Seiler (Dec., 09 1893), (fragment), 4 pp. + 1 front page with archive note
letter | TS history in Germany | theoarchive, photocopied at Goetheanum
Raghunathan, Radha – Dr. Christian Lindtner’s Aggersborg Tantram – Obituary (2021)
article | Buddhism in Europe, pre-christian | jesusisbuddha
Ragon, Jean-Marie – Die Messe in ihren Beziehungen zu den Mysterien und Zeremonien des Altertums (1908)
in: Neue Metaphysische Rundschau; XV. Jg. 1908 in two parts: 1. pp. 27-34, 2. 136-142; 15 pp. +1 publishing ad.
article | secrets of masses, masonry, esoteric Christianity | theoarchive
Reigle, Nancy & David – The Lost Kalacakra Mula Tantra (1986)
broschure | Book of Dzyan | Academia
Reigle, David – Curriculum in the Wisdom Tradition (2005)
pdf | Sanskrit; Patanjali, Blavatsky | Eastern Tradition
Reigle, David – The Book of Dzyan – The Current State of the Evidence (2013)
broschure | Book of Dzyan | Academia
Reitemeyer, Frank – Franz Hartmann im Kreuzfeuer. Neusprech auf dem Vormarsch? (2000)
broschure | translation issues; Secret Doctrine | theoarchive
Rembe, Anatole – Christus der Mensch und Freiheitskämpfer, Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig 1887, 80 pp.
broschure | Christ | none
Rembe, Anatole – Der Weg zum wahren Erfolg, n.d. (c. 1920), 68 pp.
broschure | transformation to the higher with theosophical doctrines | theoarchive
Rembe, Anatole – Giordano Bruno (1929)
broschure | inquisition, persecution | theoarchive
Ross, Lydia and Ryan, Charles J. – Theosophia: An Introduction, revised and edited by Helen Todd and W. Emmett Small (Point Loma Publications, San Diego 1974).
broschure | introduction | none
Ross, Joseph E. – C. W. Leadbeater Unveiled. Rustling Shadows (2021)
Supplement to Krotona of Old Hollywood, Volume I (2021)
book | Leadbeater affair; TS history; Krishnamurti | Krotona Archive
Ross, Joseph E. – Krotona Institute of Theosophy (2021)
booklet | TS history, Krishnamurti | Krotona Archive
Row, Subba – Collection of Esoteric Writings (1910)
book | doctrines | Internet Archive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die Stufen des inneren Lebens, n.d. [c.1914], 6 pp.
The reference to Theosophische Bausteine No. 14 allows us to narrow down the date, as there the publisher’s advertisement states “To be published in the course of 1914…”, while No. 18 is dated Nov. 1920, which shows a publication gap caused by the war.
flyer | cleansing the mind and will | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Stiftungsurkunde Franz Hartmann-Loge zu Löbau (1918)
photo | Charter of Hartmann’s TS I.T.V. | unknown
Rudolph, Hermann – Die I.T.V. als Kulturfaktor (1932), 4 pp.
The imprint “7 32 20” reads: July 1932, 20,000 copies.
flyer | the Hartmann group I.T.V. as cultural factor for a new culture, overcoming materialism as the first step of Germany’s mission to heal the world | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die I.T.V. und die Zukunft (1933), 2 pp.
The imprint “2.33.10” reads: February 1933, 10,000 copies.
flyer | future of Germany, astrology, truth, brotherhood, theosophical state | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die Verbrüderung – das Prinzip der Freiheit (1933), 4 pp.
flyer | freedom, fraternization, theosophy and nationalsocialism | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die deutsche Sendung der Theosophischen Verbrüderung e.V. (1934). Eine Aufklärungsschrift. Blätter für Brüderschaft Nr. 4, 4 pp., 11th-12th print run.
flyer | theosophy and nationalsocialism | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Der Tod und das Leben nach dem Tode (1934). Eine Aufklärungs und Trostschrift für alle, die den Tod fürchten ober über Verstorbene trauern. Blätter für Brüderschaft Nr. 7, 8 pp.
flyer | death and life after death | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die Bedeutung der Theosophischen Verbrüderung (T.V.) (1934)
Blätter für Brüderschaft Nr. 8, 4 pp.
flyer | theosophy and nationalsocialism | theoarchive
Rudolph, Hermann – Die theosophische Botschaft (1935), 8 pp.
The imprint “A C IV. 35 M” is not full clear. “IV. 35” is probably the date April 1935, because a date is also recognizable from other flyers. But the abbreviations “A C” and “M” remain unknown, where M could stand for the Roman numeral 1,000, indicating the print run.
flyer | theosophy as self-knowledge and the overcoming of ignorance | theoarchive
S
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Santucci, Dr. James – Theosophy And The TS (2nd ed. 2013)
article | TS history | Theosophy Forward
Schmidt, Ferdinand – Theosophische und okkultistische Studien (n.d., c. 1895)
booklet | theosophy and occultism | none
Schmidt-Steffes, Diana – Theosophie, Kosmologie, Geometrie. Maß, System und Göttliche Ordnung in der
Kunst J.L.M. Laweriks. Kosmisches Drama im Kunshandwerk (2016)
book | theosophy in the arts; dissertation | Univ. Heidelberg
Seidel-Dreffke, Dr. Björn & Reitemeyer, Frank – Unbekannter Blavatsky-Brief an Fuerst Zertelew entdeckt (2000)
letter | prince Zertelev | theoarchive
Seidenstücker, Karl – Vortrags-Cyclus über Buddhismus (Leipzig 1903)
flyer | lecture announcements; buddhism | Wikipedia
Shearman, Hugh – Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatma Letters (1967)
article | Besant/Leadbeater; changed teachings | Anand Gholap
Siemons, Jean-Louis – Theosophia (1988)
broschure | Etymology | theohistory
Sinnett, Alfred P. – The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe (1922)
pdf from html | TS history | Can. Theos. Association
Speckner, Rolf: Helena Blavatsky in Deutschland – eine Zusammenfassung. Vortrag in Dornach am 11.2.2012
pdf, html | TS history, TS Germania, Elberfeld | Rolf Speckner
Spence, Lewis – The History of Atlantis [1927]
book | Atlantis; root races | Internet Archive
Speyer, Prof. Jacob Samuel – Die indische Theosophie aus den Quellen dargestellt (1914)
book | vedas and karma from academic view | Internet Archive
Spunda, Franz – Der gelbe und der weisse Papst (1923)
book | occult fiction | Internet Archive
Steiner, Rudolf – Der Theosophische Kongress in Amsterdam (1904)
article Lucifer-Gnosis | congress report | Rudolf Steiner Online Archiv
Steiner, Rudolf – Wie begründet man Theosophie? (1912)
lecture | apologetics | Uranos-Archiv
Steiner, Rudolf – Wie widerlegt man Theosophie? (1912), in: GA 069
lecture | apologetics | Uranos-Archiv
Surya, G. W. – Moderne Rosenkreuzer (1924)
Pen name for Demeter Georgievitz-Weitzer
book | alchemy; Rosicrucians | Internet Archive
Surya, G. W. – Triumph der Alchemie (1908)
Pen name for Demeter Georgievitz-Weitzer
book | alchemy; Rosicrucians | Internet Archive
T
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
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Taylor, Richard P.: Blavatsky and Buddhism (1999), UC Berkeley, Group in Buddhist studies; 110 pp. Quotation p. 72: “…Blavatsky had access to Tibetan Buddhist sources which no other Westerner during her time had. Her works are by no means merely strings of plagiarisms, but rather very cogent arguments, supplemented by masses of data, that her readers should believe Buddhist claims that there is a perennial philosophy, in the possession of Adepts, which explains the origins of the world and leads to salvation from it…Blavatsky knew what the Buddhist Tantras were, knew their content and imported them better than any Western contemporary, and knew bona fide Tibetan traditions surrounding them. This alone gives strong reasons not to dismiss her claims out of hand.”
Comm.: Taylor first established the necessity of a serious study of Blavatsky, since she was usually dismissed as a charlatan in academic Buddhology, but in fact had a considerable influence on East-West religious discourse. He then defines a method: Blavatsky’s Buddhist statements should be systematically compared with contemporary Orientalists (e.g., Max Müller, Bharati, Lopez) and with primary sources (sutras, tantras, commentaries) in order to reveal her specific contribution and distortions. Taylor demonstrates that Blavatsky constantly distinguishes between “exoteric” Buddhism (institutional churches, texts) and an “esoteric” wisdom religion that she claims to represent, while simultaneously presenting it as the true essence of Buddhism. His central thesis is that this very shift – away from historical Buddhist traditions and toward an older, universal “Buddhism” or “wisdom tradition” – leads to her to selectively adopt real Buddhist teachings in order to incorporate them into an overarching, theosophical system of Mahatmas, Adepts and “Secret Doctrine”.
Theosophische Gesellschaft [Adyar] – Katalog der Bibliothek (1906)
broschure | TS library catalogue; TS history in Germany | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Theosophische Gesellschaft [Adyar] – Ziele und Aufgaben [n.d., c. 1909]
flyer | Aims and mission of the Steiner section; TS history in Germany | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Theosophische Gesellschaft, Zweig Berlin – Einladung zur XI. Generalversammlung (n.d., c. 1906)
flyer | Invitation general meeting Raatz TS; TS history in Germany | theoarchive; photocopied at Goetheanum
Thomas, Margaret – Theosophy Versus Neo-Theosophy [ca. 1924]
booklet | TS split; Besant; Leadbeater | Blavatsky Archives
Tillett, Dr. Gregory – Leadbeater. A Biographical Study (Dissertation 1986)
Tillett, Dr. Gregory – Leadbeater. A biographical study (Dissertation 1986) OCR up to p. 795
book | pedo affair; Krishnamurti; Alcyone; messiah craze; TS history | Univ. of Sydney
Tillett, Dr. Gregory – The Esoteric within the Exoteric – Esoteric Schools (1992)
manuscript | inner groups, ES | Theosophy (Formerly theos-talk)
Tillett, Dr. Gregory – Leadbeater and the Sydney Police (2005)
posting | Leadbeater | Theosophy (Formerly theos-talk)
Tingley, Katherine – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1921), 81 pp. + 3 pp. publisher ad + 4 pp. front pages with photos.
book | biography | Internet Archive
Tingley, Katherine – Theosophie, der Pfad des Mystikers (1922)
book | mystic | Internet Archive
Tingley, Katherine – The Life at Point Loma (1909)
broschure | Lomaland, Raja Yoga School | Internet Archive
Tingley, Katherine – To abolish capital punishment (1914)
booklet | death penality | Internet Archive
TS Adyar – Full Report 7th Anniversary Meeting in Bombay on 27 Nov. 1882 (1883)
broschure | Congress report | Internet Archive
TS Adyar-Shiv Nadar Trust Lease Damodar Gardens (May 31, 2022)
document | lease real estate | Theosophy (Formerly theos-talk)
V
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Veritas – Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913) Pen name for Narayaniah, G.
book | Krishnamurti; Alcyone; messiah craze; TS history | Internet Archive
W
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
Wachtelborn, Karl – Atlantis. Bildungsstätte unserer Kultur und Religion [c. 1905]
broschure | Atlantis, root races | theoarchive
Wachtmeister, Constance & Buffington Davis, Kate – Practical Vegetarian Cookery (1897)
book | diet; vegetarianism | Theosophy (Formerly theos-talk)
Wedemeyer, Bernd – Der Athletenvater Theodor Siebert (1866-1961). Eine Biographie zwischen Körperkultur, Lebensreform und Esoterik. Göttingen 1999.
book | inventor of body building | none
Z
Name, title, edition, location & year, data
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Zander, Dr. Helmut: Johannes Maria Verweyen (1883-1945) als Theosoph
article | TS history in Germany | Univ. Freiburg
Zander, Dr. Helmut – Theosophische Zeitschriften in Deutschland bis 1945 + Reitemeyer, Frank – Ergaenzung (2007)
book chapter | TS history in Germany | Dr. H. Zander
Zechner, Frank – Der amerikanische Spiritismus und seine Wurzeln, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 1), 2006
article, study | TS history | Frank Zechner
Zechner, Frank – Der Beginn der Theosophischen Bewegung, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 2), 2006
article, study | TS history | Frank Zechner
Zechner, Frank – Madame Blavatsky: Die erste westliche Buddhistin, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 3), 2006
article, study | buddhism | Frank Zechner
Zechner, Frank – Die deutschen Theosophen und die beginnende Buddhismusrezeption, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 4), 2007
article, study | theosophists and buddhism in Germany | Frank Zechner
Zechner Frank – Yoga goes West, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 5), 2007
article, study | yoga | Frank Zechner
Zechner, Frank – Rudolf Steiner – Theosoph und Hellseher, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 6), 2007
article, study | Steiner | Frank Zechner
Zechner, Frank – The dark side of the moon, in: Serie: Buddhismus und Theosophie (Teil 7), 2007
article, study | TS history, root races, accusation of racism | Frank Zechner
Zhelikhovskaya, Vera Petrovna – H. P. Blavatsky and the Modern Priest of Truth: a reply to Mr. Vsevolod Solovyov, 1893
[Wera P. Schlichowskaja; Ygrek]
letter | accusations of fraud; TS history | ULT UK
Zirkoff, Boris de – Dr. Franz Hartmann (1966)
article | TS Germania, ITV, TS history | Universo Filosofico
Zirkoff, Boris de – Who played that trick on HPB? The puzzle of “The Theosophical Gloassary” (1967-68), 4 pp.
Published in The Canadian Theosophist, Vol. 49, May-June, 1968. First published in Theosophia, Winter 1967-68.
article | Critique of the teaching content of texts not authorized by Blavatsky | unknown
Zirkoff, Boris de – What of Reincarnation?. La Habra, CA: Ande Herald Press, 1974.
broschure | reincarnation, rebirth | none
Further interesting photos from the books
Publisher advertising of the German translation “Die Geheimlehre” of “The Secret Doctrine”, in: Franz Hartmann: Was ist Theosophie? (3. A., n.d. [1922])
Traditional Theosophy before 1875
In chronological order. First of all without the huge collections of Paracelsus and Jacob Böhme.
Year, name, title, edition, location, data
Format | Topics | Digitized by; source
1678: Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum Et Amplificatum. Introduction by Karl R. H. Frick, M. D. in the reprint of 1970.
1697: Theosophical Transactions of the Philadelphian Society, London 1697. Extracts. Comment by Dr. Lian Temple and article Who were the Philadelphian Society?; cp. Richard Roach.
1742: ERNST AUGUST, Herzog von Sachsen-Weimar (1688-1748): Zu dem hoechsten alleinigen Iehovah gerichtete theosophische Herzens-Andachten oder Fürstliche selbst abgefassete Gedancken, wie wir durch Gottes Gnade uns von dem Fluch des Irdischen befreyen und im Gebet zum wahren Lichte und himmlischen Ruhe in Gott eingehen sollen : nebst einigen aus dem Buch der Natur und Schrifft hergeleiteten Philosophischen Betrachtungen von denen dreyen Haushaltungen Gottes im Feuer, Licht und Geist zur Wiederbringung der Creatur / [Das kurze Glaubens-Bekenntniß des Hoch-Fürstlichen Auctoris.]. o. Ort, o. Verleger, 1742, in-4to, Kupfertitel + 148 S, Einfacher-Pappband d. Zeit. Erste Ausgabe.
1786: Stoll, Johann Gottlieb – Etwas zur richtigen Beurtheilung der Theosophie, Cabbala, Magie und anderer geheimer ubernaturlicher Wissenschaften. Nebst einem Kupfer. 174 pp., Leipzig 1786.
Critique of Occult Sciences: A factual and incisive examination of Theosophy, Kabbalah, and magic. Exposing Deception: Classifying so-called Theosophists as alleged hypocrites who claim to have renounced worldly things but in reality strive for goldmaking in alchemy. Target audience of the critique: The observation that such heresies are widespread not only among the common people but especially among scholars, doctors, and preachers.
book | criticism of Theosophy | MDZ, Internet Archive
18xx: Hanka – Ueber Theosophie in Bezug auf Arzneikunde, in: Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, p. 301 fn.
article | medicine | none
1823: Eckartshausen, Karl von: Über die wichtigsten Mysterien der Religion. Nebst einem Anhang – Fragmente aus der ältesten Weisheitsschule: oder Cloas, des Naturpriesters: Unterricht an Sophrom. Munich 1823, 142 pp. Reprint Munich 2020, 140 pp.
book | science of the holy ones, inner wisdom school, the closed kingdom of heaven within us | Google
1828: Schmidt, Isaac J. – Über die Verwandtschaft der gnostisch-theosophischen Lehren (1828), 25 pp.
article | relationship between gnosticism and theosophy | Google
1835: Fechner, Gustav Theodor – Das Büchlein vom Leben nach dem Tode (ed. 1947, without annotations, with epilogue). Master K.H. talked with him in Leipzig.
booklet | after life
1850: Mystik und Theosophie. Bücher-Auktion bei Fr. Hanke, Buchhändler und Antiquar, Katalog No. 29 with over 8,000 items, 240 Nrn. items of mystic and theosophy; two advertisements for the book auction on April 6, 1850 in: Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich, Nro. 82, 23 March 1850, p. 423, par. 12 and in Nro. 96, April 6, 1850, p. 498, par. 70.
newspaper advertisement of a book auction | mysticism and theosophy | Google
1851: Widenmann, Gustav: Gedanken über die Unsterblichkeit als Wiederholung des Erdenlebens. Mit einem Aufsatz von C. S. Picht ‘Das Abtauchen der Reinkarnationsidee bei dem Arzt und Philosophen G. Widenmann 1850’. Wien, 1851, x + 96 p.
1855: Introduction to Theosophy, or the Science of the Mystery of Christ; that is, of Deity, Nature, and Creature, embracing the philosophy of all the working powers of life, magical and spiritual, and forming a practical guide to the sublimest purity, sanctity, and evangelical perfection; also to the attainment of divine vision, and the holy angelic arts, potencies, and other prerogatives of the regeneration, London 1855.
The following is the dedication of this volume: “To the students of Universities, Colleges, and schools of Christendom: To Professors of Metaphysical, Mechanical, and Natural Science in all its forms: To men and women of Education generally, of fundamental orthodox faith: To Deists, Arians, Unitarians, Swedenborgians, and other defective and ungrounded creeds, rationalists, and sceptics of every kind: To just-minded and enlightened Mohammedans, Jews, and oriental Patriarch-religionists: but especially to the gospel minister and missionary, whether to the barbaric or intellectual peoples, this introduction to Theosophy, or the science of the ground and mystery of all things, is most humbly and affectionately dedicated.” Quoted from Dr. J. D. Buck in Helena P. Blavatsky – The Key to Theosophy (1889).
1856: Theosophical Miscellanies, follow-up volume of 1855, 600 pages, royal octavo, diamond type. Quoted from Dr. J. D. Buck in Helena P. Blavatsky – The Key to Theosophy (1889).
1861: Meyer, Jürgen Bona – Die Idee der Seelenwanderung. Vortrag gehalten im wissenschaftlichen Verein zu Berlin. 62 pp., Otto Meissner, Hamburg, 1861.
booklet | soul wandering; Lessing; reincarnation; rebirth | none