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May 8, 2022
last change: Jan. 09, 2026

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Audios
Voice records of Helena P. Blavatsky and Henry S. Olcott with Edison’s phonograph on wax plates in 1879 before their departure to India.
Voice records of Elsie Benjamin in Berlin, ca. 1980.
Georg Schwarm: Über die Meister
Gottfried de Purucker: Speech over Radio Hilversum, 1937
CD with a song of a Krishnamurti actor about the Leadbeater affair. Dr. Tillett writes: “There was a wonderful musical about it all written/performed in California some years back which included an hysterically funny song about “The things between my legs” (sung by the Krishnamurti character). I was sent material abut it and a CD.”

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Books, broschures
Edge, Henry T.: Some perverted presentations of theosophy corrected. 1900s. 7 pages
Paar, Jean (i.e. Harry Dörfel, S. Ipares, General Secretary German Section)
– Jean Paar: Weiße und schwarze Magie und Anderes, Baumann, Bad Schmiedeberg, Leipzig [1912] (166 S.)
– Jean Paar: Mehr Licht
– Jean Paar: Natur. Wahrheit und Dichtung: Materialistisch-spiritualistische Betrachtungen. Druck und Verlag von Oswald Mutze, Leipzig 1901. Nachdruck bei Sarastro GmbH, Paderborn 2012 (72 S.)
– Jean Paar: Weißdornblüthen
– Jean Paar: Goethe, Schiller und Lessing als Spiritualisten. In: Zeitschrift für Seelenleben, Jg. 1909
– Jean Paar: Horchet auf! Ein Mahnwort an Freund und Feind in ernster Zeit. Zeitschrift für Seelenleben, Leipzig 1915
– Jean Paar: Warum und wozu der Weltkrieg 1914-1915? Mutze, Leipzig 1915 (64 Seiten)  
– Stache-Weiske, Ernst: Blavatsky. Leben und Lehre der großen Okkultistin, Richard Hummel, Leipzig 1927

All materials of and about the Esoteric Section (E.S.)
– of the I.T.V. (Internationale Theosophische Verbrüderung), Leipzig, Hermann Rudolph
– of the E.S. of the TS Paul Raatz
– of the TS Hugo Vollrath
– of the Dzyan Section of the ULT
– of Mead’s Quest Society

Bust
– 23 cm 23 cm high Blavatsky bust, tinted or bronze, manufactured by Mr. Otto Köhn, Berlin-Karlshorst, Treskowallee 53, in: Theosophisches Leben, Nov. 1902:176

Letters
– Around ten mahatma letters to Franz Hartmann, microfilmed by Hugo Vollrath around 1930
– Some mahatma letters to Hübbe-Schleiden

Manuscripts
– Oberth, Hermann (father of rocket science), unfinished draft of a book about Theosophy
(around 2005 offered high prized by an antiquarian book shop)
– Purucker, Gottfried de: Encyclopaedic Glossary manuscript. Last owner: W. Emmett Small, San Diego, stolen by an unknown visitor in the 1990ies.

Objects
Typewriter of H. P. Blavatsky in London, last owner: W. Emmett Small, San Diego, stolen by an unknown visitor in the 1990ies.

Paintings
– Around seven large oil paintings of two meters of hight by known theosophical painter Walter Einbeck, including exact copies of the two Mahatma portraits of Hermann Schmiechen. Mahatma portrait copies last time seen in 1996 in an Munich flat of theosophist Käthe, taken over by his nephew Bernd, and at the home of the Männle family in Hanau near Frankfurt at the maine.
– Oil painting of Dr. Franz Hartmann. Last time seen at the home of Mr Hermann Rudolph-Fischer, son of ITV founder Hermann Rudolph, in 1996 in Freiburg; taken over by his son.

Photos
– Franz Hartmann, Hugo Vollrath, Paul Raatz, Paul Zillmann, Bernhard Hubo, Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden, Theobald Becher, Gisela Holz, Harald Grävell, J. Th. Heller
– several photo albums with portraits and group photos from TS conventions of the Hartmann lineage TGD and ITV during the 1920’ies and 1930’ies, in possession of Mrs. Charlotte Wegner, Bochum, last time seen c. 1998.

Films
Aerial view from airplane over the Point Loma community, ca. 1920

Periodicals
Blavatsky-Abende (Hamburg, around 1895?)

Blätter zur Pflege des höheren Lebens

Gnosis (Vienna, precursor to Lucifer-Gnosis)

Lucifer-Gnosis (Berlin, Steiner)

Middle Way, The (London), successor of Buddhism in England

Mitteilungen aus Gebieten der Esoterik (Emden), 1951- 1968, Theosophische Gesellschaft supranational [Vollrath]

Mitteilungen der I.T.V. (Leipzig)

Mitteilungen der TGD (Leipzig)

Schwarz & Weiss (Berlin), ca. 1900, Paul Raatz [ads in his magazine Theosophisches Leben, about black and white magic, critical to masonry, not in the Freimaurermuseum Bayreuth upon request].

Theosophischer Wegweiser Vol. 1 in newspaper size, articles with content than the bound vol. in book format, which we already have (means that the articles for the bound vol. have been shortened). Last time seen in a batch of around 12 issues (a volume or a little bit more) in 1996 in the library of the Theosophische Informationsstelle of Miss Helga Rex-Winkler.

Universaler Bruderbund und Theosophische Gesellschaft (Berlin), 1898 – ?, Paul Raatz. Predecessor of Theosophisches Leben

Zeitschrift für Buddhismus (München-Neubiberg), 1919 –