Category: Historical Figures

  • Julius Evola on ‘Modern Occultism’ and Theosophists

    Julius Evola on ‘Modern Occultism’ and Theosophists

    Evola explains his early influences, and later preference for traditionalism. “On the whole, however, I always preserved my independence, frequently even voicing my lack of regard for modern ‘occultism’. Modern occultist currents certainly played a useful, if limited, role in my case, the role they generally play in the contemporary world: that of providing an…

  • Annie Besant before Theosophy and her Story

    Annie Besant before Theosophy and her Story

    Annie Besant was women’s rights and labor activist, a British intellectual and orator. Annie Besant left the Anglican Church, and became a secularist reformer, as an atheist and Fabian socialist. Her deepening interest in theosophy caused her to break with the Fabians and Marxists. This was before she joined the T.S. — “marching towards theosophy” around 1888. Helena P. Blavatsky had some…

  • Geraldine Beskin: Manly P. Hall, The Murdered Mystic

    The Murdered Mystic Geraldine Beskin’s contribution and insightful lecture at a Theosophical Society in London, U.K. on the life and works of Manly Palmer Hall at the Theosophical Society in London.