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  • Edward Heneage Dering’s “Esoteric Buddhism: The New Gospel of Atheism”

    Edward Heneage Dering’s “Esoteric Buddhism: The New Gospel of Atheism”

    Edward Heneage Dering’s 29 page critique of theosophist A.P. Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism, The Occult World, and the Letters in The New Gospel of Atheism” (1887). This work can be compared to Per Faxneld’s Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy and its Implications in its method of quoting, but still manages to misrepresent his opponent. However, what…