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  • U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of…