PART V LIFE IN OCCUPIED BELGIUM After that terrible night when the Germans had come to the Château d’E——, there were, of course, the bitter and galling readjustments to the new conditions which their coming necessitated. I saw little of this myself, however, for as soon as full daylight had flooded the house, and we were set at liberty from that closed chamber of death; as soon as the poor dead boy had been laid to rest in the garden—Félix... Read more
PART IV THE FALL OF ANTWERP The fall of Antwerp was one of the most dramatic incidents of the War. Coming when it did and as it did, it cut sharply across the hopes of a world which was awaiting the outcome of the siege in anxious suspense; a world which, despite the gathering evidence to the contrary, still clung to the hope which had been kept alive all through the terrible weeks since the first shock of Liège, that... Read more
PART III THE RACE TO THE SEA About the middle of September 1914, the world began to waken to a realization of the fact (still only dimly felt, however) that the War was entering a new phase; that the theatre of the fiercest conflict was to change, and those of us in England who were straining at the leash in our eagerness to get “over there,” breathlessly snatched at any, and all news which came from the front. Looking back... Read more
PART II IT’S WAR It is with a peculiar reticence, difficult perhaps to explain, that many of us who took part in the War speak of it and of our own War experiences, although very probably few of us have memories which are more tragically dear. To those of us who passed through it (even those who, like myself, played such very insignificant roles,) the world still continues largely to be divided into two parts—those who were “in it” and... Read more
During the Great War, Theodora Dodge (1871-1936,) one of the first women Egyptologists from America, volunteered for civilian relief work in France. When the conflict ended, Dodge returned to Manhattan where she resided in a hotel at 37 Fifth Avenue hotel.[1] Soon after arrival, she began contributing articles to pertaining to Egyptian mythology under the pseudonym Hetep en Neter (offering to the god or satisfaction of the god.) Dodge was a member of the Order Of The Living Christ, and... Read more
Last year I wrote a piece titles “Where The Sandstone Yawns,” about the mysterious happenings of Custer’s Black Hills Expedition. One of the main “characters” of the (non-fiction) story was William Ludlow. This same William Ludlow that served as the basis for Jim Harrison’s fictional character of the same name in Legends Of The Fall. This, then, is a conclusion to Ludlow’s story, which , I think, is heroic and fascinating as fiction—Shawn. William Ludlow... Read more
I had wanted to write about the Theosophical Society in the American South, and when thinking about what title I might choose, I remembered how strange the word “Dixie” was. For many years I had assumed the word was a reference to the Mason-Dixon Line, and those States below it. I was wrong. We find the real origin of the word in antebellum Louisiana, the Francophone colony which the United States purchased from the French in 1803. For a number... Read more
Henry B. Foulke.[1] Henry Bellerjeau Foulke (1856-1938) was a well-known Philadelphia real estate agent of 305 South Eleventh Street, who joined the Krishna Branch T.S. (Philadelphia) in December 1887.[2] He was a pronounced blonde, “handsome, sturdy, mannish-looking,” and tall.[3] Those who knew him in Philadelphia recalled the “admiration which his unusually attractive figure never failed to attract.”[4] Of his personal life, Foulke states that he “supported seven people for years.”[5] The eldest son of Richard and Mary Foulke (née Bellerjeau,)... Read more
In the previous post, we left off in 1891 with the rise of Theosophy in California, the Creation of the Pacific Coast Committee Of The Theosophical Society, the relationship between the Theosophists and the Nationalists, and the Lecture Bureau Scheme. We pick up two years later in San Francisco, the Headquarters of the Pacific Coast Committee. By 1893, San Francisco had two Branches of the Theosophical Society. The first was the Golden Gate T.S., led by Edward “Ned” Burroughs... Read more
As mentioned in a previous post, the first “Theosophical Society” in California began on October 12, 1885 by Anna Kimball and George Chainey (publishers of the proto-New Age journal, The Gnostic.)[1] Meetings were held at 112 McAllister Street in San Francisco, but the “branch” was both short-lived and unsanctioned by the American Board of Control (of Theosophy.)[2] The first official charter for a Branch in San Francisco was issued in 1885, and formed as the Golden Gate T.S. in... Read more
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