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June 2024

June 23, 2024
    Last year I wrote a piece titles "Where The Sandstone Yawns," about the...
June 22, 2024
I had wanted to write about the Theosophical Society in the American South, and when...
June 15, 2024
Henry B. Foulke.[1] Henry Bellerjeau Foulke (1856-1938) was a well-known Philadelphia real estate agent of...
June 02, 2024
  In the previous post, we left off in 1891 with the rise of Theosophy...
June 01, 2024
  As mentioned in a previous post, the first “Theosophical Society” in California began on...

May 2024

May 17, 2024
  For three days, Soh Kwang-pom’s body laid in state at his residence at 2819...
May 11, 2024
  Having left the American Legation in Constantinople in the capable hands of Lloyd C....
May 05, 2024
On May 11, 1905, their ship, the S.S. Grosser Kurfurst, arrived in New York, and...
May 05, 2024
In Brussels, the Hargrove’s visited Dr. Leyds in Holland where Ernest received a commission from...
May 05, 2024
  Ernest and Aimée were only three days out at sea, en route to the...
May 04, 2024
  A look at the October 4, 1900, edition of The New York Tribune might...
May 04, 2024
  General Sir Redvers Buller And Staff Going On Board Dunottar Castle, October 14, 1899.[1]...
May 04, 2024
THE SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION. Ernest Temple Hargrove.   The history of South Africa is known,...
May 04, 2024
  Church of the Holy Apostles.[1]   On January 17, 1899, Ernest and Aimée were...
May 04, 2024
Towards the end of March 1898, Tingley issued a notice to the stockholders of the...
May 04, 2024
    A few days after the homecoming for the Theosophical Crusade at Madison Square...
May 04, 2024
    Katherine A. Tingley.[1]   Katherine Augusta Tingley (1847–1929) was born Katherine Westcott to...
May 04, 2024
  Ernest Temple Hargrove.[1] Ernest Temple Hargrove was born on December 17, 1870, at Laurel...

April 2024

April 18, 2024
PROGRESSIVE WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION   “If you want to have your own way,” said Alma,...
April 17, 2024
The Christian Socialist Fellowship   “Socialism” was the topic for discussion by the newly formed...
April 13, 2024
“THE UNIVERSE IS BASED ON THE SUBJECTION OF WOMAN.”   The woman suffragists held their...
April 12, 2024
  "On my penetrating into the Ascension at chosen noon, and standing for the first...
April 12, 2024
WRECK OF THE HEREFORD   In the spring of 1907 Arthur “Punk” Buckley paid Irvine...

March 2024

March 09, 2024
THE LOST CANON OF PROPORTIONS OF THE EGYPTIANS September 7, 1875.   Judge and Castle...
March 08, 2024
GUNS AND ROSES.[1] First week of September 1875   Judge and Castle knocked on the...
March 08, 2024
THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE STRANGER August 22, 1875. Olcott used to go to The Sun...
March 08, 2024
When Olcott returned to New York, he was approached by William Quan Judge, a young...
March 08, 2024
HEATHER FROM THE GRAMPIAN HILLS July 4, 1875.[1]   Colonel Henry Steel Olcott fastened the...

February 2024

February 24, 2024
  “I have, I know, been told that this correspondence may have been forged from...
February 23, 2024
William James, Harvard’s first professor of Psychology, was probably the most famous Theosophist from Cambridge,...
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