Rare "Helena Petrovna Blavatsky" /TIngley - Theosophical Society pb (1921)

Description: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Foundress of the Original Theosophical Society in New York, 1875, the International Headquarters of Which are now at Point Loma, CaliforniaThe Woman's International Theosophical League, Pt. Loma CA, 1921. First edition. Soft cover 7x10". Small quarto. 4 plates, 81pp + 3 ads. Condition Notes: Acceptable. Front wrap detached. Large water stain to lower left hand corner, affecting front wrap and early pages. Multiple small tears, nicks and staining to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. The text block is firm and square. First few pages have bumps and small tears to corners. Remarks: Rare early edition. Includes iographical sketches of Blavatsky by the authors Katherine Tingley, William Q. Judge, Iverson L. Harris, and H. Travers and others. Also includes excerpts from Blavatsky's works. Katherine Tingley was born in 1847, in Newbury, Massachusetts. She felt a profound sympathy for the victims of poverty, misery, and war, and worked all her life to alleviate suffering. In 1893 she met William Q. Judge who introduced her to theosophy. She had found a philosophy which, if practiced, could lighten the burdens of humanity. Mrs. Tingley and Judge became co-workers, and upon his death in March 1896 she succeeded him as head of The Theosophical Society. In 1900 she moved its international headquarters to Point Loma, California, where she continued her humanitarian efforts and founded the Raja-Yoga School, Academy, and College, and later, in 1919, Theosophical University. She lectured extensively in the United States and abroad until shortly before her death at Visingso, Sweden, in 1929. [Theosophical Society] "On February 13, 1900, she transferred the Society's international headquarters from New York City to a new colony she called Lomaland, located in the Point Loma community near San Diego, California. Her settlement included Raja-Yoga School and College, Theosophical University, and the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. Not a stranger to controversy, in 1901, the Los Angeles Times printed a story entitled "Outrages at Point Loma; Exposed by an ‘Escape’ from Tingley. Startling Tales told in this City. Women and Children Starved and Treated Like Convicts. Thrilling Rescue." It made various claims against Tingley, and she immediately filed a lawsuit against the paper for libel and won the following year, resulting in other papers being much more reluctant to attack her publicly." [Wikipedia]

Price: 95 USD

Location: San Diego, California

End Time: 2024-10-14T22:14:03.000Z

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