Handbook of the Theosophical Current
Handbook of the Theosophical Current

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9004235973

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Few religious currents have been as influential as the Theosophical. Yet few currents have been so under-researched, and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current thus represents pioneering research. A first section surveys the main people and events involved in the Theosophical Society from its inception to today, and outlines the Theosophical worldview. A second, substantial section covers most significant religions to emerge in the wake of the Theosophical Society - Anthroposophy, the Point Loma community, the I AM religious activity, the Summit Lighthouse Movement, the New Age, theosophical UFO religions, and numerous others. Finally, the interaction of the Theosophical current with contemporary culture - including gender relations, art, popular fiction, historiography, and science - are discussed at length.

The Dawn of the New Cycle
The Dawn of the New Cycle

Author: W. Michael Ashcraft

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781572332003

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In considering a group that identified with Victorian American culture and its anxieties while adhering to an occult worldview that most of their contemporaries found strange, if not dangerous, the book explains why these middle-class Americans found Theosophy so persuasive and why they left family and friends behind to take up residence at this California settlement."--BOOK JACKET.