Madame Blavatsky - Madame Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Hahn (July 31, 1831 (O.S) [= August 12 (N.S)] - May 8, 1891), better known as Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy. She was born at Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), Ukraine, the daughter of Col. Peter Alexeivich von Hahn and Elena Fadeev. Her mother, also known as Helena Andreyvna Fadeyev, was a novelist. She married, in 1849, Nikifor Vassilievitch Blavatsky. Her second husband was Michael C. Betanelly. She maintained that neither marriage was consummated. Madame Blavatsky traveled throughout the world, and resided in New York City from 1873 to 1878. She then founded, with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others, the Theosophical Society, a new religious movement of the late nineteenth century that took its inspiration from Hinduism and Buddhism. Blavatsky.
Alexandra David-Néel - During her childhood she had a strong desire for freedom and spirituality. At the age of 18, she had already visited England, Switzerland and Spain on her own, and she was studying in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society. In 1890 and 1891, she traveled through India, returning only when running out of money. In Tunis she met the railroad engineer Philippe Néel, whom she married in 1904. In 1911 Alexandra traveled for the second time to India, to further her study of Buddhism. She was invited to the royal monastery of Sikkim, where she met Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Sidkeon Tulku. She became Sidkeong's "confidante and spiritual sister" (according to Ruth Middleton), perhaps his lover (Foster & Foster). She also met the thirteenth Dalai Lama twice in 1912, and had the opportunity.
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Theosophy - as such each religion has a portion of the truth. Theosophy, as a coherent belief system, developed from the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Together with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others she founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. A stricter definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes Theosophy as "any of various philosophies professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, esp. a modern movement following Hindu and Buddhist teachings and seeking universal brotherhood." Adherents of Theosophy maintain that it is a "Body of Truth" that forms the basis of all religions. Theosophy represents a modern face of Sanatana Dharma, "the Eternal Truth", as religion of man. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Basic Theosophical Beliefs 1.1 That Consciousness is Universal.
Count of St Germain - claimed to have had recipes for dyes and acquired quarters in the Chateau de Chambord. During this time in Paris he gave diamonds as gifts and reputedly hinted that he was centuries old. The old portrait of him dates from these years. He was an acquaintance of Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour. At the time a mime, Gower, began to mimic his mannerism in salons, joking that he would have advised Jesus. In 1760 he left for England through Holland when the minister of State, Duke of Choiseul, tried to have him arrested. After that the count passed through Holland into Russia and apparently was in St Petersburg when the Russian army put Catherine the Great on the throne. Later conspiracy theories credit him for causing it. Next.
Society for Psychical Research - branch of the Society was formed in 1885 as the ASPR, becoming an affiliate of the original SPR in 1890. Famous supporters of the society have included Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Carl Jung, J.B. Rhine and Arthur Conan Doyle (who was shamefully duped on at least one occasion by tricksters). The Society was especially active in the thirty years after it was founded, gaining fame for its debunking of Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society in 1884. Most initial members were spiritualists but there was a core of 'professional' investigators - the Sidgwick Group, headed by Henry Sidgwick, a formation pre-dating the SPR by eight years. The Society was wracked by internal strife, a large part of the membership (the Spiritists) leaving as early as 1887 in opposition.
Prophet - of their faith was a prophet. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon church, believes that its founder was a prophet. The leader of the church is known as the "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" in the belief that he continues to receive direct revelation from God for the guidance of the church. This began with first of the presidents, Joseph Smith, Jr The Unification Church likewise regards its founder, Sun Myung Moon as a living prophet. Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider their founder Charles Taze Russell or any other person in their modern-day history to be a prophet. Occasionally, their literature refers to the Christian congregation collectively as God's prophet on earth; this must be understood however in the sense of declaring God's judgments from the Bible,.
Mahatmas - used to refer to adepts or liberated souls. The word was popularized in theosophical literature in the late 19th century when Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, revealed that her teachers were adepts or Mahatmas who reside in Tibet. They were personages who were highly developed spiritually, and who had acquired supernormal powers. The Mahatmas were not disembodied beings, but people with flesh and blood, and who are involved in overseeing the growth of individuals and the development of civilizations..
Mysticism - exhibit a strong tendency towards syncretism. Examples of major traditions and philosophies with strong elements of mysticism are Vedantic Hinduism, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, the Christian Gnostic sect(s), the Eastern Orthodox hesychasm, the Sufi school of Islam, the Judaic Kabbalah and many aspects of the New Age movement. Quakerism also has a strong mystical element to its theology. The 19th Century saw an increase of interest in Mysticism linked to an interest in Occultism and Eastern Thought. Major figures in this movement were Madame Blavatsky and Gurdjieff. See Theosophy for more information on this movement which had a later influence on the New Age. Some examples of Hindu mystics: Andal Shankara Lalleshvari Mirabai Sri Ramakrishna Ramana Maharshi Gopi Krishna Some Christian mystics are: St. John the Apostle Clement of Alexandria, St..
Lemuria - Philip Sclater to a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean, used in the theories of Victorian Darwinists to explain the isolation of lemurs in Madagascar and the distribution of their fossil relatives across Africa and Southeast Asia. Ernst Haeckel, a German Darwinist, used a 'Lemuria' to explain the absence of 'missing link' fossil records, claiming they were all undersea. All such strained invocations of imaginary 'land bridges' were rendered obsolete with the modern (post 1960) understanding of plate tectonics and their effects on biogeography. In the meantime, however, Madame Blavatsky had begun writing about Lemuria, claiming to have been shown an ancient, pre-Atlantean Book of Dzyan by the Mahatmas. Through her, 'Lemuria' took on its current air as a mystical lost continent similar to Atlantis, and began to grow from.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel - also delivered lectures, which were republished in his Philosophie des Lebens (1828) and in his Philosophie der Geschichte (1829). He died on the 11th of January 1829 at Dresden. A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression. Of the two brothers, Friedrich was unquestionably the more original genius. He was the real founder of the Romantic school; to him more than to any other member of the school we owe the revolutionizing and germinating ideas which influenced so profoundly the development of German literature at the beginning of.
Kimaris - person to cross seas and rivers quickly. Most likely, Tuvries is a mistranscription of Cymries. Kimaris, as Cimeries, is also found on Anton LaVey's list of infernal names, although it is not known why LaVey chose Kimaris as one of the comparatively few Goetic daimons included. Aleister Crowley, in 777, gives Kimaris the Hebrew spelling KYMAVR and attributes him to the four of disks and the third decan of Capricorn by night. KYMAVR may allude to "Khem-our" (black light), a form of Horus mentioned in H. P. Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine. In Sepher Sephiroth, he is listed as KYTzAVR, with a gematria of 327, although KYMAVR=277. Since Tzaddi=90, which is also Mem spelled in full, the gematric substitution may be deliberate or a blind. In Harleian Ms. 6482, titled "The Rosie Crucian.
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Jacques-Louis David - the Committee of General Security in 1793. This empowered him to condemn nearly 300 arrested individuals to be guillotined. After the end of the Revolution he was imprisoned because of his actions during it. His students demanded his release, and he was freed on December 28, 1794. Towards the end of 1797 he met Napoleon Bonaparte and from 1799 to 1815 he was Napoleon's painter, chronicling his life in such massive oeuvres as "The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine" which now hangs in the Louvre. One of his most famous pupils, also a favorite of Napoleon and Josephine, was Francois Gerard (1770 - 1837). After Napoleon's downfall in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, David was exiled to Brussels, Belgium, where he returned to Greek and Roman mythological subjects. David, throughout.
Jane Urquhart - three books of poetry ("I'm Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace," "False Shuffles," and "The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan." Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and the United States, and have been translated into several languages. In 1992, her novel "The Whirlpool" was the first Canadian book to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Her third novel, "Away", remained on the Globe and Mail newspaper's National Bestseller list for 132 weeks (the longest of any Canadian book), and won the 1994 Trillium Award. In 1994 Ms. Urquhart also received the Marian Engel Award for an outstanding body of prose written by a Canadian woman. In 1996 she was named to.
Jacques Offenbach - Vivandières de la Grande Armée Geneviève de Brabant Daphnis et Chloé Le Chanson de Fortunio Le Pont des soupirs Le Roman comique Les Bavards Lischen et Fritzchen Le Brésilien Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit L'amour chanteur Die Rheinnixen , La belle Hélène (Fair Helen) Les Bergers Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard) La Vie Parisienne La permission de dix heures La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) Robinson Crusoe L'Ile de Tulipatan La Périchole La Diva La Princesse de Trébizonde Les Brigands Boule de Neige Le Roi Carotte Fantasio Fleurette Les Braçonniers Pomme d'Api Bagatelle Le Violoneux La Boulangère a des écus Madame l'Archiduc La Créole Le Voyage dans la lune Tarte à la Crème Pierrette et Jacquot La boîte au lait La Foire Saint-Laurent Madame Favart La Marocaine La.
Jacques Necker - afterwards established, with another Genevese, the famous bank of Thellusson & Necker. Thellusson superintended the bank in London (his grandson was made a peer as Lord Rendlesham), while Necker was managing partner in Paris. Both partners became very rich by loans to the treasury and speculations in grain. In 1763 Necker fell in love with Madame de Verménou, the widow of a French officer. But while on a visit to Geneva, Madame de Verménou met Suzanne Curchod, the daughter of a pastor near Lausanne, to whom Gibbon had been engaged, and brought her back as her companion to Paris in 1764. There Necker, transferring his love from the widow to the poor Swiss girl, married Suzanne before the end of the year. On April 22, 1766 they had a daughter, Anne.
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert - to his many critics (Neuchâtel, 1779) is a reasoned and scientific defence of the Prussian method of tactics, which formed the basis of his work when in 1775 he began to co-operate with the count de St Germain in a series of much-needed and successful reforms in the French army. In 1777, however, St Germain fell into disgrace, and his fall involved that of Guibert who was promoted to the rank of maréchal de camp and relegated to a provincial staff appointment. In his semiretirement he vigorously defended his old chief St Germain against his detractors. On the eve of the Revolution he was recalled to the War Office, but in his turn he became the object of attack and he died, practically of disappointment, on the 6th of May 1790..
James Mackintosh - long meditation, he published his Vindiciae Gallicae, a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution. It was the only worthy answer to Burke that appeared. It placed the author in the front rank of European publicists, and won him the friendship of some of the most distinguished men of the time, including Burke himself. The success of the Vindiciae finally decided him to give up the medical for the legal profession. He was called to the bar in 1795. and gained a considerable reputation there as well as a tolerable practice. In 1797 his wife died, and next year he married Catherine Allen, sister-in-law of Josiah and John Wedgwood, through whom he introduced Coleridge to the Morning Post. As a lawyer his greatest public efforts were his lectures (1799).
Jacques Delille - to Paris, where, although nearly blind, he resumed his professorship and his chair at the Académie française, but lived in retirement. He fortunately did not outlive the vogue of the descriptive poems which were his special province. Delille left behind him little prose. His preface to the translation of the Georgics is an able essay, and contains many excellent hints on the art and difficulties of translation. He wrote the article La Bruyère in the Biographie universelle. The following is the list of his poetical works: Les Géorgiques de Virgile, traduites en vers français (Paris, 1769, 1782, 1785, 1809) Les Jardins, en quatre chants (1780; new edition, Paris, 1801) L'Homme des champs, ou les Géorgiques françaises (Strassburg, 1802) Poésies fugitives (1802) Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de lme, suivi du passage du Saint.
