European traders first reached Indian shores with the arrival of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 AD at the port of Calicut, in search of the lucrative spice trade. Just over a century la ...
Having shown academic potential George Mead began studying mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge. Eventually shifting his education towards the study of Classics he gained much knowledge of both ...
The present-day New Age movement is said to be based to a considerable extent on original Theosophical tenets and ideas. "No single organization or movement has contributed so many components to the N ...
Bailey was born to a wealthy aristocratic British family and, as a member of the Anglican Church, received a thorough Christian education.At age 15, on June 30, 1895, Bailey was visited by a stranger, ...
Annie Wood was born in 1847 in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin. She was proud of her heritage and supported the cause of Irish self-rule throughout her adult life. Her father died wh ...
The earliest (first) recorded use of the term "orthodox" is in the Codex Iustinianus of 529-534, but "heterodoxy" was in use from the beginning of the first century of Christianity.The concept of orth ...
Occultism is the study of occult practices, including (but not limited to) magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism, religion, and divination. Interpretation of occultism and ...
His interest in Divine wisdom or Theosophy was stimulated by A.P. Sinnett's Occult World, and he joined the Theosophical Society in 1883. The next year he met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky when she came t ...
Wind of the SpiritFundamentals of the Esoteric PhilosophyOccult GlossaryEncyclopedic Theosophical Glossary (Editor-in-Chief)Golden Precepts of EsotericismMan in EvolutionThe Esoteric TraditionFountain ...
The term Neo-Theosophy is a term, originally derogatory, used by the followers of Blavatsky to denominate the system of Theosophical ideas expounded by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater foll ...
Main articles: Mahdi, Muhammad al-Mahdi and Jesus in IslamThe Quran identifies Jesus as the Messiah (Masih), referring to him as "Isa". Jesus is one of the most important prophets in the Islamic tradi ...
Family background and childhoodThe date of birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti is a matter of dispute. Mary Lutyens determines it to be 12 May 1895 but Christine Williams notes the unreliability of birth regi ...
One of the central tenets of late 19th-century Theosophy as promoted by the Theosophical Society was the complex doctrine of The Intelligent Evolution of All Existence, occurring on a Cosmic scale, in ...
The first mention of the Maitreya in a Theosophical context occurs in the 1883 work Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840–1921), an early Theosophical writer. The concepts described by Sinn ...
Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett was listed as a "Scholar – London University", living with his widowed mother, Jane, whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature". H ...
