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Theosophy and mysticism for Joyceans

Jorn Barger April 2001 (updated Jan2002)

This page will explore the impulse to mysticism and magic in Western history, especially in relation to art, with special reference to late 19thC Ireland and Joyce, Yeats, and George 'AE' Russell.

Briefly, we'll assume that there are subjective experiences of beauty, transcendence, inspiration, magical action and occult perception (including communication with the dead) that conventional philosophies (science, religions) don't account for satisfactorily... and that conventional political systems don't nurture satisfactorily.

Yeats chose a path of magic, using symbols to evoke the shared mind and shared memory of humanity; AE chose mysticism, and Joyce rejected both.

Yeats sought to create a new Celtic occultism "mystical rites-- a ritual system of evocation and meditation-- to reunite the perception of the spirits, of the divine, with natural beauty" [sb-xxvi] using "initiation... to fix the images of their poems and to so weave image to image that, when one is named, all float up in the mind and... weave all the poems into one great epic..." [sb-xxvii] "this philosophy would find its manuals of devotion in all imaginative literature, and set before Irishmen for special manual an Irish literature which, though made by many minds, would seem the work of a single mind, and turn our places of beauty or legendary association into holy symbols." [anj100] "a war on materialism, decadence, triviality" [rff162, Nov1898]

[A basic intro to magical ritual]

AE addressed Dubliners in 1897: "The golden age is all about us, and heroic forms and imperishable love... A new cycle is dawning: the sweetness of the morning twilight is in the air. You can breathe it if you will but awaken from your slumber." [rbd91]

JAJ replied very specifically to WBY and AE (among others) in 1904: "But all these men of whom I speak/ Make me the sewer of their clique./ That they may dream their dreamy dreams/ I carry off their filthy streams" [etext]

Related pages: Yeats, Maud, AE, The Household, gossip, 100 poems


Sources

rff = RF Foster's WB Yeats [Amazon]
dtm = Gomes's Dawning of the Theosophist Movement [Amazon]
gds = RA Gilbert's The Golden Dawn Scrapbook [Amazon]
mbb = Washington's Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
wbya = WBY's Autobiographies (Collected Works Vol 3) [Amazon]
anj = AN Jeffares' WBY: a new biography [Amazon]
gyL = MacBride and Jeffares' The Gonne-Yeats Letters [Amazon]
sb = WBY's The Speckled Bird (O'Donnell, ed) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ygd = GM Harper's Yeats's Golden Dawn [Bibliofind] [ABE]
dh = JE&GW Dunleavy's Douglas Hyde [Bibliofind] [ABE]
lfae = Alan Denson's Letters from AE [Bibliofind] [ABE]
rbd = RB Davis's George William Russell ('AE') [Bibliofind] [ABE]
cl1y = John Kelly's Collected Letters of WBY: Vol 1, 1865-1895 [Bibliofind] [ABE]
mgyb = Samuel Levenson's Maud Gonne: Yeats' Beloved [Bibliofind] [ABE]


6thC BC: Pythagoras [info]

c250: Philalethians in Alexandria called first theosophists [mbb55]

396? end of Greek Mysteries tradition [cite]

c1000: oldest known copies of Sefer Yetzirah [etext] ditto [history] [timeline]

1100-1300: development of Kabbalah [cite] [overview]

1135-1204: Moses Maimonides [Cath]

1235: birth of Raymond Lully (d1315) [bio]

c1275: Sepher ha Zohar published by Moses de Leon [cite]

1312: Knights Templar dissolved (destroyed by French monarchy) [mbb39]

1330: birth of Nicholas Flamel (d1418)

1378: birth of Christian Rosencreuz (d1484)

1575: birth of Jacob Boehme (d1624) calls work 'theosophy' [mbb409]

1600: Kabbalah dominates most centers of Judaism [cite]

1614: publication of Fama Fraternitatis (Rosicrucian history) [info] [etext]

series of pamphlets written by Lutheran mystics (incl Heinrich Neuhaus) under Johann Valentin Andrae, incl The Chemical Wedding [mbb38] Andrae later confesses they were inventions

1717: first known Masonic Lodge in London [mbb39]

1735: birth of Franz Anton Mesmer [mbb13]

1743: 55yo Emanuel Swedenborg experiences religious crisis (dreams and visions) and begins mystical writings [mbb14]

1768: Louis Claude de Saint-Martin inducted into Paris Rosicrucians [history] [bio]

1774: St-Martin publishes Of Errors and of Truth under pseud 'the Unknown Philosopher'

1784: Swedenborg's A Spiritual Key (Clavis Hieroglyphica) published in England [mbb14] doctrine of symbolic correspondences

1780s: Mesmerism fashionable in Paris [mbb15] revived 1820s

1823: Sept: angel Moroni directs Joseph Smith to 'Golden Plates' [mbb51]

1824: British Phrenological Society founded by John Elliotson [mbb16]

1831: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky born in Russia [cl1y480] [bio] [timeline] long bio, ditto [ancestry theory]

1837: Mesmerism introduced in London [mbb15]

1842: Bulwer Lytton's occult romance Zanoni [mbb37] starts with reference to Rosicrucians [mbb38]

1843: journal of phrenology and mesmerism, The Zoist, founded in Britain [mbb16]

1840s: Anglican curate HJ Prince founds Agapemone (Abode of Love) in Spaxton, England [mbb6] later declares public sexual intercourse a sacrament

1844: Joseph Smith lynched by mob [mbb51] Brigham Young leads Mormons to Utah

1848: 31Mar: Fox sisters (12yo and 13yo) decode spirit messages from table-rapping in Hydesville, NY [dtm20, mbb10]

1848: 07Jul: 17yo Helena von Hahn marries 40yo Nikifor Blavatsky [mbb30] flees in October

1849-74: HPB travels widely [cl1y480]

1849? 39yo Alphonse-Louis Constant (aka Eliphas Levi) meets Bulwer Lytton in London [mbb37, 408] teaches existence of 'secret doctrine', synthesizes oriental religion and western magic [mbb40]

1851: 31Jul (or 12Aug?): HPB in London meets Indian 'master' Morya [mbb34, cl1y480]

1851 (1850?): Thomas Lake Harris founds spiritualist utopian community Mountain Cove in Virginia with 100 followers [cite] [mbb18]

1851: 13Apr: birth of William Quan Judge in Dublin [bio] [bio]

1853? Mountain Cove closes amid sexual scandals, Harris declares self Messiah

1854: 08Jan? (or 11Jan): Samuel Liddell Mathers born [gds93] [bio] ditto (often misspelled Lidell)

mid-1850s: TL Harris starts Swedenborgian church in New York, attended by Henry James Sr and Horace Greeley [mbb19]

1855 (1864? 1867?): HPB visits Tibet [cl1y480, mbb407]

1855: 22yo American medium DD Home tours Europe, performing for Thackeray, the Brownings, Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton, Empress Eugenie, and the king of Prussia [mbb12]

1858: TL Harris publishes Arcana of Christianity [mbb19] promotes synchronised breathing

1858? HPB performs as medium in Paris? [mbb42]

1860: Laurence Oliphant meets TL Harris [mbb22]

1862: Bulwer Lytton's occult romance A Strange Story [mbb37]

1866? Societas Rosicruciana founded in UK (for Masons only) [gds23] [history] mirror

1867 (1861?): Thomas Lake Harris founds new community 'the Use' (Brotherhood of the New Life) in Brocton, NY [cite] [mbb20] agricultural labor as spiritual discipline

1867: Oliphant joins the Use [mbb22]

1868-72: WBY hears ghost and fairy stories in Sligo during summer visits [rff21]

1869: death of Baron Reichenbach, theorist of magnetic fluid 'Odyle' or 'Od' [mbb405]

1870-74: 15yo UK schoolgirl Florence Cook manifests 'Katie King' [dtm26]

1871: London Dialectical Society investigation concludes spiritual forces are real [dtm23] (TH Huxley opposed)

1872? Georges Gurdjieff born in Russia?

1872-74: 26yo Anna Kingsford buys and edits 'Lady's Own Paper' [bio]
1874: Jan: Anna K meets 49yo Edward Maitland
1874-80: Anna K studies medicine in Paris

1873: summer: HPB directed by Masters to leave Paris for NYC [mbb40] said to smoke hashish [mbb41]

1874: spring: evolutionist Alfred Wallace defends spiritualism in 'Fortnightly Review' [dtm25]

1874: 02Sep: HS Olcott reports favorably on Eddy mediumship in NY Sun [dtm30] (20 more reports by 11Dec) or 'Daily Graphic'? [mbb28]

1874: 14Oct: 42yo lawyer and journalist Henry S Olcott [info] meets 43yo HPB at Eddys

in later years he called her 'Mrs Mulligan' (also Jack, Latchkey, and Old Horse) and she him 'Moloney' (or Maloney) [dtm175, mbb43]

1875: HPB's NYC drawing room becomes informal occult salon, dubbed 'the Lamasery' by journalists for its knick-knacks [mbb44] stuffed baboon in a suit carrying Darwin

1875: 03Mar: HPB materialises letter to HSO from Tuitit Bey of Luxor, Egypt [mbb47] gold ink on green paper in black envelope, followed by others from Serapis Bey

1875? HPB briefly married to Michael Betanelly [mbb48] saves own leg from amputation with Bacon's poultice of puppy

1875: Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health [mbb17]

1875: Emma Hardinge Britten's Art Magic [mbb50] dictated by adept

1875: 07Sep: HPB, HSO, and 24yo WQJ found Theosophical Society (named 13Sep, 1st mtg 17Sep) [mbb53, cl1y480] [history] ditto [WQJ&HSO links]

1876? HSO arranges first US cremation, accompanied by Theosophical service [mbb56]

1876? first of HPB's series of novels Nightmare Tales [etexts]

1876? Annie Besant loses allowance and children after conviction for publishing birth-control tract, drifts into socialism [mbb95]

no-date: GB Shaw portrays Besant as Raina in "Arms and the Man" [mbb96]

1877: 23yo Mathers joins Freemasons [gds93]

1877: HPB publishes 1300pp Isis Unveiled [cl1y480] [etext] [articles by HPB] first printing of 1000 copies sells out immediately [mbb52]

Her chief purposes, aside from attacking dogma and materialism in both science and religion, were to restore to man the lost knowledge that he was essentially a spiritual being, and to point to the existence of an ancient wisdom known to all peoples in all ages. [cite]

1877-78: WQJ quarrels with HPB [dtm16]

HPB weighs over 200 lb [dtm184]

1878? HSO's People from the Other World is a failure [mbb57]

1878: Apr: Wescott takes over Societas Rosicruciana (and its journal) and adds kabbalistic elements [gds73]

1878: 22May: Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj (Fraternity of Aryans) joins TS [dtm162]

1878: 27Jun: UK TS founded [dtm169]

1878: 09Dec: NYC 'lamasery's contents auctioned in preparation for trip to India [dtm190]

1878: TS has 175 members, mostly hoping for sensational occult experiences [dtm14]

1879: mid-Feb: HSO and HPB arrive in Bombay [mbb59]

1879: Eddy founds First Church of Christ Scientist [mbb17]

1879: Oct (Apr?): magazine 'The Theosophist' founded in India by HPB [mbb60] [index]

1879: Dec: in India, AP Sinnett hosts HPB and HSO [cite] APS was editor of Allahabad 'Pioneer' [mbb61]

1880: HPB and HSO take Buddhist vows in India [cl1y480]

1880: May: HPB and HSO visit Ceylon [mbb66]

1880-1885: Sinnett's Mahatma Letters 'received' [jpeg] [etext]

1881: Sinnett's The Occult World published, based on 'correspondence' with Mahatmas

1881: Jul: HSO's Buddhist Catechism [mbb67]

1881: Oliphant breaks with Harris, founds community in Palestine [mbb24]

[cute] Anna Kingsford [pic source]

1882: 36yo Anna Kingsford's The Perfect Way, or the Finding of Christ (Christian mysticism) [ygd159] [bio]

1882: Mathers joins Rosicrucians [gds106] [info]

1882: 17yo Mina Bergson meets 22yo Annie Horniman at Slade school in London [gds115]

1882: 20Feb: Society for Psychical Research founded [cite]

1882: Mar: Arya Samaj breaks with TS [dtm168]

1882: May: HPB and HSO buy Adyar (India) estate [cl1y480] move in Dec? [mbb66]

1882: Jul: anonymous article in Theosophist "Fairy 'Folk-Lore' of Shetland"

1882: Nov: first article in Theosophist by 24yo Mohini Chatterjee (as translator)

1883: 07Jan: Kingsford and Maitland elected leaders of London TS [mbb70]

1883: HSO creates 'Master Morya's seal' for HPB's use [mbb102]

1883: Sinnet dismissed from Allahabad Pioneer, returns to London [mbb76]

1883: AP Sinnett publishes Esoteric Buddhism, also based on 'correspondence' with Mahatmas

1883? London TS splits into Kingsford and Sinnett factions [mbb76]

1883: Leadbeater joins TS, impressed by Sinnett [mbb116] attends Eglinton's seances

1883: 24Oct: Fellowship of the New Life formed by 24 socialists, many SPR members, including George Bernard Shaw, Sidney James Webb, Havelock Ellis, Annie Besant, John Galsworthy, Harold Laski, Israel Zangwi, and Israel Cohen [info]

1883: Dec: WBY leaves HS, planning to make poetry his career [rff33]

1883: 04Dec: NY TS changes name to 'Aryan TS of NY' [dtm15]

1883-84: Kiddle Incident challenges authenticity of Masters [etexts]

1884: Oliphant's Sympneumata [mbb24]

1884: 20Feb: HPB and HSO return to Europe with Chatterjee

1884: Mar: HPB in London achieves temporary reconciliation between Kingsford and Sinnett [ygd110]
1884: 09Apr: Kingsford and Maitland start Hermetic Lodge within TS [ygd9, mbb76]
1884: 22Apr: Kingsford and Maitland withdraw from TS and start independent Hermetic Society [ygd9, mbb76] withdraw in Dec? [ygd110]

1884: Mar-Jun? HPB, HSO, and WQJ together in Paris

1884: Apr: Society for Psychical Research debunks HPB as fraud [cl1y480] [index] [more] [1st report]

1884: May: WBY starts at Metropolitan School of Art in Kildare street, meets AE (and Althea Gyles?), experiments with 'odic force' with Charles Johnston (CJ) at Museum [rff36, 46] 'odic' coined by Baron Reichenbach from 'Odin' [wbya97]

1884: 14May: the treacherous Coulombs expelled from TS for claiming HPB was a fake

1884: Jun: Chatterjee in London, questioned by SPR on 10Jun [etext]

1884: Jun: AP Sinnett edits 'Transactions of the London Lodge' [index]

1884: Sep: Christian College Magazine publishes Coulomb's HPB-letters [mbb82]

1884: Sep: Hodgson begins SPR investigation in India [mbb82]

1884: Oct: 33yo Mabel Collins' Idyll of the White Lotus [etext]

1884: 02Oct: Chatterjee article [etext]


Dublin

late 1884: WBY's London aunt Isabella Pollexfen Varley sends him Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism

1884: Dec: HPB and HSO return to Adyar [mbb82] with Leadbeater [mbb117]

1884: 18Dec (to 26Mar 1885): Hodgson in India [cite]

1885: 09Jan: HPB channels plan for Secret Doctrine [cite]

1885: WBY lends 'Esoteric Buddhism' to CJ [rff45]

1885: 21Mar: HPB resigns from TS
1885-87: HPB in Europe convalescing [cl1y480]

1885: 29May: Hodgson's report to SPR [etext] (Sinnett in Paris, Chatterjee and Keightley present)

1885: 26Jun: part two of Hodgson [etext] (Sinnett and Keightley present, no mention of Chatterjee)

one of these was heard in person by CJ [memoir] (Ellmann thinks this shook WBY?)

CJ to HPB in 1887: "...there is simply no backbone in the Report itself. It is the weakest thing of the kind I have ever read. There is not a shred of real evidence in it from beginning to end."

CJ also apparently got to know Bertram Keightley on this visit

1885: CJ interviews Sinnett and Chatterjee in London [rff552, maybe pre-June?]

1885: 16Jun: WBY, AE, and CJ found Dublin Hermetic Society (also 18yo Claude Falls Wright, 18yo Charles Weekes, WK (or HM??) Magee, Alaud Ali) [rff47] (this would be replaced by a Theosophical lodge in 1886, then revived by AE from 1898-1933)

WBY on Hermetic Society: "A little body of young men hired a room in York Street... and began to read papers to one another on the Vedas, and the Upanishads, and the Neoplatonists, and on modern mystics and spiritualists. They had no scholarship, and they spoke and wrote badly, but they discussed great problems ardently and simply and unconventionally as men, perhaps, discussed great problems in the medieval universities." [rff46]

WBY proposes "that whatever the great poets had affirmed in their finest moments was the nearest we could come to an authoritative religion, and that their mythology, their spirits of water and wind, were but literal truth." [wbya97]

1885: Jul: Chatterjee in Paris
1885: Jul: article in 'Dublin University Review' on CJ's visit to London [rff552] (August sequel expects Chatterjee visit)

1885: Jul: first part of WQJ's Occult Tales [etext]

1885: late Nov? WBY joins Contemporary Club (political debate, founded 21Nov)

"I wished to become self-possessed, to be able to play with hostile minds as Hamlet played" [wbya99]

1885: Dec: full SPR report published [critique] more, more


1886

1886? seal created by HSO disappears from HPB's effects, later used by WQJ [mbb102]

1886: Queen Victoria expresses interest in Laurence's Sympneumata [mbb24]

1886: Kingsford and Maitland sponsor lecture series with Wescott, Mathers, Chatterjee [ygd9] (not Sinnett?) (extends to July below)

1886: HSO's brother hires WQJ, ending financial distress [dtm16]

1886: Apr: Dublin Lodge of Theosophical Society founded by CJ [rff47] Charter members were: CJ, LAM Johnston (sister?), maybe WBY?, 22yo FJ Gregg, ?21yo HM Magee, EA Seale, WF Smeeth, RA Potterton [rff552]

1886: Apr: 28yo Mohini Chatterjee visits Dublin group for a week [rff48, yp600] (he soon broke chastity vows with UK admirers)

WBY's 1886 poems about MC: 'The Indian upon God' [txt], 'The Indian to his Love' [txt]

WBY also wrote a poem with his name in 1929:

I asked if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
'Pray for nothing, say
Every night in bed,
"I have been a king,
I have been a slave,
Nor is there anything.
Fool, rascal, knave,
That I have not been,
And yet upon my breast
A myriad heads have lain."'

That he might set at rest
A boy's turbulent days
Mohini Chatterjee
Spoke these, or words like these...

[soulful] WQ Judge [pic source] [articles by WQJ]

1886: Apr: 35yo WQ Judge (editor, born in Dublin) and Arthur Gebhard found The Path magazine (USA Theosophical journal) [index]

1886: 03Jun: Mathers lectures on 'Kabala' for Kingsford and Maitland's Hermetic Society lectures [ygd190]
1886: 08Jul: Mathers lectures on 'Lower or Physical Alchemy' at 22, Albemarle st W [ygd190, gds80]
1886: 29Jul: Wescott lectures on 'Sepher Jetzirah' [gds80] [cf etext]

1886: Elliott Coues deposed as president of US TS [dtm15]

1886: summer: WBY describes instinct as "dim unconscious nature... which (if there is any truth in Darwen) is the accumulated wisdom of all living things" [cl1y8]

1886: 30Oct: WQJ elected head of US TS [cite]

1886: autumn? AE praises 'Idyll of the White Lotus' [lfae5]

1886: Dec: CJ's 'Second Wave' in Theosophist

1886: Oliphant's novel Masollam criticises TL Harris [mbb23]


1887

1887: Mathers translates 'The Kabbalah Unveiled' [ygd159] [etext]

1887: 11Mar: WBY calls Whitman "the greatest teacher of these decades" [cl1y9]

1887: early Apr: WBY moves back to London-- abrupt loss of social life [jk]

1887: 27Apr: WBY to K Tynan: "I feel more and more that we shall have a school of Irish poetry-- founded on Irish myth and History-- a neoremantic movement." [cl1y11]

1887: 06May: WBY hears Tim Healy address Parliament and praises his "good earth power" [cl1y14]

1887: May: HPB relocates to London, stays with Mabel Collins (Cook) [memoirs] [account]

[humorous] HPB in 1887

1887: spring: CJ meets HPB [memoir] introduces WBY [rff62] [cite] [cf CJ]

[debonaire] MacGregor Mathers in 1889

1887: 29Jun: WBY gets British Museum Reading Room ticket [rff104]

1887? WBY meets Mathers at British Museum

1887? WBY claims initiated into Hermetic Students in Charlotte street (in May or June???) [wbya160] included Mathers and 71yo WA Ayton

1887: 09Aug: WBY to Sligo [rff71]

1887: Sep: HPB starts Lucifer journal [index] [articles by HPB]

1887: Nov: 'Anna Sprengel' authorises Westcott to start Golden Dawn [gds34]

1887: Nov: WBY from Sligo to Dublin [cl1y41]

1887: Dec: CJ and AE article "The Speech of the Gods" [etext] (AE is still 'George W Russell)

1887: 11Dec: K Tynan meets AE for 2nd time, "I take his body to be inhabited by the soul of William Blake" [cl1y18n]


1888

1888? Wescott lectures on kabbalah to Hermetic Students [etext] mirror

1888: 25Jan: WBY back to London [cl1y44]

1888: 12Feb? Order of Golden Dawn founded by 40yo WW Westcott, 60yo WR Woodman, and 33yo SL Mathers [gds21. cf ygd159 '01Mar?'] [pix] [etexts] [flowchart] [links]

First or Outer Order: [ygd160]
neophyte: 0° = 0°
zelator: 1° = 10°
theoricus: 2° = 9°
practicus: 3° = 8°
philosophus: 4° = 7°

Second or Inner Order (RR et AC):
adeptus minor: 5° = 6°
adeptus major: 6° = 5°
adeptus exemptus: 7° = 4°

Third Order:
magister templi: 8° = 3°
magus: 9° = 2°
ipsissimus: 10° = 1°

(I believe the arrangement of degrees symbolises 'as above so below')

1888: 22Feb: death of 52yo Anna Kingsford [ygd9]

1888: Mar: 23yo Mina Bergson is 5th member of OGD [gds114]

1888: 22Apr: TS convention in Chicago [HPB letter]

1888: Aug: HSO returns to London from India [pic]
1888: Aug: WQJ mentions Dublin Lodge [passim]
1888: Oct: Esoteric Section of TS founded under HPB's control [mbb100 says 1889]
1888: 14Oct: Charles Johnston marries HPB's niece, moves to India (CF Wright new head of Dublin Lodge) [lfae256]
1888: 01Nov: HPB's Secret Doctrine published [etext] ditto
1888: 06Nov: AE writes HPB expressing concern apparently about WBY's experiments [lfae6, published 15Dec in Lucifer]

(this was probably the typo that turned 'Aeon' into 'AE')

1888: Nov: WQJ head of US TS ES
1888: Nov? WQJ visits Dublin? [hint]
1888: Dec: WBY joins TS ES

when WBY reads a paper to the Theo Soc, he reads so poorly that Blavatsky suggests he speak extemporaneously, which turns out to be very good advice

1888: laudatory review of Secret Doctrine in "Review of Reviews" written by Annie Besant [mbb92]

no-date: 20 OGD members join TS ES [gds41]

1887-88? AE likes 'Light on the Path' [etext]


1889

no-date: HPB's Key to Theosophy published [etext]
no-date: HPB's The Voice of the Silence published [etext]

1889: Jan: WBY essay "Irish Fairies, Ghosts and Witches" in 'Lucifer' [etext]

1889: 10Jan: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#1]
1889: 17Jan: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#2]
1889: 24Jan: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#3]

1889: 30Jan: WBY meets MaudG in Bedford Park

1889: 31Jan: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#4]
1889: 07Feb: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#5]

1889: 09Feb: OGD announced by Westcott in 'Notes and Queries' [gds24]

1889: 14Feb: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#6]
1889: 21Feb: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#7]
1889: 28Feb: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#8]
1889: 07Mar: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#9]
1889: 14Mar: 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' [#10]

In 1889 members of the Aryan Branch TS [USA] purchased a press and type, and secured the services of a member {Pryse?] to operate it. Aside from pamphlets, etc., the first publications included three small magazines for members, Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms (1889: qv), Judge's Echoes from the Orient (1890: qv), his recension of the Bhagavad-Gita with introduction and footnotes (1890: qv), Letters That Have Helped Me (1891: qv) and The Ocean of Theosophy (1893: qv). In 1895 Judge estimated that a half million flyers had been printed by the Aryan Press. [etexts] more

cf AE:

"I had no private doctrine: nothing but HP Blavatsky eked out for beginners by WQ Judge; the Bhagavad Gita; Upanishads; Patanjali; and one or two other classics." [source]

1889: spring: Annie Besant meets HPB, quickly converted [mbb98]

1889: 28Apr: TS convention in Chicago [HPB letter]

1889: WQJ letters to Dick and Pryse [letter] [letters]

1889: Pryse has vision of HPB [account]

1889: Aug: Pryse summoned by HPB from NYC to London with printing press [passim] [lfae267]

1889: 10Sep: Mina Bergson initiated into Inner Order of OGD [gds117]


1890

?1890-1900: AE stops painting [rbd29]

1890: CWL meets Besant [mbb118]

1890: Jan: 29yo Annie Horniman joins OGD [gds127]

1890: CF Wright moves to London, FJ Dick leads TS in Dublin [cl1y267]

1890: 07Mar: WBY initiated into Golden Dawn, 17 Fitzroy st [wbya453, ygd159]

1890: 27Apr: TS convention in Chicago [HPB letter]

1890: 12Jun: TS ES examination by WQJ with comments by HPB [page images]

1890: 16Jun (Mon): Mathers marries Mina Bergson [ygd189] service by Rev Ayton [ygd101] never consummated!?? [gds116]

1890: 22yo DN Dunlop moves to Dublin, works as tea merchant [lfae249]

[quaint] DN Dunlop in later years [pic source]

1890: Jul: Florence Farr joins OGD [rff104] brought in by Horniman? or WBY?

1890: Jul: HPB moves in with Annie Besant [mbb100] HSO threatens to resign when HPB elected 'European President' of British TS [mbb100]

1890: 20Jul: HPB-expose in NY Sun attacks WQJ, JD Buck, et al and claims the Keightley brothers are heirs whom the TS group hopes to fleece [etext]

1890: 01Aug: AE starts at Pim's drapery store (Quaker, dry goods) for £40/year [lfae-xxxi] (he saves a lot for charities)

1890: Aug: HPB forms Inner Circle of 12 disciples: Countess Constance Wachtmeister, Mrs Isabel Cooper-Oakley, Miss Emily Kislingbury, Miss Laura Cooper, Mrs Annie Besant, Mrs Alice Cleather, Dr Archibald Keightley, Herbert Coryn, Claude Wright, GRS Mead, ET Sturdy, and Walter Old.

1890: Oct: HPB asks WBY to resign from TS ES after he criticises 'Lucifer' in the 'Weekly Review' because he won't promise not to criticise again [rff103]

1890: 09Dec: AE finally joins TS [rbd25]

1890-91: Martinist Supreme Council founded in Paris [cite]


1891

1891: FJ Gregg moves to USA [cl1y7]

1891: 01Jan: HPB sends New Year's card to Dublin Lodge [pix?] pic pic

1891: Jan: AE Waite joins OGD [ygd162]

April 1891: Mr and Mrs Frederick J Dick, tenants of 3 Upper Ely Place, Dublin, establish a small residential community of Theosophists with 23yo DN Dunlop, H Malcolm Magee, ?31yo Edmund J King, 24yo GW Russell [lfae-xxxii, 144]

1891: 26Apr: TS convention in Boston [HPB letter] ditto attended by Annie Besant who befriends WQJ [mbb101]

1891: Apr-Oct: San Francisco spiritualist magazine claims to identify 100 sources (mostly 19thC, ie secondary) for HPB's voluminous quoting of religious teachings in Isis Unveiled [dtm144]
1891: 27Apr: HPB replies that she never intended to claim anything else, and that the book is terribly careless

1891: 08May: death of HP Blavatsky [cite]

1891: Jul: WQJ, Olcott, and Besant in London [pic] ditto (succession flap, ditto)

1891: Jul: MaudG in Dublin, WBY with CJ in county Down, Maud dreams of brother-sister incarnation, WBY proposes on 03Aug [gyL19]

1891: Aug: while WQJ in London, US editor of 'Path' is 'Jasper Niemand' aka Mrs. Archibald Keightley aka Julia Campbell-VerPlanck

1891: Aug? WBY uses Household as Dublin refuge over next few years [rff114] writes "A Faery Song"

1891: 11Oct: MaudG arrives Dublin, mourning baby Georges, consoled by WBY, and by AE with talk of reincarnation [gyL20]

1891: 02Nov: MaudG joins Golden Dawn [gyL21]

1891: Dec: Annie Horniman first beneficiary of new rituals for OGD 'inner order' RR et AC [gds44]


1892

1892: 21Jan: Olcott retires as TS head from ill health (pressed by WQJ and Besant?), WQJ chosen successor but then Olcott un-retires [mbb103] [info]

1892: Mathers preoccupied with politics/military [gds130]

1892: May? AE's parents move to Monkstown [lfae-xxxii]

1892: May: Annie Horniman finances Mina Bergson Mathers return to Paris artschool (along with Mathers himself) [gds46] (Mathers starts using 'MacGregor' around this time?)

1892: Oct: WBY leaves 3 Ely for Sligo after unhappy stay? [rff125]

1892: Oct (to 1897): Dunlop edits Irish Theosophist [lfae250] INDEX! (also Robert E. Coates: cite)

1892: late Nov: WBY returns to 3 Ely [rff125]

1892: 25Nov: Douglas Hyde's famous pro-Gaelic speech [rff126]

1892: 17Dec: WBY answers Hyde in United Ireland affirming English [rff126]

1892: Dec (or Jan): Dunlop leaves to marry 25yo Eleanor FitzPatrick [lfae-xxxii, 249]


1893

1893: 20Jan: WBY and Florence Farr in London for OGD ceremony [rff127]
1893: 26Jan: WBY reads 'Countess Kathleen' to Nat'l Lit Soc [rff127]
1893: 27Jan: WBY and JF Taylor battle, along with O'Leary and Sigerson, at committee meeting, witnessed by Hyde [rff127]

1893: late Jan: WBY and Ellis's Blake edition published [rff129]

1893: Feb: WBY and MaudG quarrel in Dublin, Maud ill and Sigerson denies WBY access [rff127]

1893: Apr: MaudG lectures in Ireland [rff127]

1893: May: WBY returns to London after visit to Sligo [rff127]

1893: May: Charles A Weekes' poems Reflections and Refractions published and partially withdrawn [cl1y347] (KTynan derided it as 'Mr Weekes, His Squeaks') CAW fled to London for a year

1893: 11-17Sep: TS plays prominent role in Chicago World Parliament of Religions [dtm16] Besant involved with Chakravarti [mbb107]

1893: Oct: Maud visits sister in London (not yet Ely) [gyL51] (also visit to Dublin?)

1893: Nov: Irish Theosophist publishes Dunlop's interview with WBY about HPB [rff133]

1893: Nov: Besant in India switches allegiance from WQJ to HSO [mbb103]

1893: Dec: WBY's Celtic Twilight published [gyL23]


1894

1894: Notovitch's Unknown Life of Jesus Christ claims Jesus studied esoteric Buddhism in Tibet [mbb33]

1894: Magee leaves, Russell's new roommate is Arthur W Dwyer [lfae-xxxii]

1894: Jan: Besant's Indian lecture tour draws large crowds of Hindu nationalists [mbb105]

1894: Feb: WBY visits Mathers in Paris, takes hashish with Martinists [wbya264]

1894: 26Mar: AE's letter "To the Fellows of the Theosophical Society" [lfae-xli]

1894: no-date: AE in London for TS Convention 'glimpses WQJ's true greatness' [lfae14]

1894: Jun: AE's poems published by 27yo Charles Weekes under 'Whaley' imprint [lfae274]

1894: Jul: HSO to London from India [mbb103]

1894: Jul (to Apr 1897): AE's return address is usually father's house at 5 Seapoint Terrace, Monkstown [lfae10-18]

1894: Aug: Dunlop starts the Lamp in Canada [index]

1894: Aug: AE protests Edward Dowden's criticisms of his poetry [lfae10]

1894: 06Sep: AE calls WQJ "the wisest and sweetest of any I have ever met" [lfae14] (especially recommends 'Letters that have helped me')

1894: 03Nov: split between WQJ and Annie Besant [info]

1894: Dec: MaudG resigns Golden Dawn [gyL21]

1894: Olcott and Besant accuse WQJ of forging messages from Masters; charges dropped in July [Mead]

1894? Westminster Gazette expose on Theosophy 'Isis Very Much Unveiled' [mbb104]

[wbya195] house is split between AE's faction (free speech) and Dick's faction (only Theosophical). AE always surrounded by misfits he's helping out

1894: Katherine Tingley meets WQJ at soup kitchen in NYC [mbb109]

late 1894-1895: WQJ channels HPB praising Tingley? [spat]


1895

1895? TL Harris relocates to California after wife's death [mbb20]

1895: 6000 members of US TS split off after choosing WQJ (w/Tingley) over Olcott [mbb109]

no-date: HPB Press closed in London [lfae267]

1895: 04Jan: WQJ channels message from HPB [etext] followup

1895: Feb? James M Pryse and Violet North move to Dublin, maybe to Household [lfae-xxxii, rbd27 says together, with printing press, to Household]

[foetal] Pryse [pic source]

March
AE: The Legends of Ancient Eire (1)

[?earliest AE interest in Irish legends follows arrival of Pryse]

1895: no-date: AE joins Irish Literary Society [lfae-xxxii]

April
AE: The Legends of Ancient Eire (2)

1895: 13Apr-01May: WBY visits Douglas Hyde in west, sees Castle Rock and conceives Order of Celtic Mysteries [gyL63, anj99]

1895: Aug: WBY book review notes idea of holy island and 'Temple of Heroes' [rff1866]

1895: early Oct: WBY in London moves in with Symons [gyL52]

1895: Oct: WBY's Poems published [lfae16]

November
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (1) The Birds of Angus

1895: 01Nov: AE hopes to see Katharine Tynan again 'after so many years' [lfae16]

1895: Nov? AE recommends WBY stay away from Symons' low morals; "CJ is here, and is going to make a long stay" [lfae16]

1895: 15Nov: Maud asks WBY for Althea Gyles' address (in London?) [gyL56]

December
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (2) Cuchullain's Dream

1895: Alice Cleather switches allegiance from Besant to Tingley [mbb108]

1895: CWL and Jinarajadasa move in to Besant's London house [mbb119]


1896

1896? Besant buys winter-house in Benares [mbb107]

1896: Edward Maitland's bio of Anna Kingsford [ygd158]

January
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (3) The Slumber of Cuchullain & the Message of Angus

February
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (4) The Maidens of the Sidhe
AE & Aretas: The Enchantment of Cuchullain (5) The Mantle of Mannanan

1896: Mar: WT Horton begins long mail campaign to interest WBY in Thomas Lake Harris [rff163]

1896: 21Mar: death of WQ Judge [WGR's eulogy]

1896: 31Mar: Katherine Tingley channels WQJ [etext] she comes to be known as the Purple Mother [mbb110]

1896: Pryse moves back to USA after Judge's death [lfae-xxxii] [index] Violet North takes over printing [rbd28]

1896: Apr: DND goes to USA for a month, leaving AE as editor [lfae16]

May
'WL' (?Wm Lindsay): An Old Celtic Mystic (from The Division of Nature bk V 39 of Joannes Scotus Erigena)

1896: 02Jun: AE return address is Ely again, momentarily [lfae17]

1896: 02Jun: AE to WBY: "The gods have returned to Eri and have centred themselves in the sacred mountains... I believe profoundly that a new Avatar is about to appear..." [rff164; lfae17 says 'Erin'] invites WBY to tour the west in August, mention of WK Magee, "May the Opal Fire Kings have you in their keeping"

July
AE: The Dream of the Children (poem) ["my 1st definitely Irish poem": lfae18]

1896: Aug? AE in Sligo for a week [lfae18]

1896: 15Aug: MaudG's return address is 14 Ely [gyL61]

August
AE: The Chiefs of the Air (poem)

"The Chiefs of the Air" by AE

Their wise little heads with scorning
They laid the covers between:
"do they think we stay here till morning?"
Said Rory and Aileen.

When out their bright eyes came peeping
The room was no longer there,
And they fled from the dark world creeping
Up a twilight cave of air.

They wore each one a gay dress,
In sleep, if you understand,
When earth puts off its grey dress
To robe it in faeryland.

Then loud o'erhead was a humming
As clear as the wood wind rings;
And here were the air-boats coming
And here the airy kings.

The magic barks were gleaming
And swift as the feathered throng;
With wonder-lights out-streaming
They blew themselves along.

And up on the night-wind swimming,
With poise and dart and rise,
Away went the air fleet skimming
Through a haze of jewel skies.

One boat above them drifted
Apart from the flying bands,
And an air-chief bent and lifted
The children with mighty hands.

The children wondered greatly,
Three air-chiefs met them there,
They were tall and grave and stately
With bodies of purple air.

A pearl light with misty shimmer
Went dancing about them all,
As the dyes of the moonbow glimmer
On a trembling waterfall.

The trail of the fleet to the far lands
Was wavy along the night,
And on through the sapphire starlands
They followed the wake of light.

"Look down, Aileen," said Rory,
"The earth's as thin as a dream."
It was lit by a sun-fire glory
Outraying gleam on gleam.

They saw through the dream-world under
Its heart of rainbow flame
Where the starry people wander;
Like gods they went and came.

The children looked without talking
Till Rory spoke again,
"Are those our folk who are walking
Like little shadow men?

"They don't see what is about them,
They look like pigmies small,
The world would be full without them
And they think themselves so tall!"

The magic bark went fleeting
Like an eagle on and on;
Till over its prow came beating
The foam-light of the dawn.

The children's dream grew fainter,
Three air-chiefs still were there,
But the sun the shadow painter
Drew five on the misty air.

The dream-light whirled bewild'ring,
An air-chief said, "You know,
You are living now, my children,
Ten thousand years ago."

They looked at themselves in the old light,
And mourned the days of the new
Where naught is but darkness or cold light,
Till a bell came striking through.

"We must go," said the wise young sages:
It was five at dawn by the chimes,
And they ran through a thousand ages
From the old De Danaan times.

1896: Aug: MaudG at 14 Ely for a month with pregnant sister and ill niece [gyL61]

1896: Jul-Sep: WBY essays on Blake in 'Savoy' [gyL462]

1896? late summer: WBY returns from west "wrapt in a faery whirlwind, his mouth speaking great things. He talked much of reviving the Druidic mysteries." [sb-xxv]

no-date: WBY would seek help with Celtic Mysteries from: MaudG, George Pollexfen, AE, Wm Sharp/Fiona Macleod, Mathers, Horniman, Mary Briggs, the EA Hunters [ygd164]

September
AE: The Palaces of the Sidhe (poem)

"The Palaces of the Sidhe" by AE

Two small sweet lives together
From dawn till the dew falls down,
They danced over rock and heather
Away from the dusty town.

Dark eyes like stars set in pansies,
Blue eyes like a hero's bold--
Their thoughts were all pearl-light fancies,
Their hearts in the age of gold.

They crooned o'er many a fable
And longed for the bright-capped elves,
The faery folk who are able
To make us faery ourselves.

A hush on the children stealing
They stood there hand in hand,
For the elfin chimes were pealing
Aloud in the underland,

And over the grey rock sliding,
A fiery colour ran,
And out of its thickness gliding
The twinkling mist of a man--

To-day for the children had fled to
An ancient yesterday,
And the rill from its tunnelled bed too
Had turned another way.

Then down through an open hollow
The old man led with a smile;
"Come, star-hearts, my children, follow
To the elfin land awhile."

The bells above them were hanging,
Whenever the earth-breath blew
It made them go clanging, clanging,
The vasty mountain through.

But louder yet than the ringing
Came the chant of the elfin choir,
Till the mountain was mad with singing
And dense with the forms of fire.

The kings of the faery races
Sat high on the thrones of might,
And infinite years from their faces
Looked out through eyes of light.

And one in a diamond splendour
Shone brightest of all that hour,
More lofty and pure and tender,
They called him the Flower of Power.

The palace walls were glowing
Like stars together drawn,
And a fountain of air was flowing
The primrose colour of dawn.

"Ah, see!" said Aileen sighing,
With a bend of her saddened head
Where a mighty hero was lying,
He looked like one who was dead.

"He will wake," said their guide, "'tis but seeming,
And, oh, what his eyes shall see
I will know of only in dreaming
Till I lie there still as he."

They chanted the song of waking,
They breathed on him with fire,
Till the hero-spirit outbreaking,
Shot radiant above the choir,

Like a pillar of opal glory
Lit through with many a gem--
"Why, look at him now," said Rory,
"He has turned to a faery like them!"

The elfin kings ascending
Leaped up from the thrones of might,
And one with another blending
They vanished in air and light.

The rill to its bed came splashing
With rocks on the top of that:
The children awoke with a flashing
Of wonder, "What were we at?"

They groped through the reeds and clover--
"What funny old markings: look there,
They have scrawled the rocks all over:
It's just where the door was: how queer!"

no-date: c50yo Dr EW Berridge offends OGD (esp Horniman) with sexual libertinism based on Thomas Lake Harris

1896: Sep: Annie Horniman resigns/expelled from OGD after spat with Mathers about Berridge [gds47] ends £420/year support of the Mathers [ygd163]

1896: 29Oct: Mathers demands signed statement of complete submission from OGD initiates [ygd14]

1896: Nov: Joyce begins 'holy year' with confession of masturbation after hellfire retreat

1896: Dec: WBY to Paris

OGD has 300 members, less than 100 in inner order, 60 of these active (and troublesome) [gds45]


1897

Dec 1896 (or Jan 1897): community moves to 13 Eustace street (NE of Castle) [lfae-xxxii] maybe because Dick resigns? [wbya196]

1897: HPB had predicted 1897 as the end of materialism and the dawning of an age of spiritual growth [rff162]

1897: Mar? AE's "The Future of Ireland and the Awakening of the Fires" [lfae-xli] ends:

"Dear children of Eri, not alone to the past but to to-day belong such destinies. For if you will you may enter the enchanted land: The golden age is all about us, and heroic forms and imperishable love. In that mystic light rolled round our hills and valleys hang deeds and memories that yet live and inspire... A new cycle is dawning: the sweetness of the morning twilight is in the air. You can breathe it if you will but awaken from your slumber." [rbd91]

1897: Mar: MaudG and WBY are organising Centennial, MaudG getting slandered by Teeling [gyL64]

1897: 03Apr: AE to WBY: Pryse left legacy of melancholy when he went to USA; "I am not a Celt inside, not for many lives"; "I think I would break any woman's heart whoever happened to love me. She would find me as elusive as the spirit itself... I have I believe inwardly passed out of love and cannot write any true love poems." [lfae19] (WBY worries he's suicidal) (rbd28 says he was struggling against feelings for Violet)

April
AE: Priest or Hero (1)

1897: 05Apr: NY Herald lampoons competition between Besant and Tingley as 'Battle of the Fair Theosophists' [mbb110, 415]

1897: Apr: Pryse in California? [hint]

1897: Apr: WBY's The Secret Rose published (cover by Althea Gyles)

1897: Apr: Westcott resigns from OGD when his employers learn of his role there, giving Mathers a free hand [gds48, 52]

1897: May? MaudG at 14 Ely [gyL70] (WBY has given her 'dream drug', maybe mescaline)

May
AE: Priest or Hero (2)

1897: May? AE's "Ideals in Ireland: Priest or Hero?" [lfae-xli] attack on Catholic priesthood as outmoded an anti-heroic [rbd91]

"The choice here lies betwen Priest and Hero as ideal, and I say that whatever is not heroic is nor Irish, has not been nourished at the tue fountain wherefrom our race and isle derive their mystic fame." [rbd91]

1897: 22Jun: MaudG provokes Jubilee riot, one dead

1897: Jul: WBY to Martyn's, then Coole [gyL74]

1897: autumn: Dunlops join Tingley in USA [lfae249] (back to London 1899, regular summer visits to AE)

1897: Sep: AE's The Earth Breath published [lfae-xli]

Oct 1897: AE's 61yo mother dies [lfae-xxxii]

Nov 1897: AE leaves Pim's for Plunkett

1897-1898: HAC (in London) & AE publish The Internationalist

1897: 29Dec: WBY leads OGD group in exploration of Celtic symbols [ygd165]


1898

1898? Mathers 'translates' "Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage" [ygd166] [info]

1898: Mar: AE quits Theosophical Society, disapproving of Katherine Tingley [bio&pic]

[formidable] Tingley [info]

The International Theosophist, 1898-1904 Dublin, Alice L Cleather & Fred Dick

1898: Jun: AE ?leaves, marries

1898: Crowley's Aceldama [etext] and White Stains [etext]

1898: in Paris Mathers and Mina start public performances of specially prepared Rites of Isis [gds109]

1898: Sept: JAJ starts UC

1898: 18Nov: Aleister Crowley initiated into OGD [gds50] [info] [autobiog] [pix] [notebook]

1898: Tingley helps with medical relief in Cuba after war [mbb111]

1899: Apr: Tingley launches Point Loma community with elaborate 'congress' [mbb111]

1900: Annie Besant 'receives' letter from Koot Hoomi [etext]

1900: 16Jan: shunned by London OGD, Crowley initiated into inner order by Mathers in Paris [gds50]

1900: 16Feb: Mathers writes Farr that Westcott forged early OGD documents, precipitating crisis [gds51]

1900: 17Apr: Crowley tries to seize London OGD headquarters, rebuffed by WBY et al [gds55] [Crowley's version]

1900: 21 Apr: London OGD expels Mathers [gds56]

1900: 09May: AE observes that Mohini Chatterjee has become 'corpulent Brahmin lawyer' in Bombay [rff46]

1901: spring? JAJ discovers WBY's occult stories

1901: May: JAJ buys Sinnett's Theosophical Studies

1902: Aug: JAJ visits AE in Rathgar

1908: Mar: Gogarty moves in next door to Moore

1909-1913: Crowley edits 'The Equinox' including OGD rituals, a short story about WBY and Althea Gyles, and a long critique [qv?] of WBY's poetry [ygd183]

Keightleys die on Lusitania? [cite]


FJ Dick: geological speculation; megaliths; Lucifer index; on Blavatsky

Daniel Nicol Dunlop: [German bio- Amazon] Path index;, [ABE]

H Malcolm Magee

EJ King: [passim?]; harp??; pub?

Althea Gyles: member of Golden Dawn, designed covers for WBY's 'Secret Rose', 'Poems', 'Wind Among the Reeds' (1897-99).

James Morgan 'Jim' Pryse: [bio at lfae267] born 14Aug (14Nov?) 1859 in Ohio; lawyer and printer [cite]; joined TS in Los Angeles 1887; founded Aryan Press in NYC 1888; HPB's rings, [passim]


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