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       Esoteric Christianity or The Lesser Mysteries by Annie Besant
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: March 27, 2019, 4:46 pm
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       So in hand now:
       Esoteric Christianity
       or
       The Lesser Mysteries
       by Annie Besant
       The Theosophical Publishing House
       Adyar, Madras 20, India
       1957
       also a sticker lists Theosophical Press at Wheaton, Illinois.
       I know there is at least one newer edition, but the first
       edition was 1901.
       So I am curious to see how much Annie Besant really knew about
       such things.  What sources does she cite, besides scripture?
       Clement of Alexandria
       Iamblichus
       G. R. S. Mead, on Plotinus, and on Orpheus.
       Wynn Westcott, Sepher Yezirah ( co-founder of Golden Dawn, doing
       translation
       Bhagavad Gita
       Origen Against Celsus
       The Mysteries of Magic, Trans. by A. E. Waite  ( Eliphas Levi )
       Valentinus, Pistis Sophia
       Talks about Spinoza and Paracelsus
       Plato's Republic, bk7, the cave
       Justin Martyr
       Tertullian
       Okay, I am impressed.  Mostly Church Fathers, Neo-Platonists,
       and some 19th Century Occultists.  Had not know that Besant knew
       about such things, or necessarily that the Theosophical Society
       dealt with such.
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