Besant, Annie

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater. Occult chemistry. 1st ed ed. 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry investigations by clairvoyant magnification into the structure of the atoms of the periodic table and of some compounds edited by C. Jinarajadasa, assisted by Elizabeth W. 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements Revised ed., edited by A. P. Sinnett. Edited by Alfred Percy Sinnett. London Theosophical Publishing House, 1919. iv, p., 1 1., 109, x p. 

Besant, Annie Wood. In the outer court. Madras Theosophical Publishing House, 1895. 164p. 

Besant, Annie, and Charles W. Leadbeater. 1908. Occult Chemistry A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements. London Theosophical Publishing Society. 

Besant, Annie, and G.R.S. Mead. 1898. Science on the Borderland. Theosophical Review XXIL130 (June 1898) 294. 

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But no account of occultism s engagement with modem atomic science could be even adequate without addressing the occult chemistry of one of the most successful occult institutions of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the Theosophical Society. It is to Annie Besant and C. W. Lead-beater s efforts to ground Theosophical knowledge in a scientific research program that we must now turn. 

The modernist pursuit of such Unity was often called Spiritual Alchemy. This term was usefully defined in 1895 by the English Theosophical writer Annie Besant as ... 

Mabel Collins had been co-editor with H.P.B. of Lucifer, a heavily-subsidised Theosophical periodical, but was thrown out in May 1888 after a row with Madame Blavatsky because of her behaviour with two young men . She became Mrs Keningdale Cook after her departure and sued H.P.B. for libel in 1890, although the suit was dropped just before it was to be heard in court. See A. H. Nethercott, The First Five Lives of Annie Besant (1961), p. 330. Mabel Collins was the author of Light on the Path (1885), which was widely read in Theosophical circles. There were many reprints, including a Russian translation (Geneva, 1925). 

I should be very doubtful about Mrs B. but will suspend judgment till I see her, Ayton wrote on 25 July 1889. Mrs B. was none other than Annie Besant (1847-1933), the Theosophical Society s latest and almost unbelievably spectacular recruit. Arthur H. Nethercott described her road to the T.S. in the first chapter of his masterly The First Five Lives of Annie Besant (1961) ... 

It is hardly surprising that Ayton knew little about Burrows or, indeed, that he informed Gardner that Annie Besant s manner to him was most ungracious and forbidding . For many years past she had had minimal respect for Church of England clerics and was no doubt astonished to encounter one in Theosophical circles. 

I have only just seen in Lucifer p.299 that one Herbert Burrows and A.B. [i.e., Annie Besant] went for the first time 2 years ago to see H.P.B. with a letter from W. T. Stead, Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. I daresay you recollect he was the hero in the Eliza Armstrong [i.e., Jones] case. As I understand it, the P.M.G. was on its last legs, and Stead in order to advertise it, and reinstate it in the good graces of the Public and increase its... 

The Freethinker, founded in 1881 by G. W. Foote, was a small ribald weekly which featured articles with titles such as Cracked for Christ and On the Advantages of Going to Hell . Ayton had no doubt read an article attacking (or mocking) Annie Besant s very recent conversion to the Theosophical cause. 

Isabelle de Steiger (1836-1927) was acquainted with many of the leading personalities in contemporary esoteric circles. Apart from Mrs Atwood she was particularly close to Dr Anna Bonus Kingsford (who requires a biographical study). Her relationship with Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant was less cordial. Towards the end of her long life she was an enthusiastic admirer of Rudolf Steiner. See her rambling posthumous Memorabilia (1927), to which A. E. Waite contributed a preface. 

When H. P. Blavatsky s The Secret Doctrine was published in March 1889 Stead gave it to Annie Besant to review. He knew about her recent interest in Spiritualism and potentially occultism, although at this time she cannot have known much about the latter. Stead had met Madame Blavatsky but did not know her well. Fascinated by H.P.B. s vast compendium of occult lore, Mrs Besant asked Stead for an introduction to her. When she first visited 17 Lansdowne Road in March 1889 she was accompanied by her younger friend Herbert Burrows. During the previous decade he had been prominent in a wide spectrum of radical groups (e.g., H. M. Hyndeman s pronouncedly Marxist Democratic Federation and the Fabian Society) and had recently helped Annie Besant to form a trade union for the underpaid girls who made matches. Both joined the Theosophical Society in May 1889. 

G. D. was nominally a secret society Ayton had long since disclosed that it existed (see the undated letter printed here as No. 14, p. 40). My hypothesis that Gardner had never been in any great hurry to join the G.D. is based upon the assumption that during H. P. Blavatsky s lifetime he had been satisfied with his membership of the Theosophical Society. It is clear, however, that after H.P.B. s death he had little sympathy for the new dispensation under Annie Besant s leadership. Furthermore, he had recently resigned from the office of secretary of the Chiswick Lodge of the T.S. and now had time to devote to the G.D. 

In 1894 Gardner was already acquainted with Dr W. W. Westcott, a co-founder of the G.D., and with Percy Bullock, one of its most active members. Together with Gardner and John M. Watkins, who had recently established himself as a bookseller, they founded the Theosophical Society s Ananda Lodge in November 1893. It was disbanded in November 1895, probably because they all disliked Annie Besant. Hence it was Westcott and Bullock rather than Ayton who brought Gardner into the G.D. 

The 1930s were a period when spiritualism and all manners of occult sects thrived. Trew became involved with the Theosophical Society and the occult chemistry of Annie Besant.20 Besant and her group believed that in a semitrance, it was possible to make oneself infinitesimally small and visit atoms on a voyage of discovery. In fact, she and her group reported the shapes of each atom as they saw them. As Jamison commented ... 

Dr. Trew had another interest which proved pastorally helpful later. She was an early member of the Theosophical Society (she even inherited Annie Besant s typewriter). When cults began to capture the minds of innocent students who were diverted from their work, Miss Trew was able to produce a useful folder of relevant information.6... 

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Actually, the more interesting co-author is Mrs. Annie Besant (1847-1933), who Emsley describes as a fiery social reformer with socialist tendencies and boundless energy. Mrs. Besant, originally married to a vicar but eventually separated, secretly published a pamphlet questioning the divinity of Jesus Christ... 

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Mumbai, India). Orthophosphoric acid and acetonitrile (HPLC grade) were obtained from Qualigens Fine Chemicals (Dr. Annie Besant Road, Mumbai, India). The 0.45 p.m nylon fdter was obtained from Advanced Microdevices Pvt., Ltd. (Ambala Cantt, India) and Whatman filter paper 41 was obtained from Whatman International Ltd. (Maidstone, England, UK). The tablets containing a combination of metformin and glibenclamide were purchased from the Indian market. Double-distilled water was used throughout the experiments. Other chemicals were of analytical or HPLC grade. 

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