Theosophical Review

The combination of the ether and the newly discovered radioactivity seemed to virtually every Theosophist writing on chemistry and physics a confirmation of all of the occult sciences espoused by Theosophy. As one Theosophist, Fio Hara, put it in an article on The Advance of Science Towards Occult Teachings in the February 1906 Theosophical Review,... 

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

Hara, Fio. 1906. The Advance of Science Towards Occult Teachings. Theosophical Review 37 222 (February 1906) 548-54. 

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. 

Yarker The Arcane Schools A Review of their origin and Antiquity with a General History of Freemasonry and its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific and Philosophic Mysteries 2nd Ed, NY [1878], Kessinger, Montana, 1998... 

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