INDEX

Alcyone (see Krishnamurti) A. M. O. R. C. 34 n14 Anthroposophical Society 191, 194–207, 256 n22 Antoine, 'Father' 251–253 Antoinism 251–252, 265 Arnould, Arthur 66, 69–70, 168 Arundale, George S. 50, 187–189, 209–210, 277, 281 Arya Samaj 22–23, 25–26, 40, 186, 277 n11

Babula 52, 65 Bacon, Francis 97 n1, 130, 233 Bailey, Alice A.: _Les trois prochaines années_ 303–304 Barbarin, Georges: _Le Secret de la Grande Pyramide ou la Fin du Monde adamique_ 306–308 Barlet, F.-Ch. 18 n15, 55 Barrau, Madame de 64–65 Bavaji, Dhabagiri Nath 53, 61–62, 70 Bergson(ian) 29–30, 156, 163, 171, 235 n1 Bergsonism 29, 117 Besant, Annie 2, 4, 7, 29, 40, 49–50, 72, 76, 79, 85, 101–102, 119–128, 134, 138–150, 152–153, 156, 158, 163, 167, 170, 175, 177, 179, 181–196, 198, 200, 204 207, 209, 212–213, 220–224, 226, 229–

230, 235, 238–240, 242–243, 248, 256 n23, 260, 263, 271 n5&6, 276–283, 285, 287, 291 attacks against in India 276–277, 280–283 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna 1–90, 92, 95, 106–109, 112–115, 119, 121–129, 133, 135–137, 141–149, 154, 158, 160–161, 163, 165–168, 170–171, 173–186, 191–195, 200–201, 208 n1, 230, 237–238, 244–245, 259, 263, 273, 275 n17, 277 n11, 279, 287, 289, 303, 324 Bo-Yin-Rā 131 n18 Boehme, Jacob 2, 82, 163–164, 289 n37 Bradlaugh, Charles 138–140 Brahma Samāj 22–23, 148, 275 Bricaud, Johnny 217 Brunton, Paul: _A Search in Secret Egypt_, 305–306 Buck, Dr J.D. 154, 193 Bulletin des Polaires 322 Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward 288–290 Burrows, Herbert 72, 76, 141, 143, 149

Cagliostro 30, 289 Cannon, Dr Alexander: _Invisible Influence: A Story of the Mystic Orient_ 301–303 Carbonari(st) 6, 8, 298 Central Hindu College 50, 187, 240, 277-278 Chakravarti, Gyanendra Nath 152-153, 192 n26 Chatterjee, Mohini Mohun 52-53 Chevrier, Georges 29 n17, 192 n26, 230, 292-293 Collins, Mabel 40, 73 n1, 77 n7 Co-Masonry 226, 240-242, 261, 278, 280, 299 Cowes (Coues), Dr Elliott E. 76-78, 84 Coué, Emile 250n12, 315 Coulomb(s) 9, 52-53, 55-56, 58, 195 n3 Courmes, Commander D. A. 145, 167, 287 Crowley, Aleister 319, 325 Csoma de Körös, Alexander (Skander Beg) 86 David-Neel, Alexandra 154 n5 Dayānanda Saraswatī, Swami 22-24, 84 De Païni, L.: _Le Mysticisme intégral_ 300-301 Deunov, Peter: _Le Maître parle_ 305 Dharmapāla, 'Anagarika' H. 152-153 Djwal Khül 'D. K.' 41-42 Dzyan, Stanzas of 85 Eddy family 12 Eglinton 118 Emmerich, Anne Catherine 48 Evola, Julius 312, 314: _Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion_ (Ed.) 312-314 Felt, George F. 15-16, 19-21, 84 Flamel, Nicholas 28 n5, 47, 317 Fox sisters 115 Freemasonry 19, 30-31, 132, 175, 209 n2, 214, 235-243 Gaboriau, F.-K. 68 n2, 74-75, 136 n11 Gandhi, Mahatma 192 n26, 282 n22 Garibaldi(ans) 8, 82 n2, 237 Geymuller, Henry de: _Swedenborg et les phénomènes psychiques_ 301 Goetheanum 205-206 Golden Dawn 26-28, 32, 34 n14 Gopalacharlu, S. E. 145 'Great White Lodge' 25, 38, 47, 67, 126, 129-131, 175, 180, 185, 288, 290, 302-303, 305 Hartmann, Dr Franz 31-33, 38, 53, 56-57, 61, 69, 147, 158, 194, 204, 237 H. B. of L. (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) 15-19, 23, 25, 28, 30-31, 84, 88, 105-106, 121, 184 n10, 288-289 Hodgson, Dr Richard 39, 54-57, 65, 274 Home, Dunglas 6 n13, 14, 16, 35 Hübbe-Schleiden, Dr 191 Hume, Allen O. 39, 52, 56, 80 'Irvingite' sect 271 n6 _Isis Unveiled_ 9 n14, 19, 22, 74, 77-78, 83-84, 86-89, 237 Jacolliot, Louis 83, 173, 175 James, William 29, 117 Jansen(ism/ist) 217-218 Jayatilaka, D. B. 157 n12 Jesuit(s) 191 n26, 194-196, 205, 293 n5 Jinarājadāsa, M. C. 96, 189, 225-226, 229 Jounet, Albert 156, 220 Judaism 125, 170, 307, 316, 321 Judge, William Q. 13, 15 n7, 19, 68, 76, 78, 122-123, 142-147, 149, 152-153, 224, 281 n19 Kardec, Allan 8, 89, 106 Keightley, Archibald & Bertram 73-74, 143, 147 Kerneïtz, C.: _Le Yoga de l'Occident_ 315-317 Keshab Chandra Sen 275 Kiddle, Prof. Henry—affair 40, 51-52, 55, 80, 160 King, John 11-16, 21, 24, 65, 119 Kingsford, Dr Anna 159-163, 165-166, 265, 285-287 Kipling, Rudyard 152, 283 Koot Hoomi Lal Singh 'K. H.' 29, 37, 39-44, 51-52, 63, 75, 80, 92, 118-119, 178, 180, 182 Krishnamurti, J. 182-194, 208-211, 214 n15, 232, 271-272, 279 n16, 284, 299-300 Krishnavarma 281 Lacroix-à-L'Henri, René: _Théories et procédés radiesthé-siques_, 309 Leadbeater, Charles Webster 16, 29, 38, 41, 59, 78-80, 85, 87, 95, 99, 116, 118-119, 125, 128, 134, 150 n13, 170, 176, 178, 181-190, 193-195, 210, 219, 221-232, 247, 250-251, 260, 271 n5 accused of immorality 186-188, 223, 225-226 Le Cour, Paul 323 _L'Ere du Verseau: L'Avènement de Ganimède_ 309-310 Lennhoff, Eugen: _Histoire des Sociétés politiques secrètes au XIXe et au XXe siècle_ 298-300 Leo, Alan 215 Lévi, Éliphas 20, 28 n5, 73, 77, 82, 286-290 _The Key of the Mysteries_ 317 Liberal Catholic Church 51 n1, 191-192, 195, 219-220, 222, 225-229, 232-234, 254, 299 Lubicz-Milosz, Oscar Vladislas de 254 n20, 256 MacDonald, Ramsay 282 n22 Madras trial 187-190 Mahā-Bodhi Samaj 18 n15, 153 Maistre, Joseph de 30 n10 Maitland, Edward 159-160, 285-287 Maitreya, Lord 177-179, 182, 210, 232 Malthus(ian) 138-139, 231 Manziarly, Madame de 150 n13, 189 n23, 212 n8, 214 n15 Mariani, Dr Gaetan 324-326 Martin, Georges & Maria 239-242 Martines de Pasqually 289 Martyn, T. H. 223, 225-226 Mason(s) 8, 27, 31 n10, 118, 154, 206, 235-236, 266, 289, 313 Masonry 13, 30 n10, 32, 34, 45, 47, 60, 94 n8, 130 n15, 132, 151, 154, 195, 203, 213, 235-243, 247, 257 n25, 261-263, 265-266, 268 n2, 275-276, 278, 317 Mathers, Count MacGregor 27-29, 33, 48, 159 Mathieu (Mathew), Msgr Arnold Henri 216-219, 222 Mavalankar, Damodar K. 39, 52-53, 56, 80 Mazzini 6, 237 Mead, G. R. S. 119, 141, 143, 159, 175 [^n5], 181 [^n24], 213 Metamon, Paulos 6, 9, 17 [^n15], 22 [^n8], 289 [^n39] Michal, Victor 8, 13 'miracles club(s)' 9, 14, 39, 52, 116 Morgan, General 55, 57 Morsier, Madame Emilie de 61, 65, 69, 166 Morya 'M.' 6, 16, 40-42, 44, 51 [^n1], 54, 72, 147 [^n7], 180, 185 Moses, William Stainton 11-13, 25-26, 30-31, 36-37, 40-41, 82, 113, 119 Mukhopadyaya, S. C. 276

Nair, Dr J. M. 186 Nanjunda Rao, Dr M. C. 185 Narayaniah, G. (Narayan Iyer) 187, 190 National Hindu Congress 279-280, 282 [^n22] necromancy 115 Newton, Henry J. 20 Nityananda 182, 187, 211, 279 [^n16]

Olcott, Henry Steele 1 [^n1], 5-6, 12-31, 36, 41, 43-45, 52-57, 63, 68, 70-83, 94-95, 119 [^n14], 139, 143-147, 149-150, 160, 166-168, 171, 184, 191, 238 Old-Catholic Church 216-234, 244 Order of the Star of the East 208-215 Ossendowski, Ferdinand 310 Oxon, M. A. see Stainton Moses

Palmes, Baron de 36, 77 [^n9], 84 Papus 32 [^n13], 66, 78, 139, 166, 168, 217, 238, 264 Parliament of Religions 151-157 Pasqually, Martinès de 289 [^n37] Pike, Gen. Albert 20 Pomar, Duchess of 32, 73 [^n1], 151, 159-160, 163-171, 288 [^n34] Pozner, Vladimir: _Bloody Baron: The Story of Ungern-Sternberg_ 310-312 radiesthesia 309 Rakoczi, Count 'R.' 48 [^n40], 130 [^n15], 180 [^n20], 233, 236 [^n2] reincarnation (ist) 8, 19, 41, 43, 79-80, 87-89, 95, 104-108, 114-115, 134, 150 [^n13], 162, 176, 180-182, 234, 252, 254 [^n18], 256 [^n23], 260, 293-294, 301, 316 Reuss, Theodor 33, 237 Revel, Gaston 183, 255 Revel, Louis 192 [^n26] Richet, Dr Charles 64-65 Rosenkreutz, Christian 130, 180-181 Rosicrucianism 25-34, 47-48, 130 [^n15], 158, 199-203, 214, 236 Saint-Germain, Count of 46, 48, 180-181, 289 Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de 2, 45 [^n33], 289 Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A. 255-256 Schuré, Edouard 157-159, 204, 206 Secret Doctrine, The 57, 73-75, 77, 79, 83, 85-87, 97, 99, 109, 141, 192, 201, 303-304 Sinclair, Upton: _What God Means to Me_ 314-315 Sinnett, A. P. 7, 13, 36-37, 39-41, 51-52, 56, 58, 77-80 [^n2], 92-93, 99, 107, 116, 118, 126, 141, 147, 149, 176, 179, 181, 228, 274 Societas Rosicruciana 143, 236, 287, 289-290 Society for Psychic(al) Research 13, 31, 51-60, 62-63, 65, 148 Solovioff 11 [^n2], 14, 44, 47, 53-54, 61-67, 69, 165-166 Spedalieri, Baron 286-287 Stead, W. T. 71, 141, 149, 277 Steiner, Rudolf 33, 190-191, 194-207, 213-214, 256 [^n22] _The Gospel of Saint John_ 303 _Egyptian Myths and Mysteries_ 304 _L'Apparition des Sciences naturelles_ 304-305 _Lectures on the Gospel of Saint Luke_ 308 Subba Row, T. 52-53, 57, 74-75, 80, 83, 93 Subrahmanya Iyer, Sir S. 181 [^n24] Sumangala, Rev. H. 18 [^n15], 94-95, 153 Swedenborg 2, 46, 86 [^n12], 163-164, 238, 289, 301 Taxil, Léo 43-44, 46 [^n36] Taxil affair 318 Théon, Max 17 [^n15] Theosophical Society: formation of 20 headquarters in Adyar 36 Theosophy: incompatible with Catholic faith 296-297 Thompson, Mrs 26 Tilak, Bal Gangadhara 281 Tingley, Catherine 146, 281 [^n19] Ungern-Sternberg 310-312 Van Hook, Dr Weller 224, 230-231 Vaughan, Diana 46 [^n36], 318, 320 Vaughan, Thomas 46 [^n35], 196, 320 vegetarianism 71, 87, 162, 261, 263-265 Vitte, P. 155-156 Vivekananda, Swami 151, 172, 327 Wachtmeister, Countess 7, 12 [^n3], 21, 33, 49, 57-59, 73, 143, 145, 264 [^n12] Wadia, W. P. 191-192 Waldorf school 206 [^n30] Wedgwood, James Ingall 48 [^n40], 50, 130 [^n15], 219-221, 225-229, 240, 282 Westbrook, Judge R. B. 20 Westcott, W. Wynn 27 [^n2], 143, 287 Wilson, President 256-257 Winnaert, Bishop 228-229 Wren, Christopher 30 Yarker, John 236-238, 242 René Guénon (1886-1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of intellectual fashion. His extensive writings, now finally available in English, are a providential treasure-trove for the modern seeker: while pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, they direct the reader also to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization.

Many readers of Guénon's later doctrinal works have longed to hear the tale of his earlier entanglement, and disentanglement, from the luxuriant undergrowth of so-called esoteric societies in late nineteenth-century Paris and elsewhere. The present work documents in excoriating detail Guénon's findings on what did, and did not, lie behind the Theosophical Society founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in 1875. Much further information has of course come to light since this book was written, but it has never been superseded as a fascinating record of the path of a master metaphysician through this maze. A particularly unusual feature is its extensive treatment of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, which has recently attracted the attention of scholars of the occult.

_The Collected Works of René Guénon brings together the writings of one of the greatest prophets of our time, whose voice is even more important today than when he was alive._

Huston Smith, _The World's Religions_

_If during the last century or so there has been even some slight revival of awareness in the Western world of what is meant by metaphysics and metaphysical tradition, the credit for it must go above all to Guénon. At a time when the confusion into which modern Western thought had fallen was such that it threatened to obliterate the few remaining traces of genuine spiritual knowledge from the minds and hearts of his contemporaries, Guénon, virtually single-handed, took it upon himself to reaffirm the values and principles which, he recognized, constitute the only sound basis for the living of a human life with dignity and purpose or for the formation of a civilization worthy of the name._

Philip Sherrard, _Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition_

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