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Excerpt from Katherine Tingley on Marriage and the Home: An Interview With the Theosophical Leader It was the lovely climate of Southern California, and particularly of San Diego, that attracted me to the Golden State and the Silver Gate city to escape the rigors of an eastern winter. I knew nothing about Theosophy, and all I knew about Madame Katherine Tingley was derived from reading a sensational article about the Theosophical Leader and its subsequent retraction made some few years ago in a large eastern paper. I could not help but admire the spirit of justice, not merely to herself and in defence of her own reputation, but to the Society of which she is the head, and in defence of its p...
In considering a group that identified with Victorian American culture and its anxieties while adhering to an occult worldview that most of their contemporaries found strange, if not dangerous, the book explains why these middle-class Americans found Theosophy so persuasive and why they left family and friends behind to take up residence at this California settlement."--BOOK JACKET.
This title represents pioneering research into an important but under-researched current. The three sections in the book are devoted to the Theosophical Society, Theosophically influenced religious currents, and the interaction between Theosophy and surrounding culture.