Aryan Theosophical Press

The Aryan Theosophical Press was established by the William Quan Judge and the Aryan Theosophical Society in New York City, probably in the late 1880s, to serve the American Section of the Theosophical Society.

History

James Morgan Pryse and John Morgan Pryse, brothers originally from Cincinnati, were recruited by Judge to operate the press. They had experience operating newspapers and printing plants in Nebraska, Montana, Wisconsin, and California.

According to James Pryse, the Press was initially established to print the Esoteric Instructions of H. P. Blavatsky:

My brother John and I, returning from a trip to South America, landed in New York City, We found Mr. Judge perplexed by a difficult problem: H.P.B. had directed him to send her Instructions to all the American members of the E.S., but had sent him only one copy, and he had no facilities for making the many copies needed. We solved that problem for him by establishing the Aryan Press [6] and printing the Instructions in book-form. Then, in response to a cable from H.P.B. I went to London to do the same work there, and started the H.P.B. Press....

After Katherine Tingley became head of the newly renamed Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, the publishing operations were moved to the Point Loma community in 1900, "locating it downtown because Point Loma was not yet supplied with electricity."

In 1906, the power lack on the Hill having been partially met, she [Tingley] built her large Theosophical Publishing House in a Loma canyon overlooking the Pacific Ocean. An improved linotype was installed, a bindery was added, and within a few years' time a photo and engraving department, adjacent to the press, was making all the blocks, cuts, and plates for theosophical publications.

Publications

In its early years, the press printed purely Theosophical books and periodicals. After the move to Point Loma, many other forms of literature were published, including children's books, fiction, and scholarly studies of many disciplines. A series called Theosophical Manuals was published in English and several other languages. They were not all the product of a single pen, but written by a number of different students at the international headquarters of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.

Foreign language works

• Blavatsky, H. P. La Clef de la théosophie, exposition claire sous forme de questions et de réponses de e'éthique, de la science et de la philosophie ... avec in glossaire de terms theosophiques ... 1921.
• Blavatsky, H. P.; Judge, W. Q.; Tingley, Katherine A. Le message de la théosophie; recueil de pensées secourables appropriées à l'heure actuelle. 1922. 106 pages.
• Bricaud, Joanny; Tingley, Katherine. La lumière astrale.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. Karma. 1920. 74 pages.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. Les maîtres et leur disciples. 1917.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. Les sept principes de l'homme. 1919. 65 pages.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. L'homme après la mort. 1920. 95 pages.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. Réincarnation. 1920. 79 pages.
• Étudiant, Un.; Tingley, Katherine. Théosophie élémentaire. 1919. 69 pages.
• Fussell, Joseph H. Incidentes en la historia del movimento teosofico, fundada en Nueva York en 1875 por H.P. Blavatsky. 1900, 1910.
• Judge, William Quan. Ecos del Oriente: esquicio general de las doctrinas teosóficas. 1907. 78 pages.
• Judge, William Quan. Epítome de las enseñanzas teosóficas. 1910s. 40 pages.
• Un Estudiante. Manuales teosóficos. 1910-1918. At least seven volumes in this series.
• Un Estudiante. La teosofía explicada. 1912. 16 pages.
• Tingley, Katherine A. La teosofía y sus falsificaciones. 1917. 10 pages.
• Tingley, Katherine A. La vida en Point Loma, el centro de la Fraternidad universal y sociedad teosófica. 1902, 1912. 24 pages.
• Tingley, Katherine A. Manuels théosophiques. 1921.
• Tingley, Katherine A. Sendero teosófico. 1911-??. Periodical.
• Whiting, Lilian; Tingley, Katherine A. Mme Katherine Tingley et son système d'éducation Râja-Yoga. 1921. 23 pages.