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Mr. '''T. B. Harbottle''' was an English [[Theosophist]] who was in [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky's]] inner circle in the late 1880s. | Mr. '''T. B. Harbottle''' was an English [[Theosophist]] who was in [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky's]] inner circle in the late 1880s, and active for many years afterward. | ||
== Personal life == | |||
== Theosophical Society involvement == | |||
Harbottle was admitted as a Theosophical Society member in London on January 7, 1885.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 3119 (website file: 1B/7).</ref> | |||
On October 8, 1888, Harbottle was appointed to a committee proposing rules for '''formation of a British Section''' of the [[Theosphical Society]], along with [[Archibald Keightley]], [[Henry Steel Olcott]], [[John Varley]], [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett]] | |||
== Blavatsky Lodge == | == Blavatsky Lodge == | ||
Revision as of 19:40, 23 September 2019
Mr. T. B. Harbottle was an English Theosophist who was in Madame Blavatsky's inner circle in the late 1880s, and active for many years afterward.
Personal life
Theosophical Society involvement
Harbottle was admitted as a Theosophical Society member in London on January 7, 1885.[1]
On October 8, 1888, Harbottle was appointed to a committee proposing rules for formation of a British Section of the Theosphical Society, along with Archibald Keightley, Henry Steel Olcott, John Varley, A. P. Sinnett
Blavatsky Lodge
He was present along with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and eight others when the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society was organized at her residence in London, on May 19, 1887.[2]
He was active in the lodge for several years. For example, on January 17, 1889 and at several other meetings, he took the chair at a lodge meeting at 17, Lansdowne Road when the group was studing slokas of the Stanzas of Dzyan.[3]
Receiving Mahatma Letter
Notes
- ↑ Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at http://tsmembers.org/. See book 1, entry 3119 (website file: 1B/7).
- ↑ Richard Groves letter to Boris de Zirkoff, quoting the Minute Book of the Blavatsky Lodge. March 6, 1956. Theosophical Society in England correspondence. Boris de Zirkoff Papers. Records Series 22. Theosophical Society in America Archives.
- ↑ Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society, January 17, 1889. (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1990), 17.