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[[File:Trevor Barker.jpg|200px|left|thumb|A. Trevor Barker, from frontispiece of ''The Hill of Discernment'', 1941.]] | [[File:Trevor Barker.jpg|200px|left|thumb|A. Trevor Barker, from frontispiece of ''The Hill of Discernment'', 1941.]] | ||
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As [[Gottfried de Purucker]] wrote, "One of Trevor's last actions was arranging for the depositing of the MSS. the ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' in the British Museum, where these papers are now held in the Department of Select Manuscripts."<ref>"In Memoriam." ''The Hill of Discernment''. Point Loma, Calif.:Theosophical University Press, 1941.</ref> | As [[Gottfried de Purucker]] wrote, "One of Trevor's last actions was arranging for the depositing of the MSS. the ''The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' in the British Museum, where these papers are now held in the Department of Select Manuscripts."<ref>"In Memoriam." ''The Hill of Discernment''. Point Loma, Calif.:Theosophical University Press, 1941.</ref> | ||
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== Later years == | == Later years == | ||
Revision as of 16:29, 20 July 2012
Early years
Dr. Barker married Virginia _____, who was also a Theosophist. They had children. For many years, Barker was head of the English Section of the Theosophical Society."[1]
The Mahatma Letters
Grace Knoche wrote,
Just what prompted Trevor Barker to contact Maud Hoffman, executrix of the estate of the late A. P. Sinnett who had died in 1921, is not known. It is of record that the Mahatma as well as the Blavatsky letters had been bequeathed by Mr. Sinnett "solely and unconditionally" to Miss Hoffman, and that she in turn had allowed this young man the "great privilege of undertaking the whole responsibility" for their transcription and publication in book form.[2]
As Gottfried de Purucker wrote, "One of Trevor's last actions was arranging for the depositing of the MSS. the The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett in the British Museum, where these papers are now held in the Department of Select Manuscripts."[3]
Other writings
Later years
After Dr. Barker died in 1941, his writings were compiled into a book by Gottfried de Purucker:
With the death of A. Trevor Barker on July 17th of this year, the spontaneous wish was expressed by his many friends all over the world that his lectures and writings might be gathered together for publication in some permanent form. The present work, THE HILL OF DISCERNMENT, is an answer to this widespread desire. It contains in large part all the available addresses given in various parts of England, mainly to Theosophical groups and lodges, to European Conventions of the Theosophical Society, and to various 'fraternization' meetings with the Phoenix Lodge and otehr Lodges of the Adyar T. S. in England. [4]
Notes
- ↑ "In Memoriam." The Hill of Discernment. Point Loma, Calif.:Theosophical University Press, 1941.
- ↑ Grace Knoche, "Foreword to the Combined Chronology of Margaret Conger," [1]
- ↑ "In Memoriam." The Hill of Discernment. Point Loma, Calif.:Theosophical University Press, 1941.
- ↑ "Compilers' Preface." The Hill of Discernment. Point Loma, Calif.:Theosophical University Press, 1941.
Additional resources
These books are available online: