May 23

May 23 is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by May 22, and succeeded by May 24. Following May 23, there are 222 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve."

Events

• 1879 – Mme. Blavatsky starts to work on a "new book on Theosophy". Col. Olcott helps with the preliminary skeleton outline, the Preface, and proposes the title--The Secret Doctrine.

Births

• 1883 – James I. Wedgwood, Founder of Liberal Catholic Church (d. 1951).

Deaths

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Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia