Alice L. Cleather
Alice L. Cleather was a pupil of H. P. Blavatsky beginning in 1887. She was a member of her Esoteric Section and later the Inner Group. Follwing HPB's death, she became disillusioned with the new leadership of the Theosophical Society, and pulled away from the movement. She is best known for her writings and as the founder of the H. P. B. Library in 1917.
Alice Cleather regarded William Quan Judge as having been under the hypnotic and psychic influence of Katherine Tingley, and her ideas on this subject have been compiled in an article published by the Blavatsky Archives:
On Mr. Judge's death in 1896, I was among those English members cabled for to attend the convention of New York when Mrs. Tingley was introduced to the E.S.T. Council as Mr. Judge's successor. She then asked me to accompany her on the tour round the world which passed through India in the winter of that year. Subsequently, in 1899, I and many others left Mrs. Tingley's Society on discovering that she was departing as far from H.P.B.'s original teachings as, on her side, Mrs. Besant was. To neither of these organisations was I, therefore, able to belong. Neither of their leaders inspired me with any confidence, as both were introducing ideas completely foreign to those promulgated by H.P.B. while professing to carrying on her work. [1]
Writings
Major writings include:
- H.P. Blavatsky: Her Life and Work for Humanity, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1922.
- H.P. Blavatsky As I Knew Her, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1923.