Pekka Ervast

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Pekka Ervast

Pekka Ervast (1875-1934) was founder of Finnish Section of Theosophical Society based in Adyar. He was a writer, lecturer and linguist.

Personal life

Pekka Ervast was born on December 26, 1875, in Helsinki, Finland. His mother tongue was Swedish, and he belonged to the Lutheran Church like the vast majority of Finns did at the time. His father was a public officer; Ervast’s mother died when he was nine years old. Even as a child, he was very versatile in languages: for instance, he learnt to read French at the age of five or six, and at the age of twelve he began writing a comparative grammatical study of nine different languages.

He passed his matriculation exams in 1893 and started studying romance languages and Sanskrit at the University of Helsinki, which was known by a different name then. Beginning in childhood he had experiences of extrasensory perception.

He died on May 22, 1934 in Helsinki.

Theosophical Society involvement

In 1922, the Finnish Section reported that it "has bought Theosophical books for about 15,000 frnk. from O/Y Tietaja (a joint-stock-company, which was started by Mr. Pekka Ervast and now owned by some of his friends)..."

2nd edition of The Divine Seed

Writings in English

• From Death to Rebirth. Literary Society of the Finnish Rosy Cross, 2017. Compiled and edited by Jouni Marjanen, Antti Savinainen, and Jouko Sorvali. Foreword by Richard Smoley. This is also available as an audio book.
• The Divine Seed: The Esoteric Teachings of Jesus. Second edition published by Quest Books, 2010. Reviewed in TheoSophia (NZ) 72.4 (Summer, 2011), 29.
• The Key to the Kalevala. 1916. The English version was first published in 1999 by Blue Dolphin Publishing and the e-book version in 2018 by Literary Society of the Finnish Rosy Cross.
• The Mission of the Theosophical Society. 1921.
• Astral Schools. 1929. The English e-book version was published in 2008 by the PekkaErvast.net website.
• The Sermon on the Mount. 1933.
• H. P. B.: The Sphinx of the XIXth Century. 1933.
• Spiritual Knowledge. Pekka Ervast Series Book 1. Helsinki: Aatma, 2018. Print and Kindle editions are available.
• The Inner God and Happiness. Pekka Ervast Series Book 2. Helsinki: Aatma, 2018. Print and Kindle editions are available.

Additional resources

• Ervast, Pekka. "Reports of the TS in Finland" The Theosophist v39 (July, 1918), 392.
• General Reports of the Theosophical Society provide reports written by Pekka Ervast during the years that he was leader of the Finnish Section of the TS Adyar.
• PekkaErvast.net. Website in Finnish.