Albert Rawson
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Albert Leighton Rawson (1829-1902) was an illustrator and engraver who collaborated with Charles Sotheran around the time of the founding of the Theosophical Society in New York. He is supposed to have accompanied Helena Petrovna Blavatsky during her early travels in the Middle East.
Rawson was an Orientalist and was influenced by Arab culture. He was initiated into a "Brotherhood of Lebanon" and co-founded the "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine." He and Sotheran were supporters of the Free Thought movement.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Joscelyn Godwin, "Blavatsky and the First Generation of Theosophy" Handbook of the Theosophical Current (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 19.
See also
- Johnson, K. Paul. The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
- "History of the Adepts"
- Nance, Susan. How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935.
- D. M. Bennett
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Western Esoteric Traditions and Theosophy" Handbook of the Theosophical Current (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 269-271, 279-280.