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[[File:HPB and family.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Charles Johnston between wife Vera and H. S. Olcott, with H. P. Blavatsky and her sister Vera in front. Image from TSA Archives.]]
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'''Charles Johnston''', a Sanskrit scholar and translator of several Hindu classics, was a founder of the Dublin Lodge of the [[Theosophical Society]] of which [[William Butler Yeats]] and A.E. or Æ, as [[George William Russell]] was known, were also members. His wife [[Vera Jelihovsky|Vera]] was a niece of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Charles and Vera were members of the [[Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove)|Theosophical Society]] headed by [[Ernest Temple Hargrove]] in New York.
'''Charles Johnston''', a Sanskrit scholar and translator of several Hindu classics, was a founder of the Dublin Lodge of the [[Theosophical Society]] of which [[William Butler Yeats]] and A.E. or Æ, as [[George William Russell]] was known, were also members. His wife [[Vera Jelihovsky|Vera]] was a niece of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Charles and Vera were members of the [[Theosophical Society in America (Hargrove)|Theosophical Society]] headed by [[Ernest Temple Hargrove]] in New York.
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== Early life ==
== Early life ==

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Charles Johnston between wife Vera and H. S. Olcott, with H. P. Blavatsky and her sister Vera in front. Image from TSA Archives.

Charles Johnston, a Sanskrit scholar and translator of several Hindu classics, was a founder of the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society of which William Butler Yeats and A.E. or Æ, as George William Russell was known, were also members. His wife Vera was a niece of H. P. Blavatsky. Charles and Vera were members of the Theosophical Society headed by Ernest Temple Hargrove in New York.

Early life

Teaching

Theosophy September 1897. Image from Boris de Zirkoff Papers, TSA Archives.

Charles Johnston advertised a Sanskrit course on the inside back cover of Theosophy magazine in September 1897. It mentions classes formed in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Oregon, California, and Canada.[1]

Writings

Mr. Johnston translated The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom by Śankarâchârya.[2]

Notes

  1. "Sanskrit Revival" advertisement in Theosophy 12.6 (September 1897).
  2. Sankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudmani), translated by Charles Johnston, available at Theosophical University Press Online Edition [1]