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* Sacred geometry
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Revision as of 14:35, 16 July 2020

Project is a list of ideas for improving Theosophy Wiki by adding or expanding articles. Suggestions are in no particular order.

To find work in progress, search for the word "CONSTRUCTION" or the Category:Articles need expansion or Category:Wanted pages.

Movements, philosophies

  • Spiritualism
  • New Thought
  • Free Thought
  • Neo-Platonism - review/rewrite
  • Anthroposophy
  • Hermeticism - review/rewrite
  • Co-Freemasonry
  • Freemasonry
  • Gnosticism
  • Western Esotericism

Umbrella articles

  • Theosophy and Music
  • Theosophy and Art
  • Theosophy and Popular Culture
  • Publishing and Theosophical Movement
  • Theosophy and Color - in healing, music, art
  • Theosophical Libraries and Archives
  • Theosophical Retreat Centers and Camps
  • Theosophists and Social Movements

Historic events

  • 1895 Split/Secession/Convention
  • 1912 Old Krotona
  • 19xx CWL resignation
  • 1892 Olcott resignation
  • 1894 Judge Case
  • 1920 ATS convention
  • 1968 Sirhan Sirhan publicity
  • 1935 Diamond Jubilee
  • 1925 Golden Jubilee
  • 1975 Centennial
  • 1931 HPB birth centennial
  • World Congresses - more detail and photos

Religions and their major divisions

These articles should give a brief general sense of the religion with major beliefs, practices, and schools; the most important commentary by HPB, Mahatma Letters, and later Theosophists, particularly on the relationship of that religion to Theosophy; and a list of the best resources for studying the religion in its own context and in a Theosophical context.

  • Christianity
  • Gnosticism or Esoteric Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Sufism
  • Buddhism
  • Judaism
  • Sikhism
  • Zoroastrianism
  • Jainism
  • Baha'i

Concepts and terms

THEOSOPHICAL

OTHER

  • World Teacher - Cooper article on HPB anticipating
  • World Mother
  • Nefesh
  • Ruach
  • Tantra
  • Agni Yoga
  • Sacred geometry
  • Scin leca ("shining corpse") or astral body

Organizations, places

  • major lodges
  • national sections
  • Quest Society
  • Tile Club
  • Miracle Club
  • Astrological Lodge
  • Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Anthroposophical Society
  • Point Loma
  • Sarobia
  • Tekels Park
  • Besant Hill School of Happy Valley
  • various other TS-related schools
  • Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
  • Board of Control - after Coulomb Affair
  • American Board of Control

Books, periodicals, art, publishers

NOTE - See Hathitrust, Internet Archive, TUP, and http;//www.universaltheosophy.com/theosophical periodicals/ for digital versions

  • The Original Programme of The Theosophical Society - publication, significance
  • Spiritual Scientist (periodical)
  • Letters That Have Helped Me (book)
  • Theosophy Company
  • Wizards Bookshelf
  • Theosophy (periodical) - divide into 2 articles
  • Manas (periodical)
  • Sunrise (periodical)
  • Universal Brotherhood (periodical)
  • Fohat (periodical)
  • The Path (periodical) - importance, reviews, ownership by WQJ
  • Isis Unveiled (book) - impact, reviews, etc
  • The Perfect Way (book)
  • Echoes from the Orient (book)
  • The Ocean of Theosophy (book)
  • People from the Other World (book)
  • Old Diary Leaves (book)
  • The Chakras (book)
  • Man Visible And Invisible (book)
  • Occult Chemistry (book)
  • The Ancient Wisdom (book)
  • The Coming Race (book)
  • A Modern Panarion (book)

People

IMPORTANT

  • Krishnamurti - reorg/expand
  • HPB - add bios to Additional Resources
  • Josephine Cables
  • Annie Besant - presidency
  • Claude Bragdon
  • Robert Crosbie
  • CJ - lecture tours, etc
  • Alexander Russell Webb
  • John Yarker
  • James Ingall Wedgwood
  • Alan Leo
  • John Watkins - HPB friend, publisher
  • P. D. Ouspensky
  • G. I. Gurdieff
  • William John Walters
  • Elsie Benjamin - find obits, bios
  • William Walker Atkinson - personal info
  • Phoebe Bendit - reformatting
  • George E. Wright
  • Joseph Bibby - IAPSOP, TWS, UI
  • Samuel Ward - personal
  • William Butler Yeats - messy, incomplete
  • Charles Johnston - add Jon Fergus Kshetra Books bios
  • George Felt - TH article - see folder
  • A. P. Warrington presidency + photo of Neely
  • Tim Boyd - update
  • Barbara Hebert
  • B. P. Wadia - see TenBroeck in Keep the Link Unbroken
  • Claude Falls Wright
  • E. A. Wodehouse
  • Bates & Wimbridge - CW1:533, Caves & Jungles - Miss B, Mr W
  • Elliot F. Coues
  • J. M. Peebles - section on Spiritualism
  • Albert Rawson
  • St. George Lane-Fox

NICE-TO-HAVE

  • A. E. Waite
  • Dion Fortune
  • Anita Atkins - see Theosophy Forward
  • Marie Sinclair - check ODL, TH, IAPSOP, TWS
  • Arthur Digby Besant
  • Mabel Besant-Scott
  • Mercie M. Thirds
  • C. T. Strauss - 1893 Parliament - or is it C. J.?
  • Leoline Wright
  • S. K. Chatterjee - in ML
  • Adelma von Vay - see Joma Sipe book illustrations
  • F. J. Lippett
  • John Osborn Varian
  • Maude Ralston
  • Katie King
  • John_William_Brodie-Innes
  • S. J.McGregor Mathers
  • Wardall family
  • Beatrice Hastings - Gomes cataloged her papers
  • Aleister Crowley
  • Clara Erskine Clement Waters
  • Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel
  • Alonzo Decker
  • J. Augustus Knapp - occult artist
  • Elizabeth Spalding
  • F. Henrietta Müller
  • Rai B. K. Laheri
  • Ram Nath Puri
  • T. T. Gurudas - ML81
  • Krishna Prem - donated to our bldg fund
  • Ramakrishna Keshava Kulkarni/R. K. Kulkarni - educator
  • Jane Lead/Leade - Theosopher
  • James Albert Clark - Hargrove guy? - see book in Olcott Library
  • Jacob Bonggren
  • Stanly B. Sexton
  • John B. S. Coats - Men of the Trees + Betsan
  • Clara Jerome Kochersperger - see her history
  • Kate Buffington Davis
  • Van der Linden family - see K. Paul KJohnson and Wilder letters
  • Mary Flynn - friend of HPB
  • Judith Tyberg
  • Frederick Finch Strong
  • John Worrell Keely (in SD)
  • Lillian Pierre
  • Robert and Sara Logan
  • Basil Hodgson-Smith
  • William Emmett Coleman - critic of HPB
  • Sellon family
  • Augustus W. Alexander
  • Hugh George Calloway - Oliver Fox - see Kurt Leland
  • Elizabeth Thompson - philanthropist - see this
  • Louise Haines le Freimann - Aussie artist
  • Daniel H. Caldwell
  • Michael Gomes
  • David Reigle
  • Herbert Stack
  • Nivaran Chandra Mookerjee
  • V. Coopooswamy Iyer
  • Ralph Shirley

FAMOUS - or - LINKED TO - or - INFLUENCED BY THEOSOPHY

  • Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
  • Emil Wittgenstein - IAPSOP, CW, TWS
  • Kahlil Gibran
  • Rider Haggard
  • E. M. Forster
  • Herbert Burrows
  • James Joyce
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Edward Bach - flower remedy
  • Henry Miller
  • J. B. Priestley
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Thornton Wilder
  • Walter Burley Griffin and his wife
  • Alfred Russel Wallace
  • William James - see Kurt Leland for info
  • Charles Rennie Macintosh
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Elvis Presley
  • Ruth Crawford-Seeger
  • Alfred Deakin - Australian politician
  • Hernandez Martinez - president of El Salvador
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • A. G. Spalding
  • George Lansbury - British Labour Party leader
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Paul Brunton
  • D. T. Suzuki and wife Beatrice
  • Soyen Shaku
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Alan Watts
  • Mathew Reid - Australian senator - TS in Canberra #78
  • Olive Hockin - suffragist - TS in Canberra #78
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue - architect - see Leland
  • Hugh and Muriel Dowding
  • Algernon Blackwood - Leland for occult/psy interpretations of stories
  • Agnes Pelton

Other articles

  • HPB genealogyThe Ancient Wisdom
  • HPB residences with photos
  • Olcott genealogy