Yankee beacon of Buddhist light: life of Col. Henry S. Olcott: formerly published as Hammer on the mountain

Yankee beacon of Buddhist light: life of Col. Henry S. Olcott: formerly published as Hammer on the mountain

A biography of Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 and a central figure in the Buddhist revival in India and Ceylon.

Howard Murphet

The Theosophical Publishing House: Wheaton

1988

Of Puritan stock -- Years of preparation 1848-1874 -- Among the Spooks 1874 -- Mysterious brotherhood 1875 -- Birth of the theosophical movement 1875 -- The veil of Isis 1876-77 -- Life at the Lamasery 1878 -- Difficult departure 1878 -- On the sacred soil -- Simla and the Sahibs 1880 -- The struggle for Buddhism -- Magnetic healing -- An adept comes to the colonel's tent 1883 -- The dangerous boom in theosophy 1884 -- "Ingenious impostor" 1884-85 -- The wake of the storm 1885 -- The exposure exposed -- Trouble in Europe 1886-88 -- 'in the midst of life..." 1889-91 -- Shock from an old friend 1891-93 -- The struggle with Mr. Judge 1894-95 -- "Green old age" 1896-1906 -- "Little mother" 1906 -- Last days, December 1906-February 1907.

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