From Blavatsky to Krishnamurti

"It is Finished": Unravelling an Esoteric Eschatology and Christology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-05320-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: Gnostica

This book highlights some important continuities as well as differences between the teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), co-founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875, and Krishnamurti Jiddu (1895–1986), the Theosophist who was trained to be the World Teacher. Until now very little has been written of the importance to Blavatsky of an esoteric eschatology and Christology, and their relation to the secret core of her Path of Initiation: the practice of an occult breathless meditation. Similarly, scholarly research has overlooked the evidence that Krishnamurti eviscerated the secret core of Blavatsky’s teaching with his own esoteric interpretation of it, which exists in his published work as the camouflaged core of his teaching.

Offering a fresh appraisal, this work draws on careful exploration of the primary source material of Blavatsky and Krishnamurti as well as his Theosophical mentors Annie Besant (1847–1933) and Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934). It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of esotericism, new religious movements and the history of religions.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boag, Al

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Garry W. Trompf Introduction 1. Concealed and Revealed 2. Now is the Midpoint of Macrohistory 3. Two New Witnesses (Rev 11:3)

Über Autor(innen)

Al Boag completed Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is an independent researcher and contributor to The Gnostic World (Routledge, 2018).