Theos-Talk Archives (January 2009 Message tt00243)

Which is weird as she knew him quite well when she was living in Paris and  
the Shrine Room in the London Lodge building was an exact duplicate of the  
chamber layout he created when he invoked the shade of Appollonius of  Tyana.
 
Of course Levi was a romantic at heart and did have fun with a lot of  things 
at the expense of accuracy.
 
Chuck the Heretic
 
 
In a message dated 1/9/2009 5:39:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
Eliphas Levi obviously didn't get it either as HPB often rebukes some of  his 
 interpretations
Cass

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To: _theos-talk@yahoogrotheos-t_ (mailto:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com) 
Sent:  Saturday, 10 January, 2009 2:48:37 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World  Bulwer-Lytton and Bunsen

I've read it once, fell asleep 14 times in the  process.

BL was very influential in Euro occult circles. He was one of  Eliphas 
Levi's sources of inspiration and a lot of the stuff in the Golden  Dawn 
comes 
right out of his work.

Chuck the Heretic

In a  message dated 1/9/2009 6:56:21 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
silva_cass@yahoo. com writes:

Yes Paul, I would be very interested  in reading those extracts. My first 
teacher pointed me to Bullwer Lytton's  Zanoni, but still haven't read it. 
Perhaps this is the cue I  needed

Cass

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Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009  6:51:55 PM
Subject: Theos-World Bulwer-Lytton and Bunsen

Hello all  but especially Cass and Frank,

I have noticed the recent references to  Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Ernest 
Bunsen, and while these were made in other  contexts I want to point out 
that there is an important connection between  these individuals and the 
founding of the Theosophical Society. The first  two books published by 
a Founder of the TS, in the first year of its  existence, were Art Magic 
and Ghost Land by Emma Hardinge Britten. Robert  Mathiesen's monograph 
The Unseen Worlds of Emma Hardinge Britten is an  amazing tour de force, 
establishing beyond reasonable doubt that Bunsen  was the "Chevalier 
Louis" of those two books, and that the "Orphic Circle"  depicted in 
them was a genuine occult research group whose most eminent  member was 
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Emma and Bunsen first met as adolescent  trance 
mediums used in the experiments of this group around 1840; then  renewed 
acquaintance years later after the emergence of the Spiritualist  
movement.

When I read Marion Meade's HPB biography years ago, I  found ridiculous 
her assertion that a primary basis for HPB's description  of the Masters 
was the novels of Bulwer-Lytton. Why, I thought, would  someone with 
such vast documented experience with so many authentic  teachers have to 
rely on silly Victorian novels for her inspiration? What  Meade and I 
both missed was that it wasn't B-L's *novels* that inspired  HPB, it was 
the man himself and his nearly lifelong devotion to occultism.  In a 
letter written NOVEMBER 16, 1875, THE DAY BEFORE THE INAUGURAL  ADDRESS 
OF OLCOTT, HPB wrote to Stainton Moses of Bulwer-Lytton that "He  was an 
*adept* [italicized in the book, presumably underlined in the  letter] 
and kept it secret-- first for fear [of] ridicule..and then  because his 
vows would not allow him to explain himself plainer than he  did." 
(Letters I:202) At the moment I'm reading Leslie Mitchell's 2003  
biography of Bulwer-Lytton, and if any here is interested will share  
some excerpts about his occult preoccupations. HPB was very accurate  
about his fear of ridicule over his occult  involvements.

Paul

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