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Henry Steel Olcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The White Buddhist: Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival ... Disinterested historians describe Henry Steel Olcott as the president-founder of the Theosophical Society, one of America’s first Buddhists, and an important contributor to both the Indian Renaissance in India and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival...
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Colonel Henry Steel Olcott's reforms of the 19th Century and their Cultural Significance ... The main figure or agent in this transfer was Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, a native of the town of Orange, New Jersey, the state in which my own university, Princeton, is located.
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Description of his life. ... Henry Slade was their choice. It must be said that from their first meeting at the Vermont farm Olcott seemed fascinated by Helena Blavatsky's psychic power; although, it must be remembered he was attracted to all psychical phenomena.
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Henry Steel Olcott was born on August 2, 1832, in Orange, New Jersey. After an early career in agricultural science and journalism, he served during the Civil War as a military investigator of fraud and corruption.
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Henry Steel Olcott met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian aristocrat of esoteric interests and phenomenal abilities, at a séance in Vermont in 1874. They became close friends who gathered about them others of similar interests.
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Published in The Theosophist, Volume 27, March 1907 COLONEL HENRY STEEL OLCOTT By Annie Besant H. S. Olcott, who came from an old English Puritan family settled for many generations in the United States, and whose grandmother was a descendant of one of the early members of the Dutch East India Company, was born in...
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The co-founder of the society, Colonel Olcott, was a veteran of the American Civil War (1861-1865). He was famous for his investigations into corruption in the armed forces, and later, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became a member of the commission appointed to investigate the death of that great...
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Colonel Henry Steel Olcott ... 1832 - 1907 ... First Published 1889...
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Quotes and articles by Henry Steel Olcott on theosophy and Buddhism ... Henry Steel Olcott, short biography starting with his pre-theosophical years ... The White Buddhist: Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival, By Stephen Prothero...
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