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A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
His first book, Thought Force, was published in 1901.
The Three Initiates • The Kybalion: Centenary Edition
I especially enjoyed the work of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a.k.a. “Arthur Avalon,” who—while prominently serving as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in British India—spent his private hours explaining, defending and ultimately practicing in the then widely reviled Hindu religious schools of Shaiva and Shakta Tantrism.
Michael M. Bowden • The Goddess and the Guru: A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in her landmark masterwork, The Secret Doctrine
Zinovia Dushkova • The Book of Secret Wisdom: The Prophetic Record of Human Destiny and Evolution (Sacred Wisdom 1)
Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.
Stuart Wilde • The Quickening
The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.