Sublime

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.

Hideyoshi’s supremacy, followed by the systematic repression of daimyo autonomy by Ieyasu (1524–1616), the first Tokugawa shogun, spelled the gradual end of Japan’s ‘Christian century’ and the brief era of openness in overseas trade.

the classic work by Hechter 1975),

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.