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Those who see in life only a riddle, Katherine Tingley appeals to the heart in simple, direct language, emphasizing the dignity of the individual and the power within each person to shape his own character and life. To her, theosophy is a practical and inspirational philosophy for daily living. This book is compiled from talks and writings on theosophy and its applicability to living the mystic life, to education, prison reform, and the problems of society and human relationships. Tingley's objective throughout the varied activities she undertook was to make theosophy 'immensely serviceable' to all.
Psychometry, Clairvoyance And Thought-Transference
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The Complete Collection Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic, The Gods Await, The Wine of Life, Theosophy and Some of The Vital Problems of the Day,
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The Wine of Life & Theosophy and Some of The Vital Problems of the Day, (Two Books)
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Theosophical Manuals. IX: Psychism, Ghostology and the Astral Plane
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Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley was a social worker and prominent Theosophist.
Background
Tingley was born on July 6, 1847, at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
She was the daughter of James P. L. Westcott and his wife, Susan Ordway (Chase). Her father, a shipwright, became an officer in the Civil War, and later a hotel proprietor in Newburyport. She was descended from Stukely Westcott, one of the associates of Roger Williams in the founding of Providence Plantations. According to theosophical accounts, she was subject in her childhood to religious visions.
Education
She was educated in the public schools and by private tutors and is also reported to have spent two years in a convent in Montreal.
Career
She took an early interest in social work before becoming active in the fields of Spiritualism and later Theosophy. In 1887, she formed the Society of Mercy (concerned with emergency relief work on New York's East Side). At this time she became known as a Spiritualist medium.
Through her social work she met theosophist William Q. Judge, who made a profound impression on her. With the sponsorship of Judge, one of the co-founders of the Theosophical Society, she quickly became an important figure in the American branch.
After the death of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1891, Judge led the majority of American Theosophists in a secession from the international society then headed by Annie Besant and Henry S. Olcott. Judge died in March 1896, and his independent Theosophical Society in America stated that he had nominated a successor, referred to in symbolic language as "The Purple Mother. " A month later, E. T. Hargrove, then president of the Theosophical Society in America, confirmed that "The Purple Mother" was Katherine Tingley.
Soon afterward, Tingley began a World Crusade for Theosophy, during which she claimed to have encountered a theosophical master in Darjeeling. Upon returning to the United States, she founded the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity, at Point Loma, California. She also founded the Universal Brotherhood organization, and after taking charge of the Theosophical Society, she merged it with the Universal Brotherhood. Permanent headquarters were established at Point Loma, San Diego, California, in 1900.
During the Spanish-American War, Katherine Tingley organized the War Relief Corps and established an emergency hospital on Long Island for soldiers wounded in Cuba. In 1899 the International Brotherhood League, a department of the Theosophical Society, undertook relief work in Cuba. Later, Tingley visited Cuba and brought a group of children to Point Loma for education. She was first obliged to prove the financial and moral competence of the society to take charge of the children. She was funded by the U. S. government to establish hospitals in Cuba, and in 1925 was awarded the Medal of Honor of the German Red Cross. In 1924 she established a summer school for children at Visingsoe, Sweden, and in the following year, she opened seven new Theosophical Centers in Europe.
Tingley was editor of Theosophical Path, published at Point Loma, as well as other Theosophical magazines in Holland, Germany, and Sweden. She also founded The New Way, a monthly magazine for free distribution to prisoners in penitentiaries and jails.
She died July 11, 1929, in Sweden, after an automobile accident in Germany, and was succeeded at the Point Loma community by Dr. Gottfried de Purucker.
She was the leader, after W. Q. Judge, of the American Section of the Theosophical Society. She founded and led the Theosophical community Lomaland in Point Loma, California.
Connections
While still a young woman, she was married three times: her first husband, Richard Cooke, was a printer; her last, Philo Buchanan Tingley, to whom she was married on April 25, 1888, was a stenographer.