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- Most studies of Spiritualism make at least brief mention of ways in which medium-
ship was instrumental in creating a space for women in the public sphere generally
and as spiritually authoritative agents more particularly. See especially Braude 2001. - See Horowitz 2009: 69– 74.
- Olcott 1875: x.
- Olcott 1875: 453.
- Blavatsky 1969: 543.
- Campbell 1980: 29.
- Blavatsky 1966: 244.
- Blavatsky 1954: 239.
- Report of the committee of the Society of Psychical Research, quoted in Campbell
1980: 93. - Ellwood 1979: 56.
- There is no official membership data available prior to 1907, though the number of
charters issued to lodges steadily increases during the years following the Society’s
inception to 913 in 1906, though it should be noted that this figure does not reflect
the number of actually operational lodges at that time. As of 1907, the Society
boasted an international membership of 14,863 persons with the highest minority
of that number (4,548) being concentrated in India. - De Michelis 2004: 69– 71. See also Van der Veer 2001: 55– 82.
- De Michelis 2004: 69– 71.
- Vivekananda 1915: 154.
- Vivekananda 1966: 318– 19.
- Vivekananda 1915: 167.
- See De Michelis 2004: 150.
- Blavatsky 1877: 134.
- Ultimately he is forced to admit that “both Akasha and Prana again are produced
from the cosmic Mahat, the Universal Mind, the Brahmâ or Ishvara.” See Swami
Vivekananda, The Complete Works, 5:lvii. Of course, this is hardly any less prob-
lematic, since it essentially takes mahat (or buddhi) out of its proper place in the
schema of subtle materiality while simultaneously misidentifying it with the uni-
versal Brahman. - De Michelis 2004: 157.
- Jackson 1994: 75.
- Vivekananda 1989b: 172.
- Vivekananda 1989a: 78.
- Raia 2007; Noakes 2008.
- See Asprem 2014: 208– 25.
- Stewart and Tait 1875: 147.
- Stewart and Tait 1875: 145.
- Stewart and Tait 1875: 148.