“It is a philosophy, because it puts plainly before us an explanation of the scheme of evolution of both the souls and the bodies contained in our solar system.”

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One

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English theosophist 1854–1934

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