Bertram Keightley

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Bertram Keightley (born April 4, 1860 in Birkenhead , England , † October 31, 1944 ) was an English lawyer and theosophist .

Keightley studied at Cambridge University and graduated with a Master of Arts ; later he practiced the profession of lawyer.

In the spring of 1884 he became a member of the London Lodge and thus the Theosophical Society . In 1887 he was one of the founders of the Blavatsky Lodge and one of those theosophists on whose initiative Helena Blavatsky moved to London on May 1, 1887 , where she stayed until her death on May 8, 1891. During this time he supported Blavatsky with the publication of her works The Secret Doctrine , The Voice of Silence and The Key to Theosophy . He was also deputy editor of the magazine Lucifer and published in this a number of his own articles.

In late 1891 Keightley was elected General Secretary of the Indian Section of the Theosophical Society. Later he was Secretary General of the British Section. When the Theosophical Society split up in 1895 as a result of the Judge Case , he followed the Theosophical Society Adyar (Adyar-TG). After Henry Steel Olcott's death in 1907, he ran for the office of President of the Adyar-TG alongside Annie Besant . Ultimately, however, he renounced his candidacy, whereby Besant clearly won the election due to lack of alternative.

During his stay in London in 1902, Rudolf Steiner lived with Keightley and wrote about it: "I became very friends with him."

Keightley died of heart failure on October 31, 1944 and was cremated on the banks of the Ganges in Allahabad  .

Bertram Keightley's nephew was the theosophist Archibald Keightley; both supported Blavatsky financially.

Works

  • Bertram Keightley's Lectures in America. Kessinger, Whitefish 2005, ISBN 1425359477 .
  • Reminiscences of HP Blavatsky. Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar 1931

As translator:

  • Rudolf Steiner: Mystics of the Renaissance, and their relation to modern thought, including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others. GP Putnam's sons, New York 1911
  • Rudolf Steiner: Three Essays on Haeckel and Karma. Theosophical Publishing Society, London 1914
  • Rudolf Steiner: Two Essays on Haeckel. Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., London 1935

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J. L. Davidge: Calling Home. Bertram Keigtley . Addition to the obituary in: The Theosophist February 1945, p. 139
  2. ↑ Daniel Caldwell: The mysterious world of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky . Aquamarin Verlag, Grafing 2003, ISBN 3-89427-235-X . (Page 385)
  3. ↑ Steiner, Rudolf: Mein Lebensgang (1923-25) ( Memento from January 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) page 203

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personal data
SURNAME Keightley, Bertram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lawyer and theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead , England
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1944