{"id":54523,"date":"2022-05-24T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54523"},"modified":"2022-05-23T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:51:41","slug":"theosophy-across-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/theosophy-across-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Theosophy across Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were there actual Theosophists publishing stories in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> in Lovecraft&#8217;s day? Rather than just the occasional Theosophical Press advert and some writers who used a sprinkling of Theosophist notions to ginger up their tales? <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/theosophical-writers-in-weird-tales.html\">Tellers of Weird Tales<\/a><\/em> investigates this week.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new book on their wider influence, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ySYKqE\">Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement<\/a><\/em>, from the State University of New York Press (SUNY)&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This book successfully demonstrates that the Theosophical Society and its derivatives crossed all sorts of intellectual and cultural boundaries, and it makes a strong case that these phenomena &mdash; long ignored because of their heterodox nature &mdash; must be given the attention they deserve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were there actual Theosophists publishing stories in Weird Tales in Lovecraft&#8217;s day? Rather than just the occasional Theosophical Press advert &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/theosophy-across-boundaries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54524,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54523\/revisions\/54524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}