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A Large Assortment of Documents pertaining to William T Steads Involvement in the research of Paranormal Activity within Victorian Society. Within this Lot Contains typed and hand written notes of Interviews William T Stead Who Died on the Titanic had with Victims of 'Spirits'.
An Important Document within this lot is correspondence between Stead and Famous German Franz Hartmann a German medical doctor, theosophist, occultist, geomancer, astrologer, and author, and a close associate of Helena Blavatsky and served as Chairman of the Board of Control of the Theosophical Society at Adyar. He collaborated with Carl Kellner, edited and published the journals Lotusblüten, wrote widely on yoga, and helped popularize it in Germany. A leading theosophical writer, he authored books on esoteric studies, wrote biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus, translated the Bhagavad Gita into German, and founded the German Theosophical Society in 1896. He later supported the Guido-von-List Society and was reportedly a founding figure of the group that became the Ordo Templi Orientis.
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