ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henry Steel Olcott, Helena Blavatsky, W. B. Yeats
5 Feb 2019
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men: but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings many of them not so much (472-3) Any of a number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of god may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, esp. the movement founded in 1875 as the theosophical society by helena blavatsky and henry. Steel olcott (1832 1907). related to spiritualism and esotericism. Muir on nature as tonic from the wild parks and forest reservations of the west (1901) The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. This is fine and natural and full of promise. (721)
