Henry Steel Olcott

Henry Steel Olcott (August 2nd 1832 with Orange in the New Jersey - February 17th 1907 with Adyar, Madras). Cofounder of the theosophic Company.

He became colonel during the American Civil War but he gained his gallons only thanks to his gifts for the intendance, without never to have carried a rifle; he was pacifist besides. Freemason, it was also impassioned by the occultism and the magic. After the American Civil War, it was interested in the spiritistic phenomena, which were very with the mode at that time. It met Mrs. Blavatsky for the first time in 1874, whereas it studied spiritistic demonstrations occurring in a farm of Vermont. In 1875, with the latter, William Quan Judge and some others it took part in the foundation of the theosophic Société, in New York, in the United States. Colonel Olcott was the president until his death. Subjugated by the astonishing woman and except standard which was Mrs. Blavatsky, he became his secretary and his pupil.

Works

Buddhist Catechism (1881)
Theosophy, Religion, and Occult Science (1885)
Old Diary Leaves (6 vol.)

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