Bertram Keightley

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 exercised the profession of lawyer.

In the spring of 1884 he became a member of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, and thus. In 1887 he was one of the founders of the Blavatsky Lodge and one of those Theosophists, on 1 May 1887 moved due to their initiative Helena Blavatsky to London, where they, on May 8, 1891 remained until her death. During this time he assisted in the publication of their works Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine The Voice of the Silence and The Key to Theosophy. He was also deputy editor of the magazine Lucifer and in this published a series of separate articles.

The end of 1891 Keightley was elected General Secretary of the Indian Section of the Theosophical Society. Later he was Secretary General of the British section. In the cleavage of the Theosophical Society in 1895 as a result of Judge Case, he followed the Theosophical Society Adyar ( Adyar -TG). After the death of Henry Steel Olcott 1907 he competed alongside Annie Besant for the office of President of the Adyar -TG. Ultimately, however, he renounced his candidacy, which Besant decided lack of an alternative, the choice is clear for themselves.

Rudolf Steiner lived during his stay in London in 1902 and Keightley wrote, "I became very friendly with him. "

Keightley died on October 31, 1944 of heart failure and was buried on the Ganga bank in Allahabad by cremation.

The nephew Bertram Keightleys was the theosophist Archibald Keightley; both supported Blavatsky also in financial terms.

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Works

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

As a translator:

• Rudolf Steiner: Mystics of the Renaissance, and Their relation to modern thought, including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others. G. P. 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