Kenneth Morris (author)

Kenneth Vennor Morris ( Welsh: Cenydd Morus ) ( born July 31, 1879 in Pontamman ( at Ammanford ), Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, † April 21, 1937 in Cardiff, Wales ) was a British author and Theosophist.

Life and work

Morris was born on July 31, 1879 in the small Welsh village Pontamman at Ammanford in the County of Carmarthenshire. After the death of his father in 1884 and his grandfather in 1885, his mother Rosa Morris moved with her two children to London. From 1887 to 1895 he attended the boarding school Christ's Hospital. On a visit to Dublin in 1896 he came in contact with a circle of writers and mystics, including William Butler Yeats, George William Russell, North Violet (wife of Russell) and Ella Young, all members of the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society in America ( TGinA ). Loved this environment, he immediately joined at the Theosophical Society and began even minor poems and stories to write. These he published in several theosophical magazines.

When he had to return after a few months of Wales, he joined the Cardiff Lodge of TGinA, where he continued his writing activities. In the course of studying theosophical subjects, he became aware of the launched by Katherine Tingley Theosophical Community Lomaland in California. After an exchange of letters with Tingley, this offered him a leadership post at the TGinA. Morris said, and went to Point Loma, where he arrived in January 1908. In Lomaland he began to work as a teacher of history and literature at the local Raya Yoga school. Here he wrote in the next 22 years a series of novels, poems, stories and fantasy - his main work. Some works he published under the Welsh translation of his name Cenydd Morus.

After the death Tingley 1929, the world economic crisis, the TGinA brought in the same year close to bankruptcy. Only through drastic austerity measures by Gottfried de Purucker, the successor Tingley, the TGinA could survive. One of these measures was that Purucker all just kind of expendable employees, more or less voluntarily, asked to leave by Lomaland. So left in 1930 and Morris California and moved back to Wales. Here he founded several theosophical lodges for TGinA and called the monthly magazine Welsh Theosophical Forum in life.

His life in poor health, Morris had in April 1937 due to thyroid problems a hospital in Cardiff attention. Without treatment, the doctors gave him only a year and so he opted for a risky surgery, which was performed on April 20, 1937. After the procedure, he obtained a few minutes of consciousness, to then fall into a coma. He died the next morning, April 21, 1937 to without regaining consciousness.

Works (selection)

  • Book of the three dragons. Cold Spring Press, Cold Spring Harbor 2004, ISBN 1,593,600,275th
  • The Emerald Dragon. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt aM 1996, ISBN 3-596-13326-2.
  • Dragon path. TOR, New York 1995, ISBN 0,312,853,092th
  • Golden threads in the tapestry of history. Point Loma Publications, San Diego, 1975, ISBN 0913004278th
  • The fates of the Princes of Dyfed. Newcastle Publishing Co., North Hollywood 1978, ISBN 087877114X.
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