Mabel Besant-Scott

Mabel Emily Besant -Scott ( born August 28, 1870 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; † May 22, 1952 ) was an English theosophist, Rosenkreuzerin and female Masons.

Life

Childhood, marriage and children

Mabel Besant was born on 28 August 1870 in Cheltenham as younger of two children of Frank and Annie Besant. His father was a clergyman of the Church of England, the mother of a well-known women's rights activist and later the second president of the Theosophical Society Adyar ( Adyar -TG). As Mabel wrestled with death during a serious illness, her mother Annie was seeking advice and solace in theological books. The complete failure of these efforts to Annie's estranged faith of the church and she turned, much to the dismay of her husband, atheist circles. This led in 1873 to the separation of their parents, son Arthur Digby Besant stayed with his father, Mabel lived with her mother in London.

Mother Annie was involved in the following years in the women's rights movement and brought her 1877 work, The Laws of Population out where they spoke out for birth control. For conservative circles of the time an unacceptably immoral actions and for an honest woman considered to be incompatible. Then procured the father that Annie was deprived of the custody of Mabel and she came into his care. Mabel profoundly traumatized the following years with her cantankerous father. When she started her mother's 1888 pay clandestine visits, Mabel was rejected by her father.

On May 7, 1892 married in Marylebone journalist Sir Ernest Scott. From the marriage emerged daughter Muriel ( 1893-1924 ). 1892 settled Besant and her husband to Melbourne, where she converted in 1896 to the Roman Catholic Church. The marriage was marked from the time of alienation and existed only on paper, but was only formally divorced in 1915. In 1909 Mabel returned without her husband, but with her ​​daughter again to England.

As a theosophist, Freemason and Rosenkreuzerin

Before 1892, they followed the example of her mother Annie and joined the Theosophical Society. After their split in 1895 due to the Judge Case she followed the Adyar -TG.

Mabel Besant was like her mother Annie Le Droit Humain member, had both the 33 and thus the highest degree held. Annie was Grand Secretary of the British jurisdiction where this Co - Masonic organization. When Annie died in 1933, she transferred her daughter Mabel this function. Annie on the basis that the allegedly laid down in rule 45, the sovereignty of the British jurisdiction over the Supreme Grand Council in Paris. The latter protested vehemently against such an interpretation of the rules, according to some quarrels Mabel resigned in 1934 and left with a number of other members of the Le Droit Humain.

After their exit Mabel founded by George Alexander Sullivan Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship turned to (or Corona Fellowship of Rosicrucians ). Together with Sullivan called 1938, the Rosicrucian Theatre in Christchurch from life.

Footnotes

  • Theosophist ( Theosophical Society )
  • Rosicrucians
  • Freemasons (United Kingdom)
  • Freemason ( 20th century)
  • English
  • Woman
  • Born 1870
  • Died in 1952
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