He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays.
Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism.
The humorless Emily, meanwhile, showed no interest in her husband's work and was unable to persuade him that any of her passions literature, feminism, theosophy (an occult .
The Books We've Lost Charles Simic Years ago, in a store in New York that specialized in Alchemy, Eastern Religions, Theosophy, Mysticism, Magic, and Witchcraft, I remember coming across a book called How to Become Invisible that I realized would make a perfect birthday present for a friend who was on the run from a collection agency trying to repossess his car. It cost fifteen cents, which struck me as a pretty ...
Aug. 13, 2013 - New York Review of Books
Reynold A. Nicholson in The Statesman While comparing the two works, Professor RA Nicholson, the greatest Western researcher on Rumi and his art, says: "Sufi theosophy is the fountainhead of Rumi's inspiration. From this the Masnavi and the Diwan descend by separate channels. The one is...