| | "Gottfried de Purucker: A Biographical Sketch" by Sarah Belle Dougherty |
 | | de Purucker called on the members to do everything in their power to increase the circulation of theosophical publications, and exhorted them to "Declare yourselves boldly to be Theosophists, Fishers of the Souls of Men, and furthermore to be laborers in the great Cosmic Work of all time" (Second General Letter). |
 | | In 1930 Dr. de Purucker proposed an enlarged theosophical glossary which "must pass the test of scholarship and also meet the exacting test of fidelity to the universal wisdom-teaching as restated by H. Blavatsky" (Grace F. Knoche, Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Introduction). |
 | | Shortly after Purucker's death in 1942, there appeared three collections of his material not yet in book form: Messages to Conventions (1943), containing official messages and letters concerning TS policies and purposes; Wind of the Spirit (1944), containing inspirational and practical writings; and Studies in Occult Philosophy (1945), deeper philosophical presentations of theosophy. |
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