Searching for the Spirit

Abounding with larger-than-life characters, <em>Searching for the Spirit</em> traces the history of theosophy from its rise in the 1870s through its heyday in the 1920s to its relative decline in the 1930s. Although always tangential as a quasi-religious spiritual movement, it had an effect disproportionate to its numbers and paved the way for more recent spiritual movements that bloomed in the 1960s.<br /><br />Australians have long been fascinated by Eastern religions,