Old Diary Leaves: The True Story of the Theosophical Society

xi, [1], 491 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates. Olcott was co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, and a notable early convert to Buddhism who spearheaded a renaissance of its study in the Western world. The other co-founder, Helena Blavatsky, was known as a spirit medium, and instrumental in the growth of the Spiritualist movement in the United States.