Geoffrey Hodson

Geoffrey Hodson (1886–1983) was an English-born Theosophist, lecturer, and prolific author who became one of the twentieth century’s most active clairvoyant investigators in the lineage of C.W.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant. Over a long career with the Adyar Theosophical Society he wrote more than forty books, including The Kingdom of the Gods, Clairvoyant Investigations, and The Brotherhood of Angels and of Men, in which he reported detailed clairvoyant observations of angels and “devas,” nature spirits, the structure of subtle bodies, and the inner-plane workings of ritual and music.

He worked for decades as an international lecturer, eventually settling in New Zealand, and presented his investigations as a kind of trained, repeatable inner-world research. Hodson’s place in the mind-power lineage is as a late continuator of the Theosophical Society’s clairvoyant-investigation tradition, extending it deep into the twentieth century and toward the New Age.

He inherited and elaborated the master-and-hierarchy framework, treating the Spiritual Hierarchy and its angelic/deva orders as objects of disciplined clairvoyant study rather than mere doctrine. His vivid accounts of the deva kingdom and of thought and emotion as forces shaping subtle matter helped carry the Theosophical model of an ensouled, hierarchically organized cosmos into the angelic, deva, and nature-spirit spirituality that flourishes in New Age and ascension circles.

In this way Hodson bridges the Besant–Leadbeater era of “occult chemistry” and thought-form investigation to the contemporary milieu of angel work, energy healing, and ascension cosmology.