The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
31 teachers
Theosophy
Helena Blavatsky
Theosophical synthesis of esotericism
1831-1891
Theosophy
Henry Steel Olcott
Co-founder, East-West Theosophy
1832-1907
Theosophy
Alfred Percy Sinnett
Popularized esoteric Theosophy
1840-1921
Theosophy
Anna Kingsford
The physician-mystic whose visionary esoteric Christianity bridged Theosophy and the coming magical revival.
1846–1888
Theosophy
Annie Besant
Thought-forms made visible
1847-1933
Theosophy
Katherine Tingley
Theosophy as lived community practice
1847-1929
Theosophy
William Quan Judge
American Theosophical leadership
1851-1896
Theosophy
Mabel Collins
English novelist whose slender devotional treatise still guides aspirants.
1851–1927
Theosophy
C.W. Leadbeater
Clairvoyant mapping of subtle planes
1854-1934
Theosophy
T. Subba Row
Brilliant Advaita lawyer who brought Vedantic depth to early Theosophy.
1856–1890
Theosophy
Rudolf Steiner
Clairvoyance as spiritual science
1861-1925
Theosophy
G.R.S. Mead
Blavatsky's secretary who became the modern world's patient translator of forgotten Gnostic and Hermetic scrip…
1863–1933
Theosophy
Max Heindel
Esoteric Christian cosmology and spiritual evolution
1865-1919
Theosophy
Æ (George William Russell)
Irish poet-painter who married mysticism to practical reform.
1867–1935
Theosophy
Baird T. Spalding
Masters of the Far East
1872-1953
Theosophy
Gottfried de Purucker
Hierarchies of consciousness
1874-1942
Theosophy
Nicholas Roerich
Art and culture as forces of spiritual evolution
1874-1947
Theosophy
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
Sri Lankan polymath who carried Theosophy across the globe.
1875–1953
Theosophy
Guy Ballard
I AM Activity / Saint Germain
1878-1939
Theosophy
George Arundale
English educator who led the Society through a planned renewal.
1878–1945
Theosophy
Helena Roerich
Agni Yoga / Living Ethics
1879-1955
Theosophy
Alice Bailey
Ascended masters, New Age precursor
1880-1949
Theosophy
Edna Ballard
I AM Activity stewardship
1886-1971
Theosophy
Geoffrey Hodson
Clairvoyant Theosophical investigation
1886-1983
Theosophy
Vera Stanley Alder
Stepwise inner development
1898-1984
Theosophy
I.K. Taimni
Chemistry professor who rendered Patanjali's Yoga Sutras for modern minds.
1898–1978
Theosophy
Annalee Skarin
Bodily translation by love
1899-1988
Theosophy
Torkom Saraydarian
Applied seven-ray psychology
1917-1997
Theosophy
Benjamin Creme
Maitreya's reappearance and Transmission Meditation
1922-2016
Theosophy
Aurelia Louise Jones
Inner-earth master contact (Telos, Mount Shasta)
c.1940-2009
Theosophy
Joshua David Stone
Integrated ascension toolkit
1953-2005