Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (* 16 December 1875 in Sri Lanka; † 18 June 1953 (USA) was a freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar.

In 1889, when Charles Webster Leadbeater was asked by A.P. Sinnett to come back to England to tutor his son, Leadbeater agreed and also brought Jinarajadasa, one of his pupils, to England with him. He went to St. John College in Cambridge and studied oriental languages. Then he worked in Olcott's "Ananda College" in Sri Lanka (Colombo). Around 1904 he visited Chicago where he met and influeded Weller van Hook, the well-known surgeon and author, who then became a Theosophist. Jinarajadasa also learned Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In 1916 or 1917 he married the English feminist Dorothy M. Graham. She founded in 1917 in Adyar with Besant the "Women's Indian Association" (WIA).

He also travelled to South America where he founded branches of the TS. In 1946 he became president of the TS Adyar. In 1949 he founded the School of Wisdom in Adyar.

He was also a freemason, joining Le Droit Humain.

Jinarajadasa has written many works on Theosophy, Theology, Philosophy and Occultism. He also participated in Besant's and Leadbeater's resarches on occult atoms in Occult Chemistry (book).

Works (Selection)

• In His Name
• The ritual of the Mystic Star
• Release
• The meeting of the east and the west
• The message of the future
• The ideas of theosophy
• The divine vision
• The heritage of our fathers
• The seven veils of consciousness
• The law of Christ
• Theosophy and reconstruction
• Theosophy and modern thought
• The nature of mysticism
• Christ the Logos
• The Lord's work
• The faith that is the life
• The reign of law
• Letters of the Masters of Wisdom
• First Principles of Theosophy
• Clairvoyant Investigations
• Occult Investigations
• How we remember our past lives
• The Religion and Philantrophy of Freemasonry
• Women in Freemasonry

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