The Evidence of Immortality 1899 Jerome A Anderson, inscribed ~Theosophy ~Theosophical Society San Francisco branch~Lotus Publishing Company

Title: The Evidence of Immortality

Author: Jerome A. Anderson

Description: Inscribed without signature on title page ''Compliments of the author''. Ex-library. Tan cloth boards, lettered in black on blind ruled front cover. Covers show moderate soiling. Call number on spine & call number label on front cover. Library and deaccession rubber-stamps on front pastedown; number written in gutter of dedication page; and light residual abrasion & glue visible on rear pastedown, else interior is crisp and generally clean. pp. viii + 171, plus [7] ads for Theosophical works.

The volume is dedicated to H. P. Blavatsky, as well as to W.Q. Judge and Katherine A. Tingley, the leaders of the American Section of the Theosophical Society, and with whom Anderson was aligned. Tingley also founded and led the Theosophical community of Lomaland in Point Loma, San Diego.

Dr. Jerome A. Anderson (1847-1903) was a prominent early American Theosophist and author. He was a significant figure in the San Francisco branch of the Theosophical Society and was President of the Federation of Branches of the Theosophical Societies of the Pacific Coast. He was also the founder and editor of The New Californian, the first Theosophic periodical to be published on the West Coast.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: The Lotus Publishing Company, 1170 Market Street
Place: San Francisco
Year: 1899

Keywords: Theosophy, Theosophical, metaphysics, occult, California, San Francisco,