Occult America_ The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation - Mitch Horowitz [134]
Sources on William Dudley Pelley include William Dudley Pelley by Scott Beekman (Syracuse University Press, 2005), The Old Christian Right by Leo P. Ribuffo (Temple University Press, 1983), “The Great Anti-Cult Scare 1935–1945” by Philip Jenkins (a paper presented at the 1999 conference of the Center for Studies of New Religions), and “New Age Nazi” by Jon Elliston, Mountain Xpress (North Carolina), 1/28/04. Useful biographical information and images are found in the William Dudley Pelley Collection at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Pelley’s extended version of “Seven Minutes in Eternity” appeared in 1932 from his Galahad Press. Quotations from Pelley’s memoirs are from a copy of his hand-typed manuscript, The Door to Revelation: An Intimate Biography, produced between April 1934 and April 1935, in the holdings of the Humanities Center of the New York Public Library. The Humanities Center also holds bound editions of Pelley’s magazine, Liberation. The federal government’s case against Pelley is summarized in 132 F.2d 170 United States v. Pelley, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 12/17/42.
Sources on the nationalist conceptions of Aryanism include The Aryan Myth by Leon Poliakov (Basic Books, 1974), Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin (Phanes Press, 1993), and probably the finest study on Nazism and the occult, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s The Occult Roots of Nazism (New York University Press, 1992). An excellent analysis of Theosophy and fascism appears in Robert S. Ellwood, Jr.’s notes to “The American Theosophical Synthesis,” from The Occult in America, edited by Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow (University of Illinois Press, 1986). A clear-minded look at the Third Reich and religion appears in David Sutton’s “How the Nazis Stole Christmas,” Fortean Times, No. 218. Hitler’s remarks about Alfred Rosenberg are from Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer (Simon & Schuster, 1970). The career of Karl Ernst Krafft is considered in Astrology: A Recent History Including the Untold Story of Its Role in World War II by Ellic Howe (Walker and Company, 1967) and to a lesser degree in Astrology: An Historical Examination by P. I. H. Naylor (Robert Maxwell, 1967). Sources on Karl Germer include Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion by Francis King (Citadel, 1972) and Bill Heidrick’s essay, “Ordo Templi Orientis, A Brief Historical Review,” at www.hermetic.com.
Accounts of Gandhi’s experiences with Theosophy appear in his Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Public Affairs Press, 1948), Gandhi in London by James D. Hunt (Nataraj Books, 1993), and The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer (Harper & Brothers, 1950). Gandhi’s relations with Annie Besant are explored in Annie Besant: A Biography by Anne Taylor (Oxford, 1992) and Gandhi: A Life by Yogesh Chadha (John Wiley & Sons, 1997). Gandhi is quoted from those sources and from his Collected Works, Vols. 36, 41, and 44. A. O. Hume’s encounter with “advanced initiates” is considered in Edward C. Moulton’s introduction to Allan Octavian Hume: ‘Father of the Indian National Congress’ 1829–1912 by Sir William Wedderburn (Oxford University Press, 1913, 2002).
Chapter Nine: The Masters Among Us
Spalding’s engagements in Helena, Montana, are reported in the Helena Daily Independent: “Free Lenten Talks Given by Miss Chew,” 3/1/31, and “Church Notes,” 5/16/37 and 5/23/37. Ruth E. Chew’s career is noted in “Shine, Shimmer & Scintillate,” Time magazine, 7/16/56. Paul Brunton is quoted from Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Category 16: The Sensitives, “Chapter 13: The Occult” (www.wisdomsgoldenrod.org). A. W. Chadwick is quoted from A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi (Sri Ramana Ashram, 1961). Chadwick misstates Spalding’s name as “Bierce Spaulding.” Stella Spalding’s divorce from her husband appears in the legal notices of the Los Angeles Times, 7/21/37. Articles about Spalding’s tussles with the law