Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science

329 Pages·2013·3.883 MB·English

by  Paul Eli Ivey

RADIANCE
from
Halcyon
A Utopian Experiment
in
Religion and Science
Paul Eli Ivey
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radiance from halcyon
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Radiance
from
Halcyon
A Utopian Experiment in
Religion and Science
Paul Eli Ivey
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis
London
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An earlier version of chapter 4 was published as Paul Eli Ivey, “The Theosophical
Temple Movement: Socialism, the Iroquois League, and the Politics of the
Brotherhood of Man,” in Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, and Melinda Phillips, eds.,
Esotericism, Religion, and Politics(Minneapolis: North American Academic Press,
2012), 215–34.
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Dedicated, in gratitude, for their inspiring lives and legacies:
Tom W. Boyd
David B. Kitts
Manfred R. Schroeder
Eleanor L. Shumway
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RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ECONOMICS
This is the triune foundation on which The Temple of
Humanity is building. When the truths of those three aspects
are correlated and practically applied on earth and in human
life, the GOLDEN AGEwill be here, the HOLY CITYwill
descend on earth—a new SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESSwill
enter the races of the earth and a UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
OF ALL HUMANITYwithout distinction will reign on this
planet.
These are the fundamental stones of The New Age.
—Teachings of the Temple II
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Organizing Theosophy in the United States 13
2 The Emergence of the Temple Movement in Syracuse 35
3 The Esoteric Temple of Humanity 59
Temple Theosophy and Occult Science
4 Building Kinship 81
The Iroquois League and the Exoteric Work of the Temple
5 Early Halcyon 99
The Temple Sets Its Foundations in the Golden West
6 The Temple Home Association 125
A Cooperative Commonwealth
7 An Architecture of Spiritual Forces 143
The Blue Star Memorial Temple
8 Forces of Nature and the Electric Panacea 161
Healing at the Halcyon Sanatorium
9 Dune Spirit, Harmony, and Dissonance 193
Music and Art at Halcyon
10 The Avatar Arrives 217
Spiritual Fulfillment and Scientific Advancement
Conclusion 237
Notes 243
Index 301