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}}Alfred Percy Sinnett (18 January 1840, in London – 26 June 1921) was an English author and theosophist. Biography Sinnett's father died while he was young, as in 1851 Sinnett was listed as a "Scholar – London University", living with his mother Jane, who is listed as a widow and whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature"; his older sister Sophia, age 22, was a teacher. Jane's sister Sarah, age 48, was also a teacher.[1] In 1870 Sinnett married his wife Patience, probably in the London area. He is listed in the 1871 England Census at age 31, as a Journalist, born in Middlesex. His wife Patience is 27, and her mother Clarissa Edenson a "Landowner", is living with them.{{Theosophy}}By 1879, Sinnett had moved to India where he was "... the Editor of The Pioneer, the leading English Daily of India..."[2] He relates in his book, The Occult World that: "...on the first occasion of my making Madame Blavatsky's acquaintance she became a guest at my home at Allahabad and remained there for six weeks..."[3] In 1880 Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott visited the Sinnetts at their summer home in Simla. The Mahatma Letters, which generated the controversy that later helped lead to the split of the Theosophical Society were mostly written to Sinnett or his wife Patience. The letters started at this time when Sinnett asked Blavatsky whether if he wrote a letter to her Mahatmas, she could arrange to have it delivered. By 1884 Sinnett was back in England, where that year Constance Wachtmeister states that she met Blavatsky at the home of the Sinnetts in London.[4] Sinnett asked Charles Webster Leadbeater to come back to England to tutor his son Percy and George Arundale. Leadbeater agreed and brought with him one of his pupil Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa. Using "astral clairvoyance" Leadbeater assisted William Scott-Elliot to write his book The Story of Atlantis, for which Sinnett wrote the preface. Sinnett was later president of the London Lodge of the Society. By 1901 Sinnett is listed as an author. His son Percy is also listed as an author and born in India.[5] See also - Esoteric Buddhism
- Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky
- Sinnett as fiction writer
Notes1. ^1851 England Census
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-ccpre.htm|title=Combined Chronology of The Mahatma Letters - Preface|publisher=}}
3. ^The Occult World,p42
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscenceshp00wachgoog|title=Reminiscences of H. P. Blavatsky and The secret doctrine|first=Constance|last=Wachtmeister|date=1 January 1976|publisher=Wheaton, Ill. : Theosophical Pub. House|via=Internet Archive}}
5. ^1901 England Census
Works - [https://archive.org/details/theoccultworld00sinn The Occult World] (London: Trubner and Company, 1881)
- [https://archive.org/details/esotericbuddhis01sinngoog Esoteric Buddhism] (London: Trubner and Company, 1883). Describes the concept of Root race, later adopted by Madame Blavatsky.
- [https://archive.org/details/karmanovel00sinnrich Karma: A Novel] (London: Chapman & Hall, 1885)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_Madame_Blavatsk.html?hl=tl&id=AjkVYRiWwjgC Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky: Compiled from Information Supplied by Her Relatives and Friends] (1886)
- [https://archive.org/details/rationalemesmer00sinngoog The Rationale of Mesmerism] (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Growth_of_the_Soul.html?id=XppqnQEACAAJ The Growth of the Soul] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London and Benares, 1896, 1905)]
- [https://archive.org/details/occultessays00sinngoog Occult Essays] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London and Benares, 1905)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Married_by_Degrees_A_Play_in_Three_Acts.html?id=0AHfpwAACAAJ Married by Degrees; A Play in 3 Acts] (London, 1911)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/In_the_Next_World.html?id=4DexnQEACAAJ In the Next World: Actual Narratives of Personal Experiences by Some Who Have Passed On] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1914)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Spiritual_Powers_and_the_War.html?id=UsTbnQEACAAJ The Spiritual Powers and the War] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1915)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Unseen_Aspects_of_the_War.html?id=rPDzZwEACAAJ Unseen Aspects of the War: Two Articles by A.P. Sinnett] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1916)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/Super_Physical_Science.html?id=s1hxPwAACAAJ Super-Physical Science] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1919)
- [https://archive.org/details/tennysonanoccul00sinngoog Tennyson an Occultist, As His Writings Prove] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1920)
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_early_days_of_theosophy_in_Europe.html?id=qw1OAQAAIAAJ The Early Days of Theosophy in Europe] (Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1922) (posthumous)
Literature - Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett, Theosophical History Centre Publications, London 1986 {{ISBN|0-948753-02-1}}
Letters - Helena P. Blavatsky: The letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett and other miscellaneous letters, London 1925
- A. Trevor Barker. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett London 1926 ({{ISBN|1-55700-086-7}})
External links {{Commons category|Alfred Percy Sinnett}}{{Wikisource author}}{{wikiquote}}- {{Gutenberg author|id=A._P._Sinnett|name=Alfred Percy Sinnett}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Alfred Percy Sinnett}}
- The Mahatma Letters to Sinnett
- The Letters of HP Blavatsky to Sinnett
- Esoteric Buddhism by A.P. Sinnett
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080916224323/http://www.theosophical.ca/OccultWorld.htm The Occult World by A.P. Sinnett]
- The Mahatmas and Their Letters
- Photography of Sinnett
- [https://books.google.com/books?vid=08mjviTjGArB9MMUy2&id=v75xM8BJMMAC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=sinnett+occult&as_brr=1 Book Review of Karma]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060819063702/http://www.tphta.ws/TPH_OCIV.HTM Occult Investigations]
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