Echoes from the Orient; A Broad Theological Outline of Theosophical Principles. Point Loma Edition.

Point Loma [CA]: The Theosophical Publishing Company, 1906. First American edition. The first edition of this book was published in 1890 by Anne Besante, arch-rival of Katherine Tingley, who ran the American school of theosophy in opulent glory on a bluff near San Diego. But much like the Anglicans borrowing form the Roman Catholics, some books are so important that they transcend rivalries. Octavo. [2] 64, [8, ads for Tingley's publications] pp. Publisher gray wrappers with black lettering. Spine professionally restored, small chips to bottom corner and a couple of more along the rear wrapper's fore-edge.Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, and William O. Judge were the founders od The Theosophical Society in New York City in 1875"Echoes from the Orient was written by Mr. Judge (1890) as a series of papers for a well-known periodical. The author wrote under the name of "Occultus," as it was intended that his personality should be hidden until the series was completed. The value of these papers as a popular presentation of Theosophical teaching was at once seen and led to their publication in book form. As Mr. Judge wrote in his "Antecedent Words" to the earlier edition. The restrictions upon the treatment of the subject growing out of the popular character of the paper in which they were published precluded the detail and elaboration that would have been possible in a philosophical or religious periodical. No pretense is made that the subject of Theosophy as understood in the Orient has been exhaustively treated, for, believing that millions of years have been devoted by the sages who are the guardians of Theosophical truth to its investigation, I think no one writer could do more than to repeat some of the echoes reaching his ears" (from; "To the Reader)".