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… German. Among his classmates were William Butler Yeates and George William Russell, with whom he shared an interest in the occult. Later, he worked as a journalist. In 1884, he read Alfred Percy Sinnett's work The Occult World and founded, together with Yeats and Russell on 16 June 1885, the Hermetic Society in Dublin. He was …
… his surroundings. It was H.P.B. who made us aware of many factors in man’s surroundings which had hitherto been hidden, or occult, to us. A progressive, orderly, and organized pilgrimage was what she pointed out - a Pathway which, for all its … to such as cared to take it. She showed that a thinker who disciplines himself, who is an ethical man, inevitably contacts occultism. She undoubtedly saved science from the pull of materialism and inspired many workers with the dignity and high …