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Henry Steel Olcott was born in 1832 in New Jersey and was brought up on a farm.
He attended The Collage of New York and Columbia University where he met many famous people.
This was cut short when his fathers business failed and he had to stop to earn money.
He became a agricultural correspondent in 1858 and married Mary Epplee Morgan.
He later fought n the American Civil War and was later promoted to the rank of Colonel and transferred to the Navy.
In 1868 he became a lawyer specializing in insurance, revenue, and fraud, and when in 1874 he became aware of the séances of the Eddy Brothers of Chittenden, Vermont.
His interest aroused, Olcott wrote an article for the New York Sun, in which he investigated Eddy Farms. His article was popular enough that other papers, such as the New York Daily Graphic, republished it.
His 1874 publication People from the Other World began with his early articles concerning the Spiritualist movement.
It was here he met Helena Blavatsky while both were visiting the Eddy farm. His new relationship with Madam Blavatsky helped foster his development of spiritual philosophy.
In 1875 Olcott was asked by prominent Spiritualists to investigate an accusation of fraud against the mediums Jenny and Nelson Holmes, who had claimed to materialize the famous "spirit control".
Olcott and Blavatsky publicly converted to Buddhism on May 25, 1880. Their conversion is considered the first among American and European Buddhists.
The book he wrote the life of Buddha and its lessons is a personal view and s interspersed with the authors own thoughts and those of the lessons of the Buddha.
Olcott carries weight in Sri Lanka to this day and is thought of as a revivalist. Olcott has been called by Sri Lankans
"one of the heroes in the struggle of our independence and a pioneer of the present religious, national and cultural revival".
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons (spiritual)Henry Steel Olcott (Author)
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In many respects this was fascinating and I did enjoy it. This was a free download and there were no formatting problems. However it just isn't really about the life of Buddha. It is more about the views of the author. As an introduction or as an explanatory text, it doesn't do a very good job.
I still thought that it was a worthwhile read and I did find it interesting and got something out of it. It is short and though it introduces many concepts that can be a little hard to get your head around it is written in a pretty easy to understand style.
I am glad that I downloaded and read this book.
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Very brief 'book' describing why the author thinks the Buddha was right. Worth reading unless your mind is totally closed to new ideas (if Buddhism is new to you).
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Very brief 'book' describing why the author thinks the Buddha was right. Worth reading unless your mind is totally closed to new ideas (if Buddhism is new to you).
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"Everything in the world of matter is unreal; the only reality is in the world of Spirit. Emancipate yourselves from the tyranny of the former; strive to attain the latter."
A very short little book and as it's free, worth downloading.
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