Gerald Massey - Revision history

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Writings

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	== Writings ==		== Writings ==
	* '''''A Book of the ~~Beginning~~'''''. 1881. Two volumes.		* '''''A Book of the Beginnings'''''. 1881. Two volumes.
	* '''''The Natural Genesis'''''. London, 1883. Two volumes. [https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalGenesisvolume1# Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/thenaturalgenesis/page/n9/mode/2up# Volume 2] available at Archive.org.		* '''''The Natural Genesis'''''. London, 1883. Two volumes. [https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalGenesisvolume1# Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/thenaturalgenesis/page/n9/mode/2up# Volume 2] available at Archive.org.
	* '''''A Tale of Eternity and Other Poems'''''.		* '''''A Tale of Eternity and Other Poems'''''.

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	[[Category:Poets\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:Poets\|Massey, Gerald]]
	[[Category:Writers\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:Writers\|Massey, Gerald]]
	[[Category:People\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:People\|Massey, Gerald]]

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Writings

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	== Writings ==		== Writings ==
	* ''A Book of the Beginning''. 1881.		* '''''A Book of the Beginning'''''. 1881. Two volumes.
	* ''The Natural Genesis''. London, 1883. Two volumes. [https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalGenesisvolume1# Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/thenaturalgenesis/page/n9/mode/2up# Volume 2] available at Archive.org		* '''''The Natural Genesis'''''. London, 1883. Two volumes. [https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalGenesisvolume1# Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/thenaturalgenesis/page/n9/mode/2up# Volume 2] available at Archive.org.
			* '''''A Tale of Eternity and Other Poems'''''.

	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

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Impact on The Secret Doctrine

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	== Impact on ''The Secret Doctrine'' ==		== Impact on ''The Secret Doctrine'' ==
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	In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who,while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>		In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who, while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>
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Mythological studies

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	== Mythological studies ==		== Mythological studies ==

			Biographer David Sweetman wrote:
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	Both Massey and [Jules] Soury were published in England by [[Annie Besant]]... while the founder [Madame Blavatsky] herself was a great admirer of Massey's studies in comparative mythology...		Both Massey and [Jules] Soury were published in England by [[Annie Besant]]... while the founder [Madame Blavatsky] herself was a great admirer of Massey's studies in comparative mythology...

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Additional resources

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	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

	* [http://www.masseiana.org/intro.htm masseiana]
	* Sweetman, David. ''Paul Gauguin: Complete Life''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.		* Sweetman, David. ''Paul Gauguin: Complete Life''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.

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	== Writings ==		== Writings ==
	* ''A Book of the Beginning''. 1881.		* ''A Book of the Beginning''. 1881.
	* ''The Natural Genesis''. London, 1883. Two volumes. ~~Available at~~ [~~http~~://~~www.masseiana~~.org/~~ngbk0.htm Masseiana~~.org].		* ''The Natural Genesis''. London, 1883. Two volumes. [https://archive.org/details/TheNaturalGenesisvolume1# Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/thenaturalgenesis/page/n9/mode/2up# Volume 2] available at Archive.org

	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

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			[[Category:People\|Massey, Gerald]]

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	'''Gerald Massey''' (1828-1907) was an English poet and writer. A radical and [[Freethought\|freethinker]], he was keenly interested in Egyptology and wrote about the possible Egyptian origins of Christianity. His writings had a large impact on [[Paul Gauguin]].		'''Gerald Massey''' (1828-1907) was an English poet and writer. A radical and [[Freethought\|freethinker]], he was keenly interested in Egyptology and wrote about the possible Egyptian origins of Christianity. His writings had a large impact on [[Paul Gauguin]].

	== Impact on ~~Theosophical writings~~ ==		== Mythological studies ==

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			Both Massey and [Jules] Soury were published in England by [[Annie Besant]]... while the founder [Madame Blavatsky] herself was a great admirer of Massey's studies in comparative mythology...

			Virtually forgotten today, Massey had a brief moment of fame in the mid-nineteenth century as a radical poet admired for having risen from the appalling rural poverty into which he had been born in 1828... [It is] likely that Massey was one of the sources for the arid and querulous amateur scholar Mr. Casaubon in ''Middlemarch'', who wasted his life attempting to produce the ''Key to all Mythologies'', a work which so neatly parodies ''The Book of the Beginnings'' which Massey was writing ... that it is impossible to ignore the connection.. From 1869 onwards, Massey virtually gave up poetry for mythological studies of an incredibly detailed kind, using his formidable self-trained intellect to master Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Hebrew Kabbala, even Maori religious beliefs...

			The first of his mammoth studies of world mythologies was published in 1881 and the preface is pure Casaubon it could well have been written by Eliot herself: 'In a ''Book of the Beginnings'', I have endeavoured to trace the Egyptian ''Origenes'' in Words, Symbols, and Divinities, in Britain, Israel, Akkad and New Zealand, and connected much of the Typology with Inner Africa as the birthplace of all.'...

			He seems to have seen his work as offering a cultural parallel to Darwin's zoological evidence, attempting to prove that all human culture had spread outwards from one point in a seamless wave across the continents, always retaining a deep inner, subconscious memory of its origins.<ref>David Sweetman, ''Paul Gauguin: Complete Life'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), 440-441.</ref>
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			== Impact on ''The Secret Doctrine'' ==
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	In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who,while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>		In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who,while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>
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	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

	[http://www.masseiana.org/intro.htm masseiana]		* [http://www.masseiana.org/intro.htm masseiana]
			* Sweetman, David. ''Paul Gauguin: Complete Life''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==
	<references/>		<references/>

Janet Kerschner at 02:55, 26 October 2016

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	'''Gerald Massey''' (1828-1907) was an English poet and writer. A radical and [[Freethought\|freethinker]], he was keenly interested in Egyptology and wrote about the possible Egyptian origins of Christianity. His writings had a large impact on [[Paul Gauguin]].		'''Gerald Massey''' (1828-1907) was an English poet and writer. A radical and [[Freethought\|freethinker]], he was keenly interested in Egyptology and wrote about the possible Egyptian origins of Christianity. His writings had a large impact on [[Paul Gauguin]].

			== Impact on Theosophical writings ==
	<blockquote>		<blockquote>
	In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who,while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>		In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] frequently does refer for support to ''A Book of the Beginning'' (1881) and ''The Natural Genesis'' (1883) by the British writer Gerald Massey, yet another author who,while not a Theosophist, relied heavily upon mystical writings and discussed in depth the meaning of geometric and other religions symbols. Massey's writings repeatedly state his unwillingness to accept theosophical dogmas over his own theory of "natural genesis" for the origin of the religious cosmologies.<ref>Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ''The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985'' (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 64.</ref>

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	[[Category:Poets\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:Poets\|Massey, Gerald]]
	[[Category:Writers\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:Writers\|Massey, Gerald]]
	[[Category:People\|Massey, Gerald]]		[[Category:People\|Massey, Gerald]]

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