Evelyn Underhill vs. Annie Besant
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Evelyn Underhill
1875 – 1941
Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.
"As it is not by the methods of the laboratory that we learn to know life, so it is not by the methods of the intellect that we learn to know God."
Annie Besant
1847 – 1933
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She supported both Irish and Indian self-rule. She became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
"That which we know as Yoga is the method by which evolution is quickened in the individual, and all the powers of the Self, up to the threshold of divinity, may…"
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