So in hand now:
Esoteric Christianity
or
The Lesser Mysteries
by Annie Besant
The Theosophical Publishing House
Adyar, Madras 20, India
1957
also a sticker lists Theosophical Press at Wheaton, Illinois.
I know there is at least one newer edition, but the first edition was 1901.
So I am curious to see how much Annie Besant really knew about such things. What sources does she cite, besides scripture?
Clement of Alexandria
Iamblichus
G. R. S. Mead, on Plotinus, and on Orpheus.
Wynn Westcott, Sepher Yezirah ( co-founder of Golden Dawn, doing translation
Bhagavad Gita
Origen Against Celsus
The Mysteries of Magic, Trans. by A. E. Waite ( Eliphas Levi )
Valentinus, Pistis Sophia
Talks about Spinoza and Paracelsus
Plato's Republic, bk7, the cave
Justin Martyr
Tertullian
Okay, I am impressed. Mostly Church Fathers, Neo-Platonists, and some 19th Century Occultists. Had not know that Besant knew about such things, or necessarily that the Theosophical Society dealt with such.