G. R. S. Mead

George Robert Stowe Mead (1863–1933) [ [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6598&path=London.St+Marylebone.St+John.13.20&fn=G%20R%20S&ln=Mead&st=r&pid=11803186&rc=&zp=75 1891 England Census] , showing a household including "Constance Wachtmeister Manager of Publishing Office; G.R.S. Mead, Author Journalist; Isabel Oakley, Millener; Helena Blavatsky, Authoress; and others"] [ [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=an&dbid=7814&iid=LNDRG13_136_137-0146&fn=Laura+M&ln=Mead&st=r&ssrc=&pid=21365179 1901 England Census] , showing "George R S Mead, age 38, Editor and author born Battersea, Surrey and his wife Laura M Mead, age 44, no occupation, born Dellie [sic] , India"] was an author, editor, translator, esotericist, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society.

He was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England into a military family, and educated at The King's School, Rochester and St John's College, Cambridge.

Mead became a member of Blavatsky's Theosophical Society in 1884. He abandoned his teaching profession in 1889 to be Blavatsky's private secretary, which he was until her death in 1891. During this time, he was also an assistant editor to her monthly magazine, "Lucifer", which was the vehicle for her society, but principally herself. When he finally took over as its editor, he renamed it "The Theosophical Review".

Some time between 1895 and 1901 he married another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper, sister of Theosophist Isabel Cooper-Oakley.

Works

* [http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_meadmagus.htm "Simon Magus"] (1892)
*"Orpheus" (1895/6)
* [http://gnosis.org/library/psoph.htm Pistis Sophia] "Pistis Sophia" (1896, 1921 ed).
*"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten" (London and Benares, 1900)
* "Apollonius of Tyana" 1905. from which a [http://www.apollonius.net/mead.html selection ]
*"Thrice Great Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis", 3 Volumes (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906)
* [http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm "Corpus Hermeticum"]
* [http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/grms_hymn_hermes.htm "The Hymns of Hermes"]
* [http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/grsm_gnosismind.htm "The Gnosis of the Mind"]
* [http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/grsm_pymander_commentary.html "Commentary on the Pymander"]
* [http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library/psoph.htm Introduction to "Pistis Sophia"]
* [http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library/meadmarcion.htm "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten" (London and Benares, 1900; 3rd edition 1931)] : pp.241- 249 Introduction to Marcion
* [http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/gnostic_john_baptist/index.htm "Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book"] (1924)
* [http://www.christianorigins.com/mead/ Did Jesus Live 100 BC?]
* [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/mead.html Address read at H.P. Blavatsky's cremation]
* [http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/meadconhpb.htm "Concerning H.P.B."]
*"Doctrine of the Subtle Body in Western Tradition"

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/mead_index.htm Extensive on-line collection of the writings of GRS Mead (at the Gnosis Archive)]
* [http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/ballentine/resources/grs.html Brief bio with poor picture]
* [http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos29.htm Same picture, but much larger and clearer]
* [http://www.gnosis.org/images/Mead.jpgLater Picture with no text]
* [http://www.parascience.org/gilbert.htm Long biography]

See also

*Poemandres
*Gospel of Marcion
*Pistis Sophia
*Thomas Taylor
*Hermetica
*Acts of John
*Mandaeanism
*Marcionism
*Gnosticism