The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of
initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. These
initiatory steps are connected to an idea of evolutionary
self-development by means of a set of virtues that are relative to
the individual's position on the path of evolution. The central
thesis is that these stages were translated from the "Hindu"
tradition to the "Theosophical" tradition through multifaceted
"hybridization processes" in which several Indian members of the
Theosophical Society partook. Starting with Annie Besant's early
Theosophy, the stages of initiation are traced through Blavatsky's
work to Manilal Dvivedi and T. Subba Row, both Indian members of
the Theosophical Society, and then on to the Sanatana Dharma Text
Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian
Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu
College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares
Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the
Sanatana Dharma Text Books were published. Muhlematter shows that
the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant's
pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in
Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how
"esoteric" knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how
a broader public could be reached as a result. The dissertation has
been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European
Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
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