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Periodical: Dawn (Sydney)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Dawn.
A Movement Devoted to the Promotion of Universal Brotherhood / Official Organ of the T.S. Loyalty League.
1921--1924 Bi-monthly
Sydney, Australia.
Language: English.
Editor: T.H. (Thomas Hammond) Martyn.
1/1, November 1, 1921-4/19, December 1, 1924.
20 pp.
3/6 a year (6 issues) in Australia, 4/3 outside Australia.

Organ of the "Back to Blavatsky" movement and the of the T.S. Loyalty League (devoted to being "Loyal to the established Objects of the Theosophical Society") which Annie Besant condemned for its "sectarian hatred" of the Liberal Catholic Church--opposition to which was one of the principal aims of the league, along with rejection of Krishnamurti as "World Teacher" because of his association with Bishop Leadbeater and his scandals. The journal in several articles by Martyn repeatedly attacked Besant's bona fides as an adept and clairvoyant, and in 1922 Martyn (1859-1924) led some 600 members of the Australian Section to secede to form the Independent Theosophical Society in Sydney.

Other Sources:
Issues:Dawn V1 N6 Sep 1922
Claude-Generated Themes:   Dawn was a Sydney Theosophical journal of the Adyar orbit, its pages thick with the Society's vocabulary and its personalities — B. P. Wadia, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, the Esoteric School, the Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled. What sets it apart is its reformist, faintly critical temper: it questions whether the Society has actually done anything and needles Leadbeater's grander occult claims, reading less as devotional house-organ than as engaged commentary on the Adyar controversies of the 1920s. Doctrinally it is straightforward Theosophy, resting on Blavatskyan esotericism and the assumed framework of karma and reincarnation. It belongs to the Australian Theosophical press of the early twentieth century.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Order of the Star in the East and Krishnamurti | Theosophy