Arthur E. Powell

Arthur Edward Powell ( September 27, 1882 - March 20, 1969 ) was a Theosophist whose books were published beginning in the early 1900s. He studied the major esoteric works of Helena Blavatsky, Charles Webster Leadbeater & Annie Besant.

Family Background

Arthur E. Powell was born at "Plas-y-Bryn," a house located in Llanllwchiairn ( near Newtown ), Montgomeryshire, Wales. He later emigrated to the United States, where he died in Los Angeles, California in 1969. Arthur's parents were Edward Powell ( 1850-1918 ) and Mary Eleanor Pughe Pryce-Jones ( 1859-1944 ), who married on June 3, 1880. Arthur's father Edward Powell was a solicitor, and Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the Humber-Hillman Company ( an automobile manufacturer ). Arthur married twice, his first wife being Hilda ( surname not known ), and his second wife being Winifred May Fenwick.

Bibliography

Powell's main topic was consciousness and was written about in these books^[1] and other texts:

• The Mental Body (1927)
• The Causal Body And The Ego (1928)
• The Solar System (1930)
• The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena (1926)
• The Etheric Double (1925)
• Human Astral Entities
• The Mastery of Emotion
• Astral Death
• Clairvoyance in Space and Time
• Kundalini
• The Fourth Dimension
• Rebirth
• Discipleship
• Chakras
• The Development of Astral Powers
• Sleep-life
• Dreams
• Invisible Helpers
• The Astral Plane
• Non-human Astral Entities
• Thought Forms
• The Magic of Freemasonry
• Spiritualism
• The Work of a Lodge of the Theosophical Society

References

1. ↑ Arthur E Powell (1930,) The Solar System, London: Theosophical Publishing House