James Ralston Skinner. Correspondence, 1863-1887.
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James Ralston Skinner was a leading theosophist and colleague of Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, the founder of the theosophist movement. He wrote A Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures (1875). From the guide to the Papers, 1863-1887., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School) ...
