Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent

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and author. She was born in

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to (Frederic) Henry Cooper, C.B., commissioner of

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Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321 and his wife Mary (née Steel), receiving a good education because of her father's belief in the value of education for women. She had suffered a severe injury in an accident aged 23 which prevented her from walking for two years, during which time she intensified her reading. She went on to study at

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, and whilst at the university, she met- and later married- fellow student Alfred John Oakley. They then both changed their surname to Cooper-Oakley. Alfred stayed some years at Adyar, India, as an assistant to

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. He left to become Registrar of the

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. Sometime in the late 1890s,

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became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper. Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at

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Works

*Count of Saint-Germain, *The Count of St. Germain: Mystic and Philosopher, (1912) *Masonry and Medieval Mysticism: Traces of a Hidden Tradition, *The Troubadours and Freemasonry, *The Tradition of the Knights Templar Received in Masonry, *Towards the Hidden Sources of Masonry, *An Introduction to Masonry and Mysticism, *Freemasonry and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Holy Grail, *The Count of Saint-Germain and Tragical Prophecies, *Masonic Tradition and the Count of Saint-Germain, *Secret Writings and Ciphers, *The Count of Saint-Germain and His Political Work, *Mystical Traditions, *Studies in the "secret doctrine" *The Mystical Traditions and Masonry and Medieval Mysticism, *Samkhya and Yoga Philosophy

Footnotes

External links

* Cooper-Oakley
''Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism''
at Sacred Texts.com * Cooper-Oakley

at Theosophy World.com

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