Henry Steel Olcott: Timeline of an Occult Pioneer

The life story of American occultist Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) has all the twists and turns of Harry Potter novel. But its plot is real.

If you can follow Olcott’s career, you can follow much of the development of occult, New Age, Eastern, and esoteric spirituality in the modern world. I have created this timeline to provide students, scholars, journalists, and…