24 Facts About Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was a Ceylonese author, occultist, freemason and theosophist.

The fourth president of the Theosophical Society, Jinarajadasa was one of the world's foremost Theosophical authors, having published more than 50 books and more than 1600 articles in periodicals during his life.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was a rare linguist, who had the ability to work in many European languages.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was born on 16 December 1875 in Ceylon to a family of Sinhalese parents.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was one of the first students of Ananda College, Colombo.

Thanks to Leadbeater, Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa went to St John's College, Cambridge where he studied oriental languages and four years later took his Degree in the Oriental Languages Tripos.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa then came back to Ceylon and became the vice principal of Ananda College in Colombo.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa returned to Europe, to study at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa soon became proficient in Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was the Vice-President of the Theosophical Society from 1921 to 1928.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was a Freemason, joining Le Droit Humain known as Co-Masonry.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was the president of Theosophical Society until his death on 18 June 1953 in the United States.

On 11 November 1916, Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa married British feminist, Dorothy May Graham, who founded the Women's Indian Association in Adyar with Annie Besant and Margaret Cousins in 1917.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa accompanied him in his travels around the world for some years.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa's body was cremated; half of his ashes were sent to Adyar for deposit in the Garden of Remembrance there.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa wrote many works on Theosophy, Theology, philosophy, literature, art and science.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa participated in Annie Besant's and Charles Leadbeater's researches on Occult Chemistry.

In 1913, Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was awarded the Subba Row Medal for his contribution to Theosophical literature.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa published more than 1,600 articles in periodicals such as The Adyar Bulletin, The American Theosophist, The Australian ES Bulletin, The Herald of the Star, The Messenger, Sishya, The Theosophic Messenger, The Theosophist, and World Theosophy.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa invariably said that my letter had been duly delivered, but that nothing had yet been said about an answer, and that he could do no more.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa was obliged to insist and at last she read it and asked him what he wished to say in reply.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa answered to the above effect, and asked her how this information could be conveyed to the Master.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa replied that he knew it already, referring of course to the exceedingly close relation in which she stood with him, so that whatever was within her consciousness was within his when he wished it.

Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa looked down at it in surprise, as I did myself, for I was standing close to her, leaning with an elbow on the mantelpiece; and several of us saw quite clearly a sort of whitish mist form in the palm of her hand and then condense into a piece of folded paper, which she at once handed to me, saying, 'There is your answer'.