The pleasant climate of Western City brings strange visitors to dwell here; we have Hindoo swamis in yellow silk, and a theosophist college on a hill-top, and people who take up with "nature," and go about with sandals and bare legs, and a mane of hair over their shoulders.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
My theosophist friends have a most elaborate and complicated body of what they consider to be knowledge on this subject; yet I have to take the liberty of saying that I cannot see that it has any relation to reality.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Before leaving the Swedish capital a spot of more than passing interest was visited; namely, the garden and summer-house in which Emanuel Swedenborg, philosopher and theosophist, wrote his remarkable works.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou