Isabel Cooper-Oakley Explained

Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley^{[1] [2]} (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent Theosophist and author.^[3]

She was born in Amritsar, India to (Frederic) Henry Cooper, C.B., commissioner of Lahore^[4] and his wife Mary (née Steel), receiving a good education because of her father's belief in the value of education for women.^[4] 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.^[4] She went on to study at Girton College, Cambridge. 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 Henry Steel Olcott. He left to become Registrar of the University of Madras.^[5] Sometime in the late 1890s, G.R.S. Mead became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.

Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at Budapest, Hungary.

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

External links

• Cooper-Oakley: Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism at Sacred Texts.com
• Cooper-Oakley: Devotion at Theosophy World.com
• The Oakleys of Salop and London: The children of John Oakley and Jane Meabry: 1. John Jeffryes Oakley

Notes and References

1. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford, Alan Pert, 2006, pg 104
2. Web site: Copy of Will of MRS. Harriet Isabella Cooper Oakley appointing husband A. J. Cooper Oakley as executor - or if deceased - her sister Miss Laura Mary Cooper (In an envelope).
3. http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6598&path=London.St+Marylebone.St+John.13.20&fn=G%20R%20S&ln=Mead&st=r&pid=11803186&rc=&zp=75 1891 England Census
4. Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321
5. Web site: "The 'K.H.' letters to Leadbetter" . 2006-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070102051139/http://www.tphta.ws/CWL_KHLE.HTM . 2007-01-02 . dead .