GottfrieddePurucker, Leader of the Theosophical Society from 1929 to 1942, revivified the Society's public work and sought to promote brotherhood in the theosophical movement.
One of a family of seven, Hobart Lorenz Gottfried von Purucker was born in Suffern, New York, on January 15, 1874.
Purucker sought throughout his life to bring to as many people as possible this "Vision Sublime" of the spiritual realities behind the material universe, of which each of us is an inseparable part, was his goal.
dePurucker called on the members to do everything in their power to increase the circulation of theosophical publications, and exhorted them to "Declare yourselves boldly to be Theosophists, Fishers of the Souls of Men, and furthermore to be laborers in the great Cosmic Work of all time" (Second General Letter).
In 1930 Dr. dePurucker proposed an enlarged theosophical glossary which "must pass the test of scholarship and also meet the exacting test of fidelity to the universal wisdom-teaching as restated by H. Blavatsky" (Grace F. Knoche, Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Introduction).
Shortly after Purucker's death in 1942, there appeared three collections of his material not yet in book form: Messages to Conventions (1943), containing official messages and letters concerning TS policies and purposes; Wind of the Spirit (1944), containing inspirational and practical writings; and Studies in Occult Philosophy (1945), deeper philosophical presentations of theosophy.
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