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Annie Besant

Born

in Clapham, London, England, The United Kingdom

October 01, 1847

Died

September 20, 1933

Genre

Spirituality, Politics, Secularism

Influences

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Noted British reformer Annie Wood Besant vigorously supported socialism, birth control, trade unionism, and rights of women; the cause of independence interested her through her involvement with the theosophical society, and she moved and founded the home rule league in 1916 and served as president of the Indian national congress in 1917.

This prominent activist and orator wrote of Irish.

She, aged 20 years in 1867, married Frank Besant but separated over religious differences.

Once free of Frank Besant and exposed to new currents of thought, she began to question her long-held religious beliefs and the whole of conventional thinking. She began to write attacks on the way of the churches in lives of people. In particular, she attacked the s ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 3,385 ratings · 263 reviews · 2,177 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thought-Forms by Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater 3.83 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 1901 — 263 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Yoga 3.30 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1907 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant, Richard Smoley (Introduction) 4.08 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1905 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ancient Wisdom: An Outline of Theosophical Teachings 4.29 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1897 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thought power : its control and culture 4.07 avg rating — 129 ratings — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karma 4.10 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1917 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annie Besant: An Autobiography 3.79 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1893 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death—and After? 3.80 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1893 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification Into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds by Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater 3.72 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1919 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case for India 3.61 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1917 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.”
― Annie Wood Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography

tags: agnosticism, atheism, god

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“Thought creates character.”
― Annie Bessant

tags: character

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“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
― Annie Wood Besant

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

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