Archibald Keightley
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| name = Archibald Keightley
| image = Dr. Archibald Keightley.jpg
| caption = Archibald Keightley in his early years
| birth_date = 19 April 1859
| birth_place = Sedgwick, Westmorland, UK
| death_date = 18 November 1930
| death_place = New York City
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| spouse = Julia van der Planck
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| known_for = Theosophist
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Archibald Keightley (19 April 1859 – 18 November 1930) was an English physician and Theosophist.
Biography
Keightley was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1886, he obtained a degree from the Royal College of Physicians in London. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine from Cambridge.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080105084838/http://www.fundacionblavatsky.org/textos/portal/alumnos/Keightley%2C%20Archibald%20Dr%20.html "Dr. Archibald Keightley"]. fundacionblavatsky.org. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
He joined the Theosophical Society in 1884.Tillett, 1986, p. 982. Retrieved 1 November 2016. In the London Lodge of the TS at the time were: A.P. Sinnett, Dr. Anna Kingsford, William Kingsland, Prof. William Crookes, Frank Podmore, F.W.H. Myers, Edmund Gurney, Charles Massey.Tillett, 1986, p. 1065. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
Keightley was a prominent member of the TS who helped in the editing of Helena P. Blavatsky's magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine.{{citation|last=Wachtmeister|first=Countess Constance|title=Reminiscences of H. P. Blavatsky: And the Secret Doctrine (Classic Reprint)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pi38sgEACAAJ|date=8 August 2015|publisher=Forgotten Books|isbn=978-1-332-42387-3}}, chap. x. He served as the General Secretary of the English Theosophical Society from 1888 to 1890. He was married to Julia van der Planck a.k.a. "Jasper Niemand", the author of a number of Theosophical tracts.{{cite book|title=The Theosophical Movement, 1875-1950|url=http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/theosophica%20lmovement.htm|year=1951|publisher=Cunningham Press|location=Los Angeles|page=123|access-date=1 November 2016|archive-date=26 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026155312/http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/theosophica%20lmovement.htm|url-status=dead}} Bertram Keightley, his uncle (although younger by one year), was also a Theosophist.
He later sided with William Quan Judge and his American branch over that led by Annie Besant, and then the faction associated with Ernest Temple Hargrove over that led by Katherine Tingley. After the death of his wife, he relocated to New York City, where he participated in the activities of the "Hargrove" branch until his death in 1930.
Selected publications
- [https://archive.org/details/b21968780 The Recovery of Health: With a Chapter on the Salisbury Treatment] (1890)
- [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v06n07p213_karma-and-free-will.htm Karma and Free Will] (1891)
- [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/v06n08p240_the-natural-law-of-altruism.htm The Natural Law of Altruism] (1891)
- [http://blavatskyarchives.com/wachtmeister/wachtmeisterrem96.htm Dr. Archibald Keightley’s Account of the Writing of The Secret Doctrine] (1893)
- [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/theos/v11n11p347_brotherhood_a-fact-in-nature.htm Brotherhood – a Fact in Nature] (1897)
- [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/theos/v12n03p91_health-and-disease.htm Health and Disease] (1897)
References
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External links
- {{cite journal |url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1623 |title=The Sydney eScholarship Repository: Charles Webster Leadbeater 1854-1934 : a biographical study |website=ses.library.usyd.edu.au |date=1986 |author=Gregory John Tillett }} PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, Department of Religious Studies.
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