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Christine, Sister : Christine Greenstidel (b.1866) of Detroit, worked for time in the Sister Nivedita School, Calcutta.

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... younger sister of late Debabrata Bose, an associate of Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case, who after his acquittal at the trial , turned a Sannyasin1 and joined 1. Taking the name of Swami Prajnananda. Page 122 the Ramakrishna Mission. Miss Sudhira too joined the same Mission and worked as a teacher of the Sister Nivedita School, of which, after Sister Christine left... lifelong friend late Principal Girish Ch. Bose of Bangabasi College negotiated the marriage. Sri Arabindo saw my sister in Girish Babu's house personally and selected his bride. "2. Marriage ceremony was performed according to strict Hindu rites. Sri Arabindo being a Brahmo and my sister being the daughter of an England-returned Hindu, both of them had to be purified by Prayaschitya before marriage... others. "4. Location of the marriage —in a rented house in Baithak-Khana Road, Calcutta." "5. Date of marriage of Sri Arabindo 16 th Baisakh 1308. My sister at the time of her marriage had just completed her fourteenth year. Sister's birthday was 6 th March 1887. "6. Soon after marriage Sri Arabindo returned to Baroda with his wife via Deoghur and Nainital. The popular photograph in which ...

... 1936 Page 24 Some Political Associates I knew very well Sister Nivedita (she was for many years a friend and a comrade in the political field) and met Sister Christine,—the two closest European disciples of Vivekananda. Both were Westerners to the core and had nothing at all of the Hindu out look; although Sister Nivedita, an Irishwoman, had the power of penetrating by an intense sympathy ...

... own experience contradicts entirely your explanation. I knew very well Sister Nivedita (she was for many years a friend and a comrade in the political field) and met Sister Christine,—the two closest European disciples of Vivekananda. Both were Westerners to the core and had nothing at all of the Hindu outlook; although Sister Nivedita, an Irishwoman, had the power of penetrating by an intense sympathy ...

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... acquainted with the French occultist Charles Barlet, who brought him into contact with France. After Théon had left Egypt for some obscure reason, we find him again in London, where he married Mary Christine Woodroffe Ware, alias Alma. They went to live in the outskirts of Tlemcen, an Algerian town at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Théon was a multifaceted personality. He spoke several languages... World Exhibition and of the erection of the Eiffel Tower. Mattéo and Mirra were bosom friends, although Mattéo had such a violent temper that, in his outbursts of fury, he more than once gave his sister a near fatal blow. He studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École Normale Supérieure, at the time and afterwards, together with the Sorbonne, the most highly reputed educational institutions ...

... permitted itself to speak denigratingly of the H.B. of L. only after the latter had collapsed in such an inglorious way. When he moved to France, Théon was accompanied by his wife of one year, Mary Christine Woodroffe Ware, called by some Alma, i.e. ‘Soul.’ Like her husband, Madame Théon already had a public career as an occultist behind her. As ‘Una’ she had founded the Universal Philosophic Society... of life (and death), and why his anger was potent enough to cut Mirra’s lifecord. And with this goes a story. When Mirra was fifteen, she went with her mother to Italy, where Elvire, Mathilde’s sister, was living with her family. Mirra, who spoke Italian well at that time, and her mother visited the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, the Palace of the Doges, situated next to the San Marco basilica on the ...

... June 5, 1976 (Note from Sujata) Yesterday evening, Alain Bernard was coming back from Pondy to Auroville on his motorbike with Christine at the rear. Near a small hill, in a Page 154 bend, he saw a big stone falling down. It came and touched Christine’s knee. She got just a scratch, no real injury. But he thinks it was thrown at them (this big stone did not fall by itself). He had... open to you at any moment. If I have the time Page 137 to call you, I will do it. I well know the lights which burn in the great Night, and I know where every heart is. My brothers and sisters from Auroville are invisibly around “me.” One day we will meet, when the Work is done. We are doing it. Your brother, Satprem I am delighted by the freshness of A.’s letters! February... Mother’s papers hidden in three different places, and myself ... July 16, 1976 (Letter to Auroville: an Aurovilian woman had fallen from a scaffold, at the Matrimandir) To my brothers and sisters of the Matrimandir. To Auroville. This accident should not have happened. According to the spiritual law, it is the sign of a Falsehood. And those who think that it is an “accident” bury their ...