Review of Julie Chajes and Boaz Huss (eds), The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/144610500/Review_of_Julie_Chajes_and_Boaz_Huss_eds_The_Cosmic_Movement_Sources_Contexts_Impact?email_work_card=title This interesting and important book is set up in the “Introduction: The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact” by the editors. Chajes and Huss argue that Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga is the “best-known descendent” of the Cosmic Movement (p. 1). Louis Maximillian Bimstein, or Eliezer Mordechai Bimstein, better known as Max Théon (1850–1927), married Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware (1839–1908) in 1885. She was mother superior of an Anglican convent before her marriage, and Augusta Rolfe (1845–1935), a nun called Sister Teresa, had left the community with her in 1881. Max, Mary and Augusta went to France in 1886, and in 1887 the first Cosmic Movement texts emerged in Algeria, as Mary (known as Una or Théona) channelled them. ...