Desmond Leslie — co-author of Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953)
playerOccult & Esoteric
The co-author of the first Nordic-alien book drew on Madame Blavatsky.
Who they are
Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953)[1].
What they do
He is how Theosophy was written into the founding UFO-contact book.
How it works
The book cites the Theosophical Publishing House, Blavatsky and Annie Besant. A scholar calls him a 'British Theosophist'; a 1979 article says he was 'Borrowing from the works of H. P. Blavatsky'.
Why it matters
No record shows he formally joined the Theosophical Society; his sources are what is documented.
The engine's record — word for word
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Report #196] Anglo-Irish co-author of the first Nordic-contact book. The book cites the Theosophical Publishing House, Blavatsky and Besant, and uses 'Sanat Kumara' and the 'Lords of the Flame'. Scholars: 'British Theosophist Desmond Leslie' (Oxford Handbook of Millennialism); used 'Theosophical texts like The Secret Doctrine as resources' (Ellwood); Stupple (FATE, January 1979): a 'British occultist' 'Borrowing from the works of H. P. Blavatsky'. Obituaries: 'spiritualist' (Irish Times); 'Attracted to ancient history, archaeology and esoteric philosophy' (Telegraph). White Eagle Lodge from about 1960. No record of Theosophical Society membership. See masters_to_space_brothers, annie_besant.
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