The Theosophical Society’s institutional life cannot effectively be separated from its philosophical provenance, and in this article, I shall be moving back and forth between Theosophy and the Theosophical Society as twinned responses to the challenges brought on by modernity’s crisis of belief. While Theosophy has a long history, with roots in the esoteric philosophies of Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, and Man…