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Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent Theosophist and author.

She was born in Amritsar, India to (Frederic) Henry Cooper, C.B., commissioner of Lahore and his wife Mary (née Steel), receiving a good education because of her father's belief in the value of education for women. She had suffered a severe injury in an accident aged 23 which prevented her from walking for two years, during which time she intensified her reading. She went on to study at Girton College, Cambridge. Whilst at the university, she met — and later married — fellow student Alfred John Oakley. They then both changed their surname to Cooper-Oakley. Alfred stayed some years at Adyar, India, as an assistant to Henry Steel Olcott. He left to become Registrar of the University of Madras. Sometime in the late 1890s, G.R.S. Mead became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.

Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at Budapest, Hungary.

Works

• Count of Saint-Germain, ISBN 0-7661-0101-0
• The Count of St. Germain: Mystic and Philosopher, (1912) ISBN 1-4253-3280-3
• Masonry and Medieval Mysticism: Traces of a Hidden Tradition, ISBN 1-56459-643-5
• The Troubadours and Freemasonry, ISBN 1-4253-1617-4
• The Tradition of the Knights Templar Received in Masonry, ISBN 1-4253-1616-6
• Towards the Hidden Sources of Masonry, ISBN 1-4253-1615-8
• An Introduction to Masonry and Mysticism, ISBN 1-4253-1614-X
• Freemasonry and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Holy Grail, ISBN 1-4253-1618-2
• The Count of Saint-Germain and Tragical Prophecies, ISBN 1-4253-3281-1
• Masonic Tradition and the Count of Saint-Germain, ISBN 1-4253-3283-8
• Secret Writings and Ciphers, ISBN 1-4253-4024-5
• The Count of Saint-Germain and His Political Work, ISBN 1-4253-3282-X
• Mystical Traditions, ISBN 0-7661-0346-3
• Studies in the "secret doctrine"
• The Mystical Traditions and Masonry and Medieval Mysticism, ISBN 1-4254-5390-2
• Samkhya and Yoga Philosophy

Footnotes

1. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford, Alan Pert, 2006, pg 104
2. "Copy of Will of MRS. Harriet Isabella Cooper Oakley appointing husband A. J. Cooper Oakley as executor - or if deceased - her sister Miss Laura Mary Cooper (In an envelope)".
3. 1891 England Census, showing a household including "Constance Wachtmeister Manager of Publishing Office; G.R.S. Mead, Author Journalist; Isabel Oakley, age 37, born Amritza, India, Millener; Helena Blavatsky, Authoress; and others"
4. ^ Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321
5. ""The 'K.H.' letters to Leadbetter"". Archived from the original on 2007-01-02. Retrieved 2006-12-04.

External links

• Cooper-Oakley: Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism at Sacred Texts.com
• Cooper-Oakley: Devotion at Theosophy World.com
• The Oakleys of Salop and London: The children of John Oakley and Jane Meabry: 1. John Jeffryes Oakley

• 1914 deaths
• 1854 births
• Indian Theosophists