Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) - student and follower of Helena Blavatsky, for twenty-six years - president of the Theosophical Society, author of many striking works on Theosophy. Annie Besant's books take the reader into a treasury of ancient wisdom and hidden knowledge. “But if you want to know, not only hope, not only desire, not only believe, but know with a certainty and a conviction that cannot waver, then you must seek the Divine spirit not outside, but inside yourself.”