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Elvis &
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A Radio 3 programme in 2005 “Travels
with Blavatsky” made the rather surprising claim that Elvis Presley was
interested in the writings of H P Blavatsky and Theosophy. A claim being made
in a BBC documentary should have some credibility and I did some research
It seems that several Elvis websites
confirm Elvis’s interest in Theosophy and one site even claims he was a member
of the Society but gives no details. I also found this extract from a biography:- Elvis by Albert Harry Goldman
“Elvis traveled with a portable bookcase
containing over 200 volumes of his favorite books. The books most commonly
associated with him were books promoting pagan religion, such as The Prophet
by Kahilil Gibran; Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda; The Mystical
Christ by Manley Palmer; The Life and Teachings of the Master of the Far
East by Baird Spalding; The Inner Life by Leadbeater; The First and
Last Freedom by Krishnamurti; The Urantia Book; The Rosicrucian
Cosmo-Conception; the Book of Numbers by Cheiro; and Esoteric
Healing by Alice Bailey. Elvis was a great fan of occultist Madame
Blavatsky. He was so taken with Blavatsky's book The Voice of Silence,
which contains the supposed translation of ancient occultic Tibetan incantations, that he "sometimes read from it onstage
and was inspired by it to name his own gospel group, Voice"
An online bookstore gives a list of “Books Elvis Read”
and these include Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and Leadbeater’s
Masters and the Path as well as the books listed above. G I Gurdieff’s Meetings With
Remarkable Men and Max Freedom Long’s Huna
Code In Religions are also listed
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