Mirra Alfassa
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Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal y
The Mother
Mirra Alfassa as a child c. 1885
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Mirra Alfassa at the age of 24 with son Andre, circa 1902
Max Théon
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Max Théon perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, was a Polish Jewish Kabbalist and occultist. In London, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have little to do with th
Mirra Alfassa
…Paris in 1878 to a bourgeois Sephardi Jewish family from Turkey. In her youth, she traveled to Algeria to practice occultism along with the occultist Max Théon. After returning to Paris, Alfassa guided a group of spiritual seekers. In 1914, she traveled to Pondicherry, India, and met Sri Aurobindo. She identified…
Théon in Algeria