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Annie Besant

Annie Besant

Activist and former president of Indian National CongressWikipedia

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Sep 12, 2026

John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:24
Besides, at present, he's got Nietzsche on the brain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:28
I don't care whether Annie Besant and William Jennings Bryan occupy lofts in his upper story, said Twain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:38
I had promised von Wersen, the general and Mark's relation, not to talk about that jamboree and the worms, if interested, will have to turn burglars and jimmy my brain cells where memories of the banquet are stored, for I swear I'll leave no skeleton key.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
24:01
Pshaw, you are still sore because Willie wouldn't let you get in a word edgewise, said Stoker.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:44
The other wise will do as they please.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
3:48
Annie Besant End of Preface CHAPTER I. I want, if I can, to put before you certain ideas which you should cultivate, and which would give you a definite and intelligent conception of true spiritual life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
4:18
I think all of you realize that to create, as you must create if you would live, there must be struggle and discontent.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
4:26
and in guiding these to their fruition you must cultivate your own point of view your own tendencies your own abilities and for this i desire to arouse in each that voice that tyrant the only true guide that will help you to create most of you prefer it is a much easier way to copy most of you like to follow most of you find it much easier not to cultivate your own tendencies your own qualities your own natures but rather to follow blindly and i think you will agree with me that it is fatal for the development of the voice The noblest guide each of us has is this voice, this tyrant, this intuition.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
20:04
And so the Society tided over the summer without having to close its doors, but also without having added anything whatever to the general stock of information on socialism in contemporary literature.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
20:17
After this I cannot claim that my paper on Ibsen, which was duly read at the St. James's Restaurant on the 18th July 1890, under the presidency of Mrs. Annie Besant, and which was the first form of this little book, is an original work in the sense of being the result of a spontaneous internal impulse on my part.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
20:38
Having purposely couched it in the most provocative terms, of which traces may be found by the curious in its present state, I did not attach much importance to the somewhat lively debate that arose upon it, and I had laid it aside as a pièce d'occasion which had served its turn, when the production of Rosmer's Home at the Vaudeville Theatre by Florence Farr, the inauguration of the Independent Theatre by Mr. J.T. Grine with a performance of Ghosts, and the sensation created by the experiment of Elizabeth Robbins and Marian Lea with Hedda Gabler, started a frantic newspaper controversy, in which I could see no sign of any of the disputants having ever been forced by circumstances, as I had, to make up his mind definitely as to what Ibsen's plays meant, and to defend his view face to face with some of the keenest debaters in London.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
21:31
I allowed due weight to the fact that Ibsen himself has not enjoyed this Fabian advantage.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
46:57
Sidney Webb and Sidney Olivier become members.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
47:01
Mrs. Annie Besant, Shaw's second tract, the Tory Gold controversy, what socialism is, the Fabian Conference of 1886, Sidney Webb's first contribution, the government organization of unemployed labor.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
47:19
The Fabian Society was founded for the purpose of reconstructing society based on the competitive system in such a manner as to secure the general welfare and happiness.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
47:29
It is worth noting that the word socialism had not yet appeared in its records, and it is not until the sixth meeting held on 21st of March 1884 that the word first appears in the minutes as the title of a paper by Miss Caroline Haddon, The Two Socialisms, to which is appended a note in the handwriting of Sidney Olivier.

16 MINS LATER

Robert MorrellNARRATOR
64:06
The society is now finding its feet.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
64:08
On April 17th it had been resolved to send a delegate to examine into and report upon the South Yorkshire miners, and on the same day it was determined to get up a soiree.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
64:19
This gathering held in Gower Street was memorable because it was attended by Mrs. Annie Besant, then notorious as an advocate of atheism and Malthusianism, the heroine of several famous law cases and a friend and colleague of Charles Bradlaugh.
Robert MorrellNARRATOR
64:35
Mrs. Besant was elected a member a few weeks later, and she completed the list of the seven who subsequently wrote Fabian Essays, with the exception of Graham Wallace, who did not join the society until April 1886.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
16:59
And so the Society tided over the summer without having to close its doors, but also without having added anything whatever to the general stock of information on Socialism and Contemporary Literature.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
17:12
After this I cannot claim that my paper on Ibsen, which was duly read at the St. James's Restaurant on the 18th July 1890, under the presidency of Mrs. Annie Besant, and which was the first form of this little book, is an original work in the sense of being the result of a spontaneous internal impulse on my part.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
17:33
Having purposely couched it in the most provocative terms, of which traces may be found by the curious in its present state, I did not attach much importance to the somewhat lively debate that arose upon it, and I had laid it aside as a pièce d'occasion which had served its turn, when the production of Rosmer's Home at the Vaudeville Theatre by Florence Farr, the inauguration of the Independent Theatre by Mr. J.T. Grine with a performance of Ghosts, and the sensation created by the experiment of Elizabeth Robbins and Marion Lee with Hedda Gabler, started a frantic newspaper controversy, in which I could see no sign of any of the disputants having ever been forced by circumstances, as I had, to make up his mind definitely as to what Ibsen's plays meant, and to defend his view face to face with some of the keenest debaters in London.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
18:26
I allowed due weight to the fact that Ibsen himself has not enjoyed this Fabian advantage, but I have also shown that the existence of a discoverable and perfectly definite thesis in a poet's work by no means depends on the completeness of his own intellectual consciousness of it.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:41
Besides, at present, he's got Nietzsche on the brain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:45
I don't care whether Annie Besant and William Jennings Bryan occupy lofts in his upper story, said Twain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
23:55
I had promised von Wersen, the general and Mark's relation, not to talk about that jamboree and the worms, if interested, will have to turn burglars and jimmy my brain cells, where memories of the banquet are stored, for I swear I'll leave no skeleton key.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
24:18
"Pshaw, you are still sore because Willie wouldn't let you get in a word edgewise," said Stoker.
Matthew EhretHOST
13:20
Some of the key figures who played a key role in, uh, that greater Israel ag- agenda a century ago with King Edward VII, at the time still Prince Edward Albert, um, were people like Sir Charles Warren, one of the top Grand Master Freemasons of the world, featured on the left, highly decorated.
Matthew EhretHOST
13:39
Uh, at the right was Sir Walter Besant, the brother-in-law and handler, uh, I would say, of, uh, Annie Besant, uh, the woman who would go on to replace Madame Blavatsky at the Theosophists, both of whom not only were co- uh, controllers of the, um, Palestinian Exploration Fund, set up in 1862 to, uh, set the stage for the eventual creation of Israel, but also the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, featured there as a l- as a, an emblem in the middle.
Matthew EhretHOST
14:09
They founded that in the 1880s, and that became the Freemasonic Research Lodge, which created pretty much all biblical a- archeology.
Matthew EhretHOST
14:17
The field that you know of today as biblical archeology is entirely shaped top-down by this institution here.

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Matthew EhretHOST
26:11
So he's, he was on the oversight committee that created the official Buddhist flag that is, that is flown today.
Matthew EhretHOST
26:17
So very, very incredible influence that these guys had.
Matthew EhretHOST
26:20
Uh, Annie Besant, I might even add, who replaced Blavatsky as the head of Theosophists, even became the leader of the Indian, uh, Congress Party, the so-called Independence Party of India that captured all of the different, uh, revolutionary fervor of those who didn't like the abuse and the genocide they'd been suffering under British, British rule for so long.
Matthew EhretHOST
26:41
And, uh, and she even became the president of that.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:14
The otherwise will do as they please.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:17
Annie Besant End of Preface CHAPTER I. I want, if I can, to put before you certain ideas which you should cultivate, and which would give you a definite and intelligent conception of true spiritual life.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:48
I think all of you realize that to create, as you must create if you would live, there must be struggle and discontent.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
2:56
and in guiding these to their fruition you must cultivate your own point of view your own tendencies your own abilities and for this i desire to arouse in each that voice that tyrant the only true guide that will help you to create most of you prefer it is a much easier way to copy most of you like to follow most of you find it much easier not to cultivate your own tendencies your own qualities your own natures but rather to follow blindly and i think you will agree with me that it is fatal for the development of the voice The noblest guide each of us has is this voice, this tyrant, this intuition.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
24:24
Besides, at present he's got Nietzsche on the brain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
24:29
I don't care whether Annie Besant and William Jennings Bryan occupy lofts in his upper story, said Twain.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
24:39
I had promised von Versen, the general and Mark's relation, not to talk about that jamboree, and the worms, if interested, will have to turn burglars and jimmy my brain cells where memories of the banquet are stored, for I swear I'll leave no skeleton key.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
25:01
Pshaw, you are still sore because Willie wouldn't let you get in a word edgewise, said Stoker.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
3:29
The other wise will do as they please.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
3:32
Annie Besant End of Preface CHAPTER I. I want, if I can, to put before you certain ideas which you should cultivate, and which would give you a definite and intelligent conception of true spiritual life.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
4:03
I think all of you realize that to create, as you must create if you would live, there must be struggle and discontent.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
4:11
and in guiding these to their fruition you must cultivate your own point of view your own tendencies your own abilities and for this i desire to arouse in each that voice that tyrant the only true guide that will help you to create most of you prefer it is a much easier way to copy most of you like to follow most of you find it much easier not to cultivate your own tendencies your own qualities your own natures but rather to follow blindly and i think you will agree with me that it is fatal for the development of the voice The noblest guide each of us has is this voice, this tyrant, this intuition.

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