Geoffrey Hodson

His occult experiences began when he was about five or six years old. He had dream experiences in the half waking state and this seemed to be connected with Kundalini. Kundalini is the power of life, one of the great forces. It is also known as the Serpent Fire.

He served with distinction in the British Army as an Officer during the First World War as a tank commander, which experience seems to have prompted him to spend his life attempting to eradicate the causes of wars and suffering through his teachings and insights. Following demobilisation he married Miss Jane Carter and he joined the YMCA Secretariat. It was around this time he met a Mrs Mary De La Middleton, who said that her own Master, the Master Rakoczy, had instructed her to show him how to awaken clairvoyance when required, focus it at different levels, project energies and heal others. It was at this stage Geoffrey Hodson with his wife toured Lancashire on his motorcycle and sidecar making detailed notes on the various types of fairies and nature spirits there. This culminated when he was on holiday in the beautiful valley of Sheepscombe. There he and his wife studied the angelic kingdom and he received teachings from a very highly evolved angel. This was the beginning of his work with the angelic kingdom. He wrote many, many books about his investigations there and the angelic teachings given him throughout his life.

In 1937 he traveled to South Africa to stay with friends Mr and Mrs Quail and their daughter Ethelwynne who was an artist. Under Hodson’s guidance she painted the illustrations (about 29) for his book, The Kingdom of the Gods. Hodson then went to Australia to be with his wife Jane, who since 1929 had progressive paralysis due to multiple sclerosis. She died in 1962. He served there as president of the Blavatsky Lodge, and a Perth theosophist Miss Sandra Chase offered to take care of his wife. In 1940 he was invited by the New Zealand section to tour the main centres. While in New Zealand he became the founder and president of the New Zealand Vegetarian Society. He was also elected president of the Council of Combined Animal Welfare Organisations of New Zealand.

He was the author over fifty books (many still in print) on psychic powers, Theosophy, Spiritualism, mysticism, fairies, angels, meditation, clairvoyance, health and disease.

He also wrote over two hundred articles and radio talks. He travelled the world extensively lecturing for the Theosophical Society.

Hodson also served as the Director of Studies of the School of the Wisdom at the International Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, India, for four sessions, in 1953-54, then in 1954-1955 and again in 1961. Hodson was a guest lecturer at the Krotona School of Theosophy in Ojai, California.

He was awarded the Subba Row Gold Medal in 1954 for his contributions to Theosophical Literature.

He gave his last lecture, on 4 May 1982 at HPB Lodge in Auckland, aged 96, and eight months later he died in Auckland, on January 23, 1983.