Isabel Cooper-Oakley

Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley^[1][2] (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent Theosophist and author.^[3]

Isabel Cooper-Oakley c. 1884

She was born in Amritsar, India to (Frederic) Henry Cooper, C.B., commissioner of Lahore^[4] and his wife Mary (née Steel), receiving a good education because of her father's belief in the value of education for women.^[4] She had suffered a severe injury in an accident aged 23 which prevented her from walking for two years, during which time she intensified her reading.^[4] She went on to study at Girton College, Cambridge. Whilst at the university, she met — and later married — fellow student Alfred John Oakley. They then both changed their surname to Cooper-Oakley. Alfred stayed some years at Adyar, India, as an assistant to Henry Steel Olcott. He left to become Registrar of the University of Madras.^[5] Sometime in the late 1890s, G.R.S. Mead became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.

Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at Budapest, Hungary.

Works

• Count of Saint-Germain, ISBN 0-7661-0101-0
• The Count of St. Germain: Mystic and Philosopher, (1912) ISBN 1-4253-3280-3
• Masonry and Medieval Mysticism: Traces of a Hidden Tradition, ISBN 1-56459-643-5
• The Troubadours and Freemasonry, ISBN 1-4253-1617-4
• The Tradition of the Knights Templar Received in Masonry, ISBN 1-4253-1616-6
• Towards the Hidden Sources of Masonry, ISBN 1-4253-1615-8
• An Introduction to Masonry and Mysticism, ISBN 1-4253-1614-X
• Freemasonry and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Holy Grail, ISBN 1-4253-1618-2
• The Count of Saint-Germain and Tragical Prophecies, ISBN 1-4253-3281-1
• Masonic Tradition and the Count of Saint-Germain, ISBN 1-4253-3283-8
• Secret Writings and Ciphers, ISBN 1-4253-4024-5
• The Count of Saint-Germain and His Political Work, ISBN 1-4253-3282-X
• Mystical Traditions, ISBN 0-7661-0346-3
• Studies in the "secret doctrine"
• The Mystical Traditions and Masonry and Medieval Mysticism, ISBN 1-4254-5390-2
• Samkhya and Yoga Philosophy