Talk:Brother XII

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Also Canadian Theosophist?

I'm not trying to be nationalist about this, but since his escapades occurred in Canada and he would have to be the most famous Theosophist ever to be around these parts (other than Yeats or Blavatsky through on the Grand Tour). His "nationality" at the time is irrelevant, somewhat, because in those days a Briton had full rights, as a British subject, within Canada and did not need to be nationalized to Canadian citizenship; he was as Canadian as anyone else here, essentially, like the many Scots and English neighbours we had in the places I'm from who may or may not have naturalized to Canadian; many didn't and it didn't matter. Anyway, the point is that maybe he should be in Category:Canadian Theosophists as well?Skookum1 (talk) 04:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Only if he became a Canadian citizen. As you say, he was a British citizen, not a Canadian one. He had the right to reside in Canada, not to call himself Canadian. He was English. Yworo (talk) 02:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Becoming a "Canadian citiizen" was something quite different before the passage of the Citizenship Act in 1947. He would have had the right to call himself that. Eclecticology (talk) 19:15, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Question

The article mentions something about him being the reincarnation of Osiris, were those his words (and if so, can we get an exact quotation from a reliable source?), or is that a typo, as I'm not sure someone who was never incarnate (Osiris) can be reincarnated. My final suggestion may be to replace "reincarnation" in the article with "incarnation." panth0r (talk) 03:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

His wife/mistress definitely appears in print and their own works as the Reincarnation of Isis, I don't recall teh specifics of his own self-styling as he preferred "Brother XII" and something else - "the Master" perhaps...and I beg to differ on Osiris - he was after all a body at some point, or else Isis would never have had to sew his hacked-together pieces back together again; "he was never incarnate" doesn't jibe with my conception of the Egyptian notion of gods either; they were not immanent or immaterial, they were reality, not an abstraction or disembodied; the whole point of the immortality of the body was because of that; if "being spiritual" meant not placing a value on mateiral existence, or emulating Osiris' own immortalization=after-death by his wife, then mummification would have been irrelevant, likewise the lavish grave goods and tombs. Not sure what hte Book of Thoth or the Book of the Dead have to say about this, but I think you're quite wrong about osiris "never being incarnate".Skookum1 (talk) 04:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Photo

Can we get a photo of him? https://brotherxii.com/images/XII.jpg This is him in his 40s 151.200.243.67 (talk) 18:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC)