Read her magnificent bio on New World.
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Alice Ann Bailey, often called AAB, was a woman ahead of her time. Born June 16, 1880 as Alice LaTrobe-Bateman in Manchester, England at what we have reckoned to be 9:50 pm. She first married fellow Christian evangelist British Walter Evans but this union ended in divorce as Bailey’s occult philosophy developed. Later, after relocating to New York, she married American Foster Bailey and had 3 children. Prescient, she coined the world “New Age” and her book on the “Law of Attraction” had Charles W Leadbeater, founder of the Catholic Liberal Church wild in agreement. James Allen’s New Thought classic,…
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Jesse Lasky’s nickname could have been goldfinger, for he was born with the golden touch. That was not exactly what his parents, Ike and Sarah Lasky had in mind about striking gold in the “New Country” when newly arrived in New York City because of the Russian Pogroms, they set out for the Yukon to pan for gold, but it worked for him. For, like his parents, Jesse was always the opportunist, panning for gold. First, he opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, (he changed it to Goldwyn years later and founded…
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Eva Adams's book a Place in the Sun highlights the chart of Congenital Idiot. What does it say?
