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'''Harriet Isabella (Isabel) Cooper-Oakley<ref>Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford, Alan Pert, 2006, pg 104</ref><ref>http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/1e6c817e-409e-4b6f-af72-d3a40870f273</ref>''' (31 January 1854 – 3 March 1914), was a prominent [[Theosophical Society|Theosophist]] and author.<ref>[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6598&path=London.St+Marylebone.St+John.13.20&fn=G%20R%20S&ln=Mead&st=r&pid=11803186&rc=&zp=75 1891 England Census]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, showing a household including "[[Constance Wachtmeister]] Manager of Publishing Office; G.R.S. Mead, Author Journalist; Isabel Oakley, age 37, born Amritza, India, Millener; [[Helena Blavatsky]], Authoress; and others"</ref><br />
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She was born in [[Amritsar]], [[British India|India]] to (Frederic) Henry Cooper, C.B., commissioner of [[Lahore]]<ref>Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321</ref> and his wife Mary (née Steel), receiving a good education because of her father's belief in the value of education for women.<ref>Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321</ref> 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.<ref>Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Marion Meade, Putnam, 1980, pg 321</ref> She went on to study at [[Girton College, Cambridge]], and 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, Chennai|Adyar]], India, as an assistant to [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. He left to become Registrar of the [[University of Madras]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tphta.ws/CWL_KHLE.HTM |title="The 'K.H.' letters to Leadbetter" |access-date=2006-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102051139/http://www.tphta.ws/CWL_KHLE.HTM |archive-date=2007-01-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sometime in the late 1890s, [[G.R.S. Mead]] became her brother-in-law when he married her sister, another prominent Theosophist, Laura Cooper.<br />
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Isabel Cooper-Oakley died on March 3, 1914, at [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
*Count of Saint-Germain, {{ISBN|0-7661-0101-0}}<br />
*The Count of St. Germain: Mystic and Philosopher, {{ISBN|1-4253-3280-3}}<br />
*Masonry and Medieval Mysticism: Traces of a Hidden Tradition, {{ISBN|1-56459-643-5}}<br />
*The Troubadours and Freemasonry, {{ISBN|1-4253-1617-4}}<br />
*The Tradition of the Knights Templar Received in Masonry, {{ISBN|1-4253-1616-6}}<br />
*Towards the Hidden Sources of Masonry, {{ISBN|1-4253-1615-8}}<br />
*An Introduction to Masonry and Mysticism, {{ISBN|1-4253-1614-X}}<br />
*Freemasonry and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Holy Grail, {{ISBN|1-4253-1618-2}}<br />
*The Count of Saint-Germain and Tragical Prophecies, {{ISBN|1-4253-3281-1}}<br />
*Masonic Tradition and the Count of Saint-Germain, {{ISBN|1-4253-3283-8}}<br />
*Secret Writings and Ciphers, {{ISBN|1-4253-4024-5}}<br />
*The Count of Saint-Germain and His Political Work, {{ISBN|1-4253-3282-X}}<br />
*Mystical Traditions, {{ISBN|0-7661-0346-3}}<br />
*Studies in the "secret doctrine"<br />
*The Mystical Traditions and Masonry and Medieval Mysticism, {{ISBN|1-4254-5390-2}}<br />
*Samkhya and Yoga Philosophy<br />
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==External links==<br />
* Cooper-Oakley: [http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/mmm/index.htm ''Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Medieval Mysticism''] at Sacred Texts.com<br />
* Cooper-Oakley: [http://www.theos-world.com/archives/html/tw199812.html#ARTICLE0357 ''Devotion''] at Theosophy World.com<br />
* http://theoakleysofsalopandlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/children-of-john-oakley-and-jane-meabry.html<br />
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