Light-Bearers of Darkness

About this book

A hidden network, the author claims, is working behind modern religious movements. Yoga, Theosophy and international politics are pulled together into an elaborate conspiracy in Light-Bearers of Darkness.

Published in 1930 under the name Inquire Within, this polemic turns ideological suspicion into a universal explanation. Its assertions about religious and political groups are prejudicial and unsupported, and should be read as evidence of the period's conspiracy culture. The text is especially telling in the speed with which unrelated institutions become parts of a single supposed design. Its historical importance lies in the rhetoric of fear it preserves.