Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, British Ceylon – 18 June 1953, United States) was a Ceylonese author, occultist, freemason and theosophist.

His interests and writings included religion, philosophy, literature, art, science and occult chemistry.

[2] Jinarajadasa was born on 16 December 1875 in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) to a family of Sinhalese parents.

Around 1904 he visited Chicago, where he met and influenced Weller van Hook, the well-known surgeon and author, who then became a theosophist.

During his lifetime, Jinarajadasa traveled to many countries despite all the war difficulties of that era for his devoted service to Theosophy.

[4] ”He also traveled to South America, where he lectured in Spanish and Portuguese and founded branches of the Theosophical Society (TS).

[5] On 11 November 1916 (in Kensington, West London), Jinarajadasa married British feminist, Dorothy May Graham (née May Dorothea Graham; 19 March 1881 - 13 January 1963), who founded the Women's Indian Association (WIA) in Adyar with Annie Besant and Margaret Cousins in 1917.

By 1953, he declined renomination as president of the Theosophical Society due to poor health and installed Nilakanta Sri Ram as his successor.

He visited America where he died on 18 June 1953 at the national headquarters of the Theosophical Society, called “Olcott”.

Leadbeater joined the Theosophical Society in November 1883, and after his contact with Helena Blavatsky in London he decided to become a chela (disciple) of one of the Mahatmas.

[14] He talked later: "I waited for some months, but no reply came, and whenever I went to Eglinton's séances and happened to encounter Ernest I always asked him when I might expect my answer.

It is undeniable that the cause you have at heart is now suffering owing to the dark intrigues, the base conspiracy of the Christian clergy and missionaries against the Society.

'The ties or gratitude' will not be severed, nor even become weakened for an absence of a few months if the step be explained plausibly to your relative.

Pushed by malevolent hands to the very edge of a precipice, the Society needs every man and woman strong in the cause of truth.

Like the 'true man' of Carlyle who is not to be seduced by ease — 'difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act' during the hours of trial on the heart of a true chela.

If I were to demand that you should do one thing or the other, instead of simply advising, I would be responsible for every effect that might flow from the step and you acquire but a secondary merit.

Chelas from a mistaken idea of our system too often watch and wait for orders, wasting precious time which should be taken up with personal effort.

Ernest having so conspicuously failed him, he knew of no way to get this message to the Master but to take it to Blavatsky,[note 8] and as she was to leave England on the following day for India, Leadbeater rushed up to London to see her.

I waited patiently all through the afternoon and evening, and even went with her quite late at night to Mrs. Oakley's house, where a number of friends were gathered to say farewell Madame Blavatsky sat in an easy chair by the fireside, talking brilliantly to those who were present, and rolling one of her eternal cigarettes, when suddenly her right hand was jerked out towards the fire in a very peculiar fashion, and lay palm upwards.

The letter[note 9] read: "Since your intuition led you in the right direction and made you understand that it was my desire you should go to Adyar immediately, I may say more.

[33][note 13] In this time at Colombo he received from Blavatsky a letter containing Master's addendum which was precipitated during passing through the post.

Science writer Hugh S. R. Elliot mocked Jinarajadasa's belief that every genus and species has a "group soul".