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The Thellussonist Society
The modern day Thellusson philosophy and the Thellussonist Society was founded at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1936 by Simon Walter Lamb who claimed to have been the spiritual reincarnation of it’s original founder Troy Thomas Thellusson. Through the practice and teaching of Troy’s The Paragrin Man (1852), as a a spiritual self-advancement and dynamic prayer, (which the Thellunssonist Society is principally based upon) Lamb came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new phase and development of global consciousness that is now commonly known as Noosphere.

The Paragrin Man, Octagon Press, Oxford (1852). In The Paragrin Man Troy postulates that the universe was constantly developing towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, (later Troy’s theory would be taken up by Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) a theory of evolution that Troy called the Laws of the Paragrins. Troy believed the universe can only move in the direction towards a higher complexity of consciousness if it is being drawn by a supreme point of thought. Troy postulates the Paragrin priest Firnmansdia and the Paragrin Temple (Silver Point) on the planet Mars as this supreme point, and the Temple of Poseidon (Ποσειδιον) at Soúnio as being an Earth recipient of it’s knowledge and powers.

Background: Troy Thomas Thellusson.

Troy Thomas Thellusson was born in Rome in 1829, spent his childhood in Yorkshire and Brighton and was the eventual heir to a famously disputed fortune, over which a protracted, very public battle was fought in the High Court for almost 40 years - see Brodsworth Hall. Educated at York Grammar and then on to Kings College Cambridge in 1851. In May of 1852 Troy was expelled on academic grounds from Kings College. Troy worked for a while for the Octagon Brotherhood (Christchurch, Oxford), by helping to finance its monthly publication (The Golden Incantation). Over several years the Brotherhood had allegedly generated huge quantities of communications with advanced intelligences of the Paragrins (Martians) via automatic writing. The same year Troy began to work on the The Paragrin Man. On the 4th May 1854, Troy suffered an untimely stroke at his home after a full day's work on the Human Drone. He never regained consciousness, and the next day, on 5th May Troy died. Nine years after Troy's death Theophilus Carter* moved the Octagon Brotherhood to Cambridge and renamed the society/cult 'The Thellussonist' the meetings and communications with the Paragrins where held at the Star Lodge, Parker Library Corpus Christi College (it is unknown why the Library was chosen). Carter set up the Troy Press in which they began hand-printing books. During the 1860s, the Troy Press grew from a hobby of the Carter and the Thellussonists to a business when they began using commercial printers. But sadly due to ill health In 1872 Carter relinquished his interest in the business and the following year (1873) the Thellussonists disbanded and the printing press was broken up and thrown into the river Cam.

Text compiled by Emma Darbyshire (Fitzwilliam Museum).