Born on November 11, 1935, in central New Jersey where he attended school in Burlington, Edward Abdill first learned about Theosophy from the instructor of his two-year Spanish college course, a Peruvian woman who was a member of the Spanish-language branch of the Theosophical Society in New York. In 1956 after completion of his Spanish studies, Abdill was drafted into the U.S. Army for two years. His first year in the Army was spent with the counter intelligence agency in Ft. Mead, Maryland, and during his second year with the Staff Judge Advocate office in Korea, just north of Seoul.

After being discharged from the Army, Abdill moved back to New York City and got a job as a Spanish-English tele-typist with a sugar brokerage on Wall Street. The following five years were vital not only to the development of Abdill’s career, but to his spiritual life as well. Through his work with the Cuisinaire Company of America, a mathematics teaching aid company, he became acquainted with the company’s founder, Fritz Kunz, a prominent Theosophist in New York. Kunz believed that the Cuisinaire rods, the mathematics tools they manufactured, validated Plato's idea that knowledge lies within the human being, and that students could "see" the mathematical principles illustrated by the rods. Abdill eventually worked for Kunz as his secretary at the Foundation for Integrative Education, a foundation dedicated to the search for unity behind various academic disciplines.

Abdill went on to earn a Phi Beta Kappa degree in English and a Masters Degree in Latin American Studies from NYU, which subsequently led to a Spanish teaching profession in New York. Seemingly destined to devote his future to Theosophy, the New York Theosophical Society hired Abdill to manage their Quest Bookshop after he spent three years teaching Spanish. He managed the bookstore for the next 15 years, during which time he also served six years on the National Board of Directors of the Theosophical Society in America, and as President of the New York Theosophical Society for about nine years.

Since 1980, Abdill has been one of the national speakers for the Theosophical Society in America, lecturing in several other countries, including Australia, Brazil, England, and New Zealand. He and his wife, Mary, are certified teachers of the Royal Scottish Dance Society and live in midtown Manhattan. He currently presents courses on Theosophy at the New York Theosophical Society. His study guide and video course, Foundations of the Ageless Wisdom, is used internationally and available through The Theosophical Society in America.

• Adepts: Our Brothers (CD)
• Awakening the Inner Self (DVD)
• Conscious Evolution (CD)
• Dharma: The Lodestar of Life (CD)
• The Ecumenical Path: Zoraostrianism (DVD)
• The Ecumenical Path: Islam (DVD)
• Esoteric Gems in Western Scripture and Liturgy (CD)
• Foundations of Ageless Wisdom: Pts 1-5 (DVD)
• Foundations of Theosophy: Pts 1-6 (CD)
• Guideposts for Living: Voice of the Silence (DVD)
• Inner Dimensions: Pts 1-2 (CD)
• Introduction to Study of the Secret Doctrine: Pts. 1-6 (CD)
• Introduction to Study ofThe Secret Doctrine (DVD)
• Key to the Wisdom (CD)
• Key to the Wisdom Pts 1-5 (CD)
• Mahatma Letters: Pts 1-6 (CD)
• Masters, Salvation and Us (CD)
• Mystic Path to Inner Peace (CD)
• The Mystic Path to Inner Peace (DVD)
• The Objects Unveiled (CD)
• The Objects Unveiled (DVD)
• Revelation, the Timeless Flash (CD)
• Revelation, the Timeless Flash (DVD)
• The Secret Gateway: Modern Theosophy and the Ancient Wisdom Tradition
• The Secret Gateway (DVD)
• Silent Master (CD)
• The Still Point Between Good & Evil (CD)
• The Still Point Between Good & Evil (DVD)
• Synchronicity: Gateway to Opportunity (CD)
• To Live to Benefit Mankind (CD)

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