Max Theon, drawn by Mirra
Recalling her experiences with Théon, the Mother told Satprem the following: “He had assumed two names: one was an Arab name he had adopted when he took refuge in Algeria (I don’t know for what reason). After having worked with Blavatsky and having founded an occult society in Egypt, he went to Algeria, and there he first called himself ‘Aia Aziz’ (a word of Arabic origin meaning ‘the beloved’). Then, when he began setting up his Cosmic Review and his ‘cosmic group,’ he called himself Max Théon, meaning the supreme God (!), the greatest God! And no one knew him by any other name than these two—Aia Aziz or Max Théon.”

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