So far as I know, they are the last books that Atkinson published under his own name. Indeed, they and his Theron Q. Dumont titles seem to be the only books Atkinson wrote after 1914. Apart from them, his enormous productivity seems to have all happened within a span of 14 years, 1901-1914.
I, like Philip Deslippe, think that the books by "Swami Panchadasi" and "Swami Bhakta Vishita" are not by Atkinson at all. Deslippe has apparently heard from someone who had first-hand knowledge of their authorship that the true author of these books was a certain Claude Alexander Colin (1880-1954), a very interesting figure who was both a very accomplished stage-magician and a knowledgeable occultist, and who founded the the Crystal Silence League. (There is a not-too-bad Wikipedia article on him.) This, too, is a question that needs more research.
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Date: 2018-04-29 04:28 pm (UTC)I, like Philip Deslippe, think that the books by "Swami Panchadasi" and "Swami Bhakta Vishita" are not by Atkinson at all. Deslippe has apparently heard from someone who had first-hand knowledge of their authorship that the true author of these books was a certain Claude Alexander Colin (1880-1954), a very interesting figure who was both a very accomplished stage-magician and a knowledgeable occultist, and who founded the the Crystal Silence League. (There is a not-too-bad Wikipedia article on him.) This, too, is a question that needs more research.