The Seba library treats Avalon in 7 passages, across 3 authors (including Campbell, Joseph, Zimmer, Heinrich, Jung, Carl Gustav).
Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe), The Serpent Power, 3rd rev. edn. (Madras: Ganesh and Co., 1931), p. m, note 2.
Campbell cites Arthur Avalon’s The Serpent Power as the foundational English-language source for Tantric subtle-body doctrine, deploying it to support comparative analysis of chakra symbolism alongside Jungian mandala theory.
, The Mythic Image, 1974thesis
The classic exposition in English is by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe), The Serpent Power (Madras: Ganesh & Co.; London: Luzak, 1913, 3rd rev. ed. 1931).
Campbell identifies Arthur Avalon’s The Serpent Power as the canonical English authority on Kundalini and Tantric practice, grounding his own cross-cultural metaphysical arguments in Avalon’s scholarship.
, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion, 1986thesis
Avalon Art Reference Bureau … Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). The Serpent Power, 3rd rev. edn. (Madras [India]: Ganesh and Co., 1931).
Campbell’s apparatus explicitly credits Arthur Avalon as a primary visual and textual source for Tantric imagery reproduced in The Mythic Image, confirming the centrality of Avalon’s work to Campbell’s iconographic project.
, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting
of The Principles of Tantra (edited by Arthur Avalon, 2 vols., London, 1914-1916) … Cited by Arthur Avalon, The Great Liberation, Madras, 1927, p. 109, note.
Zimmer draws on multiple Avalon-edited volumes to establish formal and doctrinal parallels between Tantric ritual and Christian liturgy, positioning Avalon as the indispensable scholarly bridge between traditions.
, Philosophies of India, 1951supporting
Avalon, Arthur (pseud. of Sir John George Woodroffe with others), 20, 184n
Jung’s index in The Practice of Psychotherapy identifies Arthur Avalon as a pseudonym for Sir John George Woodroffe, citing him as a scholarly source bearing on the psychological and alchemical themes of the transference essays.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954supporting
Woodroffe, Sir John, 70n see also Avalon, Arthur (pseudonym)
Jung’s index cross-references Woodroffe and Avalon as a single authority, embedding the Tantric scholarship within the conceptual architecture of The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959supporting
Cf. the Shrī-Chakra-Sambhara Tantra, in Avalon, ed., Tantric Texts, VII.
Jung references Avalon’s editorship of the Tantric Texts series when discussing symbolic structures of the chakra system in relation to Western psychological and religious categories.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting