 Second, possibly in reaction to the Christian orthodoxy prevailing at the High School for Boys, Findlay began reading the theosophists, including Madame Blavatsky, and, one after another, Max Müller’s “Sacred Books of the East”, adding “a little Sanskrit” to his linguistic repertoire. Findlay’s affection for Buddhism and Hinduism was lifelong, and his disaffection with monotheism was also lifelong. It motivated his most discussed article, “Can God’s Existence Be Disproved?” (1948a) the title of which was emended by Ryle from the submitted original, “A Disproof of the Existence of  God”.[4]  But Findlay was more drawn to the metaphysics of the theosophists, which he identified with Neoplatonism, than to their spiritual exercises, and his interest in Madame Blavatsky was guarded. Nevertheless, Findlay later remarked that his Gifford lectures were theosophy, with all the defective points left out.