Mirra Alfassa, later Mirra Morisset and Mirra Richard (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), also known as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

She came to Sri Aurobindo's retreat on 29 March 1914 in Pondicherry, India. Having to leave Pondicherry during World War I, she spent most of her time in Japan where she met the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Finally she returned to Pondicherry and settled there in 1920. After 24 November 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she founded his ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), with a handful of disciples living around the Master. She became the leader of the community, a position she held until her death. The Trust she had registered after Sri Aurobindo's death in 1950 continues to look after the institution.

The experiences of the last thirty years of Alfassa's life were captured in the 13-volume work The Agenda. In those years she attempted the physical transformation of her body in order to become what she felt was the first of a new type of human individual by opening to the Supramental Truth Consciousness, a new power of spirit that Sri Aurobindo had allegedly discovered. Sri Aurobindo considered her an incarnation of the Mother Divine and called her by that name: the Mother. When asked why he called her the Mother, Sri Aurobindo wrote an essay The Mother by introduction to the Mother's person. That's how she came be known as the Mother.

Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950), born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose (Bengali: অরবিন্দ ঘোষ Ôrobindo Ghosh), was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress and spiritual evolution.

The central theme of Aurobindo's vision was the evolution of human life into life divine. He wrote: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of nature's process."

Aurobindo's writings synthesized Eastern and Western philosophy, religion, literature, and psychology. Aurobindo was the first Indian to create a major literary corpus in English.His works include philosophy; poetry; translations of and commentaries on the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Gita; plays; literary, social, political, and historical criticism; devotional works; spiritual journals and three volumes of letters. His principal philosophical writings are The Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga, while his principal poetic work is Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol.

Boaz Huss (born 1959) is a scholar of Kabbalah. He is associate professor in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev.

Boaz Huss was born in Jerusalem, in 1959. He studied Philosophy and History of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, and earned his PhD in 1993. Since 1996 he teaches at the Goldstein-Goren department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University.

Huss studies the history of Kabbalah from a cultural studies perspective. He published several studies about the Zohar and its` reception history. His first monograph was dedicated to the Kabbalah of Rabbi Shimon Lavi, one of the first commentators of the Zohar. In his second monograph he examined the reception of the Zohar and the construction of its symbolic value. Huss was one of the first scholars to research modern and contemporary forms of Kabbalah which were neglected in Kabbalah scholarship. He wrote about the communist Kabbalah of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, about Kabbalistic motifs used by Madonna, and about the New Age and Postmodern characteristic of contemporary Kabbalah. He is currently engaged in a research project of Kabbalah and the Theosophical Society. Huss also studied the history of Kabbalah research, and criticized the use of the term "Mysticism" as the defining category of Kabbalah and Hasidism, and the theological framework of the academic study of Jewish Mysticism.