This article argues that the career and writings of the Ulster unionist propagandist and man of letters Hugh Shearman (1915–99) were influenced by his commitment to theosophy, which he saw as a logical extension of Protestant belief in private judgement. His work as a publicist echoed theosophist preoccupation with illusion and the perceptions accessible to initiates. Many of his writings displayed theosophist in-jokes, esoteric references and mental reservations. His apologias reflected theosophist belief in the breaking down of personality compartmentalisation in order to merge with the world-soul. Shearman saw the Irish republic as the ‘Pakistan of the West’, represented by him as embodying self-destructive insularity shaped by Catholic authoritarianism. In response to the 1940s anti-partition campaign, Shearman developed an apologia for the Stormont government as an essentially progressive technocracy, which he saw as culminating in the regime of Terence O'Neill. This article uses previously unexplored writings to track Shearman's life and career into the 1990s, when he is shown to have combined a view of the Irish question formed in the 1940s with a semi-conspiratorial unionist narrative of British betrayal.

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安特里姆的“大天使”：休·希尔曼、通神论者的看法和阿尔斯特工会主义公共关系

本文认为，阿尔斯特工会宣传家和文学家休·谢尔曼（1915-99 年）的职业生涯和著作受到他对神智学的承诺的影响，他认为这是新教对私人判断的信仰的逻辑延伸。他作为公关人员的工作与通神论者对幻觉和入门者可获得的感知的关注相呼应。他的许多著作都显示了通神论者的笑话、深奥的参考文献和思想上的保留。他的道歉反映了神智论者相信打破人格划分以与世界灵魂融合。希尔曼将爱尔兰共和国视为“西方的巴基斯坦”，以他为代表，体现了由天主教威权主义塑造的自我毁灭的孤立主义。为响应 1940 年代的反分区运动，Shearman 为 Stormont 政府辩解为本质上是进步的技术官僚，他认为这在特伦斯·奥尼尔（Terence O'Neill）的政权中达到顶峰。本文使用以前未被探索的著作来追踪希尔曼 1990 年代的生活和职业生涯，当时他被证明将 1940 年代形成的爱尔兰问题的观点与英国背叛的半阴谋工会主义叙述结合起来。