It is said that many intelligent and otherwise capable people owned the Secret Doctrine but only a handful actually understood and comprehended it in its totality. The problem is that the esteemed author, Madame Blavatsky used a prose and style that many contemporary readers would have trouble reading and understanding. The sheer size of the books is formidable. In addition the Secret Doctrine attempts to cover everything from the complete Cosmology of The Universe, God and the devil - just to name a few of the subjects. The third, also called Lost Volume of the work was published and mostly written by her disciple Annie Bessant, who naturally knew a great deal less than her Master. According to P.G.B. Bowen, Blavatsky gave the following instructions regarding the study of the Secret Doctrine: "Reading the Secret .Doctrine page by page as one reads any other book (she says) will only end us in confusion. The first thing to do, even if it takes years, is to get some grasp of the "Three Fundamental Principles" given in the Proem. Follow that up by study of the Recapitulation - the numbered items in the Summing Up to Vol. I (Part 1.) Then take the Preliminary Notes (Vol. II) and the Conclusion (Vol. II)." Reading this guide book and appendix A and B will certainly help understanding the most important book in the last two hundred years.

This book comprises six lectures delivered Annie Besant at the Theosophical Headquarters in Adyar, and was intended to offer a simple outline of the fundamental ideas of the Wisdom to an intelligent and educated public, unacquainted with these conceptions. Published in a hope that they may reach a bigger public in the world, this exceptional treatise on theosophy constitutes the perfect addition to any library of those interested in subject. Covering topics such as: What is theosophy?; Reincarnation: it s Necessity; and Man s Life in the Three Worlds, this interesting collection of lectures is a perfect example of Besant s intellectual insights and mystical wisdom A must-read for any student of theosophy. Annie Besant was an influential British socialist, theosophist, activist, orator and writer. This antiquarian book is republished now with an introductory biography of the author."

Adherents of theosophy, the esoteric philosophy popular at the turn of the 20th century, believed that science and religion could be reconciled, and that the plan of the universe could and should be understood, and that it was humanity's duty to adapt to that plan. Here, in a series of lectures delivered in Sydney, Australia, in 1915, the renowned spiritualist Charles W. Leadbeater, a leader of theosophical thought, celebrates the new "sub-race" of humanity come to joyful life in the immigrant nations of America, Australia, and New Zealand, where, freed from the social shackles of Old World Europe, races and classes were intermingling to create a new kind of culture, which would in turn reshape the world. Far-reaching and perceptive, this is an extraordinary little volume of social insight and criticism.British author CHARLES WEBSTER LEADBEATER (1854-1934) was ordained as an Anglican priest, but later joined the prominent Theosophical Society and traveled to India to study alternative spiritual and occult practices, eventually settling into his life as a clairvoyant and author. His other works include Man Visible and Invisible and The Science of the Sacrament.

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1912. Four lectures delivered by Besant, the Founder/President of the Theosophical Society at its Thirty-sixth Annual Convention held at Benares. The lecture topics include: Brotherhood Applied to Government; Brotherhood in Education and Criminology; Tolerance; Knowledge; and The Perfect Man. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

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It must be recognized that a knowledge of the spiritual world, not merely a knowledge gained by treading the path, but also a knowledge acquired through grasping the truths of spiritual science with the unprejudiced, healthy human intellect, leads also to a higher moral status in life, to a knowledge of sensory existence that is in accord with the truth, to certainty in life, and to inward health of the soul.

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Elephas Levi (the pen name of Abb Louis Constant, 1810-1875) was one of the leading occultists of the 19th century. For most of his life he was a Roman Catholic priest; even after he was defrocked in 1844, his views continued to have a strong Catholic influence. His books, translated into English after his death, were essential to the development of other occultists such as Albert Pike, Helena Blavatsky, A.E. Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

"Paradoxes of the Highest Science" was the first of Levi's books to be translated into English. (The original French version was published in 1856.) This edition reprints the 1883 text issued by the Theosophical Society (translated by Anonymous) and includes the 1922 commentary by "an Eminent Occultist" (perhaps Helena P. Blavatsky).

In addition to "Paradoxes of the Highest Science," this edition includes two more essays by Levi, "Synthetic Recapitulation" and "The Great Secret."

Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is Rudolf Steiner's most important work. In it he explains the two aspects of free will: freedom of thought and freedom of action. This landmark book explores free will from a completely fresh and unique perspective. If an idea is to become action, man must first want it, before it can happen. Such an act of will therefore has its grounds only in man himself. Man is then the ultimate determinant of his action. He is free. -Rudolf Steiner

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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Each human soul has some message to give to every other human soul, and what Jinarajadasa writes in this little book is his message to W.H. just now. It is not Jinarajadasa's in reality, for it came to him from other human souls.

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