THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Christos: The Religion of the Future, by William Kingsland. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592979.

Partial Contents: Scenery: seven subdivisions, degrees of materiality, characteristics of astral vision, the aura, etheric double, records of astral light; Inhabitants: human, the adept or chela, psychically developed person, black magician, the dead, ordinary person after death, the shell, the suicide, victim of sudden death, black magician after death; Nature Spirits; Elementals formed consciously; Phenomena: churchyard ghosts; apparitions of the dying, haunted localities, bell ringing, fairies, communicating entities, clairvoyance, precipitation of letters, transmutation, repercussion.

1921. Four lectures delivered by Besant, the Founder/President of the Theosophical Society at its Forth-fifth Annual Convention held at Adyar. The lecture topics include: an introductory or foundational talk; Evolution of Our Solar System, according to Religion, Science, and the Akashic Record; A Solar System Evolving: Chains and Rounds, Manus and Bodhisattvas; and a summary. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

Charles Webster Leadbeater was an ordained Anglican priest who left his Church to follow the spiritual disciplines and teachings of the Theosophical Society. In 1883 he traveled to India and underwent strict spiritual training, including Kundalini Yoga, a discipline that vivifies the chakras and opens the third eye. Leadbeater endeavoured to communicate these spiritual revelations to the general public in a series of books, of which 'The Devachanic Plane' remains an enduring classic. The work describes all aspects of Devachan - the astral 'Heaven World' - its characteristics, its language, and the human, non-human and artificial inhabitants that exist there. Essential reading for all students of the Occult.

1905. Youth and marriage; forest for throne; brotherly love; the carrying off of Sita; struggle; triumph.

THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

THIS 30 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Monad and Other Essays Upon the Higher Consciousness, by C. W. Leadbeater. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766100529.

1932. Francesca Arundale was a devotee of Theosophy and the aunt of George S. Arundale. Contents: From Spiritualism to Theosophy; Early Impressions of Theosophy; H.P.B. at Our House; H.P.B. in Germany; and Letters of H.P. Blavatsky to Francesca Arundale.

1896. Two lectures from the Founder/President of the Theosophical Society on the tracing of the progress of the soul and the origin of the individual. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

Originally published in 2002, the Sanctus Germanus Prophecies Vol. 1 predicts the financial crisis of 2007-2012 and the onset of WW III based on revelations from the Spiritual Hierarchy. These major events are part of the ongoing cosmic transition from the Piscean Age and into the New Age. This futuristic work also gives us a peek of what is to come during the early part of the New Age.

THIS BOOK is in no sense dogma to be believed. It is an attempt at exploration of Ideas which are alive and can therefore enter our consciousness and bring change. We can all recognise the faculty for apprehending an idea for its very beauty. We seize it out of the ether, with a feeling "that's lovely, that gives meaning to life". And then, all too often, the cold intellect comes in and says, "Oh, no you don't! You can't prove that and you must not accept what cannot be demonstrated to the senses". But we are exploring the supersensible worlds. The technique is to take these ideas (if we like them) and learn to live with them as if we believed, while at the same time reserving judgement and watching life in the light of them. Then there is no need for argument, that debased form of human exchange. Ideas of this sort are alive and will therefore draw to themselves a certainty as one lives with them. A remarkable change is taking place in the intellectual climate mate of our time. The holistic world view is penetrating our consciousness and superseding the rational materialism which is surely proving inadequate to explain our fantastic universe. Really we are recovering what was called the Ageless Wisdom of the ancient Mysteries, which knew that the Universe is Mind not mechanism, that the Earth is a sentient creature and not just dead mineral, that the human being is in essence spiritual, a droplet of Divinity housed in the temple of the body. This vision, once apprehended, lifts the basic fear of death in our death-ridden culture. The body may be destroyed, but the soul! spirit in each of us is deathless and immortal. Our age is filled with prophecies of doom and breakdown, which are obviously alarming. But the greater truth is that there is no death without rebirth, no renewal without the breaking down of outdated structures and habit patterns. Just because the world is so mad and so bad and so dangerous, it is valid to look at the apocalyptic picture. This suggests that behind disaster is a transforming power at work out of the Living Whole, which can cleanse the planet, sweep away much that is negative and bring in a New Age. We certainly approach years of dramatic change. Technocratic man in greed, avarice and ignorance has failed lamentably in his stewardship of the planet and the Living Earth hits back at him in ever increasing disaster. But the grasping of the holistic world view leads directly to the emergence of an alternative lifestyle, working with the Living Earth and not merely raping and polluting her. This means nothing less than the emergence of a new human species, filled with a love for all life and a readiness to serve the Whole in caring, cooperation and compassion. It has been called MULIER/HOMO NOETICUS a human being balanced male-female, of developing consciousness. This may give meaning to the statement "the meek shall inherit the Earth", for behind NOETICUS is a divine power which in the long run is absolutely unconquerable. Certainly the vision of the spiritual nature of man and the universe brings the conviction that the human potential is unlimited and that we stand at the threshold over which a quantum leap in consciousness is possible. Cosmic consciousness, a blending of mind with Universal Mind, is being achieved and demonstrated by more and more people. This world picture by no means implies that we just sit back and let God do the job. Human initiative is the vital factor, but we are working with energies of life and being from the ocean of Divine Intelligence which can bring about change. There never was such a generation in which to be alive. "Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh".

2012 Reprint of 1949 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy. Steiner's work argues that body, spirit, and soul are bound together and determine the capacity of cognition. Exploring and developing ideas of occult science, the world, human nature, and similarly large, difficult concepts, this work asserts the existence and importance of the 'supersensible' world. Chapters: The Characters of the Occult Science; The Nature of Man; Sleep and Death; The Evolution of the World and Man; Perception of Higher Worlds; Concerning Initiation; The Present and Future Evolution of the World and of Humanity; Details from the Domain of Occult Science; Man's Ether Body; The Astral World; The Course of Human Life; The Principles of Man; The Dream State; Super Physical Knowledge; Beings in the Spiritual World.

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This third volume of The Sanctus Germanus Prophecies completes a trilogy which first appeared in 2002. In this volume, Dr. Mau focuses on the next fifty years and the great cosmic healing of the earth's badly damaged mental body and the role the Spiritual Regions will play in leading humanity out of the chaos of the economic depression and the coming earth changes. Finally, he offers advice on how to navigate through the present turmoil as well as how to develop spiritual discernment to avoid being led off the Path. Volume 3 points to the future and suggests how to cope with the tumultuous events ahead of us.

2012 marks the end of the current Piscean era. In the years leading up to this date, the great tumult, the final battle between Light and darkness, the Armageddon, will try us. It will not be a big disaster, but things will gradually fall apart. The people around you will act like the insane, and you'll wonder if the sky is falling in when you open the newspapers. The Sanctus Germanus Prophecies explains from a mystic's point of view the reasons for the current world insanity and how we are already cutting the path to a New Golden Era. So hang on, for just around the bend, a glorious new era awaits us.

Alfred Percy Sinnett was an English journalist who, at the age of thirty-nine, moved to India to become editor of 'The Pioneer', the premier English daily on the sub-continent. It was in India he met Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and began his studies into Theosophy and other aspects of the occult world. 'Esoteric Buddhism' was first published in 1883. Wide-ranging in scope, the book covers topics as diverse as life after death, Karma, the origin of Evil, The Chain of Globes, psychic perception, Nirvana, and Esoteric Cosmogony. Delving so deeply into what Sinnett considers "absolute truth," the work also highlights the many ways in which Buddhist esotericism agrees with the occult wisdom of other faiths.

A Lecture Delivered In The Albert Hall, Leamington, By Annie Besant.

2012 Reprint of 1945 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "A Treatise on White Magic" is considered to be one of her most important writings, as it is less abstract than most, and deals with many important subjects of her works in an introductory, even programmatic fashion. It was first published in 1934 with the subtitle 'The Way of the Disciple'. She promulgated White Magic as a discipline to serve humanity. Bailey said the work was dictated telepathically by the Tibetan Master, Djwal Khul. It is offered as a "basic textbook" for the Western aspirant to initiation, and is divided into fifteen rules of magic, each one taking the reader further into the mysteries of spirituality. Topics discussed include: how an aspirant can best prepare himself for service, the various ray types of their influences, the relationship between the macrocosm and microcosm, the spiritual, causal, astral and physical realms and their interactions, the spiritual psychology of man (although this is dealt with much more fully in the Esoteric Psychology volumes), The Hierarchy of Masters, esoteric groups and schools, the spiritual centers (or chakras), the occult concept of the Seven Rays, meditation work and much more. One of the main themes is that of soul control. Students of the works of Alice A. Bailey and Theosophy believe that the ultimate purpose of White Magic is furtherance of the spiritual and material evolution of humanity. Specifically, this evolution is conceived in terms of the increased benevolent manifestation of seven spiritual energies or Seven Rays. It is further believed that adept practitioners of White Magic, wielding the power of the Seven Rays, can contribute to this evolution.

THIS 52 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Studies in Theosophy: Historical and Practical, by W. J. Coleville. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564596443.

Revised and corrected edition. Contents: The Dense Physical Body; The Etheric Double; Prana the Life; The Desire Body; The Quaternary, or Four Lower Principles; Manas, the Thinker, or Mind; Subtle Forms of the Fourth and Fifth Principles; The Monad in Evolution; plus more!

Marie-Laure Valandro, the author of Camino Walk and Letters from Florence and a long-time student of Anthroposophy, takes readers on yet another journey-this one more inward. Marie-Laure begins this journey with a Vipassana Buddhist retreat in southern Quebec with the well-known meditation teacher, Goenka. The meditation retreat becomes the touchstone of the author's travels, while Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy serves as the ground. The author describes the spiritual dimensions of her travels in India and Europe, while always returning to her deep understanding of Steiner's spiritual science. As always in Marie-Laure's writing, in Deliverance of the Spellbound God we discover the sublime in the ordinary, and wisdom in even the most foolish of situations. In her descriptions of people and places, as well as in the details of her travels, she shows how we can look outward to know ourselves, and look inward to know the world. Deliverance of the Spellbound God offers gifts of wisdom from an extraordinary life lived.

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