EVOLUTION AND OCCULTISM/COMPLETE
Evolution
and Occultism
Essays
and Addresses Vol. III
by
Annie
Besant
The
Theosophist Office, Madras
1913
Publisher's
Preface
In
addition to the large number of volumes which stand in the name of Annie Besant
in the catalogue of the British Museum, there is a great quantity of literature
for which she is responsible, that has appeared in more fugitive form as
articles, pamphlets and published lectures, issued not only in Great Britain
but in America, India and Australia. Much of this work is of great interest,
but is quite out of reach of the general reader as it is no longer in print,
and inquiries for many such items have frequently to be answered in the
negative. Under these circumstances the T.P.S. decided to issue an edition of
Mrs. Besant's collected writings under the title "Essays and
Addresses." It was originally intended to arrange the matter in
chronological order, commencing with the writer's first introduction to
Theosophy as reviewer of Mme. Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, but several
considerations determined the abandonment of this plan in favour of the scheme
now adopted, which is the classification of subject-matter independent of
chronological order. The Publishers feel sure that this arrangement will
especially commend itself to students who desire to know what the Author has
written on various important aspects of Theosophy in its several ramifications,
and for purposes of study and reference the plan chosen should more effectively
serve. The dates and sources of articles are given in nearly all cases, and
they are printed without any revision beyond the correction of obvious
typographical efforts.
The
importance and interest of such a collection of essays, both as supplementing
treatment of many of the topics in larger works and as affording expression of
the Author's views on many subjects not otherwise dealt with, will be obvious,
and it only remains to express the Publisher's hope that the convenience and
moderate cost of the series may insure its thorough circulation among the wide
range of Mrs. Besant's readers.
T.P.S.
London,
May, 1913
Table
of contents
The Birth and Evolution of the Soul, Part I (1895)
The Birth and Evolution of the Soul, Part II (1895)
Materialism Undermined by Science (1895)
Ancient and Modern Science (1900)
Modern Science and the Higher Self (1904)
Occultism, Semi-Occultism and Pseudo-Occultism (1898)
The Light and Dark Sides of Nature (1896)
The Destinies of Nations (undated)
The Hatha-Yoga and Raja-Yoga of India (1906)
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