The growth of the soul : a sequel to "Esoteric Buddhism"
by A.P. Sinnett
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FEW words are needed to explain the principle on which the present revision of this book has been carried out. In the twenty years that have elapsed since its first publication, the fountains of that teaching which gave rise to " Esoteric Buddhism " have never run dry. The first edition of " The Growth of the Soul " was written some twelve or thirteen years later. It contained immensely important additions to the rough sketch of Theosophical Science embodied in the first book. It also show more contained a great deal of new matter imperfectly comprehended at that period. It was impossible for the Adept Teachers to convey the whole volume of the information and guidance they were willing to give all at once. My attempt to present that which came was embarrassed in many directions for want of deeper knowledge. And now distant horizons are opening before me which it would be impossible to deal with even in this revised edition of the present book; but, at all events, I think I have cleared it of all misleading passages in the earlier editions, and I have entirely rewritten the chapter relating to the Astral and Manasic planes, which in their earlier form represented a stage of Theosophic research which I have been enabled to leave far in the rear of my present appreciation of those deeply interesting regions. The Astral world especially was, in former years, the subject of a deplorably imperfect conception among Theosophists generally. It includes the purgatorial aspect, on which, at one time, our attention became too exclusively focussed; but, beyond this, glorious possibilities of higher life which to some extent, in the present edition of this work, I have endeavoured to unveil. show lessTags
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- 1896
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- 299.934 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Religions of other origin Religions of eclectic and syncretistic origin Theosophy
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- BP565 .S42 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc. Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc. Theosophy
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