In this book, Annie Besant elucidates many points which have been written about in different theosophical works to provide a synthesis of teachings on the most commonly raised questions about the meaning of life. Some of the topics covered are: our mortal and immortal bodies, the law of rebirth, love and hate, action and reaction, thought power, and more.
In this small but illuminating booklet, Annie Besant sheds light on what is meant by revelation and inspiration. She distinguishes revealed from inspired literature and both from the records of observation.
She also offers guidance to the Theosophical student on what his approach and response to revelation, inspiration and observation should be.
The enlarged edition of Reminiscences of Colonel H.S.Olcott retains the original compilation of articles about this outstanding man and his work, with new sections containing additional information, and quotations taken from his deeply insightful talks and writings for the reader to meditate upon. It is offered as a tribute to a great soul who passed away a hundred years ago on 17 February 1907, and who made an impact in the diverse fields of agricultural science, law, religion, social welfare, education, healing and research.
Love, Light and Law govern human existence but, paradoxically, they are self-destructive through the bondage they entail. Using the poetic imagery of three sisters and the Divine Child and with the simplicity of thought typical of him, the author brings out the need for and the manner of releasing these manifestations from self-destruction and granting them their true potential in a submergence of the ego in universality, in oneness with every other.
The Theosophical manual by Annie Besant helps us understand Reincarnation as the law of necessity for human progression and perfection, and has been constantly gaining ground among the more thoughtful students of life and evolution. Reincarnation for a human is the modus operandi of the vast evolutionary journey. Reincarnation and Karma are the twin doctrine of hope and responsibility. The fundamental cause of Reincarnation, as of all manifestation, is the desire for active life, the thirst for sentient existence.
From the remotest time, belief in the doctrine of Reincarnation has proved an inspiration to countless people, while to others it has been a violation of true religious teaching. In this little book, Mr Geoffrey Hodson, who studied the subject carefully, discusses basic questions of life such as suffering and divine justice, human destiny, child prodigies and the remembrance of past lives in the light of the Ancient Wisdom, to show that the doctrine is in fact a fact and not fallacy.
It is a Semitic prevalent notion that Islam in common with other Semitic religions does not countenance the Doctrine of Reincarnation. Mr. Mirza, barrister -at-law, insightfully examines the Holy Quran and other Islamic teachings to show that Reincarnation is implied in them.
He suggests that explicit teaching about Reincarnation might have been inappropriate for the times, as they might have let people to believe in postponing moral reformation to a conveniently receding date.
Mr. Mirza has made out his case with much persuasive skill and scholarship.
'Where does the real India reside? asks the author, for India is a land of enormous disparities and contradictions. In 1916, his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi denounced before an august assembly at Varanasi the existence of pomp and wealth amidst degrading penury, filth around holy places, and the domination of a foreign language over native tongues. He also pronounced other unpalatable truths.
World-renowned educator, Mme Maria Montessori, gives us her insights into the educational psychology of small children. She stresses the burning need for a reconstruction in education so that the inner wisdom of the child can flower of itself. In each child is the seed that, if carefully nurtured, allows him to grow effortlessly into a fully rounded adult.