Introduction: 

Introduction: 

Of all the forms of yoga which are taught and practised in the East,  Raja Yoga is considered the kingly science; it aims at the development of man's full potential and the expression of his inner spiritual self. 

Of all the forms of yoga which are taught and practised in the East,  Raja Yoga is considered the kingly science; it aims at the development of man's full potential and the expression of his inner spiritual self. 

Foreword:

The object of this little book is to introduce theosophy as an interpretation of human tragedy. It is the introduction and interpretation of one individual and excludes no other among an almost infinite variety of a possible approaches to the subject

Much of it has necessarily been written in the spirit of "Thus have I heard." Yet the principles that we receive and communicate in this spirit can often become alive and become our own as they are found to respond to  the demands of experience. 

Scientific experiments show how a person, under deep hypnosis, can manifest an intelligence that he or she would not normally have. Unlike the assertion of medical science, thoughts are not the by-product of the brain but come from the mind, which is one of the aspects of the Soul. In this lecture, originally delivered in Chicago in 1903, Annie Besant shows that consciousness is larger than the brain and its mechanisms and that we can know such a reality directly by ourselves.