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Annie Besant, was born in 1847 in London into a mddle-class family of Irish origin. As a writer, speaker and activist she was very much part of the social movement that questioned religion, social roles, and so much else.
Excerpt from the book -- Right
thought is necessary to right conduct, right understanding to right living,
and the Divine Wisdom – whether called by its ancient Sanskrit name of Brahma
Vidyā, or its modern Greek name of Theosophia, Theosophy – comes to the
world as at once an adequate philosophy and an all-embracing religion and ethic.
It was once said of the Christian Scriptures by a devotee that they contained
shallows in which a child could wade and depths in which a giant must swim.
A similar statement might be made of Theosophy, for some of its teachings are
so simple and so practical that any person of average intelligence can understand
and follow them, while others are so lofty, so profound, that the ablest strains
his intellect to contain them and sinks exhausted in the effort...The
main spiritual verities of religion may be summarized thus:
1)
One eternal, infinite, unknowable real Existence.
2) From THAT the
manifested God, unfolding from unity to duality to trinity.
3) From the manifested
Trinity many spiritual Intelligences, guiding cosmic order.
4) Man is a reflection
of the manifested God and therefore a trinity fundamentally, his inner and
real Self being eternal, one with the Self of the universe.
5) His evolution
by repeated incarnations, into which he is drawn by desire, and from which
he is set free by knowledge and sacrifice, becoming divine in potency as he
had ever been divine in latency.
China
which is now a fossilized civilization, was peopled in old days by the Turanians,
the fourth subdivision of the great Fourth Race, the race which inhabited the
lost continent of Atlantis, and spread its offshoots over the world.
The Mongolians, the last subdivision
of that same race, later reinforced its population, so that in China we have
traditions from ancient days, preceding the settlement of the Fifth, or Āryan
race in India. In
the Ching Chang Ching, or Classic of Purity,
we have a fragment of an ancient scripture of singular beauty, breathing out
the spirit of restfulness and peace so characteristic of the “original teaching.
CONDITION: Hard Cover, 390 pages, 1972, printed in India, good condition, no markings within.
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