Theosophical

Volume 5 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.

Volume 8 of the mystical revelations of G.R.S. Mead.

Ms. Besant teaches why initiation is an important step into the mysteries.

A beautiful way to present the Bhavagad Gita: The English translation alongside the Sanskrit text.

IT is a true saying, and one experienced and proved by us all, that we rise to higher things on the stepping stones of our dead selves.

A previous attempt was made to describe to some extent the astral plane - the lower part of the vast unseen world in the midst of which we live and move unheeding. In this little book must be undertaken the still harder task of trying to give some idea of the stage next above that - the mental plane or the heaven-world, often spoken of in our Theosophical literature as that of Devachan or Sukhavati.

Let us, first of all, ask ourselves, looking at the world around us, what it is that the history of the world signifies. When we read history, what does the history tell us? It seems to be a moving panorama of people and events, but it is really only a dance of shadows; the people are shadows, not realities, the kings and statesmen, the ministers and armies; and the events the battles and revolutions, the rises and falls of states are the most shadowlike dance of all.