Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the first of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand a simple exposition of Theosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want. Theosophy is not only for the learned, it is...

Who does not remember the story of the Christian missionary in Britain, sitting one evening in the vast hall of a Saxon king, surrounded by his thanes, having come thither to preach the gospel of his Master; and as he spoke of life and death and immortality, a bird flew in through an unglazed window, circled the hall in its flight, and flew out once more into the darkness of the night. The Christian priest bade the king see in the flight of the bird...

Charles Webster Leadbeater delves into the mystical realm of the astral plane in his work, "The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants, and Phenomena." Within the pages of this exploration, Leadbeater paints a vivid picture of an ethereal dimension beyond the physical world. Inhabitants of the astral plane, according to Leadbeater, encompass a diverse array of entities. Among them are elementals, thought-form creatures shaped by human emotions, and...