Esoteric Buddhism

Author: A P SinnettPublisher: Theosophical PublishingYear: 2008Language: EnglishPages: 216ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170595436 DescriptionThis book was published in 1883 and probably constituted the earliest. ‘Karma’ and ‘Reincarnation’ and other such terms, almost unknown in the West, thereafter came to be used in literary and theological circles. The book gives occult details concerning the Universe and its planets, going beyond the material world.Along with The occult World, which preceded, and The Growth of the Soul, which followed it, the present book is a study as envisaged in the Third object of the Theosophical Society, ‘To investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man’.ContentsPreface to the Annotated EditionPreface to the Original Edition CHAPTER I - Esoteric Teachers Nature of the Present Exposition - Seclusion of Eastern Knowledge - The Arhats and their Attributes - The Mahatmas - Occultists generally - Isolated Mystics - Inferior Yogis - Occult Trainin