Esoteric Buddhism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

On Sale: Mar 20, 2012
Page Count: 272 pages
Publisher: BookAnnex
ISBN-13: 9781411465299

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One of the first books to explain Theosophy for the general reader, this volume is made up of the author’s correspondence with an Indian mystic. Sinnett’s 1884 collection of writings on Theosophy—the nature and progress of humanity, the metaphysical cosmos of the Planetary Chain and World Periods, Buddha, life after death, and Nirvana—is a classic of the genre.

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Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840-1921) was a British writer and editor. He was active in H. P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society until a schism occurred around the year 1880. He collaborated by “astral clairvoyance” on The Story of Atlantis with fellow mystic Charles Leadbetter. Other books include The Occult World (1881), Karma: A Novel (1885) and a play, Married by Degrees (1911).