A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS

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Book Specification

Item Code:	IDG139
Author:	ANNIE BESANT
Publisher:	The Theosophical Publishing House
Language:	English
Edition:	1999
ISBN:	8170593409
Pages:	347
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	7.2" X 4.8"
Weight	390 gm

Book Description

Foreword:

This book is intended as an aid to students in their study of the growth and development of consciousness, offering hints and suggestions which may prove serviceable to them. It does not pretend to be a complete exposition, but rather, as its subtitle states, a contribution to the science of psychology. Far ampler materials than are within my reach are necessary for any complete exposition of the far-reaching science which deals with the unfolding of consciousness. These materials are slowly accumulating in the hands of earnest and painstaking students, but no effort has yet been made to arrange and systematize them into a coordinated whole. In this little volume I have only arranged a small part of this material, in the hope that it may be useful now to some of the toilers in the great field of the evolution of consciousness, and may serve in the future, as a stone in the complete building. It will need a great architect to plan that temple of knowledge, and skilful master masons to direct the building; enough, for the moment, to do the apprentice task, and prepare the rough stones for the use of more expert workmen.

ANNIE BESANT

About the Author:

Annie Besant (1847-1933), second President of the Theosophical Society (1907-1933) was described as a 'Diamond Soul', for she had many brilliant facts to her character. She was an outstanding orator of her time, a champion of human freedom, educationist, philanthropist and author with more than three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit. She also guided thousands of men and women all over the world in their spiritual quest.

In her earlier days in England, she did remarkable work as a Freethinker and Fabian socialist, and supported many noble causes including women's suffrage. From 1893, she lived in India and worked indefatigably for the cultural and spiritual renaissance of the country. She organized the Home Rule movement and inspired Indians with a dynamic vision of India's future.

CONTENTS

CONSCIOUSNESS

PART I

		PAGE
	INTRODUCTION
	1. Origins	3
	2. Origination of Monads	12
I	THE PREPARATION OF THE FIELD
	1 The Formation of the Atom	14
	2. Spirit-Matter	17
	3. The Sub-Planes	19
	4 The Five-Planes	22
II	CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 The Meaning of the Word	25
	2 The Monads	34
III	THE PEOPLING OF THE FIELD
	1 The Coming forth of the Monads	43
	2 The Weaving	51
	3 The Seven Streams	56
	4 The Shining Ones	59
IV	THE PERMANENT ATOM
	1 The Attaching of the Atoms	63
	2 The Web of Life	67
	3 The Choosing of the Permanent Atoms	69
	4 The Use of the Permanent Atoms	71
	5 Monadic Action on the Permanent Atoms	80
V	GROUP-SOULS
	1 The Meaning of the Term	84
	2 The Division of the Group-Soul	88
VI	UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 Consciousness a Unit	98
	2 Unity of Physical Consciousness	100
	3 The Meaning of Physical Consciousness	106
VII	THE MECHANISM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 The Development of the Mechanism	111
	2 The Astral or Desire Body	119
	3 Correspondence in Root-Races	122
VIII	FIRST HUMAN STEPS
	1 The Third Life-Wave	124
	2 Human Development	127
	3 Incongruous Souls and Bodies	131
	4 Dawn of Consciousness on the Astral Plane	133
IX	CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 Consciousness	141
	2 Self-Consciousness	146
	3 Real and Unreal	149
X	HUMAN STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
	1 The Subconsciousness	153
	2 The Waking-Consciousness	156
	3 The Superphysical Consciousness	161
XI	THE MONAD AT WORK
	1 Building His Vehicles	176
	2 An Evolving Man	183
	3 The Pituitary Body and Pineal Gland	186
	4 The Paths of Consciousness	189
XII	THE NATURE OF MEMORY
	1 The Great Self and the Little Selves	191
	2 Changes in the Vehicles and in Consciousness	195
	3 Memories	198
	4 What is Memory?	200
	5 Remembering and Forgetting	204
	6 Attention	209
	7 The One Consciousness	211
PART II
WILL, DESIRE, AND EMOTION
I	THE WILL TO LIVE	217
II	DESIRE
	1 The Nature of Desire	222
	2 The Awakening of Desire	226
	3 The Relation of Desire to Though	229
	4 Desire, Thought, Action	231
	5 The Binding Nature of Desire	233
	6 The Breaking of the Bonds	235
III	DESIRE (continued)
	1 The Vehicle of Desire	238
	2 The Conflict of Desire and Though	242
	3 The Value of an Ideal	246
	4 The Purification of Desire	249
IV	EMOTION
	1 The Birth of Emotion	253
	2 The Play of Emotion in the Family	257
	3 The Birth of Virtues	263
	4 Right and Wrong	264
	5 Virtue and Bliss	265
	6 The Transmutation of Emotions into Virtues and Vices	267
	7 Application of the Theory of Conduct	270
	8 The Uses of Emotion	271
V	EMOTION (continued)
	1 The Training of Emotion	277
	2 The Distorting Force of Emotion	281
	3 Methods of Ruling the Emotions	283
	4 The Using of Emotion	290
	5 The Value of Emotion in Evolution	294
VI	THE WILL
	1 The Will Winning Its Freedom	297
	2 Why So Much Struggle?	307
	3 The Power of the Will	311
	4 White and Black Magic	318
	5 Entering into Peace	320
	INDEX	323

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