ABOUT THE BOOK Besant had found the economic side of life lacking a spiritual dimension, so she arched for a believe based on "Love". She found this in Theosophy, so she joined the Theosophical Society, a move that distanced her from Reid laugh and other firmer activist co-workers. Her decision to join the Theosophical Society met a norm of criticism from her former associates in London. To explain her change of view, on August 4 and 11. 1889, she delivered a lecture in the Hall of Science on the subject "Why I Became a Theosophist. On September 4 of that year, in HPB's house, she met H. S. Olcott, a-founder of the Theosophical Society and international President. He immediately recognized her value. He wrote in Old Diary Leaves "At the time of my (first) visit I had the chance to see of what Infinite tenderness and unselfish compassion Mrs. Besant was capable."[12] and. "She is the most important gain to us since Sennett."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Annie Besant nee Wood was born on 1st October 1847 and was Died on 20th September 1933. In 1867 Annie at the age of 20 goc married Frank Besant, a clergyman and they had two children, Annies increasingly anti-religious views led to their legal septet just saw the source from which a universe proceeds is a manifests divine being to action in 1873. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society as well as a writer and a close friend of Charles Brad laugh and in 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth controller Campaigner. The scandal made them famous, and Brad laugh was subsequently elected M.P. for Northampton in 1880. Thereafter she became involved with union action, including the bloody Sunday demonstration and the London match girls strike of 1898. She was a leading speaker for both the Fabian Society and the Marxist Social Democratic Federation. She was also elected to the London School Board for tower hamlets, topping the poll, even though few women were qualified to vote at that time. She stared the Central Hindu School in Benares as a chief means of achieving her objects.
INTRODUCTION THEOSOPHY is derived from two Greek words-Theo’s, God; Sophia, Wisdom-and is therefore God-Wisdom, Divine Wisdom. Any dictionary will give as its meaning: "A claim to a direct knowledge of God and of Spirits," a definition which is not inaccurate, though it is scanty and affords but a small idea of all that is covered by the word, either historically or practically. The obtaining of "a direct knowledge of God" is-as we shall see in dealing with the religious aspect of Theosophy-the ultimate object of all Theosophy, as it is the very heart and life of all true Religion; this is "the highest knowledge, the knowledge of Him by whom all else is known"; but the lower knowledge, that of the knowable "all else" and the methods of knowing it, bulk largely in Theosophical study. This is natural enough, for the supreme knowledge must be gained by each for himself, and little can be done by another, save by pointing to the way, by inspiring to the effort, by setting the example; whereas the lower knowledge may be taught in books, in lectures, in conversation, is transmissible from mouth to ear.
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