A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS
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.
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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 | |
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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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