A Textbook of Theosophy eBook

Charles Webster Leadbeater
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 157 pages of information about A Textbook of Theosophy.

A Textbook of Theosophy eBook

Charles Webster Leadbeater
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 157 pages of information about A Textbook of Theosophy.

Animal kingdom 31-2, 37, 141

Animal-men of Moon-chain 127-8

Apprentice upon probation 118

Apprentices, to Masters 14-7
  accepted 118
  men may become 18, 116-7
  qualifications necessary for 116-8
  three stages of 118

Aryan root-race 105, 125

Aspects, three, of the Logos 11
  three, of man 11, 41

Astral body, after death 68-71, 73-5, 81, 86
  cell-life of 65
  colours of 56-8
  disintegration of 86
  effect of thought on 51-2
  ego casts off 42, 63
  ego takes an 42, 61
  entity occupying 66-72
  is bridge to mental body 58
  man in his, during sleep 62, 71
  matter of, is in constant motion 70
  never fatigued 62
  no separate senses in 69-70
  of animal 32
  of group-soul 32
  permanent colours of 58
  reacts on causal body 47
  reacts on mental body 47
  shape of 56, 61
  shell around 68, 70, 78-80, 81
  simile of boiling water 69-70
  size of 56
  temptations caused by 66-8
  vibrations of 56-8, 65-7, 75-6

Astral corpse 86
  counterparts 72-3, 78-80
  entity 66-8
  shell 68, 78-81, 86-7
  shell, result of 70
  vitality of 86-7

Astral globe of Earth 26-7, 71-2
  globe of Moon 26-7
  globes of Earth-chain 122

Astral matter, arrangement of 71-3
  attracts mental matter 60
  physical body attracts 60
  vibrations of 24

Astral sight 68-9

Astral world, the appearance of 71, 78-83
  death in 89
  delights of 76-8
  descent of ego to 42-3
  extent of 26-7, 71
  inhabitants of 83
  the, is the home of emotions 71
  is the home of lower thoughts 71
  life period in, after death 43, 64-5, 81
  man in, during sleep 62, 70
  man’s freedom in 73, 76
  matter, simile of onion 72
  nature spirits in 84
  no measurement of time in 75
  non-human inhabitants of 84
  of Moon 27
  scenery of 77, 81
  second outpouring enters 30
  second outpouring indrawn to 31
  sections of 78-83
  the sixth plane is named 23, 41
  the summerland of 80
  withdrawal of ego from 82

Astro-mental forms 51, 57

Atlantean root-race 105, 125

Atomic matter 25

Atoms charged with vitality of interpenetrating worlds 20-1
  physical ultimate 25
  ultimate 19-22

Attainment is certain for all 132

Besant, Dr. 1
  author of The Ancient Wisdom 1

Birth of man, factors determining 104-5

Blavatsky, H.P. 14
  author of Isis Unveiled 15
  was a founder of the T.S. 14
  was an apprentice to a Master 14

Bliss of the higher worlds 89-91

Books, oriental sacred 18

Brain, connection with astral body 59
  connection with ego 59
  connection with mental body 49
  etheric part of 62

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