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.

Death, a second 63, 89
  artists after 77
  average men after 64-5
  character not changed by 74
  conditions of life after 74
  cultured men after 65
  etheric double at 87
  happiness after 74, 76
  in astral world 68, 89
  lovers of music after 77
  misery after 75
  philanthropists after 77
  primitive men after 63
  sensualists after 75-6
  spiritual men after 65
  students of science after 77
  what is 3, 63, 137, 144

Deity (see Solar Deity)

Demons, tempting 53, 67

Departments of the world 11

Devas, hosts of 11 (also see Angels)

Discrimination 118

Divine Life 29
  ensouls matter 29-40
  responds to vibrations 33

Divine world, extent of 26-7
  first plane named 23, 41
  “Door, shutting the” 131

Dreams 62

Earth, Adepts from Venus come to 131
  astral globe of 26-7
  -chain 121
  first men of the 125-30
  nature spirits of the 85
  purpose of life on 142

Earth-chain, the 121
  animal-men build early
  forms on 127-8
  explained 121-4
  incarnation of 122-5
  Moon-animals come to 128

Education, department of 11-2

Ego, the, assumes bodies 42, 61
  bridges of to physical body 58, 61
  connection of, with brain 59
  desire of, for vivid life 97
  drops lower bodies 43
  ensouls fragment of group-soul 42
  fills mental images of himself 93
  gains qualities 43
  habitat of 94
  is a part expression of Monad 61
  is the manifestation of the triple Spirit in man 42
  life of, in causal body 95-7
  life of, in lower bodies 63-4
  lives for millions of years 97
  loses part of his life sometimes 86
  object of descent of 45, 98
  only good affects 47-8, 58, 112
  origin of 39, 109
  passes to mental world 85
  remembers past lives 44
  sheaves of 61
  sight of 45
  the, simile of day at school and 98
  succession of personalities of 109
  withdraws from astral plane 82

Elemental kingdoms, the three 29-30
  seven types of each of 37

Elemental creatures 37

Elements, chemical 21, 28
  proto- 21

Emotions affect life after death 64, 67-8
  of the living react on the dead 74
  selfish and unselfish 110
  should be developed in
  fourth round 131
  the home of the 71

Emotional world (see astral world)

Entity, astral body 66-8

Etheric, bodies of early humanity 129
  bodies of nature spirits 84
  matter 25

Etheric double, the 59
  at death 87-8
  force-centres in 60
  is a bridge 59
  is not a vehicle 87-8
  some dead cling to 88
  vitality flows through 59

Evil, is transitory 48, 58, 135-6
  is utilized for progress 135
  man’s powers of, are
  restricted 102
  simile of Niagara Falls, and 135

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