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Note to Sixth
Edition
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Introduction to the American Edition
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Preface to the
First Edition
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CHAPTER 1. Esoteric Teachers:
Nature of the Present Exposition - Seclusion of Eastern
Knowledge - The Arhats and their Attributes - The Mahatmas -
Occultists generally - Isolated Mystics - Inferior Yogis -
Occult Training - The Great Purpose - Its Incidental Consequences
- Present Concessions
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CHAPTER 2. The Constitution of
Man: Esoteric Cosmogony - Where to Begin - Working back from Man
to Universe - Analysis of Man - The Seven Principles
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CHAPTER 3. The Planetary Chain:
Esoteric Views of Evolution - The Chain of Globes - Progress of
Man round them - The Spiral Advance - Original Evolution of the
Globes - The Lower Kingdoms
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CHAPTER 4. The World Periods:
Uniformity of Nature- Rounds and Races - The Septenary Law -
Objective and Subjective Lives - Total Incarnations - Former
Races on Earth - Periodic Cataclysms - Atlantis - Lemuria - The
Cyclic Law
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CHAPTER 5. Devachan: Spiritual
Destinies of the Ego - Karma - Division of the Principles of
Death - Progress of the Higher Duad - Existence in Devachan -
Subjective Progress - Avitchi - Earthly Connection with Devachan
- Devachanic Periods
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CHAPTER 6. Kâma Loca: The Astral
Shell - Its Habitat - Its Nature - Surviving Impulses -
Elementals - Mediums and Shells - Accidents and Suicides - Lost
Personalities
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CHAPTER 7. The Human Tide-Wave:
Progress of the Main Wave - Obscurations - Twilight and Dawn of
Evolution - Our Neighbouring Planets - Gradations of
Spirituality - Prematurely Developed Egos - Intervals of
Re-Incarnation
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CHAPTER 8. The Progress of
Humanity: The Choice of Good or Evil - The Second Half of
Evolution - The Decisive Turning-point - Spirituality and
Intellect - The Survival of the Fittest - The Sixth Sense -
Development of the Principles in their Order - The Subsidence of
the Unfit - Provision for All - The Exceptional Cases - Their
Scientific Explanation - Justice Satisfied - The Destiny of
Failures - Human Evolution Reviewed
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CHAPTER 9. Buddha: The Esoteric
Buddha - Re-Incarnations of Adepts - Buddha’s Incarnation - The
Seven Buddhas of the Great Races - Avalokiteshwara - Addi Buddha
- Adeptship in Buddha’s Time - Sankaracharya - Vedantin
Doctrines - Tsong-kapa - Occult Reforms in Tibet
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CHAPTER 10. Nirvana: Its
Remoteness - Preceding Gradations - Partial Nirvana - The
Threshold of Nirvana - Nirvana - Para Nirvana - Buddha and
Nirvana - Nirvana attained by Adepts - General Progress towards
Nirvana - Conditions of its Attainment - Spirituality and
Religion - The Pursuit of Truth
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CHAPTER 11. The Universe: The
Days and Night of Brahma - The Various Manvantaras and Pralayas
- The Solar System - The Universal Pralaya - Recommencement of
Evolution - “Creation” - The Great First Cause - The Eternal
Cyclic Process
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CHAPTER 12. The Doctrine
Reviewed: Correspondences of the Esoteric Doctrine with Visible
Nature - Free Will and Predestination - The Origin of Evil -
Geology, Biology, and the Esoteric Teaching - Buddhism and
Scholarship - The Origins of all Things - The Doctrine as
Distorted - The Ultimate Dissolutions of Consciousness -
Transmigration - The Soul and the Spirit - Personality and
Individuality - Karma
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