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Preface & Acknowledgement

(unique contents per volume)

Note on the Transliteration of Sanskrit

(unique general bibliography & index per volume)

VOLUME I

Foreword (xxiii - xxiv)

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work (xxv - lii) (only in this volume)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (liii - lxviii)

Genealogical Tables & Notes On The Genealogical Tables (lxix - lxxiii) (only in this volume)

Horescope of H. P. Blavatski (lxxiv) (only in this volume)

Table Of Contents (lxxv-lxxx)

(only in this volume)
HPB's literary career : The Earliest Known Writings (1 - 2)
HPB's literary career : H.P.B’s Sketchbook (2-5)
HPB's literary career : Légende sur la Belle de Nuit (6-11)
HPB's literary career : H.P.B’s Notebook of Travel-Impressions (11-24)

1874

[H.P.B’s Scrapbooks] (29)
Marvellous Spirit Manifestations (30-36)
About Spiritualism (36-44)
From Scrapbook Vol. I pp. 7-8 (44)
From Scrapbook Vol. I p. 8 (45)
Elbridge Gerry Brown (45 - 46)
Madame Blavatsky (46 - 49)

1875

[H.P.B’s Role at the Eddy’s Homestead (53 - 54)
Heroic Women (54 - 55)
A Card from the Countess Blavatsky (55-56)
The Philadelphia “Fiasco,” or Who is Who? (56-72)
From Scrapbook Vol. I, p. 21 (72)
Important Note (73)
[H.P.B. and the Term “Spiritualism”] (74)
Who Fabricates? (75-83)
[H.P.B’s Lawsuit in America] (83-85)
Important to Spiritualists (85-87)
A Budget of Good News (88-90)
From Scrapbook Vol. I p. 36 (90)
[Compiler’s Note Concerning Prof. N.P.Wagner] (90)
To the Spiritualists of Boston (91)
A Word of Advice to the Singing Medium, Mr. Jesse Sheppard (92-93)
A Card to the American Public (94)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p. 58 (94)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p. 39 (95)
[The “Hiraf” Club and its Historical Background] (95-100)
A Few Questions to “Hiraf * * *” (101-119)
“What are you Going to Do About it?” (119-120)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p. 47 (120)
[Formation of the Theosophical Society] (121-124)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.57 (124-125)
From Madame H.P. Blavatsky to her Correspondents (126-133)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.63 (133)
The Science of Magic (134-143)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.67 (143)
A Letter from Madame Blavatsky (143-144)
The Magical Evocation of Apollonius of Tyana (144-150)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp. 77-79 (150)
An Unsolved Mystery (151-162)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp. 98-99 (162)
A Story of the Mystical (163)

1876

The Luminous Circle (177-186)
Madame Blavatsky Explains (186-192)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.111 (192-193)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.112 (193)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.113 (193-194)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.116 (194)
A Crisis for Spiritualism (194-203)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.124 (203-204)
The Russian Investigation (204-210)
“Psychophobia” in Russia (210-211)
Mediums, Beware! (212-213)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.154 (214)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp.155-56 (214)
The Russian Scientists (215-220)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, pp.164-65 (220)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.185 (220-221)
(New) York Against Lankester (221-225)
Huxley and Slade: Who is More Guilty of “False Pretencies”? (226-233)
From Scrapbook, Vol. II, p.119 (233)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.35 (233)

1877

Concerning Gods and Interviews (237-238)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.54 (238)
Madame Blavatsky Protests (238-241)
Madame Blavatsky on Fakirs (241-245)
To the Public (245-246)
A Card from Madame Blavatsky (247-249)
Buddhism in America (249-252)
Croquet at Windsor (253-254)
Turkish Barbarities (255-260)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.79 (260)
Washing the Disciples’ Feet (261)
The Jews in Russia (262-263)
[Isis Unveiled] (264)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.83 (264)
“Elementaries” (265-271)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.95 (271)
From Scrapbook, Vol. I, p.70 and Vol. VII, p. 46 (271)
Dr. Carpenter, on “Tree-Trickery” and H. P. Blavattsky on Fakir-“Jugglery” (272 - 277)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.108 (277)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.125 (278)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p.140 (278)
[H.P.B. and her Masonic Diploma] (281, belongs in 1878 ? [TdH])

1878

[H.P.B. Corrects an Error about Elementals] (281)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 163 (282)
Kabalistic Views on “Spirits” as Propagated by the Theosophical Society (283-289)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, pp. 164-65 (289-290)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, pp. 169-72 (290)
Madame Blavatsky on the Views of the Theosophists (290-300)
A Society without a Dogma (301-306)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 176 (306)
The Author of “Isis Unveiled” Defends the Validity of her Masonic Patent (307-312)
[H.P.B.’s Writings in the Russian Language] (313)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, p. 243 (313)
Dr. Slade’s Final Triumph (314-318)
From Scrapbook, Vol. IV, pp. 184-85 (319)
The Knout (319-325)
Madame Blavatsky on Indian Metaphysics (325-337)
From Scrapbook, Vol. VII, pp.56-57 (337)
The Cave of the Echoes (338-353)
“Isis Unveiled” and the Todas (353)
The Todas (354-359)
Footnotes to “The Scientific Hypothesis Respecting Mediumistic Phenomena” (359-360)
Fragments de Madame Blavatsky (361-364)
Fragments from Madame Blavatsky (365-368)
The Akhund of Swat (369-375)
The Theosophical Society: Its Origin, Plan and Aims (375-378)
From Scrapbook, Vol. VII, pp. 113-14 (378)
The Ârya Samâj (379-384)
Science (384-385)
Letter to the Editor of the “Tiflis Messenger” (385-389)
From Scrapbook, Vol. VIII, p. 252 (389-390)
Letter to the Editor of “L’Opinione Nazionale” (And English Translantion thereof) (390-392)
Parting Words from Madame Blavatksy (393-395)
La Véritable Madame H. P. Blavatksy(396-399)
The Real Madame H. P. Blavatksy (400-403)
From Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 258 (404)
From Scrapbook, Vol. VII, p. 306 (404)
From Scrapbook, Vol. V, pp. 77-79 (404-405)
From Scrapbook, Vol. V, p. 81 (405)
The Diaries of H.P. Blavatsky (406-434)
Compiler’s Notes on the Diaries (434-440)

General Bibliography (443 - 538)

Index (541 - 570)

VOLUME II

Foreword (xxiii-xxiv)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxv-xxxvii)

Table Of Contents (xxxix-xlv)

1879

Idées Incorrectes sur les Doctrines des Théosophes (3-13)
Erroneous Ideas concerning the Doctrines of the Theosophists (14-24)
The Indian “Public” and Theosophy (24-27)
The Retort Courteous (27-29)
Madame Blavatsky (30)
Magic (31-39)
Madame Blavatsky (40-41)
Harichandra Chintamon (41-43)
Buddhist Priests and the Title “Reverend” (43-46)
[On the Infallibility of the Jewish Scriptures] (46-48)
The Theosophists and their Opponents (48-53)
Letter to the Editor of the “Indu Prakash” (54)
Madame Blavatsky (55)
Réponse Définitive d’une Théosophe à M. Rossi de Justiniani (56-61)
Final Reply of a Theosophist to Mr. Rossi de Justiniani (62-67)
Echoes from India (68-80)
[H.P.B. on the Monsoon] (81-82)
[The Founding of “The Theosophist”] (83-84)
Namastae (84-86)
What is Theosophy? (87-97)
What Are the Theosophists? (98-106)
The Drift of Western Spiritualism (107-110)
Antiquity of the Vedas (110-116)
Footnotes to “The Autobiography of Dayananda Saraswati Swami” (117-122)
Persian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism (122-130)
“The Light of Asia” (130-135)
The Magnetic Chain (135-136)
Spiritualism at Simla (136)
Buddhistic Exegesis (138-140)
A Thunder Cloud with Silver Lining (140-143)
Cross and Fire (143-149)
War in Olympus (149-159)
Footnotes to “The Brahmachâri Bâwa” (160)
Miscellaneous Notes (161)
[From the Caves and Jungles of India] (161)
Christmas Then and Christmas Now (162-167)
The Popular Idea of Soul-Survival (168-179)
“Lieutenant-Colonel St. Anthony” (180-181)
Footnote to “A Strange Revery” (181)
An Old Book and a New One (182-191)
Nocturnal Thoughts on Newspaper Clippings (192-198)
Miscellaneous Notes (198-200)
A Letter to the Editor of the “Banner of Light” (200-201)
Lettre de Madame Blavatsky—“Dé couverte du Docteur Rotura (202-205)
Letter of Madame Blavatsky—Dr. Rotura’s Discover (205-208)
Theosophy—the Essence of Philosophy and Science (208-211)

1880

Introductory Note to “Yoga Philosophy” (215)
Editor’s Closing Note to “Brahma, Iswara, and Maya” (216)
Footnotes to “The Life of Sankaracharya, Philosopher and Mystic” (217-219)
The Ensouled Violin (219-228)
The Ensouled Violin (longer version) (229-258)
Editor’s Note to “Swami versus Missionary” (258)
Editor’s Note to “Nature-Worship” (259-260)
Miscellaneous Notes (260-263)
Armenians (263-266)
Lo! The “Poor Missionary” (267-271)
Footnote to “An Indian Aethrobat” (272-273)
Footnotes to “Indra” (273-274)
A Great Light under a Bushel (274-289)
Editor’s Note to “A Mussulman Abdal (Yogi)” (290)
Miscellaneous Notes (291-293)
Letter from India (293-302)
Comments on “Swami versus Missionary” (302)
A Land of Mystery (303-338)
Appendix by the Compiler (339-343)
Which First—the Egg or the Bird? (344-345)
Cup-Mark Inscriptions (346-349)
Miscellaneous Notes (349-351)
The History of a “Book” (351-361)
Missionaries Militant (362-365)
The Silent Brother (366-377)
Note to “Radiant Matter” (377)
The State of Christianity (377-382)
Footnote to “Kaliya Mardana” (382)
“A Personal Statement of Religious Belief” (383-388)
Cock-and-Bull (388-390)
Miscellaneous Notes (390)
Compiler’s Notes (391)
Journalist versus Missionary (392-393)
Footnote to “Puzzles for the Philologists” (394)
A Case of Obsession (395-400)
Mr. Whitworth’s Gauntlet (401)
Madame Blavatsky and her Opinions (402-404)
A People’s Monthly (404-406)
The Christian Art of War (407-408)
The Number Seven (408-414)
Miscellaneous Notes (414-415)
The Theosophists at Maligawa (416-417)
The Theory of Cycles (418-426)
Our Second Year (426-429)
“Spirit” Pranks Intra Caucasus (429-430)
Notes on “A Land of Mystery” (431-435)
[The Bewitched Mirror] (435-436)
Sobs, Sods and Posies (436-437)
Introductory Note to “Rahatship” (438)
Comments on “The Theosophists in Ceylon” (439-440)
Miscellaneous Notes (441)
Closing Note to “Address of the President of the Ionian Theosophical Branch at Corfu” (442-443)
Footnote to “Nanga Bâbâ of Gwalior” (443-444)
Russian Superstitions (444-446)
The Decadence of Protestant Christianity (446-447)
Stone-Throwing by “Spirits” (448)
The Number Seven and Our Society (448-453)
Comments on “A Treatise on the Yoga Philosophy” (453-473)
Miscellaneous Notes (473-475)
Madame Blavatsky on The Theosophical Society at Bombay (475-478)
[H.P. Blavatsky and Edward Wimbridge] (479-481)
A Letter to the Editor of the “Bombay Review” (481-483)
The Pralaya of Modern Science (483-486)
[On Rahatship] (487-488)
Occult Phenomena (489-492)
Qu’est-ce que la Théosophie? (493-500)
What is Theosophy? (500-507)
[Sir Richard Temple and our Society] (507-509)
Pranks of “Spirits” among Laymen (509-510)
Miscellaneous Notes (510-511)
A French View of Women’s Rights (512-517)

General Bibliography (521-551)

Index (555-590)

Foreword (xxi)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiii - xxx)

Table Of Contents (xxxxi - xxxvi)

1881

A Year of Theosophy (1-8)
Miscellaneous Notes (8-9)
A Word with our Friends (10-13)
Transcendental Physics (14-20)
Electric and Magnetic Affinities between Man and Nature (21-26)
Questions Answered about Yoga-Vidya (26-30)
Another Distinguished Fellow (30-35)
Hindustani Domestic Remedies (36-38)
The Missing Link (38-42)
Hypnotism (42-44)
Miscellaneous Notes (45)
The Study of Russian by Indian Officers (46-49)
The Leaven of Theosophy (50-54)
Closing Note to “Spiritual Miracles” (54)
The Brahmo Samaj (55-60)
The Brahmo Leader and Yoginism (60-61)
Footnotes to “Cosmogony and Anthropology” (61-64)
The Signs of the Time (64-69)
The Alleged Real Meaning of Educational Missions in India (69-70)
The New Vimâna (70-71)
Miscellaneous Notes (72-74)
A Russian “Symposium” (75-77)
Madame Blavatsky (78-81)
A Berlin Mare’s Nest (81-83)
The Year 1881 (84-85)
Comment on “Yakshni” (85)
A Columnar Meteor (86)
Railway and Other Vandals (87-88)
New York Buddhists (88-92)
Nature’s Human Magnets (92-102)
An Archaeological Drink (102-103)
Notes to “Radiant Heat, Musical Vapours, and Fairy Bells” (103-104)
A Hindu Professor’s Views on Indian Yoga (104-108)
Logic versus Peripatetic (109-115)
The Most Ancient of Christian Orders (115-118)
Note to “The Bishop’s Manifesto” (119-120)
The Year 1881 (120-121)
The Assassination of the Czar (121-125)
Count de Saint-Germain (125-129)
An Important Biblical Error (130-131)
A False “Witness” (131-138)
Comment on “A Hindu Story of Reincarnation” (139)
Human Life at High Altitudes (140-141)
Footnotes to “True Religion Defined” (141-142)
A “Medium” Wanted (142-146)
Ancient Doctrines Vindicated by Modern Prophecy (147-151)
Miscellaneous Notes (151-154)
The State of Russia (155-162)
The State of Russia (162-170)
Compiler’s Note (170)
A Psychic Warning (171-174)
Apollonius Tyanaeus (174-175)
Lamas and Druses (175-189)
Native Astrologers (190-192)
Stars and Numbers (192-203)
“Praise Him with the Timbrel and Dance” (203-206)
Miscellaneous Notes (207)
A Posthumous Publication (207-209)
Footnotes to “A Suicide’s After-State” (210-211)
A Letter from Surb Ohannes (211-218)
Footnotes to “The Five-Pointed Star” (219-221)
A Reply to our Critics (221-226)
Science, Phenomena and the Press (227-233)
The Evidence of Science (233-238)
“The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism” (239-240)
Footnotes to “The Work of the Theosophical Society” (240-242)
Editor’s Note to “The Hindu Sabha (242-243)
Canonization of a New Saint (243-244)
Stone-Showers (244-248)
Spotless Murderers (248-249)
The Five-Pointed Star (250-254)
Miscellaneous Notes (255-259)
The British Theosophical Society (260)
Miscellaneous Notes (261)
Madame Blavatsky on “The Himalayan Brothers” (262-268)
Footnotes to “Iamblichos: A Treatise on the Mysteries” (269-270)
“The Claims of Occultism” (271-275)
Miracles (275-281)
Comments on “Strange Apparitions” (282-284)
Miscellaneous Notes (285)
Footnotes to “The New Dispensation Dissected” (286-287)
Stray Thoughts on Death and Satan (287-300)
Miscellaneous Notes (301-303)
Footnotes to “Who are the Aryas and the Buddhists?” (303-304)
Current Events (305-306)
“The Theosophist” and Pandit Shraddha Ram (306-307)
“The Theosophist” and Arya-Samajist (308-311)
From Scrapbook, Vol. XI, Part II, pp. 410-12 (311-312)
The Six-pointed and Five-Pointed Stars (312-323)
The Grand Inquisitor (324-325)
Footnotes to “The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac” (325-327)
The Bright Spot of Light (327-328)
Miscellaneous Notes (329-330)
Dayanand Saraswati and his followers (331-332)
Western “Adepts” and Eastern Theosophists (332-343)
[Spiritualism and the Christian Churches] (344-346)
The Banner of Light (346-347)
Footnote to “The Church Congress and Spiritualism” (347)
Superstition (348-355)
“The Theosophist” and Hindu Pantheism (355-359)
Trance Mediums and “Historical” Visions (359-365)
“We will not Quarrel but simply Argue” (365-366)
What is “A Fact”? (367-371)
Hazy Notions (371-374)
Weird Phenomena (375-376)
Is Creation Possible for Man? (377-380)
Editor’s Note to “The Theosophists” (381-385)
Miscellaneous Notes (386)
“The Knight without Reproach or Fear” (387-389)
A Letter from Madame Blavatsky (390)

1882

“Is it Idle to Argue Further?” (391-395)
Esoteric Axioms and Spiritual Speculations (396-399)
The Aryan-Arhat Esoteric Tenets on the Sevenfold Principle in Man (400-418)
Editorial Appendix on the Above (418-424)
Footnotes to “Lakshmibai” (424-426)
The Universe in a Nutshell (427-432)
Are Dreams but Idle Visions? (434-438)
On “Theosophism” in India (439)
A Personal Explanation (440-448)
Zoroaster in “History” and Zarathustra in the Secret Records (449-468)
Spiritualism and Occult Truth (468-476)
“Nature-Spirits and Elementals” (476-478)
In Desperate Straits (489-483)
Footnote to “The Pisacha-Dancers” (483)
“A Book of the Beginnings (483-486)
Footnote to “A Flash of Light upon Occult Freemasonry” (487)
A Conjurer among the Spiritualists (488-489)
Madame Blavatsky’s Reply to Mr. Joseph Cook (489-491)

General Bibliography (495-539)

Index (543-583)

Foreword (xxi)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev.(xxiii-xxxii)

Table Of Contents (xxxii-ixlii)

1882

A Needed Explanation (1-2)
The Hermetic Brethren (3-5)
Buddhist Morals (6-8)
Reincarnation in Tibet (8-19)
Koot-Hoomi in Australia (19)
Which the Truth, and Which a Lie? (20-22)
Correct Definitions and Incorrect Insinuations (22-26)
Strange Manifestations (27)
Whipped into Admission (28-31)
Miscellaneous Notes (32-33)
The “Rast Goftar” in Hot Water (33-34)
Doomed! (34-42)
Answers to Correspondents (42-43)
Mr. “Joseph Wallace” (44-50)
The Present Great Need of a Metaphysico-Spiritual Vocabulary (51-54)
A Sad Lookout (54-55)
Masons and Jesuits (55-60)
[Spirit-Photographs] (60-65)
“The Arya” (65-68)
A Theological Snob (68-71)
Another “Orthodox” Prosecution! (71-76)
“A Faithful ‘Witness’ will not Lie” (76-83)
Mr. William Eglinton’s Departure from India (83-87)
Obituary (87-88)
Milk for Babes and Strong Meat for Men (88-91)
“The Philosophic Inquirer” (92)
The Theosophical Society and Swami Dayanand (93-94)
We Stand Corrected (94-95)
A “Light” Shining in Darkness (95-98)
Footnotes to “The Philosophy of Spirit” (99-101)
Footnotes to “Mediums and Yogis” (101-102)
Comment on “More Anecdotes of Hassan Khan Jinni” (103)
Footnote to “Theosophy during the First Phase of Modern Philosophy” (104)
“Psychê” (104-105)
Pert Questions and Plain Answers (105-107)
Hindu Theism (108-111)
“A Friend in Need, A Friend Indeed” (111-112)
The Magic of Science (112)
Friendly Chastisement (113-118)
Seeming “Discrepancies” (119-122)
Trance-Speakers (122-124)
Footnote to “Bhagavad-Gita” (124)
Footnote to “Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium” (125)
Comments on “A Friendly Remonstrance” (125-127)
[“The Arya”] (127)
Madame Blavatsky on Hindu Widow-Marriage (128-129)
The New Society for Psychical Research (130-132)
Coming Events Foretold (132-137)
Is Belief in Omens a Superstition? (137)
A Storm in a Teacup (138-141)
Spiritualistic Morals in London (142-143)
Comments on “Experimental Studies on the Nervous Fluid” (144-145)
“The Fellow Worker” (145-146)
“A Truth-Seeker Around the World” (146-148)
An “Honest” Enquiry into the Aims of our Society (148-149)
The “Political” Side of Theosophy (150-152)
The “Veda of the Buddhists”! (153-154)
Singing Animalcules (154-155)
Sympathy from the Founders of the Theosophical Society (155-157)
Our Fourth Year (158-159)
Footnotes to “A Cis-Tibetan Ramble” (160-161)
Footnote to “A Treatise on Sufism” (162)
“Tharana,” or Mesmerism (162-166)
Footnote to “Prof. L. Beale, F.R.S., on Modern Scientific Thought” (167)
Comment on “The Mystery of Levitation” (167-169)
Theosophy and Spiritualism (169-170)
Questions about Esoteric Theosophy Answered (170-171)
“The Philosophic Inquirer” (171-174)
Stone-Showers (174-175)
Comments on “A Learned Brahman Spirit”! (175-176)
The Harmonics of Smell (177-179)
Visions in the Crystal (180-181)
“Isis Unveiled” and “The Theosophist” on Reincarnation (182-186)
The So-Called Theosophical Society at Ghazipore (187-188)
Footnote to “Letters on Esoteric Theosophy” (188-189)
“The Perfect Way” (189-190)
In Re “Busiris” (190-191)
Footnotes to “The Philosophy of Spirit” (191-193)
Footnotes to “Puzzling Queries” (193-195)
Reviews (196-204)
Is Electricity Matter or Force? (205-208)
What is Matter and What is Force? (208-226)
“C.C.M.” and “Isis Unveiled” (226-228)
A Protest (229-230)
Sympathy of Madame Blavatsky for Mr. Charles Bradlaugh (230-231)
The Origin of the Gospels and the Bishop of Bombay (232-242)
Footnote to “Theosophy and the Avesta” (242-243)
Was it “Spirits” or What? (243-250)
Death and Immortality (250-256)
Is Suicide a Crime? (257-261)
Footnotes to “Gleanings from Éliphas Lévi” (262-266)
Footnote to “The Three Grades of Ancient Theosophists” (266)
The “Contradictions of the Bible” and the Rawalpindi Mission School (267-268)
“The Arya” and its “Outstation” Correspondence (269-272)
Occult and Spiritual Phenomena in the Light of Modern Science (272-276)
The Freethinkers’ “Salvation Army” (277-280)
The Poor Brutes (281-282)
Comments on “The Utterances of Ramalingam Pillay (282-284)
Note on “Time, Space, and Eternity” (284-285)
A Freethinker in Palestine (285-286)
“Proceedings” of the Society for Psychical Research (286-287)
[H.P.B. on the Cheops Pyramid] (287)

1883

A Mysterious Race (287-290)
Footnotes to “Gleanings from Éliphas Lévi” (290-291)
A Spectral Warning (292-293)
Comment on “Curious Mediumistic Phenomena” (293-294)
Comment on “The Perfect Way” (295-296)
The Rationale of Fasts (296-297)
[On Spirit and Matter] (297-298)
Occult Acoustics (298)
Footnote to “Indian Agricultural Reform” (299)
Introductory Note to “Spiritualistic Black Magic” (300)
Footnote to “Is Suicide a Crime?” (301)
Horoscopes and Astrology (301-303)
Footnote to “Atoms, Molecules, and Ether Waves” (303)
Mistaken Notions (304-306)
The Bugbears of Science (307-325)
From Keshub to Maestro Wagner via the Salvation Camp (325-336)
Footnote to “Is Brahmoism True Hinduism?” (337)
Footnote to “Self-Contradictions of the Bible” (338)
Footnote to “Paracelsus” (338-339)
“Mr. Isaacs” (339-344)
Miscellaneous Notes (344)
Sir Richard and Theosophy Again (345-347)
The Sacred Tree of Kumbum (347-351)
Sham Asceticism (351-352)
Under the Shadow of Great Names (352-353)
Comments on “The ‘Blessing’ of the Brothers” (354-355)
Comment on “An Excellent Magic Mirror” (356-357)
A Word with the Theosophists (357-358)
A Word with “Zero” (358-365)
Footnote to “Mr. Isaacs” (365)
Do the Rishis Exist? (365-367)
The Travelling Truthseeker (368-370)
The Gospel of the Future or the “Revelation” of (St.) Keshub (370-374)
Old and New Methods (374-378)
Footnote to “Theosophy and Miracles” (379)
The Power to Heal (380-386)
By “Bell, Book, and Candle” (387-391)
Pickings from our Contemporaries (391-394)
A Heavy Curse (394-395)
Whence the Name “Lunatic”? (396-398)
Retrogression in Rebirth (398-399)
[On Nadi Granthams] (399-400)
To the “Dissatisfied” (400-401)
The Buddhist Movement in England (402-404)
Footnotes to “Medical Magnetism and the Healer Magnetic” (40-405)
The Chosen “Vessels of Election” (405-420)
Footnotes to “Zoroaster and his Religion” (420-421)
Visishtadvaita Philosophy (422-426)
Theosophy and Religious Riots (427-438)
The Magic of the New Dispensation (439-443)
Devachan (443-445)
The Seventeen-Rayed Sun-Disk (445-447)
Do the Rishis Exist? (447-448)
Comment on “Another ‘Spiritual’ Puzzle” (448-449)
Parabrahm, Defined by Vedantins (450-451)
The Religion of the Future (451-453)
Dragged in Again! (453-455)
The Trinity of Righteousness (456-463)
Miscellaneous Notes (463)
Col. Olcott’s Wonderful Success (464-465)
[Mrs. Anandabai Joshi, F.T.S.] (465-466)
[The Arya Samaj and the Theosophical Society] (467)
The Shylocks of Lahore (467-478)
Compiler’s Note (479-482)
Rectifications Relatives à la Controverse sur l’Occultisme (482-484)
Corrections Concerning the Controversy on Occultism (485-487)
Electroscope and “Astral Doubles” (488-489)
Will (490-492)
Footnotes to “Esoteric Spiritualism, the Law of ‘Influx’ and ‘Efflux’” (492-493)
A Few Thoughts on Some Wise Words from a Wise Man (493-503)
Editor’s Note to “Should Men Cut their Hair?” (503)
The Efficacy of Funeral Ceremonies (504-508)
Gambetta’s Eye and Brain (509-511)
Swami Dayanand — a Freethinker (511-512)
Zoroastrianism in the Light of Occult Philosophy (513-543)
Footnote to “The Tantras” (534)
Footnotes to “Visishtadvaita Philosophy” (535-537)
Cosmical Rings and Rounds (538-540)
Explanation Wanted (540-542)
Pertinent Questions (542-544)
Editor’s Note to “Psychometry and Archaeology” (545)
A Levy of Arms Against Theosophy (546-554)
“The Soul of Things” (554-557)
Footnotes to “Hierosophy and Theosophy” (557-560)
The Almora Swami (560-563)
Footnotes to “The Swami of Almora to his Opponents” (563-569)
Karma (570-573)
“Esoteric Buddhism” (573-574)
The Septenary Principle in Esotericism (574-582)
Spirit Identity and Recent Speculations (583-598)
From Theosophy to Shakespeare (599-602)
Footnotes to “The Status of Jesus” (603-604)
Note to “Under the Shadow of Great Names” (604-605)
The prince convert (605)
Chelas and Lay Chelas (606-614)
Note to “A Description of the Tantrik Mystic Rites and Ceremonies Known as ‘Savasadhana’” (615)

General Bibliography (619-670)

Index (673-718)

Foreword (xxiii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiv-xxix)

Table Of Contents (xxx-xxxii)

June 15, 1883.

July 15, 1883.

Théosophie et Spiritisme (6-35)
Theosophy and Spiritism (36-65)
“Oppressed Widowhood” in America (65-67)

August, 1883.

Our Fifth Year (67-69)
Devachan: Western Stricture and Eastern Version (DWSEV): Memorandum (70-73)
DWSEV : The Real and the Unreal (74-81)
DWSEV : Dream Life (81-88)
DWSEV : The Various States of Devachan (88-94)
The Essentials of Religion (95-100)
A Human Storage Battery (101-103)
Funeral Rites Among Savage Races (104)
The Teachings of Allan Kardec (105-106)
Is Foeticide a Crime? (106-108)
Editor’s Note to “Efficacy of Funeral Ceremonies” (108)
Transmigration of the Life-Atoms (109-117)
Miscellaneous Notes (117)
A Final Answer (118-121)
H. P. B. and Freeethought (Letter dated August 16, 1883; first published in August, 1931) (122-125)
Our New Branches (125-127)
Miscellaneous Notes (128)

Sept., Oct., Nov., 1883.

Introductory Remarks by the Compiler (129-138)
Some Inquiries Suggested by Mr. Sinnett’s “Esoteric Buddhism”: (139-142)
Reply to an English F. T. S. (143-150)
Do the Adepts Deny the Nebular Theory? (150-155)
Is the Sun Merely A Cooling Mass? (155-163)
Are the Great Nations to be Swept Away in an Hour? (163-171)
Is the Moon Immersed in Matter? (171)
About the Mineral Monad (171-175)
Sri Sankaracharya’s Date and Doctrine (By T. Subba Row) (176-197)
“Historical Difficulty”—Why? (198-210)
Leaflets from the Esoteric History (211-226)
Philological and Archaeological “Difficulties” (227-241)
Sakya Muni’s Place in History (241-259)
Inscriptions Discovered by General A. Cunningham (by T. Subba Row) (259-262)
Compiler’s Notes (263-275)

September, 1883

The Khabar (276-277)
The Theosophists (277-279)
Footnote to “Of the Serpent Python and the Pythonesses throughout the Ages” (279-280)
Genteel Beggars (280-283)
Editor’s Note to “A Story of Thirty Years Ago” (283-284)
Editor’s Note to “What is Sauce for the Goose, is not Sauce for a Gander” (284-285)
Professor Huxley and “Isis Unveiled” (285-286)
The Final Result of the Savage Attack of the Roman Catholics on the Buddhists at Colombo (286-287)
Footnote to “Reason and Intuition” (287)
Miscellaneous Notes (288)
Footnotes to “An Enviable Disincarnation” (288-289)

October, 1883.

Projection of the Double (289-293)
Introductory Note to “Life Of Giordano Bruno” (293-294)
Was Writing Known Before Pânini? (294-310)
Pindams at Gya (310-313)
Arne Saknussemm (313-314)
An Appeal for the Redemption of the Poor Pariahs (314-315)
“Impressions From the Infinite” (316-317)
A Plea for a Personal God (317-320)
The Lawn-Tennis School of Critics (321-323)
Miscellaneous Notes (324)
Paying the Way (325-327)
The Buddhists and Government (328)

October 27, 1883.

“Esoteric Buddhism” and its Critic (329-334)

November, 1883.

Morality and Pantheism (335-341)
The “St. James’ Gazette” and “Esoteric Buddhism” (342-349)
The Rev. W. Hastie’s Karma and the Progress of Poesy in Bengal (350-351)
A Christian Minister on Theosophy (351-357)
The Ionian Theosophical Society (358)

General Bibliography (361-386)

Index (387-416)

Foreword (xxiii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiv-xlvii)

Table Of Contents (xlix-liv)

DECEMBER, 1883

Have we to Lower the Flag of Truce? (1-5)
Footnote to “Discrimination of Spirit and Not-Spirit” (5-6)
Editor’s Note to “The Bhattah Mirrors” (6-8)
The God-Idea (8-13)
Footnotes to “Yoga and Kalpa” (13-15)
Adepts and Politics (15-20)
Footnote to “Psycho-Physiological Notes” (20)
Comment on “The Himalayan Brothers-Do They Exist?” (21-32)
Buddhism before Buddha (32-33)
Queries from Australia (33-36)
Existence of the Himalayan Mahatmas (37-40)
The “Puranas” on the Dynasties of the Moryas and the Koothoomi (40-42)
Rain-Stopping Brahmans (42-43)
Wart-Charming (43-45)
“Moral Education” By Prof. Buchanan (45-48)
The Death of a Great Man (48-53)
Important Notice (53-55)
The Saracens of Theosophy and the MadrasCrusaders (55-66)
Ananda Bai Joshi’s Reception (66-68)
A Psychological Phenomenon (69-71)
Miscellaneous Notes (71-73)
From a Letter to the Editor of “Rebus” (73)
Letter to the Editor of “The Epiphany” (74)
Ma Derniere Maderniere (75-85)
My Final Word (85-93)

[SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1894.]

Tibetan Teachings (94-113)

DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1883-1884

Premature and Phenomenal Growths (114-117)
“Precipitation” (118-123)
Some Scientific Questions Answered [October, 1883.] (123-126)
Posthumous Visitor (127-129)
Editor’s Note to “The Miraculous Beard and the Monks of St. Stephano of Vienna” (130-131)

JANUARY, 1884

Footnotes Appended to Subba Row’s Reply to the Circular Letter of Dr. Anna B. Kingsford and Edward Maitland to the London Lodge (131-135)

FEBRUARY, 1884

Introversion of Mental Vision (135-138)
What Scientific Russia Knows of Ceylon (1138-139)
Editor’s Note to “Spirit Guardianship, or What?” (139-141)
Victims of Words (141-143)
Footnotes to “The Sibyl, Ancient and Modern” (143-144)
Archaeological Difficulties (144-146)
The “Bhagavad-Gita” and “Esoteric Buddhism” (146-148)
The Theosophists and Irenaeus (148-155)
Miscellaneous Notes (155-158)
From a Letter of an Old Friend and theosophist (158-160)
A Lapsus Calami (161)
Mr. Moncure Conway (161-163)
Divination by the Laurel Cubes (163-164)
The Oxonians and Theosophy Again (164-166)
The Neutrality of the Senate House (166-168)
Footnotes to “Notes on Modern Egyptian Theosophy” (169-170)
Miscellaneous Notes (170-171)

MARCH, 1884

The High Water Mark of Modern Philosophy (171-173)
A British Thinker on “The Theosophist” (174-175)
Notes and Footnotes to “Three Unpublished Essays” (175-180)
Psychometry (181-182)
Editor’s Note to “Drama of the Latter Days” (183)

[AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1893.]

Elementals (184-201)

[JULY AND AUGUST, 1892.]

Old Philosophers and Modern Critics (202-210)

APRIL, 1884

Footnote to “Living Vampires and Vampirism of the Grave in our Social Institutions” (210-211)
Comment on “Practical Work for theosophists” (211-212)
Comments on “A Canon Occultist” (212-213)
Mr. Lloyd's Questions to Mohini (213-217)

MAY, 1884

Prince Bismarck’s Mysterious Visitor (218-219)
A Spirit Visit (219-221)
A Singular Case (221-222)
Miscellaneous Notes (222)

JUNE, 1884.

Are Chelas “Mediums”? (223-227)
Astrology (227-230)
Mr. Moncure D. Conway's “A Tour Round the World” (230-232)
A Roman Catholic Saint at Goa (233-235)
Karma (236-237)
Footnotes to “Unpublished Writings of Eliphas Levi” (238)

JULY, 1884

Mahatmas and Chelas (239-241)
Is the Desire to “Live” Selfish? (241-248)
Nirvana (248-249)
Miscellaneous Notes (249)
Petition to the Masters for the Formation of an “Inner Group” in the London Lodge (250-256)

AUGUST, 1884

SEPTEMBER, 1884

Miscellaneous Notes (280)
Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society (281-284)

OCTOBER, 1884.

Chelas (285-287)
The Theosophical Society in India (287-288)
Mr. Arthur Lillie (288-294)
H.P.B. on the Coulomb Forged Letters (395-308)
The Collapse of Koot Hoomi (308-313)
On Hibernation, the Arya-Samaj, ETC. (313-315)

[DECEMBER, 1925]

The Ten Sephiroth (315-321)

JANUARY, 1885

H.P.B.’s Last Will and Testament (322-324)

FEBRUARY, 1885

H.P.B and the S.P.R. Report (324-326)
Faith in Astrology (3266-327)
Editor's Note to “Kama-Loka and the Bearings of the Esoteric Doctrine on Spiritualism” (328-329)

MARCH, 1885

A Remarkable Astrologer (329-330)

MAY, 1885

Spiritual Progress (331-337)
Retirement of Madame Blavatsky (337-339)

JUNE, 1885

Editor’s Note to “Zoroastrianism” (340-341)

AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1885

Facts and Ideations (341-353)
A Bewitched Life (354-406)

SEPTEMBER, 1885

Letter from H.P. Blavatsky to the Editor of “Rebus” (406-411)

[Published for the first time in this volume]

To the Theosophist (DATED NOVEMBER, 1885) (412-413)

[AUGUST, 1931.]

My Justification (414-417)
Testimony to Phenomena [DECEMBER, 1883] (418-419)

General Bibliography (423-451)

Index (453-481)

Foreword (xxiii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiv-xxx)

Table Of Contents (xxxi-xxxiv)

[1924 and 1886]

To Theosophists and Men of Honour (3-7)
[Madame Blavatsky’s Protest] (8-11)

January, February and March 1886

Have Animals Souls? (12-49)

January, 1886

“Isis Unveiled” and the Vidishtadvâita (50-52)

March, 1886

A Theosophical Fable (53-54C)

April and May, 1886

Occult or Exact Science? (55-90)

October, 1886

Ancient Magic in Modern Science (91-104)

[1897]

Egyptian Magic (105-126)
[Compiler’s Notes] (126-134)

[1924 and 1931]

[The Original Programme of the Theosophical Society] : Compiler’s Notes (135-140)
A Few Words on The Theosophical Organization (by Mohini M. Chatterji and Arthur Gebhard) (140-145)
Text of the “Original Programme” Manuscript (145-173)
Some Words on Daily Life (1888) (173-175)

November, 1886

Theories About Reincarnation and Spirits (176-199)

[January, 1887]

An Important Correction (200)

[November, 1891]

Chinese Spirits (201-209)
[Compiler’s Notes] (209-213)

November, 1886

Animated Statues (213-230)

[1897]

The Idols and the Teraphim (230-240)

December, 1886

“The Theosophical Mahatmas” (241-249)
Miscellaneous Notes (250)

[May, 1892]

The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (250-272)

[August, 1896]

Fragments (272-280)

April, 1887

Footnotes to “The Life of Paracelsus” (283-284)
Classification of “Principles” (284-300)
[H. P. Blavatsky’s Instructions to Countess Constance Wachtmeister, concerning the Removal of her ody after Death] (301-305)

May, 1887

“United” (306-317)

June, 1887

Juges ou Calomniateurs? (318-330)
Judges or Slanderers? (330-344)

August, 1887

Re-Classification of Principles (345-351)

General Bibliography (355-404)

Index (405-433)

Foreword (xxi)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxii-xxiv)

Table Of Contents (xxv-xxviii)

Compiler’s Introductory Note (3) (only in this volume)

September, 1887

What’s in a Name (5-13)
Aphorisms (14)
The History of a Planet (14-27)
The Last of a Good Lama (28-30)
Literary Jottings (30-41)
Theosophical and Mystic Publications (41-45)
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (45-47)
Fausses Conceptions (48-69)
Misconceptions (70-91)
[The Blossom and the Fruit] (91-93)

[October, 1896]

Modern Idealism, Worse Than Materialism (93-98)

October, 1887

The Signs of the Times (98-108)
Self-Knowledge (108)
Will and Desire (109)
The Origin of Evil (110-125)
The Great Paradox (125-129)
Desire Made Pure (129)
“An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians”—Review (130-136)
Theosophical and Mystic Publications (136-137)
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (137-139)
Miscellaneous Notes (139)

November, 1887

Tetragrammaton (140-159)
“Let Every Man Prove His Own Work” (159-171)
The Esoteric Character of the Gospels (continued in December, 1887, and February, 1888) (172-217)
Compiler’s Notes (217-239)
The Science of Life (240-249)
Sin Against Life (249-250)
Footnotes to “Blood-Covenanting” (251-252)
“Esoteric Buddhism” (252-253)
“The Real History of the Rosicrucians”—Review (253-262)
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (262-267)
[H. P. Blavatsky and the Keely Motor] (267)

December, 1887

“Lucifer” to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Greeting! (268-283)
“God Speaks for Law and Order” (284-286)
An interpetretation of the vision, by Serjeant (287-292)
Answers to Queries (292-299)
Literary Jottings (299-310)
Miscellaneous Notes (310-313)

[September, 1894]

[“Lucifer” and The Theosophical Publishing Company] (313-314)

[September, 1891]

The Substantial Nature of Magnetism (315-333)

[October, 1896]

Psychology, the Science of the Soul (333-340)

December, 1887

[Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbé Roca] (341-342)
Esotericism of Christian Dogma (Abbé Roca) (343-354)
Notes sur «L’Ésotérisme du Dogme Chrétien» de M. l’Abbé Roca (H.P.B.) (355-371)
Notes on Abbé Roca’s “Esotericism of Christian Dogma” (translation) (372-391)

[May, June, July, 1900]

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (392-409)

General Bibliography (413-478)

Index (479-507)

Foreword (xxiii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiv-xxv)

Table Of Contents (xxvii-xxx)

January, 1888

1888 (3-5)
“To the Readers of Lucifer” (5-10)
“A Modern Magician”—Review (10-11)
“Absolute Monism”—Review (11-16)
The Church and the Doctrine of Atonement (16-18)
A Note of Explanation (18-23)
Miscellaneous Notes (23-24)

February, 1888

Chinese Shadows (24-29)
“What is Truth?” (30-42)
Footnotes to “The Soldier’s Daughter” (42-44)
“Traité élémentaire de science occulte”—Review (44-46)
What of Phenomena? (46-50)
Correspondence (51-62)
Miscellaneous Notes (63-65)

March, 1888

Sunday Devotion to Pleasure (66-72)
The Life Principle (72-80)
From “Lucifer” to a Few Readers (80-86)
Re the Brain Theorem of the Universe (86-88)
The Late Mrs. Anna Kingsford, M. D. (89-91)
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (92-97)
Miscellaneous Notes (98-99)

April, 1888

Conversations on Occultism (99-128)
What Good has Theosophy done in India? (129-134)
Footnotes to “Buddhist Doctrine of the Western Heaven” (135-138)
Footnotes and Comments on “Ultimate Philosophy” (138-141)
Christian Lecturers on Buddhism, and Plain Facts about the same, by Buddhists (142-154)
Practical Occultism (155-162)
Correspondence (163-172)
“Woman: her Glory, her Shame, and her God”—Review (172-176)
“Visions”—Review (177-178)
Controversy between H. P. Blavatsky and the Abbé Roca (CHPBAR) : Reply to Madame Blavatsky’s observations on Christian Esotericism (Abbé Roca)—February, 1888 (179-193)
(CHPBAR) : Réponse aux Fausses conceptions de M. l’Abbé Roca Relatives à mes Observations sur l’Ésotérisme Chrétien (H.P.B.) (194-215)
(CHPBAR) : Reply to the mistaken conceptions of the Abbé Roca concerning my observations on Christian Esotericism (translation of the above) (216-237)
Footnotes to “The Tide of Life” (237-241)
Letter from H. P. Blavatsky to the Second American Convention (241-248)

May, 1888

Occultism versus the Occult Arts (249-261)
Footnotes to “The Sraddha” (261-263)
The Crucifixion of Man (264-275)
Is this an Error? (August, 1888) (275-280)
A Puzzle in “Esoteric Buddhism” (280-285)
Practical Occultism (285-286)
Why do Animals Suffer? (286-288)
Is there no Hope? (288-289)
Who are the Eurasians? (289-290)
Miscellaneous Notes (290)

June, 1888

Theosophy or Jesuitism? (291-307)
[Compiler’s Notes] (307-317)
Karmic Visions (318-339)
[Unsupported Claims of the Roman Catholic Church] (393-341)
Miscellaneous Notes (341-342)
Réponse de l’Abbé Roca aux Allégations de Madame Blavatsky contre l’Ésotérisme Chrétien (Abbé Roca)—with Footnotes by H. P. B. (343-370)
Reply of Abbé Roca to Madame Blavatsky’s Allegations against Christian Esotericism (Abbé Roca)—with Footnotes by H. P. B. (translation of the above) (371-397)
Letter to the Editor of “The Path” (399-400)
[Additional Material: Conversations on Occultism (continued)] (400-400S)

General Bibliography (403-462)

Index (463-488)

Foreword (xxiii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiv-xxix)

Table Of Contents (xxxi-xxxiv)

July 1888

Forlorn Hope (1-8)
To Theosophists and Readers of “Lucifer” (9-12)
Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church (13-32)
“L’Isis” (33-34)
Christian Science (34-42)
What is God? (42-47)
Miscellaneous Notes (47)
Psychologie de l’Égypte ancienne (48-54)
Psychology of Ancient Egypt (55-62)

August 1888

The Theosophical Society: Its Mission and Its Future (63-81)
Our Christian XIXth Century Ethics (81-88)
A Lesson (89)
The “Chaste Tree” (90)
Miscellaneous Notes (90-92)

September 1888

Our Third Volume (92-95)
Christian or Mental Science (96)
From the Note Book of an Unpopular Philosopher (97-108)
Miscellaneous Notes (108-109)
Théosophie et Bouddhisme (110-121)
Theosophy and Buddhism (121-123)

October 1888

Lodges of Magic (124-130)
Editorial Notice (131)
Footnotes to “A Glance at Theosophy from Outside” (131-133)
An Explanation Important to All Theosophists (134-142)
The National Epic of Finland—Review (143-148)
The Devil—Who is He? (148-151)
Pertinent Queries (151-154)
The Esoteric Section of The Theosophical Society (154-155)
Miscellaneous Notes (155-157)
[“The Secret Doctrine”—Compiler’s Note] (157-159)

November 1888

Is Theosophy a Religion? (159-174)
Footnotes to “A Buddhist Prince’s View of the Universe and the Nature of Man” (174-177)
“Esoteric Buddhism” and “The Secret Doctrine” (177-188)
Miscellaneous Notes (188)
Casting Off (189-192)

December 1888

[The Esoteric Section and William Quan Judge] (195)
Is Denunciation a Duty? (196-208)
The Dirge for the Dead in Life (208-212)
The Dirge for the Dead (February, 1889) (212-217)
Dialogue Between the Two Editors (217-226)
Children Allowed to Train Themselves for Murder (226-228)
The Devil, Who is He? (229-233)
Literary Jottings (233-241)
Miscellaneous Notes (241-242)
The Secret Doctrine (243-245)
Dreams (246-264)

June, 1893, and April, 1894

Occult Vibrations (264-267)
Conversations on Occultism with H. P. B. (268-273)

January, 1889

The Year is Dead, Long Live the Year! (277-285)
“The Empty Vessel Makes the Greatest Sound” (285-288)
Lodges of Magic (289-290)
Are All Russian Ladies Russian Agents? (291-295)
Miscellaneous Notes (295-297)

January, February, March, 1889

Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of The Theosophical Society (298-406)

General Bibliography (409-430)

Index (431-461)

Foreword (xxi)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiii-xxvii)

Table Of Contents (xxix-xxxiii)

February, 1889

A Paradoxical World (1-13)
Footnotes to “The Ancient Empire of China” (14-18)
If you Shoot at a Crow, do not Kill a Cow (19-20)
“Qabbalah, The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol”—Review (21-33)
Marriage and Divorce—Religious, Practical and Political Aspects of the Question (34-42)
The Mithra Worship (43-45)

March, 1889

On Pseudo-Theosophy (45-61)
The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry (concluded in May, 1889) (62-101)
“Thou Shalt not Bear False Witness . . . .” (102-103)
Theosophical Queries (103-106)
[Japanese Buddhism and Christianity] (106-108)
Le Cycle Nouveau (109-122)
The New Cycle(Translation of foregoing French text) (123-136)

April, 1889

Thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation (136-146)
The Struggle for Existence (147-156)
The Sacred Mission of the S. P. R. (157)
Miscellaneous Notes (158-160)
[Second Letter of H. P. Blavatsky to the American Convention] (161-169)
Signal de Danger (170-177)
A Danger Signal (Translation of foregoing French text) (178-185)

May, 1889

Our Cycle and the Next (186-202)
Our Society’s “Agapae” (203-204)
Buddhism Through Christian Spectacles (205-208)
Miscellaneous Notes (209-210)
Professor Elliott Coues and Koot Hoomi (210-211)
Le Phare de l’Inconnu (continued in June, July and August, 1889) (212-247)
The Beacon of the Unknown (Translation of foregoing French text) (248-283)

June, 1889

A Letter to the Editor of “Light” (284-286)
“It’s the Cat!” (287-294)
“A Voice from over the Seas” (295)
“Attention, Theosophists!” (296-300)
A Few Queries (300-301)
Miscellaneous Notes (302-305)
To All Theosophists. “The Esoteric Section of The Theosophical Society” and its Enemies (306-330)

July, 1889

Force of Prejudice (330-340)
Miscellaneous Notes (340)
The Work of the “Esoteric Section of the T. S.” To All the “Pledged”Theosophists (341-342)
World-Improvement or World-Deliverance (343-354)
The Eighth Wonder (publ. Posthumously in October, 1891) (355-362)
Dates Again (362-365)
[The Key to Theosophy] (365)

August, 1889

The “Nine-Days’ Wonder” Press (366-377)
A Puzzle from Adyar (378-384)
Miscellaneous Notes (384)
The Light of Egypt (385-386)
Letter to the Editor of “Light” (387-389)
A Correction (390)

September, 1889

Our Three Objects (391-400)
Notice (400)
“Going To and Fro in the Earth” (401-412)
The Theosophist’s Right to His God (413-416)
Miscellaneous Notes (417)
The Thersites of Freethought (418-430)

October, 1889

Philosophers and Philosophicules (431-439)
The Women of Ceylon (440-445)
Memory in the Dying (446-453)
An Open Letter (453-455)
“Going To and Fro in the Earth” (456-463)
What shall we do for our Fellow-Men? (464-480)
Theosophical (?) Dogmatism and Intolerance (481-482)
Notes on the Gospel according to John (published in February, 1893) (482-503)
The Theosophists (504)
L’Alchimie au Dix-Neuvième Siècle (continued in November and December, 1889) (505-527)
Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century (Translation of foregoing French text) (528-550)
An Open Letter to All the Fellows of the American Section of The Theosophical Society (551-560)

General Bibliography (563-596)

Index (599-632)

Foreword (xxii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiii-xxvi)

Table Of Contents (xxvii-xxx)

1889

The Tidal Wave (1-8)
Russian Popular Tracts (9-13)
Genius (13-22)
Miscellaneous Notes (22-24)
Official Notice (24-26)
“Going To and Fro in the Earth” (27-30)
Footnotes to “My Experiences in Occultism and Occult Development” (31-32)
The Fall of Ideals (33-52)
Footnotes to “The Alchemists” (52-55)
“Going To and Fro in the Earth” (55-57)
Miscellaneous Notes (58)
The Facts Brought Before Masters (59-63)
[The Voice of the Silence] (64)

1890

1890! On the New Year’s Morrow (67-78)
Was Cagliostro a “Charlatan”? (78-88)
[Colonel Henry S. Olcott and the Esoteric Section] (89)
Miscellaneous Notes (90)
Pensées sur le Nouvel An et les Faux Nez (91-97)
Thoughts on the New Year and the False Noses(Translation of the foregoing French text) (97-104)
The Last Song of the Swan (104-116)
[Colonel H. S. Olcott and the British Section] (116)
Muddled Meddlers (117-119)
Miscellaneous Notes (119)
The Cycle Moveth (120-132)
Kosmic Mind (133-150)
[Note by the Compiler] (150)
Third Letter of H.P.B. to the Fourth Annual American Convention (151-156)
Why I Do not Return to India (157-167)
La Légende du Lotus Bleu (167-176)
The Legend of the Blue Lotus (Translation of the foregoing French text) (177-186)
Thoughts on the Elementals (187-205)
Footnotes and Editorial Notes to “The Letters of Johann Caspar Lavater” (205-212)
[Rules for the Residents of the London Headquarters] (212-213)
Black Magic in Science (214-228)
An Astral Prophet (228-233)
Mistaken Notions on “The Secret Doctrine” (234-237)
Capital Punishment (237-238)
Cruelty to Animals (238-239)
Diagnoses and Palliatives (239-256)
Modern Apostles and Pseudo-Messiahs (256-262)
The Theosophical Society in Europe (263-264)
Science and the Secret Doctrine (265)
Progress and Culture (266-279)
The Mote and the Beam (279-291)
Neptune (292)
Recent Progress in Theosophy (292-308)
[Appointment of Bertram Keightley] (309)
The Dual Aspect of Wisdom (309-320)
Queries and Answers (321-329)
To the Theosophists of Europe (329-332)
Mme. Blavatsky Appeals to the Law (332-334)
Neo-Buddhism (334-349)
Psychic and Noetic Action (350-374)
[The Theosophical Society and its Detractors] (375-376)
À Tous les Membres de la Société Théosophique en France (377-379)
To All the Members of The Theosophical Society in France(Translation of the foregoing french text) (379-381)
Miscellaneous Notes (382)
Forlorn Hopes (383-394)
Hypnotism, and its Relations to Other Modes of Fascination (394-403)
Problems of Life (403-416)
Why the “Vahan”? (417-419)
[The Oriental Department] (419-420)
Specimen Page of Gems from the East (421-424)
Gems from the East. A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms (425-476)
ESOTERIC INSTRUCTIONS (EI) : The Esoteric Section: Introduction by the Compiler (478-511)
EI : Instruction No. I (513-541)
EI : Instruction No. II (542-580)
EI : Instruction No. III (581-652)
EI : [Compiler’s Note] (653)
EI : Instruction No. IV (654-673s)
EI : First Supplementary Paper to Instruction No. IV (675-687)
EI : Instruction No. V (691-712)
EI : Doubles and Ex-Doubles (712-713)

General Bibliography (717-784)

Index (787-859)

Foreword (xxi-xxii)

Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev. (xxiii-xxvii)

Table Of Contents (xxix-xxxii)

Pistis Sophia: Commentary and Notes (1-81) (only in this volume)

1891

The Babel of Modern Thought (83-103)
A Criticism on a Critic (104-110)
Going To and Fro: [Regarding Giants and Hypnotism] (111-114)
Comments on “The Theosophical Society and H.P.B.” (115-121)
Miscellaneous Notes (122)
The Indian General Secretaryship (122)
The Devil’s Own Thoughts on Ormuzd and Ahriman (123-133)
Miscellaneous Notes (134)
[Bertram Keightley and The Theosophist] (135)
[Annie Besant and the Esoteric Section] (135-137)
The Negators of Science (138-157)
Footnotes to “The Purânas” (158-160)
Are Bacilli Anything New? (161)
A Magic Wand (162)
Two Kinds of “Peacemakers” (163)
A Sincere Confession (163-164)
Miscellaneous Notes (164-165)
The Light of the World—Review (165-170)
Miscellaneous Notes (170)
Letter to the Fifth Annual Convention of the American Section of the T.S. (171-175)
Additional Message to the Fifth American Convention (176)
Civilization, the Death of Art and Beauty (177-190)
True Nobility (191)
My Books (191-202)
A Declaration (203-204)
Madame Blavatsky Speaks Out (205-207)

POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED

Posthumous Works [Fragments ascribed to H.P.B. which have titles devised by the compiler have daggers after them.] (208)
The Theosophical Society—A Truthful Tale of the Nineteenth Century (209-214)
The Blessings of Publicity (215-218)
[There is a Road, Steep and Thorny . . .] (219)
Frogs and Chinamen (220-222)
Madame Blavatsky and the Grippe (223)
The Denials and the Mistakes of the Nineteenth Century (224-242)
Literary Jottings (243-247)
From the Polar Lands (248-253)
Buddhism, Christianity and Phallicism (254-261)
The Mind in Nature (262-269)
One Eternal Truth . . .† (269-270)
Nebo of Birs-Nimrud (271-282)
Pherecydes (283-285)
Knowledge Comes in Visions† (285)
The Outer World as Natural Enemy of Every New Truth† (286-287)
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness (288-289)
An Intro and Retrospective Dream: A Tale of the XXIV Century (290-295)
Pagan Symbolism Indestructible—Why? (296-300)
On Cosmic Cycles, Manvantaras and Rounds† (301-306)
Spinoza and Western Philosophers (307-312)
Answers to Questions† (313-320)
Ancient Astronomy. The Great Pyramid† (321-323)
The Origin of the Pythagorean System† (324-325)
The Chaldean “Vedas” or “Vedic” Chaldees (326-340)
Christianizing “Pagan” Ideas† (340-341)
Palibothra or Megasthenes (342-344)
On Dr. Carpenter and Scientific Prejudice† (345-347)
On Separation of the Nations, etc.† (348-350)
Kabala (351-354)
Hermetic Fire† (354-355)
Scattered Fragments† (356-358)
Letter to the Moscow Herald† (359-361)
On Mesmerism and Hypnotism† (362-363)
Blavatsky Lodge Minutes† (364-366)

General bibliography (369-406) (only available online in this volume)

Index (409-465)

Foreword (xxi-xxiii)

( No "Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev" in this volume)

“The Secret Doctrine – Volume III” [Introduction] (xxv-xliv)

Table Of Contents (xlv-xlviii)

POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED

Introductory (1-16)
Preliminary Survey (16-33)
The Secrecy of Initiates (33-47)
Some Reasons for Secrecy (47-59)
The Dangers of Practical Magic (59-69)
Old Wine in New Bottles (70-76)
The Book of Enoch, the Origin and the Foundation of Christianity (76-86)
Hermetic and Kabalistic Doctrines (86-94)
Various Occult Systems of Interpretations of Alphabets and Numerals (95-102)
The Hexagon with the Central Point, or the Seventh Key (102-109)
Post-Christian Adepts and Their Doctrines (109-114)
Simon and his Biographer Hippolytus (115-120)
St. Paul, The Real Founder of Present Christianity (120-124)
Peter, A Jewish Kabalist, Not an Initiate (124-127)
Apollonius of Tyana (127-136)
Facts Underlying Adept Biographies (137-162)
St. Cyprian of Antioch (162-167)
The Eastern Gupta-Vidya and the Kabalah (167-191)
Hebrew Allegories (192-205)
The Zohar on Creation and the Elohim (206-219)
What the Occultists and the Kabalists have to say (220-224)
Modern Kabalists in Science and Occult Astronomy (225-232)
Eastern and Western Occultism (232-245)
The Origin of the Mysteries (246-259)
The Trial of the Sun Initiate (259-268)
The Mystery “Sun of Initiation” (269-273)
The Objects of the Mysteries (274-280)
Traces of the Mysteries (281-293)
The Last of the Mysteries in Europe (294-299)
The Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries (300-313)
Symbolism of Sun and Stars (314-325)
Pagan Sidereal Worship, or Astrology (326-333)
The Souls of the Stars – Universal Heliolatry (334-343)
Astrology and Astrolatry (344-352)
Cycles and Avataras (352-357)
Secret Cycles (358-368)

MYSTERY OF THE BUDDHA

The Doctrine of Avataras (370-385)
The Seven Principles (386-387)
The Mystery of Buddha (388-399)
“Reincarnations” of Buddha (400-407)
Unpublished Discourse of Buddha (408-410)
Nirvana-Moksha (411-421)
The Secret Books of “Lam-Rim” and Dzyan (422-424)
Amita Buddha, Kwan-Shai-Yin, and Kwan-Yin - What the “Book of Dzyan” and the Lamaseries of Tsong-Kha-Pa say.(425-426)
Tsong-Kha-Pa – Lohans in China (427-431)
A Few More Misconceptions Corrected (432-442)
The “Doctrine of the Eye” and the “Doctrine of the Heart,” or the “Heart’s Seal” (443-453)

Appendices I, II and III (457-502) (only in this volume, not available online)

Bibliography (505-579)

Index (583-733)

Foreword (vii)

Acknowledgements (ix)

Prefatory Notes (xi-xii)

List of Abbreviations (xiii)

Cumulative Index (1-617)
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Illustrations list (621-626)

Serials list (627-633)