Charles Leadbeater: 131 books

Long ago in old Atlantis, in the great City of the Golden Gate, there reigned a mighty King. One day there came to him a soldier whom he had sent out to head an expedition against a troublesome tribe on the borders of that vast empire. The soldier reported victory, and as a reward the King gave him...

It is very difficult to explain how the future is foreseen, but there is no doubt whatever as to the fact. Apart from apparently accidental pictures and flashes of intuition, often effective but not under control, there are two ways in which the future may definitely be foreseen by means of the higher...

Much of the matter of the astral body is vivified by elemental essence, which is cut off for the time being from the general mass which belongs to the plane, and becomes the man's expression on that plane. This is a living, though not an intelligent essence...

Any comparatively permanent color in the astral body means a persistent vibration..

As a series of past lives of enthralling interest has recently been published in The Theosophist, many enquiries have been received as to the exact method by which the record of such lives is read by the investigators. It is not easy to explain the matter satisfactorily to those who have not...

A thoughtful Theosophist cannot but wonder sometimes how it is that Theosophy, though unquestionably representing the most advanced theory of existence and the most complete statement of the highest wisdom at present available, yet does not seem to appeal at all to many of the most eminent leaders...

I first heard of Theosophy through coming across a second-hand copy of Mr. Sinnett's book The Occult World, but my first communication from one of the Masters was obtained in a somewhat unusual way. For some years before this I had been engaged in the investigation of spiritualism, and in the...

The Atlanteans had as a race no sense of the abstract, and were unable to generalise; for example, they had no multiplication table; arithmetic was to them a system of magic, and a child had to learn elaborate rules without ever knowing the reason for them...

The present condition of the planet Mars is by no means unpleasant. It is a smaller planet than the Earth and more advanced in age. I do not mean that it is actually older in years, for the whole chain of worlds came into existence , not simultaneously indeed ,  but within a certain definite...

In each of our vehicles there are certain force-centres which in Sanskrit are called chakrams ,  a word which signifies a wheel or revolving disc. These are points of connection at which force flows from one vehicle to another. ..

Those who have been following the recent discoveries and investigations will remember that in an article not long ago I mentioned the existence, within one of the great classes of monads, of two types which, though equal to one another in development, differ greatly in their intervals between lives,...

BnF collection ebooks - "Quand, après avoir définitivement quitté son corps physique, un membre de la Société Théosophique se trouvera sur le plan astral, il fera bien de se livrer, pour ainsi dire, à une sorte d'inventaire, de se rendre compte de sa situation, du genre de vie qui se présente à lui, afin d'en tirer le meilleur parti possible."

Extrait : "La mort est un sujet qui ne peut manquer de présenter le plus grand intérêt aux yeux de tous, étant donné que dans la biographie à venir de tous les hommes également un seul fait est absolument certain, c'est qu'il leur faut mourir un jour. Bien plus, il n'en est pour ainsi dire pas...

BnF collection ebooks - "La mort est un sujet qui ne peut manquer de présenter le plus grand intérêt aux yeux de tous, étant donné que dans la biographie à venir de tous les hommes également un seul fait est absolument certain, c'est qu'il leur faut mourir un jour. Bien plus, il n'en est...