C. \V. LEADBEATER

FO UR TH EDITION
(REVISED)
London: Theosophical Publishing Society
BENARES: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY
CHICAGO: THEOSOPHICAL BOOK CONCERN
NEW-YORK: JOHN LANE
1905
DUWAER & VAN GINKEL -:- PRINTERS 8 BLOEMGRACHT, AMSTERDAM (HOLLAND).
PREFACE.
Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public demand for a simple exposi- tion of Tlieosophical teachings. Some have complained that our literature is at once too abstruse, too technical, and too expensive for the ordinary reader, and it is our hope that the present series may succeed in supplying what is a very real want. Theosophy is not only for the learned ; it is for all. Perhaps among those who in these little books catch their first glimpse of its teachings, there may be a few who will be led by them to penetrate more deeply into its philosophy, its science and its religion, facing its abstruser problems with the studenfs zeal and the neophyte's ardour. But these manuals are not written only for the eager student, whom no initial difficulties can daunt; they are written for the busy men and women of the work-a-day world, and seek to make plain some of the great truths that render life easier to bear and death easier to face. Written by servants of the Masters who are the Elder Brothers of our race, they can have no other object than to serve our fellow-men.
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CONTENTS.
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Introduction 9
Scenery. — The Seven Subdivisions— Degrees of Materiality — Characteristics of Astral Vision — The Aura— The Etheric Double — Power of Magnifying Minute Objects — The "Summer- land" — Records of the Astral Light 17
Inhabitants. — I. Human, (i) Living: — The Adept or his Pupil — The Psychically Developed ' Person — The Ordinary Person— The Black Magician . 29
(2) Dead: — The Nirmanakaya — The Pupil awaiting Rein- carnation— The Ordinary Person after Death — The Shade — The Shell— The Vitalized Shell— The Suicide— The Victim of Sudden Death — The Va moire — The Werewolf — The Black Magician after Death 35