C. W. LEADBEATER

Volume II
SECOND EDITION
THE THEOSOPHICAL PRESS
826 OAKDALE AVENUE,
CHICAGO, ILL.
1922
CONTENTS
The After-death Life
Page
The Theosophist After Death 3
The Relation of the Dead to Earth .... 5
Conditions after Death 16
Animal Obsession 20
Individualised Animals 30
Localisation of States 31
Heaven-Life Conditions 37
Karma in the Heaven-Life 43
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Astral Work
Invisible Helpers 57
Remembering Astral Experience 71
The Higher Dimensions 78
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The Mental Body and the Power of Thought
The Mental Body 87
A Neglected Power 97
Intuition and Impulse 105
Thought Centres 107
Thought and Elemental Essence 112
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Psychic Faculties
Psychic Powers 117
Clairvoyance 126
The Mystic Chord 138
How Past Lives are Seen 145
Foreseeing the Future 158
Devas and Nature-Spirits
The Aura of the Deva 165
The Spirit of a Tree 171
The Worlds and the Races of Men
The Building of the System 175
The Planetary Chains . 184
Successive Life-Waves 190
The Monads From the Moon 211
The Earth Chain 224
Modes of Individualisation 249
The Seven Types 262
Stray Notes on Races 264
The Irish Race 264
The Spanish Race 269
The Jewish Race 270
The Atlanteans 273
Mars and its Inhabitants 275
Reincarnation
Three Laws of Human Life 289
The Return to Birth 290
Personal Characteristics 305
Bringing Over Past Knowledge 306
The Intervals Between Lives 308
Karma
The Law of Equilibrium 321
The Method of Karma 332
The Karma of Death 337
Karma as an Educator 342
Varieties of Karma 344
Animal Karma 349
The Theosophical Society and its Founders
What is the Theosophical Society? .... 357
Theosophy and World Leaders , 366
Reminiscences 373
Faithful Unto Death 384
A Course of Study in Theosophy 390
Index 397
FOREWORD TO AMERICAN EDITION
The long-promised second series of Adyar Talks has at length been published after many unavoidable de- lays. After careful consideration it was thought best to abandon the use of the title The Hidden Life and to issue the volume as The Inner Life, Volume II. Some of these informal talks to the classes at Adyar have already appeared in The Theosophist, but many of the chapters contain facts which have not been published before, such as "Mars and Its Inhabitants."
The manuscript of The Hidden Side of Things, which promises to be a book of some seven hundred pages, is ready for the printer, and we are only waiting an op- portune time to publish it.