A.P. Sinnett 
Esoteric Buddhism 

CONTENTS

Preface

CHAPTER I – 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

CHAPTER II – The Constitution of Man Esoteric Cosmogony – Where to Begin – Working back from Man to Universe – Analysis of Man – The Seven Principles

CHAPTER III -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

CHAPTER IV -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

CHAPTER V – 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

CHAPTER VI – Kama Loca The Astral Shell – Its Habitat – Its Nature – Surviving Impulses – Elementals – Mediums and Shells – Accidents and Suicides – Lost Personalities

CHAPTER VII – 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

CHAPTER VIII – 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 Esoteric Buddhism by A.P. Sinnett

CHAPTER IX -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

CHAPTER X – 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

CHAPTER XI – 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

CHAPTER XII – 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 Esoteric Buddhism by A.P. Sinnett

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