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The laws of the higher life: being lectures delivered at the 12th annual convention of the Indian section of the Theosophical society, held at Benares in December 1902

Annie Besant

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Description:This book was originally printed in 1903, has footnotes and an appendix with Annie Besant’s “The Meaning And Method Of Spiritual Life”. From the book: “This year we are going to study together a subject of vital importance to the thoughtful, to the earnest, to those who desire to serve humanity, to those who wish to help the race forward in its evolution. The subject of my discourses I have called ‘The Laws of the Higher Life’, because so many people in dealing with religion, that has to do with the Higher Life, seem inclined to remove it from the realm of law, and to bring it into some strange region of arbitrary whim, into some strange region of results without endeavour, of failure without weakness. This idea that spirituality is not subject to Law is an idea that is natural at the first sight; for we find a corresponding analogy in the way in which the laws of the physical plane have been overlooked, just in proportion as they have been unstudied and unknown. “So we shall rest for a moment on the idea of Law, and see what it means. Then after explaining what I mean by ‘Law’, I shall try to show you that, without a possibility of doubt, even apart from religion and religious thought, there is a larger consciousness than that which works in the brain and the nervous system, a larger consciousness than that which we call the waking consciousness of a man. I shall try to show you how that consciousness may begin to unfold and grow by the full recognition of the Law of Duty, by the attempt to fulfill perfectly every obligation of life. In the third and last lecture, I shall pass on to that loftier and sublimer region where the inner law takes the place of the law of outer obligation, where instead of duty, which means the payment of debt, there is sacrifice, which is the outpouring of life, where everything is done gladly, everything is done willingly, in perfect self-surrender, where the man does not need to ask: “What have I to do? What is my duty?” but where he works because the Divine outwelling finds its channel in his life, and he needs no outer compulsion because of the perfection of the inner law.” About the author: Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. She founded the Central Hindu College (CHC) at Banaras in North India and had a California school named after her (the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley). Some of her books are: Man and His Bodies; Seven Principles of Man; Reincarnation; Karma; Ancient Wisdom; Thought Power; Death and After; Path of Discipleship; Inner Government of the World; Study in Consciousness; Esoteric Christianity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The laws of the higher life: being lectures delivered at the 12th annual convention of the Indian section of the Theosophical society, held at Benares in December 1902. To get started finding The laws of the higher life: being lectures delivered at the 12th annual convention of the Indian section of the Theosophical society, held at Benares in December 1902, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book was originally printed in 1903, has footnotes and an appendix with Annie Besant’s “The Meaning And Method Of Spiritual Life”. From the book: “This year we are going to study together a subject of vital importance to the thoughtful, to the earnest, to those who desire to serve humanity, to those who wish to help the race forward in its evolution. The subject of my discourses I have called ‘The Laws of the Higher Life’, because so many people in dealing with religion, that has to do with the Higher Life, seem inclined to remove it from the realm of law, and to bring it into some strange region of arbitrary whim, into some strange region of results without endeavour, of failure without weakness. This idea that spirituality is not subject to Law is an idea that is natural at the first sight; for we find a corresponding analogy in the way in which the laws of the physical plane have been overlooked, just in proportion as they have been unstudied and unknown. “So we shall rest for a moment on the idea of Law, and see what it means. Then after explaining what I mean by ‘Law’, I shall try to show you that, without a possibility of doubt, even apart from religion and religious thought, there is a larger consciousness than that which works in the brain and the nervous system, a larger consciousness than that which we call the waking consciousness of a man. I shall try to show you how that consciousness may begin to unfold and grow by the full recognition of the Law of Duty, by the attempt to fulfill perfectly every obligation of life. In the third and last lecture, I shall pass on to that loftier and sublimer region where the inner law takes the place of the law of outer obligation, where instead of duty, which means the payment of debt, there is sacrifice, which is the outpouring of life, where everything is done gladly, everything is done willingly, in perfect self-surrender, where the man does not need to ask: “What have I to do? What is my duty?” but where he works because the Divine outwelling finds its channel in his life, and he needs no outer compulsion because of the perfection of the inner law.” About the author: Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. She founded the Central Hindu College (CHC) at Banaras in North India and had a California school named after her (the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley). Some of her books are: Man and His Bodies; Seven Principles of Man; Reincarnation; Karma; Ancient Wisdom; Thought Power; Death and After; Path of Discipleship; Inner Government of the World; Study in Consciousness; Esoteric Christianity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The laws of the higher life: being lectures delivered at the 12th annual convention of the Indian section of the Theosophical society, held at Benares in December 1902. To get started finding The laws of the higher life: being lectures delivered at the 12th annual convention of the Indian section of the Theosophical society, held at Benares in December 1902, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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