1.1 What Most People Do Not Know 1.2 The Esoteric Knowledge Orders 1.3 The Proofs of Hylozoics 1.4 THE BASIC FACTORS OF EXISTENCE

1.5 Primordial Matter 1.6 The Cosmos 1.7 Atomic Matter 1.8 Space and Time 1.9 Solar Systems 1.10 Molecular Matter 1.11 The Planets 1.12 The Monads 1.13 The Monads’ Envelopes 1.14 Man’s Five Envelopes

1.15 The Monad Consciousness 1.16 Different Kinds of Consciousness 1.17 Subjective and Objective Consciousness 1.18 Physical Consciousness 1.19 Emotional Consciousness 1.20 Mental-Causal Consciousness 1.21 Higher Kinds of Consciousness 1.22 The Self’s Unconscious 1.23 The Individual’s Memories

1.24 Motion Defined 1.25 Dynamis 1.26 Material Energy 1.27 The Cosmic Motion 1.28 The Will 1.29 Different Kinds of Energy and Will 1.30 THE MEANING AND GOAL OF EXISTENCE 1.31 The "Rebirth" of Everything 1.32 THE NATURAL KINGDOMS 1.33 The Three Lowest Natural Kingdoms 1.34 The Fourth Natural Kingdom 1.35 The Fifth Natural Kingdom 1.36 The Sixth Natural Kingdom, or the First Divine Kingdom 1.37 Cosmic Kingdoms 1.38 The Planetary Hierarchy 1.39 The Planetary Government 1.40 The Solar Systemic Government 1.41 THE LAW 1.42 THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE 1.43 Conclusion

2.1 Introduction 2.2 THE MATTER ASPECT OF EXISTENCE 2.3 THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT OF EXISTENCE 2.4 The Collective Consciousness 2.5 The Seven Fundamental Types 2.6 The Seven Departments of the Planetary Hierarchy 2.7 The Human Types of Consciousness 2.8 Some Problems for Future Psychology 2.9 Telepathy 2.10 THE MOTION ASPECT OF EXISTENCE 2.11 The Process of Manifestation 2.12 The Seven Fundamental Energies 2.13 The Systemic and Planetary Energies 2.14 "IDEAS RULE THE WORLD" 2.15 "Ideas Rule the World" 2.16 Cosmic Ideas 2.17 Hierarchic Ideas 2.18 Ideas in Mankind

3.1 From the Esoteric History 3.2 The Publication of the Esoteric Knowledge 3.3 H. P. Blavatsky 3.4 Sinnett 3.5 Judge 3.6 Hartmann 3.7 The Theosophical Movement 3.8 Disorienting Sects 3.9 Conclusion

4.1 The Trinity of Existence 4.2 The Cosmos 4.3 Involution 4.4 The Forms of Life 4.5 Evolution 4.6 The Process of Manifestation 4.7 Consciousness 4.8 The Natural Kingdoms 4.9 The Envelopes and Worlds of Man 4.10 The Consciousness of Man 4.11 Man’s Stages of Development, Etc.

5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Basic Problems of Philosophy

5.3 Pythagoras 5.4 Other Esotericians 5.5 THE FIRST SUBJECTIVIST PERIOD 5.6 THE REACTION AGAINST SUBJECTIVISM 5.7 Sokrates 5.8 Platon 5.9 Aristoteles 5.10 PHYSICALISM 5.11 Epikuros 5.12 Chrysippos 5.13 GNOSTICS 5.14 Plotinos 5.15 SCHOLASTICISM 5.16 THE BREAK WITH SCHOLASTICISM 5.17 Bacon 5.18 Descartes 5.19 Hobbes 5.20 Spinoza 5.21 Leibniz 5.22 THE SECOND SUBJECTIVIST PERIOD 5.23 Locke 5.24 Berkeley 5.25 Hume 5.26 THE PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTION 5.27 THE PHILOSOPHY OF ROMANTICISM 5.28 Kant 5.29 Fichte 5.30 Schelling 5.31 Hegel 5.32 THE REACTION AGAINST FICTIONALISM 5.33 Schopenhauer 5.34 Hartmann 5.35 Spencer 5.36 Bergson 5.37 Conclusion

5.38 Contemporary Philosophy 5.39 Bertrand Russell 5.40 WORLD VIEW 5.41 Philosophy 5.42 Science 5.43 Criticism of the World View 5.44 LIFE VIEW 5.45 Theology 5.46 Morality 5.47 The Problems of Upbringing and Education 5.48 The Problem of Democracy 5.49 The Problem of Dictatorship 5.50 Socialism 5.51 Marxism

6.1 Preface 6.2 Rudolf Steiner 6.3 Steiner as a Theosophist 6.4 Steiner as a Rosicrucian 6.5 Steiner and the Yoga Philosophy 6.6 Steiner as a Philosopher 6.7 Steiner’s Own Theory of Knowledge 6.8 Steiner’s Clairvoyance 6.9 Steiner’s Akashic Records 6.10 Steiner’s Anthroposophy 6.11 Steiner as an Esoterician 6.12 Steiner as a Historian 6.13 The Cosmos According to Facts from the Planetary Hierarchy

7.1 Western Ignorance 7.2 The Yoga Philosophy 7.3 THE FICTIONS OF YOGA 7.4 The Worlds of the Yogis 7.5 Intuition 7.6 Will 7.7 Rebirth 7.8 Karma 7.9 Dharma 7.10 Self-Realization 7.11 Samadhi 7.12 DIFFERENT KINDS OF YOGA 7.13 Different Kinds of Yogis 7.14 Ramakrishna’s Raja Yoga 7.15 The Yoga Methods 7.16 Hatha Yoga 7.17 Raja Yoga 7.18 Gnana Yoga 7.19 Bhakti Yoga 7.20 Karma Yoga 7.21 THE REALITY VALUE OF YOGA 7.22 ESOTERIC METHODS OF ACTIVATION 7.23 Conclusion

Translator’s Preface

1. EXOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW

1.1 THE WILL TO UNITY

EMOTIONAL CULTURE

1.2 MAN AS AN EMOTIONAL BEING 1.3 RELIGION 1.4 The Essence of Religion 1.5 Religious Mysticism 1.6 Religious Intellectual Constructions 1.7 MORALITY 1.8 Conventions 1.9 Rules of Conduct 1.10 Motives 1.11 Moral Valuations 1.12 The Voice of Conscience 1.13 Religious Morality 1.14 Sexual Morality 1.15 Honour 1.16 Right and Wrong, or Good and Evil 1.17 The Art of Living

POLITICS

1.18 Introduction 1.19 Political Problems 1.20 Political Systems 1.21 Freedom, Equality, and Brotherhood 1.22 Political Unity 1.23 Practical Politics 1.24 AESTHETICS

MENTAL CULTURE

1.25 PHILOSOPHY 1.26 Ideas 1.27 Clear Concepts 1.28 Logic 1.29 Criticism 1.30 What is Truth? 1.31 Sense and Reason 1.32 Reality 1.33 The Limits of Knowledge 1.34 World View and Life View 1.35 SCIENCE 1.36 HISTORY 1.37 Historical Facts 1.38 Historical Factors 1.39 Historical Views 1.40 Culture of History

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2. THE ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW

INTRODUCTION TO THE ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Matter 2.3 Matter and Energy 2.4 Matter and Consciousness 2.5 Visible and Invisible Material Reality 2.6 Biological Evolution and Finality

THE MATTER ASPECT OF REALITY

2.7 Introduction 2.8 Involvation 2.9 Involution 2.10 The Solar System 2.11 Elementals 2.12 Evolution 2.13 Evolutionary Beings 2.14 The Natural Kingdoms 2.15 The Chain of Triads 2.16 The Monad 2.17 Group-Souls and Transmigration 2.18 Causalization 2.19 The Envelopes of Man 2.20 Man’s Etheric Envelope 2.21 Man’s Emotional Envelope 2.22 Man’s Mental Envelope 2.23 Man’s Causal Envelope

THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT OF REALITY

2.24 Consciousness 2.25 The Unity of Consciousness 2.26 Active and Passive Consciousness 2.27 Objective and Subjective Consciousness 2.28 Group Consciousness 2.29 Self-Consciousness 2.30 Man’s Consciousness 2.31 Man’s Emotional Consciousness 2.32 Man’s Mental Consciousness 2.33 Man’s Causal Consciousness 2.34 Essential Consciousness 2.35 Superessential and Higher Consciousness

ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY

2.36 The Races 2.37 The Age Classes of Mankind 2.38 The Levels of Human Development 2.39 The Involvations of the Causal Envelope 2.40 The Dissolution of the Envelopes of Incarnation 2.41 The Individual Self 2.42 The Collective Selves

ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY

2.43 The Manifestations 2.44 The Seven-Globes 2.45 Involution and Evolution in the Seven-Globes 2.46 The Eons

ESOTERIC ONTOLOGY

2.47 The Processes of Manifestation 2.48 The Periods of Manifestation 2.49 The Three Kinds of Solar System 2.50 The Departments 2.51 Expanding Collective Beings 2.52 The Tasks of Collective Beings 2.53 The Relations of Collective Beings to Mankind

GENERAL ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY

2.54 Space and Time 2.55 Dynamis, Energies, Vibrations 2.56 Higher Kinds of Matter Are Luminous 2.57 The Atom 2.58 The Origin of Material Forms and Forces of Nature 2.59 The Three Aspects of Reality 2.60 Primordial Matter 2.61 The Dynamic Energy of Primordial Matter (Dynamis) 2.62 Esoteric Terms, Exoteric Fictions, Addenda, Etc.

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3. ESOTERIC LIFE VIEW

3.1 LIFE VIEW 3.2 LAWS OF LIFE

THE LAW OF FREEDOM

THE INALIENABLE DIVINE FREEDOM

3.3 Freedom and Law 3.4 Freedom through Insight and Understanding 3.5 Freedom of Choice 3.6 Freedom and Responsibility 3.7 Freedom and Development 3.8 Freedom and Guidance

THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE

3.9 Ideal Law and Right 3.10 The Individual and the State 3.11 The Individual and the Laws 3.12 The Individual and Social Freedom

THE LAW OF UNITY

3.13 THE LAW OF UNITY 3.14 Individualism and Collectivism 3.15 Collectives

THE LAW OF DEVELOPMENT

3.16 CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT 3.17 THE STAGE OF BARBARISM

THE STAGE OF CIVILIZATION

3.18 Emotionality at the Stage of Civilization 3.19 Mentality at the Stage of Civilization 3.20 Religion at the Stage of Civilization 3.21 The Striving at Art at the Stage of Civilization 3.22 The Conception of Right at the Stage of Civilization

THE STAGE OF CULTURE

3.23 Emotionality at the Stage of Culture 3.24 Mentality at the Stage of Culture 3.25 Religion at the Stage of Culture 3.26 Art 3.27 The Conception of Right at the Stage of Culture 3.28 THE STAGE OF HUMANITY 3.29 THE STAGE OF IDEALITY 3.30 THE STAGE OF UNITY

THE LAW OF SELF, OR OF SELF-REALIZATION

3.31 SELF-REALIZATION 3.32 Self-Reliance 3.33 Self-Determination 3.34 The Tendency to Unity 3.35 The Law of Understanding 3.36 The Faults and Failings of Man 3.37 Evaluating the Personality 3.38 The Blindness to Ourselves 3.39 Ennoblement of the Personality 3.40 The Art of Living

OBSTACLES TO SELF-REALIZATION

3.41 The Tendency to Division 3.42 Dogmas 3.43 Dependence 3.44 Morality 3.45 Moralism 3.46 Public Opinion

THE LAW OF DESTINY

3.47 THE LAW OF DESTINY 3.48 Individual Character 3.49 The Basic Tendencies of Individual Character 3.50 Self-Assertion and the Law of Compensation 3.51 The Destiny of the Self 3.52 The Common Destiny of the Collective

THE LAW OF REAPING

3.53 THE LAW OF REAPING 3.54 The Law of Reaping and Other Laws of Life 3.55 The Law of Reaping and the Ignorance of Life 3.56 The Law of Reaping and the "Iniquities of Life" 3.57 The Law of Reaping and the Agents of Reaping 3.58 The Law of Reaping and Suffering 3.59 The Sowing and Reaping of Consciousness Expressions 3.60 Good Sowing 3.61 Good Reaping 3.62 Bad Sowing 3.63 Bad Reaping 3.64 Collective Sowing and Reaping 3.65 The Factors of Reaping 3.66 The Law of Reaping and Traditional Fictions

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION

3.67 THE LAW OF ACTIVATION 3.68 The Unconscious of the Personality 3.69 The Subconscious 3.70 The Superconscious 3.71 Control of Consciousness 3.72 The Method of Activation 3.73 The Group Activity

1.1 Laurency 1.2 The Intention of Laurency 1.3 The Works of Laurency 1.4 PS and KR 1.5 WM 1.6 For Whom Laurency Writes 1.7 Readers of Laurency 1.8 Systems

INTRODUCTION: ON ESOTERICS

1.9 Esoterics is the Knowledge of Reality 1.10 Seekers after Truth 1.11 Disciples

INTRODUCTION: ON POWER OF JUDGEMENT

1.12 Examine It Yourself! 1.13 Never Accept Anything Without a Sufficient Ground! 1.14 Dogmatism 1.15 Belief in Authority

INTRODUCTION: ON THE HISTORY OF ESOTERICS

1.16 Esoterics before 1875 1.17 After 1875: Theosophy 1.18 Alice A. Bailey and D. K.

INTRODUCTION: ON STUDYING ESOTERICS

1.19 Reading Esoteric Literature 1.20 Advice to Esoteric Students 1.21 Mistakes Made by Beginners 1.22 Make No Propaganda for Esoterics! 1.23 Knowledge Entails Responsibility

INTRODUCTION: ON THE HYLOZOIC WORLD VIEW

1.24 The Cosmos 1.25 The Three Aspects of Existence 1.26 Manifestation 1.27 The Matter of Manifestation 1.28 The Solar System 1.29 Involution 1.30 Evolution 1.31 The Monad and Its Envelopes 1.32 Consciousness 1.33 The Self 1.34 The Motion Aspect 1.35 Time 1.36 The Meaning and Goal of Life 1.37 The Natural Kingdoms 1.38 Man 1.39 The Envelopes and Worlds of Man 1.40 Man’s Stages of Development 1.41 Collective Beings 1.42 The Seven Departments 1.43 The Seven Parallel Evolutions

INTRODUCTION: ON STUDYING HYLOZOICS

1.44 What Hylozoics Is 1.45 Hylozoics Solves the Problems of Reality 1.46 Hylozoics and Older Esoterics 1.47 Hylozoics As Knowledge 1.48 The Terminology of Hylozoics 1.49 The Limitation of Hylozoics 1.50 Who Are Able to Understand Hylozoics? 1.51 The Knowledge Must Be Applied

INTRODUCTION: ON MANKIND AT THE STAGE OF IGNORANCE

1.52 Our Epoch 1.53 The Disorientation of Our Time 1.54 Subjectivism 1.55 Two Worlds 1.56 European Philosophy 1.57 Semantics (Conceptual Analysis) 1.58 Indian Philosophy 1.59 Science 1.60 Psychology 1.61 History 1.62 Politics 1.63 Education 1.64 Physicalism 1.65 Occult Sects 1.66 Religions 1.67 Ideas of God 1.68 Holiness 1.69 The Jews 1.70 The Gospels 1.71 Some Fictions of Christian Theology 1.72 The Christian Church

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2. THE MONAD LADDER

2.1 Basics About Involution and Evolution 2.2 Different Ways of Describing Evolution 2.3 The Knowledge of the Matter Aspect 2.4 The Atomic Chain of the Monad 2.5 The Chain of Triads 2.6 The Formation of the Triad Chain 2.7 The Triad Chain Makes Evolution Possible 2.8 The Three Triad Selves 2.9 The Sutratma and the Antahkarana 2.10 The Three Solar Systems 2.11 Symbolism and Terminology

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3. THE FIRST SELF

3.1 Introduction

THE ENVELOPES OF THE FIRST SELF

3.2 Generals 3.3 The Envelopes As Beings of Their Own 3.4 The Worlds of the First Self 3.5 The Self’s Dependence on Its Envelopes 3.6 The Energies of the Envelopes 3.7 The Centres of the Envelopes 3.8 The Departments in the Envelopes 3.9 Magnetism 3.10 The Health of the Envelopes

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE FIRST SELF

3.11 The Kinds of Consciousness of the First Self 3.12 Self-Identity 3.13 Mediumism and Clairvoyance 3.14 The Objective Consciousness Possible for the First Self 3.15 Nobody Knows the Limit to His Own Consciousness 3.16 Control of Consciousness 3.17 Telepathy 3.18 Problems of Future Psychology

MANKIND

3.19 Our Unique Mankind 3.20 The Present General Developmental Stage of Mankind 3.21 Children 3.22 Our Dependence on Collectives 3.23 Mankind’s Heritage of Knowledge

CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT

3.24 Consciousness Development 3.25 Levels 3.26 Man’s Stages of Development 3.27 The First Self’s Acquisition of Higher Consciousness

REINCARNATION

3.28 What Reincarnation Means 3.29 The Importance of Reincarnation 3.30 The Importance of Latency 3.31 Life Between Incarnations 3.32 Reincarnation and Life Ignorance

SELF-REALIZATION

3.33 Necessary Qualities 3.34 The Importance of Life View 3.35 The Meaning of Life 3.36 The Knowledge Must Be Put Into Action 3.37 Self-Knowledge 3.38 From Knowledge to Wisdom 3.39 Understanding

THE FIRST SELF AS A PROBLEM

3.40 The First Self Is An Obstacle to the Second Self 3.41 The Division of the First Self 3.42 The First Self is the Self of Ignorance 3.43 Non-Identification With the First Self 3.44 The First Self Is to Be a Tool of the Second Self 3.45 Insights That Are Helpful for the First Self 3.46 TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLS 3.47 CONCLUSION

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4. THE PHYSICAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF

4.1 Man As a Physical Being 4.2 The Organism 4.3 The Etheric Envelope: General 4.4 The Functions of the Etheric Envelope: General 4.5 The Centres of the Etheric Envelope 4.6 Mankind’s Ignorance about the Etheric Envelope 4.7 The Energy Aspect of Existence 4.8 Magic 4.9 Temporary Physicalization 4.10 The Etheric World 4.11 Physical Consciousness 4.12 Physicalism 4.13 Races 4.14 Sleep 4.15 Incarnation 4.16 Discarnation 4.17 Physical Life Is the Most Important 4.18 The Esoterician’s Physical Reaping 4.19 Health 4.20 The Problem of Diet 4.21 Homeopathy

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5. THE EMOTIONAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF

EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

5.1 General 5.2 The Nature of Emotional Consciousness 5.3 The Importance of Emotional Consciousness 5.4 Emotionality Is a Source of Energy 5.5 Imagination 5.6 The Emotional Is a Bridge to the Causal and the Essential 5.7 Two Worlds 5.8 The Emotional World 5.9 Life In the Emotional World Between Incarnations 5.10 The Emotional Eon of the Planet 5.11 Mankind At the Emotional Stage 5.12 Illusoriness 5.13 The Problems of Emotional Life 5.14 Religion 5.15 Mentality at the Emotional Stage 5.16 The Knowledge Possible at the Emotional Stage 5.17 Idiologies Lack the Foundation of Knowledge 5.18 Man’s Ignorance of Emotionality

CLAIRVOYANCE

5.19 Introduction 5.20 The Illusoriness of the Emotional World 5.21 Clairvoyants Must Believe What They See 5.22 Creations of Imagination 5.23 The Knowledge Is Not Found in the Emotional World 5.24 It is Impossible for Man to Explore Emotionality 5.25 The Authorities of the Emotional World Lead Astray 5.26 Clairvoyant Studies of Past Incarnations 5.27 The Planetary Hierarchy’s Attitude to the Emotional World 5.28 There Are No Second Selves in the Emotional World 5.29 Clairvoyance Belongs at the Emotional Stage 5.30 "Cosmic Consciousness"

OCCULTISM

5.31 Introduction 5.32 Occultism and Esoterics 5.33 Occult Sects 5.34 Occult Sects and the Law of Freedom 5.35 The Illusions of Occultists 5.36 The Speculations of Occultists 5.37 Occultists Misjudge their Stage of Development 5.38 Occult Abilities 5.39 Mediumship 5.40 Occultists Are No Disciples 5.41 Occultists Counteract the Planetary Hierarchy 5.42 Occultists Are Unripe for Esoterics

EMOTIONALITY AND SELF-REALIZATION

5.43 The Conflict Between Attraction and Repulsion 5.44 Repulsion – The Lower Emotionality 5.45 Attraction – The Higher Emotionality 5.46 Culture 5.47 The Stage of the Mystic 5.48 The Most Important Qualities and Abilities at the Emotional Stage 5.49 The Mastering of Emotionality 5.50 The Mentalization of Emotional Consciousness 5.51 The Incarnation of the Saint 5.52 The Most Rapid Development at the Emotional Stage

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6. THE MENTAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF

6.1 General about Mental Consciousness 6.2 The Mental Development of Mankind 6.3 The Limitation of Mental Consciousness 6.4 Mental Consciousness Is No Source of Knowledge 6.5 Facts 6.6 Clarity of Concepts 6.7 The Power of Judgement 6.8 Common Sense 6.9 Criticism 6.10 Comprehension and Understanding 6.11 Sense of Reality 6.12 Understanding of Life 6.13 Latent Knowledge 6.14 Psychology 6.15 World View and Life View

THE LOWER, OR EMOTIONAL MENTALITY

6.16 Generals 6.17 Fictionalism 6.18 Dogmatism 6.19 Superstition

THE HIGHER, OR PURE MENTALITY

6.20 Perspective Thinking 6.21 System Thinking (47:4) 6.22 The Activation of Mentality 6.23 Theory and Practice 6.24 Control of Consciousness 6.25 The Higher Emotional Must Not Be Neglected 6.26 Terminology

SYSTEMS

6.27 General About Systems 6.28 The Mental System of Hylozoics 6.29 Hylozoics Is Superior As a Working Hypothesis

THE MENTAL SELF

6.30 General About the Mental Self 6.31 The Esoterician is a Mental Self 6.32 The Physical Life Problems of the Mental Self 6.33 The Problems and Insights of the Mental Stage 6.34 The Service of the Mental Self

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7. THE CAUSAL BEING

7.1 Generals 7.2 The Two Causal Envelopes 7.3 The Expansion of the Causal Envelope 7.4 The Causal Envelope Is the Isolating Envelope 7.5 The Purpose of the Causal Envelope in Consciousness Development 7.6 The Causal Envelope Is the Store of Experience 7.7 The Energies of the Causal Envelope 7.8 The Department of the Causal Envelope 7.9 The Centres of the Causal Envelope 7.10 The Causal Envelope Is Man’s Highest Envelope 7.11 The Age of the Causal Envelope

CAUSAL CONSCIOUSNESS

7.12 The Passive Consciousness of the Causal Envelope 7.13 The Scaling Down of Causal Ideas 7.14 Causal Consciousness Makes Self-Consciousness Possible 7.15 Active Causal Consciousness 7.16 The Activation of Causal Consciousness 7.17 Man from Causal Being to Causal Self 7.18 THE CAUSAL WORLD 7.19 TERMINOLOGY

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8. AUGOEIDES

8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Revolutionizing Knowledge of Augoeides 8.3 General About the Work of Augoeides 8.4 Augoeides as Deputy Causal Self 8.5 Augoeides as Representative of the Law of Destiny 8.6 The Work of Augoeides at Man’s Incarnation 8.7 The Work of Augoeides at Man’s Discarnation 8.8 The Love for Augoeides 8.9 Augoeides As God 8.10 The Contact with Augoeides 8.11 The Inspiration of Augoeides 8.12 The Voice of the Silence 8.13 The Effect of the Contact with Augoeides 8.14 Becoming a Tool of Augoeides 8.15 Augoeides Meets Half-way 8.16 How Augoeides Looks Upon Us 8.17 What Augoeides Does Not Help You With 8.18 Man’s Levels of Development 8.19 The Augoeides and Discipleship 8.20 Meditation, Contemplation, Theurgy 8.21 Guidance 8.22 Trust in Life 8.23 Trust in Self 8.24 The Primitivity of Mankind 8.25 The Planet of Sorrow 8.26 Augoeides in (Occult) Literature 8.27 Esoteric Confusion of Ideas about Augoeides 8.28 The Reservation of the Hierarchy about Augoeides 8.29 The Distortion of the Knowledge of Augoeides 8.30 Conclusion

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9. THE SECOND SELF

Part 1, 9.1 - 9.133

9.1 INTRODUCTION

THE SECOND TRIAD

9.2 The Three Units of the Second Triad 9.3 The Energies of the Second Triad 9.4 The Three Main Kind of Second Triad Consciousness

THE SECOND SELF

9.5 Introduction 9.6 What the Second Self Is 9.7 The Three Selves and the Three Aspects 9.8 The Consciousness of the Second Self 9.9 The Second Self is a Collective Self 9.10 The Second Self Lives in Consciousness 9.11 The Second Self’s View of Reality and Life 9.12 The Subjectivism of the Second Self 9.13 The Will of the Second Self 9.14 The Second Selves Do Not Make Themselves Known 9.15 The Work of Second Selves 9.16 Only Second Selves Have Knowledge 9.17 The Disciplines of Second Selves 9.18 Integration 9.19 Sovereignty 9.20 Esoterics Is the Knowledge of the Second Selves 9.21 The First Self Is Insufficient 9.22 The First Self Is the Problem 9.23 The First Self Is Ignorant of the Second Self 9.24 When the First Self Discovers the Second Self 9.25 Insights on the Path

THE WAY TO THE SECOND SELF

9.26 Conditions of Becoming a Second Self 9.27 How the Striving Becomes Conscious 9.28 The Liberation from the First Self 9.29 Right Attitude 9.30 The Building of the Bridge 9.31 The Transition from the First to the Second Self 9.32 Conclusion

LAWS OF LIFE

9.33 The Concept of Law 9.34 Laws of Life 9.35 The Laws of Life Are the Basis of Our Life 9.36 Responsibility 9.37 Esoteric Life View 9.38 The Meaning of Life 9.39 To Understand Life Is to Understand Law 9.40 Conception of Right 9.41 Man’s Ignorance of the Law 9.42 Man Cannot Live Without Law 9.43 Teaching Children about Law 9.44 "Spirituality" 9.45 The Essence of Culture

THE LAW OF FREEDOM

9.46 Freedom Is a Law of Life 9.47 Freedom Is a Condition of Development 9.48 Free Will 9.49 Life Ignorance Cannot Understand Freedom 9.50 Tolerance 9.51 Compulsion and Prohibition 9.52 The Sanctity of Private Life 9.53 Social Freedom

THE LAW OF UNITY

9.54 The Law of Unity 9.55 Love 9.56 Loving Understanding 9.57 Right Human Relations 9.58 Service 9.59 Different Ways to Serve 9.60 People’s True Needs 9.61 The Esoterician’s Service 9.62 The Cosmic Total Consciousness 9.63 Collectives 9.64 Groups 9.65 The Path to Unity 9.66 The Ground for Mankind’s Problems

THE LAW OF DEVELOPMENT

9.67 Consciousness Development 9.68 The Meaning of Life Is Consciousness Development 9.69 The Processes of Manifestation 9.70 Evolution Is a Slow Process 9.71 Everything Must Be Seen From the Angle of Evolution 9.72 Factors of Evolution 9.73 Development and Reincarnation 9.74 Development through Identification and Liberation 9.75 The Struggle Between Consciousness and Matter 9.76 Stages of Development 9.77 Levels 9.78 Equality 9.79 The Development of Mankind 9.80 The Development of the Human Individual 9.81 Conscious Evolution

THE LAW OF SELF

9.82 The Law of Self-Realization 9.83 Self-Determination 9.84 Understanding 9.85 The Faults and Failings of Man 9.86 Self-Knowledge 9.87 Judging the Personality 9.88 Qualities and Abilities 9.89 Happiness and Suffering 9.90 Rules of Living 9.91 The Art of Living 9.92 Identification and Liberation 9.93 Forgetting Yourself

OBSTACLES TO SELF-REALIZATION

9.94 The Inability to Be Silent 9.95 Lack of Judgement 9.96 Belief 9.97 Self-Deception 9.98 Morality and Moralism 9.99 The Power of the Past

THE LAW OF DESTINY

9.100 Necessary Insights as to the Law of Destiny 9.101 Mistakes as to the Law of Destiny 9.102 Guidance 9.103 The Unique Position of Our Planet

THE LAW OF REAPING

9.104 The Law of Reaping 9.105 The Causal Law and the Natural Kingdoms 9.106 Sowing 9.107 Reaping 9.108 Collective Sowing and Reaping 9.109 Examples of Sowing and Reaping 9.110 "Undeserved" Suffering 9.111 Redress 9.112 The Law of Reaping and Life Ignorance 9.113 Necessary Insights as to the Law of Reaping

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION

9.114 The Activation of Consciousness 9.115 Passivity and Robotism 9.116 The Unconscious 9.117 The Subconscious 9.118 The Superconscious 9.119 Methods of Activation 9.120 Prayer and Answering of Prayer 9.121 Mantras 9.122 Meditation 9.123 Risks to Meditation 9.124 Samadhi 9.125 Consciousness Activation in Daily Life 9.126 Raising Your Level 9.127 The Group Power 9.128 The Necessity of Reflection 9.129 Thought Power 9.130 Do Not Pay Attention to the Negative! 9.131 Self-Observation 9.132 Realization 9.133 The Method of "As If"

Part 2, 9.134 - 9.221

ESOTERICS

9.134 The Superiority of Esoterics 9.135 Why We Have Received Esoterics 9.136 For Whom Esoterics is Intended 9.137 For Whom Esoterics is Not Intended 9.138 Difficulties in Publicizing Esoterics 9.139 Esoterics Should Still Have Been Esoteric 9.140 The Significance of Esoterics 9.141 The Application of the Knowledge Is the Essential

ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY

9.142 A Bridge Can Be Built Between Esoterics and the Exoteric 9.143 Knowledge 9.144 Reality 9.145 Different Systems 9.146 Time 9.147 The Possibilities of Research 9.148 Illusion 9.149 Immortality 9.150 Objective and Subjective 9.151 Esoteric Judgement 9.152 Reality 9.153 Belief

ESOTERIC EDUCATION

9.154 Introduction 9.155 Understanding Esoterics 9.156 Latent Knowledge 9.157 Esoteric Teachers 9.158 The Knowledge Must Be Worked Upon 9.159 The Conditions of Esoteric Study 9.160 The Purposes of Esoteric Study

ESOTERIC LITERATURE

9.161 Indian Literature 9.162 The Writings of D.K. and Alice A. Bailey 9.163 Recommended Literature

THE ESOTERICIAN

9.164 Esotericians and "Esotericians" 9.165 The Esoterician Never Speculates 9.166 The Esoterician Makes No Propaganda 9.167 The Esoterician’s Criticism 9.168 The Worlds of the Esoterician 9.169 The Esoterician’s Adaptation to Mankind 9.170 The Esoterician Does Not Expect to Be Understood 9.171 The Esoterician’s Attitude to Life 9.172 The Esoterician’s Problems of Life 9.173 Things the Esoterician Has to Learn 9.174 The Esoterician’s Work with Esoterics 9.175 The Esoterician’s Service 9.176 The Esoterician’s Contact with Unity

THE ASPIRANT TO DISCIPLESHIP

9.177 Introduction 9.178 Aspiration 9.179 The Aspirant is Tested 9.180 Misdirected Eagerness of the Aspirant 9.181 The Basis of the Aspirant’s Mistakes 9.182 The Aspirant’s Work at Self-Realization 9.183 Insights Necessary for the Aspirant 9.184 Nobody Can Be Overlooked

DISCIPLESHIP

9.185 Introduction 9.186 The Disciple 9.187 What Discipleship Is 9.188 Who Becomes a Disciple? 9.189 Unconscious Disciples 9.190 Conditions of Discipleship 9.191 Necessary Qualities and Abilities 9.192 What the Disciple Is Taught 9.193 The Disciple Does Not Ask the Teacher 9.194 The Disciple Learns to Consider the Consciousness Aspect 9.195 Discipleship is Group Life 9.196 The Disciple’s Own Development 9.197 The Disciple Is Warned Against Wrong Methods 9.198 Hindrances to Discipleship 9.199 The Disciple Is Tested 9.200 The Disciple’s Way of Life 9.201 Symbols 9.202 Insights Necessary for the Disciple 9.203 Initiation

DEPARTMENTS

9.204 The Seven Departments 9.205 Certain Departments 9.206 The Departments in the Envelopes 9.207 The Departments and Astrology 9.208 Understanding the Departments

ASTROLOGY

9.209 Esoteric Astrology 9.210 Zodiacal Energies and Zodiacal Epochs 9.211 The Piscean Epoch 9.212 The Transition from the Piscean to the Aquarian Epoch 9.213 The Aquarian Epoch

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

9.214 Introduction 9.215 The Black Lodge 9.216 FORESEEING THE FUTURE

THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS

9.217 Introduction 9.218 A New Natural Kingdom 9.219 The Science of Invocation and Evocation 9.220 Mantras 9.221 The Great Invocation

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10. THE CAUSAL SELF

10.1 Introduction 10.2 What a Causal Self Is 10.3 The Causal Self Is Man Proper 10.4 From Mental Self to Causal Self 10.5 The Role of the Causal Envelope in the Activation of Consciousness 10.6 The World of Ideas 10.7 The Twelve Essential Qualities 10.8 Causal Consciousness 10.9 Intuition 10.10 Common Sense 10.11 Psychology Is Ignorant of Causal Consciousness 10.12 Causal Selves Unaware of Their Status 10.13 The Causal Self Has Continuity of Consciousness 10.14 The Causal Self’s Study of Past Incarnations 10.15 The Causal Self Can Explore the Worlds of Man 10.16 Causal Selves Will Revolutionize Science 10.17 The Life and Life View of the Causal Self 10.18 The Causal Self Is Free From Illusions and Fictions 10.19 Esoterics Is the Causal Self’s View of Reality 10.20 From Causal Self to Essential Self` 10.21 Nobody Is Infallible 10.22 The Limitation of the Causal Self 10.23 Causal Selves Cannot Judge Higher Reality 10.24 Conclusion

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11. THE ESSENTIAL SELF

11.1 Matter and Consciousness 11.2 Collective Beings 11.3 Unity 11.4 The Essential Envelope 11.5 Essential Consciousness 11.6 Intuition 11.7 Love 11.8 Understanding 11.9 The Contact with Essential Consciousness 11.10 The Acquisition of Essential Consciousness 11.11 The Transition to the Second Triad 11.12 The Essential Self 11.13 The Essential Self Lives in the Consciousness Aspect 11.14 Only the Essential Self Can Be a True Psychologist 11.15 The Line of Wisdom and the Line of Love 11.16 Symbols Concerning the Essential Self

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12. THE SUPERESSENTIAL SELF

12.1 The Superessential Self 12.2 Superessential Consciousness 12.3 The Will 12.4 The Superessential World

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13. PROTOGONOS AND THE THIRD SELF

13.1 PROTOGONOS 13.2 Terminology and Symbols Concerning Protogonos

THE THIRD SELF

13.3 Generals 13.4 The Sixth Natural Kingdom or the First Divine Kingdom 13.5 The Motion Aspect of Existence 13.6 Will 13.7 The Sixth Natural Kingdom Is the Kingdom of the Motion Aspect 13.8 The Further Expansion of the Third Self 13.9 The Cosmic Expansion 13.10 The Consciousness of the Third Self 13.11 The Third Self’s Perception of Reality 13.12 The Third Self is Sovereign in the Solar System 13.13 The Significance of Knowledge of Higher Worlds 13.14 Terminology and Symbols Concerning the Third Self

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14. THE SUBMANIFESTAL SELF

14.1 The Submanifestal Self 14.2 Pythagoras 14.3 The Submanifestal World

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15. THE MANIFESTAL SELF

15.1 THE MANIFESTAL SELF 15.2 The Limitation of the Manifestal Self 15.3 The Manifestal World 15.4 Christos–Maitreya 15.5 The Seven Hierarchies 15.6 Symbols

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16. THE PLANETARY HIERARCHY

16.1 Introduction 16.2 The Planetary Hierarchy Consists of Collective Beings 16.3 The Organization of the Planetary Hierarchy 16.4 The Constant Division into Departments 16.5 The Seven Parallel Hierarchies 16.6 Contact of the Deva Hierarchies 16.7 Hierarchic Personalities 16.8 The Secretary of the Planetary Hierarchy, 45-Self D.K. 16.9 Buddha and Christos 16.10 The Cosmic Career 16.11 "God" is the Ever Higher Hierarchies 16.12 All Knowledge Comes from the Hierarchy 16.13 How the Planetary Hierarchy Looks on Life 16.14 The Planetary Hierarchy Must Obey the Laws of Life 16.15 The Hierarchy Cannot Know the Future 16.16 The Immense Distance 16.17 The Planetary Hierarchy Is Not Neutral 16.18 The Work of the Planetary Hierarchy 16.19 Discipleship 16.20 The "Initiations" 16.21 The Planetary Hierarchy Does Not Recruit Disciples 16.22 The Planetary Hierarchy Looks for Collaborators 16.23 The Planetary Hierarchy Served Mankind, Not the Individual 16.24 The Plan 16.25 The Planetary Hierarchy is Reorganized 16.26 The New Causal Kingdom 16.27 The New Group of World Servers 16.28 The Reappearance of the Planetary Hierarchy 16.29 Misconceptions of the Planetary Hierarchy 16.30 Terminology

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17. THE PLANETARY GOVERNMENT

17.1 Different Kinds of Governments 17.2 The Planetary Government 17.3 Even the Members of the Planetary Government Develop 17.4 The Planetary Ruler 17.5 The Great Sacrifice 17.6 God 17.7 "Disciples of the Planetary Government" 17.8 Avatars 17.9 Processes of Manifestation 17.10 Cosmic Kingdoms 17.11 The Cosmic Total Consciousness 17.12 Cosmic Consciousness 17.13 Omniscience 17.14 Cosmic Energies 17.15 The Cosmic Organization 17.16 Cosmic Collectives 17.17 Cosmic Individuals 17.18 The Cosmic Expansion 17.19 Symbols

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18. TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM

18.1 The Traditional Esoteric Symbolism 18.2 Terminology Is in Need of Reform 18.3 The Terminology of Laurency 18.4 Universal Mind 18.5 Soul 18.6 Twin Souls 18.7 Spirit, Soul, Body 18.8 The Oversoul 18.9 The Monad 18.10 The Self 18.11 Symbols of the First Self and its Worlds 18.12 Symbols of Essentiality 18.13 "Death" 18.14 "Sin" 18.15 God Immanent and Transcendent 18.16 Pairs of Opposites 18.17 Light and Darkness 18.18 The Holy Grail 18.19 The Triangle and the Square 18.20 Astrological Symbolism 18.21 The Cross 18.22 Crucifixion 18.23 Sacrifice 18.24 Esoteric History 18.25 Culture 18.26 Some Esoteric Terms 18.27 Some Esoteric Symbols

CONCLUSION

1.1 Control of Consciousness 1.2 Results of Deficient Control of Consciousness 1.3 The Three Steps of Consciousness Control 1.4 The Importance of Attention 1.5 The Unconscious 1.6 The Telepathy of the Unconscious 1.7 What Meditation Is 1.8 The Purposes of Meditation 1.9 Meditation Is Production of Energy 1.10 The Activation of Mental Consciousness 1.11 Prayer in the Accepted Sense 1.12 Prayer in the True Sense 1.13 Esoteric Prayer 1.14 The Power of Thought 1.15 Subjects of Meditation 1.16 The Art of Living 1.17 Qualities and Abilities 1.18 Meditate Every Day! 1.19 Live in Meditation! 1.20 Risks of Meditation 1.21 Esoteric Meditation: General 1.22 Purposes of Esoteric Meditation 1.23 Contact, Impression, Relationship 1.24 The Great Invocation

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2. GNOSTICS

2.1 The Background 2.2 The Gnostic Order of Knowledge 2.3 Gnostics – The One True Religion 2.4 From the History of the Jews 2.5 The Life of Jeshu 2.6 Maitreya 2.7 Maitreya’s Message 2.8 The Birth of Christianity 2.9 The Mistake of the Gospel Authors 2.10 Paul the Gnostician 2.11 Expressions in the Epistles of Paul 2.12 "The Original Christian Church" 2.13 The Distortion of Christos’ Teaching 2.14 The Return of Christos

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3. GNOSTIC SYMBOLS

3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Symbolical Significance of the Gospels 3.3 The Five Stages 3.4 The Symbolism of Jeshu’s Life 3.5 The Rich Young Man 3.6 The Symbolical Meaning of the Christian Festivals 3.7 Christmas 3.8 Easter 3.9 Gnostic Sayings Attributed to Jeshu and Christos 3.10 No Avatar Ever Testified to Himself 3.11 "I" Is a Symbol 3.12 "Resist Not Evil" 3.13 "Thy Will Be Done" 3.14 "Faith" 3.15 "The Kingdom of God" 3.16 "Unto Everyone That Hath Shall Be Given" 3.17 "Love God", "Love Thy Neighbour" 3.18 Other Alleged Sayings by Jeshu and Christos 3.19 Some Gnostic Symbols: "Christos" 3.20 The Symbol of the "Father" 3.21 Symbolism of the Triads and Higher Worlds 3.22 The Symbol of Crucifixion 3.23 "Born Again", "Salvation", the "Path through the Needle’s Eye" 3.24 Sin 3.25 "The Dweller of the Threshold" 3.26 Judgement Day, the Devil, the Sacrifice of Atonement, the Sword 3.27 "The Sword", Symbolic Numbers

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4. DISCIPLESHIP

4.1 Introduction 4.2 From the Fourth to the Fifth Natural Kingdom 4.3 The Stage of Humanity 4.4 Seekers 4.5 The Aspirant to Discipleship 4.6 The Disciple 4.7 Unconscious Disciples 4.8 Discipleship as Group Life 4.9 Initiation 4.10 Esoteric Teachers 4.11 Realizations Necessary to Discipleship 4.12 General Prerequisites to Discipleship 4.13 The Ability to Be Silent 4.14 Self-Criticism 4.15 The Serving Attitude 4.16 The Sense of Proportion 4.17 Mental Sovereignty 4.18 Control of Consciousness 4.19 The Twelve Essential Qualities 4.20 Abilities to be Acquired by the Accepted Disciple 4.21 The Self-Determination of the Disciple 4.22 The Disciple as a Worker 4.23 Hindrances to Discipleship 4.24 Occult Curiosity 4.25 Conclusion

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5. THE PLANETARY HIERARCHY

5.1 Introduction 5.2 Everything Develops 5.3 The Seven Parallel Evolutions and Hierarchies 5.4 A Perfect Organization 5.5 The Consciousness of the Planetary Hierarchy 5.6 The Planetary Government 5.7 The Planetary Hierarchy in the Past 5.8 The Tasks of the Planetary Hierarchy 5.9 The Plan 5.10 Living in Mankind is for Them a True Sacrifice 5.11 Esoteric Personalities 5.12 Buddha and Christos 5.13 The Secretary of the Hierarchy, 45-Self D.K. 5.14 The Ignorance of the Existence of the Hierarchy 5.15 Shall We Speak or Be Silent about the Hierarchy? 5.16 The Reappearance of the Planetary Hierarchy 5.17 Seekers 5.18 Discipleship 5.19 We Do Not Receive More Knowledge Than We Need 5.20 The Seventh Department and the Aquarian Epoch 5.21 The Planetary Hierarchy Does Not Claim Omniscience 5.22 The Immense Distance 5.23 How the Planetary Hierarchy Looks on Reality 5.24 The Planetary Hierarchy and Mankind

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6. IDENTIFICATION AND LIBERATION

6.1 Identification and Liberation 6.2 Sacrifice and Liberation 6.3 The Latent Level and Liberation 6.4 The Liberation of Mankind 6.5 Liberation and Discipleship 6.6 The Work for Liberation

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7. EDUCATION

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Stages of Development 7.3 Do We Learn for Life? 7.4 The Neglected Knowledge of Life 7.5 Purpose and Methods of Upbringing 7.6 Bringing Up Children 7.7 Purpose and Methods of School Education 7.8 The Teacher 7.9 Conditions of Higher Education 7.10 Choosing a Profession 7.11 Memorization Versus Judgement Training 7.12 Robot Thinking 7.13 Deduction 7.14 Unnecessary School Subjects 7.15 Laurency as an Educator 7.16 Latent Esotericians 7.17 The Reformation of the School 7.18 The Education of the Future

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8. THE CONCEPTION OF RIGHT

8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Problem of Right 8.3 The Bases of Right 8.4 Individual Integrity 8.5 Good and Evil 8.6 Relativism of Right 8.7 The Ruling Chaos of Right 8.8 Morality and Moralism 8.9 Satanism 8.10 Knowing Man 8.11 The Middle Path 8.12 Common Sense and Balance 8.13 Ideals 8.14 Character 8.15 Education of Right 8.16 The Twelve Essential Qualities

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9. THE LAW

LAWS OF LIFE

9.1 Introduction 9.2 Different Kinds of Laws 9.3 Purposiveness in Existence 9.4 The Absolute Validity of Law 9.5 Everything is Expressive of Law 9.6 The Meaning of Life 9.7 Man’s Ignorance of the Law 9.8 The Knowledge of the Law 9.9 The Law and Evolution 9.10 Life Is Struggle 9.11 Law and Responsibility 9.12 Everything Has Its Price 9.13 Trust in the Law 9.14 The Law and Divine Omnipotence 9.15 The Law and the Kingdoms of Unity

THE LAW OF FREEDOM

9.16 Introduction 9.17 The Inviolability of the Individual 9.18 Free-Will 9.19 Freedom Must Be Acquired 9.20 The Limits of Freedom 9.21 Mankind Cannot Understand Freedom 9.22 Tolerance 9.23 Ideals 9.24 Equality

THE LAW OF UNITY

9.25 All Life Is a Unity 9.26 The Will to Unity 9.27 Attraction 9.28 Service 9.29 Love 9.30 Forgiveness and Understanding 9.31 Marriage

THE LAW OF DEVELOPMENT

9.32 Introduction 9.33 The Stages of Development 9.34 The Development of Mankind 9.35 Development and Self-Realization 9.36 Development and Attraction 9.37 The Superhuman Kingdoms

THE LAW OF SELF

9.38 Self-Realization 9.39 The Self and Its Envelopes 9.40 Understanding and Realization 9.41 The Realization of Unity 9.42 Service 9.43 Suffering and Happiness 9.44 Self-Knowledge (and Self-Blindness) 9.45 Qualities 9.46 Trust in Life, Trust in Self, Trust in the Law 9.47 Self-Determination 9.48 Invulnerability 9.49 Mistakes 9.50 Missed Opportunities 9.51 The Art of Living 9.52 The Way

THE LAW OF DESTINY

9.53 The Law of Destiny 9.54 Guidance 9.55 Predestination 9.56 Knowledge and Responsibility

THE LAW OF REAPING

9.57 The Law of Reaping 9.58 Fictions about the Law of Reaping 9.59 The Law of Reaping and the Ignorance of Life 9.60 The Law of Reaping and Repulsion 9.61 The Factors of Reaping 9.62 Collective Sowing and Reaping 9.63 Good Sowing and Reaping 9.64 Bad Sowing and Reaping 9.65 Suffering 9.66 Responsibility 9.67 Atonement

THE LAW OF ACTIVATION

9.68 The Activation of Consciousness 9.69 Passivity 9.70 Control of Consciousness 9.71 The Method of Activation

1.1 The Origin of Hylozoics 1.2 Hylozoics is the Basis 1.3 Terminology 1.4 The Purpose of the Hylozoic Mental System 1.5 The Limitation of Hylozoics 1.6 Defence and Demonstration 1.7 Hylozoics Starts from the Matter Aspect 1.8 Knowledge 1.9 Systems 1.10 Has Too Much Already Been Given? 1.11 Risks to Esoteric Studies 1.12 Seekers 1.13 The Esoterician 1.14 The Ignorance of Man 1.15 When Hylozoics Has Become Generally Accepted 1.16 Application of the Knowledge is the Essential 1.17 Mastering Hylozoics 1.18 Understanding Hylozoics 1.19 Understanding

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2. THE HYLOZOIC WORLD VIEW

2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Mathematical Terminology of Hylozoics

THE THREE ASPECTS OF EXISTENCE

2.3 The Hylozoic Doctrine of Trinity 2.4 The Three Aspects of Reality 2.5 “Thoughts Are Things” 2.6 The Three Aspects Are Totally Different in the Different Worlds 2.7 The Three Aspects in The Three Triads 2.8 THE PRIMORDIAL ATOM (THE MONAD) 2.9 THE COSMOS

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

2.10 Generals 2.11 The Four Stages of Development of Molecular Matter 2.12 Different Kinds of Solar Systems 2.13 The Worlds of the Solar System 2.14 The Worlds of Man

THE PROCESS OF MANIFESTATION

2.15 Generals 2.16 The Meaning of the Process of Manifestation 2.17 Involution and Evolution 2.18 The Process of Manifestation and the Law of Change 2.19 The Periods of Manifestation 2.20 THE MONAD AND ITS ENVELOPES 2.21 The Envelopes of Man

THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT

2.22 The Unity of Consciousness 2.23 Consciousness Development 2.24 The Meaning of Life 2.25 Memories 2.26 Sharing Consciousness 2.27 COLLECTIVE BEINGS 2.28 The Tasks of Collective Beings 2.29 The Relation of Collective Beings to Mankind 2.30 The World of Unity 2.31 Mankind as a Collective Being 2.32 THE MOTION ASPECT 2.33 SPACE AND TIME 2.34 The Perception of Dimension 2.35 The Perception of Time 2.36 “SPIRIT AND MATTER”

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3. ESOTERICS

3.1 Preface 3.2 INTRODUCTION 3.3 ESOTERIC HISTORY

ESOTERIC EDUCATION

3.4 Mistakes at the Publication of Esoterics 3.5 Esoterics and the Exoteric Must be Kept Apart 3.6 D.K. 3.7 Difficulties in Esoteric Authorship 3.8 Causal Selves as Teachers 3.9 Authority 3.10 Systems 3.11 Esoteric Teaching Must Start from a System 3.12 The Insufficiency of Human Concepts 3.13 Paradoxes 3.14 The Limits to Knowledge 3.15 Self-Assertion Always Hinders Understanding 3.16 Reminders About Esoteric Studies

DEGENERATED ESOTERICS

3.17 Degeneration of the term “esoteric” 3.18 Occultists 3.19 Some Words of Warning

TERMINOLOGY

3.20 Generals 3.21 World-View and Life-View 3.22 Subjective and Objective 3.23 Worlds 3.24 Envelopes 3.25 Different Kinds of Consciousness 3.26 Meditation 3.27 Spirit, Matter, Energy 3.28 Space and Time 3.29 The Eternal Present 3.30 “Death”

THE ESOTERICIAN

3.31 Esotericians of various kinds 3.32 Latent Esotericians 3.33 The Esoterician’s Situation in Life 3.34 The Esoterician’s Own Development 3.35 The Esoterician’s Independence of Illusions and Fictions 3.36 The Esoterician Must Learn to Be Silent 3.37 The Esoterician Makes No Propaganda 3.38 To Whom the Esoterician Turns 3.39 The Esoterician’s View of Life and Activity in Society 3.40 Esotericians As People of Good Will 3.41 Genius 3.42 The Requisite Pioneer Spirit

ESOTERICS IN A TRANSITION PERIOD

3.43 Why Esoterics Has Been Allowed for Publication 3.44 The Still Esoteric 3.45 Why Esoterics Cannot Be Fully Given Out 3.46 The Ignorance of Mankind 3.47 Life Ignorance Idiotizes Everything 3.48 Why Esoterics is Opposed 3.49 The Impending Esoteric Revolution 3.50 When Esoterics Becomes Generally Accepted

THE VALUE OF THE KNOWLEDGE

3.51 Esoterics is the Knowledge of the Fifth Natural Kingdom 3.52 The Value of Esoterics 3.53 The Significance of Religion, Philosophy, and Science 3.54 Correct Conception of Reality 3.55 Factual, Right, Correct 3.56 Our Debt to the Higher 3.57 Realization

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4. THE MOTION ASPECT

4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Motion Aspect is the Most Important 4.3 The Revolutionizing Knowledge of Motion 4.4 The Ignorance of the Motion Aspect 4.5 The Knowledge of Motion Must Be Kept Secret 4.6 Everything Transforms 4.7 Dynamis 4.8 Finality in Existence 4.9 Our Total Dependence on the Higher 4.10 The Process of Manifestation 4.11 Rhythm, Periodicity 4.12 The “Cosmic Night” 4.13 Different Kinds of Energies 4.14 Envelope Energies 4.15 The Will 4.16 Thoughts are Energies 4.17 Knowledge is Use of Energy 4.18 The Knowledge Must Be Put Into Action 4.19 Control of Consciousness 4.20 Self-Realization 4.21 Magic 4.22 Omniscience and Omnipotence 4.23 Esoteric Sayings Concerning the Motion Aspect

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5. THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT

5.1 The Consciousness Aspect 5.2 Collective Consciousness 5.3 Collective Beings 5.4 Collective Consciousness in Mankind 5.5 Group Consciousness 5.6 Telepathy 5.7 The Self 5.8 Consciousness Development 5.9 Various Kinds of Consciousness 5.10 The Envelope Consciousnesses of Man 5.11 Subjective, Objective, and Absolute Consciousness 5.12 Subjective and Objective Consciousness 5.13 The Unconscious 5.14 The Subconscious 5.15 Instinct 5.16 Complexes 5.17 Remembrance Anew 5.18 The Superconscious 5.19 Intuition and Inspiration 5.20 Essential Consciousness 5.21 Factors of Activation

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6. THE MATTER ASPECT

6.1 The Knowledge of the Matter Aspect 6.2 The Relative Significance of the Matter Aspect 6.3 Primordial Matter 6.4 The Monad As A Primordial Atom 6.5 The Process of Manifestation 6.6 Solar System and Cosmos 6.7 Generals About the Envelopes of the Monad 6.8 Control of the Envelopes 6.9 The Envelope Energies 6.10 The Departments in the Envelopes 6.11 The Purpose of the Envelopes 6.12 The Organism 6.13 The Etheric Envelope 6.14 The Etheric Envelope at Incarnation and Discarnation 6.15 The Emotional Envelope 6.16 The Emotional Envelope During Sleep 6.17 The Mental Envelope 6.18 The Triad Envelope 6.19 The Causal Envelope 6.20 The Centres of the Causal Envelope 6.21 The Importance of the Causal Envelope 6.22 The Causal Envelope as an Envelope of Isolation 6.23 The Envelopes of Man in Occult Literature 6.24 The Etheric World 6.25 The Emotional World 6.26 The Mental World 6.27 The Causal World

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7. CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Consciousness Development 7.3 The Natural Kingdoms of Evolution 7.4 The Human Kingdom 7.5 The Age Classes of Mankind 7.6 Consciousness Development in Mankind 7.7 The Stages of Human Development 7.8 The Emotional Stage: General 7.9 The Lower Emotional Stage 7.10 The Higher Emotional Stage 7.11 The Mental and Causal Stages 7.12 The Stage of Unity 7.13 The Importance of Latency 7.14 Rapid Development 7.15 Methodical Activation 7.16 The Activation of Causal Consciousness 7.17 The Work of the Planetary Hierarchy 7.18 The Knowledge of the Stages of Development

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8. THE STAGES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

8.1 Introductory About Stages of Development 8.2 The Emotional Stage 8.3 The Mental Stage

THE STAGE OF CIVILIZATION

8.4 Introductory About the Stage of Civilization 8.5 Emotionality at the Stage of Civilization 8.6 Mentality at the Stage of Civilization

THE STAGE OF CULTURE

8.7 Introductory About the Stage of Culture 8.8 Culture 8.9 Emotional ity at the Stage of Culture 8.10 Religion at the Stage of Culture 8.11 Mysticism 8.12 Mentality at the Stage of Culture

THE STAGE OF HUMANITY

8.13 Introductory about the Stage of Humanity 8.14 Emotionality at the Stage of Humanity 8.15 Mentality at the Stage of Humanity 8.16 The Seven Kinds of Mental Consciousness (47:1-7) 8.17 Life View and World View at the Stage of Humanity 8.18 The Subconscious and Latency 8.19 The Black Lodge

THE STAGE OF IDEALITY

8.20 Introductory about the Stage of Ideality 8.21 Man as a Causal Self