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The Knowledge of Reality
by HENRY T. LAURENCY,

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Sections:

Translator’s Preface
What the Book is About
1. THE PROBLEMS OF REALITY, PART ONE (30 pages)
2. THE PROBLEMS OF REALITY, PART TWO (14 pages)
3. THE ORIGIN OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE FICTIONS (18 pages)
4. THE THREE QUESTIONS OF THE SPHINX: WHENCE? HOW? WHITHER? (5 pages)
5. AN ESOTERICIAN’S VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY (72 pages)
6. ANTHROPOSOPHY – STEINER’S SPIRITUAL SCIENCE (19 pages)
7. YOGA IN THE LIGHT OF ESOTERICS (29 pages)

The Knowledge of Reality is the translation of an original in Swedish, Kunskapen om verkligheten. The translator is Lars Adelskogh. Translations into other languages are proceeding.

A complete enumeration of all sections, subsections, and chapters making up The Knowledge of Reality is found below in the document Contents by sections, subsections, and chapters.

The Knowledge of Reality
CONTENTS BY SECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS, AND CHAPTERS

Translator’s Preface
What the Book is About

1. THE PROBLEMS OF REALITY, PART ONE

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

THE MATTER ASPECT
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

THE CONSCIOUSNESS ASPECT
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

THE MOTION ASPECT
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. THE PROBLEMS OF REALITY, PART TWO

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 The Ideas in Mankind


3. THE ORIGIN OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE FICTIONS

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. THE THREE QUESTIONS OF THE SPHINX. WHENCE? HOW? WHITHER?

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. AN ESOTERICIAN’S VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Basic Problems of Philosophy


THE HYLOZOIC PERIOD
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

SUPPLEMENT
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. ANTHROPOSOPHY – STEINER’S SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

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. YOGA IN THE LIGHT OF ESOTERICS

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

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The Philosopher’s Stone
by HENRY T. LAURENCY,

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Sections:

Translator’s Preface
1. EXOTERIC WORLD VIEW AND LIFE VIEW (42 pages)
2. THE ESOTERIC WORLD VIEW (71 pages)
3. ESOTERIC LIFE VIEW (98 pages)

The Philosopher’s Stone is the translation of an original in Swedish, De vises sten. The translator is Lars Adelskogh. Translations into other languages are proceeding.

A complete enumeration of all sections, subsections, and chapters making up The Philosopher’s Stone is found below in the document Contents by sections, subsections, and chapters.

The Philosopher’s Stone
CONTENTS BY SECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS, AND CHAPTERS



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

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.

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

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The Way of Man
by HENRY T. LAURENCY,

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Sections:

1. INTRODUCTIONS (59 pages)
2. THE MONAD LADDER (9 pages)
3. THE FIRST SELF (36 pages)
4. THE PHYSICAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF (15 pages)
5. THE EMOTIONAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF (54 pages)
6. THE MENTAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF (35 pages)
7. THE CAUSAL BEING (16 pages)
8. AUGOEIDES (35 pages)
9. THE SECOND SELF (148 pages)
10. THE CAUSAL SELF (21 pages)
11. THE ESSENTIAL SELF (16 pages)
12. THE SUPERESSENTIAL SELF (3 pages)
13. PROTOGONOS AND THE THIRD SELF (8 pages)
14. THE SUBMANIFESTAL SELF (2 pages)
15. THE MANIFESTAL SELF (3 pages)
16. THE PLANETARY HIERARCHY (20 pages)
17. THE PLANETARY GOVERNMENT (11 pages)
18. TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM (15 pages)

The Way of Man is the translation of an original in Swedish, Människans väg. The translator is Lars Adelskogh.

A complete enumeration of all sections, subsections, and chapters making up The Way of Man is found below in the document Contents by sections, subsections, and chapters.

The Way of Man
CONTENTS BY SECTIONS, SUBSECTIONS, AND CHAPTERS


1. INTRODUCTIONS

INTRODUCTION: ON LAURENCY AND HIS WORKS
1.1 Laurency
1.2 The Intention of Laurency
1.3 The Works of Laurency
1.4 PhS and KofR
1.5 WofM
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 Manifestational Matter
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 Times
1.54 Subjectivism
1.55 Two Worlds
1.56 European Philosophy
1.57 Semantics (Concept 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

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

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 the 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

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
4.5 The Centres of the Etheric Envelope
4.6 Mankind’s Ignorance of 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

5. THE EMOTIONAL BEING OF THE FIRST SELF

EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
5.1 Generals
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 as the Saint

5.52 The Most Rapid Development at the Emotional Stage

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

7. THE CAUSAL BEING

THE CAUSAL ENVELOPE

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 Downcaling 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

8. AUGOEIDES

8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Revolutionizing Knowledge of Augoeides
8.3 General about the Work of Augoeides
8.4 Augoeides as the Deputy Causal Self
8.5 Augoeides as the 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 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

9. THE SECOND SELF

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 Kinds 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 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 Grows 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 in Which 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 Assessing 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 of 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"

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 Work

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 At
9.159 Conditions of Esoteric Study
9.160 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 Aspirants’ 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 Disciples Unaware of their Discipleship
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 Zodiacal 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

INVOCATION AND EVOCATION
9.219 The Science of Invocation and Evocation
9.220 Mantras
9.221 The Great Invocation

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

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

12. THE SUPERESSENTIAL SELF

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

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 Systemic Worlds
13.13 The Significance of Knowledge of Higher Worlds
13.14 Terminology and Symbols concerning the Third Self

14. THE SUBMANIFESTAL SELF

14.1 The Submanifestal Self
14.2 Pythagoras
14.3 The Submanifestal World

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

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 Hierarchy with Mankind
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 Serves 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

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

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 for the First Self and its Worlds
18.12 Symbols for 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

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1. INTRODUCTIONS
INTRODUCTION: ON LAURENCY AND HIS WORKS
1.1 Laurency
1The name Laurency is a pseudonym of an author who wants to remain unknown. Literary researchers allow no authors to be anonymous; then they have to content themselves with the kinds of authors they have. It must be asserted with all energy, however, that authors have a right to be unknown. That is a right everybody has according to the law of freedom. Just as the individual has an absolute right to have his private life in peace, as long as he does not encroach on the equal right of others, so the author has an absolute right to anonymity. In a cultural society these two rights are written into the constitution.

2If society believes that it may violate the laws of life, then it must also take the consequences, of which fact universal history is a witness. If authors are not legally protected from general gossip and inevitable slander as well as the intellectual spying and bodysnatching of literary researchers, then it may well happen that they do not give out their knowledge any more.

3Esoteric works defend themselves by their content of reality. Who the author is concerns nobody. The interest in personalities is beside the point. Curiosity is a vice; the opposite of the virtue of the thirst for knowledge. There must be no more belief in authority. Everybody has to accept or reject on solely objective grounds. If he is unable to do so, then he should not study esoterics.

4Incurable human curiosity, constantly violating the eternal law of freedom binding everybody, has of course done all in its power to find out who Laurency is. But nobody will ever learn it, and all guesswork is erroneous. Laurency’s true identity concerns nobody.

5All esoteric facts and ideas contained in Laurency’s books ultimately derive from the planetary hierarchy (the fifth kingdom in nature). This is no claim to infallibility. When knowledge is conveyed through human beings, there is always a risk that it is misunderstood or wrongly presented. It has been unfeasable to account, in particular cases, how facts and ideas were communicated from the original sources.

6The recorder (the amanuensis, the pen used in the writing) of Laurency’s works has not allowed himself to put forward his own speculations, vagaries, assumptions, suppositions, guesswork. Sufficient experience of human wisdom has taught him, however, that there are many people who believe they comprehend the matter better than does the planetary hierarchy. Then they may well do so. In that respect the recorder nevertheless prefers the knowledge of the planetary hierarchy, the more so as its members by no means consider themselves to be in possession of the absolute knowledge.

1.2 The Intention of Laurency
1Laurency wants to orient in reality. His intention is to supply a world view and life view in accord with reality, an irrefutable working hypothesis ready for use the day the present views have demonstrated their untenability. In so doing he wants to enable people to think in accord with reality, as far as this is possible for human beings at all.

2Laurency wants to liberate people from all the ruling idiologies (idiology, from idios = one’s own, logos = teaching) in the spheres of theology, philosophy, and science, put an end to emotional illusoriness and mental fictitiousness, the endless mania for speculation of life ignorance. This also means that he demonstrates the untenability of those imaginative constructions, which have hitherto been allowed to lead mankind astray. Theologians as well as philosophers, mystics, occultists, and clairvoyants are disoriented. They all have their own views of reality, different from all the others. But reality is one and not everybody’s opinion.

3It is not Laurency’s mission to found a new esoteric “school”, nor to teach any method of meditation for the acquisition of higher consciousness.

4There is little new in what Laurency teaches. Most of the facts have been publicized earlier, although in another form. Laurency’s task was to scale the knowledge down to a lower level so that it was made comprehensible also to conceptual thinking. After the year 1920, everything new came through 45-self D.K. (a teacher from the 2nd department of the planetary hierarchy), and does so still until the planetary hierarchy is called back.

5What other 45-selves communicate to their disciples is not publicized. Those who purport to have received communications from the planetary hierarchy (which is an increasingly common phenomenon) are quite simply impostors.

6The recorder is fully aware of the fact that his attempt to offer mankind a firm foundation to stand upon and to start from, an unshakable foundation of knowledge, will meet with stubborn opposition from all who have already got stuck in some one of the countless idiologies. But he is certain that “the doctrine we (the planetary hierarchy) promulgate, being the only true one, must be ultimately triumphant,” however many centuries it will take.

1.3 The Works of Laurency
1Laurency’s purpose in writing his first book, The Philosopher’s Stone (PS), was to orient the first self in its worlds. The main purpose of his second book, The Knowledge of Reality (KR), was to furnish a simplified presentation of the hylozoic mental system, the basis of the thinking and science of the future.

2The present work, The Way of Man (WM), gives an account of the individual’s consciousness development through the fourth, fifth, and sixth natural kingdoms. It affords a survey over the way man has gone and yet has to go before he has reached the goal fixed for all monads (primordial atoms). The subsection On the Hylozoic World View also gives a few basic facts about the cosmic worlds and the solar system and about the destinies of the monad ever since it was introduced from chaos into the cosmos.

3WM, like the first two works, wants to help the seeker to find his bearings in our age of disorientation and to find the path to the fifth natural kingdom, which is the realm of knowledge—wisdom as well as love—unity.

4These three chief works of Laurency are in actual fact the three parts of one and the same work. The present volume, WM, is the continuation of PS and KR. Other published or as yet unpublished works of Laurency are to be regarded as commentaries or additional expositions connected with these three.

5This presentation of esoterics is sufficient to orient man in reality and to afford him a tenable basis for his life view. Laurency’s books contain what is needed at the stage of civilization in order to have a right orientation in life, to live purposefully in the physical world, for that is the main thing, not to speculate about everything unnecessary to life.

6Thus Laurency’s works are not intended to furnish materials for continued speculation, which would just result in new disorienting imaginative constructions. An esoterician accepts ideas and facts about the superphysical only from those in the fifth natural kingdom, the only ones who have a knowledge of reality.

7The works of Laurency are a new attempt to present esoterics so as to be comprehensible to contemporary philosophers and scientists with their modes of conception, the old knowledge in a new form. It is not possible to do more than that; comprehension must precede understanding. Laurency can be comprehended by the educated people of our times if they would take the trouble to try to comprehend. All this is mere truisms, but experience has taught us that it cannot be said too often. Most people read so that they do not know what they have read, often have understood just a part of it, often have misunderstood a great part of it. Most people seem never to have learnt how to read and to reflect upon what they read. Too many people have understood so little of the talk about unity that they have not realized that the word “unity” means the same as “love” (a word too much abused to suit in this connection).

8The esoteric knowledge put down into the writings of Laurency is already exoteric, the basic or elementary knowledge. It is esoteric only so far that it was once reserved for the esoteric knowledge orders, since mankind was quite unable to comprehend the true knowledge. In the proper sense it ceases to be esoteric when it is publicized. When mankind wants to listen to the message, it thereby is exoteric.

9There is in the works of Laurency sufficient proof that the content accords with reality. The proofs are the possibilities obtained to explain the problems of reality. Of course the reader must work on the texts. The Laurency books are not meant to be read through once and then be put on the shelf. If so you can just as well refrain from reading them at all. If you study them so that their content comes alive and affords increasingly greater clarity in the matters of the problems treated, then they serve their purpose. The recorder can say this from his own experience.

10The works of Laurency appear without any claims or demands for acceptance. It is up to everybody to test their correctness himself and on his own responsibility, to accept or to reject. It is unavoidable that errors are to be found in the works of Laurency as in all other esoteric works, and this is due to the “human factor”.

11The Laurency system is no dogmatic system but a temporary system, which in due time (like all systems) will be superseded by better systems. It does not purport to be anything else than a “working hypothesis”. It cannot and it must not be turned into a dogmatic system. The new systems justify themselves by their superiority in various respects; containing more facts and ideas; being better adapted to the general human conception of reality and the definitively accepted scientific terminology; making possible a more exact conception of reality; being better suited to facilitate comprehension and understanding.

1.4 PS and KR
1The esoteric world view of Laurency’s PS was written for three reasons: to correct the insufficient and in part misleading presentations made by various theosophists and other occultists; to introduce a workable Western terminology; to particularly emphasize the three aspects of reality.

2The esoteric life view of PS was intended to familiarize mankind with the idea of law of life and lay the basis of a new allround orientation in life. That reality, law of life, has of course always existed, but a special term for it has been lacking in Western life view.

3PS consists of aphorisms woven together into a whole where almost every sentence is the result of meditation. Anyone who does not see this does not understand the content that is “between the lines” either. It is a book that summarizes several hundred. It was indeed the purpose to show how books should be written, not like most books with truisms, platitudes, trivialities and with ideas in the weakest possible dilution. However, with that demand most writers and publishers would starve to death; the loss would perhaps not be great. Excuse the remark, but sometimes you need to call the reader’s attention to the fact that there are books that must be studied, not merely read. There really are books you never finish; at least the recorder himself has never finished reading Laurency. At each new reading he discovers more and more, getting materials for further meditation.

4KR is just a detailed commentary on PS, which is the very basis. KR furnishes a survey of the esoteric world view as well as a necessary critique of philosophy and occultism.

1.5 WM
1The first part of this series concerning the problems of reality was PS, and the second part was KR.

2WM is principally a commentary on the two earlier works, PS and KR. It proved increasingly necessary to elucidate in detail those basic problems which seem to be unfamiliar to mankind at large, although development has entailed that most people nowadays are able to comprehend what was comprehensible only to the elite in past millennia.

3WM is an attempt at removing the confusion of ideas there is in mental thinking, an attempt at clarifying the different stages of human consciousness development, an attempt at explaining the difference between civilization and culture, all of which most people have understood nothing.

4The terminology is the same as in Laurency’s two previous works. The mathematical nomenclature introduced in PS is used also here. It is the only exact manner in which to indicate the mutual relations between the various worlds, matters, envelopes, etc. The traditional terms have proved to cause an irremediable confusion of concepts and so make it easier for non-experts to assert their muddled notions.

5The purpose in publishing WM is to offer the general orientation the aspirant needs for his preparation for discipleship, which is a condition for his transition to the second self. That orientation mainly concerns the second self’s conception of reality such as it can be rendered by mental concepts. Having become an essential self, the individual of course has to rethink in all respects also about lower worlds. The causal self sees what the first self tries to grasp.

6This third volume on the esoteric knowledge of reality being published, the general, basic orientation may be considered sufficient to afford a vision of existence, sparing seekers the toil of seeking the truth in philosophy, anthroposophy, yoga, and diverse occult literature.

7Thereby man has got a firm basis of knowledge on which to stand and from which to start. He has been informed about all he needs to know in order to live a rational and purposeful life in the physical world and be able to serve mankind, consciousness development, and unity in the right way.

8He does not need to occupy himself any more with problems of world view but can wholly apply himself to practical realization in actual life. We are here in order to live and to solve the problems of practical life. Those are the essential problems that need to be addressed to ensure a happy frictionless life for all mankind.

9We have sufficient political, social, economic problems, not to mention scientific ones (the problem of energy, above all). Strictly speaking, we have not solved even one of the problems of daily life: the problems of housing, clothing (the most expedient manner of clothing), nourishment, hygiene. We have not solved the problems of upbringing and education, just to mention a few ones. So it is clear that we have problems that are more important to solve than speculating up in the clouds on things we need not know. Our constant question when standing before the unsurveyably vast knowledge should be: does it help me live?

1.6 For Whom Laurency Writes
1The writings of Laurency are not for all but for those who must have a clearly formulated mental system as their basis for further methodical and systematical thinking in problems of life view.

2There are always those who inquire into the meaning of life, always seekers who want to possess a tenable world view or a tenable life view. It is to them that Laurency turns, hoping that his work will satisfy their need of a usable working hypothesis. It cannot be anything else and does not want to either. It appears without claims. Least of all it appeals to credulity, which has been the curse of mankind. If the reader does not approve of the content, he should put the work aside and turn to those philosophers who better size up to his intellectual demands.

3Those who do not of themselves see that the esoteric knowledge offered is priceless, are not suitable readers, but should wait a few incarnations until they have gained so much experience of life that they have the prerequisites at least of comprehension.

4The writings of Laurency are primarily intended for those who were once initiates of esoteric knowledge orders. Only those are able to realize immediately at the first contact that hylozoics accords with reality. His writings are also intended to make up a working hypothesis acceptable to those philosophers and scientists of the future who will seek for a tenable world view and life view, realizing that there must be superphysical worlds and kingdoms.

5Laurency does not write for emotionalists, for those at the higher emotional stage (the stage of the mystic), but for mentalists who are able to think in accord with reality. It is true that there is much food for emotion in his writings, but it is there only to stimulate to greater mental activity and to counteract every kind of emotional wallowing.

6What is said in the following should be regarded as applying in a general sense and must never be taken in an absolute sense, which emotional mystics as well as the more mental occultists as a rule do and which entails that systems of orientation are dogmatized so that they are regarded as containing the one and absolute truth.

1.7 Readers of Laurency
1Readers who understand realize that the writings of Laurency concern the problems of reality as esotericians conceive of them, their view of reality, the teaching of those who were once initiates of esoteric knowledge orders. These problems are not for all but only for those seekers who seek until they find what they have once in a previous incarnation realized to be true knowledge of reality.

2So little readers of KR seem to have understood the contents that they have not learnt to distinguish esoterics and the exoteric, knowledge of reality and the imaginative constructions of philosophers, scientists, and historians. It has been necessary to inform them that of the seven sections of the book, the first four sections contain the knowledge and the last three ones do not contain the knowledge but are a refutation of prevalent views. It is also typical of many readers that they skip the first four sections to study the last three ones.

3Almost all letters the recorder of Laurency’s works has written in reply to readers concern misunderstandings of what they have read. They find contradictions that are just apparent, which a bit of reflective thought should have told them. Esoterics contains many paradoxes incomprehensible to literalists and wiseacres. They should consider that intellectual rule which advises us not to concern ourselves with what is incomprehensible to us. There must be some chance of “intuition” (the automatic combination work of the subconscious).

4The immensely simplified presentation of esoterics (vision of reality) furnished by KR also is designed to liberate the seeker from wasting time on older literature. Instead, it is mistaken as intending to encourage the study of occultism, philosophy, yoga, etc. In PS, aspirants have been informed as to everything they need to know in order to realize the meaning of life for their present incarnation. Instead of living they start speculating and imagining. It is apparently too hard to practise the life of service and to strive to understand people and learn to love forth the best in them.

1.8 Systems
1Systems are the bases of all thought. All comprehension proceeds from the general to the particular, and this general is precisely the system. The system makes it possible to put facts into their correct contexts, is the criterion of the correct context.

2In science, a hypothesis can be used as an explanatory ground until it can be replaced by a better hypothesis. For scientific pragmatism takes the concept in its given definition not as absolute in respect of knowledge, in absolute accord with reality (since we have not explored reality), but as expedient (usable as an explanation for the time being). It stands to reason that such systems compiled from fictions remain temporary systems.

3Philosophy has given itself the task of establishing the truth, the true knowledge of reality. Therefore, you cannot, as many philosophers do, base your view on the scientific systems of temporary hypotheses changing from day to day. You cannot at all base a tenable view or a system of knowledge on hypotheses or on constructions that contain hypotheses. From this you understand how impossible it has been and is for philosophers to solve the problems of knowledge with their fictional systems. The philosophers’ error has been that they start from bases that individually were unverifiable creeds but were regarded as logical.

4Either you know or you do not know. In true philosophy there is nothing that can be called possibility or probability. Any speculation, assumption, guesswork, supposition is precluded there. It may perhaps interest the readers to learn that this is also the standpoint of the planetary hierarchy. It thinks it better for man to be a skeptic (agnostic, not antimetaphysician) than a believer, that credulity has been the curse of mankind, that all exoteric religions (not the esoteric religion which is one and indivisible, the religion of wisdom and love) are unfit for life, not to say hostile to life. Only when the different religions agree that love is the one essential thing in any religion (no theories), which means preaching universal brotherhood, only then they are true and then they are one religion, too.

5Unless man is to be the victim of the disorientation of diverse uncalled-for prophets, it is necessary that he procures an firm basis of knowledge to start from. The only possible basis are definitively established facts put together into a logically tenable mental system that explains all essentials and proves tenable also in real life. It is such a basis that hylozoics affords, because its system of knowledge accords with reality, as far as this is possible at all to ascertain for individuals in the fourth natural kingdom. That knowledge is a gift to mankind from the planetary hierarchy. It is the duty of everyone to test its tenability himself and not accept it in blind belief, for otherwise he will never have that certainty which is necessary to self-reliance and self-determination.

а также есть перевод на русский на официальном сайте (перевод Ку Аль, как я догадываюсь)

:-)

[ЕИльич]

Спасибо. А как насчет "последней четверти столетия"? Когда написаны основные произведения?

Нашел. С 1930 по 1971 года.

[ЕИльич]

Побрюзжу.

Как выполнили они это? Ответ: сличая, исследуя и проверяя во всех отделах Природы традиции древности путем непосредственных видений, прозрений великих Адептов, т. е., людей, развивших и усовершенствовавших свои физические, ментальные, психические и духовные организмы до крайних пределов. Ни одно видение лишь одного какого-либо Адепта не принималось, пока оно не было проверено и подтверждено видениями других Адептов – полученными так, чтобы явиться независимым свидетельством – и веками опытов.
(ТД1.ч.I.Комментарии, Итог)

Если Автор гилозоики, заявляет свою систему как "одна из гипотез", а не как Учение Братства, как это сделал Мория, то как мы отделим мух от котлет? Веками опытов? У нас их нет. Правда у нас есть современная физика, но это тоже сомнительное преимущество. Если эта гипотеза окажется не вполне верной, с чем мы останемся?

[Вэл]

Побрюзжу.

Как выполнили они это? Ответ: сличая, исследуя и проверяя во всех отделах Природы традиции древности путем непосредственных видений, прозрений великих Адептов, т. е., людей, развивших и усовершенствовавших свои физические, ментальные, психические и духовные организмы до крайних пределов. Ни одно видение лишь одного какого-либо Адепта не принималось, пока оно не было проверено и подтверждено видениями других Адептов – полученными так, чтобы явиться независимым свидетельством – и веками опытов.
(ТД1.ч.I.Комментарии, Итог)

Если Автор гилозоики, заявляет свою систему как "одна из гипотез", а не как Учение Братства, как это сделал Мория, то как мы отделим мух от котлет? Веками опытов? У нас их нет. Правда у нас есть современная физика, но это тоже сомнительное преимущество. Если эта гипотеза окажется на вполне верной, с чем мы останемся?

:-)

на эту тему можно разговаривать долго.
на моих глазах все эти разговоры разговаривают более 20 лет и до сих пор не договорились. так зачем продолжать?

ну, сказал автор (Лоренси), что его труд правильно квалифицировать как _рабочую гипотезу_, пусть теперь доказывают, что она не рабочая те, кому больше нечем заняться.

:-)

[ЕИльич]

Если Вы изучаете гилозоику 20 лет, то Вы вполне владеете материалом. Будучи физиком, Вы можете сформулировать, свое мнение о текстах, как результат изучения. Вот сформулируйте, плиз. Вы в этих текстах видите сквозную логику, которая убеждает Вас в верности всех построений? Или нечто осталось Вами непонятым или произвольно построенным по вашему? Точный вопрос такой: может ли эта рабочая гипотеза, по вашему, быть истинной гипотезой с вероятностью, требующей ее изучения для теософа?

[volt]

Сборник "Пять лет теософии" есть на терре? Если что, то у меня есть.

[Вэл]

Сборник "Пять лет теософии" есть на терре? Если что, то у меня есть.

нет.

если в формате .pdf, то можно вложить в текст сообщения. после я продублирую в библиотеку.