Man When How And Whither : Besant , Leadbeater [ Theosophy , 1954 ]
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Third Edition in dust jacket of Annie Besant and CW Leadbeater ‘s influential theosophy text Man : When, How and Whither published in India in 1954.
Besant, Annie and Leadbeater, CW. Man : When, How, and Whither A Record Of Clairvoyant Investigation. The Theosophical Publishing House : Adyar, Madras, India. 1954. Third Edition.
WHENCE comes man and whither goes he? In the fullest answer we can only say: Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God; but the Whence and Whither with which we deal here denote a far more modest sweep.
— Annie Besant
This third edition of the prominent Theosophy Book “Man : When How and Whither” by Theosophical society leaders Annie Besant and CW Leadbeater , was printed at the society’s world headquarters in Adyar, India in 1954.
A “clairvoyant investigation” of the origins and nature of Man, the text advances the position that humanness is one of seven stages of spiritual evolution from the base vegetable and mineral levels toward the divine. Mirroring these seven stages to the seven worlds and seven planets of the solar system (which align with earlier, alchemical ideas), the text charts a path of incarnation of the soul through the various “kingdoms” and “chains”.
This specific copy bears a sticker from the Theosophical Press in Wheaton, Illinois, the then official publishing body of the American Theosophical Society from 1922 – 1966.
8vo, 535pp, green cloth boards with title and authors gilt to front board and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped. Some spotting to bookblock edges, pastedowns, and endpapers. Bookseller’s sticker for Theosophical Press of Wheaton, Illinois. Stamped “Printed and Sold In India” in purple ink on copyright page lower margin. Pages otherwise clean. Includes four diagram plates including color folding frontispiece. Very good condition. Two color dustjacket with minor scuffing to faces. Wear with tearing to bottom fore corners and spine ends. Staining to lower spine. Good condition.
If you liked this book, you might also like this first edition of Annie Besant’s Initiation or this first edition of The Path Of Discipleship owned and annotated by Helen Campbell and another early theosophist.
