How Theosophy Came to Me
About This Book
A fascinating journey into the author's travels and introduction to theosophy; including his meeting Madame Blavatsky, travels to Greece, India and Burma and how he joined the theosophy movement. In Ancient Greece My Early Attitude Personal Investigations Spiritualism A Story of Madame Blavatsky "The Occult World" How I Joined Mr. A. P. Sinnett Mr. M. M. Chatterji Mr. Eglinton A Letter to the Master Practical Work Dr. Kingsford I Meet Our Founder Madame Blavatsky The Letter Answered My First Phenomenon Marching Orders In Quarantine We Meet Again An Abrupt Change The Khedive's Packet-Boat Ismailia A Message A Little Dust Another Abrupt Change An Elder Brother A Gruesome Ceremony She Knew Arabic Phenomena A Characteristic Experience
What You'll Learn
• Understand Leadbeater's path to Theosophy: the specific experiences and dissatisfactions with conventional Christianity that created his openness to the Theosophical teaching, what his first encounters with Blavatsky and the early Society were like, and how the Theosophical framework addressed the questions and perceptions that conventional religion had not been able to satisfy
• Grasp the development of clairvoyant faculty: how Leadbeater describes the awakening and progressive development of his clairvoyant perception — the specific practices, the guidance from the Masters, and the characteristic experiences of each stage as his sensitivity expanded from the first indistinct perceptions through the increasingly detailed and reliable clairvoyant observation that characterised his mature work
• Recognise the Master-disciple relationship: how Leadbeater describes his relationship to the Masters of the Wisdom — his first contact, the specific forms of instruction and guidance he received, and the quality of relationship that developed over time — providing one of the most detailed first-person accounts of this form of spiritual relationship in the Theosophical tradition
• Learn the institutional dimension: how the Theosophical Society that Leadbeater joined and eventually became a leading figure in was operating in the 1880s and 1890s — the personalities, the controversies, and the specific quality of intellectual and spiritual engagement that characterised the early years of what was genuinely a remarkable experiment in combining rigorous investigation with genuine inner development
• Appreciate the autobiographical honesty: how Leadbeater's account includes not only the high points (the first experiences of genuine clairvoyance, the contacts with the Masters) but the difficulties (the challenges of the early training, the specific forms of inner resistance that arose) — making this a more credible and more practically useful account of spiritual development than a purely triumphalist narrative would be
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