Annie Besant

"Avat ras" from Annie Besant. British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule (1847 - 1933).

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1896 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Annie Besant (born October 1, 1847, died September 20, 1933). She was a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. President of the Theosophical Society. Annie Besant died at age 85in Adyar, Madras Presidency, British India. Her body was cremated.

"Des religions pratiqu es actuellement dans l'Inde" de Annie Besant. Th osophe, f ministe et crivain britannique (1847-1933).

Annie Besant is primarily remembered as the international president of the Theosophical Society. One of the most important aspects of her career were the years that she was a professional atheist, which has given her a place in history as a pioneer feminist. The Origins of Theosophy contains thirteen of Besant’s pamphlets, originally published from 1883-1890. This book is ideal for students of theology.

Occult Chemistry-Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements is a classic occult science text by Annie Besant. It remains to be seen--not how far, but rather how soon the scientific world at large will accept the conclusions of this volume of Occult Chemistry as a definite contribution to science, blending the science of the laboratory with that variety that has hitherto been called occult. The first edition was published in 1908, the second edition in 1919, and a third in 1951. Since the first edition was published in 1908, the book is in the public domain, and available in whole or in excerpts, on many sites on the internet. Occult Chemistry states that the structure of chemical elements can be assessed through clairvoyant observation with the microscopic vision of the third eye. Observations were carried out between 1895 and 1933. "The book consists both of coordinated and illustrated descriptions of presumed etheric counterparts of the atoms of the then known chemical elements, and of other expositions of occult physics.

As knowledge increases, the attitude of science towards the things of the invisible world is undergoing considerable modification. Its attention is no longer directed solely to the earth with all its variety of objects, or to the physical worlds around it; but it finds itself compelled to glance further afield, and to construct hypotheses as to the nature of the matter and force which lie in the regions beyond the ken of its instruments. Ether is now comfortably settled in the scientific kingdom, becoming almost more than a hypothesis. Mesmerism, under its new name of hypnotism, is no longer an outcast. Reichenbach's experiments are still looked at askance, but are not wholly condemned. R ntgen's rays have rearranged some of the older ideas of matter, while radium has revolutionised them, and is leading science beyond the borderland of ether into the astral world.