172pp. Tan cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth fraying; a little cocked. Top text block edge dusty, all edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers foxing and tanning; private library rubber stamp and previous owner's name on front free endpaper; pages starting to tan, volume loose. Otherwise, internally neat and clean. Lectures are: Theosophy and the problem of heredity; History and the light of reincarnation; The basis of art expression, and The search for Reality.
Theosophy is an esoteric movement founded by the Russian/American mystic Helena Blavatsky in the late 19th century blending aspects of Eastern and Western traditions towards universal "Ageless Wisdom". Many of its followers denied that theosophy is a religion but it is variously classified by critics and scholars as a new religious movement or a form of occultism.
