In the Outer Court is a book by British theosophist Annie Besant, first published in 1895. It is a series of five lectures that were given in the Blavatsky Lodge, London, at the Headquarters of the European Section of the Theosophical Society, during August, 1895. The lectures are: Purification; Thought Control; The Building of Character; Spiritual Alchemy; and, On the Threshold.