Charles Webster Leadbeater

The Astral Plane

The Astral Plane is a book by English Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater, first published in 1895. Beginning with a breakdown of the structure, inhabitants, and behaviours of the Astral Plane, and using references from Hindu and Buddhist myths and beliefs, Leadbeater gives a guided tour of the various planes of the universe. With creatures such as black magicians, vampires, werewolves, elemental essences, fairies, and angels, and phenomena including churchyard ghosts, mysterious bell ringing, clairvoyance, second sight, spirit photographs, slate writing, and levitation.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Man Visible and Invisible

Chapters include: How These Things Are Known; The Planes of Nature; Clairvoyant Sight; Man's Vehicles; The Trinity; The Earlier Outpourings; The Animal Group-Soul; The Upward Curve; Human Consciousness; The Third Outpouring; How Man Evolves; What His Bodies Show Us; Colors and Their Meaning; The Counterpart; Early Stages of Man's Development; The Ordinary Person; Sudden Emotions; More Permanent Conditions; The Developed Man; The Health-Aura; and, The Causal Body of the Adept.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

The Hidden Side of Things

25 Chapters, split into 5 sections; Introductory; How we are Influenced; How we Influence Ourselves; How we Influence Others; and, Conclusion. 'The term 'occultism' is one which has been much misunderstood. In the mind of the ignorant it was, even recently, synonymous with magic, and its students were supposed to be practitioners of the black art, veiled in flowing robes of scarlet covered with cabalistic signs, sitting amidst uncanny surroundings with a black cat as a familiar, compounding unholy decoctions by the aid of satanic evocations.'
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

How Theosophy Came to Me

My first touch with anything that could definitely be called Theosophy was in the year 504 b.c., when I had the wonderful honour and pleasure of visiting the great philosopher Pythagoras. I had taken birth in one of the families of the Eupatridæ at Athens—a family in fairly good circumstances and offering favourable opportunities for progress. This visit was the most important event in my youth, and it came about in this manner.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

The Astral Plane: Its Scenera, Inhabitants and Phenomena

An engrossing document of the public fascination with the paranormal at the turn of the 20th century, this 1895 volume explains one aspect of theosophy, the metaphysical doctrine that seeks to find the unified truth buried in all of humanity's religions.An engrossing document of the public fascination with the paranormal at the turn of the 20th century, this 1895 volume explains one aspect of theosophy, the metaphysical doctrine that seeks to find the unified truth buried in all of humanity's religions.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

A Textbook Of Theosophy

We often speak of Theosophy as not in itself a religion, but the truth which lies behind all religions alike. That is so; yet, from another point of view, we may surely say that it is at once a philosophy, a religion and a science. It is a philosophy, because it puts plainly before us an explanation of the scheme of evolution of both the souls and the bodies contained in our solar system. It is a religion in so far as, having shown us the course of ordinary evolution, it also puts before us and advises a method of shortening that course, so that by conscious effort we may progress more directly towards the goal.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Some Glimpses Of Occultism, Ancient And Modern

This is a great book to introduce you to the world of Theosophy. Usually, these books tend to be quite overwhelming, but Some Glimpses Of Occultism, Ancient And Modern, is written in a clear concise manner. The chapters in this book were originally lectures given in around 1903 in Chicago.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

The Hidden Life in Freemasonry

Fully illustrated. Chapters include: The Lodge; The Fittings Of The Lodge; Preliminary Ceremonies; The Opening Of The Lodge; Initiation; The Second Degree; The Third Degree; The Higher Degrees; Two Wonderful Rituals; and, Closing The Lodge.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Glimpses of Masonic History

Contents: Schools of Masonic Thought; The Egyptian Mysteries; The Cretan Mysteries; The Jewish Mysteries; The Greek Mysteries; The Mithraic Mysteries; Craft Masonry in Medieval Times; Operative Masonry in the Middle Ages; The Transition from Operative to Speculative; Other Lines of Masonic Tradition; The Scottish Rite; and, The Co-Masonic Order.
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Charles Webster Leadbeater

Clairvoyance

This is a Theosophical manual of the phenomena of Clairvoyance, the mental viewing of things far removed in space and/or time. Leadbeater appeals to the fourth dimension, the Akashic record, and the assistance of unseen spirits, as explanations of the phenomena. Students of the occult will find this a satisfying review. Chapters include, Clairvoyance In Time: The Past, Clairvoyance In Space: Unintentional, Simple Clairvoyance: Full, What Clairvoyance Is, and Methods Of Development.
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