How Theosophy Came To Me: The Spiritual Autobiography of the Esteemed and Highly Developed Clairvoyant

By Charles W. Leadbeater

Book Overview

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. "It must not for a moment be supposed, however, that the attainment of this particular power was the end of the occult training. On the contrary, it proved to be only the beginning of a year of the hardest work that I have ever known. It will be understood that I lived there in the octagonal room by the river-side alone for many long hours every day, and practically secure from any interruption except at the meal-times which I have mentioned. Several Masters were so gracious as to visit me during that period and to offer me various hints; but it was the Master Djwal Kul who gave most of the necessary instruction. I know not how to thank Him for the enormous amount of care and trouble which He took in my psychic education; patiently and over and over again He would make a vivid thought-form, and say to me: 'What do you see?' And when I described it to the best of my ability, would come again and again the comment: 'No, no, you are not seeing true; you are not seeing all; dig deeper into yourself, use your mental vision as well as your astral; press just a little further, a little higher.' "This process often had to be many times repeated before my mentor was satisfied. The pupil has to be tested in all sorts of ways and under all conceivable conditions; indeed, towards the end of the tuition sportive nature-spirits are specially called in and ordered in every way possible to endeavour to confuse or mislead the seer. Unquestionably it is hard work, and the strain which it imposes is, I suppose, about as great as a human being can safely endure; but the result achieved is assuredly far more than worth while, for it leads directly up to the union of the lower and the higher self and produces an utter certainty of knowledge based upon experience which no future happenings can ever shake." -C. W. Leadbeater 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502315890
• ISBN13: 9781502315892
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"