Popular lectures on theosophy. I : Ladder of lives / by Annie Besant.

  • Annie Besant
Date:
[1910?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Popular lectures on theosophy. I : Ladder of lives / by Annie Besant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    5/26 page 3
    is that this outline will inspire some of you with the wish to know more; this ‘knowing more’ can only be attained by individual study. I shall give you the outline, and you must fill up this out- line by study with all the details that make every part of the outline intelhgible. I do not pre- tend that I can give you in the short compass of a lecture the details, which are indefinite in number and almost infinite im complexity. All I can do is to trace out the broad lines for your guidance. A popular lecture can merely trace out the principal ideas, and lay before your minds in succession certain clearly definite conceptions. No lecture can take the place of study. . People who learn only by attending lectures can never possess more than a superficial knowledge of a subject. Only a student can master the difficulties of any subject by individual and _ strenuous exertion. Hence when I have done my _ work, your work remains for you to do. If you find the conceptions fascinating, as many of us have found them, then must follow the study which will make those conceptions real to yourselves. First, then, let us try to study a great concep- tion of the Matter side of the world, the concep- tion of the Solar System. I draw as if it were a circle within which is the ‘ universe of discourse’ —as the logicians say; my universe of dis- course is our own Solar System, outside which we
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3