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About the Book

The teachings embodied in the present volume let in a flood of light on questions connected with Buddhist doctrine which have deeply perplexed previous writers on the religion, and offer the world for the first time a practical clue to the meaning of almost all ancient religious symbolism. More than this, the esoteric doctrine, when properly understood, will be found to advance an overpowering claim on the attention of earnest thinkers. Its views of nature have been evolved by the researches of an immense succession of investigators, qualified for their task by the possession of spiritual faculties and perceptions of a higher order than those belonging to ordinary humanity.

About the Author

Alfred Percy Sinnett was listed as one of the leading scholar of London University in 1851. He had moved to India where he was the editor of the Pioneer, the leading English Daily of India. He relates in his book, the Occult World that on the first occasion of my making Madame Blavatsky’s acquaintance she became a guest at my home at Allahabad and remained there for six weeks. By 1889, Sinnett was back in England, and asked Leadbeater to come back to England to tutor his son Percy and George Arundale. Leadbeater agreed and brought with him one of his pupils Jinarajadasa. Sinnett was later President of the London Lodge of the Society.