The Riddle of Life, and How Theosophy Answers it: Now Available!

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This little text is fairly self explanatory. Written by Besant, it encourages increased self control and self awareness, as a method to ascend spiritually and mentally, and speaks a bit about karma and the different planes of existence past the physical world.

55 pages.

Dharma: Now Available!

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This short work is another oratory by Annie Besant, delivered in India, and talks at length about Dharma; what it is, the origins of its concept, and its relation especially to the Hindu caste system. Besant importantly denotes that the acquisition of negative karma differs in different stages of spiritual advancement, to lesser or greater degree. Through many lives the individual of course seeks to move upward towards Ishvara.

53 pages.

Discipleship and Some Karmic Problems: Now Available!

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This short work by Annie Besant is notable predominantly for its categorical defense of the enlightened nature of Madame Blavatsky despite her chain smoking and notoriously confrontational ways. The concept of karma is covered in brief here, and it ought to be noted that this was initially an oratory which was transcribed.

30 pages.

Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy: Now Available!

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This very short text is a transcription of one of Annie Besants' lectures, specifically focused on the ethical and spiritual component of the concept of vegetarianism- a dietary path promoted by Theosophy. A large part of it describes the lurid details of slaughterhouses in Chicago as a general example and derides the eating of meat as causing karmic issues.

30 pages.

Exposition of the Doctrine of Karma: Now Available!

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This book is a nice analysis of the idea of karma, from a specifically Theosophical perspective. The authors' name is a pseudonym so it isn't entirely clear which theosophist actually compiled the materials here. It's a more legitimate take on the subject than much literature about karma- often it is boiled down to a simplified, singular idea and ideas like national or group karma are deliberately overlooked because they (in truth) don't make sense under the concepts of Western thought.

It manages to avoid the overtly new-age style of some then contemporary manuscripts which devolve into talking about psychic forces and other things which were in vogue at the time, and contains a good bit of religious history, to boot.

63 pages.

Karma (Besant): Now Available!

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This is one of a series of four booklets written in the early 20th century by Besant to show the basic premises of Theosophy to newcomers. It was out of a realization, on her part, it seems, that much Theosophical literature was too long and/or obtuse to be understood unless a person was relatively highly literate or already trained in Theosophy.

It is an intermediate primer on karma and related topics from the Buddhist tradition as westernized (slightly) by the occultists of the era.

58 pages.

The Esoteric Basis of Christianity: Now Available!

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This short work is one of Kingslands' additions to Theosophy; an interesting little booklet which compares Christendom with the claimed mystery religion at the core of Theosophy itself.

The words of Jesus in the canonical scriptures, as well as of Paul and others, here, are used to show that Jesus was not a believer in the kind of legalistic superstition of quasi-modern church dogma- indeed, not only is this inarguably factual, it has now recently emerged into other schools of completely legitimate philosophy.

44 pages.