Self-Knowledge: Now Available!

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This book is another Abhedananda volume dedicated to an aspect of Vedanta philosophy under the broader banner of Hinduism. It's intriguing, and is partly in the form of dialogue involving Indra.

The entire purpose is a philosophical expose on the concept of self- not the rudimentary physical self which passes away, but rather a higher variant of the self, posited not to be some spirit subjugate to an external deity, nor a will-less component of some divine totality, but something akin to and yet different from both, to be known, but not entirely via reason.

83 pages.

The Astral Plane: Now Available!

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Leadbeaters' work on the astral plane is an interesting (and sometimes bizarre) work of Theosophy, arranging the plane above normal physical existence into seven levels and detailing the inhabitants therein; there are human souls, the shades of the dead, thought-forms, and even beings loosely pre-defined as elementals or as cryptozoological (such as gnomes and undines.) Devas, and other incarnations above mankind, are taken out of their initial divine or semi-divine role in Eastern lore and are spoken of as being in the higher levels of the astral world. Vampires (in the psychic sense) and werewolves are also mentioned.

100 pages.

Divine Heritage of Man: Now Available!

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This little text is a Vedanta work, one of a number created during the period; it is from the Hindu path, and forms a very interesting counterpart to Western movements such as Theosophy, which always stated or insinuated the primacy of Christ and Christianity, while admitting Eastern enlightenment and inter-mixing some of Hindu and Buddhist lore into their system. This work, and others by the same author, do the opposite, and subjugate Christ to the Vedanta system by asserting an older origin (which is historically accurate) and similarities (which sometimes are accurate, sometimes less so.) The nature of divinity and of mans' relation to it are explored in depth.

93 pages.

English Folklore: Now Available!

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This little work is a broad and truncated overview of a very large collection of folk tales and superstitions among the English peasantry- a field of study of the vulgar or common which was just beginning to be of public interest as the 20th century dawned. It is interesting to note several examples of older myths being adapted to then-contemporary events; tales of ghost lights were common for centuries and ended up twined in with the sinking of German U-boats and the remains of the dead washing up on the shore in the era of WWI, for example.

81 pages.