Source books · Theosophy and its descendants
The Key to Theosophy
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Theosophy and its descendants
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 7 languages.
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From Wikipedia
The Key to Theosophy is an 1889 book by Helena Blavatsky, expounding the principles of theosophy in a readable question-and-answer manner. It covers Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, Nature of the Human Being, Life After Death, Reincarnation, Kama-Loka and Devachan, the Human Mind, Practical Theosophy and the Mahatmas. The book is an introduction to Theosophical mysticism and esoteric doctrine.
From the Wikipedia article The Key to Theosophy, revision 1357023988, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1426599: “book”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's account.
A much more accessible question-and-answer exposition of Theosophical teaching.