The contents of this volume consist of addresses delivered at various times before Lodges of the Theosophical Society and selected for their reference to the subject of immortality. Some of them were published in The Path, Vol. II.

In order to make the chapters more or less coherent, the matter has been slightly rearranged, but certain repetitions will be noticed which are unavoidable, owing to the inter-relation of the subjects discussed and to the fact that, having been addressed to different audiences, some explanation of the bearing of the part on the whole was necessary. I have not attempted to eliminate these redundancies, for the philosophy, sketchily outlined herein, is not easy to grasp, inasmuch as its fundamental data and principles are in contradistinction to much of the current thought of our time.

I. THE APPROACH TO THE PATH and FOREWARD

II. THE RACES OF HUMANITY

III. SENSE-FUNCTIONS AND FACULTIES OF THE MIND

IV. INDIVIDUALITY AND PERSONALITY

V. BREATH AND DESIRE

VI. WILL, UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL

VII. THOUGHT - ITS ORIGIN AND CONTROL

VIII. BIRTH AND DEATH 

IX. THE SOUL AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS

X. THE IMMORTAL SOUL