The Hidden Side of Things

The famous illustrated study of how thoughts and emotions take shape and color in the subtle worlds. Its color plates influenced abstract painters like Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint.

Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater

Besant reads Christianity through the lens of the Ancient Wisdom: the mysteries, the historical and mythic Christ, the Atonement, the Trinity, prayer and the sacraments. One of the most downloaded theosophical books today.

Annie Besant

Theosophical Manual No. 5: a detailed description of the astral world, its scenery, its inhabitants human and non-human, and the phenomena it explains, from apparitions to séance effects.

C. W. Leadbeater

Leadbeater describes the aura and the subtle bodies as seen by clairvoyance, with color plates showing how emotions, devotion and character appear in the astral and mental bodies.

C. W. Leadbeater

Theosophical Manual No. 4: Besant explains the law of karma step by step, how thought, desire and action create our future, and how understanding it changes the way we live.

Annie Besant