Produced by Donald Cummings, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The Changing World and Lectures to Theosophical Students The Changing World and Lectures to Theosophical Students Fifteen Lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July 1909 by Annie Besant President of the Theosophical Society Chicago, Ill. The Theosophical Book Concern Room 426, 26 Van Buren Street London, Eng.: The Theosophical Publishing Society 1910 _5000 printed August 1909_ _2500 ” April 1910_ _2000 ” November 1910_ Contents PART I LECTURES TO THE PUBLIC _THE CHANGING WORLD_ LECT. PAGE 1. THE DEADLOCK IN RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART 1 2. THE DEADLOCK IN SOCIAL CONDITIONS: LUXURY AND WANT FACE TO FACE 25 3. THE NEW DOORS OPENING IN RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART 47 4. BROTHERHOOD APPLIED TO SOCIAL CONDITIONS 75 5. THE COMING RACE 103 6. THE COMING CHRIST 132 7. THE LARGER CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS VALUE 155 8. THE PLACE OF THEOSOPHY IN THE COMING CIVILISATION 183 PART II LECTURES TO THEOSOPHICAL STUDENTS 1. THE SIXTH SUB-RACE 209 2. THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE 226 3. THE CATHOLIC AND PURITAN SPIRIT IN THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: THE VALUE AND DANGER OF EACH 245 4. THE SACRAMENTAL LIFE 262 5. ADDRESS ON WHITE LOTUS DAY, 1909 279 6. THE NATURE OF THE CHRIST 297 7. THE THEOSOPHICAL STUDENT IN FACE OF REVELATION, INSPIRATION, AND OBSERVATION 317 Part I Lectures to the Public The Changing World Lecture I The Deadlock in Religion, Science, and Art