of Dzyan” and the Lamaseries of Tsong‐Kha‐pa say. Section XLIX. Tsong‐Kha‐pa.—Lohans in China. Section L. A few more Misconceptions Corrected. Section LI. The “Doctrine of the Eye” & the “Doctrine of the Heart,” or the “Heart’s Seal.” Some Papers On The Bearing Of Occult Philosophy On Life. Paper I. A Warning. Paper II. An Explanation. Paper III. A Word Concerning the Earlier Papers. Appendix. Notes on Papers I., II. and III. Notes On Some Oral Teachings. Footnotes [Cover Art] [Transcriber’s Note: The above cover image was produced by the submitter at Distributed Proofreaders, and is being placed into the public domain.] As for what thou hearest others say, who persuade the many that the soul when once freed from the body neither suffers ... evil nor is conscious, I know that thou art better grounded in the doctrines received by us from our ancestors and in the sacred orgies of Dionysus than to believe them; for the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the Brotherhood. PLUTARCH. The problem of life is man. Magic, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being, which forces are divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge.... We begin with instinct; the end is omniscience. A. WILDER. PREFACE. The task of preparing this volume for the press has been a difficult and anxious one, and it is necessary to state clearly what has been done. The papers given to me by H. P. B. were quite unarranged, and had no obvious order: I have, therefore, taken each paper as a separate Section, and have arranged them as sequentially as possible. With the exception of the correction of grammatical errors and the elimination of obviously un‐ English idioms, the papers are as H. P. B. left them, save as otherwise marked. In a few cases I have filled in a gap, but any such addition is enclosed within square brackets, so as to be distinguished from the text. In “The Mystery of Buddha” a further difficulty arose; some of the Sections had been written four or five times over, each version containing some sentences that were not in the others; I have pieced these versions together, taking the fullest as basis, and inserting therein everything added in any other versions. It is, however, with some hesitation that I have included these Sections in the _Secret Doctrine_. Together with some most suggestive thought, they contain very numerous errors of fact, and many statements based on exoteric writings, not on esoteric knowledge. They were given into my hands to publish, as part of the Third Volume of the _Secret Doctrine_, and I therefore do not feel justified in coming between the author and the public, either by altering the statements, to make them consistent with fact, or by suppressing the Sections. She says