THEOSOPHY AND LIFE'S DEEPER PROBLEMS _Copyright Registered_ All Rights Reserved _Permission for translations will be given_ BY THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE Adyar, Madras, India THEOSOPHY AND LIFE'S DEEPER PROBLEMS _Being the four Convention Lectures delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915._ BY ANNIE BESANT _President of the Theosophical Society_ THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA T.P.S., LONDON; T.P.H., BENARES; INDIAN BOOK DEPOT, BOMBAY 1916 FOREWORD The lectures really need no Foreword. They are frankly propagandist, being delivered in the City of Bombay, on the occasion of the return to that city for the first time since the Anniversary held in Framji Cowasji Hall, on December 7th, 1882, with 15 delegates present. The little seed there planted in India by our Founders has grown into a mighty tree. May it continue to spread ever more widely its branches, and may its leaves be for the healing of the Nations. ANNIE BESANT CONTENTS PAGE Lecture I GOD 1 Lecture II MAN 25 Lecture III RIGHT AND WRONG 47 Lecture IV BROTHERHOOD 73 THEOSOPHICAL CONVENTION LECTURES GOD FRIENDS: Amid the excitements of the present National Week, amid all the Conferences on matters of importance to the Nation, amid the discussions--industrial, commercial, political--which are agitating this great City, and will agitate it during the next week, we, of the Theosophical Society, have ventured to invite you here to consider not the passing concerns of the moment but the perpetual concerns of the life dealing with the eternal interests, the life wherein alone permanence can ever be found.