Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism by Ramacharaka, Yogi - 1903

E-019: Yoga Publication Society. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Yogi Publication Society. 1903-04. 286 pages. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name stamped to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This quite instructive book should be very useful to any seeker. Its major features center on seven gradated principles of Man including instinctive mind; intellect; spiritual-mind; and Spirit. These are explained, and their interrelations noted in clear terms. The author’s immediate audience for these lessons is his close Yogi students at the time, but the book has long gone beyond immediate students to the wider reading public. The author’s ‘modern’ man is evaluated as approaching the intellectual stage (conscious mind). Because life is evolution, he notes that some ‘modern’ men are still at the instinctual stage, but offers hope that man (all man? ) is evolving and in time will get to Spirit. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) -aka Yogi Ramacharaka-was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books-including The Philosophies and Religions of India, Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism-under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today. ; 7.5 X 5.2 X 0.9 inches; 286 pages .