“...The deep interest and importance of the research which this book describes will best be
appreciated if introduced by an account of the circumstances out of which it arose. The first
edition, consisting mainly of articles reprinted from the Theosophist, dealt at once with the later
phases of the research in a way which, though intelligible to the occult student, must have been
rather bewildering to the ordinary reader. These later phases, however, endow the earlier res ...