Essays Divine and Human

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Essays Divine and Human
Writings from Manuscripts
1910 – 1950

Part One: Essays Divine and Human

Section One (circa 1911)

Certitudes	5
Moksha	6
Man	7
Philosophy	8
The Siddhis	14
The Psychology of Yoga	18

Section Two (1910 – 1913)

Na Kinchidapi Chintayet	23
The Sources of Poetry	28
The Interpretation of Scripture	33
On Original Thinking	38
The Balance of Justice	46
Social Reform	50
Hinduism and the Mission of India	59
The Psychology of Yoga	64
The Claims of Theosophy	67
Science & Religion in Theosophy	72
Sat	75
Sachchidananda	84
The Silence behind Life	88

Section Three (circa 1913)

The Psychology of Yoga

Initial Definitions and Descriptions	93
The Object of Our Yoga	96

Purna Yoga

I. The Entire Purpose of Yoga	98
II. Parabrahman, Mukti & Human Thought-Systems	103
III. Parabrahman and Parapurusha	107

Natural and Supernatural Man

The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga	108
The Fullness of Yoga – In Condition	115
Nature	122
Maya	133

Section Four (1914 – 1919)

The Beginning and the End	141
The Hour of God	146
Beyond Good and Evil	148
The Divine Superman	150

Section Five (1927 and after)

The Law of the Way	155
Man and the Supermind	157
The Involved and Evolving Godhead	161
The Evolution of Consciousness	165
The Path	169

Part Two: From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga

Section One. Philosophy: God, Nature and Man

God: The One Reality	177
Nature: The World-Manifestation	193
Man and Superman	221

Section Two. Psychology: The Science of Consciousness

The Problem of Consciousness	271
Consciousness and the Inconscient	290
The Science of Consciousness	302

Section Three. Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature

The Way of Yoga	327
Partial Systems of Yoga	344
Integral Yoga	356

Part Three: Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects

Section One. The Human Being in Time

The Marbles of Time	379
A Theory of the Human Being	380
A Cyclical Theory of Evolution	382

Section Two. The East and the West

A Misunderstanding of Continents	389
Towards Unification	391
China, Japan and India	394

Section Three. India

Renascent India	397
Where We Stand in Literature	398

Section Four. Genius, Poetry, Beauty

The Origin of Genius	403
Poetic Genius	404
The Voices of the Poets	405
Pensées	407
A Dream	409
The Beauty of a Crow's Wings	410

Section Five. Science, Religion, Reason, Justice

Science	413
Religion	414
Reason and Society	415
Justice	418

Part Four: Thoughts and Aphorisms

Jnana	423
Karma	453	"
Bhakti	481	"
Additional Aphorisms	500	"

Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.

See also

• On Thoughts and Aphorisms (commentary by Mother)