The Life Divine
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The Life Divine
Book One: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
Chapter I The Human Aspiration 3 
Chapter II The Two Negations: 1. The Materialist Denial 8
Chapter III The Two Negations: 2. The Refusal of the Ascetic 20
Chapter IV Reality Omnipresent 29
Chapter V The Destiny of the Individual 38
Chapter VI Man in the Universe 47
Chapter VII The Ego and the Dualities 56
Chapter VIII The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge 66
Chapter IX The Pure Existent 78
Chapter X Conscious Force 87
Chapter XI Delight of Existence: The Problem 98
Chapter XII Delight of Existence: The Solution 108
Chapter XIII The Divine Maya 120
Chapter XIV The Supermind as Creator 130
Chapter XV The Supreme Truth-Consciousness 141
Chapter XVI The Triple Status of Supermind 152
Chapter XVII The Divine Soul 161
Chapter XVIII Mind and Supermind 170
Chapter XIX Life 185
Chapter XX Death, Desire and Incapacity 200
Chapter XXI The Ascent of Life 210
Chapter XXII The Problem of Life 220
Chapter XXIII The Double Soul in Man 231
Chapter XXIV Matter 245
Chapter XXV The Knot of Matter 254
Chapter XXVI The Ascending Series of Substance 266
Chapter XXVII The Sevenfold Chord of Being 276
Chapter XXVIII Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya 285
Book Two: The Knowledge and the Ignorance—The Spiritual Evolution
Part I: The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
Chapter I Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable 309
Chapter II Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara—Maya, Prakriti, Shakti 336
Chapter III The Eternal and the Individual 380
Chapter IV The Divine and the Undivine 403
Chapter V The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination 428
Chapter VI Reality and the Cosmic Illusion 455
Chapter VII The Knowledge and the Ignorance 499
Chapter VIII Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance 519
Chapter IX Memory, Ego and Self-Experience 529
Chapter X Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge 543
Chapter XI The Boundaries of the Ignorance 573
Chapter XII The Origin of the Ignorance 586
Chapter XIII Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance 602
Chapter XIV The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil 618
Part II: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution
Chapter XV Reality and the Integral Knowledge 659
Chapter XVI The Integral Knowledge and the Aim of Life; Four Theories of Existence 683
Chapter XVII The Progress to Knowledge — God, Man and Nature 710
Chapter XVIII The Evolutionary Process — Ascent and Integration 730
Chapter XIX Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge 754
Chapter XX The Philosophy of Rebirth 771
Chapter XXI The Order of the Worlds 795
Chapter XXII Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality 823
Chapter XXIII Man and the Evolution 856
Chapter XXIV The Evolution of the Spiritual Man 880
Chapter XXV The Triple Transformation 922
Chapter XXVI The Ascent towards Supermind 953
Chapter XXVII The Gnostic Being 999
Chapter XXVIII The Divine Life 1051
Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.
