Description
The original edition, featuring a then-recent photograph of "Alcyone" in its frontispiece, was bound in blue cloth, with a limited number of copies bound in blue leather. The book includes a "Preface" by Krishnamurti mentor and legal guardian Annie Besant (then–President of the Theosophical Society), and the previously mentioned "Foreword" by Alcyone. The work is then laid out in four parts, corresponding to its proclaimed requirements for disciples on the spiritual path:
- Discrimination
- Desirelessness
- Good conduct
- Love
The book is considered a theosophical classic, and as of 2010 it had never been out of print. As of the same year, early editions of the work were in the public domain within several jurisdictions.
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