Theosophical Classics CD
by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Vincent Hao Chin, Jr as Editor
List price $24.95
Details:
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House
Pub. Date: January, 2003
Format: CD - text
ISBN: 9780835619509
All of the works of H.P. Blavatsky plus more in one CD-rom. Imagine all the occult knowledge that is permitted at this time to be known, all in one CD. Imagine being able to access in an instant over 13,000 paqes of the most important collection of knowledge in written history, and read the original words of Theosophy's leading proponent Helena P. Blavatsky. This cd includes: The Secret Doctrine Isis Unveiled Key to Theosophy Voice of the Silence The Complete 15 volume Edition of H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Theosophical Glossay and Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge In addition the cd contains other essential works in modern Theosophy, such as The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett (Chronological Edition), Esoteric Buddhism , Light on the Path (a devotional work dedicated to those willing to take the journey to initiation), and a teaching series from a prominent Theosophist, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Series I and II . As an added bonus a very fast searching tool has been included to facilitate the study of HPB works for researchers, students, scholars and writers.
Every word is pre-indexed, rendering the search for a particular phrase of word practically instantaneous. You can search for words or phrases throughout all the titles, or within individual or selected titles. You can also search for multiple words that begin with the same letters. For example, to search for all occurrences of Karma , karman, karmic, and karmically, just type in karm* . Search results are identified by book, chapter and section. The major works have page numbers based on the original books, facilitating cross referencing and direct quoting. Passages can be cut and pasted into standard word processors. Imaging the hours of work saved with just a few clicks!.
Every word and illustration in the printed editions are faithfully reproduced in this cd-rom: Diagrams and charts, Photographs, Greek, Hebrew and other languages and special charactrers are also included. Chapters and sections can be bookmarked for easy retrieval. Texts can be magnified up to 500%, and sections can be marked for later printing.
The cost to reproduce this book by book, well exceeds $500.
Critics:
"I am absolutely delighted with the Theosophical Classics CD. It made easy work of what would otherwise have been a horribly laborious task of reference checking. It's great, and very speedy! - John Algeo, International Vice President, Theosophical Society.
This CD contains the entire 15 volume "Blavatsky Collected Writings", "The Secret Doctrine", "Isis Unveiled", "Key to Theosophy", "Voice of the Silence", "Theosophical Glossary", "Mahatma Letters", and "Light on the Path". It also contains a built in search engine.Requirements: Windows 95 or later. Hard drive space needed: 1 MB if text is not downloaded to hard drive; 84 MB if downloaded.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born on August 12, 1831, at Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav), Ukraine, daughter of Colonel Peter Alexeyevich von Hahn and novelist Helena Andreyevna (née de Fadeyev). In 1849 she married N. V. Blavatsky, and shortly thereafter began more than 20 years of extensive travel, bringing her into contact with mystic traditions the world over. In 1873 Blavatsky arrived in New York from Paris where, impelled by her teachers, she began her work. At first she attempted to interest the Spiritualists in the philosophy behind phenomena but they resented her refusal to accept their standard explanations. In July 1875 she was urged "to establish a philosophico-religious society," and in the Fall of the same year she became the principal founder, along with H. S. Olcott and W. Q. Judge, of The Theosophical Society. She devoted the rest of her life to its humanitarian and educational objectives. About the time the Society began, she started to write her first major work, Isis Unveiled, and after its publication in 1878 she and H. S. Olcott left for India. There they worked to re-establish Oriental philosophical and religious ideas, largely through the pages of The Theosophist, a magazine which Blavatsky founded and edited. In 1884, while Blavatsky was traveling in Europe, disgruntled TS employees in India went to the missionaries with forged documents, bringing charges of fraud against her. The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) then sent Richard Hodgson to investigate the charges, and subsequently published an unfavorable report. (In 1986 the SPR published an analysis of the Hodgson Report by Dr. Vernon Harrison, an SPR member expert in forgery and handwriting analysis, who concluded that the Hodgson Report was biased, unscientific, and completely unconvincing.)