Published lectures
The War and Its Lessons
Four lectures delivered in London in October 1919, at the end of the First World War. Besant reads the war as a crisis of civilisation with a spiritual meaning and draws lessons for reconstruction: cooperation between nations, social justice and the place of India and the Empire in the new order.
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English
Annie Besant
The War and Its Lessons: Four Lectures Delivered in London, October, 1919
The Conscious LibraryThe War and Its Lessons: Four Lectures Delivered in London, October, 1919
Theosophical Publishing House, Londres, 1920
Other works by Annie Besant
- An Autobiography · 1893
- Autobiographical Sketches · 1885
- My Path to Atheism · 1877
- The Law of Population · 1877
- Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be · 1879
- Why I Became a Theosophist · 1889
- The Seven Principles of Man · 1892
- Reincarnation · 1892
- Death—and After? · 1893
- Karma · 1895
- Man and His Bodies · 1896
- The Building of the Kosmos · 1894
- In the Outer Court · 1895
- The Path of Discipleship · 1896
- The Bhagavad Gita (translation) · 1895
- Four Great Religions · 1897
- The Ancient Wisdom · 1897
- Esoteric Christianity · 1901
- Thought Power · 1901
- Thought-Forms · 1905
- A Study in Consciousness · 1904
- An Introduction to Yoga · 1908
- Occult Chemistry · 1908
- The Laws of the Higher Life · 1903
- The Pedigree of Man · 1904
- Theosophy and the New Psychology · 1904
- London Lectures of 1907 · 1907
- The Changing World · 1909
- A Study in Karma · 1912
- Initiation: The Perfecting of Man · 1912
- Man: Whence, How and Whither · 1913
- How India Wrought for Freedom · 1915
- The Case for India · 1917
- India: Bond or Free? · 1926
- Talks on the Path of Occultism · 1926
- Popular Lectures on Theosophy · 1910
- The Spiritual Life · 1912
- Evolution of Life and Form · 1899
- Avatâras · 1900
- Dharma · 1899
- Giordano Bruno · 1913
- Fabian Essays in Socialism · 1889
- The Riddle of Life · 1913
- The Doctrine of the Heart · 1914
- Ancient Ideals in Modern Life · 1901
- The Religious Problem in India · 1901
- Hints on the Study of the Bhagavad Gita · 1906
- The Wisdom of the Upanishads · 1907
- The Story of the Great War · 1899
- Shri Rama Chandra, the Ideal King · 1901
- Some Problems of Life · 1900
- The Three Paths to Union with God · 1897
- The Birth and Evolution of the Soul · 1896
- The Self and Its Sheaths · 1895
- The Ideals of Theosophy · 1912
- Theosophy · 1912
- Theosophy and the Theosophical Society · 1913
- Superhuman Men in History and Religion · 1913
- Mysticism · 1914
- Wake Up, India · 1913
- India: A Nation · 1915
- The Immediate Future · 1911
- Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems · 1916
- Lectures on Political Science · 1919
- The Inner Government of the World · 1920
- The Future of Indian Politics · 1922
- The Birth of New India · 1917
- Buddhist Popular Lectures · 1908
- History of the Great French Revolution · 1876
- The Freethinker's Text-Book, Part II · 1876
- Charles Bradlaugh: A Sketch of His Life and Work · 1891
- World Problems of Today · 1925
- Shall India Live or Die? · 1925
- The Masters · 1912
- Psychology · 1919
- Britain's Place in the Great Plan · 1921
- Duties of the Theosophist · 1917
- The Lives of Alcyone · 1924
- The Basis of Morality · 1915
- Hindu Ideals · 1904
- Legends and Tales · 1913
- Talks with a Class · 1922
- Evolution and Man's Destiny · 1924
Sources
- Open Library, autora Annie Wood Besant (OL16933A): registros de obras y ediciones con ISBN consultados el 2026-10-22; primeras ediciones digitalizadas en Internet Archive.
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