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Evolution of Life and Form — Annie Besant

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Evolution of Life and Form

Annie Besant

It confronts Darwinian evolution with the Hindu and Theosophical doctrine of the evolution of life through forms: the descent of spirit into matter, the building of forms by the creative Logoi, the law of sacrifice (yajna) and the ascent of consciousness, so that biology is read as the outer side of an inner unfolding.

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· 6 chapters · 3 h reading

  1. 1Four Lectures delivered at the Twenty-third Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, 1898.1′
  2. 2ANCIENT AND MODERN SCIENCE.41′
  3. 3THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODS.45′
  4. 4EVOLUTION OF LIFE.34′
  5. 5EVOLUTION OF FORM.39′
  6. 6TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES1′
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