Published lectures
An Introduction to Yoga
It explains yoga as 'the rational application of the laws of the unfolding of consciousness, self-applied in an individual case' and as a science, not dreamy drifting. It surveys the schools of yoga, the obstacles, the capacities and the methods, taking Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as its basis. One of the first Western treatises on yoga as a mental rather than merely postural discipline.
Authorship note
Four lectures delivered at the 32nd convention of the Theosophical Society at Benares, December 1907.
Editions and translations
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English
Annie Besant
An Introduction to Yoga
The Conscious Library
An Introduction to Yoga
Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1999
ISBN 9788170590507
Annie Besant
An Introduction to Yoga
The Conscious LibraryAn Introduction to Yoga
Theosophical Publishing Society, Benarés, 1908
Digitalizada en Internet Archive (yogaintro00besarich).
Français
Introduction au yoga
Éditions Adyar, París, 1976
ISBN 9782850000577
Español
Introducción al yoga
Creación Editorial, Madrid, 2013
ISBN 9788415676157
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
- 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
- The War and Its Lessons · 1920
- 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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