The Seven Principles of Man

About this book

A person has seven principles, according to Annie Besant: physical life is only the first part of a structure that extends into desire, mind and spiritual consciousness.

The Seven Principles of Man is a compact guide to the language of early Theosophy. Besant explains how subtle bodies and higher faculties supposedly relate to evolution through repeated lives. These principles are elements of religious philosophy, without anatomical evidence. Their orderly arrangement matters because the same terms recur across Theosophical books, where an ordinary human experience is often assigned a place in a much larger invisible anatomy.