The Doctrine of Cycles

About this book

A year returns to its beginning. A planet completes an orbit. In The Doctrine of Cycles, those familiar repetitions become evidence for a much larger theory of recurring worlds and stages of existence.

The anonymous writer follows the Theosophical interest in cosmic and spiritual development through repeated periods. Historical events and human lives are placed against the imagined rhythm of an immense universe. The suggested patterns have no established predictive force. What the text preserves is a grand attempt to think about time beyond the scale of a single person or civilisation.