THE WARNING!

In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred.

Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: "Let it rain."

BUILDING THE ARK:

Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to be ready for the day of...

In republishing the papers with a view, it is hoped, to a wider circulation, it became necessary to explain somewhat of this phraseology.

Therefore a paper by the same author on the Seven Prtnctples of Man as understood by the Eastern schools (a conception which has been largely used as an analogy in these papers) has been added as an appendix, and a glossary of the Sanskrit and other Theosophical terms used in the work has been appended, which it is hoped will make the papers quite clear t...