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Member of the London School Board

Annie Besant was a prominent social reformer, writer, and member of the London School Board. Born on October 1, 1847, she dedicated her life to improving the conditions of the working class and advocating for women's rights. She played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and was a leader in the Theosophical Society. Annie Besant passed away on September 20, 1933.

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“Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.”

Persons Long Self Feelings Body Earth Lost Struggle Taken Scene Despair Long Time Conscious Murder Suicide Finals Persistence Realms Repeats Physical Body Ghastly Earth Life

Author:Annie Besant

“What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.”

Mind May Body Emotion Grace Objects Train Accuracy Vigor

Author:Annie Besant

“After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.”

World Use Body Earth Used Our Lives After Death

Author:Annie Besant

“Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.”

People Body Results Evolution Activity Dues Reactions Educated Unseen Frequency Premonition Sensing

Author:Annie Besant

“The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.”

Body Alive Organisms Units Totality

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.”

Men Children Soul Body Light Grows Powerful Greater Eternal Complexes Climbs Faculty Reincarnation No Fear Children Of Men

Book:THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.”

Men Body Force Differences United Principles Cases Regard Active Mysterious Atoms Latent

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.”

Firsts Humans Moments Body Form Mother Process Materials Built Tiny Passing Passings Decay Womb Human Body Passing Away Molecules Reconstruction Streaming

Book:Theosophical Review

Source: Theosophical Review

“The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.”

People Needs Wells Different Matter Body Consciousness Connected Active Educated Defined Different Peoples Vary Cloudy

Author:Annie Besant

“The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.”

Body Reality Universe Steps Periods Prison Range Twilight Sunlight Incarnation Incarceration

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

About the Author

Born: October 1, 1847
Died: September 20, 1933
Known for: Member of the London School Board
Quotes: 150

Books & Sources

The Theosophical Writings of Annie BesantRelated source material

The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian AffairsRelated source material

Annie Besant: An AutobiographyRelated source material

Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899Related source material

THE IMMEDIATE FUTURERelated source material

Esoteric ChristianityRelated source material

The Nature and Practice of YogaRelated source material

A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of PsychologyRelated source material

Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its HistoryRelated source material

Death and After?Related source material

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