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New American Edition. With Introduction prepared expressly for it by the Author. i6mo,
$1 25.
THE OCCULT WORLD.
Sixth American from the Fourth English Edition. With an Introduction written for the
American Edition by the Author, and Appendix. i6mo, $1.25.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.,
Boston and New York.
ESOTERIC BUDDHISM
BY
A. P.- SINNETT
PRESIDENT OF THE SIMLA ECLECTIC THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
AUTHOR OF " THE OCCULT WORLD "
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1884,
Br IIOUGUTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Camhriilge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by II. 0. Iloughtou & Company.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
The fifth English edition of Esoteric Buddhism consists of the text of the fourth American edition, together with the larger part of the preface specially furnished by Mr. Sinnett for the American edition. He took the opportunity afforded by a new edition, also, to append to some of the chapters annotations upon points calling for explication. These annotations are now added to the sixth American edition as an appendix. The present edition therefore corresponds with the latest English edition, and has besides matter in the author's preface not incorporated in any English edition.
INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN
EDITION.
This book was written in the early par…