THEOSOPHY

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1910. First printing. Very good plus.. Scarce first US edition of Steiner's major work on "the regions of the supersensible world," originally published in German in 1904, translated here into English from the text of the third German edition by Elizabeth Douglas Shields. This exposition of the spirit lands and the final destination of the soul, building on the cosmology established by Blavatsky, appeared in English translation just two years before Steiner's founding of the breakaway Anthroposophical Society and consequent expulsion from the Theosophical Society. A solid and attractive copy of this foundational Theosophical work, uncommon in any condition. 7.25'' x 5''. Original gilt-lettered olive-green cloth. 230 pages. Minor bumping and edgewear, spine faintly sunned. Occasional faint pencil underlining throughout.