The ancient wisdom
an outline of theosophical teachings
by Annie Wood Besant & Annie Besant
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
WE have just seen that the source from which a universe proceeds is a manifested Divine Being, to whom in the modern form of the Ancient Wisdom the name LOGOS, or Word, has been given.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “Gnosticism” in the subject metadata.
- “Gnosticism”· via Open Library
- “Gnosticism”· in subject
Controlled discovery queries from bne, openlibrary, and swisscovery matched “teosofía”, “Theosophie”, and “Theosophy”. Retained metadata contains “theosophical” in the subtitle, “teosofía” in the subject metadata, “Theosophie” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
- “teosofía”· via Biblioteca Nacional de España
- “Theosophy”· via Open Library
- “Theosophie”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
- “theosophical”· in subtitle
- “teosofía”· in subject
- “Theosophie”· in subject
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Editions
Open Library reports 19 editions; 4 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An Outline of Theosophical Teachings Biblioteca Nacional de España record 19 cm; 3 hoj. + 338 pag. + 1 lám. pleg. | 1902 | Theosophical Publishing Society | English | — | Catalog record | |
an outline of theosophical teachings Biblioteca Nacional de España record 19 cm; 4 hoj. + 338 pág. + 1 lám. pleg. | 1918 | Krotona; Theosophical publishing house; Theosophical Publishing House | English | — | Public | |
an outline of theosophical teachings Reprinted 338 S; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_UZB | 1922 | Theosophical Publishing House | English | — | Catalog record |
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Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
- ISBN-13
- ISBN-10
- OCLC
- Open Library work
- Internet Archive
- BNE
- 991027605539708606
- 991027605579708606
- swisscovery
- 991064940719705501
- 991093237909705501
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- Biblioteca Nacional de España991027605539708606 (opens in a new tab)
- Biblioteca Nacional de España991027605579708606 (opens in a new tab)
- Open LibraryOL68665W (opens in a new tab)
- swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform991064940719705501 (opens in a new tab)
- swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform991093237909705501 (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL68665W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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