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The ancient wisdom

an outline of theosophical teachings.

Also known as The Ancient Wisdom: An Outline of Theosophical Teachings

by Annie Wood Besant & Annie Besant

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Central Secretariat Library, Government of India Source URL: http://cslrepository.nvli.in/handle/123456789/3515 Description: Delhi Superintendent Government of India

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 and openlibrary-historical matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “Gnosticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Gnosticism”· via Open Library
    • “Gnosticism”· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from bne, internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and swisscovery matched “teosofía”, “Theosophie”, and “Theosophy”. Retained metadata contains “theosophical” in the subtitle, “theosophical” in the alternative title, “teosofía” in the subject metadata, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “teosofía”· via Biblioteca Nacional de España
    • “Theosophy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Theosophy”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Theosophy”· via Open Library
    • “Theosophie”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
    • “theosophical”· in subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 19 editions; 8 cataloged here.

An Outline of Theosophical Teachings

Biblioteca Nacional de España record

19 cm; 3 hoj. + 338 pag. + 1 lám. pleg.

1902Theosophical Publishing SocietyEnglish—Catalog record

The Ancient wisdom: an outline of theosophical teachings

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1897-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon, Theosophical Publishing HouseEnglish—Public digitized item

an outline of theosophical teachings.

Open Library record

1939Brand: Quest Books; Quest Books; Theosophical Publishing HouseEnglish
  • 9788170592044
  • 8170592046
No ebook

Subjects

11 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

BNE
  • 991027605539708606
  • 991027605579708606
swisscovery
  • 991064940719705501
  • 991093237909705501

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Internet Archive
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.9.0
  • Scanner: scribe3.nj.archive.org
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BP563 .A6
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: reprinted 1918
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL10430378W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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