CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. HOMER

III. GREEKS AND PERSIANS

IV. AESCHYLUS AND ATHENS

V. SOME PERICLEAN FIGURES

VI. SOCRATES AND PLATO

VII. THE MAURYAS OF INDIA

VIII. THE BLACK-HAIRED PEOPLE

IX. THE DRAGON AND THE BLUE PEARL

X. "SUCH A ONE"

XI. CONFUCIUS THE HERO

XII. TALES FROM A TAOIST TEACHER

XIII. MANG THE PHILOSOPHER, AND BUTTERFLY CHWANG

XIV. THE MANVANTARA OPENS

XV. SOME POSSIBLE EPOCHS IN SANSKRIT LITERATURE

XVI. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME

XVII. ROME PARVENUE

XVIII. AUGUSTUS

XIX. AN IMPERIAL SACRIFICE

XX. CHINA AND ROME: THE SEE-SAW

XXI. CHINA AND ROME: THE SEE-SAW (Continued)

XXII. EASTWARD HO!

XXIII. "THE DRAGON, THE APOSTATE, THE GREAT MIND"

XXIV. FROM JULIAN TO BODHIDHARMA

XXV. TOWARDS THE ISLANDS OF THE SUNSET

XXVI. "SACRED IERNE OF THE HIBERNIANS"

XXVII. THE IRISH ILLUMINATION

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* Serialized in _Theosophical Path_ in 27 Chapters from

March, 1919 through July, 1921.

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