Annie Besant's "Ideals of Theosophy" is one of the primary introductory works on the subject of this spiritual order, and written in the form of four lectures by this enigmatic lady- once a political activist, later a spiritual figure and adoptive mother of Krishnamurti himself.Its content is quite ahead of its time, at moments, proposing criminal reforms which were not only adopted but are even now widely accepted, along with some social reforms...