Divine Ideation: Quest for Truth in Annie Besant’s Works

Annie Besant alias Wood (1847–1933), believes spirituality to be the realm of awareness where humans experience values like truth, beauty, love, compassion, goodness and also insight, intuition, creativity and focused attention. There is a pure, perfect and eternal being behind Nature which is the ultimate truth of being. In the light of creative altruism nothing remains profane; everything becomes holy and sacred. Every individual soul is bound by its internal journey to be one with the Over-Soul, the soul of Universal consciousness. The insight that dawned in the depths of Besant’s consciousness (as evidenced in her works) speaks of the septenary principle of human beings and the Universe, and that matter and energy are inter-convertible. Humans are the spiritual equinox to equipoise the ephemeral and eternal of all creation. Spiritualism like consciousness is a transcendental phenomenon—a divine ideatum to bring to light the accumulated wisdom of the aeons. Vedic practices encouraged humans to think further, to know from within. According to Besant the universality of all life can be realized by plumbing the depths of all human consciousness. A practical mystic that she was her spiritual quest exemplify her life of lofty idealism and true religious awareness. She has all the transcendental traits of a saint that she herself has ascended from the Astral plane to the Buddhic and further into the Logaic through the Monadic plane.