Posthumous Works

first volume of this collection, among more than 3000 pensées théosophiques theosophical thoughts, those which appeared most within our reach, as well as within the reach of the greatest number of readers. If in the second volume, we have inserted subjects treated more methodically, our goal was also to satisfy those readers upon whom pensées détachées isolated thoughts often make little impression. It also serves those who need to exercise their meditations more deeply, or to be aided in them by reasoning. To relieve their attention through a variety of subjects, we have mixed into the second volume some of Mr. St. Martin's Louis Claude de Saint-Martin opinions on literature, and some of the poems he composed in his youth.

We therefore urge readers who have the curiosity to read théosophiques theosophical works for the first time to strip themselves, if it