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C. G. Harrison’s The Transcendental Universe brings together six lectures on occult science, Theosophy and the Catholic faith. Delivered to the Berean Society in 1893, the lectures attempt to relate esoteric accounts of the universe to Christian doctrine and to the philosophical literature of the Church.
Harrison discusses the spiritual and material worlds, the interpretation of evolution, and questions about the nature and destiny of human beings. Theosophical ideas and contemporary scientific language appear alongside theological arguments. His purpose is to explain how readers might reconcile different bodies of teaching that can seem to conflict when approached separately.
The volume offers a sustained example of late-Victorian Christian occult speculation, including the author’s notes and appendices. It is arranged as a connected lecture series rather than a dictionary of esoteric terms. First issued in 1894, the work is presented here in its complete 1896 second edition, with the original George Redway imprint and historical binding retained. Readers can follow both the proposed connections and the distinctions Harrison draws among the traditions he discusses.