Theosophical Path was a periodical run by the Theosophical Society in the United States. In the 1920-s, Katherine Tingley was the chief editor of the journal. About that time, she met William Gribbon, an English writer of adventure fiction writing under the pen name Talbot Mundy. Tingley introduced him to the theosophical ideas, which strongly influenced Mundy's worldview. He published several articles on Theosophy from 1923 to 1929 in Theosophical Path. This book represents a collection of his Theosophy articles published in the journal.

In considering a group that identified with Victorian American culture and its anxieties while adhering to an occult worldview that most of their contemporaries found strange, if not dangerous, the book explains why these middle-class Americans found Theosophy so persuasive and why they left family and friends behind to take up residence at this California settlement."--BOOK JACKET.