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The Life Divine - Development of The Book
- Aurobindo Ghose
- Jean Gebser
- Haridas Chaudhuri
- Ervin László
- Michael Murphy
- Graves, Beck
- Ken Wilber
- AQAL, Evolution, Involution
- Integral ecology
- Integral politics
- Integral psychology
- Integral yoga
- James Mark Baldwin
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Arthur M. Young
- Edward Haskell
- Erich Jantsch
- Stanislav Grof
- Rupert Sheldrake
- Francisco Varela
- Alex Grey
- Stuart Davis
- Saul Williams
Integral organizations:
- Integral Institute
- Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies
- Integral University
The Life Divine first appeared serially in the Arya, in fifty-two original chapters published from August 1914 to January 1919.
In 1939 Sri Aurobindo revised and enlarged these chapters for publication in book form. Volume I was published in November 1939. It included the first twenty seven chapters from the Arya, with an entirely new twenty-eighth chapter. Chapters 19 and 23 also had major revisions. The other chapters were only revised in a minor way.
Volume II, recast and enlarged, followed in July 1940, in two separately bound parts. Of the twenty eight chapters there were twelve that were entirely new: chapters 1,2, 5,6, 10, 14, and 23 through to 28. All the remaining chapters were revised (chapters 18 and 21 thoroughly) and several had been given new titles.
The Arya Publishing House brought out a second edition of Book One (now called "Volume I") in 1943, and of Book Two ("Volume II") in 1947. These incorporate only a few minor corrections and changes. A third edition of Book One was published in 1947.
The first American edition was issued by the Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, as a single volume in 1949 and a comprehensive index provided; this edition was reprinted in 1951.
The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry published the fourth Indian edition in 1955, reprinted in 1960; these also were of a single volume.
The India Library Society Edition (New York) came out in 1965, while the sixth Indian edition is part of the deluxe Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, and appeared in 1970 in two volumes, Book One and Book Two Part I comprising volume 18, and Book Two Part II volume 19 of the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.
Three following editions were reproduced by photo-offset from the Birth Centenary Library; the ninth edition included a glossary of Sanskrit terms and two appendixes, and the tenth (1977) was once again a single volume.
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