ABSTRACT
Woodroffe was President for a time of Calcutta's Vivekananda Society,1 and between 1917-18 he delivered lectures to them which formed the core of his first edition of Shakti and Shākta. Four magazine articles accompanied them, one of which reproduced a lecture he had given to another organization in Calcutta.2 The second and third editions of the book included several more lectures Woodroffe delivered, both in India and Europe. The present chapter concentrates on themes from all of these lectures.
