This is a companion volume to, and a continuation of, Man, the Measure of All Things, by the same author (with the late Sri Krishna Prem), which dealt with The Stanzas of Dzyan relating to cosmogenesis as set forth in H. P. Blavatsky's great work The Secret Doctrine.

Man, Son of Man is a commentary of further Stanzas of Dzyan, outlining the processes of human evolution that have culminated in man as he is today. "What we believe about our origins determines what we believe about our destiny," says the author, and he approaches his subject with the same depth of insight, the same sanity and balance, that characterized the previous work.