This Theosophical Encyclopedia contains all the articles of the printed … presented to the public without qualification. Similarly, many of the ideas in the realm of science (often referred to as “occult science”) put forward by theosophists, whether by Helena P. Blavatsky or later theosophists, such as Charles W. … and subject to either confirmation or refutation by subsequent evidence, not treated as infallible truths. And the term “occult” in this respect must be understood in the sense in which they used it, not in its degraded sense of satanic rites, …
… Society. Shortly after the withdrawal of the Dublin Lodge members for the second time, a small number of students of occult subjects commenced meeting at the home of James Henry COUSINS ; they invited Besant to address a public meeting in …
… and is not a deterrent of crime in the long run. Capital punishment is to be condemned absolutely” ( Studies in Occult Philosophy , p. 615). Capital punishment has been advocated for a number of reasons that have received strong …
… planets; but esoterically there is; for the right eye is the “Eye of Wisdom,” i.e ., it corresponds magnetically with that occult centre in the brain which we call the “Third Eye” while the left corresponds with the intellectual brain, or those …
… on the councils of the British National Association of Spiritualists and The London Spiritualist Alliance. His interest in occultism took him to New York to investigate the phenomena being produced by Helena Petrovna BLAVATSKY . He was convinced …
… in diffusing it; and especially to encourage the study of those laws least understood by modern people and so termed the Occult Sciences. (e) To gather for the Society’s library and put into written forms correct information on ancient …
… of the great grammarian Pānini and writes of him, “The date assigned to him by the Orientalists is 200 BC; and by the occultists nearer to 700 than 600 BC.” Blavatsky considered that he was a Trans-Himalayan Adept. Thus meditation has a long … genuine meditation when this exercise is practised in less important things than the one just mentioned above. (Studies in Occult Philosophy, p. 468-9) One of the non-traditional approaches to meditation is the “Choiceless Awareness” of J. … and virtues interblend with each other. Although such persons as Blavatsky (CW XII:615) and Ernest Wood (Raja Yoga: the Occult Training of the Hindus) wrote approvingly of R€ja Yoga, the Theosophical Society does not impose or urge any …
… and Aristotle, who did the first systematic study of natural phenomena. Their ideas sifted into Egypt and mixed with the occult beliefs of many Eastern traditions (Constable, Secrets of the Alchemists , pp. 18-9). The city of Alexandria, … spirit). She was influenced by her studies of the books in her great-grandfather’s library on “alchemy, magic, and other occult subjects.” “Paracelsus, Kunrath, and Agrippa,” she wrote, “all spoke of the ‘marriage of the red Virgin with the …
… planets upon man. Mesmer seems to have derived his ideas not only from the known effect of the moon on tides, but also from occult and alchemical sources, especially those of Paracelsus (1493-1541), who had claimed that the magnet has an occult, …
… which the work of the Tibetan inspired. In 1937 Bailey published the prayer called The Great Invocation . Widely used in occult and New Age circles; it is no doubt the best-known work associated with her name. From the point of Light within the …