This Theosophical Encyclopedia contains all the articles of the printed … in southern Judea and later, at the age of 19, sent to the Essene monastery at Mount Serbal which had a library of occult works from India, Persia, and Egypt. His familiarity with such books may be the source of various stories that he …
… HPB established the Esoteric Section, its rules forbade members to belong to any other group devoted to “mystic study or occult training, except Masonry and the Odd Fellows.” That exception in an indication of the special status HPB accorded the …
… Previously, lodges were concentrated in Luzon island. In 1989, the Section also published Light of the Sanctuary: The Occult Diary of Geoffrey Hodson , containing diary entries of the author regarding his contact with the Mah€tmas. Before he …
… secretary of the Italian Parliament. This Lodge translated and published several Theosophical books, among which were The Occult World and Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred P. SINNETT. At about the same time, Lodges were established at Genoa and …
… affairs, are now housed in London at the British Museum. The earliest letters became the foundation of Sinnett’s books The Occult World (London: Trübner, 1881) and Esoteric Buddhism (Trübner, 1883). Allan Octavian HUME (1829-1912), an … the correspondence. In their totality these letters gave the West an insight into the more recondite teachings of the Occult ( i.e ., hidden) Brotherhood and the purpose for presenting them to the Occident at this time. Readers learned that …
… change of form, especially in biological organisms. Blavatsky interprets Aristotle’s “privation” to refer to “that which Occultists call the prototypes impressed in the Astral Light — the lowest plane and world of Anima Mundi” ( SD I:59), but … bodies ( loc. cit ., p. 493). The former had been proven years before by the Egyptians. The latter, of course, is an occult teaching which is quite at odds with the view of modern science. But Aristotle derived this latter concept not from a …
… times he speaks as if te were purely behavioral (cf. Analects 4.25, e.g.) at other times he seems to impart a magical or occult effect to it: The nature of the gentleman is like the wind, while the nature of the small man is like grass. When the …
… nature of manifestation. The serpent, which either coils around his neck or is held in one of his hands, symbolizes the occult force called kundalinī (literally “circular” or “serpentine”), which one can handle safely only when one attains to …
… to the Governor and subsequently retired with honor and a pension from the British Government. The second lodge, named the “Occult Lodge,” was formed by Balfour CLARKE in Nairobi in the year 1907. Due to lack of support this lodge was closed down. …
… can never be proven . And Crookes — has he not brought science within our hail in his “radiant matter” discovery? What but occult research was it that led him first to that. [letter 48, chronological ed.; 47, 3d ed.] Also, elsewhere we read: So …