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Genesis

… being the chief or first formative forces, made themselves to become the heavens and the material sphere” ( Studies in Occult Philosophy , p. 151). Helena P. BLAVATSKY in her  The Secret Doctrine , writes, “The introductory chapters of  …

Superconsciousness Through Meditation - Douglas Baker

… to the modern and future world. He is presently engaged in research work extending the discovereis in the field of Occult Chemistry, particularly dwelling on background radiation and special characteristics of the carbon atom and the role … to the modern and future world. He is presently engaged in research work extending the discovereis in the field of Occult Chemistry, particularly dwelling on background radiation and special characteristics of the carbon atom and the role …

Neoplatonism

… writing that “the ancients, having contemplated this mutual sympathy of things (celestial and terrestrial) applied them for occult purposes. . . . All things are full of divine natures . . . while every order of things proceeds gradually in a … descent from the highest to the lowest” (IU I:244) — in other words, that nature works from within outwards, a key tenet of occult philosophy. His theory about the after-death condition of the soul is essentially the same as that of modern …

Sanskrit

… power. Helena P. BLAVATSKY states, “In the Sanskrit, as also in the Hebrew and all other alphabets, every letter has its occult meaning and its rationale; it is a cause and an effect of a preceding cause, and a combination of these very often produced the most magical effect. The vowels, especially, contain the most occult and formidable potencies” ( SD  I:94). The Vedic hymns, particularly, are not merely praises of various deities ( …

Tantra

… in the ordinary English ear, but not quite rightly. The Tantras are very useful books, very valuable and instructive; all occult science is to be found in them. . . . The difficulty is that without a teacher they are very dangerous. . . . So the …

Siddhi

… are. As I. K. TAIMNI states in his The Science of Yoga (Theosophical Publishing House, 1961; 1975), “The exercise of occult powers does not free [a person] from the basic illusions of life and therefore cannot bring him Enlightenment and …

Koot Hoomi, Mahatma

… of letting a brief or careless phrase hurt anybody’s feelings. His handwriting, too, was always very legible and regular. (Occult World, p. 158) In October, 1881, the Mahatma K. H. went on a three-month retreat, during which the correspondence …

Hierarchy

… of a divine Being. The names given in one system to these series of hierarchies was listed in Gottfried de Purucker’s  Occult Glossary  as: (1) Divine; (2) Gods, or the divine-spiritual; (3) Demi-gods; (4) Heroes [Saints?]; (5) Men; (6) …

The Great Master’s Letter

… path of Theosophy, far more than any other man who chooses as his goal the gratification of his own ardent aspirations for occult knowledge. Buddhism, stripped of its superstition, is eternal truth; and he who strives for the latter is striving … with both its hapless Founders, than that we should permit it to become no better than an academy of magic, and a hall of Occultism! That we, the devoted followers of that spirit incarnate of absolute self-sacrifice, of philanthropy, divine …

Three Fundamental Propositions - The Secret Doctrine

… Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the “First Cause,”(*) which the Occultist more logically derives from the “Causeless Cause,” the “Eternal,” and the “Unknowable,” may be essentially the … — and therefore finite and conditioned. The “first” cannot be the absolute, for it is a manifestation. Therefore, Eastern Occultism calls the Abstract All the “Causeless One Cause,” the “Rootless Root,” and limits the “First Cause” to the Logos, …

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