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Capital Punishment

… 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 …

Correspondences, Table of

… 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 …

England, Theosophy in

… 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 …

Theosophical Society, Objects of the

… 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 …

Meditation

… 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 …

Alchemy

… 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 …

African Magic

… 22 March 2018 / Comments Submitted by admin on 22 March 2018 By Tau-Triadelta   Before we enter into the subject of the occult art as practised on the West Coast of Africa, it will be well to clear the ground by first considering for a moment … for the time being the action of the known law.   The knowledge of these hidden laws is what we understand by the term occult science, or magic. And there is no other magic than this, and never has been, at any period of the world's history. …

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky by Vera Petrovna de Zhelihovsky

… her “the most eminent teacher of our times, the sphinx of the century,” the only person in Europe initiated into the occult sciences of the east - they were, indeed, with few exceptions, ready to canonize her memory, had the philosophy she … in the Himalayas and extreme north of India, where she studied the Sanskrit language and literature together with the occult sciences, so well known by the adepts, wise men, or Mahatmas, for whom later she had to suffer so much.  Such, at …

The Early Teachings of the Masters 1881-1883

… , and Allan Octavian Hume, who held a very high appointment in the service of the British Government. Mr. Sinnett, in The Occult World, narrates the commencement of his friendship with Madame H. P. Blavatsky. By reading the letters of “H.P.B.” … and weaned from Materialism, it was only by giving it occult knowledge, and that any attempt to “mix up Brotherhood with Occultism” would inevitably mean the collapse in the long run of the T.S. Again and again, wherever any suggestions were …

Psychical Research

… 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, …

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