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Bailey, Alice Ann Latrobe Bateman

… 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 …

Initiation - N. Sri Ram

… in The Theosophist , September, 1995. There is an article by T. Subba Row, whom HPB held in very high regard as an occultist, entitled ‘The Occultism of South India’. In that he speaks of the two Paths, one of which is the steady, natural path of progress, on …

Hypnosis

… disputed, particularly when Franz Mesmer presented a number of demonstrations in Paris claiming to be using a psychic or occult force which became known as mesmerism. Mesmer’s claims were discounted by a committee of the Académie des Sciénces. …

Intuition

… of a feeling of things that are coming. It might in one  sense be spoken of as a form of clairvoyance” ( Fountain Source of Occultism, TUP, 1974, p. 241). Actually, the way ESP terms are now defined, it could be either telepathy, clairvoyance, or … through this faculty. For example, the Master KOOT HOOMI wrote to Alfred P. SINNETT that “it was never the intention of the Occultists really to conceal what they had been writing from the earnest determined students, but rather to lock up their …

Art, Theosophy and

… Kupka, who was a spiritualist medium in Prague and Vienna before coming to Paris in 1896 and mixing with theosophists and occultists. Kupka’s work combines the results of his own visions with geometrical symbolism and allusions to esoteric … Object of the Theosophical Society. Two slightly later American groups were keenly aware of theosophy, oriental philosophy, occultism and spiritualism. The first, loose grouping of Arthur Dove, Marasden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe and the photographer …

Kuṇḍalinī

… resting in a potential state in the very body of human beings. Geoffrey Hodson describes it as: A sevenfold, superphysical occult power in universe and man, functioning in the latter by means of a spiraling or coiling action, mainly in the spinal …

Comments on "The Voice of the Silence" by Clara Codd

… be what they are and not wanting them to be different and the other letting events be what they are. .....the first step in occultism is to realize that we are ceaselessly self-deceived... Three Halls, O weary pilgrim, lead to the end of toils. …

Seven, Significance of Number

… A, B, C, AB, BC, AC, ABC totaling seven. He wrote: As a general rule, whenever seven entities are mentioned in the ancient occult science in India, in any connection whatsoever, you must suppose that those seven entities came into existence from …

Music, Theosophy and

… a driving force behind a movement of renewed spiritual aspiration and interest in the Orient, in ancient wisdom, and in the occult. This period, up to World War I, saw theosophy’s greatest influence on music, when it was linked specifically with composers (as also with painters) in the forefront of the Modernist movement. In France, theosophy contributed to the occultist atmosphere of the fin de siècle period, out of which came the “Rosicrucian” music of Erik Satie, and the symbolist …

Causality

… the destiny of the man, still their position may indicate what that destiny is likely to be. . . . As understood by the Occultist, it [destiny] is merely the chain of causation producing its correspondential series of effects. One who has carefully followed the teachings of Occultism . . . knows that every individual is his own creator or his own father,  i.e ., our future personality will be the …

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