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Confucius and Confucianism

… 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 …

Siva and Saivism

… nature of manifestation. The serpent, which either coils around his neck or is held in one of his hands, symbolizes the occult force called kundalinī (literally “circular” or “serpentine”), which one can handle safely only when one attains to …

Africa, East and Central, Theosophy in

… 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. …

Crookes, William

… 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 …

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

… from school by Leadbeater to be taught by several theosophical tutors and to be built up physically. Krishnamurti received occult training under the Master KOOT HOOMI to whose house in Tibet Leadbeater claimed to take him every night on the astral …

Mayan Religion

… seems to be that they traveled to the Yucatán. There is, in theosophical literature, a claim that there is (or was) an occult Brotherhood living in the Yucatán (cf. Josephine Ransom, A Short History of the Theosophical Society, 1938, p. 22), so the idea of an occult significance of that journey is not implausible, though there is no specific reference to it in Blavatsky’s writings. …

Reminiscences of H.P. Blavatsky - by Archibald Keightley

… left. She arrived at Charing Cross without knowing the place of meeting, only knowing she had to attend it. "I followed my occult nose," she told me, and by this means got from the station to Lincoln’s Inn and found her way to the rooms on foot. … and an unflinching will and determination on the part of that leader. She had also stated, on the opinion of one of her occult friends whom she consulted, that it was possible that I could be such a leader and could do it. Thus I naturally …

Canada, Theosophy in

… to graduate from a Canadian medical school. A young English immigrant Algernon BLACKWOOD , who later became a successful occult novelist, was among these pioneers of Theosophy in Canada. Together they formed the Toronto Theosophical Society in …

The Secret Doctrine and its Study - Notes from R. Bowen

… years hence. The Secret Doctrine is only quite a small fragment of Esoteric Doctrine known to the higher members of the Occult Brotherhoods. It contains, she says, just as much as can be received by the world during this coming century. "The … years hence. The Secret Doctrine is only quite a small fragment of Esoteric Doctrine known to the higher members of the Occult Brotherhoods. It contains, she says, just as much as can be received by the world during this coming century. "The …

The Number Seven

… The mysterious numerical system of Pythagoras was nothing novel when it appeared far earlier than 600 years B.C . The occult meaning of figures and their combinations entered into the meditations of the sages of every people; and the day is … did the Brahmans, who were too proud and exclusive for that. Whence, then, the mystery and sacredness of the number seven? Occult … Theosophist, June, 1880 A deep significance was attached to numbers in hoary antiquity. There was not a people with …

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