occultist

01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An almighty occultist erects in Space
This seeming outward world which tricks the sense;

0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
All these zones, these planes of reality, received different names and were classified in different ways according to the occult schools, according to the different traditions, but there is an essential similarity, and if we go back far enough into the various traditions, hardly anything but words differ, depending upon the country and the language. The descriptions are quite similar. Moreover, those who climb back up the ladderor in other words, a human being who, through his occult knowledge, goes out of one of his bodies (they are called sheaths in English) and enters into a more subtle bodyin order to ACT in a more subtle body and so forth, twelve times (you make each body come out from a more material body, leaving the more material body in its corresponding zone, and then go off through successive exteriorizations), what they have seen, what they have discovered and seen through their ascensionwhe ther they are occultists from the Occident or occultists from the Orientis for the most part analogous in description. They have put different words on it, but the experience is very analogous.
There is the whole Chaldean tradition, and there is also the Vedic tradition, and there was very certainly a tradition anterior to both that split into two branches. Well, all these occult experiences have been the same. Only the description differs depending upon the country and the language. The story of creation is not told from a metaphysical or psychological point of view, but from an objective point of view, and this story is as real as our stories of historical periods. Of course, its not the only way of seeing, but it is just as legitimate a way as the others, and in any event, it recognizes the concrete reality of all these divine beings. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists exhibit great similarities. The only difference is in the way they are expressed, but the manipulation of the forces is the same.
I learned all this through Theon. Probably, he was I dont know if he was Russian or Polish (a Russian or Polish Jew), he never said who he really was or where he was born, nor his age nor anything.

0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It wasnt Ki but Chi, for he was the founder of China!those things were fantastic! The story was almost childish, but there was a whole world of knowledge in it. Madame Theon was an extraordinary occultist. That woman had incredible faculties, incredible.
She was a small woman, fat, almost flabbyshe gave you the feeling that if you leaned against her, it would melt! Once, I remember I was there in Tlemcen with Andres father, who had come to join usa painter, an artist. Theon was wearing a dark purple robe. Theon said to him, This robe is purple. No, its not purple, the other answered, its violet. Theon went rigid: When I say purple, its purple! And they started arguing over this foolishness. Suddenly there flashed from my head, No, this is too ridiculous!I didnt say a word, but it went out from my head (I even saw the flash), and then Madame Theon got up and came over to me, stood behind me (neither of us uttered a word the other two were staring at each other like two angry cocks), then she laid my head against her breastabsolutely the feeling of sinking into eiderdown!

0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And do you know how he received me when I arrived there? It was the first time in my life I had traveled alone and the first time I had crossed the Mediterranean. Then there was a fairly long train ride between Oran and Tlemcenanyway, I managed rather well: I got there. He met me at the station and we set off for his place by car (it was rather far away). Finally we reached his estatea wonder! It spread across the hillside overlooking the whole valley of Tlemcen. We arrived from below and had to climb up some wide pathways. I said nothingit was truly an experience from a material standpoint. When we came in sight of the house, he stopped: Thats my house. It was red! Painted red! And he added, When Barley came here, he asked me, Why did you paint your house red? (Barley was a French occultist who put Theon in touch with France and was his first disciple.) There was a mischievous gleam in Theons eyes and he smiled sardonically: I told Barley, Because red goes well with green! With that, I began to understand the gentleman. We continued on our way uphill when suddenly, without warning, he spun around, planted himself in front of me, and said, Now you are at my mercy. Arent you afraid? Just like that. So I looked at him, smiled and replied, Im never afraid. I have the Divine here. (Mother touches her heart.)
Well, he really went pale.

0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this overmental region, this region of the gods with the power to govern the universe and, PARTIALLY, the earth, does have its own reality. You can come into contact with it and use it; the Vedic forefa thers used it, occultists use it, even Tantrics use it. But theres another path which, distrusting the gods, bypasses them through a kind of intellectual asceticism, as it were, wary of forms, of images, and differing expressions, which rises straight as an arrow, proud and pure, towards the supramental Light. That is a living experience.
Sri Aurobindo preached the integral yoga which includes everything, so one can have all the experiences. Indeed, the universe was clearly created as a field of experience. Some people prefer the short, straight and narrow paths thats their business. Others like to dawdle along the wayand thats their business! And some are drawn to have all the experiences, and thus they often wander for a long time through the overmental world. And of course, the vast majority of those who have RELIGIOUS aspirations are thus put in touch with various deities, where they stopits enough for them.

0 1966-04-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have already spoken about the bad conditions of the world; the usual idea of the occultists about it is that the worse they are the more is probable the coming of an intervention or a new revelation from above. The ordinary mind cannot knowit has either to believe or disbelieve or wait and see.
As to whether the Divine seriously means something to happen, I believe it is intended. I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and its advent is in the very nature of things inevitable. The question is as to the when and the how. That also is decided and predestined from somewhere above; but it is here being fought out amid a rather grim clash of conflicting forces. For in the terrestrial world the predetermined result is hidden and what we see is a whirl of possibilities and forces attempting to achieve some thing with the destiny of it all concealed from human eyes. This is, however, certain that a number of souls have been sent to see that it shall be now. That is the situation. My faith and will are for the now. I am speaking of course on the level of the human intelligencemystically-rationally, as one might put it. To say more would be going beyond that line. You dont want me to start prophesying, I suppose? As a rationalist, you cant.

0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I might put it this way: the impression I got, but a very strong one (very strong, it lasted for at least two days, it was very strong), was of Catholicism defending itself. And as in the mental region they couldnt touch P.L, they reached him from below and ruined his health they know how to do all that, they are very skilled occultists.
And he didnt have this immense balance (vast gesture above) thanks to which none of that has any effect. Hes still open.

0 1969-04-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are highly skilled occultists.
Ill tell you something: while you were reading the letter [from P.L.], Sri Aurobindo was there, and he told me, Be careful.

02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is said, the occultists say, that between the light of the day, that is to say, the light of the ordinary consciousness and the higher spiritual light, there is an interim world, an intermediate zone of consciousness. When one leaves the earthly day, the normal consciousness and goes within and to the heights, towards the other Light, one enters at first into a dark region (the selva oscura of Dante). Physically also, the scientists say today that when you leave the earth's atmosphere, from a certain height you no longer see the earthly light but you dive into a darkness where the sun does not shine in its glory as on earth. You see and feel the sunlight again when you approach the sun and are about to be consumed in its fires. In the same way, we are told that on the spiritual path too, the path of inner consciousness, when you leave the ordinary consciousness, when you lose that normal light and yet have not arrived at the other higher light you grope in an intermediary region of darkness. You have lost the lower knowledge and have not yet gained the higher knowledge, then you are in that uncertain world of greyness or darkness. Or it happens also that while in the comparatively faint light of the ordinary consciousness, you are suddenly confronted with the Superior Lightthrough some grace perhapsyou cannot stand the light and get blinded and see sheer darkness. Again, the infinite sky in its fathomless depth appears to the naked eye blue, deep blue, blue-black. Light concentrated, solidified, materialised becomes a speck of darkness to the human eye. Do we not say today that a particle of matter (consolidated darkness) is only a quantum of concentrated light-energy?
Something of these supraphysical experiences must have entered into the consciousness of the modern poets who have also fallen in love with darkness and blackness -have become adorers, although they do not know, of Shyma and Shyma.

06.11 - The Steps of the Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The complexity arises not only in extension, but also in depth. Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any particular section of these planes or on planes above and beyond, there will be accordingly differences in the constitution or psycho-physical make-up of the individual personality. The higher one stands the richer the personality, because it lives not only on its own normal level, but also on all that are below and which it has transcended. The complete or integral man, some occultists say, possesses 365 personalities; indeed it may be much more. (The Vedas speak of the three and thirty-three and thirty-three hundred and thirty-three thousand gods that may be housed in the human vehicle the basic three being evidently the triple status or world of Body, Life and Mind).
What is the meaning of this self-contradiction, this division in man? To understand that we must know and remember that each person represents a certain quality or capacity, a particular achievement to be embodied. How best can it be done? What is the way by which one can acquire a quality at its purest, and highest and most perfect? It is by setting an opposition to it. That is how a power is increased and streng thenedby fighting against and overcoming all that weakens and contradicts it. The deficiencies in respect of a particular quality show you where you are to mend and reinforce and in what way to improve in order to make it perfectly perfect. It is the hammer that beats the weak and soft iron to transform it into hard steel. The preliminary discord is useful and necessary to be utilised for a higher harmony. This is the secret of self-conflict in man. You are weakest precisely in that element which is destined to be your greatest asset.

06.27 - To Learn and to Understand, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed it was not very much necessary for the ancient sages and occultists to try to hide their knowledge in an obscure language, in codes and symbols and ciphers for fear of misuse by the common uninitiate; even if they had expressed their knowledge in ordinary language, ordinary people would not have understood it at all. It would be like my speaking to you in Chinese-, you would not make out anything of it. One comprehends only what one already possesses, that is to say, you must have within you something at least of what you want to know and understand, something corresponding to it, similar in nature and vibration. That is what I mean when I say that you should be open, your mind and consciousness should be turned and attuned to the object it wishes to seize; it must have some light in it in order to receive the light outside and beyond. If it is mere obscurity, the light does not light; even if it manages to come it departs soon or is engulfed in the darkness.
The human mind can seize things only in three dimensions. A three-dimensional knowledge is its normal possession. But there is a fourth and a fifth dimension (which some intellectuals in Europe have begun to guess at): indeed there are at least as many as twelve dimensions in reference to the present creation. We cannot readily picture a four-dimensional object, a fifth dimension borders on the bizarre and beyond that it is all a blank to the human consciousness. If I spoke of these multi-dimensional experiences, what would you make of them?

06.35 - Second Sight, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The humanising of animals living with men, through its good and bad effects, has an evolutionary value: that is to say, some animals in that way attain almost to a human status in their soul. And occultists state that souls do pass in this manner from the animal to the human incarnation.
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1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
Hence, when the pranic vehicle is working perfectly in all three groups, human, planetary and solar, the union with latent fire will be accomplished. Here lies [103] the reason for the emphasis laid on the necessity for building pure, refined physical vehicles. The more refined and rarefied the form, the better a receiver of prana will it be, and the less will be the resistance found to the uprising of kundalini at the appointed time. Coarse matter and crude immature physical bodies are a menace to the occultist, and no true seer will be found with a body of a gross quality. The dangers of disruption are too great, and the menace of disintegration by fire too awful. Once in the history of the race (in Lemurian days) this was seen in the destruction of the race and the continents by means of fire. [xlvi]45 The Guides of the race at that time availed Themselves of just this very thing to bring about the finish of an inadequate form. The latent fire of matter (as seen in volcanic display, for instance) and the radiatory fire of the system were combined. Planetary kundalini and solar emanation rushed into conjunction, and the work of destruction was accomplished. The same thing may again be seen, only in matter of the second ether, and the effects therefore will be less severe owing to the rarity of this ether and the comparatively greater refinement of the vehicles.
We might here note a fact of interest, though of a mystery insoluble as yet to most of us, and that is, that these destructions by fire are part of the tests by fire of an initiation of that one of the Heavenly Men Whose karma is bound up with our earth.

1.01 - About the Elements, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The analysis of the elements will also be discussed and the great practical value of them underlined, so that every scientist, whether he be a chemist, a physician, a magnetizer, an occultist, a magician, a mystic, a quabbalist or a yogi, etc., can derive his practical benefit from it. Should I succeed in teaching the reader so far that he is able to deal with the subject in the proper way and to find the practical key to the branch of knowledge most suitable for him, I will be glad to see that the purpose of my book has been fulfiled.

1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
but mystics and even mystery-men, occultists, religious seekers;
they were seekers after a veiled truth behind things and not of
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were also what we would call occultists, men who believed that
by inner means outer as well as inner results could be produced,

1.02 - Meeting the Master - Authors second meeting, March 1921, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Only a few days before my arrival a dismissed cook had managed to get stones hurled into Sri Aurobindo's house through the agency of a Mohammedan occultist. This was the topic of excited talk when I was at Pondicherry. Upendranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit. I heard the whole story from Upen himself. The stone-throwing ended when the Mother took the matter in hand and removed the servant-boy, who was the medium, to another house. (The account of this is already given in my The Life of Sri Aurobindo.)
The Prabartak Sangh was started at Chandernagore by Motilal Roy and others under the inspiration of Sri Aurobindo. In the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo life is accepted as the field for the manifestation of the Divine. Its main aim is not liberation merely but the manifestation of divine perfection. In his vision not only the individual but the collectivity also is a term of the Divine. Acceptance of life includes the collective life. There is a deeper reason for accepting life. In his vision of the Reality Sri Aurobindo shows the rationality and the inevitability of an ascent by man to a higher consciousness than Mind. This ascent to the Higher Consciousness must lead to its descent in man. If the new element, the Supermind, is to become a permanent part of the earth-consciousness, then not only should it descend into the lowest plane of physical consciousness the subconscient but it must become a part of the collective consciousness on earth.

1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, if we brought as much sincerity, meticulousness, and perseverance to the study of the inner world as we do to the study of our books, we would go fast and far the West also has surprises in store for us but it must first get rid of its preconceptions (Columbus did not draw the map of America before leaving Palos). These simple truths may be worth repeating, for the West seems to be caught between two falsehoods: the overly serious falsehood of the spiritualists, who have already settled the question of God in a few infallible paragraphs, and the not-serious-enough falsehood of the rudimentary occultists and psychics, who have reduced the invisible to a sort of freak-show of the imagination. India, wisely, refers us to our own direct experience and to experimental methods. Sri Aurobindo would soon put this fundamental lesson of experimental spirituality into practice.
But what kind of men, what human substance, was he going to find in that India he did not know? Once we have set aside the exotic facade and the bizarre (to us) customs that amuse and intrigue tourists,

10.31 - The Mystery of The Five Senses, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed we say habitually, when speaking of spiritual realisation, that one sees the truth, one has to see the truth: to know the truth, to know the reality is taken to mean to see the truth, to see the reality, and what does this signify? It signifies what one sees is the light, the light that emanates from truth, the form that the Truth takes, the radiant substance that is the Truth. This then is the special character or gift of this organ, the organ of sight, the eye. One sees the physical light, of course, but one sees also the supraphysical light. It is, as the Upanishad says, the eye of the eye, the third eye in the language of the occultists. What we say about the eye may be equally said in respect of the other sense-organs. Take hearing, for example. By the ear we hear the noises of the world, its deafening cries and no doubt at times also some earthly music. But when the ear is turned inward, we listen to unearthly things Indeed we know how stone-deaf Beethoven heard some of those harmonies of supreme beauty that are now the cherished possessions of humanity. This inner ear is able to take you by a process of regression to the very source of all sound and utterance, from where springs the anhata vk, the undictated voice, the nda-brahman, the original sound-seed, the primary vibration. So the ear gives that hearing which reveals to you a special aspect of the Divine: the vibratory rhythm of the being, that matrix of all utterance, of all speech that mark the material expression of consciousness. Next we come to the third sense, that of smell, Well, the nose is not a despicable organ, in any way; it is as important as any other more aristocratic sense-organ, as the eye or the ear. It is the gate to the perfumed atmosphere of the reality. Even like a flower, as a lotus for example, the truth is colourful, beautiful, shapely, radiant to the eye; to the nostrils it is exhilarating perfume, it distils all around a divine scent that sanctifies, elevates the whole being. After the third sense we come to the fourth, the tongue. The mouth gives you the taste of the truth and you find that the Truth is sweetness, the delicious nectar of the gods: for the truth is also soma, the surpreme rasa, amta, immortality itself. Here is Aswapathy's experience of the thing in Savitri:
In the nostrils quivered celestial fragrances,

1.04 - Religion and Occultism, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And yet there is an analogy. Just as you may read all the books possible on the art of playing the piano, but if you do not play it yourself you will never be a pianist, so too you may read everything that has been written on occultism, but if you do not practise it yourself you will never be an occultist.
November 1957

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Then going back to her room, she would start the "flower work" in this state of trance. We know that she is very fond of flowers, particularly roses, both for their own sake and for their power to transmit her force. Hundreds of roses daily came to her as an offering from our gardens. She would spread all of them on trays, pick and choose them according to size, colour, etc., trim and arrange them in different vases, aided by a sadhika. This would continue till the early hours of the morning when she would retire for a short nap. Once I had a long talk with her concerning the affairs of the Dispensary during this time. I wondered how in such a trance-condition her hands moved correctly, used the scissors, cut and trimmed the flowers and at the same time she went on answering the various problems I put before her. Much later I found the solution and that also in an embarrassing manner. She had come to do Sri Aurobindo's hair and as usual was overtaken by trance. The eyes were half closed, the body swayed but the hands were doing their work. Two of us who were then on duty began to joke and play with each other silently, assuming that she could not notice our innocent pranks. But as she was leaving the room, she said to us, "I can see everything. I have eyes at the back of my head." Imagine our discomfiture! We had heard that she was the greatest occultist known to Theon, her teacher in occultism. We had no small amount of personal experience in support of it. Still, this small incident from its manner and occasion left us flabbergasted. She must have had her inner senses functioning when the outer ones were in suspension or had ceased their work. She said on one occasion that she is extremely sensitive to the atmosphere. She can at once feel the vibrations of a place or of persons.
In the previous chapters I have given some indications about her power of organisation, her foresight, her practical wisdom in the limited field concerning Sri Aurobindo's personal needs. Now let me cite some instances to illustrate her method of working in the larger context of the Ashram, those which I came to know in Sri Aurobindo's presence. Her mind, when she had decided upon a project, would concentrate on it and not relax until it was accomplished or stood on a sound basis. In the same manner she would deal with several projects in the course of the day. She could be single-pointed and many-faceted at the same time. It is the way with all great men of action, I believe.

1.05 - Adam Kadmon, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Yoga, it is the Karanopadhi or the Causal instrument or vehicle. Its Chakra or astral nerve centre is the Ajna, two- petalled, situate in the skull in or near the pineal gland, which some occultists claim is an atrophied third eye, the physical organ of true spiritual clairvoyance or intuition.
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1.07 - Bridge across the Afterlife, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
greater occultist than her husband. The Mother went two
times to Tlemcen, in Algeria, in 1906 and 1907.

1.08 - The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This sense of the relativity of things is a powerful help in keeping ones balance and preserving a serene moderation in ones speech. I once heard an old occultist of some wisdom say, Nothing is essentially bad; there are only things which are not in their place. Put each thing in its true place and you will have a harmonious world.
And yet, from the point of view of action, the value of an idea is in proportion to its pragmatic power. It is true that this power varies a great deal according to the individual on whom it acts. An idea that has great impelling force in one individual may have none whatsoever in another. But the power itself is contagious. Certain ideas are capable of transforming the world. They are the ones that ought to be expressed; they are the ruling stars in the firmament of the spirit that will guide the earth towards its supreme realisation.
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Consciousness is indeed the creatrix of the universe, but love is its saviour. Conscious experience alone can give a glimpse of what love is, of its purpose and process. Any verbal transcription is necessarily a mental travesty of something which eludes all expression in every way. Philosophers, mystics, occultists, have all tried to define love, but in vain. I have no pretension of succeeding where they have failed. But I wish to state in the simplest possible terms what in their writings takes such an abstract and complicated form. My words will have no other aim than to lead towards the living experience, and I wish to be able to lead even a child to it.
Love is, in its essence, the joy of identity; it finds its ultimate expression in the bliss of union. Between the two lie all the phases of its universal manifestation.

1.10 - Harmony, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
There are no miracles. There is a vast Harmony which governs the world with a precision and delicacy as faultless in the meeting of atoms and the cycle of flowering and the return of migrating birds as in the meeting of men and the unfolding of events at a particular juncture. There is a vast, unique movement we thought we were separated from because we had built our little mental turrets on the frontier of our comprehension and black dotted lines on the softness of a great earthly hill, as others had built their hunting grounds, and the sea gulls, their white archipelago on the foam-flecked waters. And because we had put on these blinders or others to protect ourselves from the formidable magnitude of our lands, erected these dwarf fences to farm our little acre, the little wave of energy trapped in our sails, the little golden (or less golden) fireflies caught in the net of our intelligence, the little note captured from too great a Harmony, we have thought that the world behaved according to our laws, or at least our laws to the factual wisdom of our instruments and calculations, and that anything that exceeded this partitioning of the world or slipped through the meshes was unthinkable or nonexistent, miraculous hallucinatory. We were caught in our own trap. And by some gracious kindness which is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries to elucidate the world began to resemble our drawings of erudite children, our illnesses to follow the doctor's prognosis, our bodies to obey the prescribed medicine, our lives to travel in the designated groove between two walls of impossibility, and even our events to bow obligingly before our statistics and our thought of events. The world actually became mentalized from one end to the other and from top to bottom. Thought is the latest magician on the list, after the Mongolian shaman, the Theban occultist or the Bantu witchdoctor. It remains to be seen whether our magic is better than the others but magic it is, and we are not yet aware of all its power. But, in truth, there is only one Power, which uses an amulet, a Tantric yantra23 or an incantation, equally as well as a differential equation or even our simple and futile little thought. What do we want? That is the question.
We manipulate thought haphazardly. Generally, we do not even manipulate it; it manipulates us. We are besieged by a thousand useless thoughts that run back and forth through our inner realm, automatically, futilely, ten, perhaps a hundred times by the time we have walked down the boulevard or climbed the stairs. It is hardly thought; it is a sort of thinking current that got into the habit of following some of our convolutions and circumvolutions and assumes a more or less neutral color, more or less brilliant, depending on our taste or inclination, our heredity, our environment, and is expressed by preferred or customary words, blue or gray philosophies in one language or another but it is one and the same current running everywhere. It is the mental machinery clicking and rumbling and working sempiternally the same range or intensity of the general current. This activity veils everything, envelops everything, and casts a pall over everything with its thick and sticky cloud. But the seeker of the new world is one step removed from this machinery; he has discovered the quiet little clearing behind; he has lit a fire of need in the center of his being; he takes his fire everywhere he goes. And everything is different for him. Unclouded in his little clearing, he begins to see the functioning of the mind; he watches the great play, uncovers step by step the secrets of the mental magic which ought perhaps to be called mental illusion, though if it is an illusion, it is a very effective one. And all sorts of phenomena begin to attract his notice, a little disorderly, in recurring little spurts that end up making a coherent picture. The more he sees, the stronger his control.

1.10 - Life and Death. The Greater Guardian of the Threshold, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
nothing that comes to him, but only something that flows from him, that is, love for the world and for his fellows. Nothing that egotism desires is denied upon the black path, for the latter provides, on the contrary, for the complete gratification of egotism, and will not fail to attract those desiring merely their own felicity, for it is indeed the appropriate path for them. No one therefore should expect the occultists of the white path to give him instruction for the development of his own egotistical self. They do not take the slightest interest in the felicity of the individual man. Each can attain that for himself, and it is not the task of the white occultists to shorten the way; for they are only concerned with the development and liberation of all human beings and all creatures. Their instructions therefore deal only with the development of powers for collaboration in this work. Thus they place selfless devotion and self-sacrifice before all other qualities. They never actually refuse anyone, for even the greatest egotist can purify himself; but no one merely seeking an advantage for himself will ever obtain assistance from the white occultists. Even when they do not refuse their help, he, the seeker, deprives himself on the advantage
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resulting from their assistance. Anyone, therefore, really following the instructions of the good occultists will, upon crossing the Threshold, understand the demands of the greater Guardian; anyone, however, not following their instructions can never hope to reach the Threshold. Their instructions, if followed, produce good results or no results; for it is no part of their task to lead to egotistical felicity and a mere existence in the supersensible worlds. In fact, it becomes their duty to keep the student away from the supersensible world until he can enter it with the will for selfless collaboration.

1.11 - The Soul or the Astral Body, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
Through subtler vibrations of the elements, through the electric and the magnetic fluid of their polarity, the man proper, the soul has proceeded from the akasa principle or the finer etheric vibrations. In the same way as the elements are functioning in the material body, the soul or the so-called astral body will behave. The four-pole magnet, with its specific qualities, connects or amalgamates the soul with the body. This amalgamation takes place, with analogy to the body, by the electromagnetic influence of the elements. We, the adepts, call the astral matrix or life this active behavior of the elements or the so-called electromagnetic fluid of the soul. This astral matrix or the so-called electromagnetic fluid of the soul is not identical with the occultists aura I shall speak of later. The astral matrix or the electromagnetic fluid is the connecting link between the body and soul. The fiery principle causes in the soul what is constructive, the principle of water causes the animating, the principle of air is balancing, and the earth principle causes what is thriving, compound and preserving in the soul. The astral body is performing exactly the same functions as the material body.
Man has been fitted with the five senses corresponding to the five elements, of which the astral body or the soul, with the help of the bodily senses, makes use to receive perceptions of the physical world. Our immortal spirit realizes this receiving and operating of the five senses through the astral and the material body. Why this spirit is immortal will be explained in a later chapter. Without any activity of the spirit in the soul, the astral body would be without life and dissolve itself into its components.

1.12 - The Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
However "clear austerity" remains a powerful protection, for unfortunately not everyone has the capacity to rise to the high regions where the forces are pure; it is far easier to open oneself at the vital level, which is the world of the great Force of Life and desires and passions (well known to mediums and occultists), where the lower forces can readily take on divine appearances with dazzling colors, or frightening forms. If the seeker is pure, he will see through the hoax either way, and his little psychic light will dissolve all the threats and all the gaudy mirages of the vital melodrama. But how can one ever be sure of one's own purity? Therefore, not to pursue personal forms but only a higher and higher truth, and letting It manifest under any form It chooses, will help us avoid error and superstition.
We can now try to describe these superconscious levels, as they appear when one does not succumb to ecstatic unconsciousness, and as Sri Aurobindo experienced them. Certainly, what is closest to the universal truth has nothing to do with forms, which are always limited and related to a given tradition or age (though these forms have their place and their truth), but with luminous vibrations. By "vibrations," we do not mean any lifeless waves of quantum physics, but movements of light, inexpressibly filled with joy, love, knowledge, beauty, and all the qualities manifested by the best of human consciousness, whether they be religious or not:

1.16 - The Season of Truth, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
23 A geometrical design used by Tantric occultists to materialize certain forces.
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1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
There are two statements of modern science that would stir up deeper ranges in an occultist:
1) Atoms are whirling systems like the solar system.

12.09 - The Story of Dr. Faustus Retold, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Dr. Faust, as you know, you must have seen him on our school stage, was a very learned man. His ambition was to acquire all knowledge, knowledge of all subjects, of all arts and sciences. But he wanted not only to be a doctor of theories but of practice also, not only a learned man but a man of power in additionnot only to know but to control. Universal nature was his field and he sought not only to measure and survey the outside but to probe into her deeper secret mysteries. In those days there was a line of inquiry pursued by savants that was called occultism. The occultist sought to discover the secret and subtle forces of nature through which one could influence and control outer and material things and happenings. In this field there were the alchemists whose attempt was to transform lead into gold, that is to say, manipulate forces and elements in nature in such a way that mere lead would be turned into pure gold. So, our Dr. Faust, in tune with these magicians as they were commonly known, ventured into this region to possess the power over the forces of nature. This control over nature could go to the extent of producing what we know as miracles, for example, you ask for a thing, anything whatsoever, and it is there before you; you want to go some place, you will the thing and you are there like a flash of lightning. You can even make people do what you want to be done.
One day when Dr. Faust was deeply engaged in this interesting occupation, suddenly he saw standing in front of him a figurea strange figure, black, robed in black, huge in staturehe was taken by surprise. Half in curiosity, half in fear he asked who he was. The figure answered: he was what Dr. Faust wanted, that is to say, he could give Faust whatever he wanted, he was that Power. Dr. Faust questioned him and he was answered that the person was indeed what he was claiming to be. Faust was to ask only to have the thing he wanted. Faust could have more and more knowledge, more and more power. Not only that, but something infinitely greater and more precious. Dr. Faust wanted to know what that was. "Infinite pleasure, infinite delight. You will never be sad or sorrowful, never suffer, I will give you perfect enjoyment." This ambitious greedy man swallowed the bait. Faust asked whether it was all truewhat he was professing. The person answered: "More than what I have promised, I will give you. But it is give and take, you can take only when you give." "Give! What can I give? What have I got?" Oh! it is nothing, it is just a trifle. You won't ever know that you are giving. Ready?" "Ready? Yes, quite. But just tell me what it is?" "Oh! it is indeed nothingyour soul!" "Soul?" Faust did not know what the soul was. He nodded assent, strange to say, somewhat hesitatinglyalthough so eager and ardent till now. Take it then, he said.

1951-02-03 - What is Yoga? for what? - Aspiration, seeking the Divine. - Process of yoga, renouncing the ego., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, happily nobody has said that he desired Yoga to obtain power. There are countries and people who know vaguely that there is something called yoga, and they begin it with the idea that they will become superior to others, will get a greater power than others and consequently will be able to dominate othersthis is the worst reason, the most selfish, that which brings the most harmful consequences. Others who are greatly troubled, who have a very difficult life, who have worries, sorrows, many cares, say, Oh, I shall find something that will give me peace, tranquillity, and I shall be able to get a little rest. And they rush into Yoga thinking they are going to be quite happy and satisfied. Unfortunately, it is not altogether like that. When you begin the Yoga for reasons of this kind, you are sure to meet great difficulties on the way. And then there is this great virtue in mens eyes: philanthropy, love of humanity; so many people say, I am going to do Yoga to be able to serve humanity, make the unhappy happy, organise the world in the happiest way for everybody. I say this is not sufficient I do not say that this is bad in itself, although I have heard an old occultist say wittily: It wont be so very soon that there will be no more misery in the world, because there are too many people who are happy to live on this misery. It was a witticism but it is not altogether wrong. If there were no misery to soothe, the philanthropist would no longer have any reason for his existencehe is so satisfied with himself, he has so strong an impression that he is not selfish! I knew such people who would be very unhappy if there were no more misery upon earth! What would they do if there were no longer any misery to relieve, what would be their activity and what their glorification? How would they be able to show people I am not selfish!, and that they are generous, full of kindness?
Do you want the Yoga for the sake of the Divine? If so, then only can it be said that you have a call for the Path.

1951-04-12 - Japan, its art, landscapes, life, etc - Fairy-lore of Japan - Culture- its spiral movement - Indian and European- the spiritual life - Art and Truth, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is another, this is that from an occult point of view it is almost always the same forces and same beings which incarnate during all the ages of artistic beauty upon earth and that, according to occultists, there are cycles of rebirth: beings return, group themselves through affinity at the time of birth; so it happens that regularly, almost all come together for a similar action. Some occultists have studied this question and given very precise numbers based upon the actual facts of the development of the earth: they have said that once in a hundred years, once in a thousand years, once in five thousand years, etc, certain cycles were repeated; that certain great civilisations appeared every five thousand years, and that it was (according to their special knowledge) the same people who came back. This is not quite exact, that is why I am not going into details, but in a sense this is true: it is the same forces which are at work. It is the same forces and they are grouped according to their affinities and, for a reason which may be quite material or for a mental or cyclic reason, they reunite at a certain place, and in this place there is a new civilisation or a special progress in a civilisation or a kind of effervescence, blossoming, flowering of beauty, as in the great ages in Greece, Egypt, India, Italy, Spain. Everywhere, in all the countries of the world, there have been more or less beautiful periods.
If you put the question to astrologers, they will explain this to you by the position of the stars; they will say that certain positions of the stars have a certain effect on the earth. But, as I have told you, all these things are languages, a way of expression, of making oneself understood; the truth is deeper, it is more complex, more complete.

1951-04-21 - Sri Aurobindos letter on conditions for doing yoga - Aspiration, tapasya, surrender - The lower vital - old habits - obsession - Sri Aurobindo on choice and the double life - The old fiasco - inner realisation and outer change, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you concentrate on any idea with sufficient obstinacy, you will go through, as the occultists say, and behind the idea upon which you concentrate, you will find the light. But this is a bit risky.
This means that he who is capable of this kind of concentration will see the light.

1953-05-06, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then there are those who have learnt a little, who are more or less occultists or believe in rebirth in a childish way, believe that it is a tiny person who has put on a physical robe, that is, a body, and when this garment falls off, it goes away and puts on another and then another like a doll whose dress is changed. For them it is like that: one changes ones body, as one changes ones clothes. Some people have even written books very seriously telling you about all their lives since they were monkeys! That indeed is absolute childishness. For in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, it is just the tiny psychic formation at the centre of the being that continues after death; all the rest is dissolved, goes to pieces, scattered here and there, the individuality exists no longer. Now, how often in the physical life does the psychic being take part consciously in what the physical being does? I am not speaking of people who do yoga and are a little disciplined; I am speaking of average people who have a psychic capacity in the sense that their psychic is already sufficiently developed to be able to intervene in life and guide itsome pass years and years without the psychic intervening. And they come and tell you in which country they were born and what their father and mother were like and the house they lived in, the roof of the church and the forest that was by the side and all the most casual events of their life! It is absolutely idiotic, for it is all rubbed off, these things dont exist any longer; whilst the memory that one may still have is that of the particular moment in life when there is a special circumstance, vital moments, so to say, in which the psychic suddenly takes part, through an inner call or an absolute necessityall of a sudden the psychic intervenesand that then is engraved in the psychic memory. When you have the psychic memory you remember a set of circumstances at one moment of life, particularly of the inner emotion, of the consciousness that acted at that moment. And then that passes into the consciousness along with some associations, with all that was around you, perhaps a word spoken, a phrase heard; but what was most important was the state of the soul in which you were: for that indeed remains very clearly engraved. These are the landmarks of the psychic life, things that have left a deep impression and taken part in its formation. Hence when you find your psychic being in you again constantly, continuously, clearly, it is things like these that you remember. There may be quite a few, but they are flashes in ones life, and one cannot say: I was such and such a person, I did such and such a thing, I was called by this name and I was doing this or that. Or otherwise it would mean that at that moment (a rare one) there was a combination of circumstances good enough for one to be able to fix the date or the place, the country and the age. That can happen.
Naturally the psychic takes a greater and greater part, and the larger does the set of memories grow. And then one can retrace ones life, but not in all its details. One can say that at certain moments, it was like this, or I was that. Certain moments, yes, very important moments of a life. Whats necessary is a being wholly identified with the psychic, one that has organised its whole existence around it, unified its whole beingall the tiniest parts, all the elements, all the movements of the being around the psychic centre that has made of itself a single being, solely turned to the Divine; then, if the body falls off, that remains. It is only a completely formed conscious being that can remember exactly in another life all that has happened before. It can even pass consciously from one life to another without losing anything of its consciousness. How many people upon earth have reached that state? Not many, I believe. And usually they are not in the least inclined to narrate their adventures.
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For each one a different effect. Because we are in the presence of a fact: there is a universe, at least there is an earth, of that we are almost sure, you cannot dispute that, granted? Have you ever asked yourself why there is an earth? No! Probably it was quite wise. Once I spoke to you of that occultist whom I knew. He was a wise man in his own way. People used to come and ask him:
First of all, why is there a universe? Answer: What is that to you?

1953-05-20, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are, for instance, two statements of modern science that would stir up deeper ranges for an occultist:
1) Atoms are whirling systems like the solar system.
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There is a difference between the scientific mind and the cast of mind of an occultist. There is little doubt that one who could unite these two groups of faculties would lead science towards great progress.
According to Sri Aurobindo, this true movement behind respiration is the same as the one governing electrical and magnetic fields; it is what the ancient yogis used to call Vayu, the Life-Energy. The breathing exercises (pryma) are simply one system (among others) for acquiring mastery over Vayu which eventually enables you to be free from gravitation and gives certain powers know to the ancients: the power to be extremely light or extremely heavy, very big or very tine (garim, laghim, mahim, aim). As an appendix to this talk we publish an extract from a conversation of Sri Aurobindo with a French scientist-disciple, dealing with some of these "true movements" behind the external movement of Matter.

1954-07-14 - The Divine and the Shakti - Personal effort - Speaking and thinking - Doubt - Self-giving, consecration and surrender - Mothers use of flowers - Ornaments and protection, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I knew this a very long time ago. Fifty years ago There was that occultist who later gave me lessons in occultism for two years. His wife was a wonderful clairvoyant and had an absolutely remarkable capacitypreciselyof transmitting forces. They lived in Tlemcen. I was in Paris. I used to correspond with them. I had not yet met them at all. And then, one day, she sent me in a letter petals of the pomegranate flower, Divines Love. At that time I had not given the meaning to the flower. She sent me petals of pomegranate flowers telling me that these petals were bringing me her protection and force.
Now, at that time I used to wear my watch on a chain. Wrist-watches were not known then or there were very few. And there was also a small eighteenth century magnifying-glass it was quite small, as large as this (gesture). And it had two lees, you see, like all reading-glasses; there were two lees mounted on a small golden frame, and it was hanging from my chain. Now, between the two glasses I put these petals and I used to carry this about with me always because I wanted to keep it with me; you see, I trusted this lady and knew she had power. I wanted to keep this with me, and I always felt a kind of energy, warmth, confidence, force which came from that thing. I did not think about it, you see, but I felt it like that.

1957-03-06 - Freedom, servitude and love, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Independence! I remember having heard an old occultist and sage give a beautiful reply to someone who said, I want to be independent! I am an independent being! I exist only when I am independent! And the other answered him with a smile, Then that means that nobody will love you, because if someone loves you, you immediately become dependent on this love.
It is a beautiful reply, for it is indeed love which leads to Unity and it is Unity which is the true expression of freedom. And so those who in the name of their right to freedom claim independence, turn their backs completely on this true freedom, for they deny love.

1957-03-15 - Reminiscences of Tlemcen, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Madame X was born on the Isle of Wight and she lived in Tlemcen with her husb and who was a great occultist. Madame X herself was an occultist of great powers, a remarkable clairvoyant, and she had mediumistic qualities. Her powers were quite exceptional; she had received an extremely complete and rigorous training and she could exteriorise herself, that is, bring out of her material body a subtle body, in full consciousness, and do it twelve times in succession. That is, she could pass consciously from one state of being to another, live there as consciously as in her physical body, and then again put that subtler body into trance, exteriorise herself from it, and so on twelve times successively, to the extreme limit of the world of forms. I shall speak to you about that later, when you can understand better what I am talking about. But I am going to tell you about some small incidents I saw when I was in Tlemcen1 myself, and a story she told me I shall also tell you.
The incidents are of a more external kind, but very funny.

1957-06-26 - Birth through direct transmutation - Man and woman - Judging others - divine Presence in all - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is here still the necessity of a resort to the normal means of propagation and the gross method of physical Nature. A purely occult method, a resort to supraphysical processes acting by supraphysical means for a physical result would have to be possible if we are to avoid this necessity: the resort to the sex impulse and its animal process could not be transcended otherwise. If there is some reality in the phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation claimed to be possible by occultists and evidenced by occurrences many of us have witnessed,1 a method of this kind would not be out of the range of possibility. For in the theory of the occultists and in the gradation of the ranges and planes of our being which Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be possible for an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit from its subtlety into the state of gross Matter directly by the intervention of an occult force and process whether with or even without the assistance or intervention of some gross material procedure. A soul wishing to enter into a body or form for itself a body and take part in a divine life upon earth might be assisted to do so or even provided with such a form by this method of direct transmutation without passing through birth by the sex process or undergoing any degradation or any of the heavy limitations in the growth and development of its mind and material body inevitable to our present way of existence. It might then assume at once the structure and greater powers and functionings of the truly divine material body which must one day emerge in a progressive evolution to a totally transformed existence both of the life and form in a divinised earth-nature.
The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 32-33

1957-09-18 - Occultism and supramental life, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But as you have spoken to us so often of Mr. X who was a great occultist, I thought that in the supramental world it would be something natural. All would be as capable as he.
But why this in particular? That is what I dont understand! Why particularly occultism?

1957-10-16 - Story of successive involutions, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There we can choose from many stories that have been told, stories more or less true, more or less complete, more or less expressive. But if by interiorising or exteriorising oneselfwhich, from a certain point of view, is essentially the same thingif one can relive this story, at least partially and in its broad outlines, it helps one to understand and hence to master the how and why of things. Some people have done that, they are the ones usually considered as initiates, occultists and prophets at the same time and very beautiful stories have been told.
I am going to tell you one, very succinctly. Dont take it as a gospel! Take it rather as a story.

1961 03 11 - 58, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I knew an occultist who used to say that it was nothow to put it?inevitable. In the total freedom of the manifestation it is the deliberate separation from the Origin that is the cause of all disorder. But how to explain it? Our words are so poor that we cannot speak of these things. We can say that it was inevitable because it happened; but if we go outside the creation, we can conceiveor we could have conceivedof a creation in which this disorder would not have happened. Sri Aurobindo also said practically the same thing, that it was a kind of accident, if you like, but an accident which has given the manifestation a much greater and much more complete perfection than if it had never occurred. But this still belongs to the real of speculation and these speculations are useless, to say the least. In any case, the experience, the feeling is this: a (Mother indicates an abrupt fall) oh! all of a sudden.
For the earth it probably happened like that, all of a sudden: a kind of ascent, then a fall. But the earth is only a very small point of concentration. For the universe it is something else.
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The occultist I spoke of used to say that the true interpretation of the Bible story about Paradise and the serpent is that man wanted to rise from a state of animal divinitylike the animalsto a state of conscious divinity through the development of the mind and that is what the symbol means when it is said that they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. And the serpen the always used to say that it was iridescent, that is to say, it was all the colours of the rainbowit was not at all the spirit of Evil, it was the evolutionary force, the force, the power of evolution, and of course it was the power of evolution that had made them taste of the fruit of knowledge.
And so, according to him, Jehovah was the chief of the Asuras, the supreme Asura, the egoistic god who wanted to dominate everything and have everything under his control. And once he had taken the position of supreme lord in relation to earthly realisation, of course he was not pleased that man should make this mental progress, for it would bring him a knowledge that enabled him not to obey any longer! This made him furious! For it would enable man to become a god by the evolutionary power of consciousness. And that is why they were driven out of Paradise.

1965 12 26?, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had a perception of this manifestationa pulsating manifestation, one might say, which expands and contracts, expands and contracts. And there comes a time when there is such an expansion, such a fluidity, plasticity, capacity for change that there is no longer any need for it to be reabsorbed so that it can take a new form; and there will be a progressive transformation. I used to know an occultist who said that this is the seventh universal creation, that there have already been six pralayas1 and that this is the seventh creation, but that this one will be able to transform itself without being reabsorbedwhich obviously has no importance whatsoever, for when one has the eternal consciousness it does not matter whether it is like this or like that. Only in the limited human consciousness is there this kind of ambition or need for something that has no end, because, within, there is what might be called the memory of eternity and this memory of eternity aspires for the manifestation to share in this eternity. But if this sense of eternity is active and present, we do not grieve; we do not grieve when we throw away a spoiled garmentwe may be attached to it, but even so we do not grieve! It is the same thing: if a universe disappears, it means that it has fully fulfilled its function, it has come to the end of its possibilities and must be replaced by another one.
I have followed the whole curve. When you are very small in consciousness and development, you feel a great need that the earth should not disappear, that it should continue perpetuallyit can go on transforming itself, but it should always be the earth that goes on. A little later, when you are a little more mature, you give it much less importance. And when you are in constant communion with the sense of eternity, it becomes merely a question of choice; it is no longer a need, because it is something that does not affect the active consciousness. A few days ago I do not remember when, but very recently I lived this Consciousness for a whole morning and I saw, in the curve of the beings development, that this kind of need, which seems to be deep-seated, for the life of the earth to be prolonged for the life of the earth to be prolonged indefinitelythis need is objectified, so to say, it is no longer so deep-seated; it is like looking at a performance and judging whether it should be like this or like that. It was an interesting change of viewpoint.

1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
speaking, no occultist or student of the primal pasts esoteric lore
had his attention called to the strange scroll until the recent
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occultists and students of arcana all over the world. This was not
altogether pleasing to our staff, since we are a scientific institution
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occultist correspondents to make me see in these variants a hideous and
suggestive kinship to the monstrous name rendered by von Junzt as
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when my occultist correspondents, as well as the sensational Sunday
papers, began to connect the new abnormal stirrings with the legends of

1f.lovecraft - The Challenge from Beyond, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
deeply learned Sussex clergyman of occultist leaningsthe Reverend
Arthur Brooke Winters-Hallhad professed to identify the markings on
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This much, according to the learned occultist, the Eltdown Shards had
said. What now made the account so obscurely frightful to Campbell was

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Other ugly reports concerned my intimacy with leaders of occultist
groups, and scholars suspected of connexion with nameless bands of

20.01 - Charyapada - Old Bengali Mystic Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The creation is a stringed musical instrument. Knowledge is its base, the delight is the row of strings tied to the base, the inner silence is the body (rod) on which the strings are laid. The woman is the inspiration of the inner soul, creating the music, she is the mate of the singer, the poet himself. What kind of music is it? It is the music of the Void pouring out the light of compassion all over the creation. The strings are in two layers; the vowels (beginning with aalpha series) are the top series, the consonants the series below (Indian K series, European beta series). That marks the echoing and the re-echoing of the melody, also the right hand and the left hand movements of the consciousness (Knowledge and Power) according to the occultistsit means the total encircling consciousness, the global music. The bridge tightens and maintains the poise of the strings. We may remember here the two subtle nervous lines of 'Ida' and 'Pingala' and the middle one, 'Sushumna' that balances the two. The psychological sense is that the dualities of the world-experience are resolved in the consciousness of the sadhak by a supreme sense of equality. The elephant may mean the strength of physical resolution. The fingers pressing indicate the same thing, the pressure of almost physical consciousness to bring out the vast music that is Nirvana. The Gods and Goddesses are all happy for the curtain is rung down on the play, it is the endNirvana.
You have to cross the three worldsphysical, vital and mental, pass through the three states of consciousness jgrat (waking), swapna (dreaming) and suupta (sleeping)-to enjoy the transcendent delight. It is the ecstasy of union with one's soul, the divine Beloved secreted within our inner heart. This divinity, this beloved deity is utter freedomno mental reservations or restrictions, no vital preferences or prejudices, no physical rules or regulations.

2.02 - On Letters, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: Generally it is used to imply the passive state, but sometimes it is used for both. The psychic being is not the same as the Atman. It is what corresponds to the European idea of 'soul'. The Western occultists recognise, at least they used to recognise, three things: Spirit, soul, body. The Spirit corresponds to the Atman, and the soul to the psychic being. It is the Purusha hdguhym the soul in the cave of the heart.
Disciple: Is the aguha mtra purua, spoken of in the Upanishad the same as the psychic being?

2.12 - On Miracles, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: It is not completely true that man's life is governed by the stars. The conjunctions of the stars are an indication of the forces, especially vital and physical forces. They exert a certain influence on man and the course of his life. It was, perhaps, the Chaldean occultists who found the inner basis of these calculations. Now, only the tradition remains. Astrology is not yet an exact science; it is not purely mental. It is the man whose mind can touch the forces that are behind the stars who can make correct predictions. What is important for man is the inner life and on that the stars have little influence.
18 JUNE 1926

2.13 - On Psychology, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Disciple: Is it possible for a man to completely cut off connection with his soul? occultists speak of 'soulless man'.
Sri Aurobindo: The question is whether the majority of men have got connection with the soul at all.

2.15 - On the Gods and Asuras, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: Not at all. But there are lots of people who have powers, whatever their nature, but may not have any spiritual consciousness. For instance, Cou has a certain power, and so have some occultists in Europe. But they are far from any spiritual consciousness. Generally the man who has some such power is very ordinary and turned downwards in his ordinary vital movements.
(After a long pause) It is not essential that the Higher Consciousness must manifest itself in life and in action upon large masses of men. It is not merely a question of power. The question is what power is manifested, from where does one bring it? For instance, Napoleon had a certain power but that does not mean that he had a spiritual consciousness. So there may be power or powers but no spiritual consciousness. The higher up one goes one finds that the ordinary men are left far behind and cannot reach him, and so his power cannot work upon them.

2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo then recounted the story of how Mother was once on the point of death in Algeria when she was practising occultism with Thon and his wife, both of them great occultists. Madame Thon particularly was a remarkable woman.
Sri Aurobindo: The Mother once exteriorised herself and visited her friends in Paris. The exteriorization was sufficiently material to enable her to write on a piece of paper with pencil.

2.2.03 - The Psychic Being, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The European mind, for the most part, has never been able to go beyond the formula of soul + body - usually including mind in soul and everything except body in mind. Some occultists make a distinction between spirit, soul and body. At the same time there must be some vague feeling that soul and mind are not quite the same thing, for there is the phrase "This man has no soul", or "he is a soul" meaning he has something in him beyond a mere mind and body. But all that is very vague. There is no clear distinction between mind and soul and none between mind and vital and often the vital is taken for the soul.
Psychic is ordinarily used in the sense of anything relating to the inner movements of the consciousness or anything phenomenal in the psychology; in this case I have made a special use of it, relating it to the Greek word psyche meaning soul; but ordinarily people make no distinction between the soul and the mental-vital consciousness; for them it is all the same.

2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is possible indeed that it is the mystic or the incipient occultist who was everywhere the creator of religion and imposed his secret discoveries in the form of belief, myth and practice on the mass human mind; for it is always the individual who receives the intuitions of Nature and takes the step forward dragging or drawing the rest of humanity behind him. But even if we give the credit of this new creation to the subconscious mass mind, it is the occultist and mystic element in that mind which created it and it must have found individuals through whom it could emerge; for a mass experience or discovery or expression is not the first method of Nature; it is at some one point or a few points that the fire is lit and spreads from hearth to hearth, from altar to altar. But the spiritual aspiration and experience of the mystics was usually casketed in secret formulas and given only to a few initiates; it was conveyed to the rest or rather preserved for them in a mass of religious or traditional symbols. It is these symbols that were the heart's core of religion in the mind of an early humanity.
Out of this second stage there emerged a third which tried to liberate the secret spiritual experience and knowledge and put it at the disposal of all as a truth that could have a common appeal and must be made universally available. A tendency prevailed, not only to make the spiritual element the very kernel of the religion, but to render it attainable to all the worshippers by an exoteric teaching; as each esoteric school had had its system of knowledge and discipline, so now each religion was to have its system of knowledge, its creed and its spiritual discipline. Here, in these two forms of the spiritual evolution, the esoteric and the exoteric, the way of the mystic and the way of the religious man, we see a double principle of evolutionary Nature, the principle of intensive and concentrated evolution in a small space and the principle of expansion and extension so that the new creation may be generalised in as large a field as possible. The first is the concentrated dynamic and effective movement; the second tends towards diffusion and status. As a result of this new development, the spiritual aspiration at first carefully treasured by a few became more generalised in mankind, but it lost in purity, height and intensity. The mystics founded their endeavour on a power of suprarational knowledge, intuitive, inspired, revelatory and on the force of the inner being to enter into occult truth and experience: but these powers are not possessed by men in the mass or possessed only in a crude, undeveloped and fragmentary initial form on which nothing could be safely founded; so for them in this new development the spiritual truth had to be clothed in intellectual forms of creed and doctrine, in emotional forms of worship and in a simple but significant ritual. At the same time the strong spiritual nucleus became mixed, diluted, alloyed; it tended to be invaded and aped by the lower elements of mind and life and physical nature. It was this mixture and alloy and invasion of the spurious, this profanation of the mysteries and the loss of their truth and significance, as well as the misuse of the occult power that comes by communication with invisible forces, that was most dreaded by the early mystics and prevented by secrecy, by strict discipline, by restriction to the few fit initiates.
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Occultism is in its essence man's effort to arrive at a knowledge of secret truths and potentialities of Nature which will lift him out of slavery to his physical limits of being, an attempt in particular to possess and organise the mysterious, occult, outwardly still undeveloped direct power of Mind upon Life and of both Mind and Life over Matter. There is at the same time an endeavour to establish communication with worlds and entities belonging to the supraphysical heights, depths and intermediate levels of cosmic Being and to utilise this communion for the mastery of a higher Truth and for a help to man in his will to make himself sovereign over Nature's powers and forces. This human aspiration takes its stand on the belief, intuition or intimation that we are not mere creatures of the mud, but souls, minds, wills that can know all the mysteries of this and every world and become not only Nature's pupils but her adepts and masters. The occultist sought to know the secret of physical things also and in this effort he furthered astronomy, created chemistry, gave an impulse to other sciences, for he utilised geometry also and the science of numbers; but still more he sought to know the secrets of supernature. In this sense occultism might be described as the science of the supernatural; but it is in fact only the discovery of the supraphysical, the surpassing of the material limit, - the heart of occultism is not the impossible chimera which hopes to go beyond or outside all force of Nature and make pure phantasy and arbitrary miracle omnipotently effective. What seems to us supernatural is in fact either a spontaneous irruption of the phenomena of other-Nature into physical Nature or, in the work of the occultist, a possession of the knowledge and power of the higher orders or grades of cosmic Being and Energy and the direction of their forces and processes towards the production of effects in the physical world by seizing on possibilities of interconnection and means for a material effectuality. There are powers of the mind and the life-force which have not been included in Nature's present systematisation of mind and life in matter, but are potential and can be brought to bear upon material things and happenings or even brought in and added to the present systematisation so as to enlarge the control of mind over our own life and body or to act on the minds, lives, bodies of others or on the movements of cosmic Forces. The modern admission of hypnotism is an example of such a discovery and systematised application, - though still narrow and limited, limited by its method and formula, - of occult powers which otherwise touch us only by a casual or a hidden action whose process is unknown to us or imperfectly caught by a few; for we are all the time undergoing a battery of suggestions, thought suggestions, impulse suggestions, will suggestions, emotional and sensational suggestions, thought waves, life waves that come on us or into us from others or from the universal Energy, but act and produce their effects without our knowledge. A systematised endeavour to know these movements and their law and possibilities, to master and use the power or Nature-force behind them or to protect ourselves from them would fall within one province of occultism: but it would only be a small part even of that province; for wide and multiple are the possible fields, uses, processes of this vast range of little explored Knowledge.
In modern times, as physical Science enlarged its discoveries and released the secret material forces of Nature into an action governed by human knowledge for human use, occultism receded and was finally set aside on the ground that the physical alone is real and mind and life are only departmental activities of Matter. On this basis, believing material Energy to be the key of all things, Science has attempted to move towards a control of mind and life processes by a knowledge of the material instrumentation and process of our normal and abnormal mind and life functionings and activities; the spiritual is ignored as only one form of mentality. It may be observed in passing that if this endeavour succeeded, it might not be without danger for the existence of the human race, even as now are certain other scientific discoveries misused or clumsily used by a humanity mentally and morally unready for the handling of powers so great and perilous; for it would be an artificial control applied without any knowledge of the secret forces which underlie and sustain our existence. Occultism in the West could be thus easily pushed aside because it never reached its majority, never acquired ripeness and a philosophic or sound systematic foundation. It indulged too freely in the romance of the supernatural or made the mistake of concentrating its major effort on the discovery of formulas and effective modes for using supernormal powers. It deviated into magic white and black or into a romantic or thaumaturgic paraphernalia of occult mysticism and the exaggeration of what was after all a limited and scanty knowledge. These tendencies and this insecurity of mental foundation made it difficult to defend and easy to discredit, a target facile and vulnerable. In Egypt and the East this line of knowledge arrived at a greater and more comprehensive endeavour: this ampler maturity can be seen still intact in the remarkable system of the Tantras; it was not only a many-sided science of the supernormal but supplied the basis of all the occult elements of religion and even developed a great and powerful system of spiritual discipline and self-realisation. For the highest occultism is that which discovers the secret movements and dynamic supernormal possibilities of mind and life and spirit and uses them in their native force or by an applied process for the greater effectivity of our mental, vital and spiritual being.
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Indeed, without such a truth known and verifiable, our reason might find these experiences insecure and unintelligible, might draw back from them as possibly not founded on truth or else distrust them in their form, if not in their foundation, as affected by an error, even an aberration of the imaginative vital mind, the emotions, the nerves or the senses; for these might be misled, in their passage or transference from the physical and sensible to the invisible, into a pursuit of deceiving lights or at least to a misreception of things valid in themselves but marred by a wrong or imperfect interpretation of what is experienced or a confusion and disorder of the true spiritual values. If reason finds itself obliged to admit the dynamics of occultism, there too it will be most concerned with the truth and right system and real significance of the forces that it sees brought into play; it must inquire whether the significance is that which the occultist attaches to it or something other and perhaps deeper which has been misinterpreted in its essential relations and values or not given its true place in the whole of experience. For the action of our intellect is primarily the function of understanding, but secondarily critical and finally organising, controlling and formative.
The means by which this need can be satisfied and with which our nature of mind has provided us is philosophy, and in this field it must be a spiritual philosophy. Such systems have arisen in numbers in the East; for almost always, wherever there has been a considerable spiritual development, there has arisen from it a philosophy justifying it to the intellect. The method was at first an intuitive seeing and an intuitive expression, as in the fathomless thought and profound language of the Upanishads, but afterwards there was developed a critical method, a firm system of dialectics, a logical organisation. The later philosophies were an intellectual account8 or a logical justification of what had been found by inner realisation; or they provided, themselves, a mental ground or a systematised method for realisation and experience.9 In the West where the syncretic tendency of the consciousness was replaced by the analytic and separative, the spiritual urge and the intellectual reason parted company almost at the outset; philosophy took from the first a turn towards a purely intellectual and ratiocinative explanation of things. Nevertheless, there were systems like the Pythagorean,

2.2.9.02 - Plato, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The European mind, for the most part, has never been able to go beyond the formula of soul + bodyusually including mind in soul and everything except body in mind. Some occultists make a distinction between spirit, soul and body. At the same time there must be some vague feeling that soul and mind are not quite the same thing, for there is the phrase this man has no soul, or he is a soul meaning he has something in him beyond a mere mind and body. But all that is very vague. There is no clear distinction between mind and soul and none between mind and vital and often the vital is taken for the soul.
30 June 1936

2.4.02 - Bhakti, Devotion, Worship, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The scientific explanation [for the disappearance of food offered to a deity in a temple] would be that somebody, a servant perhaps, disregarding prohibitions got secretly in and polished off the food of offering when there was nobody to see! That however assumes that occult manifestations are impossible, which is not the case; it is besides only a probable inference or theory. occultists, or some of them, hold that the food offered to unseen beings is sometimes (but not by any means always) taken in its subtle elements, leaving the outward body of the food as it was. The actual taking of the food, physically, is rare, but instances are believed to have happened where the bhakti was very strong.
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2.4.2 - Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I dont suppose people are at all aware of this occult commerce [of vital energies]. Some like Daudet may observe the expenditure or throwing out of forces, but not the pulling or the effect on others. The idea of mental interchange is familiar though only of the superficial kind, not the silent action of mind on mind which is always going on, but the vital impacts are known only to a few occultists. If one becomes very conscious one can become aware of the forces acting in and from all around, e.g. forces of joy or depression or anger.
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3.1.02 - Spiritual Evolution and the Supramental, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
come and has had, no doubt, its purpose and significance. One may also hold that one of its uses was as an experiment to see how far and whither the human consciousness would go through an intellectual and external control of Nature with physical and intellectual means only and without the intervention of any higher consciousness and knowledge - or that it may help by resistance to draw the spiritual consciousness that is growing behind all vicissitudes to attempt the control of Matter and turn it towards the Divine, as the Tantriks and Vaishnavas tried to do with the emotional and lower vital nature, not contenting themselves with the Vedantic turning of the mind towards the Supreme. But it is difficult to go farther than that or to hold that this materialism is itself a spiritual thing or that the dark, confused and violent state of contemporary Europe was an indispensable preparation for the descent of the Spirit. This darkness and violence which seems bent on destroying such light of mental idealism and desire of harmony as had succeeded in establishing itself in the mind of humanity, is obviously due to a descent of fierce and dark vital Powers which seek to possess the human world for their own, not for a spiritual purpose. It is true that such a precipitation of Asuric forces from the darker vital worlds has been predicted by some occultists as one first result of the pressure of the Divine Descent on their vital domain, but it was regarded as a circumstance of the battle, not as something helping towards the Divine Victory. The churning of Matter by the attempt of the human intellect to conquer material Nature and use it for its purposes may break something in the passivity and inertia, but it is done for material ends, in a rajasic spirit, with a denial of spirituality as its mental basis. Such an attempt may end, seems to be ending indeed in chaos and a disintegration, while the new attempts at creation and reintegration seem to combine the obscure rigidity of material Nature with a resurgence of the barbaric brutality and violence of a half animal vital Nature. How are the spiritual Forces to deal with all that or make use of such a churning of the energies of the material universe? The way of the Spirit is the way of peace and light and harmony; if it has to battle it is precisely because of the presence
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3.18 - Of Clairvoyance and the Body of Light, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
A great majority of spiritualists, occultists, Toshosophists,1 [148]
are pitiable examples of repeated losses from this cause.

3.21 - Of Black Magic, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
reasonably certain that a Western occultist who referred to another individual or
group as being on the Left Hand Path was thereby expressing disapproval of

3.2.3 - Dreams, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This is a very good example of the nature of these dreams and their indications and that is why I have dealt with it at a greater length than its importance seems to warrant. The other two are of the same world, but the third is ambiguous and in the second the clue is missing. The second, if taken as only an encounter with ordinary beings of the human world met on the vital plane seems merely absurd and trivial; but if the people represent forces or movements of this particular vital province, then some meaning is there for I have always found that there is something which even the most casual or insignificant dreams of this kind are trying to indicate. If we take the two dreams together, the elderly lady would represent the interest certain beings in this kind of world take in some kind of pseudo-spiritual stuff of the lower occultist kind, e.g. Steiners anthroposophytaken by her more as a fad than anything else, a fad which she imposes on her guests. That would explain her wanting to sit in the rain for the rain is a symbol of a descent from some other consciousness, and it would explain also the remark of the guest who had been in India, that is to say in some hot-air province of this world where the contact with occultist spirituality or pseudo-spirituality could be had more abundantly than here! To the physical mind the working out of the imagery is absurd and illogical, but this kind of dream cares only to get its symbols through and, not addressing itself to the mind, it disregards logical coherence. The whiskey would be the image of the dram drinking which this kind of occultism can be; along with the rain it would be the clue image.
This is how these dreams are built and the question at once arises, what is their utility and why should they with their triviality and incoherent symbolism and the obscurity and pettiness of the world to which they belong take so large a place. The answer is that it is here between the subconscient and the petty lower vital world that there is the hidden basis of a great part of mans ordinary movements, especially the things that are hereditary, customary, imposed by education and surrounding and left strongly entrenched in the subconscious obscurity, even when suppressed and rejected and entirely contradicted by the mind and will and the higher vital: it is the field of the suppressed complexes of the Freudians, it is the basis of the herd mind, it is the support of all that is petty and obscure in the being and of many other undesirable things. In your dreamseven in your lower vitalyou are out of sympathy with this world, irritated and ill at ease and yet there is something in the subconscient nature that is tied and constantly going there as soon as the waking mind and will are quiescent. So it is with all, for one has to go there for two reasons, first either to become acquainted with its movements and work them out in the subtle experience till they go out of the system by rejection or to clear them out by a conscious action or else to work upon this world and bring into it a real consciousness and a true Light.

4.24 - The supramental Sense, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The phenomena of this vital consciousness and sense, this direct sensation and perception of and response to the play of subtler forces than the physical, are often included without distinction under the head of psychical phenomena. In a certain sense it is an awakening of the psyche, the inner soul now hidden, clogged wholly or partially covered up by the superficial activity of the physical mind and senses that brings to the surface the submerged or subliminal inner vital consciousness and also an inner or subliminal mental consciousness and sense capable of perceiving and experiencing directly, not only the life forces and their play and results and phenomena, but the mental and psychical worlds and all they contain and the mental activities, vibrations, phenomena, forms, images of this world also and of establishing a direct communication between mind and mind without the aid of the physical organs and the limitations they impose on our consciousness. There are, however, two different kinds of action of these inner ranges of the consciousness. The first is a more outer and confused activity of the awakening subliminal mind and life which is clogged with and subject to the grosser desires and illusions of the mind and vital being and vitiated in spite of its wider range of experience and power and capacities by an enormous mass of error and deformations of the will and knowledge, full of false suggestions and images, false and distorted intuitions and inspirations and impulses, the latter often even depraved and perverse, and vitiated too by the interference of the physical mind and its obscurities. This is an inferior activity to which clairvoyants, psychists, spiritists, occultists, seekers of powers and Siddhis are very liable and to which all the warnings against the dangers and errors of this kind of seeking are more especially applicable. The seeker of spiritual perfection has to pass as quickly as possible, if he cannot altogether avoid, this zone of danger, and the safe rule here is to be attached to none of these things, but to make spiritual progress one's sole real objective and to put no sure confidence in other things until the mind and life soul are purified and the light of the spirit and supermind or at least of the spiritually illumined mind and soul are shed on these inner ranges of experience. For when the mind is tranquillised and purified and the pure psyche liberated from the insistence of the desire soul, these experiences are free from any serious danger, -- except indeed that of limitation and a certain element of error which cannot be entirely eliminated so long as the soul experiences and acts on the mental level. For there is then a pure action of the true psychical consciousness and its powers, a reception of psychical experience pure in itself of the worse deformations, although subject to the limitations of the representing mind, and capable of a high spiritualisation and light. The complete power and truth, however, can only come by the opening of the supermind and the supramentalising of the mental and psychical experience.
The range of the psychic consciousness and its experiences is almost illimitable and the variety and complexity of its phenomena almost infinite. Only some of the broad lines and main features can be noted here. The first and most prominent is the activity of the psychic senses of which the sight is the most developed ordinarily arid the first to manifest itself with ally largeness when the veil of the absorption in the surface consciousness which prevents the inner vision is broken. But all the physical senses have their corresponding powers in the psychical being, there is a psychical hearing, touch, smell, taste: indeed the physical senses are themselves in reality only a projection of the inner sense into limited and externalised operation in and through and upon the phenomena of gross matter. The psychical sight receives characteristically the images that are formed in the subtle matter of the mental or psychical ether, cittakasa. These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the physical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions; in Samadhi or in the waking state, and in the latter with the bodily eyes closed or open, projected on or into a physical object or medium or seen as if materialised in the physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and independently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates that the consciousness is more or less awake, intermittently or normally and more or less perfectly, in the psychical body. It is possible to see in this way the transcriptions or impressions of things at any distance beyond the range of the physical vision or the images of the past or the future.

4.3.1 - The Hostile Forces and the Difficulties of Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What occult secret? It is a fact always known to all Yogis and occultists since the beginning of time, in Europe and Africa as in India, that wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together to stop it by any means. It is known that there is a lower nature and a higher spiritual natureit is known that they pull different ways and the lower is strongest at first and the higher afterwards. It is known that the hostile forces take advantage of the movements of the lower nature and try to spoil through them, smash or retard the siddhi. It has been said as long ago as the Upanishads, Hard is this path to tread, sharp like a razors edge; it was said later by Christ, Hard is the way and narrow the gate by which one enters into the kingdom of heaven and also Many are called, few chosenbecause of these difficulties. But it has also always been known that those who are sincere and faithful in heart and remain so and those who rely on the Divine will arrive in spite of all difficulties, stumbles or falls.
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5.03 - The Divine Body, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In India there has been always from the earliest times a widely spread belief in the possibility and reality of the use of these powers by men with an advanced knowledge of these secret things or with a developed spiritual knowledge and experience and dynamic force and even, in the Tantras, an organised system of their method and practice. The intervention of the Yogi in bringing about a desired birth of offspring is also generally believed in and often appealed to and the bestowal on the child so obtained of a spiritual attainment or destiny by his will or his blessing is sometimes asked for and such a result is recorded not only in the tradition of the past but maintained by the witness of the present. But there is here still the necessity of a resort to the normal means of propagation and the gross method of physical Nature. A purely occult method, a resort to supraphysical processes acting by supraphysical means for a physical result would have to be possible if we are to avoid this necessity: the resort to the sex impulse and its animal process could not be transcended otherwise. If there is some reality in the phenomenon of materialisation and dematerialisation claimed to be possible by occultists and evidenced by occurrences many of us have witnessed, a method of this kind would not be out of the range of possibility. For in the theory of the occultists and in the gradation of the ranges and planes of our being which Yoga-knowledge outlines for us there is not only a subtle physical force but a subtle physical Matter intervening between life and gross Matter, and to create in this subtle physical substance and precipitate the forms thus made into our grosser materiality is feasible. It should be possible and it is believed to be possible for an object formed in this subtle physical substance to make a transit from its subtlety into the state of gross Matter directly by the intervention of an occult force and process, whether with or even without the assistance or intervention of some gross material procedure. A soul wishing to enter into a body or form for itself a body and take part in a divine life upon earth might be assisted to do so or even provided with such a form by this method of direct transmutation, without passing through birth by the sex process or undergoing any degradation or any of the heavy limitations in the growth and development of its mind and material body inevitable to our present way of existence. It might then assume at once the structure and greater powers and functionings of the truly divine material body which must one day emerge in a progressive evolution to a totally transformed existence both of life and form in a divinised earth-nature.
But what would be the internal or external form and structure and what the instrumentation of this divine body? The material history of the development of the animal and human body has left it bound to a minutely constructed and elaborated system of organs and a precarious order of their functioning which can easily become a disorder, open to a general or local disorganisation, dependent on an easily disturbed nervous system and commanded by a brain whose vibrations are supposed to be mechanical and automatic and not under our conscious control. According to the materialist all this is a functioning of Matter alone whose fundamental reality is chemical. We have to suppose that the body is constructed by the agency of chemical elements building up atoms and molecules and cells and these again are the agents and only conductors at the basis of a complicated physical structure and instrumentation which is the sole mechanical cause of all our actions, thoughts, feelings, the soul a fiction and mind and life only a material and mechanical manifestation and appearance of this machine which is worked out and automatically driven with a figment of consciousness in it by the forces inherent in inconscient Matter. If that were the truth it is obvious that any divinisation or divine transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, an imagination, a senseless and impossible chimera. But even if we suppose a soul, a conscious will at work in this body it could not arrive at a divine transformation if there were no radical change in the bodily instrument itself and in the organisation of its material workings. The transforming agent will be bound and stopped in its work by the physical organisms unalterable limitations and held up by the unmodified or imperfectly modified original animal in us. The possibility of the disorders, derangements, maladies native to these physical arrangements would still be there and could only be shut out by a constant vigilance or perpetual control obligatory on the corporeal instruments spiritual inhabitant and master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical transformation of the functioning and, it may well be, of the structure and certainly of the too mechanical and material impulses and driving forces of the bodily system would be imperative.

5.4.02 - Occult Powers or Siddhis, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Occult associations, lodges, brotherhoods for such a purpose as described by European occultists are not known in Asia.
As regards secrecy, a certain discretion or silence about the instructions of the Guru and one's own experiences is always advisable, but an absolute secrecy or making a mystery of these things is not. Once a Guru is chosen, nothing must be concealed from him. The suggestion of absolute secrecy is often a trick of the astral Powers to prevent the seeking for enlightenment and succour.

BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
rejected and ignored; therefore, the occultist must neglect nothing which may tend to defeat this
conspiracy of slander. It is proposed to divide the subjects involved in these three last verses into
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clergy. Not much of the literal "Biblical event" there, as any occultist can see.
"The Great Dragon has respect but for the Serpents of Wisdom," says the Stanza; thus proving the
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Every astronomer -- besides occultists and Astrologers -- knows that, figuratively, the astral light, the
milky way, and also the path of the Sun to the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, as well as the circles of
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mental and psychic consumption, every occultist knows that the Serpent alluded to is the north pole, as
also the pole of the heavens.* The latter produces the seasons according to the angle at which it
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Does the Western Kabalist -- generally an opponent of the Eastern occultist -- require a proof? Let
him open Eliphas Levi's Histoire de la Magic," p. 53, and carefully examine his "Grand Symbole
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for all the occultists who believe in such a hierarchy of Sages, the existence of which has been proved
to them by the learned ones of the Fraternity. They are chosen from among some ninety-seven
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this invention coincides in its date with that of the erection of the Great Pyramid. This, to an occultist
and Eastern astronomer, must appear quite absurd. The year of the Kaliyuga is said to have begun
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otherwise proved. Therefore are we occultists fully prepared for such questions as these: "How does
one know that the writer has not invented the whole scheme? And supposing she has not, how can one
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notwithstanding, the occultists will maintain the claim, and simply for this reason: from Bacon down
to our modern Royal Society, we have a too long period, full of the most ludicrous mistakes made by
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Such is the course of Nature under the sway of KARMIC LAW: of the ever present and the everbecoming Nature. For, in the words of a Sage, known only to a few occultists:-- "THE PRESENT IS
THE CHILD OF THE PAST; THE FUTURE, THE BEGOTTEN OF THE PRESENT. AND YET, O

BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
"learned" age, we occultists can but smile. But how about loyalty to the Masters such theological
truants profess to serve, Christ, and Christendom at large?
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became one of the class regarded as simply phenomenal by the Spiritualists and occultists, and as
scientifically impossible by the materialists.
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mentioned in the opinion of the materialists. Nevertheless, occultists and Theosophists are ready to
have their claims and theories -- however unscientific and superstitious at first glance -- compared as
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or germ, according to both Materialists and Psychologists of the modern school -- occultists agreeing
in this for once with their natural enemies -- what is it that guides the force or forces so unerringly in
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Thinkers are approaching the occultists in their general conclusions.
But such metaphysically inclined men of Science are out of court and will hardly be listened to.
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man and the animal has yet been found, then (if the occultist doctrine is to be repudiated) he must
have sprung miraculously in nature, like a fully armed Minerva from Jupiter's brain. And in such case
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every occultist and theosophist will easily realize the process. There can be no objective form on
Earth (nor in the Universe either), without its astral prototype being first formed in Space. From
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273.) occultists, render thanks to science for such corroboration of our claims!
** This seems a poor compliment to pay Geology, which is not a speculative but as exact a science as
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the occultists, Spiritualists, Mystics, etc., etc. Again, "an Empiric -- One who confines himself to
applying the results of his own observations" (only)
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No occultist or "magician," has ever been treated to any worse epithets. Yet the occultist remains on
his own metaphysical grounds, and does not endeavour to rank his knowledge, the fruits of his
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But one can never see the end of such wonders with Haeckel and his school, whom the occultists and
Theosophists have every right to consider as materialistic tramps trespassing on private metaphysical
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Now the occultists, who trace every atom in the universe, whether an aggregate or single, to One
Unity, or Universal Life; who do not recognize that anything in Nature can be inorganic; who know of
no such thing as dead matter -- the occultists are consistent with their doctrine of Spirit and Soul
when speaking of memory in every atom, of will and sensation. But what can a materialist mean by
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It will -- undeniably -- and thus vindicate the anthropology of the occultists. Meanwhile, in his
eagerness to vindicate Mr. Darwin's Descent of Man, Mr. Boyd Dawkins believes he has all but found
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the same right of appeal must be accorded equally to the occultists, instead of remaining the monopoly
of puzzled materialism. Physical man, we say, existed before the first bed of the Cretaceous rocks was
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Round terrestrial life. The diapason of type is run through in brief. occultists are thus at no loss to
"account for" the birth of children with an actual caudal appendage, or for the fact that the tail in the
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of man so very great, indeed, that it falls not so far short of the occultist's estimate.* The modest
thousands of years of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the 100,000 years, to which Anthropology in
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believed; but Mr. Darwin sticks manfully to his belief, and again tells us 'natura non facit saltum' " -wherein the occultists are at one with Mr. Darwin.
Esoteric teaching fully corroborates the idea of nature's slowness and dignified progression.
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Did the Ancients know of worlds besides their own? What are the data of the occultists in affirming
that every globe is a septenary chain of worlds -- of which only one member is visible -- and that these
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the profane. To the occultists, who believe in the knowledge acquired by countless generations of
Seers and Initiates, the data offered in the Secret Books are all-sufficient. The general public needs
other proofs, however. There are some Kabalists and even some Eastern occultists, who, failing to
find uniform evidence upon this point in all the mystic works of the nations, hesitate to accept the
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regard to physical development, come the nearest to the teachings of the occultists. Thus, Professor
Baumgartner, who believes that "the germs for the higher animals could only be the eggs of the lower
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religion the world over, without mentioning the occultists. The "specialized skeleton" is sought for in
the wrong place, where it can never be found. It is expected to be discovered in the physical remains of
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It is time the occultists should disregard any attempts to laugh at them, scorning the heavy guns of the
satire of the men of science as much as the pop-guns of the profane, since it is impossible, so far, to
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An occultist would have put it otherwise. He would say that man was indeed made in the image of a
type projected by his progenitor, the creating Angel-Force, or Dhyan Chohan; while the wanderer of
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even those of the occultists outside the sacred precincts of learning. For what is there, next in order,
now that exact Science has made even of the Life-principle an empty word, a meaningless term; and
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Western Evolutionism, it may not be amiss to define the position of the occultists with regard to the
differentiation of species. The pre-human fauna and flora have been already generally dealt with in the
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Kabalist, and as many appear publicly in the arena, breaking a lance with Theosophists and occultists
in support of the metaphysical interpretation of the Bible. But they commence, unfortunately for them,
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him on this last point," p. 186. So do the occultists; for though they claim a vast difference in the
physiology and outward appearance of the five races so far evolved, still they maintain that the present
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Catholics glare at the Protestants, the occultists pronounce, in their impartiality, that these words have
applied from the first to all and every exoteric Churchianity, that which was the "ceremonial magic" of
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is to the modern Symbologist, but not to the initiated occultists. Their priests were the descendants of
the last Atlanteans, and what is known of them is sufficient to allow the inference that they were
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later have to recognize with occultists that the true solution has to be sought for in a comprehension of
the workings of Karma. As Lefevre remarks, "the time is drawing near when there will remain nothing
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be cited as admirably illustrative of the opinions of the occultist, who awaits in patience the dawn of
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of both Materialism and Theology, the occultists must be ever prepared to repel the attacks of either
or of both.
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by M. Renan, may prove little to the profane. To the occultist, however, once that the term is found in
a work of such immense antiquity as the above cited, it proves a good deal: for instance that Adami
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symbols are all connected with sex and procreation. With the Eastern occultists it is entirely the
reverse. The sexual relation they consider as a "Karma" pertaining only to the mundane relation of
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more often than of the fittest. But the occultists, who regard physical nature as a bundle of most varied
illusions on the plane of deceptive perceptions; who recognise in every pain and suffering but the
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which is visible in the silent influence of never-erring Karma, or abstract nature -- the occultists, we
say, view the great Mother otherwise. Woe to those who live without suffering. Stagnation and death
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Christian (Roman Catholic) Kabalists against the Eastern occultists.
Now even the Materialists are quite harmless, and may be regarded as the friends of Theosophy, when
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unrelentingly the old Count d'Ourches, one of the earliest Eastern occultists in France, a man the
scope of whose occult knowledge will never be appreciated correctly by his survivors, because he
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outlives man -- the Higher Ego, say the occultists, or the divine Double.
[[Vol. 2, Page]] 481 FRAUDULENT TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.
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xxviii.), he shows to an occultist that it is a "prophet," perhaps, still a follower of exoteric worship,
who fulminates against an Initiate of another school and not against an imaginary Lucifer, a fallen
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Sidereal Virgin and the Mysterium Magnum, and by the Eastern occultists AEther, the reflection of
Akasa -- is that which the Church calls Lucifer. That the Latin scholastics have succeeded in
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No occultist acquainted with symbology and the fact that Wisdom came to us from the East, will deny
for a moment that the myth of Prometheus has reached Europe from Aryavarta. Nor is he likely to
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those of the occultists) "this possession forced from Jupiter, this human trespassing upon the property
of the gods, had to be followed by an expiation. . . . Prometheus, moreover, belongs to that race of
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There are many such "dark sayings" throughout Puranas, Bible and Mythology; and to the occultist
they divulge two facts: (a) that the ancients knew as well, and better, perhaps, than the moderns
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The Cross, say the Kabalists, repeating the lesson of the occultists, is one of the most ancient -- nay,
perhaps, the most ancient of symbols. This is demonstrated at the very beginning of the Proem (Vol.
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This may have satisfied the practical Semite mind, but the Eastern occultist has to decline the offer of
such a God; indeed, a Deity, a Being, "having a mind like that of man, only infinitely more powerful,"
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only at that stage when the universe "falls into matter," as the occultists say. Throughout the whole
series of Kabalistic books we have not met with one sentence that would hint in the remotest way at
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with other Eastern occultists, must prefer those of the Pagans.
It is not, then, in the Bible that we have to search for the origin of the Cross and Circle, but beyond the
Flood. Therefore, returning to Eliphas Levi and the Zohar, we answer for the Eastern occultists and
say that, applying practice to principle, they agree entirely with Pascal, who says that "God is a circle,
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Universe" bear an abstract meaning well understood by every occultist, who, no less than any
Christian, believes in the One Law that governs the Universe, recognizing it at the same time as
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mystery is solved -- to the occultist.
"The philosophical cross, the two lines running in opposite directions, the horizontal and
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when it is inscribed within the perfect square, is the basis of the occultist. Within its
mystical precinct lies the master-key which opens the door of every science, physical as
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By "intelligence," the occultist says, Narada means neither "discussion" nor "argumentation," as
Aruna Misra believes, but "intelligence" truly, or the adaptation of the fire of Wisdom to Exoteric
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To the Eastern occultist the TREE of Knowledge in the Paradise of man's own heart, becomes the
Tree of Life eternal, and has nought to do with man's animal senses. It is an absolute mystery that
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this, the Eastern occultist would reply: -- "On this condition, however, that man should be dumb on
the CAUSE that produced both God and its logos. Otherwise, he becomes invariably the reviler, not
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matter to toy with, the Eastern occultists and their disciples, the great alchemists the world over, have
the whole septenate to study from.** As those Alche[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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seven properties of everlasting mother Nature, proved himself thereby a great occultist.
But to return to the consideration of the septenary in ancient religious symbolism. To the metrological
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Cambridge (U.S.A.) in the same way as the occultists do -- namely, in the sense of their essential and
original homogeneity and their origin from one and the same source: -- e.g., Negroes, Aryans,
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Egyptian seven-fold heaven. Every true occultist will understand what this means. Diti, we repeat, is
the sixth
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yet must needs pooh-pooh the same archaic knowledge when claimed by the occultists. For if the
mysterious Septenary Cycle is a law in nature, and it is one, as proven; if it is found controlling the
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Why, then, should not an occultist show the same in cosmic and terrestrial life in the pulse of the
planet and races? Dr. Laycock divides life by three great septenary periods; the first and last, each
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by occultists; and it is perhaps better fitted to be the basis of a perfect system of psychology. It is not
the peculiar property of 'the trans-Himalayan esoteric doctrine.' In fact, it has a closer connection with

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The View of the occultists ... 510
Scientific and Occult Theories on Heat ... 515
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Mr. Keeley, an Unconscious occultist ... 557
Inter-Etheric Waves ... 561
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Occultism, and to every genuine occultist, this will be of little moment. The main body of the
Doctrines given is found scattered throughout hundreds and thousands of Sanskrit MSS., some already
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The occultists assert that all these exist, safe from Western spoliating hands, to re-appear in some
more enlightened age, for which in the words of the late Swami Dayan and Sarasvati, "the Mlechchhas
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Talmud, Sanhedrin," c. 7, etc.; and "Franck," pp. 55, 56.) Many of the Mediaeval occultists,
Alchemists, and Kabalists claimed the same; and even the late modern Magus, Eliphas Levi, publicly
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will produce 1023/1024 , etc., etc. The occultist may remain satisfied, and care for no more.
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to Pantheism will be modified. It is wrong and unjust to regard the Buddhists and Advaitee occultists
as atheists. If not all of them philosophers, they are, at any rate, all logicians, their objections and
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The occultists are, therefore, at one with the Adwaita Vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet.
They show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute ALL
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The occultist
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formation of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by the occultists LIFE and by
Science "energy," then the process takes place [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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Cause,"* which the occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause," the "Eternal," and
the "Unknowable," may be essentially the same as that of the Consciousness which wells up within
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This something, at present unknown to Western speculation, is called by the occultists Fohat. It is the
"bridge" by which the "Ideas" existing in the "Divine Thought" are impressed on Cosmic substance as
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explanation, too, differs somewhat from that of the occultists; to explain which difference, however, is
left to the Vedantins themselves.
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mystics it is the Triad or Trinity, and with their occultists, the male-female Jehovah, Jah-Havah. In
this lies the whole difference between the esoteric and the Christian trinities. The Mystics and the
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incomprehensible to all save the few higher occultists. Nor is there any need to assure the reader that,
no more than most of the profane, does the writer, or rather the humble recorder, understand those
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clear self-consciousness?* A Vedantin would never admit this Hegelian idea; and the occultist would
say that it applies perfectly to the awakened MAHAT, the Universal Mind already projected into the
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in the mind of the great philosopher that which the occultists call the prototypes impressed in the
Astral Light -- the lowest plane and world of Anima Mundi. The union of these three principles
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rather attri bute (Sarira) of Parabrahmam. But an occultist would find much to say against this claim,
and so would the Adwaitee Vedantin.
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phantasm of the former, so Mahat, with the occultists, the first-born of Gnana (or gnosis) knowledge,
wisdom or the Logos -- is a phantasm reflected from the Absolute NIRGUNA (Parabrahm, the one
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Parabrahm) of the Eastern occultists. The Waters of Life, or Chaos -- the female principle in
symbolism -- are the vacuum (to our mental sight) in which lie the latent Spirit and Matter. This it was
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combination of oxygen and hydrogen, thus giving a specific meaning to a term used by occultists in a
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blinds, and the Sacred Numbers, the values of which are all known to the occultists through Initiation.
The former is but a conventional glyph, the latter is the basic symbol of all. That is to say, that one is
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As Balzac, the unconscious occultist of French literature, says somewhere, the Number is to Mind the
same as it is to matter: "an incomprehensible agent;" (perhaps so to the profane, never to the Initiated
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dogmatic Christian, but the Theosophist and the occultist must award the palm of logic to the
converted Hindu. The esoteric Christos in the gnosis is, of course, sexless, but in exoteric theology he
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mastered.* All the Kabalists and occultists, Eastern and Western, recognise (a)
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Entity -- for the Eastern occultists insist that Electricity is an Entity -- electrifies into life, and
separates primordial stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of all life and
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planet and to each constellation an influence which, in the words of Ely Star (a French occultist), "is
proper to it, beneficent or maleficent, and this, after the planetary Spirit which rules it, who, in his turn,
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taught by the occultist), the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms is generated
on our plane by Cosmic heat; and because Kosmos, in the sense of dissociated matter, was not, before
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entities, by whose qualifications and names the ancient Eastern occultists called the four of the seven
primal "centres of Forces," or atoms, that develop later into the great Cosmic "Elements," now divided
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convey a clear idea to both occultists and laymen, must be defined as Parahydrogenic,* Paraoxygenic,
Oxyhydrogenic, and Ozonic, or perhaps Nitr-ozonic; the latter forces or gases (in Occultism,
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names in Alchemy and to the occultists who practise in phenomenal powers. It is by combining and
recombining in a certain way (or dissociating) the "Elements" by means of astral fire that the greatest
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* The literal signification of the word is, among the Eastern occultists of the North, a circular wind,
whirlwind; but in this instance, it is a term to denote the ceaseless and eternal Cosmic Motion; or
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Universe in the popularised Kabala. The esoteric Kabalists, however, following the Eastern occultists,
divide the upper Sephirothal triangle from the rest (or Sephira, Chochmah and Binah), which leaves
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matter diffused through Space, with, perhaps, half an eye to the Ether of Science. But the occultists
identify it with "FATHER-MOTHER" on the mystic plane. (Vide supra.)
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*** When we speak of Neptune it is not as an occultist but as a European. The true Eastern occultist
will maintain that, whereas there are many yet undiscovered planets in our system, Neptune does not
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question will surely be asked, "Do the occultists believe in all these 'Builders,' 'Lipika,' and 'Sons of
Light' as Entities, or are they merely imageries?" To this the answer is given as plainly: "After due
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Container of that Force, but is looked upon by the occultists as an Entity -- the forces he acts upon
being cosmic, human and terrestrial, and exercising their influence on all those planes respectively. On
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Angels and the Devils. For the Kabalist and occultist there is but one; and neither of them makes any
difference between "the Rectors of Light" and the Cosmocratores, or "Rectores tenebrarum harum,"
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the translators of the Bible, "Cherubim," "Seraphim," etc.; and by the occultists, "the winged Globes,"
the "Fiery Wheels," and in the Hindu Pantheon by a number of different names. All these Gandharvas,
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also stop short; the semi-initiated occultist will represent this laya-point to himself as existing on some
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learned Vedantin occultist speaks of that "goddess," explaining the reason why Eswara (or Brahma) is
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matter, blind force, and senseless motion, the occultists point to intelligent LAW and sentient LIFE,
and add that Fohat is the guiding Spirit of all this. Yet he is no personal god at all, but the emanation of
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been known for ages to the occultists. The spectroscope only shows the probable similarity (on
external evidence) of terrestrial and sidereal substance; it is unable to go any farther, or to show
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learned occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the
eternal scorn of the modern chemist, perchance also his subsequent
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This, no doubt, to the disgust of scientific minds. Nevertheless the occultists, who have good reasons
for it, consider all the forces of Nature as veritable, though supersensuous, states of Matter; and as
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adept occultist) possess a distinctive objective if not material structure, in the relatively noumenal -- as
opposed to the phenomenal -- Universe. Men of science may term them Force or Forces generated by
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The occultists, who do not say -- if they would express themselves correctly -- that matter, but only
the substance or essence of matter, is indestructible and eternal, (i.e., the Root of all, Mulaprakriti):
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world of visible causes and effects, is the boundless Space of the Divine Plenum to the occultist.
Among many other objections to the doctrine of an endless evolution and re-involution (or reabsorption) of the Kosmos, a process which, according to the Brahminical and Esoteric Doctrine, is
without a beginning or an end, the occultist is told that it cannot be, since "by all the admissions of
[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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* The occultists, having most perfect faith in their own exact records, astronomical and mathematical,
calculate the age of Humanity, and assert that the latter (as separate sexes) has existed in this Round
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teach it. How, then, can anyone hang the truth or the untruth of the occultist's proposition that "the
Kosmos is eternal in its unconditioned collectivity, and finite but in its conditioned manifestations" on
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known to every occultist, but have remained a closed book for physicists.
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2. These globes are formed by a process which the occultists call the "rebirth of planetary chains (or
rings)." When the seventh and last Round of one of such rings has been entered upon, the highest or
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a relation to Earth of which no master or high occultist will ever speak, much less explain the nature.*
Let it now be distinctly stated, then, that the theory broached is impossible, with or without the
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investigation. But what the occultists have never admitted, nor will they ever admit, is that man was
an ape in this or in any other Round; or that he ever could be one, however much he may have been
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Thus to those who confront the occultists with these lines from the above-named volume: "It is
enough to show that we may as reasonably -- and that we must, if we would talk about these matters
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showing "decided Darwinism," the occultists answer by pointing to the explanation of the Master
(Mr. Sinnett's "teacher") which would contradict these lines, were they written in the spirit attri buted
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among the occultists and the students of the Sacred Science. It is he who changes form, yet remains
ever the same. And it is he again who holds spiritual sway over the
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diagrams made by the occultists; for were the scale of Angelic Beings to be placed on a parallel line
with the scale of the chemical atoms of Science -- from the hypothetical Helium down to Uranium -they would of course be found to differ. For these have, as correspondents on the Astral plane, only the
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right path, it would have to correct its tabular arrangement by that of the occultists -- which it may
refuse to do. In Esoteric Philosophy, every physical particle corresponds to and depends on its higher
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* Paracelsus calls them the Flagae; the Christians, the "Guardian Angels;" the occultist, the
"Ancestors, the Pitris;" they are the sixfold Dhyan Chohans, having the six spiritual Elements in the
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irreconcileable, from the standpoint of materialism. Regarded from that of the occultists, it solves all
these mysteries. Those who are not acquainted with the new discovery of Professor Weissman -- at one
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Eastern metaphysicians, especially the Vedantins, are all Idealists. The occultists are also of the
extreme esoteric Vedantin school, and they call the One Life (Parabrahm), the Great Breath and the
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these agents being, in truth, the living and intelligent Powers which the occultists call Dhyan Chohans.
As to this, a very learned admirer of the Jewish Esotericism tells us that "the Kabala says expressly that
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function' entering into all construction, not particular; that is, by the general ratio 1 to 31415, (the astroDhyanic and) Elohistic figures." To this the Eastern occultist replies: Quite so, it is an abstraction to
our physical senses. To our spiritual perceptions, however, and to our inner spiritual eye, the Elohim or
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Sephiroth, has still another, a sub-occult meaning in it, then and then only the occultist will be ready to
pass the palm of perfection to the Kabalist. Until then, it is asserted that, as Jehovah is in the abstract
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Church. The Jewish Kabalists, especially the practical occultists who dealt with ceremonial magic,
busied themselves solely with the spirits of the Planets and the "Elementals" so-called. Therefore this
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opposite side of some attri bute or quality. Thus when the occultist says that the "Demon is the lining
of God" (evil, the reverse of the medal), he does not mean two separate
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As given by the occultists.
1. Manas is immortal, because after every new incarnation it adds to Atma-Buddhi something of itself,
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to suit himself and his object. Thus he says again, treating upon the same subject, and we, occultists,
answer the late Kabalist and his admirers: -[[first column]]
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held incorrect by orthodox occultists. The "Astral Light" is simply the older "sidereal Light" of
Paracelsus; and to say that "everything which exists has been evolved from it, and it preserves and
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These are the reasons why the occultists refuse to give the name of Astral Light to Akasa, or to call it
Ether. "In my Father's house are many mansions," may be contrasted with the occult saying, "In our
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atoms of the Fire-Mist, if they will, as the occultist will offer no objection to this); when the
"Devourers," we say, have differentiated "the fire-atoms" by a peculiar process of segmentation, the
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would ensure continuous life to him who would use it. There have been two occultists only in Europe
who have discovered and even partially applied it in practice, though its composition has always been
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Paracelsus was, perhaps, the only occultist in Europe, during the last centuries since the Christian era,
who was versed in this mystery. Had not a criminal hand put an end to his life, years before the time
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between the ancient Eastern occultists and the Jewish Kabalists we refer the reader to Book II., "The
Holy of Holies."*
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all, except some occultists and Kabalists, about the true essence and nature of matter. It is on the
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alone -- that a Spirit is endowed with intelligence -- is a proof to the occultist that that Being must
have been a man, and acquired his knowledge and intelligence throughout the human cycle. There is
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rejection of idols, including every anthropomorphic god. In this sense every occultist is a Nastika.
(2) It admits a Logos or a collective "Creator" of the Universe; a Demi-urgos -- in the sense implied
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transcendental Reality believed in by occultists, often appearing merely a personification of a "force
behind phenomena" -- an infinite and eternal Energy
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* The Eastern occultist says -- "are guided and informed by the Spiritual Beings" the Workmen in the
invisible worlds and behind the veil of Occult nature, or nature in Abscondito.
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outside these, deny entirely any other kind or class of invisible beings. The occultists and Kabalists
are thus the only rational expounders of the ancient traditions, which have now culminated in
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Neither the occultists generally, nor the Theosophists, reject, as erroneously believed by some, the
views and theories of the modern scientists, only because these views are opposed to Theosophy. The
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the occultist, who defines the latter as one of the principles of Akasa only, it is as certainly, together
with its primary, the cause of sound, only a physical and spiritual, not a material cause by any means.
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ready to die for her, and it is not the occultists who will protest against its adoption by Science under
whatever new name. But, until absolutely forced on the notice and acceptance of Scientists, many an
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plaintiff. The Theosophists and occultists stand arraigned by public opinion, which still holds high the
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generalizations resting on a purely inductive basis -- every Theosophist and occultist welcomes
respectfully and with due admiration its contri butions to the domain of cosmological law. There can
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attri bute all to blind matter, that the occultists claim the right to dispute and call in question their
theories. Science cannot, owing to the very nature of things, unveil the mystery of the universe around
us. Science can, it is true, collect, classify, and generalize upon phenomena; but the occultist, arguing
from admitted metaphysical data, declares that the daring explorer, who would probe the inmost
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modern perception before the occultists admit themselves to be in the wrong. We shall touch upon the
constitution of the Sun and planets, and the occult characteristics of what are called Devas and Genii,
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modern Psychology, that the true occultist believes in "Lords of Light;" that he believes in a Sun,
which, far from being simply "a lamp of day" moving in accordance with physical law, and far from
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In this question, of course, it is the occultists who will be worsted. They will be considered on the
prima facie aspect of the dispute to be ignoramuses, and labelled with more than one of the usual
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that of a madness which denies everything, as do Materialism and Idealism. Hence, the occultists are
fully prepared to receive their dues from Materialism, and to meet the adverse criticism which will be
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For the occultists it is both Spirit and Matter. Behind the "mode of motion," now regarded as "the
property of matter" and nothing more, they perceive the radiant noumenon. It is the "Spirit of Light,"
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or occultist, and he pays little attention to that of mere sense. That which is meant by the allegorical
sentence, "Fiat Lux" is,-- when esoterically rendered -- "Let there be the 'Sons of Light,' " or the
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the occultist can hardly be regarded as assuming too much, when he places alongside of these devices
and "symbolical systems" of modern Science, the symbols and devices of Archaic teachings.
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which Science in our day cares very little, but in which Occultism believes, for the occultists have
exhibited proofs of the validity of their claims in every age. And in what age were there no occultists
and no ADEPTS?
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revealed in these figures. And yet without doubt if an occultist were to give out an estimate, each of
these gentlemen would vehemently protest in the name of 'EXACT' Science at the rejection of his
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logical metaphysics especially. But we see, whenever the occultists are bold enough to raise their
diminished heads, that materialistic, physical science is honey-combed with metaphysics;* that its
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* Verae causae for physical science are mayavic or illusionary causes to the occultist, and vice versa.
** Very much "differentiated," on the contrary, since the day it left its laya condition.
*** For the occultists who say that the author of nature is nature itself, something indistinct and
inseparable from the Deity, it follows that those who are conversant with the occult laws of nature,
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Leibnitz, the occultists claim as their authorities and supporters only Sir Isaac Newton and Cuvier, as
above cited, they need fear little from modern Science, and may loudly and proudly proclaim their
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philosophers and occultists -- "Gods," or the creative fashioning Powers. The modes of expression
may have been different, and the ideas more or less philosophically enunciated by all sacred and
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When an occultist speaks of Fohat -- the energising and guiding intelligence in the Universal Electric
or Vital Fluid, -- he is laughed at. Withal, as now shown, neither the nature of electricity, nor of Life
nor even of Light, are to this day understood. The occultist sees in the manifestation of every force in
Nature, the action of the quality, or the special characteristic of its noumenon; which noumenon is a
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But in order to gain the point the occultists have to examine the credentials of the law of gravity, first
of all, of "Gravitation, the King
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fellow-men, are far greater transgressors than the occultists or any Theosophist. Meanwhile many of
the latter prefer believing in some one "Lord" or other, and are quite welcome to do as they like.
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this may well afford good hope to the occultists, for their minor gods. For we believe in Le Couturier's
prophecy about gravitation. We know the day is approaching when an absolute reform will be
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As may be found on the first pages of Book I., occultists have nothing surely against motion** the
GREAT BREATH of Mr. Herbert Spencer's "UNKNOWN." But, believing that everything on Earth is
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(I.) The Sun is a great Magnet.* This is what some eminent modern scientists and also the occultists
believe in.
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the perpetual care of a spirit, or spirits. The whole of Antiquity believed in this idea. The occultists do
not use the word Spirit, but say Creative Forces, which they endow with intelligence. But we may call
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important, in order to support the occult teachings concerning astronomy and Cosmology. occultists
were threatened with terrible penalties for questioning scientific truths. But now they feel braver -Science is less secure in its "impregnable" position than they were led to expect, and many of its
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is still Sunlight -- this is Science.* In the opinion of an experienced occultist, one who has verified the
whole series of Nidanas, of causes and effects that finally project their last effect on to this our plane
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The occultists are often misunderstood because, for lack of better terms, they apply to the essence of
Force under certain aspects the descriptive epithet of substance. Now the names for the varieties of
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of which the Eastern occultist, who follows this scientific strife, beholds in the greatest bewilderment.
To conclude on the question of gravity. How can Science presume to know anything certain of it?
How can it maintain its position and its hypotheses against those of the occultists, who see in gravity
only sympathy and antipathy, or attraction and repulsion, caused by physical polarity on our terrestrial
plane, and by spiritual causes outside of its influence? How can they disagree with the occultists
before they agree among themselves? Indeed one hears of the conservation of energy, and in the same
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being absolutely hard and inelastic! An occultist opens a scientific work and reads as follows: -"Physical atomism derives all the qualitative properties of matter from the forms of atomic motion.
The atoms themselves remain as elements utterly devoid of property." (Wundt, "Die Theorie der
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existence of the latter. Matter, to the occultist, it must be remembered, is that totality of existences in
the Kosmos, which falls within any of the planes of possible perception. We are but too well aware
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however supersensuous. Neither do the occultists deny the correctness of the vibratory theory.* Only
they limit its functions to our Earth -- declaring its inadequacy on other planes than ours, since
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The occultists are taken to task for calling the Cause of light, heat, sound, cohesion, magnetism, etc.,
etc., a substance.** Mr. Clerk Maxwell has stated that the pressure of strong sunlight on a square mile
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** The "substance" of the occultist, however, is to the most refined substance of the physicist, what
radiant matter is to the leather of the Chemist's boots.
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more than once before now -- do the occultists dispute the explanations of Science, as affording a
solution of the immediate objective agencies at work. Science only errs in believing that, because it
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have their origin in, the supra-solar Upadhi, in the ether of the occultist -- or Akasa.
** To cite a most impartial critic, one whose authority no one can call in question, as a reminder to
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the occultists meet successfully the two points, namely (a) the production of heat by friction -excitation of molecular motions; and (b) the conversion of heat into mechanical force, if they hold to
the old "exploded" theory of heat being a substance or a fluid?"
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fluids. If it did not look pedantic, an occultist would even object to electricity being called a fluid -- as
it is an effect and not a cause. But its noumenon, he would say, is a conscious cause. The same in the
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and apply admirably to the case in hand. Science has no right to deny to the occultists their claim to a
more profound knowledge of the so-called Forces; which, they say, are only the effects of causes
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than he will ever know -- unless he becomes an occultist. Let him turn to the allegory of Pururavas and
the celestial Gandharva,* who furnished the former with a vessel full of heavenly fire. The primeval
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a meaning, the Hindu occultists are a proof, and they alone are able to enlighten Science, as to why
and how, "the fire, that was primevally one, was made threefold (treta) in our present Manvantara, by
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the Occult Gandharva of the Vedas -- will be recognised by every occultist, and even by some
profane readers.
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Solar "flames" seen through telescopes are reflections, says Occultism. But see what occultists have
to say to this in Book I.
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science which postulates that we cannot see and hear otherwise. The occultists and mystics know
better. The Vedic Aryans were as familiar with the mysteries of sound and colour as our physiologists
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record them; and (this for the Metaphysicians and occultists) the SEVENTH to preserve the spiritual
fruition and remembrance thereof, as in a Book of Life which belongs to Karma. The ancients divided
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This is called nervous excitation, but no one, except occultists, knows the reason of such nervous
perturbation or explains the primary causes of it. The "principle of Life" may kill when too exuberant,
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Of course, the occultists are fully aware of the fact that the Vitalist "fallacy," so derided by Vogt and
Huxley, is, nevertheless, still countenanced in very high scientific quarters, and, therefore, they are
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Meanwhile the occultist goes further, as has been shown in the Commentaries on the Seven Stanzas.
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to go further. Unless it also admits the possibility of One Element, or the ONE LIFE of the occultists.
It will have to hang up that "single substance," especially if limited to only the solar nebulae, like the
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the occultists conceive of in its laya, or zero state, is not the matter of modern science; not even in its
most rarefied gaseous state. Mr. Crookes' "radiant matter" would appear matter of the grossest kind in
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first lecture (quoted later) and deserve well the attention of every occultist, Theosophist, and
Metaphysician. This is what he says in his "Elements and Meta-Elements," thus justifying Stallo's
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it, a failure prognosticated and maintained by some occultists from the first, the phenomena exhibited
by the discoverer during the last few years have been wonderful, almost miraculous, not in the sense
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In the humble opinion of the occultists, as of his immediate friends,
[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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[[Vol. 1, Page]] 557 AN UNCONSCIOUS occultist.
This, as easily seen, is precisely the Eastern doctrine. His inter-etheric point is the laya-point of the
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Mr. Keely speaks as an unconscious occultist, nevertheless, when he remarks in his theory of
planetary suspension: -"As regards planetary volume, we would ask in a scientific point of view, How can the
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And what occultists understand by a "laya centre."
The above is pronounced "unscientific" by many. But so is everything that is not sanctioned and kept
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* "By Fohat, more likely," would be an occultist's reply.
[[Vol. 1, Page]] 558 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
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out "a fourth state of matter," whereas the occultists have penetrated years ago beyond
the sixth, and therefore do not infer, but know of, the existence of the seventh, the last.'
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discoveries to their logical end seems certain to occultists. But of this more presently. Even in its
limitations this discovery may prove of the greatest benefit. For: -"Step by step, with a patient perseverance which some day the world will honour, this
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The occultists are ready to admit all this with the eloquent writer. Molecular vibration is, undeniably,
"Keely's legitimate field of research," and the discoveries made by him will prove wonderful -- yet
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[[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------* This also is the division, made by the occultists, under other names.
** Quite so, since there is the seventh beyond, which begins the same enumeration, from the first to
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in their views to be accepted by the occultists) when arguing through Mrs. M. S. Organ, M.D., that
"there must be positive entitative properties in objects which have a constitutional relation to the
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WHEN the occultist speaks of "Elements," and of human Beings who lived during those geological
ages, the duration of which it is found as impossible to determine, according to the opinion of one of
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As to the "elemental atoms," so called, the occultists refer to them by that name with a meaning
analogous to that which is given by the Hindu to Brahma when he calls him ANU, the "Atom." Every
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"Promised land." The meaning is evident to an occultist. The process was supposed to be accomplished
by a kind of metempsychosis, the psychic spark being conveyed through bird, beast, fish, and the most
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Lord," though the occultists give it another name. Iswara, say the Vedantins, is the highest
consciousness in nature. "This highest consciousness," answer the occultists, "is only a synthetic unit
in the world of the manifested Logos -- or on the plane of illusion; for it is the sum total of DhyanChohanic consciousnesses." "Oh, wise man, remove the conception that not-Spirit is Spirit," says
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the theory, but assert only that it needs completion and re-arrangement. But the occultists are by no
means the only heretics in this respect; for Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S., remarks, in his Researches on
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protyle, next neighbour to the unconscious Mulaprakriti of the occultists: -. . . . . "Let us start at the moment when the first element came into existence. Before this
time, matter, as we know it, was not. It is equally impossible to conceive of matter
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With every respect due to the great knowledge of the lecturer, the occultist would put it otherwise.
They would say that no atom is ever "created," for the atoms are eternal within the bosom of the One
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remark which will strike every occultist, however it may be derided by orthodox Science. This
method of illustrating the periodic law in the behaviour of elements, whether or not still a hypothesis
in chemistry, is a law in Occult Sciences. Every well-read occultist knows that the seventh and fourth
members -- whether in a septenary chain of worlds, the septenary hierarchy of angels, or in the
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easy potentiality of the formation of an element which would fit into the place" -- an occultist would
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all matters of detail to physical science. The duty of the occultist lies with the Soul and Spirit of
Cosmic Space, not merely with its illusive appearance and behaviour. That of official physical science
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physicists, the occultists maintain that all the "Forces" of the Scientists have their origin in the Vital
Principle, the ONE LIFE collectively of our Solar system -- that "life" being a portion, or rather one
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quote the words of a Master: "They (the occultists) find that the centrifugal theory of Western birth is
unable to cover all the ground. That, unaided, it can neither account for every oblate spheroid, nor
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Considering all this, the occultists believe they have a right to present their philosophy, however
misunderstood and ostracised it may be at present. And they maintain that this failure of the scientists
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to recognise either an inspiring external power, or the reincarnation which the occultists see in it. It
fills a gap which Newton, with all his genius, failed to bridge. And surely it is our primeval matter,
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take the same views about "things occult" as theosophists and occultists do. These recognise a distinct
vital principle independent of the organism -- material, of course, as physical force cannot be
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Thus the occultists are not alone in their beliefs. Nor are they so foolish, after all, in rejecting even the
"gravity" of modern Science along with other physical laws, and in accepting instead attraction and
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more material, though both invisible -- the occultist does not locate these spheres either outside or
inside our Earth, as the theologians and the poets do; for their location is nowhere in the space known
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that some of it comes to the present day "which had never belonged to the earth before" ("WorldLife"), how much more logical to believe -- as the occultists do -- that through the countless ages and
millions of years that have rolled away, since that dust aggregated and formed the globe we live in
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These words will be re-echoed and approved by every Eastern occultist. Much from the lectures by
Prof. Crookes has already been quoted in XII. of these Addenda. Since then, there has been another
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become what they are in our atmosphere, they are interstellar Ether; still earlier and on a deeper plane -something else, and so on in infinitum. The eminent and learned gentleman must pardon an occultist
for quoting him at such length; but such is the penalty of a Fellow of the Royal Society who
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there; . . . Descartes denied soul to the animal, Leibnitz endowed, as the occultists do, "the whole
creation with mental life, this being, according to him, capable of infinite gradations." And
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end of our perceptive senses. The occultist knows the worth or worthlessness of the latter.
The student must now be shown the fundamental distinction between the system of Leibnitz* and that
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being as a terrestrial animal may be left to Science, which occultists -- of all men -- regard with
veneration and respect. They recognize its ground and the wonderful work done by it, the progress
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No occultist would deny that man -- no less than the elephant and the microbe, the crocodile and the
lizard, the blade of grass or the crystal -- is, in his physical formation, the simple product of the
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suspected that he was repeating an axiom of the occultists. It is quite true also, as Burmeister (quoted
in "Force and matter") remarks, that
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unphilosophically attri buted to the latter. An occultist or a philosopher will not speak of the goodness
or cruelty of Providence; but, identifying it with Karma-Nemesis, he will teach that nevertheless it
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Why, then, should occultists and astrologers, as learned, be disbelieved, when they prophesy the
return of some cyclic event on the same mathematical principle? Why should the claim that they know
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dependence, but a proof is given on what, to every occultist, is quite scientific evidence -- the records
preserved through the Zodiac for incalculable ages.
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No occultist, no astrologer of Eastern birth, will ever agree with Christian mystics, or even with
Kepler's mystical astronomy, his great science and erudition notwithstanding; simply because, if his
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significance, when used by occultists and Mystics. It is not only a critical period, during which some
great change is periodically expected, whether in human or cosmic constitution, but it likewise
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misunderstood the Hindu Symbology, no occultist can fail to do it justice once that he knows
something of the Secret Sciences; nor will he turn away from their metaphysical and mystical
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science, that it will evoke passionate denial. The occultists, however, know that the traditions of
Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile
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Minor, almost coeval with it, which are generally referred to by the Indo-Aryan occultists as the fifth.
If their teaching followed the appearance of the Continents in their geological and geographical order,
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he laughs at the Biblical Adam, and as the theologian laughs at his pithecoid ancestor. The occultists
and their severe critics may feel that they have pretty well mutually squared their accounts by this
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to the occultist by the learned fraternity. Shall we take for one of our supports Mr. T. Mellard Reade?
This gentleman, in a paper on "Limestone as an Index of Geological Time," read by him in 1878

BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
later in the Mahabharatan War, which to the Europeans is the fabulous, to the Hindus and occultists
the historical, strife between the Suryavansas and the Indovansas. Originating in the dual aspect of the
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surrounded by twelve personages; in whom the occultist recognises the twelve great gods, and the
pious Christian Orientalist the apostles, or rather the Grecian pagan prophecy thereof.
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the Papists reject the additional information which the occultists may give them on Moon-worship,
since it all tends to show their (the Roman Catholic) worship as old as the world -- OF SABAEANISM
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superstitious and unscientific idea. But the most learned occultists assert this because they know it.
The universe of living beings, of all those which procreate their species, is the living witness to the
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This is why the occultists and even some Kabalists, whether they regard or not those creative Forces
as living and conscious Entities -- and one does not see why they should not be so accepted -- will
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is impossible for any occultist or student of Eastern Esotericism to concur in the strange idea that "the
religious con-
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rhetoric, and has always been denounced by the occultists. To the Jewish Kabalists, and even the
Christian Alchemists and Rosicrucians, Jehovah was a convenient screen, unified by the folding of its
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the pleasure of the occultists to prove that both Aidoneus and Dionysius are the bases of Adonai, or
"Jurbo Adonai," as Jehovah is called in Codex Nazaraeus. "Thou shalt not worship the Sun, who is
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belongs to a Kabir of a lesser dignity" -- an Elemental, perhaps, as an occultist would call it; and the
same may be said of every Cosmic Element.

Liber, #Liber Null, #Peter J Carroll, #Occultism
description ::: These are texts relating to the philosophy of Thelema, many of them written by the occultist Aleister Crowley who founded the organization A.'. A.'. (Argentium Astrum -- the Silver Star) as well as others by members of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis -- Order of the Eastern Temple) (founded by Theodor Reuss and Karl Kellner in 1895). These two organizations work together to promote Thelema.
--- LIBER

Talks 001-025, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
Moreover what are these powers for? The would-be occultist (siddha) desires to display the siddhis so that others may appreciate him.
He seeks appreciation, and if it is not forthcoming he will not be happy. There must be others to appreciate him. He may even find another possessor of higher powers. That will cause jealousy and breed unhappiness. The higher occultist (siddha) may meet a still higher siddha and so on until there will come one who will blow up everything in a trice. Such is the highest adept (siddha) and He is God or the Self.
Which is the real power? Is it to increase prosperity or bring about peace? That which results in peace is the highest perfection (siddhi).

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
study with Theon who was a great occultist; his wife was still more so. From
there once the Mother visited Paris and was among her friends and wrote
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Have any of you read Jules Romains? He is at once a doctor, an occultist, a novelist and a dramatist. The Mother speaks very highly of him.
She says that he doesn't depict the outer circumstances as they are but goes

The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
of modem occultists. If we had to bring in our personal opinion in this debate, we would say
that phonetic cabala recognizes a close relationship between the Greek words [*40-1 ]
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These suggestions help to understand the error into which many occultists have fallen by
taking literally the purely allegorical tales, written with the intention of teaching the ones what
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(6) Some occultists place the Jester or the Alchemist as the last of the 21 cards of the deck, that is to say, after the card The
World and it is given the highest value. Such an order would be without any great consequence the Jester having no

The Riddle of this World, #unknown, #Unknown, #unset
falsehoods presented and only a trained occultist with the infallible tact
born of long experience can guide himself without stumbling or being

The Shadow Out Of Time, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
Other ugly reports concerned my intimacy with leaders of occultist groups, and scholars
suspected of connection with nameless bands of abhorrent elder-world hierophants.

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