This Theosophical Encyclopedia contains all the articles of the printed … Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pali, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature, and principally to be found in Isis Unveiled, Esoteric Buddhism, …
… die devoured by the dead” (The History of Magic, p.144). In his work, Transcendental Magic Lévi wrote, “Black Magic is the occult continuation of the proscribed rites belonging to the ancient world. Immolation is the basis of the Mysteries of …
… — and therefore finite and conditioned. The “first” cannot be the absolute , for it is a manifestation. Therefore, Eastern Occultism calls the Abstract All the “Causeless One Cause,” the “Rootless Root,” and limits the “First Cause” to the Logos, …
… for which he wrote many papers. He was awarded the Subba Row Medal in 1967. Publications include: Intelligence Came First; Occult Chemistry Re-Evaluated; Our Last Adventure; Inner Adventures . © Copyright by the Theosophical Publishing House, …
… is one who has taken the seventh initiation. The Chohans also head the different rays of humanity. ( Talks on the Path of Occultism , Vol. II, p. 376) Thus, the MAHATMAS MORYA , KOOT HOOMI , the VENETIAN , SERAPIS , HILARION , JESUS and Count of …
… etc. Physical science knows it as “heat, light, electricity, and magnetism”; but ignoring its spiritual properties and the occult potency contained in ether, rejects everything it ignores. ( IU I:507-8) © Copyright by the Theosophical …
… Helena P. BLAVATSKY wrote: “The books of Hermes Trismegistus contain the exoteric meaning, still veiled for all but the Occultists, of the Astrology and Astrolatry of the Khaldi. The two subjects are closely connected. Astrolatry, or the … is the natural result of only half-revealed Astrology, whose Adepts carefully concealed from the noninitiated masses its Occult principles and the wisdom imparted to them by the Regents of the Planets — the ‘Angels.’ Hence, divine Astrology for …
… can write the worst, most convoluted opening sentence to a novel. His inclusion here is due to his undoubted knowledge of occult teachings demonstrated in some of his novels — especially Zanoni, a Rosicrucian Tale (1842), A Strange Story … weak. . . . [L]earn the lesson that Nature teaches you, and strive through darkness to the light” (Book I, chapt. 4). His occult novels, especially The Coming Race , prefigured the works of H.G. Wells (1866-1946) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). …
… pre-human period. All these are the Seed of Humanity, so to speak” (SD II:284). In her article, The Septenary Principle in Occultism, Helena P. Blavatsky writes that “The fact that Manu himself is made to declare that he was created by Viraj and … the Persians were called the Amshaspends. In Jewish Theosophy, the Qabbālāh they were called the Sephiroth” (Studies in Occult Philosophy, TUP, Pasadena, 1945, p. 595). P.S.H. © Copyright by the Theosophical Publishing House, Manila …
… Magi, as well as Brahmans, were originally a hierarchy of adepts, “profoundly versed in physical and spiritual sciences and occult knowledge, of various nationalities, all celibates, and enlarging their numbers by the transmission of their …