This Theosophical Encyclopedia contains all the articles of the printed … death of her second husband she settled in Paris calling her palace Holyrood. All her life the Countess was interested in occult subjects and at her home she had a chapel in which she held frequent séances. Shortly after the publication of Isis …
… birds are released in memory of the Buddha’s compassionate nature. Charles W. LEADBEATER states in Talks on the Path of Occultism (vol. 2, p. 383) that the Lord Buddha appears at this time every year to pour spiritual force upon the world. He …
… University of Toronto and later at New York University. He saw the necessity of reprinting some of the valuable mystic and occult works, products of the early days of the Theosophical Society, which had been allowed to go out of print. To this end …
… farmer, hotel keeper, prospector, and actor, he began writing highly successful novels. His interest in theosophy and the occult was reflected in his novels, and he became known as “The Ghost Man.” Blackwood was a charter member of the Toronto …
… and Angiras [the last and supreme initiation] ( CW 5:62). It has been suggested by Gottfried de PURUCKER ( Studies in Occult Philosophy , TUP, 1973, p. 442) that Senzar may have the same root as Zend, the language of the ancient scripture of …
… for the modern critic, who goes no deeper than the surface of old religions — the Sun and Moon, which are, according to the Occult teachings, our heavenly Parents, or “Father,” synthetically. (SD I:575) The concept of the seven sacred planets is …
… Crawford. In The Readers Guide to the Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett , the editors note that Crawford was interested in “occultism” and had been in touch with Alfred P. Sinnett and Helena P. Blavatsky. Lindsay was born at St. Germain-en-Laye, …
… on the physical plane (49 6 ), representing the bubbles of an ultimate physical atom ( aṇu ). Koilon is the term used in Occult Chemistry to describe the finer aether of Space. Hence the bubbles, which constitute matter, are really the absence …
… is midway between a spiritual triad and a psycho-physical triad — in other words, man has a septenary nature, which is the occult teaching as found in modern theosophy. The idea of the Decad or ten is important in Pythagoreanism and it is … all natural forces were “Spiritual Entities” (SD I:492), i.e., were intelligent, not blind, forces, a principal idea of occult philosophy. Pythagoreans made important contributions not only to mathematics and astronomy, but also to medicine. …
… Knowledge” (No. 134). Helena P. Blavatsky stresses the seriousness of probation in these words: There is a strange law in Occultism which has been ascertained and proven by thousands of years of experience; nor has it failed to demonstrate …