… disputed, particularly when Franz Mesmer presented a number of demonstrations in Paris claiming to be using a psychic or occult force which became known as mesmerism. Mesmer’s claims were discounted by a committee of the Académie des Sciénces. …
… of a feeling of things that are coming. It might in one sense be spoken of as a form of clairvoyance” ( Fountain Source of Occultism, TUP, 1974, p. 241). Actually, the way ESP terms are now defined, it could be either telepathy, clairvoyance, or … through this faculty. For example, the Master KOOT HOOMI wrote to Alfred P. SINNETT that “it was never the intention of the Occultists really to conceal what they had been writing from the earnest determined students, but rather to lock up their …
… Kupka, who was a spiritualist medium in Prague and Vienna before coming to Paris in 1896 and mixing with theosophists and occultists. Kupka’s work combines the results of his own visions with geometrical symbolism and allusions to esoteric … Object of the Theosophical Society. Two slightly later American groups were keenly aware of theosophy, oriental philosophy, occultism and spiritualism. The first, loose grouping of Arthur Dove, Marasden Hartley, Georgia O’Keefe and the photographer …
… be what they are and not wanting them to be different and the other letting events be what they are. .....the first step in occultism is to realize that we are ceaselessly self-deceived... Three Halls, O weary pilgrim, lead to the end of toils. …
… Quotes by Radha Burnier 4 January 2017 / Comments Submitted by admin on 4 January 2017 “True Occultism or Theosophy is the ‘Great Renunciation of the self,’ unconditionally and absolutely, in thought as in action.” … there is no real learning. Gentle Thoughts and a Gentle World (article on theosophy world) Burnier, R Quotes … “True Occultism or Theosophy is the ‘Great Renunciation of the self,’ unconditionally and absolutely, in thought as in action.” …
… A, B, C, AB, BC, AC, ABC totaling seven. He wrote: As a general rule, whenever seven entities are mentioned in the ancient occult science in India, in any connection whatsoever, you must suppose that those seven entities came into existence from …
… a driving force behind a movement of renewed spiritual aspiration and interest in the Orient, in ancient wisdom, and in the occult. This period, up to World War I, saw theosophy’s greatest influence on music, when it was linked specifically with composers (as also with painters) in the forefront of the Modernist movement. In France, theosophy contributed to the occultist atmosphere of the fin de siècle period, out of which came the “Rosicrucian” music of Erik Satie, and the symbolist …
… the destiny of the man, still their position may indicate what that destiny is likely to be. . . . As understood by the Occultist, it [destiny] is merely the chain of causation producing its correspondential series of effects. One who has carefully followed the teachings of Occultism . . . knows that every individual is his own creator or his own father, i.e ., our future personality will be the …
… of atomism in The Secret Doctrine and clairvoyant investigations of the atom in such later theosophical writings as Occult Chemistry by Charles W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant. Probably that is because the Vaieika concept of the atom (anu) … system of Indian philosophy which is not “found in full anywhere” but which “pertains to their synthesis”, i.e., “is the Occult doctrine” (SD I:269; cf. I:278). Whether this is a form of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Advaita Vedānta, or Kashmiri Śaivism is …
… B. ON CHAINS OF PLANETS AND THEIR PLURALITY. 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 … in the millions of years which have elapsed in the course of its existence; and changing its "skin," as it is called in Occultism, that the Earth has not had each time her special humanities adapted to such atmospheric and climatic conditions …