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Freemasonry

… HPB established the Esoteric Section, its rules forbade members to belong to any other group devoted to “mystic study or occult training, except Masonry and the Odd Fellows.” That exception in an indication of the special status HPB accorded the …

Philippines, Theosophy in the

… Previously, lodges were concentrated in Luzon island. In 1989, the Section also published  Light of the Sanctuary: The Occult Diary of Geoffrey Hodson , containing diary entries of the author regarding his contact with the Mah€tmas. Before he …

Italy, Theosophy in

… secretary of the Italian Parliament. This Lodge translated and published several Theosophical books, among which were The  Occult World  and  Esoteric Buddhism  by Alfred P. SINNETT. At about the same time, Lodges were established at Genoa and …

The Real Work of the Theosophical Society - N. Sri Ram

… patently injurious acts as unfortunately are very prevalent in these days. Nor was this Society meant to be a school of occultism. A letter from one of the Mahatmas makes that very clear. He says: “Rather perish the T. S. with both its hapless Founders than that we should permit it to become  no better than an academy of magic, a hall of occultism . ” These are striking and ringing words. Nor is the Society meant merely to satisfy intellectual curiosity or …

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

… affairs, are now housed in London at the British Museum. The earliest letters became the foundation of Sinnett’s books  The Occult World  (London: Trübner, 1881) and  Esoteric Buddhism  (Trübner, 1883). Allan Octavian HUME (1829-1912), an … the correspondence. In their totality these letters gave the West an insight into the more recondite teachings of the Occult ( i.e ., hidden) Brotherhood and the purpose for presenting them to the Occident at this time. Readers learned that …

Reincarnation and Karma - H. P. Blavatsky

… Karma, and it is this law which affords the solution to the great question of collective suffering and its relief. It is an occult law, moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings, without lifting, be it ever so little, the … pleasant or painful, well-beloved because tangible to the very lowest senses. The Theosophist who desires to enter upon occultism takes some of Nature's privileges into his own hands, by that very wish, and soon discovers that experiences come …

Crookes, William

… can never be  proven . And Crookes — has he not brought science within our hail in his “radiant matter” discovery? What but occult research was it that  led  him first to that. [letter 48, chronological ed.; 47, 3d ed.] Also, elsewhere we read: So …

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Aristotle

… change of form, especially in biological organisms. Blavatsky interprets Aristotle’s “privation” to refer to “that which Occultists call the prototypes impressed in the Astral Light — the lowest plane and world of Anima Mundi” ( SD  I:59), but … bodies ( loc. cit ., p. 493). The former had been proven years before by the Egyptians. The latter, of course, is an occult teaching which is quite at odds with the view of modern science. But Aristotle derived this latter concept not from a …

Confucius and Confucianism

… times he speaks as if te were purely behavioral (cf.  Analects  4.25, e.g.) at other times he seems to impart a magical or occult effect to it: The nature of the gentleman is like the wind, while the nature of the small man is like grass. When the …

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