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How we remember our past lives - C. Jinarajadasa

… our past lives? Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa (16 December 1875, Sri Lanka –18 June 1953, United States) was an author, occultist, freemason and theosophits. The fourth president of the Theosophical Society, Jinarajadasa was one of the world's … in periodicals during his life. His interests and writings included religion, philosophy, literature, art, science and occult chemistry. He was also a rare linguist, who had the ability to work in many European languages. Download "How we …

Hermes Trismegistus

… patron god of these arts also. The Hermes-Thoth works were wide ranging, covering such popular subjects as astrology and “occultism” on the one hand and learned matters such as theology and philosophy. The works of Hermes-Thoth are of particular …

Patala

… devas. Hindu mythology describes it as being in the navel or center of the earth. According to Helena P. BLAVATSKY , occult teachings place it in the very center of the North Pole, pointing it out as the site of the first continent on our …

Meru, Mount

… devas. Hindu mythology describes it as being in the navel or center of the earth. According to Helena P. BLAVATSKY , occult teachings place it in the very center of the North Pole, pointing it out as the site of the first continent on our …

Secret Doctrine, The

… all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring; finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization. (SD I:viii) The Secret Doctrine was … two more volumes were “almost completed,” one dealing with a “more practical teaching” and the other with the history of occultism and the great spiritual teachers of the past. She stated that their eventual appearance “entirely depends upon the …

Purucker, Gottfried De

… particularly on karma, reincarnation, death and rebirth, and theosophy’s relation to science, religion, and philosophy. The Occult Glossary explains some 300 terms frequently met with in theosophical writings. Man in Evolution is a clear, detailed … growth, selfless love, old age and death, and compassion. Perhaps Purucker’s most profound work is Fountain-Source of Occultism, prepared posthumously from booklets issued by him for his private students. Its in-depth presentation of the …

Paracelsus

… nitrogen (SD I:297). In addition to medical treatises, such as on the treatment of syphilis, he wrote some important occult works. De fundamento Sapientiae (On the Foundation of Wisdom), De Generatione (On Generation), De Viribus (On Man), … of intelligent beings which he called Flagae (“flaming ones”) and which she identifies as the same as the DHYĀNI-CHOHANS of occultism, the pitrIs of Hinduism, and the guardian Angels of Christianity (SD I:222 fn). She mentions in passing that …

Leadbeater, Charles Webster

… has been read more widely than any other theosophical author, and has had an influence, direct and indirect, on western occultism, including the “New Age” movement, perhaps greater than any other single person of his time or since. His …

Theosophical Glossary, The

… 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, …

Necromancy

… 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 …

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