The Hierophants ofoccultism will assemble here, weird initiations like those described in Moore's "Epicurean" will take place, and the doctrines of Hindoo pantheism will be expounded to the Faithful.
The first holds open meetings for the discussion of ethical and Theosophical subjects, and the second meets privately, being composed of a secret body of adepts, learned in occultism and possessing remarkable spiritual powers.
From this it can be seen that occultism is not so unreal as many think, and that the existence of soul is susceptible of actual demonstration.
If the evidence of "hauntings" were measurable by bulk alone, no phase of occultism would be more completely demonstrated.
Astronomy, history, philosophy and the mysterious, incoherent works of alchemy and occultism were finally appealed to, but likewise failed to satisfy me.
Some extend the term occultism to cover mysticism and the spiritual life generally, but that is not a legitimate use of either word.
To my ears there is more occultism in that than in a thousand ethical injunctions.
Needless to say, no one studying occultism under a qualified Master would ever be permitted to attempt anything of the kind at all.
A student of occultism is taught how to guard himself from their attempts, but without that knowledge it is difficult for one who puts himself in their way to avoid being more or less laid under contribution by them.
The first step in occultism brings the student to the tree of knowledge.
That is because it is impossible to give any attention to occultism without making a definite choice between what are familiarly called good and evil.
These are the rules everywhere of the obtaining of knowledge, in Occultism as in every other science.
From the standpoint of occultism there is no dead force and no dead matter.
Occultism does not depend upon one method, but employs both the deductive and the inductive.
But Occultism gives no such prospect of cheaply and immediately gained infinitude of pleasure, wisdom and existence.
Many fail to realize that true occultism requires a physical, mental, moral and spiritual development to run on parallel lines, and injure themselves, physically and spiritually, by practice of what they falsely believe to be Dhyan.
Mahatma, a great soul; an adept in occultism of the highest order.
For, unlike some of the anthropomorphic creeds, Occultism offers to its votaries no eternally permanent heaven of material pleasure, to be gained at once by one quick dash through the grave.
The first thing to be done is to study the axioms of Occultism and work upon them by the deductive and the inductive methods, which is real contemplation.
Let the student of Occultism bear in mind that the Greek Noah, Deukalion, the husband of Pyrrha, was the reputed son of Prometheus who robbed Heaven of its fire (i.
A few years of influence have sufficed; and now Satanism, Occultism and other absurdities are flourishing; not to mention that, according to some accounts, the Cities of the Plains are reconciled with new Rome.
But the Astral Senses of the developed Psychomancer register and record many of the finer vibrations, and in this way many so-called "miracles" of occultism are explained.
One of these is the relative facility with which men fancy they can get at the "Gate" and cross the threshold of Occultism without any great sacrifice.
This last is the only kind of Occultism that any Theosophist who admires Light on the Path, and who would be wise and unselfish, ought to strive after.
Neither is occultism the pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is sacrifice, the second, renunciation.
It is not in our age of "suggestion" and "explosives" that Occultism can open wide the doors of its laboratories except to those who do live the life.
In short, the prisms through which Occultism appears, to those innocent of the philosophy, are as multicolored and varied as human fancy can make them.
Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants.
It should never be forgotten that Occultismis concerned with the inner man, who must be strengthened and freed from the dominion of the physical body and its surroundings, which must become his servants.
This last is the only kind of Occultism that any Theosophist who admires 'Light on the Path,' and who would be wise and unselfish, ought to strive after.
These, by disfiguring and adapting Occultism to their own filthy and immoral ends bring disgrace on the whole movement.
But a truly upright and honest person (even if aware of it, as in Occultism he has to be) would never draw attention to it--and that publicly and in print.
Let them know at once and remember always, that true Occultism or Theosophy is the 'Great Renunciation of SELF,' unconditionally and absolutely, in thought as in action.
It is to these needs and to this work that the true disciple of true Occultism has to devote himself if he would obtain theo-sophy, divine Wisdom and Knowledge.
I open for them the vestibule to the temple of Isis, and say, by way of preliminary, that occultism is going to be the vogue.
It is a good thing that they know nothing about the power of an evil will and the secret tricks of occultism and reject all ideas of it, otherwise they kill.
But occultism has more than this to teach us on the subject.
But the Tantras as a whole form the only science of practical occultism in Sanskrit, and the Vaishnava Upasana is strictly a Tantric Upasana.
All students of occultism will do well to read carefully this account which forms a fitting preliminary to the Bhagavata.
The impress of ancient and mediaeval lore upon latter-day occultism is conspicuous in the survivals of Alchemy and Astrology.
This form of occultism reaches its fullest and purest expression in Oriental wisdom-religions.
He was a mystic, but had a certain dislike of occultismand theosophy.
Occultism has played its part, by giving a scientific explanation of miracles and demonology.
The history of Occultismbears out the fact that there is very little that is new to the present time.
The true student of Occultism always judges the tree by its fruits.
Psychology is needed in order to explain the nature and faculty of the human soul, and occultism to define for us the nature of that universal mirror in which the whole category of human events, both past and future, are reflected.
Looked at from whatever point of view we may choose, the phenomena of clairvoyance cannot be adequately explained without recourse to psychology on the one hand and occultism on the other.
What used to be the mystery and occultism of the few is now general knowledge, so that all the playing at occultism by conceited people now seems jejune and foolish.
