The effect upon the Occultistwas instantaneous and overpowering.
And this is why the Occultists so often make such a bungle regarding "proofs" and the Scientist fails to see "facts" that are staring the Occultist in the face.
He didn't appear like that to me,' theoccultist replied.
That would make no difference in my case,' the occultist replied, 'because to anyone of my advanced learning ghosts can materialise in the light just as well as in the dark.
And back of it all was the most potent, trained Will of the Master Occultistdirecting the work.
None but the advanced occultist who has known what it was to be tempted to use his mysterious powers to satisfy his personal wants, can appreciate the nature of the struggle through which Jesus passed, and from which He emerged victorious.
But the Occultist knows of no law that will operate to produce conception by other than the physiological process.
And so, the Occultist sees no reason for accepting the old pagan doctrine of the physical Virgin Birth which has crept into Christianity from outside sources.
The Occultistsees in the conception of every child, the work of the Divine Will--every conception and birth a miracle.
In the sympathetic environment thus developed, the occultist flourished and displayed the impressive insignia of exclusive wisdom.
But this is a scientific and not an occult view of the matter; it was not by progressive training in marksmanship that the occultist hoped to send his arrows to the stars.
But at all events theoccultist has the satisfaction of knowing that the great Russian chemist, Mendeleef, preferred the atomic theory.
This, more particularly, when the true occultist knows that these things are not necessary, even to those who seek "Success" by mental forces.
Of course the trained occultist is able to throw interest into the most unattractive thing upon which it becomes advisable to focus his Attention, but this, in itself, comes with the trained Will, and is not the possession of the average man.
To attain these degrees of power the processes are so difficult that a thorough practical occultist can scarcely become one and yet continue his relations with his fellow-men.
A practicaloccultist may be of either sex, but must observe as the first law inviolable chastity--and that with a view of conserving all the virile powers of the organism.
Phenomena of this character are explained by the occultist as follows:-- The elemental essence which surrounds us is singularly susceptible to the influence of human thought.
Yet even the scientist who concedes this much is not willing to make common cause with the occultist with regard to the vital body.
Should anyone ask, “How can I accept on trust what the occultist tells me, being myself as yet unable to see it?
Now the occultist finds himself in quite a different position, with regard to observations concerning the future, from that in which he stands with regard to those of the past.
It should be much more the concern of the occultist to recognize that the materialistic way of thinking is a necessary concomitant phenomenon of the great advance of natural science in our day.
Thus the occultistspeaks of heat bodies just as he does of bodies formed of gas and vapour.
We cannot follow the evolution of the earth, as the occultist understands it, unless we observe the events of preceding evolutionary periods.
As soon as the occultist mentions this etheric or vital body, he reaches the point at which he is bound to encounter the opposition of many contemporary opinions.
We next hear of the famous occultist in the United States, where she associated chiefly with spirit-mediums, enchanters, professional clairvoyants, and the like.
Weird sights were seen by the entranced occultist and strange sounds were heard on that eventful occasion within the shadowy mortuary chamber of the pyramid.
There are not mere theories, for they may be verified by any occultist of sufficiently high development.
A writer on the subject has well said: "The trained occultist will concentrate upon a subject or object with a wonderful intensity, seemingly completely absorbed in the subject or object before him, and oblivious to all else in the world.
This beautiful kaleidoscopic spectacle has its own meaning to the advanced occultist with clairvoyant vision, for he is able to read the character and general mental states of the person by means of studying his astral auric colors.
As an eminent occultist once said, "Ceremonies being but artificial methods of creating certain habits of the will, they cease to be necessary when these habits have become fixed.
I assert without fear of intelligent contradiction, that no true occultist ever countenances any such practices as these.
There are many planes of the astral into which it is dangerous and unpleasant for the uninstructed person to travel; unless accompanied by a capableoccultist as guide.
He seems to think that his cheap wit has finally disposed of the matter, the implication being that the occultist is a credulous, "easy" person who believes in the existence of things contrary to the evidence of the senses.
It is largely in the degree of the cultivation of these three mental principles that the occultist is distinguished from the ordinary man.
The occultist trains himself in fixing his concentrated attention upon the matter before him, so as to bring to a focal centre all of his mental forces.
The above represents the sights common to the advanced occultist who explores the astral plane either in his astral body, or else by means of clairvoyant vision.
Eliphas Lévi was the pseudonym of the celebrated nineteenth-century occultist the Abbé Constant.
Why did not this confession of anoccultist fall into my hands before?
That is the attraction and power of vinous excitement over me, but a religious-minded occultisthas told me that it is a sin, for it is wrongfully antedating salvation, which consists in the liberation of the soul from matter.
One evening I sit at dinner with a young French poet, who has just read my Inferno, and from the occultist point of view wishes to find an explanation for the assaults to which I have been exposed and have endured.
How different was the attitude of the real Occultist who was spoken of by the Masters as "Our Brother H.
Steiner, the German occultistand Christian Theosophist--with whose ideas, I should add, I am not in personal agreement.
Indeed, during such times the conduct shows a moral retrogression very noticeable when compared with the conduct before this occult development For this latter increases and intensifies all the temptations, as every occultist will admit.
For a long time past the grandmother had expressed a wish to see me, whether it were to bring about a reconciliation or for occultist reasons, because she is a clairvoyante and visionary.
Since I am initiated a little into the use of occultist expressions, I start the hypothesis that Francis Schlatter is the "double" who leads an independent life, without being aware of it.
Finally, he summons me before an occultist tribunal, and swears to me that I shall never forget the 13th of November.
Indeed, the right mental attitude of the occultist was insisted upon as essential to the operation.
It has been proved without avail by numbers of impartial observations and experiments that these occultistperformances depend partly on conscious fraud and partly on careless self-deception.
At any rate, they are most disgusting and repulsive to the occultist who beholds them in the human aura, and he often wonders why they do not sicken the person manifesting them--they often do just this thing, to tell the truth.
The advanced occultist also finds much satisfaction in the interest, on the part of physicians and jurists, in the matter of the influence of color upon the mental, moral and physical welfare of the public.
To the developed occultist the mind and character become as an open book, to be studied carefully and intelligently.
Likewise the astral atmosphere of an abode of vice and passion, becomes really physically nauseating to the occultist of high ideals and taste.
How the trained occultist is able to ascertain the character, and tendencies of a person.
But modern physical science is today offering corroborative proof (though the same is not needed by the occultist who has the astral vision) to the general public, of the existence of the human aura.
The trained occultist is able to read the character of any person, as well as the nature of his passing thoughts and feelings, by simply studying the shifting colors of his aura.
The chief aim of the occultist is therefore to so control himself as to be able to regulate his future states, and thereby gradually shorten the duration of his Devachanic existence between two incarnations.
The Occultist follows the ethnological affinities and their divergences in the various nationalities, races and sub-races, in a more easy way; and he is guided in this as surely as the student who examines a geographical map.
So that the occultist does not threaten those who turn aside from his teachings with any consequences that must necessarily be disastrous.
To the Occultistit is correct, and while perhaps left purposely sinning (for it was the first cautious attempt to let into the West a faint streak of Eastern esoteric light), it reveals more facts than were ever given before its appearance.
Now, can an occultist be then said to be "selfish" when he desires to live in the sense in which that word is used by the writer of the article on the Elixir of Life?
The occultist thus recognizes that unselfishness and a feeling of universal philanthropy are the inherent laws of our being, and all he does is to attempt to destroy the chains of selfishness forged upon us all by Maya.
The process of the emission and attraction of atoms, which the occultist controls, has been discussed at length in that article and in other writings.
In a sympathetic environment of this kind the occultist flourished and displayed the impressive insignia of exclusive wisdom.
It is at this point of experience that the occultist becomes separated from all other men and enters on to a life which is his own; on to the path of individual accomplishment instead of mere obedience to the genii which rule our earth.
Before you have become anoccultist you may do this; but not afterwards.
To keep to the two instances already mentioned, the occultist who has withdrawn into his own citadel has found his strength; immediately he becomes aware of the demands of duty upon him.
Footnote A: Of course every occultist knows by reading Eliphas Lévi and other authors that the "astral" plane is a plane of unequalized forces, and that a state of confusion necessarily prevails.
The occultist finds them become much more marked as he endeavors to live the life he has chosen.
This beautiful kaleidoscopic spectacle has its own meaning to the occultist with clairvoyant vision, for he is thus able to read the character and general mental states of the person by means of studying his auric colors.
Others see far more clearly; but it is reserved for the trained occultist to read the records as he would read the scene before him on the physical plane.
But to the occultist there is really no more mystery in the one case than in the other--both sets of phenomena are seen to be perfectly reasonable and within the realms of Nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occultist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
