This story was related to a select coterie of occultists assembled in social conclave at the headquarters in New York.
He will notice at once how much the two occultists do resemble each other; both are grossly fat, puffy of face, with heavy-lidded eyes and rather thick lips.
Even our Intellect is erratic, unstable, and like the quicksilver to which the ancient occultistscompared it, shifting and uncertain.
There are hundreds of mantras in the Samskrit tongue, made by Occultists of the past, who were familiar with the laws of the invisible worlds.
My thoughts now revert to the occultists and their secret powers.
On my objecting that the occultists in Paris form a whole body by themselves, he only says, "All the worse for them.
Secondly, it reawakens my old suspicions that I myself am the victim of mal-practices on the part of occultists or theosophists.
When not engaged in their usual occupation of building most startling superstructures on the weakest foundations, practical occultists are like Dr.
This ingenious method of restoring the health of their patients and their own exchequers appealed to all the band of healing occultists from Spiritualist to Vibrationist, as easily adaptable to their several systems.
Such animal thought-forms are regarded as natural or possible by many occultists to-day and two modern stories exemplify this belief.
An even more terrible, psychic animal-being is described by occultists as the Dweller on the Threshold.
Paracelsus, one of the greatest occultists the world has known, was positive that men could change into animals.
Then, after laughing at the occult theory or principle, Science would search diligently for material facts to prove an opposite theory, and in so doing would unearth new facts that would support the Occultists contention.
Then he has currents of Fine Force coursing through his nervous system, which may be seen by those possessing "Astral Vision," if the teachings of the Occultists be true.
But the Occultists will call the tunnel-centre Mind, and the scientists will call it Matter, but both will be speaking of the same thing.
The old claim of the Occultistswould then be forgotten or else go unrecognized under its old name; or disguised by the fantastic and bizarre coverings which some so-called Occultists had draped around the original Truth.
Occultists tell us that the character of a man's thought vibrations may be determined by certain colors, which are visible to those having "Astral Sight.
But Science is doing valuable work in the direction of investigation and experiment, and in this way is proving the principal occult teachings in a way impossible to the Occultists themselves.
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.
The occultists connect this with an inconsiderate obituary notice which he wrote of a worthy man recently dead.
The occultists attribute their origin to men of the Tertiary period, and place them in the same category as the colossal stone image found in the Easter Islands and in the desert of Gobi.
From that time I begin to ponder the subject of dematerialisation which the occultists believe in.
It is this exclusive attitude which constitutes the essential difference between the Initiates of the ancient world and the great Teachers of religion with whom modern occultists seek to confound them.
Thus in the dossiers of the leading occultists supplied by Savalette we find the following note on the Ba'al Shem of London: This Doctor Falk is known to many Germans.
It is not a society of occultists, though, like innumerable other bodies, it countsoccultists among its brethren.
Let occultists learn as much as possible from those who regard their efforts as nonsense.
Nevertheless, it must be emphatically understood that only experienced occultists are in a position to impart such advice.
When Jesus reached his native land, after the years of travel in India, Persia and Egypt, he is believed by the occultists to have spent at least one year among the various lodges and retreats of the Essenes.
Then they cast the Child's horoscope and they knew that their shepherd's vision coincided with their own science, and that here indeed was He for whom the Eastern Occultists and Mystics had waited for centuries.
All occultists who have witnessed the materialization of an Astral Body will readily understand this statement.
And all Occultists and Mystics find pleasure and just pride in the fact that the first recognition of the Divine Nature of this human child came from these Magi from the East--from the very Heart of the Mystic Inner Circles!
The Occultists pay but little attention to the physical body, except as a Temple of the Spirit, and a habitation of the soul.
In this passage, Jesus expressed the abhorrence of all advancedoccultists for the abuse of the functions of sex.
All occultistsknow this, and without feeling an implicit faith in the Power with them, they do not attempt certain forms of manifestation.
But the underlying principle is the same, and in a sense they were both right, as the advanced occultists know full well.
And yet the "miracle" above recorded was no greater than many occultists have performed in all times--no greater than the many similar cures that have been performed by the modern healers of the many metaphysical cults.
The old occultists impressed this and other facts upon the minds of their pupils by the oft-repeated aphorism: "A PLANE OF BEING IS NOT A PLACE OF BEING, BUT A STATE OF BEING.
Instead, it depends entirely upon the phenomena and facts of a higher plane of Nature--a plane which occultists have called the Akashic Plane.
These occultists teach that the phenomena of each plane are reflected with more or less clearness upon the substance of the planes beneath it.
The use of crystals and other bright objects for this purpose has been common to occultists and psychics at all times, past and present, and at all places, oriental or occidental.
Let us now see how and why the occultists view the matter in this light.
Some occultists prefer the general term, "the Astral Plane," but the former term is a closer and more definite one.
Advanced occultists know the danger of a careless use of this power.
It is a fact known to all occultists that many persons frequently travel in the astral body during sleep; and in many cases retain a faint recollection of some of the things they have seen and heard during their travels in the astral.
Again, so far as the theories underlying the cures are concerned, occultists are able to reduce them all to a single working theory or principle, which includes all the rest.
The best authorities among the occultists instruct their pupils that the state of clairvoyant reverie may be safely and effectively induced by the practice of mental concentration alone.
Moreover, though science has not as yet discovered the fact, occultists know that the vibrations of mental and emotional states are just as true and regular as are those of sound or light, or heat.
In the case of some very highly developed occultists the astral thought-form of their body becomes so charged with prana that it is able to move physical objects.
But the best ground for the statement of the occultists is that many advanced occultists are able to produce such phenomena, consciously, by an act of pure will, accompanied by the power of mental picturing.
As all occultists know, everyone draws thought vibrations in harmony with his or her own; and also repels thought vibrations of an inharmonious nature.
In the first place, as all occultists know, each person is constantly surrounded with what has been called an "atmosphere" composed of mental and emotional vibrations which are emanated from his personality.
Some who are firmly wedded to the spiritistic theory resent the statement of occultists that this form of phenomena may be explained without the necessity of the "spirits.
I have said that occultists have developed, or rather re-developed this sense.
But the true occultists now know that these ceremonies and rites were merely hopes to the imagination and aids to faith, and thus tended to bring about the psychic phenomena.
There is whatoccultists have agreed to call simple consciousness, but this does not include a realization of identity, as apart from environment.
Unfortunately no one except Richet has ventured to do for the phenomena vouched for by occultists and spiritists, what Charcot has done for the magnetisers' allegations.
The French occultists who are connected with Eliphas Levy by Papus (Dr.
The Occultists say that while the 4th race was generated and developed on the Atlantean continent--our Antipodes in a certain sense--the 5th was generated and developed in Asia.
It is generally held by Occultists that Sanskrit has been spoken in Java and adjacent islands from remote antiquity.
In the opinion of the Brahmans he was an "Atlantean" and one of the greatest astronomers and occultists of the lost Atlantis.
The records of the Occultists make no difference between the "Atlantean" ancestors of the old Greeks and Romans.
Life is ever present in the atom or matter, whether organic or inorganic--a difference that the occultists do not accept.
From the land of the Ganges many advanced occultists wandered to the land of Egypt, and sat at the feet of the Master.
And these degrees form what occultists call "Planes" The higher the degree of rate of vibration, the higher the plane, and the higher the manifestation of Life occupying that plane.
All occultists know it to be a fact, and others are referred to some of the more recent scientific works for outside corroboration.
But that such men have existed, and do exist today, is a matter of earnest belief to all advanced occultists of all schools.
The legends of the Fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts, as all advanced occultists know.
In the Hebrew neshemet means the ordinary breath of atmospheric air, and chayim means life or lives, while the word ruach means the "spirit of life," which occultists claim is the same principle which we speak of as Prana.
The many powers attributed to advanced occultists is due largely to their knowledge of this fact and their intelligent use of this stored-up energy.
The same excuse, which had done duty through the ages, served in masking the perfect ignorance of the cheap occultists of the present day.
I know there are certain occultists who claim to have been consecrated by the Lord, as Saint Paul was, and who think they can consummate a veritable sacrifice just like a real priest.
Now, since God is above these cheap manipulations, the occultists and spiritists satanize more or less, whether they wish to or not.
Among the occultists who maunder today in the universal decomposition of ideas he is the only one who interests me.
We have spoken of the connection between their teachings and that of the Pythagoreans, and there was undoubtedly a strong bond of relationship between these priests and the occultists of other lands.
And theoccultists and mystics among them were equal to those of Persia, India, Chaldea or Egypt.
While there were individual mystics and occultists among them, it still remains a fact that the majority of the people held no such belief, and in fact the masses had no clearly defined ideas regarding the survival of the soul.
Sometimes a band of occultists will meet around their altar fire, which is kindled between the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient blood of a black cat and other material from which ghosts can materialize.
The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the process by which you may see the astral visions and pass out of the physical and journey in the astral body.
The occultists stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master at the head by the altar, and all strongly command that a spirit shall manifest.
The advanced occultists get their time-beat from the pulse-beats, but this is not absolutely necessary in this connection.
Rhythmic Breathing has been known to occultists of all ages as one of the important adjuncts of Psychic Phenomena, and its use in bringing about Rapport Relations is thoroughly understood by all Practical Occultists.
Occultists began to speak of her amongst themselves as one who would yet save France.
Other occultists maintain that she has reincarnated again in the person of a very old Empress, who still lives on earth.
Our reference to this high source of the teachings was made because of its general acceptance in the Eastern countries, and by occultists generally.
The scene of the life of the Third Cycle was laid in what is known to Occultists as Lemuria.
While the inferior occultists often exhibit some of the minor manifestations to the public, it is a fact that the true advanced occultists scrupulously refrain from so doing.
There is but one TRUTH, which becomes apparent to all deep students of Occultism, and therefore all true Occultists have a glimpse of that Truth, and upon this glimpse is founded their philosophies and teachings.
In order to understand the occult custom that finds its full fruit in the seclusion of the Masters, one needs to be acquainted with the universal habit among true occultists of refraining from public or vulgar displays of occult power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occultists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
