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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints
+from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, by H. P. Blavatsky
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+Title: Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky
+       No. 1: Practical Occultism--Occultism versus the Occult
+       Arts--The Blessings of Publicity
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+Author: H. P. Blavatsky
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+STUDIES
+IN
+OCCULTISM
+
+by
+
+H.P. BLAVATSKY
+
+
+
+
+STUDIES IN OCCULTISM
+
+
+A Series of Reprints from the Writings
+
+of
+
+H.P. BLAVATSKY
+
+NO. 1
+
+
+PRACTICAL OCCULTISM
+
+OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS
+
+THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY
+
+POINT LOMA EDITION
+
+
+The Aryan Theosophical Press
+Point Loma, California
+1910
+
+
+
+See Book List at the end of this volume for the other numbers of this
+Series and also for other Theosophical literature.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                      PAGE
+
+Practical Occultism                      1
+  From _Lucifer_, April, 1888
+
+Occultism versus the Occult Arts        17
+  From _Lucifer_, May, 1888
+
+The Blessings of Publicity              42
+  From _Lucifer_, August, 1891
+
+
+
+
+Occultism is not magic, though magic is one of its tools.
+
+Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or
+intellectual, though both are its servants. Neither is occultism the
+pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is
+sacrifice, the second, renunciation.
+
+Occultism is the science of life, the art of living.--_Lucifer_, Vol. I,
+p. 7.
+
+
+
+
+PRACTICAL OCCULTISM
+
+IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS
+
+
+As some of the letters in the Correspondence of this month show, there
+are many people who are looking for practical instruction in Occultism.
+It becomes necessary, therefore, to state once for all:--
+
+(_a_) The essential difference between theoretical and practical
+Occultism; or what is generally known as Theosophy on the one hand, and
+Occult science on the other, and:--
+
+(_b_) The nature of the difficulties involved in the study of the latter.
+
+It is easy to become a Theosophist. Any person of average intellectual
+capacities, and a leaning toward the metaphysical; of pure, unselfish
+life, who finds more joy in helping his neighbor than in receiving help
+himself; one who is ever ready to sacrifice his own pleasures for the
+sake of other people; and who loves Truth, Goodness, and Wisdom for
+their own sake, not for the benefit they may confer--is a Theosophist.
+
+But it is quite another matter to put oneself upon the path which leads
+to the knowledge of what is good to do, as to the right discrimination
+of good from evil; a path which also leads a man to that power through
+which he can do the good he desires, often without even apparently
+lifting a finger.
+
+Moreover, there is one important fact with which the student should be
+made acquainted. Namely, the enormous, almost limitless responsibility
+assumed by the teacher for the sake of the pupil. From the Gurus of the
+East who teach openly or secretly, down to the few Kabalists in Western
+lands who undertake to teach the rudiments of the Sacred Science to
+their disciples--those western Hierophants being often themselves
+ignorant of the danger they incur--one and all of these "Teachers" are
+subject to the same inviolable law. From the moment they begin _really_
+to teach, from the instant they confer _any_ power--whether psychic,
+mental, or physical--on their pupils, they take upon themselves _all_
+the sins of that pupil, in connexion with the Occult Sciences, whether
+of omission or commission, until the moment when initiation makes the
+pupil a Master and responsible in his turn. There is a weird and mystic
+religious law, greatly reverenced and acted upon in the Greek,
+half-forgotten in the Roman Catholic, and absolutely extinct in the
+Protestant Church. It dates from the earliest days of Christianity and
+has its basis in the law just stated, of which it was a symbol and an
+expression. This is the dogma of the absolute sacredness of the relation
+between the god-parents who stand sponsors for a child.[A]
+
+These tacitly take upon themselves all the sins of the newly baptized
+child--(anointed, as at the initiation, a mystery truly!)--until the day
+when the child becomes a responsible unit, knowing good and evil. Thus
+it is clear why the "Teachers" are so reticent, and why "Chelas" are
+required to serve a seven years probation to prove their fitness, and
+develop the qualities necessary to the security of both Master and
+pupil.
+
+Occultism is not magic. It is _comparatively_ easy to learn the trick of
+spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces
+of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon
+awakened; the forces which his love, his hate, his passion, can call
+into operation, are readily developed. But this is Black
+Magic--_Sorcery_. For it is the motive, _and the motive alone_, which
+makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white,
+beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ _spiritual_ forces if there
+is the slightest tinge of selfishness remaining in the operator. For,
+unless the intention is entirely unalloyed, the spiritual will
+transform itself into the psychic, act on the astral plane, and dire
+results may be produced by it. The powers and forces of animal nature
+can equally be used by the selfish and revengeful, as by the unselfish
+and the all-forgiving; the powers and forces of spirit lend themselves
+only to the perfectly pure in heart--and this is Divine Magic.
+
+What are then the conditions required to become a student of the "Divina
+Sapientia"? For let it be known that no such instruction can possibly be
+given unless these certain conditions are complied with, and rigorously
+carried out during the years of study. This is a _sine quâ non_. No man
+can swim unless he enters deep water. No bird can fly unless its wings
+are grown, and it has space before it and courage to trust itself to the
+air. A man who will wield a two-edged sword, must be a thorough master
+of the blunt weapon, if he would not injure himself--or what is
+worse--others, at the first attempt.
+
+To give an approximate idea of the conditions under which alone the
+study of Divine Wisdom can be pursued with safety, that is without
+danger that Divine will give place to Black Magic, a page is given from
+the "private rules," with which every instructor in the East is
+furnished. The few passages which follow are chosen from a great number
+and explained in brackets.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+1. The place selected for receiving instruction must be a spot
+calculated not to distract the mind, and filled with
+"influence-evolving" (magnetic) objects. The five sacred colors gathered
+in a circle must be there among other things. The place must be free
+from any malignant influences hanging about in the air.
+
+     [The place must be set apart, and used for no other purpose. The
+     five "sacred colors" are the prismatic hues arranged in a certain
+     way, as these colors are very magnetic. By "malignant influences"
+     are meant any disturbances through strifes, quarrels, bad feelings,
+     etc., as these are said to impress themselves immediately on the
+     astral light, i.e., in the atmosphere of the place, and to hang
+     "about in the air." This first condition seems easy enough to
+     accomplish, yet--on further consideration, it is one of the most
+     difficult ones to obtain.]
+
+2. Before the disciple shall be permitted to study "face to face," he
+has to acquire preliminary understanding in a select company of other
+lay _upâsakas_ (disciples), the number of whom must be odd.
+
+     ["Face to face" means in this instance a study independent or apart
+     from others, when the disciple gets his instruction _face to face_
+     either with himself (his higher, Divine Self) or--his guru. It is
+     then only that each receives _his due_ of information, according to
+     the use he has made of his knowledge. This can happen only toward
+     the end of the cycle of instruction.]
+
+3. Before thou (the teacher) shalt impart to thy Lanoo (disciple) the
+good (holy) words of Lamrin, or shalt permit him "to make
+ready" for _Dubjed_, thou shalt take care that his mind is thoroughly
+purified and at peace with all, especially _with his other Selves_.
+Otherwise the words of Wisdom and of the good Law, shall scatter and be
+picked up by the winds.
+
+     ["Lamrin" is a work of practical instructions, by Tson-kha-pa, in
+     two portions, one for ecclesiastical and exoteric purposes, the
+     other for esoteric use. "To make ready" for _Dubjed_, is to prepare
+     the vessels used for seership, such as mirrors and crystals. The
+     "other selves," refers to the fellow students. Unless the greatest
+     harmony reigns among the learners, _no_ success is possible. It is
+     the teacher who makes the selections according to the magnetic and
+     electric natures of the students, bringing together and adjusting
+     most carefully the positive and the negative elements.]
+
+4. The _upâsakas_ while studying must take care to be united as the
+fingers on one hand. Thou shalt impress upon their minds that whatever
+hurts one should hurt the others, and if the rejoicing of one finds no
+echo in the breasts of the others, then the required conditions are
+absent, and it is useless to proceed.
+
+     [This can hardly happen if the preliminary choice made was
+     consistent with the magnetic requirements. It is known that Chelas
+     otherwise promising and fit for the reception of truth, had to
+     wait for years on account of their temper and the impossibility
+     they felt to put themselves _in tune_ with their companions. For--]
+
+5. The co-disciples must be tuned by the guru as the strings of a lute
+(_vina_) each different from the others, yet each emitting sounds in
+harmony with all. Collectively they must form a key-board answering in
+all its parts to thy lightest touch (the touch of the Master). Thus
+their minds shall open for the harmonies of Wisdom, to vibrate as
+knowledge through each and all, resulting in effects pleasing to the
+presiding gods (tutelary or patron-angels) and useful to the Lanoo. So
+shall Wisdom be impressed forever on their hearts and the harmony of the
+law shall never be broken.
+
+6. Those who desire to acquire the knowledge leading to the _Siddhis_
+(occult powers) have to renounce all the vanities of life and of the
+world (here follows enumeration of the Siddhis).
+
+7. None can feel the difference between himself and his
+fellow-students, such as "I am the wisest," "I am more holy and pleasing
+to the teacher, or in my community, than my brother," etc.,--and remain
+an upâsaka. His thoughts must be predominantly fixed upon his heart,
+chasing therefrom every hostile thought to any living being. It (the
+heart) must be full of the feeling of its non-separateness from the rest
+of beings as from all in Nature; otherwise no success can follow.
+
+8. A _Lanoo_ (disciple) has to dread external living influence alone
+(magnetic emanations from living creatures). For this reason while at
+one with all, in his _inner nature_, he must take care to separate his
+outer (external) body from every foreign influence: none must drink out
+of, or eat in his cup but himself. He must avoid bodily contact (i.e.,
+being touched or touch) with human, as with animal being.
+
+     [No pet animals are permitted, and it is forbidden even to touch
+     certain trees and plants. A disciple has to live, so to say, in his
+     own atmosphere in order to individualize it for occult purposes.]
+
+9. The mind must remain blunt to all but the universal truths in
+nature, lest the "Doctrine of the Heart" should become only the
+"Doctrine of the Eye," (i.e., empty exoteric ritualism).
+
+10. No animal food of whatever kind, nothing that has life in it should
+be taken by the disciple. No wine, no spirits, or opium should be used;
+for these are like the _Lhama-yin_ (evil spirits), who fasten upon the
+unwary, they devour the understanding.
+
+     [Wine and spirits are supposed to contain and preserve the bad
+     magnetism of all the men who helped in their fabrication; the meat
+     of each animal, to preserve the psychic characteristics of its
+     kind.]
+
+11. Meditation, abstinence in all, the observation of moral duties,
+gentle thoughts, good deeds and kind words, as good will to all and
+entire oblivion of Self, are the most efficacious means of obtaining
+knowledge and preparing for the reception of higher wisdom.
+
+12. It is only by virtue of a strict observance of the foregoing rules
+that a Lanoo can hope to acquire in good time the Siddhis of the
+Arhats, the growth which makes him become gradually One with the
+Universal ALL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+These 12 extracts are taken from among some 73 rules, to enumerate which
+would be useless as they would be meaningless in Europe. But even these
+few are enough to show the immensity of the difficulties which beset the
+path of the would-be "Upâsaka," who has been born and bred in Western
+lands.[B]
+
+All western, and especially English, education is instinct with the
+principle of emulation and strife; each boy is urged to learn more
+quickly, to outstrip his companions, and to surpass them in every
+possible way. What is mis-called "friendly rivalry" is assiduously
+cultivated, and the same spirit is fostered and strengthened in every
+detail of life.
+
+With such ideas "educated into" him from his childhood, how can a
+Western bring himself to feel towards his co-students "as the fingers on
+one hand"? Those co-students, too, are not of his _own selection_, or
+chosen by himself from personal sympathy and appreciation. They are
+chosen by his teacher on far other grounds, and he who would be a
+student must _first_ be strong enough to kill out in his heart all
+feelings of dislike and antipathy to others. How many Westerns are ready
+even to attempt this in earnest?
+
+And then the details of daily life, the command not to touch even the
+hand of one's nearest and dearest. How contrary to Western notions of
+affection and good feeling! How cold and hard it seems. Egotistical too,
+people would say, to abstain from giving pleasure to others for the sake
+of one's own development. Well, let those who think so defer till
+another lifetime the attempt to enter the path in real earnest. But let
+them not glory in their own fancied unselfishness. For, in reality, it
+is only the seeming appearances which they allow to deceive them, the
+conventional notions, based on emotionalism and gush, or so-called
+courtesy, things of the unreal life, not the dictates of Truth.
+
+But even putting aside these difficulties, which may be considered
+"external," though their importance is none the less great, how are
+students in the West to "attune themselves" to harmony as here required
+of them? So strong has personality grown in Europe and America, that
+there is no school of artists even whose members do not hate and are not
+jealous of each other. "Professional" hatred and envy have become
+proverbial; men seek each to benefit himself at all costs, and even the
+so-called courtesies of life are but a hollow mask covering these demons
+of hatred and jealousy.
+
+In the East the spirit of "non-separateness" is inculcated as steadily
+from childhood up, as in the West the spirit of rivalry. Personal
+ambition, personal feelings and desires, are not encouraged to grow so
+rampant there. When the soil is naturally good, it is cultivated in the
+right way, and the child grows into a man in whom the habit of
+subordination of one's lower to one's higher Self is strong and
+powerful. In the West men think that their own likes and dislikes of
+other men and things are guiding principles for them to act upon, even
+when they do not make of them the law of their lives and seek to impose
+them upon others.
+
+Let those who complain that they have learned little in the Theosophical
+Society lay to heart the words written in an article in the _Path_ for
+last February:--"The key in each degree is the _aspirant himself_." It
+is not "the fear of God" which is "the beginning of Wisdom," but the
+knowledge of SELF which is WISDOM ITSELF.
+
+How grand and true appears, thus, to the student of Occultism who has
+commenced to realize some of the foregoing truths, the answer given by
+the Delphic Oracle to all who came seeking after Occult Wisdom--words
+repeated and enforced again and again by the wise Socrates:--MAN KNOW
+THYSELF.
+
+Chelaship has nothing _whatever_ to do with means of subsistence or
+anything of the kind, for a man can isolate his mind entirely from his
+body and its surroundings. Chelaship is a _state of mind_, rather than a
+life according to hard and fast rules, on the physical plane. This
+applies especially to the earlier, probationary period, while the rules
+given in _Lucifer_ for April last pertain properly to a later stage,
+that of actual occult training and the development of occult powers and
+insight. These rules indicate, however, the mode of life which ought to
+be followed by all aspirants _so far as practicable_, since it is the
+most helpful to them in their aspirations.
+
+It should never be forgotten that Occultism is 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.
+Hence the _first_ and chief necessity of Chelaship is a spirit of
+absolute unselfishness and devotion to Truth; then follow self-knowledge
+and self-mastery. These are all-important; while outward observance of
+fixed rules of life is a matter of secondary moment.--_Lucifer_: IV,
+348, note.
+
+
+
+
+OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS
+
+    "I oft have heard, but ne'er believed till now,
+    There are, who can by potent magic spells
+    Bend to their crooked purpose Nature's laws."
+                                        _Milton_
+
+
+In this month's Correspondence several letters testify to the strong
+impression produced on some minds by our last month's article "Practical
+Occultism." Such letters go far to prove and strengthen two logical
+conclusions:--
+
+(_a_) There are more well-educated and thoughtful men who believe in the
+existence of Occultism and Magic (the two differing vastly) than the
+modern materialist dreams of; and:--
+
+(_b_) That most of the believers (comprising many theosophists) have no
+definite idea of the nature of Occultism and confuse it with the Occult
+sciences in general, the "Black art" included.
+
+Their representations of the powers it confers upon man, and of the
+means to be used to acquire them are as varied as they are fanciful.
+Some imagine that a master in the art, to show the way, is all that is
+needed to become a Zanoni. Others, that one has but to cross the Canal
+of Suez and go to India to bloom forth as a Roger Bacon or even a Count
+St. Germain. Many take for their ideal Margrave with his ever-renewing
+youth, and care little for the soul as the price paid for it. Not a few,
+mistaking "Witch-of-Endorism" pure and simple, for Occultism--"through
+the yawning Earth from Stygian gloom, call up the meager ghost to walks
+of light," and want, on the strength of this feat, to be regarded as
+full blown Adepts. "Ceremonial Magic" according to the rules mockingly
+laid down by Éliphas Lévi, is another imagined _alter ego_ of the
+philosophy of the Arhats of old. 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.
+
+Will these candidates to Wisdom and Power feel very indignant if told
+the plain truth? It is not only useful, but it has now become
+_necessary_ to disabuse most of them and before it is too late. This
+truth may be said in a few words: There are not in the West half-a-dozen
+among the fervent hundreds who call themselves "Occultists," who have
+even an approximately correct idea of the nature of the Science they
+seek to master. With a few exceptions, they are all on the highway to
+Sorcery. Let them restore some order in the chaos that reigns in their
+minds, before they protest against this statement. Let them first learn
+the true relation in which the Occult Sciences stand to Occultism, and
+the difference between the two, and then feel wrathful if they still
+think themselves right. Meanwhile, let them learn that Occultism differs
+from Magic and other secret Sciences as the glorious Sun does from a
+rush-light, as the immutable and immortal Spirit of Man--the reflection
+of the absolute, causeless, and unknowable all,--differs from the mortal
+clay--the human body.
+
+In our highly civilized West, where modern languages have been formed,
+and words coined, in the wake of ideas and thoughts--as happened with
+every tongue--the more the latter became materialized in the cold
+atmosphere of Western selfishness and its incessant chase after the
+goods of this world, the less was there any need felt for the production
+of new terms to express that which was tacitly regarded as obsolete and
+exploded "superstition." Such words could answer only to ideas which a
+cultured man was scarcely supposed to harbor in his mind. "Magic," a
+synonym for jugglery; "Sorcery," an equivalent for crass ignorance; and
+"Occultism," the sorry relic of crack-brained, medieval
+Fire-philosophers, of the Jacob Boehmes and the St. Martins, are
+expressions believed more than amply sufficient to cover the whole field
+of "thimble-rigging." They are terms of contempt, and used generally
+only in reference to the dross and residues of the Dark Ages and its
+preceding aeons of paganism. Therefore have we no terms in the English
+tongue to define and shade the difference between such abnormal powers,
+or the sciences that lead to the acquisition of them, with the nicety
+possible in the Eastern languages--pre-eminently the Sanskrit. What do
+the words "miracle" and "enchantment" (words identical in meaning after
+all, as both express the idea of producing wonderful things by _breaking
+the laws of nature_ [!!] as explained by the accepted authorities)
+convey to the minds of those who hear, or who pronounce them? A
+Christian--_breaking_ "of the laws of nature," notwithstanding--while
+believing firmly in the _miracles_, because said to have been produced
+by God through Moses, will either scout the enchantments performed by
+Pharoah's magicians, or attribute them to the devil. It is the latter
+whom our pious enemies connect with Occultism, while their impious foes,
+the infidels, laugh at Moses, Magicians, and Occultists, and would
+blush to give one serious thought to such "superstitions." This, because
+there is no term in existence to show the difference; no words to
+express the lights and shadows and draw the line of demarcation between
+the sublime and the true, the absurd and the ridiculous. The latter are
+the theological interpretations which teach the "breaking of the laws of
+Nature" by man, God, or devil; the former--the _scientific_ "miracles"
+and enchantments of Moses and the Magicians _in accordance with natural
+laws_, both having been learned in all the Wisdom of the Sanctuaries,
+which were the "Royal Societies" of those days--and in true OCCULTISM.
+This last word is certainly misleading, translated as it stands from the
+compound word _Guptâ-Vidyâ_, "Secret Knowledge." But the knowledge of
+what? Some of the Sanskrit terms may help us.
+
+There are four (out of the many other) names of the various kinds of
+Esoteric Knowledge or Sciences given, even in the exoteric Purânas.
+There is (1) _Yajña-Vidyâ_,[C] knowledge of the occult powers awakened
+in Nature by the performance of certain religious ceremonies and rites.
+(2) _Mahâ-Vidyâ_, the "great knowledge," the magic of the Kabalists and
+of the _Tântrika_ worship, often Sorcery of the worst description. (3)
+_Guhyâ-Vidyâ_, knowledge of the mystic powers residing in Sound (Ether),
+hence in the _Mantras_ (chanted prayers or incantations) and depending
+on the rhythm and melody used; in other words a magical performance
+based on Knowledge of the Forces of Nature and their correlation; and
+(4) Âtma-Vidyâ, a term which is translated simply "Knowledge of
+the Soul," _true Wisdom_ by the Orientalists, but which means far more.
+
+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. All the rest is some branch of the "Occult Sciences,"
+i.e., arts based on the knowledge of the ultimate essence of all things
+in the Kingdom of Nature--such as minerals, plants, and animals--hence
+of things pertaining to the realm of _material_ Nature, however
+invisible that essence may be, and howsoever much it has hitherto eluded
+the grasp of Science. Alchemy, Astrology, Occult Physiology, Chiromancy
+exist in Nature, and the _exact_ Sciences--perhaps so called because
+they are found in this age of paradoxical philosophies the reverse--have
+already discovered not a few of the secrets of the above _arts_. But
+clairvoyance, symbolized in India as the "Eye of Siva," called in
+Japan, "Infinite Vision," is _not_ Hypnotism, the illegitimate son of
+Mesmerism, and is not to be acquired by such arts. All the others may be
+mastered and results obtained, whether good, bad, or indifferent; but
+_Âtma-Vidyâ_ sets small value on them. It includes them all, and may
+even use them occasionally, but it does so after purifying them of their
+dross, for beneficent purposes, and taking care to deprive them of every
+element of selfish motive. Let us explain: Any man or woman can set
+himself or herself to study one or all of the above specified "Occult
+Arts" without any great previous preparation, and even without adopting
+any too restraining mode of life. One could even dispense with any lofty
+standard of morality. In the last case, of course, ten to one the
+student would blossom into a very decent kind of sorcerer, and tumble
+down headlong into black magic. But what can this matter? The _Voodoos_
+and the _Dugpas_ eat, drink and are merry over hecatombs of victims of
+their infernal arts. And so do the amiable gentlemen vivisectionists and
+the _diploma-ed_ "Hypnotizers" of the Faculties of Medicine; the only
+difference between the two classes being that the Voodoos and the Dugpas
+are _conscious_, and the Charcot-Richet crew _unconscious_ Sorcerers.
+Thus, since both have to reap the fruits of their labors and
+achievements in the black art, the Western practitioners should not have
+the punishment and reputation without the profits and enjoyments they
+may get therefrom. For we say it again, _hypnotism_ and _vivisection_ as
+practised in such schools, are _Sorcery_ pure and simple, _minus_ a
+knowledge that the Voodoos and Dugpas enjoy, and which no Charcot-Richet
+can procure for himself in fifty years of hard study and experimental
+observation. Let then those who will dabble in magic, whether they
+understand its nature or not, but who find the rules imposed upon
+students too hard, and who, therefore, lay Âtma-Vidyâ or Occultism
+aside--go without it. Let them become magicians by all means, even
+though they do become _Voodoos_ and _Dugpas_ for the next ten
+incarnations.
+
+But the interest of our readers will probably center on those who are
+invincibly attracted towards the "Occult," yet who neither realize the
+true nature of what they aspire towards, nor have they become
+passion-proof, far less truly unselfish.
+
+How about these unfortunates, we shall be asked, who are thus rent in
+twain by conflicting forces? For it has been said too often to need
+repetition, and the fact itself is patent to any observer, that when
+once the desire for Occultism has really awakened in a man's heart,
+there remains for him no hope of peace, no place of rest and comfort in
+all the world. He is driven out into the wild and desolate spaces of
+life by an ever-gnawing unrest he cannot quell. His heart is too full of
+passion and selfish desire to permit him to pass the Golden Gate; he
+cannot find rest or peace in ordinary life. Must he then inevitably fall
+into sorcery and black magic, and through many incarnations heap up for
+himself a terrible Karma? Is there no other road for him?
+
+Indeed there is, we answer. Let him aspire to no higher than he feels
+able to accomplish. Let him not take a burden upon himself too heavy for
+him to carry. Without ever becoming a "Mahâtmâ," a Buddha, or a Great
+Saint, let him study the philosophy and the "Science of Soul," and he
+can become one of the modest benefactors of humanity, without any
+"superhuman" powers. _Siddhis_ (or the Arhat powers) are only for those
+who are able to "lead the life," to comply with the terrible sacrifices
+required for such a training, and to comply with them _to the very
+letter_. 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 ALTRUISM, and it throws him
+who practises it out of calculation of the ranks of the living
+altogether. "Not for himself, but for the world, he lives," as soon as
+he has pledged himself to the work. Much is forgiven during the first
+years of probation. But, no sooner is he "accepted" than his
+personality must disappear, and he has to become _a mere beneficent
+force in Nature_. There are two poles for him after that, two paths, and
+no midward place of rest. He has either to ascend laboriously, step by
+step, often through numerous incarnations and _no Devachanic break_, the
+golden ladder leading to Mahâtmâship (the _Arhat_ or _Bodhisattva_
+condition), or--he will let himself slide down the ladder at the first
+false step, and roll down into _Dugpa-ship_....
+
+All this is either unknown or left out of sight altogether. Indeed, one
+who is able to follow the silent evolution of the preliminary
+aspirations of the candidates, often finds strange ideas quietly taking
+possession of their minds. There are those whose reasoning powers have
+been so distorted by foreign influences that they imagine that animal
+passions can be so sublimated and elevated that their fury, force, and
+fire can, so to speak, be turned inwards; that they can be stored and
+shut up in one's breast, until their energy is, not expanded, but
+turned toward higher and more holy purposes; namely, _until their
+collective and unexpanded strength enables their possessor to enter the
+true Sanctuary of the Soul_ and stand therein in the presence of the
+_Master_--the Higher Self! For this purpose they will not
+struggle with their passions nor slay them. They will simply, by a
+strong effort of will put down the fierce flames and keep them at bay
+within their natures, allowing the fire to smolder under a thin layer of
+ashes. They submit joyfully to the torture of the Spartan boy who
+allowed the fox to devour his entrails rather than part with it. Oh,
+poor, blind visionaries!
+
+As well hope that a band of drunken chimney-sweeps, hot and greasy from
+their work, may be shut up in a Sanctuary hung with pure white linen,
+and that instead of soiling and turning it by their presence into a heap
+of dirty shreds, they will become masters in and of the sacred recess,
+and finally emerge from it as immaculate as that recess. Why not imagine
+that a dozen of skunks imprisoned in the pure atmosphere of a _Dgon-pa_
+(a monastery) can issue out of it impregnated with all the perfumes of
+the incenses used?... Strange aberration of the human mind. Can it be
+so? Let us argue.
+
+The "Master" in the Sanctuary of our souls is "the Higher Self"--the
+divine spirit whose consciousness is based upon and derived solely (at
+any rate during the mortal life of the man in whom it is captive) from
+the Mind, which we have agreed to call the _Human Soul_ (the "Spiritual
+Soul" being the vehicle of the Spirit). In its turn the former (the
+_personal_ or human soul) is a compound in its highest form, of
+spiritual aspirations, volitions and divine love; and in its lower
+aspect, of animal desires and terrestrial passions imparted to it by its
+associations with its vehicle, the seat of all these. It thus stands as
+a link and a medium between the animal nature of man which its higher
+reason seeks to subdue, and his divine spiritual nature to which it
+gravitates, whenever it has the upper hand in its struggle with the
+_inner animal_. The latter is the instinctual "animal Soul" and is the
+hotbed of those passions, which, as just shown, are lulled instead of
+being killed, and locked up in their breasts by some imprudent
+enthusiasts. Do they still hope to turn thereby the muddy stream of the
+animal sewer into the crystalline waters of life? And where, on what
+neutral ground can they be imprisoned so as not to affect man? The
+fierce passions of love and lust are still alive and they are allowed to
+still remain in the place of their birth--_that same animal soul_; for
+both the higher and the lower portions of the "Human Soul" or Mind
+reject such inmates, though they cannot avoid being tainted with them as
+neighbors. The "Higher Self" or Spirit is as unable to assimilate such
+feelings as water to get mixed with oil or unclean liquid tallow. It is
+thus the mind alone--the sole link and medium between the man of earth
+and the Higher Self--that is the only sufferer, and which is in the
+incessant danger of being dragged down by those passions that may be
+reawakened at any moment, and perish in the abyss of matter. And how
+can it ever attune itself to the divine harmony of the highest
+Principle, when that harmony is destroyed by the mere presence, within
+the Sanctuary in preparation, of such animal passions? How can harmony
+prevail and conquer, when the soul is stained and distracted with the
+turmoil of passions and the terrestrial desires of the bodily senses, or
+even of the "Astral man"?
+
+For this "Astral"--the shadowy "double" (in the animal as in man)--is
+not the companion of the _divine Ego_ but of the _earthly body_. It is
+the link between the personal Self, the lower consciousness of
+_Manas_ and the Body, and is the vehicle of _transitory_, _not
+of immortal life_. Like the shadow projected by man, it follows his
+movements and impulses slavishly and mechanically, and leans therefore
+to matter without ever ascending to Spirit. It is only when the power of
+the passions is dead altogether, and when they have been crushed and
+annihilated in the retort of an unflinching will; when not only all the
+lusts and longings of the flesh are dead, but also the recognition of
+the personal Self is killed out and the "astral" has been reduced in
+consequence to a cipher, that the Union with the "Higher Self" can take
+place. Then when the "astral" reflects only the conquered man, the still
+living, but no more the longing, selfish personality, then the brilliant
+_Augoeides_, the divine Self, can vibrate in conscious harmony
+with both the poles of the human Entity--the man of matter purified, and
+the ever pure Spiritual Soul--and stand in the presence of the
+Master Self, the Christos of the mystic Gnostics, blended,
+merged into, and one with IT for ever.[D]
+
+How then can it be thought possible for a man to enter the "strait gate"
+of occultism when his daily and hourly thoughts are bound up with
+worldly things, desires of possession and power, with lust, ambition
+and duties, which, however honorable, are still of the earth earthy?
+Even the love for wife and family--the purest as the most unselfish of
+human affections--is a barrier to _real_ occultism. For whether we take
+as an example the holy love of a mother for her child, or that of a
+husband for his wife, even in these feelings, when analysed to the very
+bottom, and thoroughly sifted, there is still _selfishness_ in the
+first, and an _égoisme à deux_ in the second instance. What mother would
+not sacrifice without a moment's hesitation hundreds and thousands of
+lives for that of the child of her heart? and what lover or true husband
+would not break the happiness of every other man and woman around him to
+satisfy the desire of one whom he loves? This is but natural, we shall
+be told. Quite so; in the light of the code of human affections; less
+so, in that of divine universal love. For, while the heart is full of
+thoughts for a little group of _selves_, near and dear to us, how shall
+the rest of mankind fare in our souls? What percentage of love and care
+will there remain to bestow on the "great orphan"? And how shall the
+"still small voice" make itself heard in a soul entirely occupied with
+its own privileged tenants? What room is there left for the needs of
+Humanity _en bloc_ to impress themselves upon, or even receive a speedy
+response? And yet, he who would profit by the wisdom of the universal
+mind, has to reach it through _the whole of Humanity_ without
+distinction of race, complexion, religion or social status. It is
+_altruism_, not _ego-ism_ even in its most legal and noble conception,
+that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves.
+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.
+
+The aspirant has to choose absolutely between the life of the world and
+the life of Occultism. It is useless and vain to endeavor to unite the
+two, for no one can serve two masters and satisfy both. No one can serve
+his body and the higher Soul, and do his family duty and his universal
+duty, without depriving either one or the other of its rights; for he
+will either lend his ear to the "still small voice" and fail to hear the
+cries of his little ones, or, he will listen but to the wants of the
+latter and remain deaf to the voice of Humanity. It would be a
+ceaseless, a maddening struggle for almost any married man, who would
+pursue true practical Occultism, instead of its _theoretical_
+philosophy. For he would find himself ever hesitating between the voice
+of the impersonal divine love of Humanity, and that of the personal,
+terrestrial love. And this could only lead him to fail in one or the
+other, or perhaps in both his duties. Worse than this; for, _whoever
+indulges, after having pledged himself to_ OCCULTISM, _in the
+gratification of a terrestrial love or lust_, must feel an almost
+immediate result; that of being irresistibly dragged from the impersonal
+divine state down to the lower plane of matter. Sensual, or even mental
+self-gratification, involves the immediate loss of the powers of
+spiritual discernment; the voice of the MASTER can no longer
+be distinguished from that of one's passions or _even that of a Dugpa_;
+the right from wrong; sound morality from mere casuistry. The Dead Sea
+fruit assumes the most glorious mystic appearance, only to turn to ashes
+on the lips, and to gall in the heart, resulting in:--
+
+    Depth ever deepening, darkness darkening still;
+    Folly for wisdom, guilt for innocence;
+    Anguish for rapture, and for hope despair.
+
+And once being mistaken and having acted on their mistakes, most men
+shrink from realizing their error, and thus descend deeper and deeper
+into the mire. And, although it is the intention that decides primarily
+whether _white_ or _black_ magic is exercised, yet the results even of
+involuntary, unconscious sorcery cannot fail to be productive of bad
+Karma. Enough has been said to show that _sorcery is any kind of evil
+influence exercised upon other persons, who suffer, or make other
+persons suffer, in consequence_. Karma is a heavy stone splashed in the
+quiet waters of Life; and it must produce ever widening circles of
+ripples, carried wider and wider, almost _ad infinitum_. Such causes
+produced have to call forth effects, and these are evidenced in the just
+laws of Retribution.
+
+Much of this may be avoided if people will only abstain from rushing
+into practices neither the nature nor importance of which they
+understand. No one is expected to carry a burden beyond his strength and
+powers. There are "natural-born magicians"; Mystics and Occultists by
+birth, and by right of direct inheritance from a series of incarnations
+and aeons of suffering and failures. These are passion-proof, so to say.
+No fires of earthly origin can fan into a flame any of their senses or
+desires; no human voice can find response in their souls, except the
+great cry of Humanity. These only may be certain of success. But they
+can be met only far and wide, and they pass through the narrow gates of
+Occultism because they carry no personal luggage of human transitory
+sentiments along with them. They have got rid of the feeling of the
+lower personality, paralysed thereby the "astral" animal, and the
+golden, but narrow gate is thrown open before them. Not so with those
+who have to carry yet for several incarnations the burden of sins
+committed in previous lives, and even in their present existence. For
+such, unless they proceed with great caution, the golden gate of Wisdom
+may get transformed into the wide gate and the broad way "that leadeth
+unto destruction," and therefore "many be they that enter in thereby."
+This is the Gate of the Occult arts, practised for selfish motives and
+in the absence of the restraining and beneficent influence of
+Âtma-Vidyâ. We are in the Kali Yuga and its fatal influence is
+a thousand-fold more powerful in the West than it is in the East; hence
+the easy preys made by the Powers of the Age of Darkness in this cyclic
+struggle, and the many delusions under which the world is now laboring.
+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. It is the dream of most Theosophists, one inspired by desire
+for Power and personal selfishness, and it is not such feelings that
+can ever lead them to the coveted goal. For, as well said by one
+believed to have sacrificed himself for Humanity--"Strait is the gate
+and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life" eternal, and therefore
+"few there be that find it." (_Matt._ vii, 14) So strait indeed, that at
+the bare mention of some of the preliminary difficulties the affrighted
+Western candidates turn back and retreat with a shudder....
+
+Let them stop here and attempt no more in their great weakness. For if,
+while turning their backs on the narrow gate, they are dragged by their
+desire for the Occult one step in the direction of the broad and more
+inviting gates of that golden mystery which glitters in the light of
+illusion, woe to them! It can lead only to Dugpa-ship, and they will be
+sure to find themselves very soon landed on that _Via Fatale_ of the
+_Inferno_, over whose portal Dante read the words:--
+
+    _Per me si va nella citta dolente_
+    _Per me si va nell' eterno dolore_
+    _Per me si va tra la perduta gente...._
+
+
+
+
+THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY
+
+
+A well-known public lecturer, a distinguished Egyptologist, said, in one
+of his lectures against the teachings of Theosophy, a few suggestive
+words, which are now quoted and must be answered:--
+
+     It is a delusion to suppose there is anything in the experience or
+     wisdom of the past, the ascertained results of which can only be
+     communicated from beneath the cloak and mask of mystery....
+     Explanation is the Soul of Science. They will tell you _we cannot
+     have their knowledge without living their life_.... Public
+     experimental research, the printing press, and a free-thought
+     platform, have abolished the need of mystery. It is no longer
+     necessary for science to take the veil, as she was forced to do for
+     security in times past....
+
+This is a very mistaken view in one aspect. "Secrets of the purer and
+profounder life" not only _may_ but _must_ be made universally known.
+But _there are secrets that kill_ in the arcana of Occultism, and unless
+a man _lives the life_ he cannot be entrusted with them.
+
+The late Professor Faraday had very serious doubts whether it was quite
+wise and reasonable to give out to the public at large certain
+discoveries of modern science. Chemistry had led to the invention of too
+terrible means of destruction in our century to allow it to fall into
+the hands of the profane. What man of sense--in the face of such
+fiendish applications of dynamite and other explosive substances as are
+made by those incarnations of the Destroying Power, who glory in calling
+themselves Anarchists and Socialists--would not agree with us in
+saying:--Far better for mankind that it should never have blasted a rock
+by modern perfected means, than that it should have shattered the limbs
+of one per cent even of those who have been thus destroyed by the
+pitiless hand of Russian Nihilists, Irish Fenians, and Anarchists. That
+such discoveries, and chiefly their murderous application, ought to
+have been withheld from public knowledge may be shown on the authority
+of statistics and commissions appointed to investigate and record the
+result of the evil done. The following information gathered from public
+papers will give an insight into what may be in store for wretched
+mankind.
+
+England alone--the center of civilization--has 21,268 firms fabricating
+and selling explosive substances.[E] But the centers of the dynamite
+trade, of infernal machines, and other such results of modern
+civilization, are chiefly at Philadelphia and New York. It is in the
+former city of "Brotherly Love" that the now most famous manufacturer of
+explosives flourishes. It is one of the well-known respectable
+citizens--the inventor and manufacturer of the most murderous "dynamite
+toys"--who, called before the Senate of the United States anxious to
+adopt means for the repression of a _too free trade_ in such implements,
+found an argument that ought to become immortalized for its cynical
+sophistry--"My _machines_," that expert is reported to have said--"are
+quite _harmless to look at_; as they may be manufactured in the shape of
+oranges, hats, boats, and anything one likes.... Criminal is he who
+murders people by means of such machines, not he who manufactures them.
+The firm refuses to admit that were there no supply there would be no
+incentive for demand on the market; but insists that every demand should
+be satisfied by a supply ready at hand."
+
+That "supply" is the fruit of civilization and of the publicity given to
+the discovery of every murderous property in matter. What is it? As
+found in the Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the
+variety and character of the so-called "infernal machines," so far the
+following implements of instantaneous human destruction are already on
+hand. The most fashionable of all among the many varieties fabricated
+by Mr. Holgate are the "Ticker," the "Eight Day Machine," the "Little
+Exterminator," and the "Bottle Machines." The "Ticker" is in appearance
+like a piece of lead, a foot long and four inches thick. It contains an
+iron or steel tube full of a kind of gunpowder invented by Holgate
+himself. That gunpowder, in appearance like any other common stuff of
+that name, has, however, an explosive power two hundred times stronger
+than common gunpowder; the "Ticker" containing thus a powder which
+equals in force two hundred pounds of the common gunpowder. At one end
+of the machine is fastened an invisible clock-work meant to regulate the
+time of the explosion, which time may be fixed from one minute to
+thirty-six hours. The spark is produced by means of a steel needle which
+gives a spark at the touch-hole, and communicates thereby the fire to
+the whole machine.
+
+The "Eight Day Machine" is considered the most powerful, but at the same
+time the most complicated, of all those invented. One must be familiar
+with handling it before a full success can be secured. It is owing to
+this difficulty that the terrible fate intended for London Bridge and
+its neighborhood was turned aside by the instantaneous killing instead
+of the two Fenian criminals. The size and appearance of that machine
+changes, Proteus-like, according to the necessity of smuggling it in, in
+one or another way, unperceived by the victims. It may be concealed in
+bread, in a basket of oranges, in a liquid, and so on. The Commission of
+Experts is said to have declared that its explosive power is such as to
+reduce to atoms instantly the largest edifice in the world.
+
+The "Little Exterminator" is an innocent-looking plain utensil having
+the shape of a modest jug. It contains neither dynamite nor powder, but
+secretes, nevertheless, a deadly gas, and has a hardly perceptible
+clock-work attached to its edge, the needle of which points to the time
+when that gas will effect its escape. In a shut-up room this new "vril"
+of lethal kind will _smother to death, nearly instantaneously_, every
+living being within a distance of a hundred feet radius of the murderous
+jug. With these three "latest novelties" in the high season of Christian
+civilization, the catalog of the dynamiters is closed; all the rest
+belongs to the old "fashion" of the past years. It consists of hats,
+_porte cigars_, bottles of ordinary kind, and even _ladies' smelling
+bottles_, filled with dynamite, nitro-glycerin, etc., etc.--weapons,
+some of which, following unconsciously Karmic law, killed many of the
+dynamiters in the last Chicago _revolution_. Add to this the forthcoming
+long-promised Keeley's vibratory force, capable of reducing in a few
+seconds a dead bullock to a heap of ashes, and then ask yourself if the
+_Inferno_ of Dante as a locality can ever rival earth in the production
+of more hellish engines of destruction?
+
+Thus, if purely material implements are capable of blowing up, from a
+few corners, the greatest cities of the globe, provided the murderous
+weapons are guided by expert hands--what terrible dangers might not
+arise from magical _occult_ secrets being revealed, and allowed to fall
+into the possession of ill-meaning persons! A thousand times more
+dangerous and lethal are these, because neither the criminal hand, nor
+the _immaterial_ invisible weapon used, can ever be detected.
+
+The congenital _black_ magicians--those who, to an innate propensity
+towards evil, unite highly-developed mediumistic natures--are but too
+numerous in our age. It is nigh time then that the psychologists and
+believers, at least, should cease advocating the beauties of publicity
+and claiming knowledge of the secrets of nature for all. 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.
+
+                                                            H.P.B.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[A] So holy is the connexion thus formed deemed in the Greek
+Church, that a marriage between god-parents of the same child is
+regarded as the worst kind of incest, is considered illegal, and is
+dissolved by law; and this absolute prohibition extends even to the
+children of one of the sponsors as regards those of the other.
+
+[B] Be it remembered that _all_ "Chelas," even lay disciples,
+are called Upâsaka until after their first initiation, when they become
+Lanoo-Upâsaka. To that day, even those who belong to Lamaseries and are
+_set apart_, are considered as "laymen."
+
+[C] "The _Yajña_," say the Brâhmans, "exists from eternity, for
+it proceeded forth from the Supreme One ... in whom it lay dormant from
+'_no_ beginning.' It is the key to the Traividya, the thrice
+sacred science contained in the Rig verses, which teaches the Yajus or
+sacrificial mysteries. 'The Yajña' exists as an invisible thing at all
+times; it is like the latent power of electricity in an electrifying
+machine, requiring only the operation of a suitable apparatus in order
+to be elicited. It is supposed to extend from the _Ahavaniya_ or
+sacrificial fire to the heavens, forming a bridge or ladder by means of
+which the sacrificer can communicate with the world of gods and spirits,
+and even ascend when alive to their abodes."--Martin Haug's _Aitareya
+Brâhmana_.
+
+"This _Yajña_ is again one of the forms of the _Âkâsa_; and the
+mystic word calling it into existence and pronounced mentally by the
+initiated Priest is the Lost Word receiving impulse through WILL
+POWER."--_Isis Unveiled_, Vol. I. Introduction. See _Aitareya
+Brâhmana_, Haug.
+
+[D] Those who would feel inclined to see three _Egos_ in one
+man will show themselves unable to perceive the metaphysical meaning.
+Man is a trinity composed of Body, Soul and Spirit; but _man_ is
+nevertheless _one_ and is surely not his body. It is the latter which is
+the property, the transitory clothing of the man. The three "Egos" are
+MAN in his three aspects on the astral, intellectual or
+psychic, and the Spiritual planes, or states.
+
+[E] Nitro-glycerin has found its way even into medical
+compounds. Physicians and druggists are vying with the Anarchists in
+their endeavors to destroy the surplus of mankind. The famous chocolate
+tablets against dyspepsia are said to contain nitro-glycerin! They may
+save, but they can kill still more easily.
+
+
+
+
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+     It is a regrettable fact that many people use the name of Theosophy
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+
+
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+
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+
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+       No. 1: Practical Occultism--Occultism versus the Occult
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h1>STUDIES<br />
+IN<br />
+OCCULTISM</h1>
+
+<h3 class="padtop">by</h3>
+
+<h2>H.&nbsp;P. BLAVATSKY</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<p>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+<h1 style="margin-top: 4em;">STUDIES IN OCCULTISM</h1>
+
+<h3>A Series of Reprints from the Writings</h3>
+
+<h4>of</h4>
+
+<h2>H.&nbsp;P. BLAVATSKY</h2>
+
+<h2 class="padtop">NO. 1</h2>
+
+<h3 class="padtop" style="margin-bottom: .4em;">PRACTICAL OCCULTISM</h3>
+<hr class="crowd" style="background-color: black;" />
+<h3 class="crowd">OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS</h3>
+<hr style="background-color: black;" class="crowd" />
+<h3 class="crowd">THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY</h3>
+
+<h4 class="padtop">POINT LOMA EDITION</h4>
+
+<p class="center">
+The Aryan Theosophical Press<br />
+Point Loma, California<br />
+1910<br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="padtop blockquot"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>See Book List at the end of this volume for the other numbers of this
+Series and also for other Theosophical literature.</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<div style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 20%;">
+<p>
+<a href="#PRACTICAL_OCCULTISM"><span class="smcap">Practical Occultism</span></a><span class="tocpg">1</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">From <i>Lucifer</i>, April, 1888</span></p>
+<p>
+<a href="#OCCULTISM_VERSUS_THE_OCCULT_ARTS"><span class="smcap">Occultism versus the Occult Arts</span></a>
+<span class="tocpg">17</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">From <i>Lucifer</i>, May, 1888</span><br /></p>
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_47"><span class="smcap">The Blessings of Publicity</span></a>
+<span class="tocpg">42</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">From <i>Lucifer</i>, August, 1891</span>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="padtop blockquot" style="margin-bottom: 4em;">
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>Occultism is not magic,
+though magic is one of its tools.</p>
+
+<p>Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or
+intellectual, though both are its servants. Neither is occultism the
+pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is
+sacrifice, the second, renunciation.</p>
+
+<p>Occultism is the science of life, the art of living.&mdash;<i>Lucifer</i>, Vol. I,
+p. 7.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a name="PRACTICAL_OCCULTISM" id="PRACTICAL_OCCULTISM"></a>PRACTICAL OCCULTISM</h2>
+
+<h4>IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS</h4>
+
+<p><b>A<span class="smcap">s</span></b> some of the letters in the Correspondence of this month show, there
+are many people who are looking for practical instruction in Occultism.
+It becomes necessary, therefore, to state once for all:&mdash;<br style="brc" /></p>
+
+<p>(<i>a</i>) The essential difference between theoretical and practical
+Occultism; or what is generally known as Theosophy on the one hand, and
+Occult science on the other, and:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>(<i>b</i>) The nature of the difficulties involved in the study of the latter.</p>
+
+<p>It is easy to become a Theosophist. Any person of average intellectual
+capacities, and a leaning toward the metaphysical; of pure, unselfish
+life, who finds more joy in helping his neighbor than in receiving help
+himself; one who is ever ready to sacrifice his own <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>pleasures for the
+sake of other people; and who loves Truth, Goodness, and Wisdom for
+their own sake, not for the benefit they may confer&mdash;is a Theosophist.</p>
+
+<p>But it is quite another matter to put oneself upon the path which leads
+to the knowledge of what is good to do, as to the right discrimination
+of good from evil; a path which also leads a man to that power through
+which he can do the good he desires, often without even apparently
+lifting a finger.</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, there is one important fact with which the student should be
+made acquainted. Namely, the enormous, almost limitless responsibility
+assumed by the teacher for the sake of the pupil. From the Gurus of the
+East who teach openly or secretly, down to the few Kabalists in Western
+lands who undertake to teach the rudiments of the Sacred Science to
+their disciples&mdash;those western Hierophants being often themselves
+ignorant of the danger they incur&mdash;one and all of these "Teachers" are
+subject to the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>same inviolable law. From the moment they begin <i>really</i>
+to teach, from the instant they confer <i>any</i> power&mdash;whether psychic,
+mental, or physical&mdash;on their pupils, they take upon themselves <i>all</i>
+the sins of that pupil, in connexion with the Occult Sciences, whether
+of omission or commission, until the moment when initiation makes the
+pupil a Master and responsible in his turn. There is a weird and mystic
+religious law, greatly reverenced and acted upon in the Greek,
+half-forgotten in the Roman Catholic, and absolutely extinct in the
+Protestant Church. It dates from the earliest days of Christianity and
+has its basis in the law just stated, of which it was a symbol and an
+expression. This is the dogma of the absolute sacredness of the relation
+between the god-parents who stand sponsors for a child.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">A</a></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>These tacitly take upon themselves all the sins of the newly baptized
+child&mdash;(anointed, as at the initiation, a mystery truly!)&mdash;until the day
+when the child becomes a responsible unit, knowing good and evil. Thus
+it is clear why the "Teachers" are so reticent, and why "Chelas" are
+required to serve a seven years probation to prove their fitness, and
+develop the qualities necessary to the security of both Master and
+pupil.</p>
+
+<p>Occultism is not magic. It is <i>comparatively</i> easy to learn the trick of
+spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces
+of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon
+awakened; the forces which his love, his hate, his passion, can call
+into operation, are readily developed. But this is Black
+Magic&mdash;<i>Sorcery</i>. For it is the motive, <i>and the motive alone</i>, which
+makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white,
+beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ <i>spiritual</i> forces if there
+is the slightest tinge of selfishness remaining in the operator. For,
+unless the intention is <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>entirely unalloyed, the spiritual will
+transform itself into the psychic, act on the astral plane, and dire
+results may be produced by it. The powers and forces of animal nature
+can equally be used by the selfish and revengeful, as by the unselfish
+and the all-forgiving; the powers and forces of spirit lend themselves
+only to the perfectly pure in heart&mdash;and this is <span class="smcap">Divine Magic</span>.</p>
+
+<p>What are then the conditions required to become a student of the "Divina
+Sapientia"? For let it be known that no such instruction can possibly be
+given unless these certain conditions are complied with, and rigorously
+carried out during the years of study. This is a <i>sine qu&acirc; non</i>. No man
+can swim unless he enters deep water. No bird can fly unless its wings
+are grown, and it has space before it and courage to trust itself to the
+air. A man who will wield a two-edged sword, must be a thorough master
+of the blunt weapon, if he would not injure himself&mdash;or what is
+worse&mdash;others, at the first attempt.</p>
+
+<p>To give an approximate idea of the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>conditions under which alone the
+study of Divine Wisdom can be pursued with safety, that is without
+danger that Divine will give place to Black Magic, a page is given from
+the "private rules," with which every instructor in the East is
+furnished. The few passages which follow are chosen from a great number
+and explained in brackets.</p>
+
+<hr style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<p>1. The place selected for receiving instruction must be a spot
+calculated not to distract the mind, and filled with
+"influence-evolving" (magnetic) objects. The five sacred colors gathered
+in a circle must be there among other things. The place must be free
+from any malignant influences hanging about in the air.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[The place must be set apart, and used for no other purpose. The
+five "sacred colors" are the prismatic hues arranged in a certain
+way, as these colors are very magnetic. By "malignant influences"
+are meant any disturbances through strifes, quarrels, bad feelings,
+etc., as these are said to impress themselves immediately on the
+astral light, i.e., in the atmosphere of the place, and to hang<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
+"about in the air." This first condition seems easy enough to
+accomplish, yet&mdash;on further consideration, it is one of the most
+difficult ones to obtain.]</p></div>
+
+<p>2. Before the disciple shall be permitted to study "face to face," he
+has to acquire preliminary understanding in a select company of other
+lay <i>up&acirc;sakas</i> (disciples), the number of whom must be odd.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>["Face to face" means in this instance a study independent or apart
+from others, when the disciple gets his instruction <i>face to face</i>
+either with himself (his higher, Divine Self) or&mdash;his guru. It is
+then only that each receives <i>his due</i> of information, according to
+the use he has made of his knowledge. This can happen only toward
+the end of the cycle of instruction.]</p></div>
+
+<p>3. Before thou (the teacher) shalt impart to thy Lanoo (disciple) the
+good (holy) words of <span class="smcap">Lamrin</span>, or shalt permit him "to make
+ready" for <i>Dubjed</i>, thou shalt take care that his mind is thoroughly
+purified and at peace with all, especially <i>with his other Selves</i>.
+Otherwise the words of Wisdom and of the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>good Law, shall scatter and be
+picked up by the winds.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>["Lamrin" is a work of practical instructions, by Tson-kha-pa, in
+two portions, one for ecclesiastical and exoteric purposes, the
+other for esoteric use. "To make ready" for <i>Dubjed</i>, is to prepare
+the vessels used for seership, such as mirrors and crystals. The
+"other selves," refers to the fellow students. Unless the greatest
+harmony reigns among the learners, <i>no</i> success is possible. It is
+the teacher who makes the selections according to the magnetic and
+electric natures of the students, bringing together and adjusting
+most carefully the positive and the negative elements.]</p></div>
+
+<p>4. The <i>up&acirc;sakas</i> while studying must take care to be united as the
+fingers on one hand. Thou shalt impress upon their minds that whatever
+hurts one should hurt the others, and if the rejoicing of one finds no
+echo in the breasts of the others, then the required conditions are
+absent, and it is useless to proceed.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[This can hardly happen if the preliminary choice made was
+consistent with the magnetic requirements. It is known that Chelas
+otherwise promising and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>fit for the reception of truth, had to
+wait for years on account of their temper and the impossibility
+they felt to put themselves <i>in tune</i> with their companions. For&mdash;]</p></div>
+
+<p>5. The co-disciples must be tuned by the guru as the strings of a lute
+(<i>vina</i>) each different from the others, yet each emitting sounds in
+harmony with all. Collectively they must form a key-board answering in
+all its parts to thy lightest touch (the touch of the Master). Thus
+their minds shall open for the harmonies of Wisdom, to vibrate as
+knowledge through each and all, resulting in effects pleasing to the
+presiding gods (tutelary or patron-angels) and useful to the Lanoo. So
+shall Wisdom be impressed forever on their hearts and the harmony of the
+law shall never be broken.</p>
+
+<p>6. Those who desire to acquire the knowledge leading to the <i>Siddhis</i>
+(occult powers) have to renounce all the vanities of life and of the
+world (here follows enumeration of the Siddhis).</p>
+
+<p>7. None can feel the difference between <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>himself and his
+fellow-students, such as "I am the wisest," "I am more holy and pleasing
+to the teacher, or in my community, than my brother," etc.,&mdash;and remain
+an up&acirc;saka. His thoughts must be predominantly fixed upon his heart,
+chasing therefrom every hostile thought to any living being. It (the
+heart) must be full of the feeling of its non-separateness from the rest
+of beings as from all in Nature; otherwise no success can follow.</p>
+
+<p>8. A <i>Lanoo</i> (disciple) has to dread external living influence alone
+(magnetic emanations from living creatures). For this reason while at
+one with all, in his <i>inner nature</i>, he must take care to separate his
+outer (external) body from every foreign influence: none must drink out
+of, or eat in his cup but himself. He must avoid bodily contact (i.e.,
+being touched or touch) with human, as with animal being.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[No pet animals are permitted, and it is forbidden even to touch
+certain trees and plants. A disciple has to live, so to say, in his
+own atmosphere in order to individualize it for occult purposes.]</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>9. The mind must remain blunt to all but the universal truths in
+nature, lest the "Doctrine of the Heart" should become only the
+"Doctrine of the Eye," (i.e., empty exoteric ritualism).</p>
+
+<p>10. No animal food of whatever kind, nothing that has life in it should
+be taken by the disciple. No wine, no spirits, or opium should be used;
+for these are like the <i>Lhama-yin</i> (evil spirits), who fasten upon the
+unwary, they devour the understanding.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[Wine and spirits are supposed to contain and preserve the bad
+magnetism of all the men who helped in their fabrication; the meat
+of each animal, to preserve the psychic characteristics of its
+kind.]</p></div>
+
+<p>11. Meditation, abstinence in all, the observation of moral duties,
+gentle thoughts, good deeds and kind words, as good will to all and
+entire oblivion of Self, are the most efficacious means of obtaining
+knowledge and preparing for the reception of higher wisdom.</p>
+
+<p>12. It is only by virtue of a strict observance of the foregoing rules
+that a Lanoo can <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>hope to acquire in good time the Siddhis of the
+Arhats, the growth which makes him become gradually One with the
+<span class="smcap">Universal ALL</span>.</p>
+
+<hr style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<p>These 12 extracts are taken from among some 73 rules, to enumerate which
+would be useless as they would be meaningless in Europe. But even these
+few are enough to show the immensity of the difficulties which beset the
+path of the would-be "Up&acirc;saka," who has been born and bred in Western
+lands.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">B</a></p>
+
+<p>All western, and especially English, education is instinct with the
+principle of emulation and strife; each boy is urged to learn more
+quickly, to outstrip his companions, and to surpass them in every
+possible way. What is mis-called "friendly rivalry" is assiduously
+cultivated, and the same spirit is fostered and strengthened in every
+detail of life.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>With such ideas "educated into" him from his childhood, how can a
+Western bring himself to feel towards his co-students "as the fingers on
+one hand"? Those co-students, too, are not of his <i>own selection</i>, or
+chosen by himself from personal sympathy and appreciation. They are
+chosen by his teacher on far other grounds, and he who would be a
+student must <i>first</i> be strong enough to kill out in his heart all
+feelings of dislike and antipathy to others. How many Westerns are ready
+even to attempt this in earnest?</p>
+
+<p>And then the details of daily life, the command not to touch even the
+hand of one's nearest and dearest. How contrary to Western notions of
+affection and good feeling! How cold and hard it seems. Egotistical too,
+people would say, to abstain from giving pleasure to others for the sake
+of one's own development. Well, let those who think so defer till
+another lifetime the attempt to enter the path in real earnest. But let
+them not glory in their own fancied unselfishness. For, in reality, it
+is only the seeming appearances which they allow to <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>deceive them, the
+conventional notions, based on emotionalism and gush, or so-called
+courtesy, things of the unreal life, not the dictates of Truth.</p>
+
+<p>But even putting aside these difficulties, which may be considered
+"external," though their importance is none the less great, how are
+students in the West to "attune themselves" to harmony as here required
+of them? So strong has personality grown in Europe and America, that
+there is no school of artists even whose members do not hate and are not
+jealous of each other. "Professional" hatred and envy have become
+proverbial; men seek each to benefit himself at all costs, and even the
+so-called courtesies of life are but a hollow mask covering these demons
+of hatred and jealousy.</p>
+
+<p>In the East the spirit of "non-separateness" is inculcated as steadily
+from childhood up, as in the West the spirit of rivalry. Personal
+ambition, personal feelings and desires, are not encouraged to grow so
+rampant there. When the soil is naturally good, it is cultivated <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>in the
+right way, and the child grows into a man in whom the habit of
+subordination of one's lower to one's higher Self is strong and
+powerful. In the West men think that their own likes and dislikes of
+other men and things are guiding principles for them to act upon, even
+when they do not make of them the law of their lives and seek to impose
+them upon others.</p>
+
+<p>Let those who complain that they have learned little in the Theosophical
+Society lay to heart the words written in an article in the <i>Path</i> for
+last February:&mdash;"The key in each degree is the <i>aspirant himself</i>." It
+is not "the fear of God" which is "the beginning of Wisdom," but the
+knowledge of <span class="smcap">self</span> which is <span class="smcap">wisdom itself</span>.</p>
+
+<p>How grand and true appears, thus, to the student of Occultism who has
+commenced to realize some of the foregoing truths, the answer given by
+the Delphic Oracle to all who came seeking after Occult Wisdom&mdash;words
+repeated and enforced again and again by the wise Socrates:&mdash;MAN KNOW
+THYSELF.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>Chelaship has nothing <i>whatever</i> to do with means of subsistence or
+anything of the kind, for a man can isolate his mind entirely from his
+body and its surroundings. Chelaship is a <i>state of mind</i>, rather than a
+life according to hard and fast rules, on the physical plane. This
+applies especially to the earlier, probationary period, while the rules
+given in <i>Lucifer</i> for April last pertain properly to a later stage,
+that of actual occult training and the development of occult powers and
+insight. These rules indicate, however, the mode of life which ought to
+be followed by all aspirants <i>so far as practicable</i>, since it is the
+most helpful to them in their aspirations.</p>
+
+<p>It should never be forgotten that Occultism is concerned with the <i>inner
+man</i>, who must be strengthened and freed from the dominion of the
+physical body and its surroundings, which must become his servants.
+Hence the <i>first</i> and chief necessity of Chelaship is a spirit of
+absolute unselfishness and devotion to Truth; then follow self-knowledge
+and self-mastery. These are all-important; while outward observance of
+fixed rules of life is a matter of secondary moment.&mdash;<i>Lucifer</i>: IV,
+348, note.</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="padtop"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="OCCULTISM_VERSUS_THE_OCCULT_ARTS" id="OCCULTISM_VERSUS_THE_OCCULT_ARTS"></a>
+OCCULTISM VERSUS THE<br />
+OCCULT ARTS</h2>
+
+<table class="center" summary="poem">
+<tr><td>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"I oft have heard, but ne'er believed till now,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There are, who can by potent magic spells<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bend to their crooked purpose Nature's laws."<br /></span>
+<span class="i14"><i>Milton</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p><b>I<span class="smcap">n</span></b> this month's Correspondence several letters testify to the strong
+impression produced on some minds by our last month's article "Practical
+Occultism." Such letters go far to prove and strengthen two logical
+conclusions:&mdash;<br class="brc" /></p>
+
+<p>(<i>a</i>) There are more well-educated and thoughtful men who believe in the
+existence of Occultism and Magic (the two differing vastly) than the
+modern materialist dreams of; and:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>(<i>b</i>) That most of the believers (comprising<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> many theosophists) have no
+definite idea of the nature of Occultism and confuse it with the Occult
+sciences in general, the "Black art" included.</p>
+
+<p>Their representations of the powers it confers upon man, and of the
+means to be used to acquire them are as varied as they are fanciful.
+Some imagine that a master in the art, to show the way, is all that is
+needed to become a Zanoni. Others, that one has but to cross the Canal
+of Suez and go to India to bloom forth as a Roger Bacon or even a Count
+St. Germain. Many take for their ideal Margrave with his ever-renewing
+youth, and care little for the soul as the price paid for it. Not a few,
+mistaking "Witch-of-Endorism" pure and simple, for Occultism&mdash;"through
+the yawning Earth from Stygian gloom, call up the meager ghost to walks
+of light," and want, on the strength of this feat, to be regarded as
+full blown Adepts. "Ceremonial Magic" according to the rules mockingly
+laid down by &Eacute;liphas L&eacute;vi, is another imagined <i>alter ego</i> of the
+philosophy of the Arhats of <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>old. 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.</p>
+
+<p>Will these candidates to Wisdom and Power feel very indignant if told
+the plain truth? It is not only useful, but it has now become
+<i>necessary</i> to disabuse most of them and before it is too late. This
+truth may be said in a few words: There are not in the West half-a-dozen
+among the fervent hundreds who call themselves "Occultists," who have
+even an approximately correct idea of the nature of the Science they
+seek to master. With a few exceptions, they are all on the highway to
+Sorcery. Let them restore some order in the chaos that reigns in their
+minds, before they protest against this statement. Let them first learn
+the true relation in which the Occult Sciences stand to Occultism, and
+the difference between the two, and then feel wrathful if they still
+think themselves right. Meanwhile, let them learn that Occultism differs
+from Magic and other secret Sciences as the glorious<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> Sun does from a
+rush-light, as the immutable and immortal Spirit of Man&mdash;the reflection
+of the absolute, causeless, and unknowable all,&mdash;differs from the mortal
+clay&mdash;the human body.</p>
+
+<p>In our highly civilized West, where modern languages have been formed,
+and words coined, in the wake of ideas and thoughts&mdash;as happened with
+every tongue&mdash;the more the latter became materialized in the cold
+atmosphere of Western selfishness and its incessant chase after the
+goods of this world, the less was there any need felt for the production
+of new terms to express that which was tacitly regarded as obsolete and
+exploded "superstition." Such words could answer only to ideas which a
+cultured man was scarcely supposed to harbor in his mind. "Magic," a
+synonym for jugglery; "Sorcery," an equivalent for crass ignorance; and
+"Occultism," the sorry relic of crack-brained, medieval
+Fire-philosophers, of the Jacob Boehmes and the St. Martins, are
+expressions believed more than amply sufficient to cover the whole field
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>of "thimble-rigging." They are terms of contempt, and used generally
+only in reference to the dross and residues of the Dark Ages and its
+preceding aeons of paganism. Therefore have we no terms in the English
+tongue to define and shade the difference between such abnormal powers,
+or the sciences that lead to the acquisition of them, with the nicety
+possible in the Eastern languages&mdash;pre-eminently the Sanskrit. What do
+the words "miracle" and "enchantment" (words identical in meaning after
+all, as both express the idea of producing wonderful things by <i>breaking
+the laws of nature</i> [!!] as explained by the accepted authorities)
+convey to the minds of those who hear, or who pronounce them? A
+Christian&mdash;<i>breaking</i> "of the laws of nature," notwithstanding&mdash;while
+believing firmly in the <i>miracles</i>, because said to have been produced
+by God through Moses, will either scout the enchantments performed by
+Pharoah's magicians, or attribute them to the devil. It is the latter
+whom our pious enemies connect with Occultism, while their impious foes,
+the infidels, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>laugh at Moses, Magicians, and Occultists, and would
+blush to give one serious thought to such "superstitions." This, because
+there is no term in existence to show the difference; no words to
+express the lights and shadows and draw the line of demarcation between
+the sublime and the true, the absurd and the ridiculous. The latter are
+the theological interpretations which teach the "breaking of the laws of
+Nature" by man, God, or devil; the former&mdash;the <i>scientific</i> "miracles"
+and enchantments of Moses and the Magicians <i>in accordance with natural
+laws</i>, both having been learned in all the Wisdom of the Sanctuaries,
+which were the "Royal Societies" of those days&mdash;and in true OCCULTISM.
+This last word is certainly misleading, translated as it stands from the
+compound word <i>Gupt&acirc;-Vidy&acirc;</i>, "Secret Knowledge." But the knowledge of
+what? Some of the Sanskrit terms may help us.</p>
+
+<p>There are four (out of the many other) names of the various kinds of
+Esoteric Knowledge or Sciences given, even in the exoteric<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> Pur&acirc;nas.
+There is (1) <i>Yaj&ntilde;a-Vidy&acirc;</i>,<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">C</a> knowledge of the occult powers awakened
+in Nature by the performance of certain religious ceremonies and rites.
+(2) <i>Mah&acirc;-Vidy&acirc;</i>, the "great knowledge," the magic of the Kabalists and
+of the <i>T&acirc;ntrika</i> worship, often Sorcery of the worst description. (3)
+<i>Guhy&acirc;-Vidy&acirc;</i>, knowledge of the mystic powers residing in Sound (Ether),
+hence in the <i>Mantras</i> (chanted <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>prayers or incantations) and depending
+on the rhythm and melody used; in other words a magical performance
+based on Knowledge of the Forces of Nature and their correlation; and
+(4) <span class="smcap">&Acirc;tma-Vidy&acirc;</span>, a term which is translated simply "Knowledge of
+the Soul," <i>true Wisdom</i> by the Orientalists, but which means far more.</p>
+
+<p>This last is the only kind of Occultism that any Theosophist who admires
+<i>Light on the Path</i>, and who would be wise and unselfish, ought to
+strive after. All the rest is some branch of the "Occult Sciences,"
+i.e., arts based on the knowledge of the ultimate essence of all things
+in the Kingdom of Nature&mdash;such as minerals, plants, and animals&mdash;hence
+of things pertaining to the realm of <i>material</i> Nature, however
+invisible that essence may be, and howsoever much it has hitherto eluded
+the grasp of Science. Alchemy, Astrology, Occult Physiology, Chiromancy
+exist in Nature, and the <i>exact</i> Sciences&mdash;perhaps so called because
+they are found in this age of paradoxical philosophies the reverse&mdash;have
+already <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>discovered not a few of the secrets of the above <i>arts</i>. But
+clairvoyance, symbolized in India as the "Eye of &#x15A;iva," called in
+Japan, "Infinite Vision," is <i>not</i> Hypnotism, the illegitimate son of
+Mesmerism, and is not to be acquired by such arts. All the others may be
+mastered and results obtained, whether good, bad, or indifferent; but
+<i>&Acirc;tma-Vidy&acirc;</i> sets small value on them. It includes them all, and may
+even use them occasionally, but it does so after purifying them of their
+dross, for beneficent purposes, and taking care to deprive them of every
+element of selfish motive. Let us explain: Any man or woman can set
+himself or herself to study one or all of the above specified "Occult
+Arts" without any great previous preparation, and even without adopting
+any too restraining mode of life. One could even dispense with any lofty
+standard of morality. In the last case, of course, ten to one the
+student would blossom into a very decent kind of sorcerer, and tumble
+down headlong into black magic. But what can this matter? The <i>Voodoos</i>
+and the <i>Dugpas</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> eat, drink and are merry over hecatombs of victims of
+their infernal arts. And so do the amiable gentlemen vivisectionists and
+the <i>diploma-ed</i> "Hypnotizers" of the Faculties of Medicine; the only
+difference between the two classes being that the Voodoos and the Dugpas
+are <i>conscious</i>, and the Charcot-Richet crew <i>unconscious</i> Sorcerers.
+Thus, since both have to reap the fruits of their labors and
+achievements in the black art, the Western practitioners should not have
+the punishment and reputation without the profits and enjoyments they
+may get therefrom. For we say it again, <i>hypnotism</i> and <i>vivisection</i> as
+practised in such schools, are <i>Sorcery</i> pure and simple, <i>minus</i> a
+knowledge that the Voodoos and Dugpas enjoy, and which no Charcot-Richet
+can procure for himself in fifty years of hard study and experimental
+observation. Let then those who will dabble in magic, whether they
+understand its nature or not, but who find the rules imposed upon
+students too hard, and who, therefore, lay &Acirc;tma-Vidy&acirc; or Occultism
+aside&mdash;go without it. Let them become <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>magicians by all means, even
+though they do become <i>Voodoos</i> and <i>Dugpas</i> for the next ten
+incarnations.</p>
+
+<p>But the interest of our readers will probably center on those who are
+invincibly attracted towards the "Occult," yet who neither realize the
+true nature of what they aspire towards, nor have they become
+passion-proof, far less truly unselfish.</p>
+
+<p>How about these unfortunates, we shall be asked, who are thus rent in
+twain by conflicting forces? For it has been said too often to need
+repetition, and the fact itself is patent to any observer, that when
+once the desire for Occultism has really awakened in a man's heart,
+there remains for him no hope of peace, no place of rest and comfort in
+all the world. He is driven out into the wild and desolate spaces of
+life by an ever-gnawing unrest he cannot quell. His heart is too full of
+passion and selfish desire to permit him to pass the Golden Gate; he
+cannot find rest or peace in ordinary life. Must he then inevitably fall
+into sorcery and black magic, and through <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>many incarnations heap up for
+himself a terrible Karma? Is there no other road for him?</p>
+
+<p>Indeed there is, we answer. Let him aspire to no higher than he feels
+able to accomplish. Let him not take a burden upon himself too heavy for
+him to carry. Without ever becoming a "Mah&acirc;tm&acirc;," a Buddha, or a Great
+Saint, let him study the philosophy and the "Science of Soul," and he
+can become one of the modest benefactors of humanity, without any
+"superhuman" powers. <i>Siddhis</i> (or the Arhat powers) are only for those
+who are able to "lead the life," to comply with the terrible sacrifices
+required for such a training, and to comply with them <i>to the very
+letter</i>. Let them know at once and remember always, that <i>true Occultism
+or Theosophy</i> is the "Great Renunciation of <span class="smcap">self</span>,"
+unconditionally and absolutely, in thought as in action. It is
+<span class="smcap">altruism</span>, and it throws him who practises it out of calculation
+of the ranks of the living altogether. "Not for himself, but for the
+world, he lives," as soon as he has pledged himself to the work. Much is
+forgiven during the first <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>years of probation. But, no sooner is he
+"accepted" than his personality must disappear, and he has to become <i>a
+mere beneficent force in Nature</i>. There are two poles for him after
+that, two paths, and no midward place of rest. He has either to ascend
+laboriously, step by step, often through numerous incarnations and <i>no
+Devachanic break</i>, the golden ladder leading to Mah&acirc;tm&acirc;ship (the <i>Arhat</i>
+or <i>Bodhisattva</i> condition), or&mdash;he will let himself slide down the
+ladder at the first false step, and roll down into <i>Dugpa-ship</i>....</p>
+
+<p>All this is either unknown or left out of sight altogether. Indeed, one
+who is able to follow the silent evolution of the preliminary
+aspirations of the candidates, often finds strange ideas quietly taking
+possession of their minds. There are those whose reasoning powers have
+been so distorted by foreign influences that they imagine that animal
+passions can be so sublimated and elevated that their fury, force, and
+fire can, so to speak, be turned inwards; that they can be stored and
+shut up in one's breast, until their energy is, not <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>expanded, but
+turned toward higher and more holy purposes; namely, <i>until their
+collective and unexpanded strength enables their possessor to enter the
+true Sanctuary of the Soul</i> and stand therein in the presence of the
+<i>Master</i>&mdash;the <span class="smcap">Higher Self</span>! For this purpose they will not
+struggle with their passions nor slay them. They will simply, by a
+strong effort of will put down the fierce flames and keep them at bay
+within their natures, allowing the fire to smolder under a thin layer of
+ashes. They submit joyfully to the torture of the Spartan boy who
+allowed the fox to devour his entrails rather than part with it. Oh,
+poor, blind visionaries!</p>
+
+<p>As well hope that a band of drunken chimney-sweeps, hot and greasy from
+their work, may be shut up in a Sanctuary hung with pure white linen,
+and that instead of soiling and turning it by their presence into a heap
+of dirty shreds, they will become masters in and of the sacred recess,
+and finally emerge from it as immaculate as that recess. Why not imagine
+that a dozen of skunks imprisoned in <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>the pure atmosphere of a <i>Dgon-pa</i>
+(a monastery) can issue out of it impregnated with all the perfumes of
+the incenses used?... Strange aberration of the human mind. Can it be
+so? Let us argue.</p>
+
+<p>The "Master" in the Sanctuary of our souls is "the Higher Self"&mdash;the
+divine spirit whose consciousness is based upon and derived solely (at
+any rate during the mortal life of the man in whom it is captive) from
+the Mind, which we have agreed to call the <i>Human Soul</i> (the "Spiritual
+Soul" being the vehicle of the Spirit). In its turn the former (the
+<i>personal</i> or human soul) is a compound in its highest form, of
+spiritual aspirations, volitions and divine love; and in its lower
+aspect, of animal desires and terrestrial passions imparted to it by its
+associations with its vehicle, the seat of all these. It thus stands as
+a link and a medium between the animal nature of man which its higher
+reason seeks to subdue, and his divine spiritual nature to which it
+gravitates, whenever it has the upper hand in its struggle with the
+<i>inner animal</i>. The <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>latter is the instinctual "animal Soul" and is the
+hotbed of those passions, which, as just shown, are lulled instead of
+being killed, and locked up in their breasts by some imprudent
+enthusiasts. Do they still hope to turn thereby the muddy stream of the
+animal sewer into the crystalline waters of life? And where, on what
+neutral ground can they be imprisoned so as not to affect man? The
+fierce passions of love and lust are still alive and they are allowed to
+still remain in the place of their birth&mdash;<i>that same animal soul</i>; for
+both the higher and the lower portions of the "Human Soul" or Mind
+reject such inmates, though they cannot avoid being tainted with them as
+neighbors. The "Higher Self" or Spirit is as unable to assimilate such
+feelings as water to get mixed with oil or unclean liquid tallow. It is
+thus the mind alone&mdash;the sole link and medium between the man of earth
+and the Higher Self&mdash;that is the only sufferer, and which is in the
+incessant danger of being dragged down by those passions that may be
+reawakened at any moment, and perish in the <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>abyss of matter. And how
+can it ever attune itself to the divine harmony of the highest
+Principle, when that harmony is destroyed by the mere presence, within
+the Sanctuary in preparation, of such animal passions? How can harmony
+prevail and conquer, when the soul is stained and distracted with the
+turmoil of passions and the terrestrial desires of the bodily senses, or
+even of the "Astral man"?</p>
+
+<p>For this "Astral"&mdash;the shadowy "double" (in the animal as in man)&mdash;is
+not the companion of the <i>divine Ego</i> but of the <i>earthly body</i>. It is
+the link between the personal <span class="smcap">Self</span>, the lower consciousness of
+<i>Manas</i> and the <span class="smcap">Body</span>, and is the vehicle of <i>transitory</i>, <i>not
+of immortal life</i>. Like the shadow projected by man, it follows his
+movements and impulses slavishly and mechanically, and leans therefore
+to matter without ever ascending to Spirit. It is only when the power of
+the passions is dead altogether, and when they have been crushed and
+annihilated in the retort of an unflinching will; when not only all the
+lusts and longings of the flesh are dead, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>but also the recognition of
+the personal Self is killed out and the "astral" has been reduced in
+consequence to a cipher, that the Union with the "Higher Self" can take
+place. Then when the "astral" reflects only the conquered man, the still
+living, but no more the longing, selfish personality, then the brilliant
+<i>Augoeides</i>, the divine <span class="smcap">Self</span>, can vibrate in conscious harmony
+with both the poles of the human Entity&mdash;the man of matter purified, and
+the ever pure Spiritual Soul&mdash;and stand in the presence of the
+<span class="smcap">Master Self</span>, the Christos of the mystic Gnostics, blended,
+merged into, and one with IT for ever.<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">D</a></p>
+
+<p>How then can it be thought possible for a man to enter the "strait gate"
+of occultism when his daily and hourly thoughts are bound up with
+worldly things, desires of possession <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>and power, with lust, ambition
+and duties, which, however honorable, are still of the earth earthy?
+Even the love for wife and family&mdash;the purest as the most unselfish of
+human affections&mdash;is a barrier to <i>real</i> occultism. For whether we take
+as an example the holy love of a mother for her child, or that of a
+husband for his wife, even in these feelings, when analysed to the very
+bottom, and thoroughly sifted, there is still <i>selfishness</i> in the
+first, and an <i>&eacute;goisme &agrave; deux</i> in the second instance. What mother would
+not sacrifice without a moment's hesitation hundreds and thousands of
+lives for that of the child of her heart? and what lover or true husband
+would not break the happiness of every other man and woman around him to
+satisfy the desire of one whom he loves? This is but natural, we shall
+be told. Quite so; in the light of the code of human affections; less
+so, in that of divine universal love. For, while the heart is full of
+thoughts for a little group of <i>selves</i>, near and dear to us, how shall
+the rest of mankind fare in our souls? What percentage <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>of love and care
+will there remain to bestow on the "great orphan"? And how shall the
+"still small voice" make itself heard in a soul entirely occupied with
+its own privileged tenants? What room is there left for the needs of
+Humanity <i>en bloc</i> to impress themselves upon, or even receive a speedy
+response? And yet, he who would profit by the wisdom of the universal
+mind, has to reach it through <i>the whole of Humanity</i> without
+distinction of race, complexion, religion or social status. It is
+<i>altruism</i>, not <i>ego-ism</i> even in its most legal and noble conception,
+that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves.
+It is to <i>these</i> needs and to this work that the true disciple of true
+Occultism has to devote himself, if he would obtain <i>theo</i>-sophy, divine
+Wisdom and Knowledge.</p>
+
+<p>The aspirant has to choose absolutely between the life of the world and
+the life of Occultism. It is useless and vain to endeavor to unite the
+two, for no one can serve two masters and satisfy both. No one can serve
+his body and the higher Soul, and do his <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>family duty and his universal
+duty, without depriving either one or the other of its rights; for he
+will either lend his ear to the "still small voice" and fail to hear the
+cries of his little ones, or, he will listen but to the wants of the
+latter and remain deaf to the voice of Humanity. It would be a
+ceaseless, a maddening struggle for almost any married man, who would
+pursue true practical Occultism, instead of its <i>theoretical</i>
+philosophy. For he would find himself ever hesitating between the voice
+of the impersonal divine love of Humanity, and that of the personal,
+terrestrial love. And this could only lead him to fail in one or the
+other, or perhaps in both his duties. Worse than this; for, <i>whoever
+indulges, after having pledged himself to</i> <span class="smcap">occultism</span>, <i>in the
+gratification of a terrestrial love or lust</i>, must feel an almost
+immediate result; that of being irresistibly dragged from the impersonal
+divine state down to the lower plane of matter. Sensual, or even mental
+self-gratification, involves the immediate loss of the powers of
+spiritual discernment; the voice of the <span class="smcap">master</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> can no longer
+be distinguished from that of one's passions or <i>even that of a Dugpa</i>;
+the right from wrong; sound morality from mere casuistry. The Dead Sea
+fruit assumes the most glorious mystic appearance, only to turn to ashes
+on the lips, and to gall in the heart, resulting in:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table class="center" summary="poem"><tr><td>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Depth ever deepening, darkness darkening still;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Folly for wisdom, guilt for innocence;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Anguish for rapture, and for hope despair.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>And once being mistaken and having acted on their mistakes, most men
+shrink from realizing their error, and thus descend deeper and deeper
+into the mire. And, although it is the intention that decides primarily
+whether <i>white</i> or <i>black</i> magic is exercised, yet the results even of
+involuntary, unconscious sorcery cannot fail to be productive of bad
+Karma. Enough has been said to show that <i>sorcery is any kind of evil
+influence exercised upon other persons, who suffer, or make other
+persons suffer, in consequence</i>. Karma is a heavy stone splashed in the
+quiet waters of Life; and it must produce ever widening circles of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>ripples, carried wider and wider, almost <i>ad infinitum</i>. Such causes
+produced have to call forth effects, and these are evidenced in the just
+laws of Retribution.</p>
+
+<p>Much of this may be avoided if people will only abstain from rushing
+into practices neither the nature nor importance of which they
+understand. No one is expected to carry a burden beyond his strength and
+powers. There are "natural-born magicians"; Mystics and Occultists by
+birth, and by right of direct inheritance from a series of incarnations
+and aeons of suffering and failures. These are passion-proof, so to say.
+No fires of earthly origin can fan into a flame any of their senses or
+desires; no human voice can find response in their souls, except the
+great cry of Humanity. These only may be certain of success. But they
+can be met only far and wide, and they pass through the narrow gates of
+Occultism because they carry no personal luggage of human transitory
+sentiments along with them. They have got rid of the feeling of the
+lower personality, paralysed thereby the "astral"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> animal, and the
+golden, but narrow gate is thrown open before them. Not so with those
+who have to carry yet for several incarnations the burden of sins
+committed in previous lives, and even in their present existence. For
+such, unless they proceed with great caution, the golden gate of Wisdom
+may get transformed into the wide gate and the broad way "that leadeth
+unto destruction," and therefore "many be they that enter in thereby."
+This is the Gate of the Occult arts, practised for selfish motives and
+in the absence of the restraining and beneficent influence of
+<span class="smcap">&Acirc;tma-Vidy&acirc;</span>. We are in the Kali Yuga and its fatal influence is
+a thousand-fold more powerful in the West than it is in the East; hence
+the easy preys made by the Powers of the Age of Darkness in this cyclic
+struggle, and the many delusions under which the world is now laboring.
+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. It is the dream of most Theosophists, one inspired by desire
+for Power and <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>personal selfishness, and it is not such feelings that
+can ever lead them to the coveted goal. For, as well said by one
+believed to have sacrificed himself for Humanity&mdash;"Strait is the gate
+and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life" eternal, and therefore
+"few there be that find it." (<i>Matt.</i> vii, 14) So strait indeed, that at
+the bare mention of some of the preliminary difficulties the affrighted
+Western candidates turn back and retreat with a shudder....</p>
+
+<p>Let them stop here and attempt no more in their great weakness. For if,
+while turning their backs on the narrow gate, they are dragged by their
+desire for the Occult one step in the direction of the broad and more
+inviting gates of that golden mystery which glitters in the light of
+illusion, woe to them! It can lead only to Dugpa-ship, and they will be
+sure to find themselves very soon landed on that <i>Via Fatale</i> of the
+<i>Inferno</i>, over whose portal Dante read the words:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table class="center" summary="poem"><tr><td>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Per me si va nella citta dolente</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Per me si va nell' eterno dolore</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Per me si va tra la perduta gente....</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p class="padtop"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY</h2>
+
+<hr style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<p><b>A <span class="smcap">well-known</span></b> public lecturer, a distinguished Egyptologist, said, in one
+of his lectures against the teachings of Theosophy, a few suggestive
+words, which are now quoted and must be answered:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>It is a delusion to suppose there is anything in the experience or
+wisdom of the past, the ascertained results of which can only be
+communicated from beneath the cloak and mask of mystery....
+Explanation is the Soul of Science. They will tell you <i>we cannot
+have their knowledge without living their life</i>.... Public
+experimental research, the printing press, and a free-thought
+platform, have abolished the need of mystery. It is no longer
+necessary for science to take the veil, as she was forced to do for
+security in times past....</p></div>
+
+<p>This is a very mistaken view in one aspect. "Secrets of the purer and
+profounder life"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> not only <i>may</i> but <i>must</i> be made universally known.
+But <i>there are secrets that kill</i> in the arcana of Occultism, and unless
+a man <i>lives the life</i> he cannot be entrusted with them.</p>
+
+<p>The late Professor Faraday had very serious doubts whether it was quite
+wise and reasonable to give out to the public at large certain
+discoveries of modern science. Chemistry had led to the invention of too
+terrible means of destruction in our century to allow it to fall into
+the hands of the profane. What man of sense&mdash;in the face of such
+fiendish applications of dynamite and other explosive substances as are
+made by those incarnations of the Destroying Power, who glory in calling
+themselves Anarchists and Socialists&mdash;would not agree with us in
+saying:&mdash;Far better for mankind that it should never have blasted a rock
+by modern perfected means, than that it should have shattered the limbs
+of one per cent even of those who have been thus destroyed by the
+pitiless hand of Russian Nihilists, Irish Fenians, and Anarchists. That
+such discoveries, and chiefly their murderous <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>application, ought to
+have been withheld from public knowledge may be shown on the authority
+of statistics and commissions appointed to investigate and record the
+result of the evil done. The following information gathered from public
+papers will give an insight into what may be in store for wretched
+mankind.</p>
+
+<p>England alone&mdash;the center of civilization&mdash;has 21,268 firms fabricating
+and selling explosive substances.<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">E</a> But the centers of the dynamite
+trade, of infernal machines, and other such results of modern
+civilization, are chiefly at Philadelphia and New York. It is in the
+former city of "Brotherly Love" that the now most famous manufacturer of
+explosives flourishes. It is one of the well-known respectable
+citizens&mdash;the inventor and manufacturer of the most murderous "dynamite
+toys"&mdash;who, called before the Senate of the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>United States anxious to adopt means for the repression of a <i>too free
+trade</i> in such implements, found an argument that ought to become
+immortalized for its cynical sophistry&mdash;"My <i>machines</i>," that expert is
+reported to have said&mdash;"are quite <i>harmless to look at</i>; as they may be
+manufactured in the shape of oranges, hats, boats, and anything one
+likes.... Criminal is he who murders people by means of such machines,
+not he who manufactures them. The firm refuses to admit that were there
+no supply there would be no incentive for demand on the market; but
+insists that every demand should be satisfied by a supply ready at
+hand."</p>
+
+<p>That "supply" is the fruit of civilization and of the publicity given to
+the discovery of every murderous property in matter. What is it? As
+found in the Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the
+variety and character of the so-called "infernal machines," so far the
+following implements of instantaneous human destruction are already on
+hand. The most fashionable of all <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>among the many varieties fabricated
+by Mr. Holgate are the "Ticker," the "Eight Day Machine," the "Little
+Exterminator," and the "Bottle Machines." The "Ticker" is in appearance
+like a piece of lead, a foot long and four inches thick. It contains an
+iron or steel tube full of a kind of gunpowder invented by Holgate
+himself. That gunpowder, in appearance like any other common stuff of
+that name, has, however, an explosive power two hundred times stronger
+than common gunpowder; the "Ticker" containing thus a powder which
+equals in force two hundred pounds of the common gunpowder. At one end
+of the machine is fastened an invisible clock-work meant to regulate the
+time of the explosion, which time may be fixed from one minute to
+thirty-six hours. The spark is produced by means of a steel needle which
+gives a spark at the touch-hole, and communicates thereby the fire to
+the whole machine.</p>
+
+<p>The "Eight Day Machine" is considered the most powerful, but at the same
+time the most complicated, of all those invented. One <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>must be familiar
+with handling it before a full success can be secured. It is owing to
+this difficulty that the terrible fate intended for London Bridge and
+its neighborhood was turned aside by the instantaneous killing instead
+of the two Fenian criminals. The size and appearance of that machine
+changes, Proteus-like, according to the necessity of smuggling it in, in
+one or another way, unperceived by the victims. It may be concealed in
+bread, in a basket of oranges, in a liquid, and so on. The Commission of
+Experts is said to have declared that its explosive power is such as to
+reduce to atoms instantly the largest edifice in the world.</p>
+
+<p>The "Little Exterminator" is an innocent-looking plain utensil having
+the shape of a modest jug. It contains neither dynamite nor powder, but
+secretes, nevertheless, a deadly gas, and has a hardly perceptible
+clock-work attached to its edge, the needle of which points to the time
+when that gas will effect its escape. In a shut-up room this new "vril"
+of lethal kind will <i>smother to death, nearly instantaneously<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></i>, every
+living being within a distance of a hundred feet radius of the murderous
+jug. With these three "latest novelties" in the high season of Christian
+civilization, the catalog of the dynamiters is closed; all the rest
+belongs to the old "fashion" of the past years. It consists of hats,
+<i>porte cigars</i>, bottles of ordinary kind, and even <i>ladies' smelling
+bottles</i>, filled with dynamite, nitro-glycerin, etc., etc.&mdash;weapons,
+some of which, following unconsciously Karmic law, killed many of the
+dynamiters in the last Chicago <i>revolution</i>. Add to this the forthcoming
+long-promised Keeley's vibratory force, capable of reducing in a few
+seconds a dead bullock to a heap of ashes, and then ask yourself if the
+<i>Inferno</i> of Dante as a locality can ever rival earth in the production
+of more hellish engines of destruction?</p>
+
+<p>Thus, if purely material implements are capable of blowing up, from a
+few corners, the greatest cities of the globe, provided the murderous
+weapons are guided by expert hands&mdash;what terrible dangers might not
+arise from magical <i>occult</i> secrets being revealed, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>and allowed to fall
+into the possession of ill-meaning persons! A thousand times more
+dangerous and lethal are these, because neither the criminal hand, nor
+the <i>immaterial</i> invisible weapon used, can ever be detected.</p>
+
+<p>The congenital <i>black</i> magicians&mdash;those who, to an innate propensity
+towards evil, unite highly-developed mediumistic natures&mdash;are but too
+numerous in our age. It is nigh time then that the psychologists and
+believers, at least, should cease advocating the beauties of publicity
+and claiming knowledge of the secrets of nature for all. It is not in
+our age of "suggestion" and "explosives" that Occultism can open wide
+the doors of its laboratories except to those who <i>do</i> live the life.</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">H.&nbsp;P.&nbsp;B.</p>
+
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> So holy is the connexion thus formed deemed in the Greek
+Church, that a marriage between god-parents of the same child is
+regarded as the worst kind of incest, is considered illegal, and is
+dissolved by law; and this absolute prohibition extends even to the
+children of one of the sponsors as regards those of the other.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> Be it remembered that <i>all</i> "Chelas," even lay disciples,
+are called Up&acirc;saka until after their first initiation, when they become
+Lanoo-Up&acirc;saka. To that day, even those who belong to Lamaseries and are
+<i>set apart</i>, are considered as "laymen."</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> "The <i>Yaj&ntilde;a</i>," say the Br&acirc;hmans, "exists from eternity, for
+it proceeded forth from the Supreme One ... in whom it lay dormant from
+'<i>no</i> beginning.' It is the key to the <span class="smcap">Traividya</span>, the thrice
+sacred science contained in the Rig verses, which teaches the Yajus or
+sacrificial mysteries. 'The Yaj&ntilde;a' exists as an invisible thing at all
+times; it is like the latent power of electricity in an electrifying
+machine, requiring only the operation of a suitable apparatus in order
+to be elicited. It is supposed to extend from the <i>Ahavaniya</i> or
+sacrificial fire to the heavens, forming a bridge or ladder by means of
+which the sacrificer can communicate with the world of gods and spirits,
+and even ascend when alive to their abodes."&mdash;Martin Haug's <i>Aitareya
+Br&acirc;hmana</i>.
+</p><p>
+"This <i>Yaj&ntilde;a</i> is again one of the forms of the <i>&Acirc;k&acirc;&#x15B;a</i>; and the
+mystic word calling it into existence and pronounced mentally by the
+initiated Priest is the Lost Word receiving impulse through <span class="smcap">will
+power</span>."&mdash;<i>Isis Unveiled</i>, Vol. I. Introduction. See <i>Aitareya
+Br&acirc;hmana</i>, Haug.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> Those who would feel inclined to see three <i>Egos</i> in one
+man will show themselves unable to perceive the metaphysical meaning.
+Man is a trinity composed of Body, Soul and Spirit; but <i>man</i> is
+nevertheless <i>one</i> and is surely not his body. It is the latter which is
+the property, the transitory clothing of the man. The three "Egos" are
+<span class="smcap">man</span> in his three aspects on the astral, intellectual or
+psychic, and the Spiritual planes, or states.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> Nitro-glycerin has found its way even into medical
+compounds. Physicians and druggists are vying with the Anarchists in
+their endeavors to destroy the surplus of mankind. The famous chocolate
+tablets against dyspepsia are said to contain nitro-glycerin! They may
+save, but they can kill still more easily.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p>
+<h2><i>There is No Religion Higher than Truth</i></h2>
+
+<hr class="crowd" style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<h3 class="crowd">The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society</h3>
+
+<hr class="crowd" style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<p style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 130%;" class="center">
+<i><b>Established for the benefit of the people of the earth &amp; all creatures</b></i></p>
+
+<h4>OBJECTS</h4>
+
+<p>This BROTHERHOOD is part of a great and universal movement which has
+been active in all ages.</p>
+
+<p>This Organization declares that Brotherhood is a fact in Nature. Its
+principal purpose is to teach Brotherhood, demonstrate that it is a fact
+in nature and make it a living power in the life of humanity.</p>
+
+<p>Its subsidiary purpose is to study ancient and modern religions,
+science, philosophy and art; to investigate the laws of nature and the
+divine powers in man.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society</span>, founded by
+H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky at New York, 1875, continued after her death under the
+leadership of the co-founder, William Q. Judge, and now under the
+leadership of their successor, Katherine Tingley, has its Headquarters
+at the International Theosophical Center, Point Loma, California.</p>
+
+<p>This Organization is not in any way connected with nor does it endorse
+any other societies using the name of Theosophy.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society</span> welcomes to
+membership all who truly love their fellow men and desire the
+eradication of the evils caused by the barriers of race, creed, caste or
+color, which have so long impeded human progress; to all sincere lovers
+of truth and to all who aspire to higher and better things than the mere
+pleasures and interests of a worldly life, and are prepared to do all in
+their power to make Brotherhood a living energy in the life of humanity,
+its various departments offer unlimited opportunities.</p>
+
+<p>The whole work of the Organization is under the direction of the Leader
+and Official Head, Katherine Tingley, as outlined in the Constitution.</p>
+
+<hr style='background-color: black;' />
+
+<p>Do not fail to profit by the following:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>It is a regrettable fact that many people use the name of Theosophy
+and of our Organization for self-interest, as also that of H.&nbsp;P.
+Blavatsky, the Foundress, to attract attention to themselves and to
+gain public support. This they do in private and public speech and
+in publications, also by lecturing throughout the country. Without
+being in any way connected with the <span class="smcap">Universal Brotherhood and
+Theosophical Society</span>, in many cases they permit it to be
+inferred that they are, thus misleading the public, and many honest
+inquirers are hence led away from the truths of Theosophy as
+presented by H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky and her successors, William Q. Judge
+and Katherine Tingley, and practically exemplified in their
+Theosophical work for the uplifting of humanity.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<p class="padtop"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+<h2>The International Brotherhood League</h2>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Founded in 1897 by Katherine Tingley</b></p>
+
+
+<h4>ITS OBJECTS ARE:</h4>
+
+<ol>
+<li>To help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and
+their true position in life.</li>
+
+<li>To educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of Universal
+Brotherhood, and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become
+workers for humanity.</li>
+
+<li>To ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women, and assist them to
+a higher life.</li>
+
+<li>To assist those who are, or have been, in prisons, to establish
+themselves in honorable positions in life.</li>
+
+<li>To abolish capital punishment.</li>
+
+<li>To bring about a better understanding between so-called savage and
+civilized races, by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship
+between them.</li>
+
+<li>To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine, war, and
+other calamities; and, generally, to extend aid, help and comfort to
+suffering humanity throughout the world.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p style="margin-left: 4em;">For further information regarding the above Notices, address</p>
+
+<h2 style="font-weight: normal;">KATHERINE TINGLEY</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">International Theosophical Headquarters,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap" style="margin-left: 9em;">Point Loma, California</span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>Books Recommended to Inquirers</h2>
+
+<p class="center">For <i>complete</i> <span class="smcap">Book List</span> write to</p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">The Theosophical Publishing Co.</span>, Point Loma, California</p>
+
+<hr style="background-color: black;" />
+
+<div style="margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%;">
+<p><span class="smcap">Isis Unveiled</span> (H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky). 2 vols., royal 8vo, about 1400
+pages; cloth; with portrait of the author. <i>Point Loma Edition, with a
+preface.</i> Postpaid <span class="chappg">4.00</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Key to Theosophy, The</span> (H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky). <i>Point Loma Edition,
+with Glossary and exhaustive Index. Portraits of H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky and W.&nbsp;Q.
+Judge.</i> 8vo, cloth, 400 pages. Postpaid <span class="chappg">2.25</span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A clear exposition of Theosophy in form of question and answer.
+<span class="smcap">The book for Students.</span></p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Secret Doctrine, The</span> (H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky). The Synthesis of
+Science, Religion, and Philosophy. New Point Loma Edition, 2 vols.,
+royal 8vo, about 1500 pages; cloth. Postpaid <span class="chappg">10.00</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Voice of the Silence, The</span> (For the daily use of disciples).
+Translated and annotated by H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky. Pocket size, leather <span class="chappg">.75</span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Mysteries of the Heart Doctrine, The.</span> Prepared by Katherine
+Tingley and her pupils. Square 8vo, cloth <span class="chappg">2.00</span><br />
+Paper <span class="chappg">1.00</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">A Series of Eight Pamphlets</span>, comprising different articles in
+above, paper, each <span class="chappg">.25</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Life at Point Loma, The</span>. Some notes by Katherine Tingley,
+Leader and Official Head of the <span class="smcap">Universal Brotherhood and
+Theosophical Society</span> <span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Reprinted from the <i>Los Angeles Post</i>, Dec., 1902.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Katherine Tingley, Humanity's Friend; A Visit to Katherine
+Tingley</span> (by John Hubert Greusel); <span class="smcap">A Study of R&acirc;ja Yoga at Point
+Loma</span> (Reprint from the San Francisco <i>Chronicle</i>, January 6th,
+1907).</p>
+
+<p>The above three comprised in a pamphlet of 50 pages, published by the
+Woman's Theosophical Propaganda League, Point Loma <span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Light on the Path</span> (M.&nbsp;C.), with comments, and a chapter on
+Karma; leather <span class="chappg">.75</span><br />
+Embossed paper <span class="chappg">.25</span></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>Bhagavad
+<span class="smcap">G&icirc;t&acirc;</span> (W.&nbsp;Q. Judge, Amer. Edition) Pocket size,
+morocco, gilt edges <span class="chappg">1.00</span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The pearl of the Scriptures of the East.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Yoga Aphorisms</span> (trans. by William Q. Judge). Pocket size,
+leather <span class="chappg">.75</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Echoes from the Orient</span> (W.&nbsp;Q. Judge); cloth <span class="chappg">.50</span><br />
+Paper <span class="chappg">.25</span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>21 valued articles, giving a broad outline of the Theosophical
+doctrines, written for the newspaper-reading public.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Epitome of Theosophical Teachings, An</span> (W.&nbsp;Q. Judge), 40 pages
+<span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Concentration, Culture of.</span> (W.&nbsp;Q. Judge) <span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Errors of Christian Science, Some of the.</span> Criticism by H.&nbsp;P.
+Blavatsky and William Q. Judge <span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Hypnotism: Theosophical views on.</span> (40 pp.) <span class="chappg">.15</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Nightmare Tales.</span> (H.&nbsp;P. Blavatsky). <i>Newly illustrated by R.
+Machell.</i> A collection of the weirdest tales ever written down. They
+contain paragraphs of the profoundest mystical philosophy. Cloth <span class="chappg">.60</span><br />
+Paper <span class="chappg">.35</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="padtop"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+<h3><span class="smcap">Theosophical Manuals</span></h3>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Elementary Handbooks for Students</span></p>
+
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+Title: Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky
+       No. 1: Practical Occultism--Occultism versus the Occult
+       Arts--The Blessings of Publicity
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+STUDIES
+IN
+OCCULTISM
+
+by
+
+H.P. BLAVATSKY
+
+
+
+
+STUDIES IN OCCULTISM
+
+
+A Series of Reprints from the Writings
+
+of
+
+H.P. BLAVATSKY
+
+NO. 1
+
+
+PRACTICAL OCCULTISM
+
+OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS
+
+THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY
+
+POINT LOMA EDITION
+
+
+The Aryan Theosophical Press
+Point Loma, California
+1910
+
+
+
+See Book List at the end of this volume for the other numbers of this
+Series and also for other Theosophical literature.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                      PAGE
+
+Practical Occultism                      1
+  From _Lucifer_, April, 1888
+
+Occultism versus the Occult Arts        17
+  From _Lucifer_, May, 1888
+
+The Blessings of Publicity              42
+  From _Lucifer_, August, 1891
+
+
+
+
+Occultism is not magic, though magic is one of its tools.
+
+Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or
+intellectual, though both are its servants. Neither is occultism the
+pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is
+sacrifice, the second, renunciation.
+
+Occultism is the science of life, the art of living.--_Lucifer_, Vol. I,
+p. 7.
+
+
+
+
+PRACTICAL OCCULTISM
+
+IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS
+
+
+As some of the letters in the Correspondence of this month show, there
+are many people who are looking for practical instruction in Occultism.
+It becomes necessary, therefore, to state once for all:--
+
+(_a_) The essential difference between theoretical and practical
+Occultism; or what is generally known as Theosophy on the one hand, and
+Occult science on the other, and:--
+
+(_b_) The nature of the difficulties involved in the study of the latter.
+
+It is easy to become a Theosophist. Any person of average intellectual
+capacities, and a leaning toward the metaphysical; of pure, unselfish
+life, who finds more joy in helping his neighbor than in receiving help
+himself; one who is ever ready to sacrifice his own pleasures for the
+sake of other people; and who loves Truth, Goodness, and Wisdom for
+their own sake, not for the benefit they may confer--is a Theosophist.
+
+But it is quite another matter to put oneself upon the path which leads
+to the knowledge of what is good to do, as to the right discrimination
+of good from evil; a path which also leads a man to that power through
+which he can do the good he desires, often without even apparently
+lifting a finger.
+
+Moreover, there is one important fact with which the student should be
+made acquainted. Namely, the enormous, almost limitless responsibility
+assumed by the teacher for the sake of the pupil. From the Gurus of the
+East who teach openly or secretly, down to the few Kabalists in Western
+lands who undertake to teach the rudiments of the Sacred Science to
+their disciples--those western Hierophants being often themselves
+ignorant of the danger they incur--one and all of these "Teachers" are
+subject to the same inviolable law. From the moment they begin _really_
+to teach, from the instant they confer _any_ power--whether psychic,
+mental, or physical--on their pupils, they take upon themselves _all_
+the sins of that pupil, in connexion with the Occult Sciences, whether
+of omission or commission, until the moment when initiation makes the
+pupil a Master and responsible in his turn. There is a weird and mystic
+religious law, greatly reverenced and acted upon in the Greek,
+half-forgotten in the Roman Catholic, and absolutely extinct in the
+Protestant Church. It dates from the earliest days of Christianity and
+has its basis in the law just stated, of which it was a symbol and an
+expression. This is the dogma of the absolute sacredness of the relation
+between the god-parents who stand sponsors for a child.[A]
+
+These tacitly take upon themselves all the sins of the newly baptized
+child--(anointed, as at the initiation, a mystery truly!)--until the day
+when the child becomes a responsible unit, knowing good and evil. Thus
+it is clear why the "Teachers" are so reticent, and why "Chelas" are
+required to serve a seven years probation to prove their fitness, and
+develop the qualities necessary to the security of both Master and
+pupil.
+
+Occultism is not magic. It is _comparatively_ easy to learn the trick of
+spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces
+of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon
+awakened; the forces which his love, his hate, his passion, can call
+into operation, are readily developed. But this is Black
+Magic--_Sorcery_. For it is the motive, _and the motive alone_, which
+makes any exercise of power become black, malignant, or white,
+beneficent Magic. It is impossible to employ _spiritual_ forces if there
+is the slightest tinge of selfishness remaining in the operator. For,
+unless the intention is entirely unalloyed, the spiritual will
+transform itself into the psychic, act on the astral plane, and dire
+results may be produced by it. The powers and forces of animal nature
+can equally be used by the selfish and revengeful, as by the unselfish
+and the all-forgiving; the powers and forces of spirit lend themselves
+only to the perfectly pure in heart--and this is Divine Magic.
+
+What are then the conditions required to become a student of the "Divina
+Sapientia"? For let it be known that no such instruction can possibly be
+given unless these certain conditions are complied with, and rigorously
+carried out during the years of study. This is a _sine qua non_. No man
+can swim unless he enters deep water. No bird can fly unless its wings
+are grown, and it has space before it and courage to trust itself to the
+air. A man who will wield a two-edged sword, must be a thorough master
+of the blunt weapon, if he would not injure himself--or what is
+worse--others, at the first attempt.
+
+To give an approximate idea of the conditions under which alone the
+study of Divine Wisdom can be pursued with safety, that is without
+danger that Divine will give place to Black Magic, a page is given from
+the "private rules," with which every instructor in the East is
+furnished. The few passages which follow are chosen from a great number
+and explained in brackets.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+1. The place selected for receiving instruction must be a spot
+calculated not to distract the mind, and filled with
+"influence-evolving" (magnetic) objects. The five sacred colors gathered
+in a circle must be there among other things. The place must be free
+from any malignant influences hanging about in the air.
+
+     [The place must be set apart, and used for no other purpose. The
+     five "sacred colors" are the prismatic hues arranged in a certain
+     way, as these colors are very magnetic. By "malignant influences"
+     are meant any disturbances through strifes, quarrels, bad feelings,
+     etc., as these are said to impress themselves immediately on the
+     astral light, i.e., in the atmosphere of the place, and to hang
+     "about in the air." This first condition seems easy enough to
+     accomplish, yet--on further consideration, it is one of the most
+     difficult ones to obtain.]
+
+2. Before the disciple shall be permitted to study "face to face," he
+has to acquire preliminary understanding in a select company of other
+lay _upasakas_ (disciples), the number of whom must be odd.
+
+     ["Face to face" means in this instance a study independent or apart
+     from others, when the disciple gets his instruction _face to face_
+     either with himself (his higher, Divine Self) or--his guru. It is
+     then only that each receives _his due_ of information, according to
+     the use he has made of his knowledge. This can happen only toward
+     the end of the cycle of instruction.]
+
+3. Before thou (the teacher) shalt impart to thy Lanoo (disciple) the
+good (holy) words of Lamrin, or shalt permit him "to make
+ready" for _Dubjed_, thou shalt take care that his mind is thoroughly
+purified and at peace with all, especially _with his other Selves_.
+Otherwise the words of Wisdom and of the good Law, shall scatter and be
+picked up by the winds.
+
+     ["Lamrin" is a work of practical instructions, by Tson-kha-pa, in
+     two portions, one for ecclesiastical and exoteric purposes, the
+     other for esoteric use. "To make ready" for _Dubjed_, is to prepare
+     the vessels used for seership, such as mirrors and crystals. The
+     "other selves," refers to the fellow students. Unless the greatest
+     harmony reigns among the learners, _no_ success is possible. It is
+     the teacher who makes the selections according to the magnetic and
+     electric natures of the students, bringing together and adjusting
+     most carefully the positive and the negative elements.]
+
+4. The _upasakas_ while studying must take care to be united as the
+fingers on one hand. Thou shalt impress upon their minds that whatever
+hurts one should hurt the others, and if the rejoicing of one finds no
+echo in the breasts of the others, then the required conditions are
+absent, and it is useless to proceed.
+
+     [This can hardly happen if the preliminary choice made was
+     consistent with the magnetic requirements. It is known that Chelas
+     otherwise promising and fit for the reception of truth, had to
+     wait for years on account of their temper and the impossibility
+     they felt to put themselves _in tune_ with their companions. For--]
+
+5. The co-disciples must be tuned by the guru as the strings of a lute
+(_vina_) each different from the others, yet each emitting sounds in
+harmony with all. Collectively they must form a key-board answering in
+all its parts to thy lightest touch (the touch of the Master). Thus
+their minds shall open for the harmonies of Wisdom, to vibrate as
+knowledge through each and all, resulting in effects pleasing to the
+presiding gods (tutelary or patron-angels) and useful to the Lanoo. So
+shall Wisdom be impressed forever on their hearts and the harmony of the
+law shall never be broken.
+
+6. Those who desire to acquire the knowledge leading to the _Siddhis_
+(occult powers) have to renounce all the vanities of life and of the
+world (here follows enumeration of the Siddhis).
+
+7. None can feel the difference between himself and his
+fellow-students, such as "I am the wisest," "I am more holy and pleasing
+to the teacher, or in my community, than my brother," etc.,--and remain
+an upasaka. His thoughts must be predominantly fixed upon his heart,
+chasing therefrom every hostile thought to any living being. It (the
+heart) must be full of the feeling of its non-separateness from the rest
+of beings as from all in Nature; otherwise no success can follow.
+
+8. A _Lanoo_ (disciple) has to dread external living influence alone
+(magnetic emanations from living creatures). For this reason while at
+one with all, in his _inner nature_, he must take care to separate his
+outer (external) body from every foreign influence: none must drink out
+of, or eat in his cup but himself. He must avoid bodily contact (i.e.,
+being touched or touch) with human, as with animal being.
+
+     [No pet animals are permitted, and it is forbidden even to touch
+     certain trees and plants. A disciple has to live, so to say, in his
+     own atmosphere in order to individualize it for occult purposes.]
+
+9. The mind must remain blunt to all but the universal truths in
+nature, lest the "Doctrine of the Heart" should become only the
+"Doctrine of the Eye," (i.e., empty exoteric ritualism).
+
+10. No animal food of whatever kind, nothing that has life in it should
+be taken by the disciple. No wine, no spirits, or opium should be used;
+for these are like the _Lhama-yin_ (evil spirits), who fasten upon the
+unwary, they devour the understanding.
+
+     [Wine and spirits are supposed to contain and preserve the bad
+     magnetism of all the men who helped in their fabrication; the meat
+     of each animal, to preserve the psychic characteristics of its
+     kind.]
+
+11. Meditation, abstinence in all, the observation of moral duties,
+gentle thoughts, good deeds and kind words, as good will to all and
+entire oblivion of Self, are the most efficacious means of obtaining
+knowledge and preparing for the reception of higher wisdom.
+
+12. It is only by virtue of a strict observance of the foregoing rules
+that a Lanoo can hope to acquire in good time the Siddhis of the
+Arhats, the growth which makes him become gradually One with the
+Universal ALL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+These 12 extracts are taken from among some 73 rules, to enumerate which
+would be useless as they would be meaningless in Europe. But even these
+few are enough to show the immensity of the difficulties which beset the
+path of the would-be "Upasaka," who has been born and bred in Western
+lands.[B]
+
+All western, and especially English, education is instinct with the
+principle of emulation and strife; each boy is urged to learn more
+quickly, to outstrip his companions, and to surpass them in every
+possible way. What is mis-called "friendly rivalry" is assiduously
+cultivated, and the same spirit is fostered and strengthened in every
+detail of life.
+
+With such ideas "educated into" him from his childhood, how can a
+Western bring himself to feel towards his co-students "as the fingers on
+one hand"? Those co-students, too, are not of his _own selection_, or
+chosen by himself from personal sympathy and appreciation. They are
+chosen by his teacher on far other grounds, and he who would be a
+student must _first_ be strong enough to kill out in his heart all
+feelings of dislike and antipathy to others. How many Westerns are ready
+even to attempt this in earnest?
+
+And then the details of daily life, the command not to touch even the
+hand of one's nearest and dearest. How contrary to Western notions of
+affection and good feeling! How cold and hard it seems. Egotistical too,
+people would say, to abstain from giving pleasure to others for the sake
+of one's own development. Well, let those who think so defer till
+another lifetime the attempt to enter the path in real earnest. But let
+them not glory in their own fancied unselfishness. For, in reality, it
+is only the seeming appearances which they allow to deceive them, the
+conventional notions, based on emotionalism and gush, or so-called
+courtesy, things of the unreal life, not the dictates of Truth.
+
+But even putting aside these difficulties, which may be considered
+"external," though their importance is none the less great, how are
+students in the West to "attune themselves" to harmony as here required
+of them? So strong has personality grown in Europe and America, that
+there is no school of artists even whose members do not hate and are not
+jealous of each other. "Professional" hatred and envy have become
+proverbial; men seek each to benefit himself at all costs, and even the
+so-called courtesies of life are but a hollow mask covering these demons
+of hatred and jealousy.
+
+In the East the spirit of "non-separateness" is inculcated as steadily
+from childhood up, as in the West the spirit of rivalry. Personal
+ambition, personal feelings and desires, are not encouraged to grow so
+rampant there. When the soil is naturally good, it is cultivated in the
+right way, and the child grows into a man in whom the habit of
+subordination of one's lower to one's higher Self is strong and
+powerful. In the West men think that their own likes and dislikes of
+other men and things are guiding principles for them to act upon, even
+when they do not make of them the law of their lives and seek to impose
+them upon others.
+
+Let those who complain that they have learned little in the Theosophical
+Society lay to heart the words written in an article in the _Path_ for
+last February:--"The key in each degree is the _aspirant himself_." It
+is not "the fear of God" which is "the beginning of Wisdom," but the
+knowledge of SELF which is WISDOM ITSELF.
+
+How grand and true appears, thus, to the student of Occultism who has
+commenced to realize some of the foregoing truths, the answer given by
+the Delphic Oracle to all who came seeking after Occult Wisdom--words
+repeated and enforced again and again by the wise Socrates:--MAN KNOW
+THYSELF.
+
+Chelaship has nothing _whatever_ to do with means of subsistence or
+anything of the kind, for a man can isolate his mind entirely from his
+body and its surroundings. Chelaship is a _state of mind_, rather than a
+life according to hard and fast rules, on the physical plane. This
+applies especially to the earlier, probationary period, while the rules
+given in _Lucifer_ for April last pertain properly to a later stage,
+that of actual occult training and the development of occult powers and
+insight. These rules indicate, however, the mode of life which ought to
+be followed by all aspirants _so far as practicable_, since it is the
+most helpful to them in their aspirations.
+
+It should never be forgotten that Occultism is 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.
+Hence the _first_ and chief necessity of Chelaship is a spirit of
+absolute unselfishness and devotion to Truth; then follow self-knowledge
+and self-mastery. These are all-important; while outward observance of
+fixed rules of life is a matter of secondary moment.--_Lucifer_: IV,
+348, note.
+
+
+
+
+OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS
+
+    "I oft have heard, but ne'er believed till now,
+    There are, who can by potent magic spells
+    Bend to their crooked purpose Nature's laws."
+                                        _Milton_
+
+
+In this month's Correspondence several letters testify to the strong
+impression produced on some minds by our last month's article "Practical
+Occultism." Such letters go far to prove and strengthen two logical
+conclusions:--
+
+(_a_) There are more well-educated and thoughtful men who believe in the
+existence of Occultism and Magic (the two differing vastly) than the
+modern materialist dreams of; and:--
+
+(_b_) That most of the believers (comprising many theosophists) have no
+definite idea of the nature of Occultism and confuse it with the Occult
+sciences in general, the "Black art" included.
+
+Their representations of the powers it confers upon man, and of the
+means to be used to acquire them are as varied as they are fanciful.
+Some imagine that a master in the art, to show the way, is all that is
+needed to become a Zanoni. Others, that one has but to cross the Canal
+of Suez and go to India to bloom forth as a Roger Bacon or even a Count
+St. Germain. Many take for their ideal Margrave with his ever-renewing
+youth, and care little for the soul as the price paid for it. Not a few,
+mistaking "Witch-of-Endorism" pure and simple, for Occultism--"through
+the yawning Earth from Stygian gloom, call up the meager ghost to walks
+of light," and want, on the strength of this feat, to be regarded as
+full blown Adepts. "Ceremonial Magic" according to the rules mockingly
+laid down by Eliphas Levi, is another imagined _alter ego_ of the
+philosophy of the Arhats of old. 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.
+
+Will these candidates to Wisdom and Power feel very indignant if told
+the plain truth? It is not only useful, but it has now become
+_necessary_ to disabuse most of them and before it is too late. This
+truth may be said in a few words: There are not in the West half-a-dozen
+among the fervent hundreds who call themselves "Occultists," who have
+even an approximately correct idea of the nature of the Science they
+seek to master. With a few exceptions, they are all on the highway to
+Sorcery. Let them restore some order in the chaos that reigns in their
+minds, before they protest against this statement. Let them first learn
+the true relation in which the Occult Sciences stand to Occultism, and
+the difference between the two, and then feel wrathful if they still
+think themselves right. Meanwhile, let them learn that Occultism differs
+from Magic and other secret Sciences as the glorious Sun does from a
+rush-light, as the immutable and immortal Spirit of Man--the reflection
+of the absolute, causeless, and unknowable all,--differs from the mortal
+clay--the human body.
+
+In our highly civilized West, where modern languages have been formed,
+and words coined, in the wake of ideas and thoughts--as happened with
+every tongue--the more the latter became materialized in the cold
+atmosphere of Western selfishness and its incessant chase after the
+goods of this world, the less was there any need felt for the production
+of new terms to express that which was tacitly regarded as obsolete and
+exploded "superstition." Such words could answer only to ideas which a
+cultured man was scarcely supposed to harbor in his mind. "Magic," a
+synonym for jugglery; "Sorcery," an equivalent for crass ignorance; and
+"Occultism," the sorry relic of crack-brained, medieval
+Fire-philosophers, of the Jacob Boehmes and the St. Martins, are
+expressions believed more than amply sufficient to cover the whole field
+of "thimble-rigging." They are terms of contempt, and used generally
+only in reference to the dross and residues of the Dark Ages and its
+preceding aeons of paganism. Therefore have we no terms in the English
+tongue to define and shade the difference between such abnormal powers,
+or the sciences that lead to the acquisition of them, with the nicety
+possible in the Eastern languages--pre-eminently the Sanskrit. What do
+the words "miracle" and "enchantment" (words identical in meaning after
+all, as both express the idea of producing wonderful things by _breaking
+the laws of nature_ [!!] as explained by the accepted authorities)
+convey to the minds of those who hear, or who pronounce them? A
+Christian--_breaking_ "of the laws of nature," notwithstanding--while
+believing firmly in the _miracles_, because said to have been produced
+by God through Moses, will either scout the enchantments performed by
+Pharoah's magicians, or attribute them to the devil. It is the latter
+whom our pious enemies connect with Occultism, while their impious foes,
+the infidels, laugh at Moses, Magicians, and Occultists, and would
+blush to give one serious thought to such "superstitions." This, because
+there is no term in existence to show the difference; no words to
+express the lights and shadows and draw the line of demarcation between
+the sublime and the true, the absurd and the ridiculous. The latter are
+the theological interpretations which teach the "breaking of the laws of
+Nature" by man, God, or devil; the former--the _scientific_ "miracles"
+and enchantments of Moses and the Magicians _in accordance with natural
+laws_, both having been learned in all the Wisdom of the Sanctuaries,
+which were the "Royal Societies" of those days--and in true OCCULTISM.
+This last word is certainly misleading, translated as it stands from the
+compound word _Gupta-Vidya_, "Secret Knowledge." But the knowledge of
+what? Some of the Sanskrit terms may help us.
+
+There are four (out of the many other) names of the various kinds of
+Esoteric Knowledge or Sciences given, even in the exoteric Puranas.
+There is (1) _Yajna-Vidya_,[C] knowledge of the occult powers awakened
+in Nature by the performance of certain religious ceremonies and rites.
+(2) _Maha-Vidya_, the "great knowledge," the magic of the Kabalists and
+of the _Tantrika_ worship, often Sorcery of the worst description. (3)
+_Guhya-Vidya_, knowledge of the mystic powers residing in Sound (Ether),
+hence in the _Mantras_ (chanted prayers or incantations) and depending
+on the rhythm and melody used; in other words a magical performance
+based on Knowledge of the Forces of Nature and their correlation; and
+(4) Atma-Vidya, a term which is translated simply "Knowledge of
+the Soul," _true Wisdom_ by the Orientalists, but which means far more.
+
+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. All the rest is some branch of the "Occult Sciences,"
+i.e., arts based on the knowledge of the ultimate essence of all things
+in the Kingdom of Nature--such as minerals, plants, and animals--hence
+of things pertaining to the realm of _material_ Nature, however
+invisible that essence may be, and howsoever much it has hitherto eluded
+the grasp of Science. Alchemy, Astrology, Occult Physiology, Chiromancy
+exist in Nature, and the _exact_ Sciences--perhaps so called because
+they are found in this age of paradoxical philosophies the reverse--have
+already discovered not a few of the secrets of the above _arts_. But
+clairvoyance, symbolized in India as the "Eye of Siva," called in
+Japan, "Infinite Vision," is _not_ Hypnotism, the illegitimate son of
+Mesmerism, and is not to be acquired by such arts. All the others may be
+mastered and results obtained, whether good, bad, or indifferent; but
+_Atma-Vidya_ sets small value on them. It includes them all, and may
+even use them occasionally, but it does so after purifying them of their
+dross, for beneficent purposes, and taking care to deprive them of every
+element of selfish motive. Let us explain: Any man or woman can set
+himself or herself to study one or all of the above specified "Occult
+Arts" without any great previous preparation, and even without adopting
+any too restraining mode of life. One could even dispense with any lofty
+standard of morality. In the last case, of course, ten to one the
+student would blossom into a very decent kind of sorcerer, and tumble
+down headlong into black magic. But what can this matter? The _Voodoos_
+and the _Dugpas_ eat, drink and are merry over hecatombs of victims of
+their infernal arts. And so do the amiable gentlemen vivisectionists and
+the _diploma-ed_ "Hypnotizers" of the Faculties of Medicine; the only
+difference between the two classes being that the Voodoos and the Dugpas
+are _conscious_, and the Charcot-Richet crew _unconscious_ Sorcerers.
+Thus, since both have to reap the fruits of their labors and
+achievements in the black art, the Western practitioners should not have
+the punishment and reputation without the profits and enjoyments they
+may get therefrom. For we say it again, _hypnotism_ and _vivisection_ as
+practised in such schools, are _Sorcery_ pure and simple, _minus_ a
+knowledge that the Voodoos and Dugpas enjoy, and which no Charcot-Richet
+can procure for himself in fifty years of hard study and experimental
+observation. Let then those who will dabble in magic, whether they
+understand its nature or not, but who find the rules imposed upon
+students too hard, and who, therefore, lay Atma-Vidya or Occultism
+aside--go without it. Let them become magicians by all means, even
+though they do become _Voodoos_ and _Dugpas_ for the next ten
+incarnations.
+
+But the interest of our readers will probably center on those who are
+invincibly attracted towards the "Occult," yet who neither realize the
+true nature of what they aspire towards, nor have they become
+passion-proof, far less truly unselfish.
+
+How about these unfortunates, we shall be asked, who are thus rent in
+twain by conflicting forces? For it has been said too often to need
+repetition, and the fact itself is patent to any observer, that when
+once the desire for Occultism has really awakened in a man's heart,
+there remains for him no hope of peace, no place of rest and comfort in
+all the world. He is driven out into the wild and desolate spaces of
+life by an ever-gnawing unrest he cannot quell. His heart is too full of
+passion and selfish desire to permit him to pass the Golden Gate; he
+cannot find rest or peace in ordinary life. Must he then inevitably fall
+into sorcery and black magic, and through many incarnations heap up for
+himself a terrible Karma? Is there no other road for him?
+
+Indeed there is, we answer. Let him aspire to no higher than he feels
+able to accomplish. Let him not take a burden upon himself too heavy for
+him to carry. Without ever becoming a "Mahatma," a Buddha, or a Great
+Saint, let him study the philosophy and the "Science of Soul," and he
+can become one of the modest benefactors of humanity, without any
+"superhuman" powers. _Siddhis_ (or the Arhat powers) are only for those
+who are able to "lead the life," to comply with the terrible sacrifices
+required for such a training, and to comply with them _to the very
+letter_. 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 ALTRUISM, and it throws him
+who practises it out of calculation of the ranks of the living
+altogether. "Not for himself, but for the world, he lives," as soon as
+he has pledged himself to the work. Much is forgiven during the first
+years of probation. But, no sooner is he "accepted" than his
+personality must disappear, and he has to become _a mere beneficent
+force in Nature_. There are two poles for him after that, two paths, and
+no midward place of rest. He has either to ascend laboriously, step by
+step, often through numerous incarnations and _no Devachanic break_, the
+golden ladder leading to Mahatmaship (the _Arhat_ or _Bodhisattva_
+condition), or--he will let himself slide down the ladder at the first
+false step, and roll down into _Dugpa-ship_....
+
+All this is either unknown or left out of sight altogether. Indeed, one
+who is able to follow the silent evolution of the preliminary
+aspirations of the candidates, often finds strange ideas quietly taking
+possession of their minds. There are those whose reasoning powers have
+been so distorted by foreign influences that they imagine that animal
+passions can be so sublimated and elevated that their fury, force, and
+fire can, so to speak, be turned inwards; that they can be stored and
+shut up in one's breast, until their energy is, not expanded, but
+turned toward higher and more holy purposes; namely, _until their
+collective and unexpanded strength enables their possessor to enter the
+true Sanctuary of the Soul_ and stand therein in the presence of the
+_Master_--the Higher Self! For this purpose they will not
+struggle with their passions nor slay them. They will simply, by a
+strong effort of will put down the fierce flames and keep them at bay
+within their natures, allowing the fire to smolder under a thin layer of
+ashes. They submit joyfully to the torture of the Spartan boy who
+allowed the fox to devour his entrails rather than part with it. Oh,
+poor, blind visionaries!
+
+As well hope that a band of drunken chimney-sweeps, hot and greasy from
+their work, may be shut up in a Sanctuary hung with pure white linen,
+and that instead of soiling and turning it by their presence into a heap
+of dirty shreds, they will become masters in and of the sacred recess,
+and finally emerge from it as immaculate as that recess. Why not imagine
+that a dozen of skunks imprisoned in the pure atmosphere of a _Dgon-pa_
+(a monastery) can issue out of it impregnated with all the perfumes of
+the incenses used?... Strange aberration of the human mind. Can it be
+so? Let us argue.
+
+The "Master" in the Sanctuary of our souls is "the Higher Self"--the
+divine spirit whose consciousness is based upon and derived solely (at
+any rate during the mortal life of the man in whom it is captive) from
+the Mind, which we have agreed to call the _Human Soul_ (the "Spiritual
+Soul" being the vehicle of the Spirit). In its turn the former (the
+_personal_ or human soul) is a compound in its highest form, of
+spiritual aspirations, volitions and divine love; and in its lower
+aspect, of animal desires and terrestrial passions imparted to it by its
+associations with its vehicle, the seat of all these. It thus stands as
+a link and a medium between the animal nature of man which its higher
+reason seeks to subdue, and his divine spiritual nature to which it
+gravitates, whenever it has the upper hand in its struggle with the
+_inner animal_. The latter is the instinctual "animal Soul" and is the
+hotbed of those passions, which, as just shown, are lulled instead of
+being killed, and locked up in their breasts by some imprudent
+enthusiasts. Do they still hope to turn thereby the muddy stream of the
+animal sewer into the crystalline waters of life? And where, on what
+neutral ground can they be imprisoned so as not to affect man? The
+fierce passions of love and lust are still alive and they are allowed to
+still remain in the place of their birth--_that same animal soul_; for
+both the higher and the lower portions of the "Human Soul" or Mind
+reject such inmates, though they cannot avoid being tainted with them as
+neighbors. The "Higher Self" or Spirit is as unable to assimilate such
+feelings as water to get mixed with oil or unclean liquid tallow. It is
+thus the mind alone--the sole link and medium between the man of earth
+and the Higher Self--that is the only sufferer, and which is in the
+incessant danger of being dragged down by those passions that may be
+reawakened at any moment, and perish in the abyss of matter. And how
+can it ever attune itself to the divine harmony of the highest
+Principle, when that harmony is destroyed by the mere presence, within
+the Sanctuary in preparation, of such animal passions? How can harmony
+prevail and conquer, when the soul is stained and distracted with the
+turmoil of passions and the terrestrial desires of the bodily senses, or
+even of the "Astral man"?
+
+For this "Astral"--the shadowy "double" (in the animal as in man)--is
+not the companion of the _divine Ego_ but of the _earthly body_. It is
+the link between the personal Self, the lower consciousness of
+_Manas_ and the Body, and is the vehicle of _transitory_, _not
+of immortal life_. Like the shadow projected by man, it follows his
+movements and impulses slavishly and mechanically, and leans therefore
+to matter without ever ascending to Spirit. It is only when the power of
+the passions is dead altogether, and when they have been crushed and
+annihilated in the retort of an unflinching will; when not only all the
+lusts and longings of the flesh are dead, but also the recognition of
+the personal Self is killed out and the "astral" has been reduced in
+consequence to a cipher, that the Union with the "Higher Self" can take
+place. Then when the "astral" reflects only the conquered man, the still
+living, but no more the longing, selfish personality, then the brilliant
+_Augoeides_, the divine Self, can vibrate in conscious harmony
+with both the poles of the human Entity--the man of matter purified, and
+the ever pure Spiritual Soul--and stand in the presence of the
+Master Self, the Christos of the mystic Gnostics, blended,
+merged into, and one with IT for ever.[D]
+
+How then can it be thought possible for a man to enter the "strait gate"
+of occultism when his daily and hourly thoughts are bound up with
+worldly things, desires of possession and power, with lust, ambition
+and duties, which, however honorable, are still of the earth earthy?
+Even the love for wife and family--the purest as the most unselfish of
+human affections--is a barrier to _real_ occultism. For whether we take
+as an example the holy love of a mother for her child, or that of a
+husband for his wife, even in these feelings, when analysed to the very
+bottom, and thoroughly sifted, there is still _selfishness_ in the
+first, and an _egoisme a deux_ in the second instance. What mother would
+not sacrifice without a moment's hesitation hundreds and thousands of
+lives for that of the child of her heart? and what lover or true husband
+would not break the happiness of every other man and woman around him to
+satisfy the desire of one whom he loves? This is but natural, we shall
+be told. Quite so; in the light of the code of human affections; less
+so, in that of divine universal love. For, while the heart is full of
+thoughts for a little group of _selves_, near and dear to us, how shall
+the rest of mankind fare in our souls? What percentage of love and care
+will there remain to bestow on the "great orphan"? And how shall the
+"still small voice" make itself heard in a soul entirely occupied with
+its own privileged tenants? What room is there left for the needs of
+Humanity _en bloc_ to impress themselves upon, or even receive a speedy
+response? And yet, he who would profit by the wisdom of the universal
+mind, has to reach it through _the whole of Humanity_ without
+distinction of race, complexion, religion or social status. It is
+_altruism_, not _ego-ism_ even in its most legal and noble conception,
+that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves.
+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.
+
+The aspirant has to choose absolutely between the life of the world and
+the life of Occultism. It is useless and vain to endeavor to unite the
+two, for no one can serve two masters and satisfy both. No one can serve
+his body and the higher Soul, and do his family duty and his universal
+duty, without depriving either one or the other of its rights; for he
+will either lend his ear to the "still small voice" and fail to hear the
+cries of his little ones, or, he will listen but to the wants of the
+latter and remain deaf to the voice of Humanity. It would be a
+ceaseless, a maddening struggle for almost any married man, who would
+pursue true practical Occultism, instead of its _theoretical_
+philosophy. For he would find himself ever hesitating between the voice
+of the impersonal divine love of Humanity, and that of the personal,
+terrestrial love. And this could only lead him to fail in one or the
+other, or perhaps in both his duties. Worse than this; for, _whoever
+indulges, after having pledged himself to_ OCCULTISM, _in the
+gratification of a terrestrial love or lust_, must feel an almost
+immediate result; that of being irresistibly dragged from the impersonal
+divine state down to the lower plane of matter. Sensual, or even mental
+self-gratification, involves the immediate loss of the powers of
+spiritual discernment; the voice of the MASTER can no longer
+be distinguished from that of one's passions or _even that of a Dugpa_;
+the right from wrong; sound morality from mere casuistry. The Dead Sea
+fruit assumes the most glorious mystic appearance, only to turn to ashes
+on the lips, and to gall in the heart, resulting in:--
+
+    Depth ever deepening, darkness darkening still;
+    Folly for wisdom, guilt for innocence;
+    Anguish for rapture, and for hope despair.
+
+And once being mistaken and having acted on their mistakes, most men
+shrink from realizing their error, and thus descend deeper and deeper
+into the mire. And, although it is the intention that decides primarily
+whether _white_ or _black_ magic is exercised, yet the results even of
+involuntary, unconscious sorcery cannot fail to be productive of bad
+Karma. Enough has been said to show that _sorcery is any kind of evil
+influence exercised upon other persons, who suffer, or make other
+persons suffer, in consequence_. Karma is a heavy stone splashed in the
+quiet waters of Life; and it must produce ever widening circles of
+ripples, carried wider and wider, almost _ad infinitum_. Such causes
+produced have to call forth effects, and these are evidenced in the just
+laws of Retribution.
+
+Much of this may be avoided if people will only abstain from rushing
+into practices neither the nature nor importance of which they
+understand. No one is expected to carry a burden beyond his strength and
+powers. There are "natural-born magicians"; Mystics and Occultists by
+birth, and by right of direct inheritance from a series of incarnations
+and aeons of suffering and failures. These are passion-proof, so to say.
+No fires of earthly origin can fan into a flame any of their senses or
+desires; no human voice can find response in their souls, except the
+great cry of Humanity. These only may be certain of success. But they
+can be met only far and wide, and they pass through the narrow gates of
+Occultism because they carry no personal luggage of human transitory
+sentiments along with them. They have got rid of the feeling of the
+lower personality, paralysed thereby the "astral" animal, and the
+golden, but narrow gate is thrown open before them. Not so with those
+who have to carry yet for several incarnations the burden of sins
+committed in previous lives, and even in their present existence. For
+such, unless they proceed with great caution, the golden gate of Wisdom
+may get transformed into the wide gate and the broad way "that leadeth
+unto destruction," and therefore "many be they that enter in thereby."
+This is the Gate of the Occult arts, practised for selfish motives and
+in the absence of the restraining and beneficent influence of
+Atma-Vidya. We are in the Kali Yuga and its fatal influence is
+a thousand-fold more powerful in the West than it is in the East; hence
+the easy preys made by the Powers of the Age of Darkness in this cyclic
+struggle, and the many delusions under which the world is now laboring.
+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. It is the dream of most Theosophists, one inspired by desire
+for Power and personal selfishness, and it is not such feelings that
+can ever lead them to the coveted goal. For, as well said by one
+believed to have sacrificed himself for Humanity--"Strait is the gate
+and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life" eternal, and therefore
+"few there be that find it." (_Matt._ vii, 14) So strait indeed, that at
+the bare mention of some of the preliminary difficulties the affrighted
+Western candidates turn back and retreat with a shudder....
+
+Let them stop here and attempt no more in their great weakness. For if,
+while turning their backs on the narrow gate, they are dragged by their
+desire for the Occult one step in the direction of the broad and more
+inviting gates of that golden mystery which glitters in the light of
+illusion, woe to them! It can lead only to Dugpa-ship, and they will be
+sure to find themselves very soon landed on that _Via Fatale_ of the
+_Inferno_, over whose portal Dante read the words:--
+
+    _Per me si va nella citta dolente_
+    _Per me si va nell' eterno dolore_
+    _Per me si va tra la perduta gente...._
+
+
+
+
+THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY
+
+
+A well-known public lecturer, a distinguished Egyptologist, said, in one
+of his lectures against the teachings of Theosophy, a few suggestive
+words, which are now quoted and must be answered:--
+
+     It is a delusion to suppose there is anything in the experience or
+     wisdom of the past, the ascertained results of which can only be
+     communicated from beneath the cloak and mask of mystery....
+     Explanation is the Soul of Science. They will tell you _we cannot
+     have their knowledge without living their life_.... Public
+     experimental research, the printing press, and a free-thought
+     platform, have abolished the need of mystery. It is no longer
+     necessary for science to take the veil, as she was forced to do for
+     security in times past....
+
+This is a very mistaken view in one aspect. "Secrets of the purer and
+profounder life" not only _may_ but _must_ be made universally known.
+But _there are secrets that kill_ in the arcana of Occultism, and unless
+a man _lives the life_ he cannot be entrusted with them.
+
+The late Professor Faraday had very serious doubts whether it was quite
+wise and reasonable to give out to the public at large certain
+discoveries of modern science. Chemistry had led to the invention of too
+terrible means of destruction in our century to allow it to fall into
+the hands of the profane. What man of sense--in the face of such
+fiendish applications of dynamite and other explosive substances as are
+made by those incarnations of the Destroying Power, who glory in calling
+themselves Anarchists and Socialists--would not agree with us in
+saying:--Far better for mankind that it should never have blasted a rock
+by modern perfected means, than that it should have shattered the limbs
+of one per cent even of those who have been thus destroyed by the
+pitiless hand of Russian Nihilists, Irish Fenians, and Anarchists. That
+such discoveries, and chiefly their murderous application, ought to
+have been withheld from public knowledge may be shown on the authority
+of statistics and commissions appointed to investigate and record the
+result of the evil done. The following information gathered from public
+papers will give an insight into what may be in store for wretched
+mankind.
+
+England alone--the center of civilization--has 21,268 firms fabricating
+and selling explosive substances.[E] But the centers of the dynamite
+trade, of infernal machines, and other such results of modern
+civilization, are chiefly at Philadelphia and New York. It is in the
+former city of "Brotherly Love" that the now most famous manufacturer of
+explosives flourishes. It is one of the well-known respectable
+citizens--the inventor and manufacturer of the most murderous "dynamite
+toys"--who, called before the Senate of the United States anxious to
+adopt means for the repression of a _too free trade_ in such implements,
+found an argument that ought to become immortalized for its cynical
+sophistry--"My _machines_," that expert is reported to have said--"are
+quite _harmless to look at_; as they may be manufactured in the shape of
+oranges, hats, boats, and anything one likes.... Criminal is he who
+murders people by means of such machines, not he who manufactures them.
+The firm refuses to admit that were there no supply there would be no
+incentive for demand on the market; but insists that every demand should
+be satisfied by a supply ready at hand."
+
+That "supply" is the fruit of civilization and of the publicity given to
+the discovery of every murderous property in matter. What is it? As
+found in the Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the
+variety and character of the so-called "infernal machines," so far the
+following implements of instantaneous human destruction are already on
+hand. The most fashionable of all among the many varieties fabricated
+by Mr. Holgate are the "Ticker," the "Eight Day Machine," the "Little
+Exterminator," and the "Bottle Machines." The "Ticker" is in appearance
+like a piece of lead, a foot long and four inches thick. It contains an
+iron or steel tube full of a kind of gunpowder invented by Holgate
+himself. That gunpowder, in appearance like any other common stuff of
+that name, has, however, an explosive power two hundred times stronger
+than common gunpowder; the "Ticker" containing thus a powder which
+equals in force two hundred pounds of the common gunpowder. At one end
+of the machine is fastened an invisible clock-work meant to regulate the
+time of the explosion, which time may be fixed from one minute to
+thirty-six hours. The spark is produced by means of a steel needle which
+gives a spark at the touch-hole, and communicates thereby the fire to
+the whole machine.
+
+The "Eight Day Machine" is considered the most powerful, but at the same
+time the most complicated, of all those invented. One must be familiar
+with handling it before a full success can be secured. It is owing to
+this difficulty that the terrible fate intended for London Bridge and
+its neighborhood was turned aside by the instantaneous killing instead
+of the two Fenian criminals. The size and appearance of that machine
+changes, Proteus-like, according to the necessity of smuggling it in, in
+one or another way, unperceived by the victims. It may be concealed in
+bread, in a basket of oranges, in a liquid, and so on. The Commission of
+Experts is said to have declared that its explosive power is such as to
+reduce to atoms instantly the largest edifice in the world.
+
+The "Little Exterminator" is an innocent-looking plain utensil having
+the shape of a modest jug. It contains neither dynamite nor powder, but
+secretes, nevertheless, a deadly gas, and has a hardly perceptible
+clock-work attached to its edge, the needle of which points to the time
+when that gas will effect its escape. In a shut-up room this new "vril"
+of lethal kind will _smother to death, nearly instantaneously_, every
+living being within a distance of a hundred feet radius of the murderous
+jug. With these three "latest novelties" in the high season of Christian
+civilization, the catalog of the dynamiters is closed; all the rest
+belongs to the old "fashion" of the past years. It consists of hats,
+_porte cigars_, bottles of ordinary kind, and even _ladies' smelling
+bottles_, filled with dynamite, nitro-glycerin, etc., etc.--weapons,
+some of which, following unconsciously Karmic law, killed many of the
+dynamiters in the last Chicago _revolution_. Add to this the forthcoming
+long-promised Keeley's vibratory force, capable of reducing in a few
+seconds a dead bullock to a heap of ashes, and then ask yourself if the
+_Inferno_ of Dante as a locality can ever rival earth in the production
+of more hellish engines of destruction?
+
+Thus, if purely material implements are capable of blowing up, from a
+few corners, the greatest cities of the globe, provided the murderous
+weapons are guided by expert hands--what terrible dangers might not
+arise from magical _occult_ secrets being revealed, and allowed to fall
+into the possession of ill-meaning persons! A thousand times more
+dangerous and lethal are these, because neither the criminal hand, nor
+the _immaterial_ invisible weapon used, can ever be detected.
+
+The congenital _black_ magicians--those who, to an innate propensity
+towards evil, unite highly-developed mediumistic natures--are but too
+numerous in our age. It is nigh time then that the psychologists and
+believers, at least, should cease advocating the beauties of publicity
+and claiming knowledge of the secrets of nature for all. 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.
+
+                                                            H.P.B.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[A] So holy is the connexion thus formed deemed in the Greek
+Church, that a marriage between god-parents of the same child is
+regarded as the worst kind of incest, is considered illegal, and is
+dissolved by law; and this absolute prohibition extends even to the
+children of one of the sponsors as regards those of the other.
+
+[B] Be it remembered that _all_ "Chelas," even lay disciples,
+are called Upasaka until after their first initiation, when they become
+Lanoo-Upasaka. To that day, even those who belong to Lamaseries and are
+_set apart_, are considered as "laymen."
+
+[C] "The _Yajna_," say the Brahmans, "exists from eternity, for
+it proceeded forth from the Supreme One ... in whom it lay dormant from
+'_no_ beginning.' It is the key to the Traividya, the thrice
+sacred science contained in the Rig verses, which teaches the Yajus or
+sacrificial mysteries. 'The Yajna' exists as an invisible thing at all
+times; it is like the latent power of electricity in an electrifying
+machine, requiring only the operation of a suitable apparatus in order
+to be elicited. It is supposed to extend from the _Ahavaniya_ or
+sacrificial fire to the heavens, forming a bridge or ladder by means of
+which the sacrificer can communicate with the world of gods and spirits,
+and even ascend when alive to their abodes."--Martin Haug's _Aitareya
+Brahmana_.
+
+"This _Yajna_ is again one of the forms of the _Akasa_; and the
+mystic word calling it into existence and pronounced mentally by the
+initiated Priest is the Lost Word receiving impulse through WILL
+POWER."--_Isis Unveiled_, Vol. I. Introduction. See _Aitareya
+Brahmana_, Haug.
+
+[D] Those who would feel inclined to see three _Egos_ in one
+man will show themselves unable to perceive the metaphysical meaning.
+Man is a trinity composed of Body, Soul and Spirit; but _man_ is
+nevertheless _one_ and is surely not his body. It is the latter which is
+the property, the transitory clothing of the man. The three "Egos" are
+MAN in his three aspects on the astral, intellectual or
+psychic, and the Spiritual planes, or states.
+
+[E] Nitro-glycerin has found its way even into medical
+compounds. Physicians and druggists are vying with the Anarchists in
+their endeavors to destroy the surplus of mankind. The famous chocolate
+tablets against dyspepsia are said to contain nitro-glycerin! They may
+save, but they can kill still more easily.
+
+
+
+
+_There is No Religion Higher than Truth_
+
+The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+principal purpose is to teach Brotherhood, demonstrate that it is a fact
+in nature and make it a living power in the life of humanity.
+
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+divine powers in man.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded by
+H.P. Blavatsky at New York, 1875, continued after her death under the
+leadership of the co-founder, William Q. Judge, and now under the
+leadership of their successor, Katherine Tingley, has its Headquarters
+at the International Theosophical Center, Point Loma, California.
+
+This Organization is not in any way connected with nor does it endorse
+any other societies using the name of Theosophy.
+
+The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society welcomes to
+membership all who truly love their fellow men and desire the
+eradication of the evils caused by the barriers of race, creed, caste or
+color, which have so long impeded human progress; to all sincere lovers
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+their power to make Brotherhood a living energy in the life of humanity,
+its various departments offer unlimited opportunities.
+
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+
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+
+Do not fail to profit by the following:
+
+     It is a regrettable fact that many people use the name of Theosophy
+     and of our Organization for self-interest, as also that of H.P.
+     Blavatsky, the Foundress, to attract attention to themselves and to
+     gain public support. This they do in private and public speech and
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+     Theosophical Society, in many cases they permit it to be
+     inferred that they are, thus misleading the public, and many honest
+     inquirers are hence led away from the truths of Theosophy as
+     presented by H.P. Blavatsky and her successors, William Q. Judge
+     and Katherine Tingley, and practically exemplified in their
+     Theosophical work for the uplifting of humanity.
+
+
+
+
+The International Brotherhood League
+
+Founded in 1897 by Katherine Tingley
+
+
+ITS OBJECTS ARE:
+
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+their true position in life.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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