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Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from th

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

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. . ., 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.]

[Pg 16]9. The mind must remain blunt to all but the universal truths in nature, lest the "Doctrine of the Heart" should become only the "Doctr. . . Read More

Community Reviews

More a definition of occultism and advice to the unwary than anything else, these essays define the differences between black and white magic and serve as a warning to those tempted to pursue the hidden knowledge for selfish ends.

Three stars on the merit of being reprinted primary source material. This book gives a nice taste of the spiritualism subculture that was active in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It's important to keep in mind how the west percieved the world at this time. Blavatsky's melange of eastern philosop

Blavastky was an extraordinary woman and her knowledge of the occult somewhat overwhelming. That she was benevolent in her approach is refreshing - if she'd been a naughty witch there could have been a lot of trouble - soundly reasoned, articulated, astoundingly well researched but possibly a little

I’m sorry. That was utterly boring and I tried so hard to understand it, though it can be because of the translation but, I dont think this is the case. Lots of unknown words and scientific(?) names... i cant

This probably wasn’t the best place for me to start reading Blavatsky, but her “Secret Doctrine” was so large (and expensive) that I took a chance and got this smaller book that I thought would serve as an introduction to her concepts of “Occultism” and Initiation. It isn’t that. It’s a selection of

Theosophical Society: Against creed, sex, exc... Encourage study of science and philosophy and to investigate unexpected laws of nature.
This is about divine spiritual occultism and the ego. Talks about selfish motives in the occult and problems if occult secrets get in the wrong hands. I almost lik