Author: Louis JacolliotPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Occult-science in India and Among the Ancients, with an Account of Their Mystic Initiations and the History of Spiritism, by Louis Jacolliot, ... Translated from the French by Willard L. Felt
Author: Louis JacolliotOccult Science in India and Among the Ancients, with an Account of Their Mystic Initiations, and the History of Spiritism ... Translated from the French by W.L. Felt
Author: Louis JACOLLIOTPublisher:
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Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Occult science in India and among the ancients, with an account of their mystic initiations, and the history of spiritism, tr. by W.L. Felt
Author: J Louis JacolliotOccult Science in India and Among the Ancients
Author: Louis JacolliotPublisher:
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Category : Brahmanism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients; with an Account of Their Mystic Initiations, and the History of Spiritism
Author: Louis JacolliotPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230235158
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Y. THE FIRST DEGREE OF INITIATION--ABMJTIONB PRAYER-- CEREMONIES EVOCATION. [Taken from the Agrouchada-Parikchai.] After his marriage, the Brahmatchary left the class of neophytes, but he did not, however, enter that of the Grihastas, or heads of family, who had been admitted to the first degree of initiation. In order to do so, it was requisite, first, that he should have paid his ancestors' debt by the birth of a son, who would perpetuate their race; second, that he should be deemed worthy, upon the report of his Guru, of taking this step. Upon admission he might remain a simple Grihasta, or he might be attached to the service of a pagoda, in the capacity of a Pourohita; in either case, he was now a member of the great sacerdotal family, and during twenty years all the acts of his daily life would be instrumental in the preparation, both mentally and physically, by meditation, prayers, sacrifices, ablutions, and the strictest attention to personal cleanliness, for the superior transformation which was now the object of all his efforts. According to the first part of the Agro-achada-Parikchai, which we have already quoted, and which is called the Nittia-Carma, the following is an account of the innumerable corporeal and spiritual purifications which were enjoined upon him, and none of which could be neglected under the severest penalties. They are divided in the original work in the following manner: PROEMnTM. * * * The Grihasta should leave his mat every morning bef ora sunrise, and his fret words, upon leaving his bed, should be an invocation to Vischnou. * * # He should then address the great essence, whose number three is contained in one, as well as the superior spirits, saying, Brahma! Vischnou! Siva! and you, superior...
Occult Science in India
Author: Louis JacoilliotPublisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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We will lay aside, for the present, our inquiries into the general subject of the primitive civilizations of the far East, and the people who have sprung from the Brahminic stock in the old world, in order to publish the result of such researches as we have been able to make, during our long residence in India, into the subject of occult science, and the practices of those who have been initiated into the sect of the Pitris, which is Sanscrit for spirits or ancestral shades. This is neither a doctrinal book nor a work of criticism. We are not called upon to decide, either for or against, the belief in spirits, either mediating or inspiring, which was held by all who had been initiated in the temples of antiquity, which is today the keystone of the philosophical and religious instruction of the Brahmins, and to which many of our Western thinkers and scientists seem inclined to assent. Being neither an advocate of this belief, nor the opposite, we are, on that account, better able to write its history. An ardent partisan would have been too credulous, and would have taken everything upon trust. A rabid opponent would have made it his business to disparage and discredit it. We shall give the words themselves, and set forth things as they actually were; we shall interpret and explain the Agrouchada-parikchai, which is the philosophical compendium of the Hindu spiritists; we shall tell what we saw with our own eyes, and shall faithfully record such explanations as we received from the Brahmins. We shall pay particular attention to the phenomena which the Fakirs produce at will, which some regard as the manifestations of a superior intervention, and others look upon as the result of a shrewd charlatanism. Upon this point we have but a word to say. The facts which are simply magnetic are indisputable, extraordinary as they may seem. As to the facts which are purely spiritual, we were only able to explain those in which we participated, either as actor or spectator, upon the hypothesis that we were the victims of hallucination, unless we are willing to admit that there was an occult intervention. We shall describe things just as we saw them, without taking sides in the dispute. These doctrines were known to the Egyptians, to the Jewish Cabalists, to the people of Finland, to the school of Alexandria, to Philo and his disciples, to the Gauls and to the early Christians, and, as in the case of the Hindus, they set them apart for the use of those who had been initiated. As for the ancient Chaldeans, the practice of popular magic and sorcery seems to have been the utmost limit of their attainments in this direction. They have also given birth to a peculiar system of moral philosophy, whose place in the general scale of the metaphysical speculations of mankind we shall take occasion to point out.
Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients
Author: Louis JacolliotPublisher:
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Category : Brahmanism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the Whole Range of Arts, Sciences and Literature as Connected with the Institution
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
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An Encyclopædia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Author: Louis Jacolliot