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...can fell to the ground, and no thunderbolts ever forged by the Vulcans of science are powerful enough to blast the trunk, or even scar the branches of this w ...re afraid will be but little appreciated by the orthodox methods of modern science, is based on what will appear to the latter merely circumstantial evidence.

...? Will not the historian deign to notice the prior origin of every art and science in Egypt, a thousand years before the Pelasgians studded the isles and cape ...ainly not; and at the present day, with all the means that the progress of science and modern discovery have placed in the hands of the mechanic, have we not

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{{Style P-Subtitle|PART ONE.—SCIENCE.}} ...closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfath

...ficiently familiar in the experience of all times and all countries. While science is entirely unable to give any reasonable explanation of the mystery, the q ...able sincerity, “These are singularities of which, in the present state of science, no explanation can be given.”{{Footnote mark|*|fn619}} It is a pity that

...o the grave, neither the beginning nor the end is understood by scholastic science; all before us is a blank, all after us chaos. For it there is no evidence It is sometimes as interesting as instructive to follow the two great rivals, science and theology, in their frequent skirmishes. Not all of the sons of the Chur

{{Style S-Small capitals|Since }}the appearance of Theosophical literature in England, it has become customary to call its teachings “ Esoteric Budd ...83), neither I ''nor any other European living,'' knew the alphabet of the Science, here for the first time put into a scientific shape,” etc. This error mu

...tes of America, sixty thousand (60,428) men are paid salaries to teach the Science of God and His relations to His creatures. ...the prospect of 1273 theological students to help them in time, teach this science according to a formula prescribed by the Bishop of Rome, to five million pe

...obscure language—so much information which the most recent discoveries of science have verified? Beginning with the tenth page of the work under notice, Mr. ...alone ought to serve as a beacon—to astronomers, at least. Astrology is a science {{Style S-Italic|as infallible}} as astronomy itself, with the condition, h

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{{Page continues|709|science and occultism may yet agree.}} ...approximate ''duration of the geological periods from the combined data of Science and Occultism now before us. Geology is, of course, able to determine almos

...[the Sutra period], though the art of writing began to be known, the whole literature of India was preserved by oral tradition only.” (Hist. of Anc. Sans. Lit. ...st may search in vain for the proof amid the exoteric words in our earlier literature. As the Egyptian hierophants had their private code of hieratic symbols, an

...they instituted the Holy Inquisition. If, as the occultists maintain, and science half confirms, our most trifling acts and thoughts are indelibly impressed ...ry interesting statements in Prof. Draper’s “Conflict between Religion and Science.” On page 146, he says: “The families of the convicted were plunged int

...lism}}.”—{{Style S-Small capitals|Tyndall}}: {{Style S-Italic|Fragments of Science.}} ...n of the phenomenon of the aurora.” And so we might say of every branch of science.}}

...eternal flame burns in solitude in the depths of the waters of the Sacred Science. Numerous are the pilgrims who desire to enter those waters; very few are t ...turn identical with the gnosis of Pythagoras, '''ἡ γνῶσις τῶν ὄντων''' the science of things that are, and with the divine ecstasy of the Philaletheians, “t

...bsp;antiquated myth,” to append a few scientific admissions on this point. Science, it is true, is largely indifferent to such questions. But there are Scient <nowiki>*</nowiki> Having already given several instances of the vagaries of Science, it is delightful to find such ''agreement ''in this particular case. Read

...learn how to conduct himself as regards the world, his teacher, the sacred science, and his INNER SELF,” the letter adds, quoting the Eastern aphorism that: ...(and especially the woman) who preaches new truths, whether in religion or science, is stoned and made a martyr by those to whom they are unwelcome––all t

...s verbatim quotations from Prof. M. Müller’s A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature—must see that the scales of evidence both ways are pretty well balanced. ...s a series of occult treatises; of doctrines and practical teaching of the science of sciences, expressly couched in a conventional language, such sentences g

Science is daily and rapidly moving toward the great discoveries in chemistry and p ...ertheless, we feel as if we had some right to question the high-priests of science.

...tinative methods, when practically applied to his own country and Sanskrit literature. Three facts, at least, out of many are well calculated to undermine his fa 2. Though Numismatics is a less conjectural branch of science, and when starting from well-established basic dates, so to say, an exact o

...ce from 1838 on, and became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science, 1839. Appointed senator for life in 1875, he was minister of foreign affai ...literary work, including a useful and comprehensive Popular Cyclopedia of Science, 1843. In 1844, be moved to London. In 1856, on appointment as registrar of

Whether or not the men of science are willing to concede the correctness of the Hermetic theory of the physic ...y will make a report of their labors at the next meeting of the Academy of Science, by which time they expect to be able to make some definite report as to th

...who are on the same plane of perception; so that if the Protyle of modern science is ever discovered, it will be homogeneous only to us. The illusion may las ..., which, as no one has ever seen it, is simply a new working hypothesis of Science. For what in reality is an atom?

...th, under the powerful efforts of the psychic butterfly to escape from its science-built prison, and every day brings some new glad tidings of one or more suc ...rt of the Occult side of nature, are becoming predominant in every kind of literature. They visibly increase in proportion to the efforts made to discredit the m

...onnect every color with a definite sound, a fact well recognized in modern science (e.g., Francis Galton’s Nature and Nurture<ref>[Title altered later to: I ..., Kabalistic Astrology as practiced in Europe, is the semi-esoteric secret science, adapted for the outer and not the inner circle. It is, furthermore, often

I am perfectly alive to the fact that the modern man of science, like the average sceptic, believes no more in an “animated” image of t ...gan antiquity and its grand philosophy; where do we find in Western sacred literature, so-called, the first mention of idols and fetishes? In chapter xxxi (et se

...and accepted enquiry, remaining strictly within the boundaries of official Science or orthodox Theology. ...t. He will have his work mangled by reviewers, mocked by the sycophants of Science and Church, misquoted by his opponents, and rejected even by the pious lend

The early Gnostics claimed that their Science, the {{Style S-Small capitals|Gnosis}}, rested on a square, the angles of w ...nbsp;''inner ''Science,” and the as purely materialistic or “&nbsp;surface science,” both of which could be expounded by and contained in the ''Decade. ''It

...hical Society in Europe; he couldn’t read translations of the theosophical literature either except the shortened manuscript of ''Isis Unveiled'', – the first ...ubt, the desire “''to get acquainted with the theosophical teachings'' and literature well and ''understand its content”'' (the matter is ''its content'', Mr.

...n entitled “Tela Ignea Satanæ,” or The Burning Darts of Satan (See Levi’s “Science des Esprits”). {{Footnote return|*|fn1111}} Otfried Müller: “Historical Greek Literature,” pp. 230-240.

...and accepted enquiry, remaining strictly within the boundaries of official Science or orthodox Theology. ...t. He will have his work mangled by reviewers, mocked by the sycophants of Science and Church, misquoted by his opponents, and rejected even by the pious lend

...or several years she lived in northern India, studying languages, Sanskrit literature and the abstract knowledge for which Indian Raja Yogis<ref>Raj Yogi – Gre ...rt, scientific evidence of the immortality of the spirit: ancient esoteric science – Oumnaya religion (Aum) – as our Russian Orthodox church fathers calle

...tences and most absurd claims, being, in the opinion of the average man of science, unworthy of serious attention. They “never existed before the Christian ...men of science were blind as bats—as many are still even now—and Hermetic literature was denied, notwithstanding the evidence of the most erudite men of all the

...f purely physical science, both the premises and conclusions of the men of Science are as hypothetical as they are almost invariably erroneous. And if they do {{Page|439|modern science mistrusted.}}

Here, again, we come into collision with Science. The latter denies, so far, that man has ever been much larger than the ave ...ore the year 1847, when Boucher de Perthes forced it upon the attention of Science, almost nothing was known of fossil man, for archæology complacently ignor

..., spoke only to the imagination of the profane. Until lately, Religion and Science had nought to do with the beautiful mythos. Yet, the cold chaste moon, she, ...der the guidance of the crafty Popes, has put a brand on every fragment of literature that does not bear the ''imprimatur ''of the Church of Rome, its archaic hi

...the ''dreams ''of old, and which has now become again the dream of modern science. It is the greatest, just as it is the boldest, of the surviving speculatio ...nd purely homogeneous substances, suspected, if not actually yet found, by Science in the ultimate composition of the atom. But the incipient segregation of p

...The great archaic system known from prehistoric ages as the sacred Wisdom Science, one that is contained and can be traced in every old as well as in every n ...de of art speech, to set forth a geometrical and numerical system of exact science, which should serve as an origin of measures.” Piazzi Smyth believes like

...insight that was claimed by the votaries of that abstruse and really grand science, but simply a great proficiency in that method of procedure which allows th ...aside|193}} sunspots and potatoes?—and astrology becomes no less an exact science than astronomy. The earth, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., tells us—“is

...when he has attempted through his knowledge of Sanskrit to translate Pali literature, he has frequently been unsuccessful. Unless one studies the commentary (At ...Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel" and many authors consider it

The Theosophist, a magazine of Oriental Philosophy, Art, Literature, and Occultism. Conducted by H. P. Blavatsky, and H. S. Olcott, Permanent P ...learned and fair-minded gentleman is a true pearl in the anti-Theosophical literature. The correct enunciation of knowledge of the tenets he disapproves, as a si

...ury, none has had less honors or more scoffing than the oldest of them—the science of sciences, the venerable mother-parent of all our modern pigmies. Anxious

| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Science ...philological and critical compendium of everything that is elegant in the literature of our era, as is the newspaper Obzor, has deigned to pay me for this flatt

The same, in art, in politics, and even literature. “A damned saint, an honourable villain,” are in the present social ord ...t as servile and apparently as blind an acceptation of that which orthodox science rejects with great scorn, namely, Pharoah’s toothpick, Elijah’s chariot

...he fair side of truth and fact. However, since in the Replies that precede Science had to be repeatedly shocked by most unscientific propositions, and that be Well then, the “Adepts” deny most emphatically to Western science any knowledge whatever of the growth and development of the Indo-Aryan race

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The secular meaning of Chrêstos runs throughout the classical Greek literature pari passu with that given to it in the mysteries. Demosthenes saying ''ὦ

| next = Blavatsky H.P. - The Science of Magic ...against. Besides this, it is in more than one way dangerous to select this science as a mere pastime. One must bear forever in mind the impressive fable of Oe

| section title = The Upanishads in Gnostic Literature <center>THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE.</center>

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...is World knew” (1 Corinth. ii, 6-8) least of all the archons of our modern science. With regard to “psychic” wisdom, however, which James defines as terre ...gulls, while a host of magpies driven away from the roof of the Temple of Science will herald it to the world in every market place and fair. Tell the public

...upon everyone, dares to offer itself as the patron of everything—science, literature, arts, and even thought itself. There it is, the kingdom of this world, fle ...50. Fathers and Sons must henceforth occupy a prominent place, not only in literature, as quite above the ordinary level of authorship, but also as the creator o

...n – still they are not to be rejected. As we have shown, there was but one Science at the dawn of mankind, and it was entirely divine. If humanity on reaching ...so many names and appellations void of sense (though met with in classical literature) for the educated modern scholar. Who,

...me of them now are. But this is one of those arbitrary decisions of modern science which does not carry much weight. ...uria in the Secondary Age. ''The former reality of this river is a fact of science&nbsp;—&nbsp;will its votaries acknowledge the necessity of accepting the

| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Ancient Magic in Modern Science ...library, found at Thebes, has furnished fragments of every kind of ancient literature, many of which are dated, and several of which have thus been assigned to t

...ow.<ref>Isis Unveiled; a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. By H. P. Blavatsky, Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophic “Readers who have never made themselves acquainted with the literature of mysticism and alchemy, the volume will furnish the materials for an inte

| title = Craniology as a Science ...modified by later research, have in effect given basis to Craniology as a Science: a fact admitted to me by Retzius, when I''' '''visited his magnificent col

...halice. One can but wonder and ask oneself, what shall be the next move in literature? Is it a new “Sacred Book of the East,” in which one will find the evid The Latest Romance of Science, summarized by a Frenchman.

...the Christian Evidence Society and shown up as a windbag, and his supposed science and learning have been exploded as ‘part of a huge fraudulent system’; ...m, with all its arrogance, can hardly claim possession of the last word of science—its negative views being simply the result of the {{Page aside|426}}colle

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...eachings and their unfounded admiration for the achievements of occidental science, as contrasted with the higher spiritual objectives of the Movement which i ...and always cant; in politics and religion, in Society, commerce, and even literature. A tree is known by its fruits; an Age has to be judged by its most promine

...ing the ground, torn and cut to shreds by the murderous weapons devised by science and civilization, blessed to success by the servants of his God. What he no ...he honest citizen’s duty, averse to a life of peace, blind to the arts and literature, indifferent to all but lucre and ambition. What is thy future Kingdom, now

...both. Nevertheless, there being an abyss between the methods and claims of science and religion, the former being based upon close observation, experiment, an ...ur faith from the very Being whom our Aryan forefathers, the adepts of the science of Religion, declared the ‘Life of Life’ and ‘Being of Beings,’ a p

...library, found in Thebes, has furnished fragments of every kind of ancient literature, many of which are dated, and several of which have thus been assigned to t ...khten dispatched a messenger to Ramses, praying the assistance of Egyptian science for Bent-Rosh, a young sister of the queen, attacked with illness in all he

...rs to be readily convertible into another, we arrive at a new epoch in the science of life, and its relation to anthropology, zoology, and physical history of ...stion of his own wisdom—in truth these fairy-like tales of anthropological science are incomparably more enrapturing to the human soul, than all the wonderful

..., however Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Professor of History and English Literature in Queen’s College, Belfast, even though his voluminous writings are prim ...in the promotion of truth—than the more accurate, but certainly less deep, science of any Fellow of the Royal Institution.

...bility, we doubt not, will guide it safely through the dangerous passes of literature, the Thermopylae, where so many new journals find an untimely death. The fi ...erpart in nature, viz., the whole creation. A religion that conflicts with science does not deserve that name. The laws of nature are universal and irrevocabl

...that even the slightest attention seriously paid to esoteric science – the science of spirituality, we might say – leads to such change in human consciousne ...d to turn it to the study of Theosophy, which is the art of living and the science of life.

...mn oaths to keep silent, and to preserve secret their Sacred Knowledge and Science; thus these were buried deeper than ever out of human sight. In Central Asi ...ivilisation, its schools, in which 40,000 students were taught philosophy, literature, grammar, jurisprudence, medicine, astrology, occult sciences, architecture

...m to the indications of an undercurrent of belief in the reality of occult science, per se, which the author has evidently not desired to suppress. To investi ...exoteric reader, whether he were historian, literateur, or scientist. Such literature can be interesting only to the student on the track of esoteric knowledge,

...ringing out a volume upon a subject long since ''taboo ''in the circles of science and society, as to overlook its little partialities towards mediumship, and ...harm and instruct. A few more volumes like “Art Magic,” and Spiritualistic literature would cease to be the sport of the critic, and the despair of the student w

...our century Hermetic Philosophy was regarded by both Churchmen and men of Science from two quite opposite points of view. The former called it sinful and dev ...bmit to evidence. Many are now the writers who confess that such a type of literature as the Hermetic works of Egypt can never be dated too far back into the pre

...the polarity of good and evil a necessary condition of existence''.” Were Science to know “&nbsp;the real essence,” instead of knowing nothing of it, the ...the true and ''uncompromising ''Kabalists admit that, for all purposes of Science and philosophy, it is enough that the profane should know that the great ma

...r morbid exaltation, which obviously have certain unascertained laws. Till science can say, like Horatio ‘Stay illusion,’ and be analyzed, all this concur ...ritualists of the fact that Col. Olcott is well known in other branches of literature than ours. As early as 1857, when a young man of 25, he received the thanks

...nsequence of which dream she vainly endeavoured to detain him at home. The literature of all times, and of every country, abounds with cases of this kind. Hence ...s and forms the latter may invoke and control spirits. But that there is a science, apart from mediumship and accompanying phenomena, and depending merely on

|categories=Literature, Science, Art. ...ng. She criticized the "fallen woman" theme, which was common in Victorian literature. During the second half of the 1850s, Jewsbury was entrusted with editing t

''Mallet''—Yes; a good deal, and very curious is the literature on this subject. Some of the old writers give you, for instance, complete f ...no one would believe in this. These men flourished in ignorant ages, when science was in its infancy, and when superstition was at its height?

...on we maintain that the proofs of the existence of adepts of psychological science in the ancient schools of Asiatic mysticism should be carefully and frankly

At a time when Western minds are occupied in the study of Oriental Literature, attracted possibly by its richness of expression and marvelous imagery, bu 23. Extensive knowledge and science, well-regulated discipline and well-spoken speech, this is the greatest ble

...accepted by philologists<ref>''Philologist'' – student of linguistics and literature. – Ed.</ref>, as the facts seem to promise. Dayananda shows that the anci ...by the theory of blind chance would be too much, consequently, as long as science does not seek to deny Swami Dayananda's hypothesis, which, as yet, it is un

...al teachings have taken root in every class of Society and even in English literature may be seen by reading Mr. Norman Pearson’s article “Before Birth” in ...in Vol. VIII, No. 85, October, 1886, pp. 1-8), on “Ancient Magic in Modern Science,” she closes it with the following paragraph:<br>

...the Pliocene or even the Miocene period was the ''Homo primigenius'', then science ''may ''be right (''argumenti causâ'') in basing its present anthropology& ..., was that of Sargon of Accad, who established a great library, patronized literature, and extended his conquests across the sea into Cyprus. It is now known tha

...India by the Brâhmans, who dreaded to have their Mysteries and sacerdotal Science divulged (the real cause of their hatred of Buddhism), went away to China a ...er their knowledge of the mysteries and processes of primitive Nature. The Science of Physiology was better known to them than it is to us now. It is in this

...nd as comprehensible if rendered in ordinary language, the facts of Occult Science are of so abstruse a nature, that in most cases no words exist in European

...e very learned; read and talk Sanskrit; seems to follow the news in modern science and politics; and, nevertheless, remain faithful to their ancient philosoph ...s the study of the book called ''Adigrantha'', which belongs to the sacred literature of this strange bellicose sect. The Sikhs respect him as much as the Tibeta

...reafter acted upon. The same can be said of all the great works of art, of literature and music.

...the “wise men” of Cuttack. He was as well versed in the Arabic and Persian literature of alchemy and astrology as Sixtus was in Aristotle, and like him knew how ...of State consisted of learned Gurus. Among these were Masters in spiritual Science, and {{Page aside|374}} they might, if they had had a mind, have exhibited

...ny in this world has ever been. Egyptian art is spiritually pure. Egyptian literature is pure. The monuments, the ritual, the volumes of the ''Records of the Pas ...herwise. Mark this, Spiritualism has no interest in violating natural law. Science can accept nothing that is in violation of the laws of nature, and I mythol