Occultism for Beginners

Chapter One.

THE MEANING OF OCCULTISM.

The Infinite mirrored in the finite
Matter is materialized or crystalized Spirit, 2.
Primordial Eternal Substance, 2.
There is but one Force, 2.
Atomic and molecular bodies, 2.
The occult forces in metals.
Planes in metals corresponding to the physical astral and spiritual bodies of man, 2.
Composition of atoms: Electricity, Light or God, 3.
The Cosmos is built by Number, 3.
God is within the atoms,
Our unity in the Ultimate, 4.
The scientific basis of the Brotherhood of Man. 4.

Chapter Two.

THE CELLULAR MAN.
Each cell an entity, 5. The physical body is the
God of the cell, 5. Difference between the amoeba
and man, 6. The functions of cells, 6. Description
of a cell, 7. Health and disease dependent on cells,
X. The ego of the cell.~-
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CHAPTER III.
SEVEN-FOLD CORRESPONDENCES OF CELL.
The seven principles of the egg-cell, 9. Plate I.
Diagram of cell, 10. Chlorophyl, the mental center
of plants, 12. Center of desire in cells, 13. Etheric
spaces in cells, 13. All from one Divine Cell, 14.
Our Spiritual basis in the Christos-··the Central Sun,
14. The Radiant Center-the Christos, 14. In the
Radiant Center all life in common, 14. All in one
and one in All, 14.

CHAPTER IV.
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN.
Matter and Spirit opposite poles of Universal Sub_
stance, 15. The Body of the Heavenly Man, 16.
Qualities are used in building soul structure, 16. Ti-,e
unity of spirit and matter, and their disappearance as
such when unified, 18. Radium and the Higher Mind,
18, Plate II Showing Radium Rays, 19. The Alpha,
Beta and Gamma rays of Radium, 20.

CHAPTER V.
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL.
The Real Self of All, 22. Color- the soul of metals,
22. The light within the atoms, 24. The outer form
and the inner light, 24. The incandescence of the soul,
24. A Master of Light defined, 24. Consci0us imCONTENTS
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mortality inherent in soul structure, 25. Light-_a
building material, 25. · 1 l, ~~

CHAPTER VI.
SPIRlT AND MATTER.
Interpenetration of Matter and Spirit, 26. Symbol
of two interlaced triangles, 26. The mystery of fire, 28.
Material and spiritual fires, 28. The One Element,
29. Radium and the One Element, 29. Atomic instability
of Radium, 29. Ethical applications of scientific
truths, 29.

CHAPTER VII.
THE ROOT CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN.
Man a Goel in essence, 30. The Spirit belongs to
all; the soul to tl:e many, 30. The body, the antithesis
of the all, 30. Translation of personality, and
the overcoming of the limitations of matter as in the
case of Jesus after the crucifixion, 31. Cosmical Legislative
Bodies, 31. Brain, heart, and solar plexus
centers, 31. The Crucified Ego, 33.

CHAPTER VIII.
THE PITUITARY BODY.
Location and description of, 34. The ductless
glands, 34. Doorways of Life, 36. Pituitary Body
and Pineal Gland; points of contact between the
outer man and the Spiritual Self, 36. Seat of mental
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principle in man, 36. The Energizer of Will, 37. The
Cause of all changes in Nature, 37. Functions of the
Pituitary Body, 37. The front lobe detects impurities
in the blood by the sense of smell, 38. Disease resisting
forces depend upon action of the Pituitary Body,
38. Physiology and psychology of Pituitary Body,
38.

CHAPTER IX.
PITUITARY BODY AND PINEAL GLAND.
Vacuoles and Ventricles, 40. Spaces in cell correspond
to Ventricles of the brain center ·and canal
of spinal cord, 40. Mystery of the inner breath, 40.
Plate III. The Brain, 41. The third Ventricle and the
lnfundibulum, 42. Anatomy of Pineal Gland, 42. Influence
of Pineal Gland on sex function,43. Atrophy
(wasting) of Pineal Gland at puberty, 43. Sexual
function inhibited when Pineal Gland is active, as
prior to puberty, 45. Earlier sex ripening results
when Pineal Gland function is inhibited either normally
or abnormally, 43. The Brain centers of
vision, 44. The Optic Thalami,42. Spiritual functions
of Pituitary and Pineal Glands,46.

CHAPTERX.
THE BRAIN, A SYNTHETIC CENTER.
The Brain is androgynous-n1ale-female, 49. The
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Brain and the Third Root Race, 49. Akasic and
magnetic energy within the cranium is the atmosphere
of the Third Root Race, 49. Creation of mental images
by brain entity, SO. A Third Sex, 50. The
highest spiritual ideations must be male-female, positive-
negative, Sl. The Divine Marriage, SI. Use
of the fiery emanations of the blood by the Pituitary
and Pineal Gland, 52. The cause of psychic vision,
52 Cause of spiritual clairvoyance, 52. The union of
the fires of the Pituitary and Pineal Glands unify the
Sixth and Seventh senses 52. The Marriage of Matter
and Spirit; Venus and Hermes; Love and Wisdom,
52.

CHAPTERXI.
REINCARNATION.
Natural thought is heaven born·, 54. Reincarnation
of cells in the Body-Cosmos, SS. Humanity-a state
of consciousness, 57. Nothing is lost by death 58.
No place to lose it in, 58. We work with God building
the heavens as well as the earth, 58.

CHAPTER XII.
THE SEVEN HARMONIES.
The Seven Heavens or states of consciousness, 59.
The Heavens of the body are the seven cavities of
the brain, 59. This is. an etheric magnetic realm in
which the astral self contacts the material brain, 60.
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Thoughts, disires, health, and disease, 60. Why
high thoughts and desires spiritualize, and low
thoughts and desires, materialize the body and influence
our well being, 60. The Inne1 building-light, 61.
Effect of thoughts and desires on the etheric substance
of the chamber of Harmonies, 61. Men, angels,
gods and devils bound together in the One
Life, 62. Maii and God being perfected by the perfection
of his cells, 62. The etheric substances of
the Seven Harmonies is the real link between the
Self of matter and the Self of spirit, 62.

CHAPTER XIII.
TEN BASIC TRUTHS.
Every part, organ and tissue in man has its celestial
correspondence in the Heavenly Man–God,65.
Man, thus being an image of God, 65. Enumeration
of basic truths, 65.

CHAPTER XIV.
THE MYSTERY OF THE HEART.
Origin and development of the blood vessels and
the heart, 69. Development of the embryo corresponds
to the development of the Cosmos, 70. The
Inner Breath, 70. The breath of life breathed into
the rupic spaces of the cell, 70. How worlds and
creatures come into ex-istence, 71. Analagous
Spheres or Spaces within the earth transmitting terCONTENTS
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rcstrial desire force, 71. Blood-the vehicle of breath
and desire, 71. Traits and tendencies stored up in
the kamic creative cell, 72.

CHAPTER XV.
SPIRITUAL CORRESPONDENCES
OF THE HEART.
The heart of our Solar system beats once every
eleven years, 73. The Auric Heart, 73.. The Kingdom
within, 74. Within the within-the Source of
All, 74. The Sanctuary, 74. Center of Spiritual, psychological
and kamic consciousness, 75. The Heart,
the center of spiritual consciousness, 76. The Heart
-a Central Sun, 76. The heart is a doorway through
which Infinite love and compassion may flow, 76.
How to read Nature’s cosmic Book of Knowledge
and Wisdom, 77.