Occult Science in India
51 chapters English Public domain
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This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions in the far East. The high point of this book is the travelogue of his encounters in India with a fakir, who demonstrates his siddis (yogic powers) exuberantly. There is also an extensive discourse on Kabbalah, and its relationship to Eastern mystical beliefs. Jacolliot was a diffusionist, and he believed that many western esoteric traditions, specifically Egyptian, Jewish and Christian, had their origin in India.
Jacolliot, the author (1837-1890) was a French lawyer who worked as a judge in India and Tahiti. He subsequently became a prolific author. Although he apparently had enough familiarity with Sanskrit to do some desultory translations of the Laws of Manu, Jacolliot was not an academic. He quotes extensively here from a text called the "Agrouchada-Parikchai," which appears to be a pastiche of the Upanishads, Hindu law books, and a bit of Freemasonry. This text does not seem to exist except in Jacolliot's imagination. Jacolliot also believed in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of Lemuria. --J.B. Hare, June 21, 2008.
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51 chapters
26 Chapter XII. The Formulas of Evocation 27 Chapter XIII. Formulas of Magical Incantation—Vulgar Magic 28 Chapter I. Origin of the Cabala 29 Chapter II. How the Sacred Books are to be Interpreted According to the Jewish Cabalists 30 Chapter III. Initiation Among the Cabalists 31 Chapter IV. The Divine Essence, According to the Cabalists 32 Chapter V. The Ten Zephiroth 33 Chapter VI. The Cabalistic Trinity 34 Chapter VII. The Belief in Mediating and Inspiring Spirits According to the Jewish Cabalists 35 Chapter VIII. Points of Resemblance Between the Doctrine of the Pitris and That of the Zend-Avesta of Persia, the Philosophy of Plato, the Alexandrian School, and of Christianity 36 To the Reader 37 Chapter I. As to Who Are Initiated Into the Different Classes of Occult Power 38 Chapter II. Agasa 39 Chapter III. The Performing Fakirs 40 Chapter IV. The Leaf Dance 41 Chapter V. The Bronze Vase—Musical Accompaniments 42 Chapter VI. The Water-Spout—The Magic Stick 43 Chapter VII. Phenomena of Elevation and Knocking. 44 Chapter VIII. The Bamboo Stool—Aërial Flowers—The Mysterious Punkah 45 Chapter IX. The Stationary Table—A Shower Of Knocks—The Little Mill—Flying Feathers—The Harmoniflute 46 Chapter X. Sand Drawing—the Metor and the Bucket of Water—Loss of Voice—Mind Reading—Reading in a Closed Book—Aërial Melody—the Flying Palm—Leaf—Elevation of the Fakir 47 Chapter XI. Spontaneous Vegetation 48 Chapter I. Mysterious Hands—the Production of Flowers, Crowns, etc.—Letters of Fire—The Spectre of a Priest of Brahma—the Phantom Musician 49 Chapter II. The Phantom of Karli 50 Conclusion
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Occult Science in India
51 chapters English Public domain
About this book
This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions in the far East. The high point of this book is the travelogue of his encounters in India with a fakir, who demonstrates his siddis (yogic powers) exuberantly. There is also an extensive discourse on Kabbalah, and its relationship to Eastern mystical beliefs. Jacolliot was a diffusionist, and he believed that many western esoteric traditions, specifically Egyptian, Jewish and Christian, had their origin in India.
Jacolliot, the author (1837-1890) was a French lawyer who worked as a judge in India and Tahiti. He subsequently became a prolific author. Although he apparently had enough familiarity with Sanskrit to do some desultory translations of the Laws of Manu, Jacolliot was not an academic. He quotes extensively here from a text called the "Agrouchada-Parikchai," which appears to be a pastiche of the Upanishads, Hindu law books, and a bit of Freemasonry. This text does not seem to exist except in Jacolliot's imagination. Jacolliot also believed in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of Lemuria. --J.B. Hare, June 21, 2008.
Table of contents
51 chapters
26 Chapter XII. The Formulas of Evocation 27 Chapter XIII. Formulas of Magical Incantation—Vulgar Magic 28 Chapter I. Origin of the Cabala 29 Chapter II. How the Sacred Books are to be Interpreted According to the Jewish Cabalists 30 Chapter III. Initiation Among the Cabalists 31 Chapter IV. The Divine Essence, According to the Cabalists 32 Chapter V. The Ten Zephiroth 33 Chapter VI. The Cabalistic Trinity 34 Chapter VII. The Belief in Mediating and Inspiring Spirits According to the Jewish Cabalists 35 Chapter VIII. Points of Resemblance Between the Doctrine of the Pitris and That of the Zend-Avesta of Persia, the Philosophy of Plato, the Alexandrian School, and of Christianity 36 To the Reader 37 Chapter I. As to Who Are Initiated Into the Different Classes of Occult Power 38 Chapter II. Agasa 39 Chapter III. The Performing Fakirs 40 Chapter IV. The Leaf Dance 41 Chapter V. The Bronze Vase—Musical Accompaniments 42 Chapter VI. The Water-Spout—The Magic Stick 43 Chapter VII. Phenomena of Elevation and Knocking. 44 Chapter VIII. The Bamboo Stool—Aërial Flowers—The Mysterious Punkah 45 Chapter IX. The Stationary Table—A Shower Of Knocks—The Little Mill—Flying Feathers—The Harmoniflute 46 Chapter X. Sand Drawing—the Metor and the Bucket of Water—Loss of Voice—Mind Reading—Reading in a Closed Book—Aërial Melody—the Flying Palm—Leaf—Elevation of the Fakir 47 Chapter XI. Spontaneous Vegetation 48 Chapter I. Mysterious Hands—the Production of Flowers, Crowns, etc.—Letters of Fire—The Spectre of a Priest of Brahma—the Phantom Musician 49 Chapter II. The Phantom of Karli 50 Conclusion
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Occult Science in India
51 chapters English Public domain
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This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions in the far East. The high point of this book is the travelogue of his encounters in India with a fakir, who demonstrates his siddis (yogic powers) exuberantly. There is also an extensive discourse on Kabbalah, and its relationship to Eastern mystical beliefs. Jacolliot was a diffusionist, and he believed that many western esoteric traditions, specifically Egyptian, Jewish and Christian, had their origin in India.
Jacolliot, the author (1837-1890) was a French lawyer who worked as a judge in India and Tahiti. He subsequently became a prolific author. Although he apparently had enough familiarity with Sanskrit to do some desultory translations of the Laws of Manu, Jacolliot was not an academic. He quotes extensively here from a text called the "Agrouchada-Parikchai," which appears to be a pastiche of the Upanishads, Hindu law books, and a bit of Freemasonry. This text does not seem to exist except in Jacolliot's imagination. Jacolliot also believed in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of Lemuria. --J.B. Hare, June 21, 2008.
Table of contents
51 chapters
26 Chapter XII. The Formulas of Evocation 27 Chapter XIII. Formulas of Magical Incantation—Vulgar Magic 28 Chapter I. Origin of the Cabala 29 Chapter II. How the Sacred Books are to be Interpreted According to the Jewish Cabalists 30 Chapter III. Initiation Among the Cabalists 31 Chapter IV. The Divine Essence, According to the Cabalists 32 Chapter V. The Ten Zephiroth 33 Chapter VI. The Cabalistic Trinity 34 Chapter VII. The Belief in Mediating and Inspiring Spirits According to the Jewish Cabalists 35 Chapter VIII. Points of Resemblance Between the Doctrine of the Pitris and That of the Zend-Avesta of Persia, the Philosophy of Plato, the Alexandrian School, and of Christianity 36 To the Reader 37 Chapter I. As to Who Are Initiated Into the Different Classes of Occult Power 38 Chapter II. Agasa 39 Chapter III. The Performing Fakirs 40 Chapter IV. The Leaf Dance 41 Chapter V. The Bronze Vase—Musical Accompaniments 42 Chapter VI. The Water-Spout—The Magic Stick 43 Chapter VII. Phenomena of Elevation and Knocking. 44 Chapter VIII. The Bamboo Stool—Aërial Flowers—The Mysterious Punkah 45 Chapter IX. The Stationary Table—A Shower Of Knocks—The Little Mill—Flying Feathers—The Harmoniflute 46 Chapter X. Sand Drawing—the Metor and the Bucket of Water—Loss of Voice—Mind Reading—Reading in a Closed Book—Aërial Melody—the Flying Palm—Leaf—Elevation of the Fakir 47 Chapter XI. Spontaneous Vegetation 48 Chapter I. Mysterious Hands—the Production of Flowers, Crowns, etc.—Letters of Fire—The Spectre of a Priest of Brahma—the Phantom Musician 49 Chapter II. The Phantom of Karli 50 Conclusion
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