Theos-Talk Archives (October 1999 Message tt00114)

Oct 28th 1999

These 10 points appear to be significant and useful to review.

Dallas

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	PROPOSITIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY



		TEN ITEMS FROM "ISIS UNVEILED"


To comprehend the principles of natural law involved in the
several phenomena hereinafter described, the reader must keep in
mind the fundamental propositions of the Oriental philosophy
which we have successively elucidated. Let us recapitulate very
briefly:

1st. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result
of law eternal, immutable, ever active. Apparent miracle is but
the operation of forces antagonistic to what Dr. W. B. Carpenter,
F.R.S. - a man of great learning but little knowledge calls "the
well-ascertained laws of nature." Like many of his class, Dr.
Carpenter ignores the fact that there may be laws once "known,"
now unknown to science.

2nd. Nature is triune: there is a visible, objective nature; an
invisible, indwelling, energizing nature, the exact model of the
other, and its vital principle; and, above these two, spirit,
source of all forces, alone eternal, and indestructible. The
lower two constantly change; the higher third does not.

3rd. Man is also triune he has his objective, physical body; his
vitalizing astral body (or soul), the real man; and these two are
brooded over and illuminated by the third - the sovereign, the
immortal spirit. When the real man succeeds in merging himself
with the latter, he becomes an immortal entity.

4th. Magic, as a science, is the knowledge of these principles
and of the way by which the omniscience and omnipotence of the
spirit and its control over nature's forces may be acquired by
the individual while still in the body. Magic, as an art, is the
application of this knowledge in practice.

5th. Arcane knowledge misapplied, is sorcery; beneficently used,
true magic or WISDOM.

6th. Mediumship is the opposite of adeptship; the medium is the
passive instrument of foreign influences, the adept actively
controls himself and all inferior potencies.

7th. All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having
their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen
universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own
spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

8th. Races of men differ in spiritual gifts as in color, stature,
or any other external quality; among some peoples seership
naturally prevails, among others mediumship. Some are addicted to
sorcery, and transmit its secret rules of practice from
generation to generation, with a range of psychical phenomena,
more or less wide, as the result.

9th. One phase of magical skill is the voluntary and conscious
withdrawal of the inner man (astral form) from the outer man
(physical body). In the cases of some mediums withdrawal occurs,
but it is unconscious and involuntary. With the latter the body
is more or less cataleptic at such times; but with the adept the
absence of the astral form would not be noticed, for the physical
senses are alert, and the individual appears only as though in a
fit of abstraction - "a brown study," as some call it.

10th. The comer-stone of MAGIC is an intimate practical knowledge
of magnetism and electricity, their qualities, correlations, and
potencies. Especially necessary is a familiarity with their
effects in and upon the animal kingdom and man.

To sum up all in a few words, MAGIC is spiritual WISDOM; nature,
the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common
vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by
the perfected human will.

(ISIS UNVEILED, Vol. 2  p. 587 et seq.)





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