Linga Sharira

Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 4. Projection Of The Etheric Body-a

“BEFORE we can leave the subject of attack by incarnate human beings, we must consider the subject of etheric projection. In this case not only is the mind at work, but also something which is pretty nearly physical; sufficiently physical,…”

Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter V (part 1)

“p. 52 CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. "Temporal body"— Linga Sharîra . The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and four-dimensional bodies. Newton's fluents. The unreality of constant qu…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomon-c

“These shells, envelopes petrified or carnified, were such an expression possible, are the source of errors or of evil, which connects with the heaviness and hardness of animal envelopes. In the book Zohar , and in that of the Revolution of…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragram-d

“Being and nothingness are two absolutely irreconcilable ideas, with this difference, that the idea of nothingness, which is altogether negative, issues from the very idea of being, whence even nothingness cannot be understood as an absolute…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Pentagram-c

“The secret of this Great Work does not remain for discovery; it has been known and practised by a great number of initiates, above all by the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana, who has left a theory concerning it, as we shall see in the “Ritua…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realization-b

“The revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their calculations, the appropriate moment for moral reactions. The law of realization produces what we call magnetic breathing; places and objects become impr…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realization-c

“The Astral Body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the proportions of the two forces, varying from right to left, seem frequently to belie the visible organization, producing seeming aberrations of human passion and…”

Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancy-a

“EX IPSIS MORS We HAVE said that the images of persons and things are preserved in the Astral Light. Therein also can be evoked the forms of those who are in our world no longer, and by this means are accomplished those mysteries of Necroma…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 1 [[Vol. 1, Page]] 152 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. [[This page continued from previous section ]] A FEW EARLY THEOSOPHICAL MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING PLANETS, ROUNDS, AND MAN. Among the eleven St…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 11 (part 2)

“When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out , sends all its energy and "principles" into a neutral centre of latent force, a "laya centre," and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated su…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 6)

“" The Dhyanis ( Pitris ) are those who have evolved their BHUTA ( doubles ) from themselves , which RUPA ( form ) has become the vehicle of monads ( seventh and sixth principles ) that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the thre…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 15 (part 3)

“[But Nephesh , the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -- E SOTERIC P NEUMATICS. 1. Ditto, for it is Atma-Buddhi- Manas. 2. Ditto.* 3. Spiritual Soul. 4. Mediator between Spirit…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 39 (part 2)

“Hunt writes: -- "But regarding Life -- Vital Force -- as a power far more exalted than either light, heat, or electricity, and indeed capable of exerting a controlling power over them all " (this is absolutely occult). . . . . "we are…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 1)

“The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2 [[Vol. 2, Page]] 86 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. STANZA IV. CREATION OF THE FIRST RACES. §§ (14) Creation of men. (15) They are empty shadows. (16) The Creators are perplexed how to create a…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 56 (part 2)

“First comes En-Soph, the "Concealed of the Concealed," then the Point, Sephira and the later Sephiroth; then the Atzilatic World, a World of Emanations that gives birth to three other worlds -- called the Throne, the abode of pure Spirits;…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 58 (part 7)

“[[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------- * See " Vishnu Purana, " Book I., ch. 7, para. 1. ** See " Five Years of Theosophy, " p. 777. [[Vol. 2, Page]] 174 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Of course such primeval modes o…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 63 (part 8)

“Hence man, although apparently its crown, would, by his advent have marked the close of creation; since creation, culminating in him, would at his death have entered on its decline" . . . ( p . 289). This Kabalistic view is here quoted…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 74 (part 3)

“Let every lord of the Dazzling Face (an adept of the White Magic) cause the Viwan of every lord of the Dark Face to come into his hands (or possession), lest any (of the Sorcerers) should by its means escape from the waters, avoid the rod o…”

The Secret Doctrine | Page 90 (part 4)

“The idealism of the present day, not only contrives to absorb, on the one hand, the basic negations of Atheism, but lands its votaries in a tangle of unreality, which culminates in a practical Nihilism. Argument with such writers is almost…”

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book IV | Sutra 8

“From the force inherent in works comes the manifestation of those dynamic mind images which are conformable to the ripening out of each of these works. We are now to consider the general mechanism of Karma, in order that we may pass on to t…”

Myths of the Cherokee | Myth 87a

“THE WATER CANNIBALS Besides the friendly Nûñnĕ′hĭ of the streams and mountains there is a race of cannibal spirits, who stay at the bottom of the deep rivers and live upon human flesh, especially that of little children. They come out just…”