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    Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
    Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
    Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity
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    Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity

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      Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1 - H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

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      Title: Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky

      No. 1: Practical Occultism--Occultism versus the Occult

      Arts--The Blessings of Publicity

      Author: H. P. Blavatsky

      Release Date: November 5, 2005 [EBook #17009]

      Language: English

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      STUDIES

      IN

      OCCULTISM

      by

      H. P. BLAVATSKY

      STUDIES IN OCCULTISM

      A Series of Reprints from the Writings

      of

      H. P. BLAVATSKY

      NO. 1

      PRACTICAL OCCULTISM

      OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS

      THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY

      POINT LOMA EDITION

      The Aryan Theosophical Press

      Point Loma, California

      1910

      See Book List at the end of this volume for the other numbers of this Series and also for other Theosophical literature.

      CONTENTS

      Practical Occultism 1

      From Lucifer , April, 1888

      Occultism versus the Occult Arts 17

      From Lucifer , May, 1888

      The Blessings of Publicity 42

      From Lucifer , August, 1891

      Occultism is not magic, though magic is one of its tools.

      Occultism is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants. Neither is occultism the pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is sacrifice, the second, renunciation.

      Occultism is the science of life, the art of living.—Lucifer, Vol. I, p. 7.

      PRACTICAL OCCULTISM

      IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS

      As some of the letters in the Correspondence of this month show, there are many people who are looking for practical instruction in Occultism. It becomes necessary, therefore, to state once for all:—

      (a) The essential difference between theoretical and practical Occultism; or what is generally known as Theosophy on the one hand, and Occult science on the other, and:—

      (b) The nature of the difficulties involved in the study of the latter.

      It is easy to become a Theosophist. Any person of average intellectual capacities, and a leaning toward the metaphysical; of pure, unselfish life, who finds more joy in helping his neighbor than in receiving help himself; one who is ever ready to sacrifice his own pleasures for the sake of other people; and who loves Truth, Goodness, and Wisdom for their own sake, not for the benefit they may confer—is a Theosophist.

      But it is quite another matter to put oneself upon the path which leads to the knowledge of what is good to do, as to the right discrimination of good from evil; a path which also leads a man to that power through which he can do the good he desires, often without even apparently lifting a finger.

      Moreover, there is one important fact with which the student should be made acquainted. Namely, the enormous, almost limitless responsibility assumed by the teacher for the sake of the pupil. From the Gurus of the East who teach openly or secretly, down to the few Kabalists in Western lands who undertake to teach the rudiments of the Sacred Science to their disciples—those western Hierophants being often themselves ignorant of the danger they incur—one and all of these Teachers are subject to the same inviolable law. From the moment they begin really to teach, from the instant they confer any power—whether psychic, mental, or physical—on their pupils, they take upon themselves all the sins of that pupil, in connexion with the Occult Sciences, whether of omission or commission, until the moment when initiation makes the pupil a Master and responsible in his turn. There is a weird and mystic religious law, greatly reverenced and acted upon in the Greek, half-forgotten in the Roman Catholic, and absolutely extinct in the Protestant Church. It dates

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