THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Essays by Blavatsky, by H. P. Blavatsky. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592480.

1931. The articles published in this volume will bring that knowledge which alone fortifies a student against wrong or fanciful occultism, as against the perils of occult arts and psychic practices. Contents: chelas and lay chelas; Theosophical Mahatmas; practical occultism; occultism versus the occult arts; lodges of magic; what of phenomena; psychic and noetic action; thoughts on the elements; Chinese spirits; dialogues between the two editors on astral bodies or doppelgangers; dialogue on the mystery of the after life; hypnotism and its relations to other modes of fascination.