Chapter Vii : p. 124 CHAPTER VII Hypnotism has been mentioned in connection with some of these phenomena which I have quoted. What is the object of connecting hypnotism with the occult since it is known to be allied with certain physical processes? It may be said: "Yes, hypnotism was once considered occult but...
Chapter Xi : p. 187 CHAPTER XI Now comes an interesting and compelling stage. India believes in something that may be summed up as the Omnipresent and All-penetrating, recognizing it as the quiescent energy which can be and is transmuted into form and force, and she believes also in a power which transforms...
Chapter Xiv : p. 235 CHAPTER XIV That the powers have been attained in East and West (though in a far lesser degree in the West) there really can be no question, in my opinion. I have cited a few cases, avoiding Western instances in so far as I could because they are contentious ground and my aim has chiefly...
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Chapter Xv : p. 255 CHAPTER XV In a book dealing with such a subject as the hidden and yet open mysteries it is impossible to end without considering more fully the occult bond subsisting between humanity and what is called animal life, the reason being that union and sympathy with all is one of the straight...
Chapter V : p. 70 CHAPTER V Scattered through ancient books of all the Eastern countries (including the Scriptures we ourselves accept as canonical though at present the so-called miracles which they record do not enjoy a very high reputation) are events so unusual and alien to everyday experience th...
Chapter Xii : p. 201 CHAPTER XII In one point all who have seen agree, namely that Love is the basis of the Law on which the universe moves. I need not refer to this point of view in our own Scriptures. We are all acquainted with the thesis--though the harsh experiences of life leave some of us with, as we...
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Preface : p. v PREFACE A book of this sort has so many debts to acknowledge that it should be thickly set with notes and references, and yet in writing for the general reader this is not possible. Therefore I can only say, speaking generally, how much I owe to many and great thinkers from those of three...
Chapter Vi : p. 93 CHAPTER VI I might of course fill volumes with modern records of this kind and I therefore have chosen only a few witnessed by men celebrated for one reason or another and certainly not lacking in perspicuity. I now turn to one of the most remarkable of modern times. I do not know wh...
Chapter Iii : p. 26 CHAPTER III In the first chapter of this book I have spoken of the science of the occult as standing on the tripod of the psychic, intellectual and physical and I might have said much more on all three, as India has done in her great teachings. But in such matters it is wise to be extremely...
Chapter Ii : p. 17 CHAPTER II In India and Ceylon I had personal instances of this force which develops itself in powers that transcend the senses. In Benares a wandering fortune-teller came into the veranda of the little hotel where I had just arrived, unknown. Liking something about the man's face I...
Chapter Viii : p. 141 CHAPTER VIII ("In the four following chapters I quote largely from studies of their faith written by great Indians ancient and modern".) It is taught in India that there are four roads, by each of which Yoga may be attained: perfect Yoga being understood to signify the concentrati...
Untitled : THE WAY OF POWER BY LILY ADAMS BECK [1928, Not Renewed] Title Page Books by L. Adams Beck Preface Chapter I. 'The Occult of Today Is the Science of Tomorrow' Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII...
Chapter Xiii : p. 217 CHAPTER XIII ("I am indebted in this chapter to Ouspensky's remarkable work, "Tertium Organum") I hope in this chapter to demonstrate that the views of the occult which I have put forward are meeting with strange confirmation in Western Science though there approached from a different angle...
Chapter I. 'the Occult Of Today Is The Science : p. 1 THE WAY OF POWER Studies In The Occult CHAPTER I "THE OCCULT OF TODAY IS THE SCIENCE OF TOMORROW." I have chosen this motto for my book relating to the occult, for it is an attempt to describe the (at first) very small experiences and knowledge which led me to see the reality of the true...
Chapter Ix : p. 161 CHAPTER IX I now pass on to the strange and ancient system of training and discipline by which India taught the science of concentration which she considered the key to reunion with the forces of the universe and therefore control of the powers which in India are called the "Siddhis"...
Chapter Iv : p. 46 CHAPTER IV It is necessary before going farther to make some allusion to the strange world in which man passes nearly half his visible life--the world of sleep. Nearly three centuries ago the delightful poet Herrick wrote these lines: Here are we all by day. By night we are hurled By dreams...
Epilogue : p. 281 EPILOGUE Looking back through these pages I realize from what very small beginnings, what a very humble and dubious observation of the "occult" I started and to what vast conclusions it led me. I do not for a moment say it would lead others in the same way, for every man has his own dharm...
Chapter X : p. 169 CHAPTER X IT is my own opinion that the West, now searching even passionately for a clue to the mysteries of psychology, will do very well to listen to the voice of India on the subject. It will not be perfection for it has filtered through the human medium and human language, as is...