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Page Index
Preface
Chapter I. The Initiated at the Ancient Temples
Chapter II. The Brahmins
Chapter III. The Brahmin—From His Birth To His Novitiate—The Ceremony of the Djita Carma
Chapter IV. The Brahmin—From His Novitiate to His Reception Into the First Degree of His Initiation
Chapter V. The First Degree of Initiation
Chapter VI. The First Degree of Initiation.—(Continued.)
Chapter VII. The Second Degree of Initiation
Chapter VIII. The Third Degree of Initiation
Chapter IX. The Grand Council
Chapter X. The Election of the Brahmatma
Chapter XI. The Yoguys
Chapter I. The Degree of Sanctity Which the Initiates Must Have Attained Before Receiving the Sacred Formula and the Fatal Secret
Chapter II. The Superior Guru—The Sacred Decade
Chapter III. The Guru—Evocations
Chapter IV. The Frontal Sign of the Initiates According to the Agrouchada-Parikchai
Chapter V. The Interpretation of the Vedas and Other Works of Sacred Scriptures
Chapter VI. Psychology of the Book of the Pitris
Chapter VII. Reason
Chapter VIII. A Text From the Vedas
Chapter IX. A Few Slocas From Manu
Chapter X. Of the Supreme Being
Chapter XI. Words Spoken by the Priests at Memphis
Chapter XII. The Formulas of Evocation
Chapter XIII. Formulas of Magical Incantation—Vulgar Magic
Chapter I. Origin of the Cabala
Chapter II. How the Sacred Books are to be Interpreted According to the Jewish Cabalists
Chapter III. Initiation Among the Cabalists
Chapter IV. The Divine Essence, According to the Cabalists
Chapter V. The Ten Zephiroth
Chapter VI. The Cabalistic Trinity
Chapter VII. The Belief in Mediating and Inspiring Spirits According to the Jewish Cabalists
Chapter VIII. Points of Resemblance Between the Doctrine of the Pitris and That of the Zend-Avesta of Persia, the Philosophy of Plato, the Alexandrian School, and of Christianity
To the Reader
Chapter I. As to Who Are Initiated Into the Different Classes of Occult Power
Chapter II. Agasa
Chapter III. The Performing Fakirs
Chapter IV. The Leaf Dance
Chapter V. The Bronze Vase—Musical Accompaniments
Chapter VI. The Water-Spout—The Magic Stick
Chapter VII. Phenomena of Elevation and Knocking.
Chapter VIII. The Bamboo Stool—Aërial Flowers—The Mysterious Punkah
Chapter IX. The Stationary Table—A Shower Of Knocks—The Little Mill—Flying Feathers—The Harmoniflute
Chapter X. Sand Drawing—the Metor and the Bucket of Water—Loss of Voice—Mind Reading—Reading in a Closed Book—Aërial Melody—the Flying Palm—Leaf—Elevation of the Fakir
Chapter XI. Spontaneous Vegetation
Chapter I. Mysterious Hands—the Production of Flowers, Crowns, etc.—Letters of Fire—The Spectre of a Priest of Brahma—the Phantom Musician
Chapter II. The Phantom of Karli
Conclusion
Special Pages: Errata

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OCCULT SCIENCE IN INDIA

AND AMONG THE ANCIENTS.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MYSTIC INITIATIONS AND THE HISTORY OF SPIRITISM.

BY

LOUIS JACOLLIOT

CHIEF JUSTICE OF CHANDENAGUR (FRENCH EAST INDIES) AND OF TAHITI (OCEANICA).

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY

WILLIAM L. FELT.

LONDON

WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LIMITED

8 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

[1919]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, June 2008, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

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