Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients: With an Account of their Mystic Initiatiations and the History of Spiritism [Facsimile] [Paperback]

Louis Jacolliot (Author), William L. Felt (Translator)

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Publication Date: May 1994

Contents: The Doctrine of the Pitris and the Occult Sciences in India; The Initiated at the Ancient Temples; The Brahmins; The Ceremony of the Djita Carma; The First Degree of Initiation; The Grand Council; The Yoguys; The Philosophical Tenets of the Indian Initiates Regrading the First Cause, and the Part Performed by the Spirits in Wholly Matters; The Degree of Sanctity which the Initiates must have attained before receiving the Sacred Formula and the Fatal Secret; The Superior Guru; The Supreme Being; The Formulas of Evocations; The Doctrine of the Pitris as Compared with that of the Jewish Cabala, of Plato, of the Alexandrian Schools; of Philo, of The Persians; and of Christianity; Initiation Among the Cabalists; Resemblance between the Doctrine of the Pitris and that of the Zend-Avesta of Persia; Exoteric Manifestations and Demonstrations among the Initiates of the sacred Temple of India as Shown by the Performing Fakirs; and much more!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing; Facsimile edition edition (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564594521
• ISBN-13: 978-1564594525
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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