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gradually; Chelâs began to be taught the broad outlines of it, and at the advent of the
T.S. in India, in 1879, I was ordered to teach it in is exoteric form to one or two. I now
give it out Esoterically.
Knowing that some students try to follow a system of Yoga in their own fashion,
guided only by the rare hints they find in Theosophical books and magazines, which
must naturally be incomplete, I chose one of the best expositions upon ancient
Occult works, Nature’s Finer Forces, in order to point out how very easily one can be
misled by their blinds.
The author seems to have been himself deceived. The Tantras read Esoterically are
as full of wisdom as the noblest Occult works. Studied without a guide and applied to
practice, they may lead to the production of various phenomenal results, on the
moral and physiological planes. But let anyone accept their dead-letter rules and
practices, let him try with some selfish motive in view to carry out the rites prescribed
therein, and—he is lost. Followed with pure heart and unselfish devotion merely for
the sake of experiment, either no results will follow, or such as can only throw back
the performer.
The “Seven Principles” (Page 493) But woe to the selfish man who seeks to develop
Occult powers only to attain earthly benefits or revenge, or to satisfy his ambition; the
separation of the Higher from the Lower Principles and the severing of Buddhi-
Manas from the Tantrist’s personality will speedily follow, the terrible Karmic results
to the dabbler in Magic.
In the East, in India and China, Soulless men and women are as frequently met with
as in the West, though vice is, in truth, far less developed there than it is here.
It is Black Magic and oblivion of their ancestral wisdom that lead them thereunto. But
of this I will speak later, now merely adding: you have to be warned and know the
danger.
Meanwhile, in view of what follows, the real Occult division of the Principles in their
correspondences with the Tattvas and other minor forces has to be well studied.
About “Principles” and
“Aspects”
Speaking metaphysically and philosophically, on strict Esoteric lines, man as a
complete unit is composed of Four basic Principles and their Three Aspects on this
earth. In the semi-esoteric teachings, these Four and Three have been called Seven
Principles, to facilitate the comprehension of the masses.
THE ETERNAL BASIC
PRINCIPLES
TRANSITORY ASPECTS
PRODUCED BY THE PRINCIPLES
1- Atmâ, or Jiva, "the One Life", which
permeates the Monadic Trio. (One in
three and three in One)
2- Auric envelope; because the
substratum of the Aura around man is
the universally diffused primordial and
pure Akâsha, the first film on the
boundless and shoreless expanse of
Jiva, the immutable Root of all
3- Buddhi; for Buddhi is a ray of the
Universal Spiritual Soul (ALAYA)
1- Prâna, the Breath of Life, the same as
Nephesh. At the death of a livinb being,
Prâna re-becomes Jiva *
2- Linga Sharira, the Astral Form, the
transitory emanation of the Auric Egg.
This form precedes the formation of the
living Body, and after death clings to it,
dissipating only with the disappearance of
its last atom (the skeleton excepted).
3- Lower Manas, the Animal Soul, the
reflection or shadow of the Buddhi-Manas,
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