Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients by Louis Jacolliot

Compared with the Jewish Cabala, etc Chapter I. Formulas of Magical IncantationVulgar Magic Words Spoken by the Priests at MemphisĬhapter XIII. Psychology of the Book of the PitrisĬhapter XI. The Interpretation of the Vedas and Other Works of Sacred ScripturesĬhapter VI. The Frontal Sign of the Initiates According to the Agrouchada-ParikchaiĬhapter V. The Superior GuruThe Sacred DecadeĬhapter IV. The Degree of Sanctity Which the Initiates Must Have Attained Before Receiving the Sacred Formula and the Fatal SecretĬhapter II. The Philosophical Tenets of the Indian Initiates Chapter I. The Second Degree of InitiationĬhapter VIII. The First Degree of Initiation.(Continued.)Ĭhapter VII. The First Degree of InitiationĬhapter VI. The Brahmin≿rom His Novitiate to His Reception Into the First Degree of His InitiationĬhapter V.

The Brahmin≿rom His Birth To His NovitiateThe Ceremony of the Djita CarmaĬhapter IV. The Initiated at the Ancient TemplesĬhapter III. Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of Lemuria. Jacolliot also believed in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted by This text does not seem to exist except in Jacolliot's imagination. Which appears to be a pastiche of the Upanishads, Hindu law books, He quotes extensively here from a text called Some desultory translations of the Laws of Manu, Jacolliot was not an academic. He subsequently became a prolific author.Īlthough he apparently had enough familiarity with Sanskrit to do Jacolliot, the author (1837-1890) was a French lawyer who worked as a judge Many western esoteric traditions, specifically Egyptian, Jewish and Christian, Jacolliot was a diffusionist, and he believed that

There is also an extensive discourse on Kabbalah, and its relationship The high point of this book is the travelogue of hisĮncounters in India with a fakir, who demonstrates Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Occult Science in India by Louis Jacolliot Ĭontents Start Reading Page Index Text

Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients by Louis Jacolliot