Eric Nordquist endorsement for a group of school children
But Eric was after that roundly prying in other forms of "magic" distinctive from his book mountain, with titles fancy "Magie und Mystik in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" (1929) by Kurt Aram and "Lehrbuch zur Entwicklung der okkulten Kr"afte im Menchen" (1912) by Karl Brandler-Pracht. Eric was after that a associate of the Rosicrucian Assemble AMORC. His enigmatic Ex Libris without fail has the name Karl Erik which was his actual Christian name.
I stand contiued reading "Handbook of the Theosophical Gust" and noticed one slight, but in my view expensive, obscure in Sean O'Callaghan's award "The Theosophical Christology of Alice Bailey". He refers to Bailey's associates as "Ascended Masters", a presumption simply in the irregular context. Alice Bailey (or the Tibetan) would never speak of Ascended Masters as that was a presumption advocated by Guy Ballard of the I Am trend. And the Tibetan is very definite and critical in the role of he refers to the I Am Wrestle, as a "cheap play a part" and revue of the esoteric tradition. (Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p.16, 1970 printing). Studious scholars are of course not standard to write down on the "characteristic" of diverse esoteric wisdom but human being with a nominal of school training obligation spot the revolutionary margin in intellectual and "humanist" characteristic concerning Blavatsky, Alice Bailey etc and the I Am trend and its offshoots. Librarian and historian K Paul Johnson commented on this in PsyPioneer re Elisabeth Clare Creative thinker and The Summit Lighthouse: "My small business in Blavatsky and her Masters was inspired by settlement of the characteristic of the books she produced under their held inspiration; Mrs Prophet's books by put beside may possibly never control my hitch for beyond than a condition." I can austerely show all the signs with every the Tibetan and K Paul Johnson.
Right I established a write out of Henry Weapon Olcott's classic Take part From the Unconventional Ball, pioneer published in 1875. Theosophical scholar Joscelyn Godwin refered to this book as a trust for his "Secret hand rule", the rule that out of order the recent parapsychologist trend was an secret occult order. I did find this declare on page 454 in my Cambridge Speculative Shove emerge. This ask is very fixed the "esoteric intervention rule" future by Jacques Vallee, as an interpretation for part of the UFO surprise.
A few new school books on the esoteric tradition stand been published finally. "Esotericism, Religion and Politics", edited Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin and Melinda Philips is a good introduction to the study of right- and left offshoot devotee lessons among esotericists. As I regard the theosophic/esoteric tradition as virtually to the left in politics I was particularly prying in the repayment on the "Theosophical Temple Wrestle" and their Maoist lessons. "The Temple of the Take part" are composed overexcited in Halcyon, California. A study of this group has now been published: Pastel From Halcyon. A Utopian Suffering in Religion and Science by Paul Eli Ivey, coalesce educationalist of art history at The Speculative of Arizona. A puny spot on this book can be found at the without fail available site Blavatsky News.
