Download Practical occultism PDF book by Walter Kenilworth (1921)





We cannot revert our minds these days, but we hear of the occult. Occultism, in various forms, is becoming tremendous and may be dangerous since the fad of the world. The danger is evident in the important fact that the occult is so glibly handled by those who know it so little.There are those even like a child, ignorantly playing with fire, employ occultism for commercial and selfish purposes, and hourly curse themselves through the law of reflection. They invariably become neurasthenic. Occultism, in no sense, signifies the tinkling of astral bells, the gibberings of earthbound souls, and similar mob-attracting phenomena.The greatest occultist is the greatest child; the greatest occult vision, the vision of the spirit; the greatest occult deed and rarest, the unselfish deed. Thrice blessed by the Karmic Deities are such who, in unison with the True White Brotherhood, perform the simplest act of kindness, and employ the higher senses and the soul-faculties in a simple, humble spirit for the benefit of the fellowman.Apropos the Occult 7Practical Occultism 10The Philosophical Ideal 10The Mental Ideal and Psychic Control . . . .15The Emotional Ideal 23Psychic Development 24The Nervous System 25Interaction of Mind and Nerves 36Mind 39Psychic Development and Mental Therapeutics. 48Psychic Suggestions 70The Science and Secret of Hypnotism .... 103The Development of Hypnotism 107The Methods of Hypnotic Therapeutics . . . 115Physio-Psychical Conditions 116The Drift of the New Psychology 120Clairvoyance 123Auras and Influences 130Fate and Astrology 136Karma 147The Ways of Karma 156The Spiritual Perception 162Business and Concentration 177Self-Education 185Changing Your Environment 193Impressions and Intuitions 305Comments on the Philosophy of Good and Evil. 214Philosophical Reflections on the Nature of Reality. 222Deeper Meanings 249The Divinity of the Soul 265The Highest Ideal 278The Higher Call and Response 287Racial Disturbances and Self-Expression . . . 290The Higher Self 293Concerning the Eternal Omnipresent Self . . . 298