Modern theosophical writings contain numerous terms and concepts drawn from the sacred literatures of antiquity, most of which
are not found in modern dictionaries. Others have entered the vernacular with such a diversity of meanings they are in danger
of losing their clarity and usefulness. Like the term occult, which simply means "hidden" (as when a star is "occulted" by a
moon or planet), their philosophical depth has been obscured by layers of popular connotation. A succinct and reliable guide
to this specialized terminology is requiredIn print since 1933, the Occult Glosary fills this need. Defining some 300 terms most frequently found in the field of metaphysics,
it serves also as a fine introduction to theosophy.A scholar of Occidental and Oriental languages and philosophies, Dr. de Purucker was well qualified to elucidate these terms,
and to explain the spiritual import of such themes as karma, reincarnation, planetary and solar cycles, universal brotherhood,
and man's evolutionary pilgrimage.”Genuine occultism, divorced from ethics, is simply unthinkable because impossible. There is no genuine occultism which does
not include the loftiest ethics that the moral sense of mankind can comprehend.
Occultism means the study of the hid things of Being, the science of life or universal nature, [It] embraces not merely the
physical, physiological, psychological, and spiritual portions of man's being, but has an equal and indeed a perhaps wider
range in the studies dealing with the structure and operations as well as the origin and destiny of the kosmos.”
- Occult Glossary, PP. 47, 122
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