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LOUIS JACOLLIOT. Chief Justice of Chandenagur (French East Indies), and of Tahiti (Oceanica) OCCULT SCIENCE IN INDIA AND AMONG THE ANCIENTS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MYSTIC INITIATIONS, AND THE HISTORY OF SPIRITISM. BY LOUIS JACOLLIOT. Chief Justice of Chandenagur (French East Indies), and of Tahiti (Oceanica) TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY WILLARD L. FELT. ______________ NEW YORK: THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 244 LENOX AVENUE 1908. PREFACE. ______ WE will lay aside, for the present, our inquiries into the general subject of the primitive civilizations of the far East, and the people who have sprung from the Brahminic stock in the old world, in order to publish the result of such researches as we have been able to make, during our long residence in India, into the subject of occult science, and the practices of those who have been initiated into the sect of the Pitris, which is Sanscrit for spirits or ancestral shades. This is neither a doctrinal book nor a work of criticism. We are not called upon to decide, either for or against, the belief in spirits, either mediating or inspiring, which was held by all who had been initiated in the temples of antiquity, which is to-day the keystone of the philosohpical and religious instruction of the Brahmins, and to which many of our Western thinkers and scientists seem inclined to assent. Being neither an advocate of this belief, nor the opposite, we are, on that account, better able to write its history. An ardent partisan would have been too credulous, and would have taken everything upon trust. A rabid opponent would have made it his business to disparage and discredit it. We shall give the words themselves, and set forth things as they actually were; we shall interpret and explain the Agrouchada-parikchai, which is the philosophical compendium of the Hindu spiritists; we shall tell what we saw with our own eyes, and shall faithfully record such explanations as we received from the Brahmins. We shall pay particular attention to the phenomena which the Fakirs produce at will, which some regard as the manifestations of a superior intervention, and others look upon as the result of a shrewd charlatanism. Upon this point we have but a word to say. The facts which are simply magnetic are indisputable, extraordinary as they may seem. As to the facts which are purely spiritual, we were only able to explain those in which we participated, either as actor or as spectator, upon the hypothesis that we were the victims of hallucination - unless we are willing to admit that there was an occult intervention. We shall describe things just as we saw them, without taking sides in the dispute. These doctrines were known to the Egyptians, to the Jewish Cabalists, to the people of Finland, to the school of Alexandria, to Philo and his disciples, to the Gauls and to the early Christians, and, as in the case of the Hindus, they set them apart for the use of those who had ben initiated. As for the ancient Chaldeans, the practice of popular magic and sorcery seems to have been the utmost limit of their attainments in this direction. They have also given birth to a peculiar system of moral philosophy, whose place in the general scale of the metaphysical speculations of mankind we shall take occasion to point out. ON the evening before the funeral sraddha is to take place, or on the day itself, he who gives the sraddha should, with all due respect, invite at least three Brahmins, such as those which have already mentioned. * * * The Brahmin who has been invited to the sraddha of the spirit of the deceased should be entire master of his senses. He should not read the sacred Scriptures, but only recite, in a low tone, the invocations which it is his office to utter, as he should do, likewise, by whom the ceremony is performed. * * * The ancestral spirits, in the invisible state, accompany the Brahmins who have been invited; they go with them, under an aerial form, and occupy a place by their side when they sit down. - (MANU, book iii., slocas 187-188-189.) * * * For a long time previous to their laying aside their mortal envelope, the souls which have practised virtue, like those which inhabit the bodies of Sanyassis and Vanasprathas - Anchorites and Cenobites - acquire the faculty of conversing with souls that have gone before to the swarga; that is a sign that the series of their transmigrations upon earth is ended. - (The words of the ancient Bagavatta, quoted in the Proem of the Agrouchada-Parikchai.) CONTENTS PAGE FIRST PART THE DOCTRINE OF THE PITRIS AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN INDIA CHAPTER I. THE INITIATED AT THE ANCIENT TEMPLES. 13 CHAPTER II. THE BRAHMINS. 21 CHAPTER III. THE BRAHMIN - FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS NOVITIATE - THE CEREMONY OF THE DJITA CARMA. 29 CHAPTER IV. THE BRAHMIN - FROM HIS NOVITIATE TO HIS RECEPTION INTO THE FIRST DEGREE OF HIS INITIATION. 35 CHAPTER V. THE FIRST DEGREE OF INITIATION - ABLUTIONS - PRAYER - CEREMONIES - EVOCATION. 51 CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST DEGREE OF INITIATION. (Continued.) 71 CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND DEGREE OF INITIATION. 81 CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD DEGREE OF INITIATION. 83 CHAPTER IX. THE GRAND COUNCIL. 85 CHAPTER X. THE ELECTION OF THE BRAHMATMA. 91 CHAPTER XI. THE YOGUYS. 94 SECOND PART THE PHILOSOPHICAL TENETS OF THE INDIAN INITIATES. REGARDING THE FIRST CAUSE, AND THE PART PERFORMED BY THE SPIRITS IN WORLDLY MATTERS. CHAPTER I. THE DEGREE OF SANCTITY WHICH THE INITIATES MUST HAVE ATTAINED BEFORE RECEIVING THE SACRED FORMULA AND THE FATAL SECRET. 104 CHAPTER II. THE SUPERIOR GURU - THE SACRED DECADE. 112 CHAPTER III. THE GURU - EVOCATIONS. 114 CHAPTER IV. THE FRONTAL SIGN OF THE INITIATES ACCORDING TO THE AGROUCHADA-PARIKCHAI. 116 CHAPTER V. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VEDAS AND OTHER WORKS OF SACRED SCRIPTURES. 118 CHAPTER VI. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF THE PITRIS. 124 CHAPTER VII. REASON. 131 CHAPTER VIII. A TEXT FROM THE VEDAS. 136 CHAPTER IX. A FEW SLOCAS FROM MANU. 137 CHAPTER X. OF THE SUPREME BEING. 139 CHAPTER XI. WORDS SPOKEN BY THE PRIESTS AT MEMPHIS. 154 CHAPTER XII. THE FORMULAS OF EVOCATION. 155 CHAPTER XIII. FORMULAS OF MAGICAL INCANTATION - VULGAR MAGIC. 160 THIRD PART THE DOCTRINE OF THE PITRIS AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE JEWISH CABALA, OF PLATO, OF THE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL, OF PHILO, OF THE PERSIANS, AND OF CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE CABALA. 187 CHAPTER II. HOW THE SACRED BOOKS ARE TO BE INTERPRETED ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH CABALISTS. 192 CHAPTER III. INITIATION AMONG THE CABALISTS. 196 CHAPTER IV. THE DIVINE ESSENCE, ACCORDING TO THE CABALISTS. 199 CHAPTER V. THE TEN ZEPHIROTH. 203 CHAPTER VI. THE CABALISTIC TRINITY. 207 CHAPTER VII. THE BELIEF IN MEDIATING AND INSPIRING SPIRITS ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH CABALISTS. 215 CHAPTER VIII. POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE DOCTRINE OF THE PITRIS AND THAT OF THE ZEND-AVESTA OF PERSIA, THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO, THE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL, AND OF CHRISTIANITY. 222 FOURTH PART EXOTERIC MANIFESTATIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS AMONG THE INITIATES OF THE SACRED TEMPLES OF INDIA, AS SHOWN BY THE PERFORMING FAKIRS. TO THE READER 232 CHAPTER I. AS TO WHO ARE INITIATED INTO THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF OCCULT POWER. 237 CHAPTER II. AGASA. 240 CHAPTER III. THE PERFORMING FAKIRS. 242 CHAPTER IV. THE LEAF DANCE. 245 CHAPTER V. THE BRONZE VASE - MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENTS. 263 CHAPTER VI. THE WATER-SPOUT - THE MAGIC STICK. 273 CHAPTER VII. PHENOMENA OF ELEVATION AND KNOCKING. 277 CHAPTER VIII. THE BAMBOO STOOL - AËRIAL FLOWERS - THE MYSTERIOUS PUNKAH. 280 CHAPTER IX. THE STATIONARY TABLE - A SHOWER OF KNOCKS - THE LITTLE MILL - FLYING FEATHERS - THE HARMONIFLUTE. 285 CHAPTER X. SAND DRAWING - THE METOR AND THE BUCKET OF WATER - LOSS OF VOICE - MIND READING - READING IN A CLOSED BOOK - AËRIAL MELODY - THE FLYING PALM-LEAF - ELEVATION OF THE FAKIR. 294 CHAPTER XI. SPONTANEOUS VEGETATION. 302 APPARITIONS. CHAPTER I. MYSTERIOUS HANDS - THE PRODUCTION OF FLOWERS, CROWNS, ETC. - LETTERS OF FIRE - THE SPECTRE OF A PRIEST OF BRAHMA - THE PHANTOM MUSICIAN. 309 CHAPTER II. THE PHANTOM OF KARLI. 318 CONCLUSION 322 OTHER BOOKS BY THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 324 THE WORD 326 FIRST PART. _______ THE DOCTRINE OF THE PITRIS AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN INDIA. Remember, my son, that there is only one God, the sovereign master and principle of all things, and that the Brahmins should worship Him in secret; but learn also that this is a mystery, which should never be revealed to the vulgar herd: - otherwise great harm may befal you. - (Words spoken by the Brahmins upon receiving a candidate for initiation according to Vrihaspati.) A CREATION U M PRESERVATION TRANSFORMATION OCCULT SCIENCE IN INDIA. _________ I. SPIRITISM. _____ CHAPTER I. THE INITIATED AT THE ANCIENT TEMPLES. IT is not to the religious writings of antiquity, such as the Vedas, the Zend-Avesta, or the Bible, that we are to look for an accurate expression of the highest thought of the period. Written to be read, or rather chanted, in the temples, upon great festivals, and framed mainly with a view to priestly domination, these books of the law were not intended to make known to common people the secrets of a science which occupies the leisure moments of the priests and initiated. "Bear in mind, my son," said the Hindu Brahmin to the neophyte, "that there is but one God, the sovereign master and principle of all things, and that every Brahmin should worship him in secret. Learn also that this is a mystery whih should never be revealed to the vulgar herd; otherwise great harm may befal you." We constantly meet with a similar prohibition in Manu. The primitive holy syllable, composed of the three letters A, U, M, and comprising the Vedic trinity, should be kept secret (Manu, book xi., sloca 265).
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