SourceAffirmation in Raja Yoga
Lesson-ending first-person statements restate the book's teachings as declarations of intention and identity.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga expositionLoading Lumitheca…
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Aspiration to Enfold All
The meditation on embracing all humanity and drawing it toward an ideal described in Thought-Forms.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
SourceCeltic Cross
Ten dealt positions form a cross and a four-card staff around a separately chosen representative card.
Western Tarot symbolism
SourceClassical Divination in Davis
Trigrams, counting rods and sacred preparation in Davis’s historical survey.
Japanese legends, Davis retellingSourceCultivation of Perception
The perception lesson advocates sustained observation of details before drawing conclusions.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Devotional Feeling
The quality of attention during worship that Thought-Forms contrasts with distraction and represents through blue forms.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
Food over the Coffin
The charitable distribution of bread and cheese across a coffin before burial, described and illustrated by Sikes.
Welsh customs as described by Wirt SikesSourceForty-Two-Card Tarot Method
The alternative method repeatedly regroups cards before forming six rows of seven.
Western Tarot symbolism
Helpful Thoughts
The practice of directing supportive thought toward another person, as described and illustrated in Thought-Forms.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
Intention to Know
The corkscrew-like form assigned to a listener’s determination to understand.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
SourceMantras and Sympathetic Vibration
Repeated sound interpreted as a source of occult action.
Theosophical astral cosmologySourceMediumship in Theosophy
Séance communication treated as interaction with several possible kinds of agent.
Theosophical astral cosmology
SourceNegative Confession
The deceased’s declarations before forty-two assessors, denying wrongs involving violence, falsehood, theft and misuse of shared resources.
Egyptian funerary religionSourceOpening of the Mouth
Funerary rites intended to restore the deceased person’s capacities.
Egyptian funerary religionSelf-renunciation in Thought-Forms
The flower-like form that Besant and Leadbeater associate with an act of selfless devotion.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
Sympathy in the Six Directions
The meditation on extending love and sympathy in all directions represented in Thought-Forms.
Theosophy, Besant and LeadbeaterSourceTarot Card Recurrence
The supplied handbook assigns separate meanings to repeated ranks and to their reversed counterparts.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceTarot Significator
A selected card represents the person or matter of inquiry and can change in a repeated reading.
Western Tarot symbolismSourceTea Ceremony
Tea drinking as a formal practice and occasion for peaceful attention in Davis.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The dragon staircase and the spirit way
Hayes describes a carved dragon ramp as a route reserved for the spirit honoured at a shrine.
L. Newton Hayes, The Chinese DragonSourceWeighing of the Heart
The funerary judgment scene that balances the heart against truth.
Egyptian funerary religionShowing 21 of 21 entries