OCCULT SCIENCE
The secret or esoteric science of the ancients and the medieval Rosicrucians; the science which deals with the invisible essence of things and explains their mysterious nature.

ASTRAL
Pertaining to the stars, or a subtle and ordinarily invisible substance which surrounds the earth and stars and pervades all things; a vapor-like ether which pervades and holds together the molecules of all things.

AKASA
The primordial, homogeneous and all-pervading substance or essence out of which the universe and all differentiated matter are evolved. The highest ether, but not the luminiferous ether of western science.

ELEMENTALS
Invisible, but intelligent centers of force; atomic lives; the beings that live on astral plane.

CHAKRAM
The eastern name for certain centers of force in the human organism.

KARMA
The eastern name for the universal and all-inclusive law of cause and effect, action and reaction; it includes all rewards or punishments that may be due us because of good or evil deed we have done, either in this life or some or many past lives.

KRIYASAKTIL
The power of adept will which can condense, control, and mould into forms the astral substance around the operator.

KASHATRIYA
The warrior cast of the four into which the people of ancient India or Aryavarta, were divided.

MANTRA
An eastern chant of peculiarly intonated sounds which, when rightly uttered, awaken certain occult forces in the ether.

MASTER
(1) The divine self or God in man.
(2) Those perfected men in whom the divine self is fully active and supreme ruler.

YOGI
The name given to the mind concentrators of India, both high and low, but not necessarily a fakir.

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