Mind : science, philosophy, religion, psychology, metaphysics, occultism.

Editors: Oct. 1897-Oct. 1899, J.E. McLean.--Nov. 1899-Apr. 1906, C.B. Patterson (with J.E. McLean, Nov. 1900-May 1903; J.M. Scott, Sept. 1904-June 1905)

Fourteen lessons in Yogi philosophy and Oriental occultism,

Mode of access: Internet.

Advanced course in yogi philosophy and Oriental occultism,

"These lessons were intended as a ... sequel to The fourteen lessons in yogi philosophy and Oriental occultism." - Publisher's notice.

Some glimpses of occultism : ancient and modern /

Includes index.

"The Black Imprint of Sandals in White Mosaic Floors": H.D.'s Mythomystical Poetics

My dissertation examines the traces of inverse (mytho)mysticism, more synchronous with mythical alchemy than transcendent mystery, in H.D.’s mature work (1946-1961). Whereas H.D.’s earliest works respond to a fin de siècle occultism and a collective psyche troubled by the eschatological distress that, as Susan Acheson writes, “was widespread amongst modernist writers grappling with …world events and with the implications of Nietzsche’s inaugural annunciation of modernity in terms of the death of God” (187), her later oeuvre is dedicated to the same work of soul undertaken by the “secret cult of Night” in Vale Ave. Here, her thematic scope faces two ways: backward to ancient Greek mystery cults and their palingenesic rites and forward to depth psychologists searching for the Soul of the World. Vale Ave plays a pronounced role in my study as symbolic guide; in its seventy-four sequences the layering of time in the “trilogy” of past, present, and future that H.D. had explored during the years of the Second World War in order to get behind the fallen walls of cause and effect collapses into two distinct phases of human origin—“meeting” (evolution) and “parting” (involution)—and the poem invites Lilith and Lucifer to be its archetypal guides. My method for the study is imaginal, entering such disciplines as history, philosophy, and theology and bringing psychological understanding to them. John Walsh’s introduction to Vale Ave notes H.D.’s theme “that the human psyche exists in a dimension outside of time and space as well as within them. In Vale Ave, H.D. presents the extremity of this dual-dimensionality: metempsychosis” (vii). However, the concept that H.D. investigates is more than a literary processus of characters who adopt different masks and appear at various junctures in a chronological unwinding of history. I explore H.D.'s works as part of a Modernist tradition of writing “books of the dead” designed not to guide the soul after death, but to draw the gaze upon “a nearer thing,” as H.D. writes in Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me In Caelum, the wisdom intrinsic in the spirit of life itself.

Le sacré et la représentation de la femme dans le théâtre et la peinture symbolistes

L’art symboliste pictural ou théâtral qui s’est développé à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle est habité par le sacré, que celui-ci se manifeste sous la forme du spirituel, du religieux ou sous toute autre forme (spiritisme, occultisme, mysticisme). Quelle que soit sa forme, le sacré est pour tous les symbolistes lié à l’art. Leurs recherches formelles, multiples et variées, tendent toutes à faire surgir l’invisible du visible. Or toutes voient l’émergence, dans les œuvres, de la représentation de la femme, qui dès lors devient intimement liée au «symbolisme». En véhiculant le sacré, la femme devient le symbole des idées des artistes sur leur art, voire le symbole du rapport de l’artiste à son art. Ainsi la thèse étudie la femme dans son rapport aux idées et à l’esthétique propres à chaque artiste, dans son interrelation avec l’art et le sacré et les études détaillées des œuvres dramatiques et picturales visent à montrer la variété et la complexité de ses représentations. En même temps, cette recherche est une étude d’ensemble concernant les relations entre le théâtre et la peinture dans la période fin-de-siècle, abordées non pas de l’extérieur, mais de l’intérieur (c’est-à-dire par les caractéristiques propres des œuvres), dans le cadre de la théorie de l’image ouverte, telle qu’elle a été développée par Georges Didi-Huberman. Finalement, que la forme d’expression artistique soit celle de l’art dramatique ou celle de l’art pictural, la femme n’est dans les œuvres que la manifestation d’une réflexion esthétique qui est aussi une réflexion philosophique, elle est le lieu de rencontre entre le Moi et l’Autre à partir duquel s’origine l’œuvre.

L'expérience de l'imagination comme agent noétique dans les courants ésotériques occidentaux : aspects méthodologiques, historiques et phénoménologiques

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

O imaginário da mediunidade no processo de escritura em Fernando Pessoa

The answer to creating a fictional world? Repulsion or form of reaction to an outside world? Mental illness, whose brand can be symbolic simulation or depersonalization? Hard to take a stand when the deed is a poet Fernando Pessoa as what is at stake. Notes Schlafman Léo (1998) who, at the age of 20 years, Fernando Pessoa wrote in English, in his diary, "One of my mental complications is the fear of madness, which in itself already is crazy." What rid of madness, notes Robert Bréchon (1986), was the taste of the game and was playing it for your writing. Even though it has rid the madness, the poet does not quit seeking explanations - or provide it - for the phenomena much bother him, or defined.'s where we come across the alignment of Fernando Pessoa within philosophical as occultism and reading about psychological and mental disorders treated. paths were pursued by him to explain the existence of his heteronyms and its entry process. This work therefore presents main objective: to analyze the personal papers of Fernando Pessoa, whose outstanding feature is the presence of occult and alleged mediumship demonstrations held in response to non-literary and heteronímicas. Therefore, I focused on specific goals, which are: a) to study the speech of Fernando Pessoa on his mediumship / occult b) analyzing specific texts that are, for the poet, psychic demonstrations, c) study of a series of excerpts personal letters in which Fernando Pessoa suggested to be a medium. Admittedly, this essay will touch many arguments already made by scholars and experts of Fernando Pessoa, but consider the possibility of developing issues and contribute to the critical fortune of the poet. We assume that announces the Portuguese scholar Jerome Pizarro (2006), one of the greatest scholars of the work Pessoan: those interested in Fernando Pessoa be lost in the maze created by him. It is the image of a person-Minotaur, devouring all but, holding us in its labyrinthine tessitura, as marked by mystery. Will draw on our analysis, a theory aligned themselves to objects of research, whose main authors are Sigmund Freud (1908) Carl Jung (1991.1996). Gaston Bachelard (1996), Helena Blavatsky (2008), among others

Kitāb al-Kashf fī ʻilm al-ḥarf : manuscript, 1840

Written in one column, 23 lines per page, in black and red.

Majmūʻah fī ʻilm al-raml : manuscript, undated

A collection of writings by various authors on divination and geomancy.

Kitāb Shams ṣughrá : manuscript, 1372 or 3

Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black ink. Text includes tables. Comments in the margins.

Kitāb al-Anwār wa-al-asrār al-mushīr ilá ʻilm al-taksīr : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين والحمد لله المتعال الكريم ... :Incipit

Sharḥ Kanz al-mughrimīn / lil-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh Ibn Sabʻīn : manuscript, 1593

Title from f. 15r.

Hādhā kitāb al-Talkhīṣ min mīzān al-kalimāt al-jafrīyah wa-ḥawādith al-sinīn al-hijrīyah : manuscript, undated

With: Thalāthat alwāḥ al-jafrīyah al-mutaḍamminah asmāʼ mulūk Āl ʻUthmān (f. 4v-5r) -- al-Durr al-munaẓẓam fī sharḥ al-ism al-aʻẓam / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Bisṭāmī (f. 5v-39r).

Hādhihi al-Thalāthat alwāḥ al-jafrīyah al-mutaḍamminah asmāʼ mulūk Āl ʻUthmān : ibtidāʼan min al-Sulṭān ʻUthmān al-Awwal ilá al-sulṭān Muḥammad al-Akhīr al-Imām Muḥammad al-Mahdī fī ākhir al-zamān : manuscript, undated

With: Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ min mīzān al-kalimāt al-jafrīyah wa-ḥawādith al-sinīn al-hijrīyah.