Reincarnation and the Law of Karma - William Walker Atkinson (pocket ebook reader .txt) 📗

Chapter I. The Hindu-Yogi Water Cure—An Important Branch of Hatha Yoga—The Underlying Principle—Prana in the Water—How slow Water Loses Prana—How Water May be Pranaized. Chapter II. Nature's Great Remedy—Water the Basis of Life—The Important Part Played by Water in the Psychological Mechanism of the System—What Water Does, and Why. Chapter III. Water Drinking—Why Man Needs Water—How Much Water He Needs—What He Suffers from Neglecting the Normal Amount of Fluids—An Important Secret—Surprising Facts. Chapter IV. The Stomach and Intestines—A Plain, Practical, Scientific Description of the Organs of Assimilation and Elimination—Something that Everyone Should Know to be Healthy. Chapter V. The Obstructed Sewer—A Scientific Statement Regarding the Great Sewer of the System, Which When Clogged, Obstructed and Choked with Waste-Matter, Causes Disease and Weakness. Chapter VI. The Internal Bath—The Scientific Method of Keeping Clean the Great Sewer of the System—A Simple Method of Internal Cleanliness, and Resulting Health. Chapter VII. The Skin—A Plain Scientific Description of the Skin, and the Part it Plays in Health and Disease—Something that Everyone Should Know, but Few Realize. Chapter VIII. Scientific Bathing—Scientific Methods of Bathing—The Cleansing Bath—The Non-Drying Bath—The Hot Bath—The Cold Bath—Hardening Baths—Private Information. Chapter X. Pack Treatments—The Wet Sheet Pack, and How to Apply It—The Half Pack—The Sweat Pack—Endosmose and Exosmose—Hydropathy in a Nut Shell. Chapter X. Other Valuable Methods—Fomentations, or Hot Steam Applications—Water Bandages and Compresses—Hot Water Compresses, and Cold Water Bandages—Special Applications—Sexual Vitality Treatments—Special Applications, etc.

This book has just been published, although Yogi Ramacharaka wrote it some time ago.

The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

This new book is bound to attract the earnest attention of all students of the Secret Doctrines of the East. Perhaps the better way to describe this work is to give you the following words from its authors:

"From old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric and occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies of all races, nations and peoples, for several thousand years. Egypt, the home of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, was the birthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and Mystic Teachings. From her Secret Doctrine all nations have borrowed. India, Persia, Chaldea, Medea, China, Japan, Assyria, ancient Greece and Rome, and other ancient countries partook liberally at the feast of knowledge which the Hierophants and Masters of the Land of Isis so freely provided for those who came prepared to partake of the great store of Mystic and Occult Lore which the master-minds of that ancient land had gathered together. In ancient Egypt dwelt the great adepts and Masters who have never been surpassed, and who seldom have been equaled during the centuries that have taken their processional flight since the days of the Great Hermes. In Egypt was located the Great Lodge of Lodges of the Mystics. At the doors of her Temples entered the Neophytes who afterward, as Hierophants, Adepts, and Masters, traveled to the four corners of the earth, carrying with them the precious knowledge which they were ready, anxious, and willing to pass on to those who were ready to receive the same. All students of the Occult recognize the debt that they owe to these venerable Masters of that ancient land.

The Hermetic Teachings are to be found in all lands, among all religions, but never identified with any particular country, nor with any particular religious sect. This because of the warning of the ancient teachers against allowing the Secret Doctrine to become crystallized into a creed. The wisdom of this caution is apparent to all students of history. The ancient occultism of India and Persia a degenerated, and was largely lost, owing to the fact that the teachers became priests, and so mixed theology with the philosophy, the result being that much of the occultism of India and Persia has been lost amidst the mass of religious superstition, cults, creeds and "gods." So it was with Ancient Greece and Rome. So it was with the Hermetic Teachings of the Gnostics and Early Christians, which were lost at the time of Constantine, whose iron hand smothered philosophy with the blanket of theology.

"But there were always a few faithful souls who kept alive the flame, tending it carefully, and not allowing its light to become extinguished. And thanks to these staunch hearts, and fearless minds, we have the truth still with us. But it is not found in books, to any great extent. It has been passed along from Master to Student; from Initiative to Heirophant; from lip to ear. When it was written down at all, its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy and astrology, so that only those possessing the key could read it aright. This was made necessary in order to avoid the persecutions of the theologians of the Middle Ages, who fought the Secret Doctrine with fire and sword; stake, gibbet and cross. Even to this day there will be found but few reliable books on the Hermetic Philosophy. Although there are countless references to it in many books written on various phases of Occultism. And yet, the Hermetic Philosophy is the only Master Key which will open all the doors of the Occult Teachings!

"In this book we invite you to examine into the Hermetic Teachings as set forth in THE KYBALION. We therein give you many of the maxims and precepts of THE KYBALION, accompanied by explanations and illustrations which we deem likely to render the teachings more easily comprehended by the modern student, particularly as the original text is purposely veiled in obscure terms. The trust that the many students to whom we now offer this little work will derive as much benefit from the study of its pages as have the many who have gone on before, treading the same Path to Mastery throughout the centuries that have passed since the times of HERMES TRISMEGISTUS—the Master of Masters—the Great-great. According to the Teachings, this book will attract the attention of such as are prepared to receive its Teaching. And, likewise, when the pupil is ready to receive the truth, then will this book come to him, or her, and not before. Such is The Law. The Hermetic Principle of Cause and Effect, in its aspect of The Law of Attraction, will bring lips and ear together—pupil and book in company. 'The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.'—The Kybalion.

THE THREE INITIATES."

Bound in Blue Silk Cloth, Lettered in Gold, 223 Pages.