W. Scott-Elliot (1849–1919)
Autor de The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
Sobre El Autor
Obras de W. Scott-Elliot
The Lost Lemuria 3 copias
De Wet van Opoffering 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Scott-Elliot, W.
- Nombre legal
- Scott-Elliot, William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1849
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1919-09-02
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 132
- Popularidad
- #153,555
- Valoración
- 2.4
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 6
PREFACE
For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made
in recent years by earnest students of occultism attached to The
eosophical Society, the significance of the statement embodied
in the following pages would be misapprehended without some
preliminary explanation. Historical research has depended for
estern civilization hitherto on written records of one kind or
another.
When literary memoranda have fallen short, stone
monuments have sometimes been available, and fossil remains
have given us a few unequivocal though inarticulate assurances
concerning the antiquity of the human race; but modern culture
has lost sight of or has overlooked possibilities connected with
the investigation of past events, which are independent of fallible
evidence transmitted to us by ancient writers. The world at large
is thus at present so imperfectly alive to the resources of human
faculty that by most people as yet the very existence, even as a
potentiality, of psychic powers, which some of us all the while
are consciously exercising every day, is scornfully denied and
derided. The situation is sadly ludicrous from the point of view
of those who appreciate the prospects of evolution, because
mankind is thus wilfully holding at arm's length the knowledge that
is essential to its own ulterior progress.
The maximum cultivation of which the human intellect is
susceptible, while it denies itself all the resources of its
higher spiritual consciousness can never be more than a
preparatory process as compared with that which
may set in when the faculties are sufficiently enlarged to enter
into conscious relationship with the superphysical planes or
aspects of Nature.
For anyone who will have the patience to study the published
results of psychic investigation during the last fifty years, the
reality of clairvoyance as an occasional phenomenon of human...… (más)