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laws either in the mysterious Island of the North, or in the equally mysterions continent of the South. And, if you mean to compare the Aryan and the Tibetan doctrines as regards their teachings about the occult powers of nature, you must beforehand examine all the classifications of these powers, their laws and manifestations and the real connotations of the various names assigned to them in the Aryan doctrine. Here are some of the classifications contained in the Brahmanical system:
| I. | Classification of the occult powers as appertaining to Parabrahmam and existing in the Macrocosm. | ||
| II. | do. | do. | as appertaining to man and existing in the Microcosm. |
| III. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Târaka Yôga or Pranava Yôga. |
| IV. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Sânkhya-Yôga (where they are, as it were, the inherent attributes of Prakriti). |
| V. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Hata Yôga. |
| VI. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Koula Ágama. |
| VII. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Sâkta Ágama. |
| VIII. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Siva Ágama. |
| IX. | do. | do. | for the purposes of Sreechakram. (The Sreechakram referred to in "Isis Unveiled" is not the real esoteric Sreechakram of the ancient adepts of Aryâvarta).*[1] |
| X. | do. | do. | in Atharvana Veda, &c. |
- ↑ * Very true. But who would be allowed to give out the "real esoteric one"?—Ed.
