Sublime

Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.

I especially enjoyed the work of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a.k.a. “Arthur Avalon,” who—while prominently serving as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in British India—spent his private hours explaining, defending and ultimately practicing in the then widely reviled Hindu religious schools of Shaiva and Shakta Tantrism.

There are two types of cells in your eyes. The ones in the center are called cones, and the ones on the outside, which are more sensitive than the cones, are called rods. Peripheral perception comes from the rods. The rods are colorblind, but they can pick up the etheric.

Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism and Way of the White Cloud)

another ancient Hermetic text: the extremely brief and elliptical Emerald Tablet,

Swāmī Muktānanda (“Bābā”) probably did more than anyone else in the 20th century to make the teachings of Śaiva Tantra known in the West,