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OCCULTISM
AN ALTERNATIVE TO SCIENTIFIC HUMANISM
by
Cyril Scott
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OCCULTISMAn Alternative to Scientific Humanism.
A LECTURE GIVEN FOR
THE TRUTH FORUM
AT
THE CAXTON HALL
ON
JUNE 13t h , 1956
BY
CYRIL SCOTT
L. N. FO W LER & CO. LTD.,
St. Martin’s House,
29 Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4.
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TpHE Victorian philosopher Herbert Spencer
maintained: there is a principle which cannot
fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance . . ,
and that is contempt prior to investigation .
Now as I myself was at one time guilty of that
same contempt where Occultism was concerned, it
is not for me to criticise those persons who may
adopt the same attitude towards it. But that is no
reason why I shouldn’t wish to dispel some of the
erroneous ideas about it at this time, when anincreasing number of people have become dissatis-
fied with the beliefs of their forefathers, whilst
many others have no beliefs at all, and perhaps
only wish they had. As to how and why, many
years ago I finally came to study Occultism after
having been a rabid agnostic— that is immaterial.
Suffice it to mention that the more I studied it in
my spare time, the more did evidence come my
way to convince me of its fundamental truth. Not
that Victorian Agnosticism didn’t have its value,
and doubtless its latest variant, termed ScientificHumanism, has its value also. But does it provide
any satisfying solutions to those baffling, basic
problems: — what are we; are we nothing but
glorified monkeys; why are some children born to
be geniuses and others to be idiots; what happens
to us when we die; are we snuffed out or are weimmortal as the religions maintain, though without
furnishing proofs acceptable to sceptics? These,
as I will try to show, are some of the vital
questions which Occultism has answered for those
people who have been openminded enough not
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to dismiss it with . . . “ contempt prior to
investigation/’
To begin with, let us be quite clear as to what
Occultism really is. Although it covers a widefield, it is primarily the Science and Knowledge
pertaining to the subtler aspects of Nature, as
compared with ordinary Science, which is more
concerned with its grosser ones. It is occult, mean-
ing hidden, simply because most people haven’t
the faculties to be conscious of anything except
what they can see, hear, feel, taste or smell. They
may know of certain invisible things, such as
wireless waves, by their effects; but no one is
actually conscious of these waves, and in so far
even they might be said to be occult. Nevertheless,Occultism, like Theosophy, is more than just the
Science of the normally invisible, for it is also the
synthesis of Philosophy, Science and Religions.
No true occultist denies the proven facts of
Science, though he may have reason to repudiate
some of its unproven assertions or negations— for
even scientists are not infallible. If rightly under-
stood, far from being the enemy of Science,
Occultism is its complement, as also that of
Philosophy and Religion.
But the question may be asked: How can onebe sure that the assertions, tenets and doctrines
of Occultism are true? The answer is that we
obtain our knowledge from those in a position to
know . . . And surely this is not unreasonable,
f d ' d l h hi h
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material Science is concerned? For instance,
astronomers tell us that the Great Nebula in
Andromeda is so far away, that its light, travelling
at a hundredandeightysixthousand miles a
second, takes about eighthundredthousand yearsto reach our earth. This seems so incredible to the
layman, that Bernard Shaw in one of his semi
humorous moments described the whole statement
as 44a stupendous lie ” ! And yet most of us
believe it because we trust those men we think are
in a position to know . These men we respect asgreat scientists, whilst those who correspond to
them in Occultism are known as great Initiates.
I will speak about them later.
Let us start with the doctrine of Evolution, that
natural and very gradual process of developmentfrom the simple to the complex. Not only do
Occultists accept the principle of Evolution as a
scientific fact, but they go even further; they
maintain that there are several streams of evolu-
tion operating concurrently. I have no wish to
strike 44the deep note " or harass my listeners withbrainteasing complexities, so I will only mention
one of these streams, because of its bearing on
folklore and legend. It is called the Deva
Evolution; deva being a generic Sanscrit word
which comprises beings ranging from the smallest
naturespirit to those entities of great power andradiance which Christians might call angels. True,
they are not quite like winged humans, as depicted
in old paintings, but they are all beings who have
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their respective parts to play in the great
Evolutionary Scheme. There are airdevas, water
devas, firedevas, sounddevas and other varieties
too numerous to mention. If there were any
children listening to me, they would be delightedto hear that there really are such beings as we
westerners call fairies, leprecauns and the like,
though they may not behave exactly as the fairy-
tale writers describe. I may mention en passant
that several notabilities have firmly believed in
fairies, the Irish poet, Yeats, for one, and the
eminent writer Conan Doyle for another.
All the devas are composed of matter too
rareified to be perceptible to ordinary sight, but
persons gifted with a certain degree of clairvoy-ance are able to see some of them. The smaller
ones have even appeared on photographs on those
somewhat rare occasions when conditions have
been favourable. In bygone times more people
were clairvoyant than they are today, hence the
many allusions to elves and fairies in folklore and
to angels in religious legends. The fact is, that
although we moderns may pride ourselves on our
greater knowledge and enlightenment, what it
really amounts to is that we know more about
certain things whilst the ancients knew more aboutothers. Nevertheless, according to Occultism, now
that Man is again emerging from the trough of
materialism in which he has been sunk, it won't be
very long before more and more people will be
clairvoyant as the natural consequence of the
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Evolutionary Scheme. When this eventuates, we
shall be nearer to Truth, with a capital T.
And this brings us to the problem of Man him
self. The occultists hold, as likewise did theancients, that Man is not just a physical body, a
sort of thinking machine, but a much more complex
entity than even the Churches teach. For
surrounding and interpenetrating the dense
physical body are a number of subtler “ bodies ”
composed of rarefied matter, these subtler bodiesforming that luminous haze called the aura, about
which many people have at least vaguely heard.
In the Yoga philosophy, the theosophical and
other occult schools, these subtler bodies have dis-
tinguishing names. (The sotermed “ astral body ”
for one, is nowadays sometimes referred to evenby nonoccultists) . . . . But the point to be
noted here is, that according to Occultism, the
physical body, far from being the generator of
consciousness, is actually a damper on conscious-
ness, and that, paradoxical though it may sound,
a man is more alive when he is dead, so to say,than when he is alive. Just as a man feels freer
when he has divested himself of a heavy overcoat,
so does a man feel freer and happier when he has
shed his rather cumbersome physical body and can
function in one of his subtler bodies on the higher
planes. Thus, the occultists as also the spiritualistssay: to die is not a disadvantage, but quite the
contrary. It is only a disadvantage in the case of
persons whose interests and desires are so
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exclusively centred on the physical plane that
there is nothing to draw them to the mental or
spiritual planes for that very reason . . . I may
add that the aura can no longer be dismissed as
mere fancy since the invention of the sonamedKilner Screens, which enable even nonclairvoyant
persons to see what is invisible to normal sight.
So we see how Science can eventually prove the
statements of occultists . . ♦ And, by the way,
it’s not only humans who have auras, but animals
too, though obviously of a more rudimentary sort.
Let us now consider the philosophical and
metaphysical aspects of our subject . . . Last
century that German scientistphilosopher, Ernst
Haeckel, came to the conclusion that there is one
Life pervading all the myriad evolving forms. In
other words, it is not the forms which create Life,
as some materialists believe, but the Life which has
been responsible for the forms, indeed for all
Matter. Sir James Jeans voiced the same conclu-
sion when he wrote: “ The material universe is
derivative from consciousness, not consciousness
from the material universe ” : a conclusion which
is entirely in accordance with that of Occultism.
True, Haeckel didn’t believe in personal immor-
tality, but as it’s obvious from his books that he
had never investigated the subject, that is
irrelevant. What concerns us here is that the One
Life conception is so ancient that it’s to be found
in the ageold Vedanta Philosophy of India, where
it is called the Atman— meaning the One Self,
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Pure Consciousness which ever is, the great IAm.
Its parallel in The Gospels is obviously the “ Holy
Spirit ”; the word holy having been inaccurately
derived from a word meaning “ complete",
“ unimpaired ”, “ unsullied ”. “ Holy ”, in thesense of hallowed, is therefore misleading, and
“ Holy Spirit ” or “ Holy Ghost ” should more
correctly have been rendered, “ Pure Spirit ”,
namely that which is complete in Itself and un-
sullied in any way. Incidentally, the spiritualists
call The Supreme Being The Great White Spirit;
a conception which tallies with that of the occul-
tists, W hy It is called white, is because white is
the actual colour of the Pure, Formless Spirit;
which is not “ nothingness ” as the materialists
believe, but still matter, yet in its rarest aspect.
However, metaphysics being a deep subject, I
can't enlarge upon it in this short talk. Having
briefly sought to show that Occultism, Philosophy
and Science are not incompatibles, it is more
important now to enlarge somewhat on that much
debated question of immortality, in which not only
religious people believe, but in which have believed
such eminent scientists as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir
William Crooks, the French astronomer Flam
marion, and other eminent thinkers, many poets
included . . . But the vital question is: whatproofs are there to substantiate mere belief?
To begin with, there are the photographic
proofs. Wishing to investigate this aspect of the
matter, my friend, the late A. P. Sinnet, writer and
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theosophist, some years ago tested out a spirit
photographer, in the following manner: — First of
all he bought his own plates, then having taken
them to the photographer concerned, they never
left his sight for one moment until the process ofdevelopment and printing was completed. On the
finished photographs there was a spirit^bodij .
Another case may be cited. An ordinary photo-
grapher who unknown to himself possessed
mediumistic gifts, went to a clairvoyant friend ofmine and told him he was in serious trouble
because he could not take a single photograph
without an " extra M(viz. a spiritform) appearing
on the plate. My friend was sympathetic, but could
only advise him to give up photography altogether,
seeing that he was obviously mediumistic and that
the spirits appropriated some of the matter from
his aura so as to materialise.
Now one thing is certain; all knowledge (unless
derived from calculations, which are never in-
fallible) must be based on experience, somebody'sexperience. For instance, how have we come to
know about certain remote regions of our world?
W hy simply because some explorer has discovered
them and then described them and their inhabi-
tants. " That’s all very well/’ our scientific
humanists might say. “ But who has ever explored
the socalled heavenworld?” The answer is,
many people. There are the yogis of India to begin
with. They have developed a technique by which
they can leave the physical body for a time at will
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and function on other planes. Many occidentals
have done and can do the same thing. Moreover
they tell us that the higher the plane they can
reach, not only the more vivid their consciousness,
but what is more important at the moment, thaton some of those planes they can contact the
spirits of people they have known, and with whom
they have established the bonds of affection. All
this accords with the teachings of the spiritualists
and theosophists . . But not so with the beliefs,
or better said disbeliefs of the agnostics and scien-
tific humanists, who argue: “ if human beings con-
tinue to live somewhere and somehow after death,
they must have bodies of a kind; and as a body
occupies space, how could there be room enough
for them all even in the whole Universe, consider-ing the countless numbers of persons who have
lived and died ever since the Cosmos came into
being? ” This argument, nevertheless, may strike
one as a little naive, seeing that space is so vast,
that even the nearest star is twentyfivemillion
million miles away, so the astronomers calculate.In any case, the argument leaves out one thing—
and that is reincarnation as a factor in the
Evolutionary Scheme. Not only does the doctrine
of reincarnation, rebirth or preexistence obtain in
the Eastern religions, but many thinkers,
philosophers and poets have accepted it as a truth.
Now although there are ladies who like to think
they’ve been Cleopatra or some other notability,
many people (including myself) dislike the idea of
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theosophist, some years ago tested out a spirit
photographer, in the following manner: — First of
all he bought his own plates, then having taken
them to the photographer concerned, they never
left his sight for one moment until the process ofdevelopment and printing was completed. On the
finished photographs there was a spirit-body .
Another case may be cited. An ordinary photo-
grapher who unknown to himself possessed
mediumistic gifts, went to a clairvoyant friend ofmine and told him he was in serious trouble
because he could not take a single photograph
without an “ extra ” (viz. a spiritform) appearing
on the plate. My friend was sympathetic, but could
only advise him to give up photography altogether,
seeing that he was obviously mediumistic and thatthe spirits appropriated some of the matter from
his aura so as to materialise.
Now one thing is certain; all knowledge (unless
derived from calculations, which are never in-
fallible) must be based on experience, somebody'sexperience. For instance, how have we come to
know about certain remote regions of our world?
Why simply because some explorer has discovered
them and then described them and their inhabi-
tants. That’s all very well,” our scientific
humanists might say. " But who has ever exploredthe socalled heavenworld?” The answer is,
many people. There are the yogis of India to begin
with. They have developed a technique by which
they can leave the physical body for a time at will
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and function on other planes. Many occidentals
have done and can do the same thing. Moreover
they tell us that the higher the plane they can
reach, not only the more vivid their consciousness,
but what is more important at the moment, thaton some of those planes they can contact the
spirits of people they have known, and with whom
they have established the bonds of affection. All
this accords with the teachings of the spiritualists
and theosophists . . But not so with the beliefs,
or better said disbeliefs of the agnostics and scien-
tific humanists, who argue: “ if human beings con-
tinue to live somewhere and somehow after death,
they must have bodies of a kind; and as a body
occupies space, how could there be room enough
for them all even in the whole Universe, consider-ing the countless numbers of persons who have
lived and died ever since the Cosmos came into
being? ” This argument, nevertheless, may strike
one as a little naive, seeing that space is so vast,
that even the nearest star is twentyfivemillion
million miles away, so the astronomers calculate.In any case, the argument leaves out one thing—
and that is reincarnation as a factor in the
Evolutionary Scheme. Not only does the doctrine
of reincarnation, rebirth or preexistence obtain in
the Eastern religions, but many thinkers,
philosophers and poets have accepted it as a truth.
Now although there are ladies who like to think
they've been Cleopatra or some other notability,
many people (including myself) dislike the idea of
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ever returning to this striferidden world. And
yet, according to Occultism, reincarnation is not
only a fact but a logical one at that. For it disposes
of the idea that every time a baby is born, a new
soul has been created by God, and hence thenumber of souls goes on accumulating ad infinitum.
Further, it disposes of the idea that a just God
could be guilty of favouritism, seeing that some
souls are born to be geniuses or saints and others
to be primitive savages, felons, deafmutes or what
not. The esoteric truth is, to quote The Bible, “ As
a man sows, so shall he reap,” which is the poetical
way of expressing the great law of cause and
effect carried to its logical conclusion. The “seeds”
are a man’s desires and strivings, the fruits are
their fulfilment or their achievement. There is alsothe impetus of the great Evolutionary Scheme; and
evolution is a slow process. Now in the name of
logic, could, say, a savage born in the back of be-
yond reach the stature of a Shakespeare, or a St.
Francis of Assisi in one short span of life? Surely
the only explanation of a phenomenon likeShakespeare, a saint like St. Francis, or an infant
prodigy like Mozart is by the doctrine of rebirth?
Hence do the occultists say that genius in whatever
field is the endresult of efforts made in former
lives. As to why only the high Initiates can
accurately recall their past incarnations or theirotherplane experiences between them, that is be-
cause every child born is, needless to say, born with
a new brain, and it’s simply the new brain which
can’t register the memories. Such is not the case,
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however, with the Initiates, for they have acquired
soulconsciousness; and it's the soul in which such
memories are stored. These high Initiates, of
whom, in conclusion, I shall now speak, are what
the yogis call liberated souls. This means that theyhave reached a stage of evolution in which they
do not need to remain in incarnation or to reincar-
nate. Nevertheless some of them choose to be in-
carnate, the better to serve humanity. Although in
the theosophical literature they are referred to as
“ The Masters ", they modestly prefer to regard
themselves as “ The Elder Brothers Indeed,
they emphatically maintain that the difference
between other humans and themselves is not one
of kind, but merely of degree of development.
And now, what is the nature of their work and
activities? They are members of what is called
The Great White Brotherhood or, more briefly,
The Hierarchy; and part of their work is to inspire
by means of telepathic suggestion, the best in
Science, Philosophy, Religion, Ideologies, Thera-peutics and the fine Arts. Those members who are
incarnate are of various nationalities, and live in
various parts of the world. But as they can all
function in their spiritbodies, and also are adepts
at telepathy, distance is no obstacle to communi-
cation. At the head of The Hierarchy is the veryHigh Initiate we in the West call The Christ and
in the East is called The Bodhisattva. It was He
who some two thousand years ago inspired the
Religion which bears His name, as a type of Faith
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especially suited to the western world, and one in
which Brotherhood and mutual Love is stressed
as the prerequisite to Peace and security.
(Brotherhood means working with instead of
working against , unity in diversity instead ofseparateness). Nevertheless, in the new religion
were incorporated some of the tenets of several
more ancient Faiths— this fact is known to
students of Comparative Religions.
And here an important point must be empha-
sised: The Masters may only guide and suggest,
but never compel — for it’s against the Divine Law
to interfere in any way with free will. Although
a truism, had we humans not been endowed with
a measure of freewill, we would all be auto-matons, and automatons we would still be if Men
of Power could control our thoughts and actions.
And yet our freewill would not have been a mixed
blessing if only we had used it wisely. As it is,
because it gave us the option of choosing either
good or evil, we have chosen a large proportionof evil. In consequence — and here is the salient
point— many of the religions, cults and so on
which the Masters espoused have fallen very far
short of the ideal; hence the birth of untenable
dogmas, distortion of texts and their meanings,
bigotry, wranglings and other inordinations. As
for the unchristian behaviour of the Christian
nations, the only thing that can be said is: if
there hadn’t been any Christian Religion at all,
human conduct might have proved even still more
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It may be asked: if The Hierarchy does really
exist, why is it not more widely known? Theanswer is that only within comparatively recent
years would such a disclosure have been safe, that
is, safe for those to whom it might have been made.
Don’t forget that at one time The Church was so
despotic, that any person suspected of holding un-
orthodox beliefs was subjected to the worst kindof persecution. And so the Hierarchy and its work
was not revealed except to the few, and they were
careful to hide the fact from the profane. Granted
that since those times things have changed, even
so, when towards the end of last century, two of
the Masters inspired the Theosophical Movementand used that remarkable woman, Mme.
Blavatsky, as their willing instrument, she was
denounced as a fraud and even accused of having
invented The Hierarchy and its Initiates. Yet con-
sidering that many people have contacted the
Masters, (a point to be noted) and still do so, the
fraudtheory was far from convincing. During the
present century mention of The Masters has been
made in a number of books and journals, yet they
still prefer to keep mostly in the background, for,
apart from other considerations, they are alive to
the unwisdom of personalityworship. They do not
wish that anyone should believe a thing merely
because they say so. The ideas they inspire are
left for the recipient to size up and accept as
disastrous. This was something The Christ must
have foreseen*
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especially suited to the western world, and one in
which Brotherhood and mutual Love is stressed
as the prerequisite to Peace and security.
(Brotherhood means working with instead of
working against , unity in diversity instead ofseparateness). Nevertheless, in the new religion
were incorporated some of the tenets of several
more ancient Faiths— this fact is known to
students of Comparative Religions.
And here an important point must be empha-sised: The Masters may only guide and suggest,
but never compel — for it’s against the Divine Law
to interfere in any way with free will. Although
a truism, had we humans not been endowed with
a measure of freewill, we would all be auto-
matons, and automatons we would still be if Men
of Power could control our thoughts and actions.
And yet our freewill would not have been a mixed
blessing if only we had used it wisely. As it is,
because it gave us the option of choosing either
good or evil, we have chosen a large proportion
of evil. In consequence — and here is the salient
point—many of the religions, cults and so on
which the Masters espoused have fallen very far
short of the ideal; hence the birth of untenable
dogmas, distortion of texts and their meanings,
bigotry, wranglings and other inordinations. Asfor the unchristian behaviour of the Christian
nations, the only thing that can be said is: if
there hadn't been any Christian Religion at all,
human conduct might have proved even still more
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It may be asked: if The Hierarchy does really
exist, why is it not more widely known? Theanswer is that only within comparatively recent
years would such a disclosure have been safe, that
is, safe for those to whom it might have been made.
Don’t forget that at one time The Church was so
despotic, that any person suspected of holding un-
orthodox beliefs was subjected to the worst kind
of persecution. And so the Hierarchy and its work
was not revealed except to the few, and they were
careful to hide the fact from the profane. Granted
that since those times things have changed, even
so, when towards the end of last century, two ofthe Masters inspired the Theosophical Movement
and used that remarkable woman, Mme.
Blavatsky, as their willing instrument, she was
denounced as a fraud and even accused of having
invented The Hierarchy and its Initiates. Yet con-
sidering that many people have contacted theMasters, (a point to be noted) and still do so, the
fraudtheory was far from convincing. During the
present century mention of The Masters has been
made in a number of books and journals, yet they
still prefer to keep mostly in the background, for,
apart from other considerations, they are alive tothe unwisdom of personalityworship. They do not
wish that anyone should believe a thing merely
because they say so. The ideas they inspire are
left for the recipient to size up and accept as
disastrous. This was something The Christ must
have foreseen.
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reasonable or reject, as the case may be* Nor is
belief, as mostly understood, always involved, but
rather a change of heart. Plans for furthering the
wellbeing of man both physically and spiritually
on this our very backward planet are what theMasters are intent on putting through. For,
according to them, our earth is still in process of
evolving and has by no means reached perfection;
as witness the cruelty of Nature, especially as
regards the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, the
days will come when, as the ancient prophets fore-told, “ the lion will lie down with the lamb ", and
the nations “ will beat their swords into plough-
shares The wishes and hopes and strivings of
The Hierarchy have ever been to bring those days
nearer, and so speed up the establishment of what
in the Christian Religion is called “ the kingdomof heaven on earth
And at that I must leave it for the consideration
of the openminded. Should they find Scientific
Humanism or any other belief they may hold more
suited to their temperaments than Occultism, ifthey feel disposed to study it, then well and good.
After all, as a great Indian Swami once said:
44What is the use of any religion ” (or irreligion
for that matter) “ unless it bring us peace?”
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