The Philosopher's Stone Is Triune Unity, and the End of All Philosophers

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Black versus White Magic Series · 110 pages

The largest compilation in the section and one of the largest in the library: a hundred and ten pages arranged in four parts, with a contents list of its own running to several pages. It opens on the ten axiomatic propositions of eastern philosophy and on the claim that the cornerstone of magic is a proficient knowledge of magnetism and electricity — their qualities, correlations and effects in and upon the animal kingdom and man — together with the mystical properties of plants, whose secrets the compiler judges lost to European science except in a few marked instances such as opium and hashish.

The second part distinguishes two kinds of seership, spiritual and sensuous: the adept, suspending the mechanical action of the brain, sees as clearly as truth herself, while the clairvoyant, unable to control the vibrations of the astral waves, sees images distorted by the medium of his own brain. The third treats the exercise of will-power as the highest form of prayer, sets out eight Vedantic precepts, and states the position on destiny plainly — man is the sole author of his own. The fourth is the most technical: three kinds of double, a table of the semi-exoteric constitution of man, and a long solution of the mystery of the fluttering phantom-hand, which turns out to be an extrusion of the medium's own astral member rather than a visitor.

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