"Helena Blavatsky's Isis unveiled, published in 1877, opened a Pandora's box of interest in the lore of antiquity. Ten years later, foreseeing the rapid and potentially hazardous development of man's latent powers, the author wrote a series of brilliant articles warning against the misuse of knowledge, lest the 'psychic outrun the spiritual'. Now available under the title Studies in occultism, this work makes unmistakably clear the 'true relation in which the occult sciences stand to Occultism, and the difference between the two ... that Occultism differs from magic and other secret sciences as the glorious Sun does from a rushlight, as the immutable and immortal spirit of Man differs from the mortal clay, the human body'. Three significant chapters dealing with 'The esoteric character of the Gospels' cast a revolutionary light on the mystery of Jesus - as man and as Christ."--Page 1.