Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

A New Age organization, describing one of their workshops, states: “Techniques of visualization, meditation and color breathing will be practiced....All these factors will be put to use as each person makes their own mandala.... “The Sanskrit word mandala, usually a circle, is a MYSTICAL diagram. In Eastern Philosophy it is used as a point of focus. It is considered to be an ‘engine of power,’ believed by many to have talesmanic (sic) properties, radiating a power that projects qualities associated with it for which it was constructed, i.e. tranquility, healing, protection, etc.” [Italics in the original; Caps and boldface added]

A catalog from the Theosophical Society says: “The word mandala originates from Sanskrit, meaning holy or magical circle. Three principles of order determine structure of a mandala: the center, the radiation that emanates from the center, and a periphery of the circle. The