I never heard of Emanationism… However, after some brief digging it seems to be pointing in the right direction.  From wiki:

“Emanationism is a cosmological theory which asserts that all things "flow" from an underlying principle or reality, usually called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_%28philosophy%29" rel="nofollow - or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity" rel="nofollow - .”

CosmicVibration wrote: I would also advocate when asking for help or guidance from the other side make sure you're summoning only upon the masters.  You don’t want send an invitation out to just any tramp soul.  Just like there are many con artists and low life sociopaths here on the material plane, there are also many disillusioned low energy beings on the astral plane.

I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you cannot put downe; by the Which I mean, Any that can in Turne call up somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to answer, and shall commande more than you.

As a child in the 1960s I grew up in a seaside resort town on the east coast of England and in the summer holidays I would cycle down to the seafront to walk among the holiday-makers, watching them feed coins into the slot-machines in the penny arcades along the esplanade (while my hard-earned 2/- a week pocket money remained secure in my pocket) and listening to the calls of the roustabouts on the fairground rides that rang-out over the cacophony of pipe-organ music and blaring top-20 pop tunes blasting out from each pitch. But my favourite of all these attractions were the mock auctions, cornucopias of seemingly high-value goods offered at knock-down prices that drew crowds of people as the "auctioneer" barked out descending values of money for each item held aloft by his assistants until the sea of raised hands waving folded £1 and £5 notes in the air halted the "auction". Where upon those proffered notes would be plucked from willing hands in exchange for plain white boxes in opaque plastic carrier bags that contained perhaps not an exact duplicate of the item being sold, but its close approximation. Not then the prestigious goods sold in upmarket West End stores as promised, but the low quality knock-offs hawked in any street market. As an eight year old, this fascinated me for even at that age I could see this was a con so presumed that all those who waited patiently to snaffle the bargains the "auctioneer" was selling also saw through the subterfuge and knew that these were mock auctions. Yet still they waved their paper money in the air at the prescribed moment his litany of decreasing prices reached the selling price he always intended. I would stand and watch them for hours, then return on another day and watch the show all over again, because that is what it was, a show, carefully scripted and played; over time I noticed that some of the audience were there every day, yet their waved notes where never taken and goods were never exchanged for they too were actors in the show and the "auctioneer" was the star.

Vompatti wrote: So why is dowsing considered divination? Because the water is hidden or because there's supposedly something mysterious about the mechanism used to find it?

Vompatti wrote: In theory, can't any "occult knowledge" be discovered by scientific methods and vice versa?

No 

 

Vompatti wrote: Blavatsky says the pre-Vedic Indians knew the laws of quantum mechanics.

Helena Blavatsky? Died 1891 

We all presume that ancient cultures were good at measuring stuff such as the passage of time because from the motion of the sun they knew what a day was, from the passage of the moon they knew what a month was and they had observed the seasons so knew what a year was. Observing that years were made up from months, and months were made up from days, they could deduce that days can be further subdivided (interpolation) and years could multiplied (extrapolation). However, they really struggled with concepts of time that were beyond the reach of a single human lifespan or human observation, the notion that Noah lived to the ripe old age of 950 or that the cycle of Bramha is 311 trillion years could be examples of that extrapolation creating huge errors in calculation that suggests these extrapolated estimates should not be taken literally. Similarly the subdivisions of time become increasingly harder for them to measure with any degree of accuracy the deeper these interpolations go such that they reach a point that they cannot physically measure even though the 'theory' of subdivision can visualise subdivisions that are far beyond that. For example a truti is an ancient Hindu time interval equal to 1/2,799,360,000,000th of a day (roughly 30.9ns) but it would be unwise to presume that the people who devised the truti could actually measure it.

Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality.

No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence."