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V o l . 3. No. k BOMBAY, JA N U A RY 1882. No. 2«.

T rf t f r q n t r n r : i

THERE IS NO U K M G I O N HJU1IE11 TUAN TRUTH.

[Fami/u mntf* of iht Maharajah* of Jii'iiurrs \

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T H E C l V I L I Z A T I O N T H A T I N D I A N E E D S :

An Address delivered a t Tuticorin on tlie 22nd, aud in tlia Hindu College, Tinnevelly, Madras Presidency, India, on tlio 2 1 th October, 18M. ’

B y Col. H enry* S. Olcott,President o f the Theosophical Society.

In reflecting' upon a choice of subjects upon which to address you, it seemed to me tha t our time would be most profitably spent in examining the modern dogma th a t “ the true test ot the civilization of a nation must be measured by its progress in science.” I shall consider it in its relation to Asiatic, especially Indian, needs and standards. My discourse will not be exhaustive, not even approximatively so. I am not going to a t tem pt an ora­tion ur an exegesis. I shall only say a few words upon a subject so profound and exhaustless tha t one would scarcely be able to consider its lengths and breadths with­out writing a volume, or even a score of volumes. For, to know what progress really is, and what are tlie absolute canons of civilization, one must trace back the intellec­tual achievements of mankind to the remotest p a s t ; and that, too, with a clue th a t only the Asiatic people can place in our possession. I f Europe really wishes to estimate the rush of civilization, she must not take her datum line from the mental, spiritual and moral degradation of her own Middle Ages, but from the epochs of Indian and Mongolian greatness. The advancement Europe has experienced in popular intelligence, in religious enfran­chisement, and in the multiplication of aids to physical comfort; and the phenomenal leap made by my own country of America within one century to the topmost rank of national power— these are well calculated to make her accept the above-stated scientific dogma without a thought of protest. The quoted words are those of Sir John Lubbock, and I take them from the report ( in Naturr , No. 018, vol. 2-t) ofli is presidential address to the mem ­bers ot tljc Brjtisji Association f'vy tjae Advancement of

Scicncc, on the Hist of A ugust last— an address tliat will figure in history. The occasion was the fiftieth anniver­sary meeting of the Association, and the President pro­perly and most ably and lucidly reviewed the progress of science during this wonderful half-century. .1 low vast has been the increase of knowledge about physical nature, and what vistas it opens out, I need not particularize before so intelligent a Hindu audience as the present. You, who liave luul the benefit of a modern education, know that most branches of physical science have been revolutionized, and many of them positively created within the past half- ccnturv. Biolog}-, the science of living organizations; Surgery ; Archeology ; Comparative Philology ; Anthropo­logy ; Geology; Pahcontology; Geography; Astronomy; Optics; Physics, including the Kinetic theory of gases, the properties of m atter and the conservation of energy ; Pho tog raphy ; Electricity and Magnetism, and their correlations; Mathematics, as applied to scientific pro­blems ; Chem istry ; Mechanical Science, including the processes for utilising metals ; Economic Scicncc and S ta tis­tics ;— the development of these is the splendid trium ph of the intellectual activity of the W estern world since the year LSJiO. Sir John Lubbock counts it all up in the following words:— “ Summing up the principal results which have been attained in the last half-ccntury wc rnay mention ( over and above the accumulation of facts ) the theory of evolution, the anticpiity of man, and the far greater antiquity of the world itself; the correlation of physical forces, and the conservation of energy ; spectrum analysio and its application to cclestial physics; the higher algebra r.nd the modern geometry; lastly, the innumera­ble applications of science to practical life—as, for instance, in photography, the locomotive engine, the electric telegraph, tlic spectroscope, and most recently the electric light and the telephone.” Truly, if wc compare the Europe and America of to-day with what they were five centuries ago, or even one century, we sec a reason for the shout of exultation with which the progress of the Western nations is celebrated. And wc can quite under­stand why the learned and most respected President of the British Association should have laid down the dogma already noted in my opening remarks. An educated Hindu would bo the last to dissent from his position tha t there arc no probable limits to the power of the human mind to solve all the ultimate problems of n atu ia l law. W1 ieu, by the help of the spectroscope wc have been en­abled to discover the very composition of the stars of heaven, who shall dare to fix a limit to the capacity of man to unravel the mysteries of the universe around him ?

But you m ust remember th a t we have been speaking of the progress of physical science; and tha t after that lias done I ts best, after its proficients have pushed their researches to the very verge of objective nature, though not one secret of the phenomenal world is left uncovered, there is still to explore another and a far more important domain of knowledge. A t th a t outermost verge yawns an abyss that separates it from the Unknown, and, as scientific men call it, the Unknowable. W hy do they not enter this boundless departm ent of N atu re ? Why, in all this lmrry-skurry of the biologists after knowledge, liave they not solved the old problem of the Why, tho Whence, the Whither, of Man ? Is it not because their methods are faulty, and their canons of science too nar­row ? Firstly, they have been overshadowed throughout their investigations by the dark and menacing influence of Christian Theology; and secondly, been hampered by their ignorant disdain for the claims of Asiatic Occult­ism, whose adepts alone can tell them how they may learn the secret laws of nature and of man. Read the summary of scientific progress made by Prof. Draper, in his most splendid work, The Conflict between Religion a n d Scicnce, if you want to sec how the Christian Church has fought tliat progress inch by inch. 0 , the black and bloody rccord ! Bow your heads in reverence, yc friends of human progress, to the martyrs of scicnce who have

battled for the truth. And when you go through so-called Christian countries, as 1 have, and see how tha t once- haughty and all-powerful church is crumbling, let your hearts throb with grati tude for the long array of daring scientists who have dissected her pretensions, unmasked her false doctrines, shivered the bloody sword of her au ­thority, and left her what she now is, a dying superstition, the last vestiges of whose authority arc passing away. Do you think. I am speaking in prejudice or passion ? Alas! no, my friends and brothers ; I anr but giving voice to the facts of history, and every unprejudiced man among you may verify them if he chooses. Prof. Huxley who, without the least apparent sympathy for Asiatic thought or know­ledge of its ancient occult scicncc, is yet unconsciously one of the greatest allies of both, in doing what he is to advance scienco in spite of Christian Theology, says :— “The myths of Paganism arc dead as Osiris or Zeus, and the man who should revive them, in opiposilion to the know­ledge o f our time, would be justly laughed to scorn ; but the coeval imaginations current among the rude inha­bitants of Palestine, recorded by writers whose very name and age are admitted by every scholar to bo unknown, liave unfortunately not yet shared their fate, bu t even at this day, arc regarded by nine-tenths of the civilized world as the authoritative standard of fact and the cri­terion of the justicc of scicntific conclusions, in all tha t relates to the origin of things, and, among them, of species. In this n ineteenth century, as a t the dawn of modern physical science, the cosmogony of the semi-barbarous Hebrew is the incubus of the philosopher and the, oppro­brium o f the. orthodox. Who shall number the patient and earnest seekers after truth, from the days of Galileo until now, whose lives have been . embittered and their good name blasted by the mistaken zeal of Bibliolaters? Who shall count the host of weaker men whose sense of t ru th has been destroyed in the effort to harmonize im­possibilities— whose life lias been wasted in the a ttem pt to force the generous new wine of scicnce into the oldO %bottles of Judaism, compelled by the outcry of the stronger party ? ” l l a i l ! Huxley, man of the Iron Age !

And how well Prof. Huxley says th is :— "I t is true th a t if philosophers have suffered, their causc has been amply avenged. Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science........(C h r is t ian ) orthodoxy is the Bour­bon of the world of thought. I t learns not, neither can it fo rg e t ; and though, a t present, bewildered and afraid to move, it is as willing as ever to insist tha t the first chapter of Genesis contains the beginning and the end of sound scicnce ; and to visit, with such petty thunderbolts as its half-paralyzed hands can hurl, those who refuse to- de­grade nature to the level of primitive Judaism.” These are the brave utterances of one of tire most respected men among European scientists, and he expresses the opinion of an overwhelming majority of his colleagues. None know be tte r than we, humble Founders of the Theosophical Socicty, to what depths of meanness and extremes of malice Christian bigotry can go, to impede the progress of Free-thought. For the last six years we. have been pursued with their calumnies against our good names. All the papers in India and Ceylon tha t could be controlled or influenced by those enemies of truth, have been trying their best to embitter our lives. W here falsehood has failed aud slander recoiled upon them, they have employed the stinging whips of ridicule, and wlmt has been our offence ? Simply tha t we preached univer­sal religious tolerance, have stood up for the dignity and majesty of ancient Asiatic science and philosophy, and implored the degenerate sons of a glorious ancestry to be worthy of the great names they bear. I t is this insatiate enemy th a t has set police spies to track our footsteps throughout India ; they have charged us with being ad­venturers,— “ unscrupulous adventurers ” according to the Sat,unlay Review— they who have circulated numberless lies about us, and forged letters th a t wc never wrote. Clergymen, from their pu lp its ; editors, from their desks; eateehists, a t the street com ers ; even bishops and othev

high dignitaries of the church, have tried to weaken our influence and stop our mouths.* B ut as we have stood for truth, so the tru th lias stood by us ; and day hy day our vindication lias been growing more perfect. An honest life is its own best shield. I t has served us in Ind ia and Ceylon ; and not only have the Government of Ind ia called oft the ir detectives, bu t a t Simla, the summer capital of India, wo havo ju s t organized a Branch— the Simla Eclectic Theosophical Socicty—th a t is almost entirely composed of Anglo-Indians.

As for Ceylon, tho Colonial Secretary has refused all applications for the Government to molest us and has opened tho prison-doors for me to lecture to the Buddhist convicts. So, as you seo, my first proposition— th a t scientific inquiry has been impeded by tlie bigots of Christian Theology—is made out, and we will now con­sider tlie second. Tlie disdain felt for the ancient occult­ists is well expressed by Prof. H uxley in the passage above quoted. H e who would dare to revive the old pagan myths must expect to be “ laughed to scorn.” Physical science has dissected them, found no “ Kinetic energy ” in th a t “ gas,” could not test them by the spectro­scope, and so they m ust have been sheer nonsense ! But we say thoy were no t ; and, having not only studied those myths under teachers who could interpret them, b u t also learned from those who could experimentally demonstrate the tru th of their assertions, what the ancient mytli- makors of India knew of science, we “ laugh to scorn” tho whole school of modern scientists, who know so much in ono direction and so little in another. Sir John Lubbock quotes approvingly in his address the opinion of Bagohot th a t the ancients “ had no conception of progress ; they did not so much as reject the idea; they did not even entertain it.” This is the very key to my present dis­course. I wish you to realize what should be called real “ progress,” and why the ancients—your forefathers— “ did not even entertain” the idea of what the modern scientists regard as progress. And to comprehend this question we must first understand what is man, and what is the highest point of progress or improvement to which he may attain. '

I f you will run your eve over the list of sciences noted hy the President o f t l ie British Association, you will see tha t nearly all of them bear upon the material comfort, the educational development of the physical man, and his understanding of the physical facts o f t l ie world in which he lives. Thousands of the most startling- of modern inventions are to aid W estern people against the rigours of climate and the infertility of soil, to facilitate the transport of passengers and merchandize and the trans­mission of intelligence, and to gratify the appetites and passions of our baser nature. I t has been one mad struggle of physical man with natural obstacles ; the chief objects, the multiplication of wealth, of power, of means of physical gratification. Some people call this “ progress,” but what sort of progress is it th a t arms the lower against the higher part of man’s Self? The Christian

* On tlie very day upon which this address was delivered at Tinnevelly, tho missionaries at Palamcottah put in circulation a pamphlet entitled “ Theosophy,” which was a reprint of recent scurrilous libels against the Founders of the Theosophical Society, Madame Blavatsky and Ool. Olcott. The story, though told, was never fully told in the TnnosormsT. To mask the responsibility of its pubtsliers, 110 imprint was given ; and to entrap Hindu gentlemen into receiving the pamphlet which, otherwise, they would have flung in the colporteur’s face, word was left at each house tha t it bad been sent, with his compliments, by the Secretary of our Tinnevelly Branch. Col. Olcott’s tirst knowledge of this new piece of missionary turpitude was obtained from tlio following letter from a Christian gentleman, a stranger to him :—

“ I ’a i j A M C O T T A n . 2:3rd October 18S1.“ Dear Sir,—I enclose a pamphlet tho missionaries have just issued.

I t purports to contain articles 011 Theosophy These articles, how­ever comprise only abuse of yourself and Mine. Blavatsky. I am a Christian in my religious opinions, lint I love fair play for all tha t . . . The pamphlet is intended and calculated to mislead the Hindus as to the views aud aims of Theosophists, and your object in coming to this District .”

Bible puts it thus :— “ W hat shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own ' soul ?" [ Mark V III. 30.] The words are not like mine, bu t the idea is the samo. There is a kind of “ progress ” th a t leads to moral debasement and spiritual death. I pu t it to you, Hindus, whether you have not become familiar with it since you went in for European shoes, and for th a t strong stuff tha t comes in corked bottles and is drunk with soda- water, out of a big tumbler.

W h a t has become of Religion in this half-century of tu r ­moil > IIow fares it with man’s better nature ; is it purer, nobler than it was when your ancestors were satisfied with their myths, and not t r o u b l i n g themselves about progress? The moderns have grown wise indeed, if the acme of wis­dom be to know why birds, and bugs, aud animals are striped, or spotted, or of this colour or shape, or the o th e r ; why tho sky is blue, water will not run up hill, stars wheel around the ir centres of attraction, aud electricity leaps from cloud to cloud. But if, as the ancients held, the highest wisdom be to know the secret causes for all objective phenomena, and the extent to which all our lmm'an faculties can be developed, then are these scientists bu t busy ants, living within a microscopic hillock of great nature. Tlieir boasted progress is, from this ancient point of view, bu t the beginning of true knowledge, a t the wrong end, and all thoir troublesome activity bu t vanity and vexation of spirit. Is Civilization measured by the progress of Science ? W h a t is civiliza­tion ? Is it the perfecting of deadly weapons for the be t­te r killing of man by man ? Is it tlie wholesale debase­m ent of people by encouraging the consumption of opium and strong drinks ? Is it the falsification of commodities for wear, and of articljs for food, so as to cheat the unsophisticated ? Is it the lowering of the standard of truthfulness to the point where perjury is a t a premium, and man has almost lost all confidence in his fellow-man V Is it the extinguishment of the intuitive faculties, and the stifling of religious sentiment ? Are these the marks of Civilization ? Then, indeed, do they abound, and tho world has progressed within the last half-century. But the true moralist, I ween, would call these the proofs of retrogression. If he were a fair man, and could be broughto ’ oto road what the ancient H indus had really discovered, and what was their lofty standard of enlightenment, he would have to confess th a t we, modern people, make bu t a sorry show in comparison with them. Thoy may not have had railways and spectroscopes, but thoy had grand notions of what constitutes an ideal man, and the vestiges of their civil polity th a t remain to us, show th a t society was well organized, private rights were protected, and domestic virtues cultivated. I am not speaking of the epochs intermediate between them and our own time, bu t about the real ancients, the progenitors alike of the modern H indus and the modern Europeans. The bio­logist of our day is using his lenses and scalpel for what purpose ? To discover the secret laws of life, is lie not ? Well, tho ancient philosopher knew these, thousands of years ago ; so where is the progress for us to boast of? The modern engineer builds bridges, and railways, and great ships to carry us from country to country. B u t the ancient mystic could, as quick as thought, project his inner self—to any place he chose, however distant, and sec and be seen there. Which is the greater proof of “ progress ”— to make one’s body to bo carried in a wooden carriage, over iron rails, a t the rate of sixty miles an hour, 01* by the force of an iron will, aided by a most profound knowledge of the forces of nature, to go in one’s double around the earth, through the pathless alxisci, in tho twinkling of an eye"? Or, take chemistry as an example. W e will say nothing about this scicnce having been en­tirely recreated since 1830, when tho radical theory of Berzelius was in vogue : let th a t pass. We will take the science as it stands now; and what is its characteris­tic. Uncertainty, most assuredly. Great discoveries have been made, bu t the lacuruc, or gaps, between tho chemist anil ,a full knowledge of the laws of nature aro

still confessedly as great as ever; for each new discovery is bu t another eminence from which the experimentalist secs the horizon ever receding. Chemistry can expel life and disintegrate atoms ; it can hy synthesis rebuild inert matter. B u t it cannot recall the parted life when it is once gone. I t can separate the rose-leaf into atoms, but i t cannot mould them again into a rose-leaf nor restore its vanished perfume. And yet by the creative power of the ir trained will the ancient occultists could make roses fall in showers, from out of the empty air, upon tlio heads of sceptics, or fill the room with wafts ot any perfume one might ask for. Nay, those who have studied their science have done it in our days, and before our own eyes. Can any member of the British Association with his imperfect methods, show us either one of the phenomena of the Siddhis drscribed in the Shrimo-t Bhagavata :— Animd, Ma/tiwd, Latjhinm Prapti, Prukushyama, IrfiitO; Vashitd, and the eighth which enables one to a tta in his every wish ? Can lie display any knowledge of the Buddhist Id d hiwiddhin ('ma science, by producing the wonders of e ither the L a v lain or Lolv thra? When he can do any of these, and vie with either the Indian R ish i or the Buddhist Arahdt, then let him dogmatize to us about “ progress,” and in­dulge in his witticisms against the “ ancients.” Until then, we will return him laughter for laughter, scorn for scorn.

Progress, you see, is a relative term. W h a t may be wonderful advancement to one people, may be quite the opposite to another. And, as for civilization, I th ink tha t we are only justified in applying the name to th a t state of society in wliich intellectual enlightenment is attended by the highest moral development, and where the lights of the individual and the welfare of the people as a whole are equally and fully realized. I cannot call any country civilized which, like England and America, spends five times as much for spirituous drink as for religious and secular education. I call th a t a barbarous, not a civilized power, which derives a large share of its income from the encouragement of opium-smoking and arrack and whiskey-drinking. I give the same name to a nation which, in spite of the teachings of Economic Science and the dictates of religion and morality, plunges into wars of conquest, tha t it may make new markets among weaker peoples for its wares and merchandize. T h a t a different theory of civilization prevails bu t goes to show the u tter perversion of the moral sense which “ modern progress” has brought about.

B u t may wc not even ask Sir John Lubbock and his colleagues how they have discovered what the ancients did or did not know of even physical science ? In another lec.ture (In d ia ; Past, Present and Future), I noted the fact tha t there were exhibited a t the Mahasabha, de­scribed in Bharata, certain most wonderful specimens of mechanical ingenuity and technical skill. The fourteenth chapter of the first volume of Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, is crammed with illustrations of the profound knowledge possessed by ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,, Cambo­dia, India, and other countries, of arts and sciences. I f occasion required, I m ight show you by chapter and verse tha t some of the very latest discoveries of modern scienceare but re-discoveries of things known to the ancients, but . ® - .long lost to mankind. The more I study the more is thetru th of the ancient doctrine of cycles made clear to mymind. As the stars of heaven move in their orbits aroundtheir central suns, so does humanity seem ever circlingabout the Sun of Truth ; now illuminated, now in eclipse ;in one epoch resplendent with light and civilization, inanother under the shadow of ignorance and in the nightof moral and spiritual degradation. Four times liave theislands now forming tho Kingdom of Great Britain andO ©

Ireland dipped beneath the ocean and, after intervals to be calculated only by the arithmetic of geological time, been raised again and repeopled. (Huxley : Lag Sermons, p. 215.) There was also a time when the Himalayas, as ■well as the Pyrenees, Alps and Andes, were under water,

and the ocean rolled where they now rear their towering crests. How vain is it not, then, for people to pretend to say what the ancients did not know, and what is “ new under the sun !” You do not find the Hindus or the Ch inese making such a mistake: their records, on the con­trary, show th a t the ancestors possessed far more wisdom than their descendants, and the Chinese reverence for them is so strong as to take the form of religious worship. I would not need to go, as I am doing, all over India and Ceylon, and implore you, Asiatic men of to-day, not to dishonour yourselves by sneering at your “ ignorant ances­tors, ’ if you had ever studied the literature they left behind them. I t is your blind ignorance th a t makes you guilty of this sacrilege. Your education has been pre­scribed by the men of “progress.” They have taught yon a little Latin, less Creek, some patches of what they call History, such Logic and Philosophy as they have scraped out of the dry bones of the ancient philosophers, and a terrible lot of misleading physical science. And, with your heads crammed with such poor stuff, you assume airs and “ laugh to scorn” the benighted beings who founded the six schools of Indian Philosophy, and tho Rishis and Yogis who were able to range unfettered through all the Kosmos ! Aye, and to divest yourselves of the least tinge of suspicion tha t such progressed minds as yours could sympathize with the “ degrading superslitibns of your nation, you vie with each other in efforts to lay your race-pridc, your intellectual manhood, and your self­respect in the dirt, for the hob-nailed shoes of “ progress” to stamp upon. Shame on such Asiatics !

W hat the best friends of India and Ceylon most desire is to see their young men cling to what is good of tho olden times, while grasping all tha t is useful of the modern epoch. T ha t is the civilization whieh Ind ia needs. There are certain abstract moral doctrines tha t are never new nor ever old, for they are the property of our race. The best maxims tha t Jesus taught were tau g h t by others, ages before his time— if he had ever a time, which is certainly a doubtful question. So we m ust not measure civilization by the evolution of moral codes, bu t by the national living up to them. Christendom has as fine a moral code as one could wish, but she shows her real principles in her Armstrong guns and whiskey distil­leries, her opium ships, sophisticated merchandize, prurient, amusements, licentious habits and political dis­honesty. Christendom, we may almost say, is morally rotten and spiritually paralyzed. If interested mission­aries tell you otherwise, don't believe them upon assertion : go through Christian countries and set! for yourselves. Or, if you will not or cannot go, then get the. proper books and read. And when you have seen, or read, and the horrid tru th bursts upon you ; when you have lifted the pretty m a s o f this smiling goddess of Progress, and seen the spiritual rottenness there, then, 0 , young men of sacred India, heirs of great, renown, turn to the history of your own land. Read, and be satisfied tha t it is be tter to be good than learned ; to be pure-minded and spiritual than rich ; to be ignorant as a ryot, with his virtue, than in tel­ligent as a Parisian debauchee, with his vices; to be a heathen H indu practising the moralities of Vyasiyam, than a progressed and civilized European trampling under foot all the rules th a t conduce to hum an happiness and true progress.

“ I S I T I D L E T O A R G U E F U R T H E R " ?

Suys L ig h t , in its “ Notes by the Wiiy,” edited by M. A. ( O xo n) :—

“ The current number of the T i i k o s o i ’i i i s t contains an impor­tant manil'esto, -which establishes and defines the ground finally taken up by tliat body. Short ly put, it is one of complete an­tagonism to Spiri tualism. Th e Spiri tualist believes that, it, is possible for Spir i ts of' tbe departed to communicate wilh this ear th. Whatever divergence of opinion there may lie among us in respect, of other matters, we are agreed on this, the cardi­nal art icle of our faith. Our daily experience affirms its truth.

Tlie consentient. testimony of tlie most experienced among us agrees tlmt, whether there be, or whether there be not, oilier agencies at work, the Spirits we know of nre liumnn Spirits who Imve once lived on this earih. To this the TntcosormsT returns the simple answer thnt we are mistaken. No Spirits communiente with earth for the sufficient reason that, they can­not. I t is idle to argue further. We cnn but, go on our way with tho assured conviction tlmt, whatever may be the case in ihe East, we fiml that, the departed Ppirits of mankind are both able and willing to communicate with us in the West. And no metaphysical theorising as to wliat cannot be disposes in any degree of what is."

The T h e o s o p h i s t is forced to take exception to the form of statement of “ facts’’ above used. As it now stands, it is bu t a short, series of speculative deductions from tlie very superficially defined doctrines in our “ F ragm ents of Occult. T ru th ” which give <a by-no-means complete idea of wliat is really taught in the doctrine, bits of which were explained in tlie article now most incorrectly styled a “ m a­nifesto.” We regret the necessity to contradict once more ouv esteemed opponent, who seems to be giving up the Theosophists in despair. B u t were we also to conclude it “ idle to argue further,” then the position taken up by us would, indeed, give rise again to endless misinterpretations. The question of m an’s state after death, the future pro­gress o fh is soul, spirit and other principles— whatever any one may call them,— was hardly touched upon in the short article under our critic’s notice. In itself the subject em ­braces a field of boundless extent and of the most m eta­physical intricacy, one which would demand volumes of commentaries and explanations to be thoroughly sifted and understood. Yet superficially sketched as our ideas may have been in the “ Fragm ents”— which was h u t an answer to the direct questions, not to say, reproaches of our es­teemed Brother-, Mr. Terry (of Australia)— we nevertheless fail to detect in it such passages or ideas as justify M. A. (Oxon) in saying th a t onr doctrine is “ one of complete antagonism with Spiritualism.” It is not half so antago­nistic as he believes it to be, as we will try to prove.

“ T) ie Spiritualist believes tha t it is possible for Spirits of the departed to communicate with this earth ’’ says the writer... ' ' and to this the T h e o s o p h i s t returns the simple answer th a t we arc mistaken.” In this sentence alone, as a kernel in a nut-shell, lies hidden the reason of th a t par­tial antagonism. Had M. A. (Oxon), slightly modifying the construction of the above-quoted sentence—written instead tha t “ it i.s possible for Spirits yet embodied on this earth to communicate with the Spirits of the departed”— then would there have been hardly any antagonism a t all to deplore. W h a t we have and do maintain is th a t all of the so-called “ physical phenomena,” and the “ materializa­tions” especially, are produced by something, to which we refuse the namp of “ Spirit.” In the words of the Presi­dent ofour Berliampore Branch,A!“we, Hindus,”— (and along with them go the European disciples of Eastern philoso­phy)— “ arc trying to spiritualize our grosser material selves,— while the American and European Spiritualists are endeavouring in their seance-rooms to iitcrievialize Spirits.” These words of wisdom well show the opposite tendencies of the Eastern and the W estern minds : nam e­ly, tha t while the former are trying to purify matter, the la tter do their best to degrade Spirit . Therefore what we say, is, tha t 09 times out of 100, “ materializations” so called when genuine , ( and whether they be partial or complete) are produced by what wc call “shells,” and once perhaps by the living medium’s astral body,— lint certain­ly never in our humble opinion, by the “ disembodied ” Spirits themselves.

While we sincerely regret this divergence of opinions with Light, we feel inclined to smile a t the ndieeii of some other Spiritualist opponents ; as, for instance, a t tha t of the editor of the London Spiritualist, who, in his leading editorial of November 18, entitled “ Spe­culation-Spinning,” f calls the bits of occult doctrine given

* Babu Nobin Krishna 1'anerjee, President of the Adhi Lhoutic Bhriitru Theosophical Society.

f To be answered in our February N umber, Ed.

in our “ F ra g m e n ts ”— “ unscien tif ic ;” reproaching tho writer ( than whom there is no abler metaphysician, nor closer or more acute and clever logician among Anglo-Indian writers) with a want of “ scientific method ” in the presentation of liis fa c ts ! At the same time, the editorial informs us tha t by “ fac ts” it does not “ necessarily mean physical facts, for there are demon­

. strable tru ths outside the realms of physics.” Precisely. And it is upon just such “facts,” the existence of which is based for us upon evidence which we “ have weighed and examined” for ourselves, tha t we maintain tho demon- strability of the deductions and final conclusions a t which we have arrived. These we preach but to those 'who real­ly want to know them. As none, tliey say, are so blind as they who will not see, we abstain from offering our doctrines to such as find them offensive—among whom are some Spiritualists. B u t to the masses of impartial readers whose minds are not yet wedded to this or the other theory, we present our facts and tell them to see, heg,r, and judge for themselves ; and, there have been some who did not find our theories merely a “ speculation-spin­ning ” based upon hypotheses and the crass sentim ent­alism of a fa i th— -welcome, because of its implied promises of a life hereafter— but theories resting upon tho logical and stern deduction from facts, which constitute in themselves a knowledge. Now, what are these facts, and what do they show and teach u s? F irs t of all, and as a rule— to which the rare exceptions bu t confirm it the more — wc find, th a t the so-called “disembodied spirits,” instead of having become the wiser for being rid of the physiologi­cal impediments and t.he restraints of the ir gross material senses, would seem to have become far more s tu ­pid, far less perspicacious and, in every respect, worse than they were timing their earthly life. Secondly, we have to take note of the frequent contradictions, and absurd blunders ; of the false information offered, and the remarkable vulgarity, and common-place exhibited during their interviews with mortals— in materializing seave.es their oral utterances being invariably vulgar common­place, and their inspirational speeches or second-hand com­munication through trance and other mediums— fre­quently so. Adding to this the undeniable fact which shows their teachings reflecting mod faithfully the special creed, views, and thoughts of the sensitive or medium used by them, or of a s itter or sitters, we have already sufficient proof to show th a t our theory tha t they are “ shells” and no disembodied spirits at all, is far more logical and “ scientific” than tha t of the Spiritualists.* Speaking here in genera], we need not take into consideration exceptional cases, instances of undeniable spiritual identity with which we are sure to find our arguments met by our spiritual, opponents. No one ever thought of calling “ Imper:it,or + ” a “ shell” ; bu t then the latter, whether a living or a disembodied spirit, ne ither materializes himself objectively, nor is it yet proved to the satisfaction of any one except, i l . A. (Oxon) himself th a t “ lie ” descends to tho medium, instead of the spirit of thi; la tter ascending to meet his instructor.

Thus, we maintain th a t “ spirits ” are no more what they claim to be, than the chrysalis shell, is tho butterfly which left it. T h a t their personations of various individuals, whom they sometimes represent, are mostly due to the accidental contact of an “ Elementary ” or Eidolon ( a ttracted by the medium and the intense magnetic desire of tho circle present ) with the personal aura of th a t or another individual. The thoughts of the hitter, tho various acts and scenes in his past life,

* We will not go to tlie trouble of .showing how much or rather how little of ‘‘ scientific m e th o d ” is to be generally found iu theSpiritualixL■ But while speaking of science and its methods, wemay simply remark' that though both our theories ( theusophicaland spiritualistic) are .sure I o lie viewed by the men of science as “ speciilatioii-spinning ” aud metaphysical windmills, yet, tlu; hypotheses of S irit.iialists—us broadly accepted and whether “scie.n- tifically ” or unscientifically stated—-are certain to be pronounced by the majority of men of real science, not merely unscientific, but very unphilosophical, and illogical as we||.--K(], "

the familiar and beloved faces of his departed ones, are then all drawn out ot the all-containing depths of the Astral Light and utilized. At times this is done success­fully, b u t frequently the th ing proves a total failure. Only while the former are, as a rule, recorded, the mention of the la tte r is tacitly avoided,— no spiritualistic journal having ever been edited with tha t special view. So much for materialization and physical phenomena. As, for tho rest, wc arc a t one with tho Spiritu'dists with b u t slight variances, more of form than of substance. W hat we believe in, is p re tty well defined in the editorial which precedes the articlo “ Chureli Congress and Spiritualism” .in our December issuo (ace p. 5") Vol. I l l ) , and need not be again enumerated.

E S O T E R I C A X I O M S A N D S P I R I T U A L S P E C U L A T I O N S .

In a lengthy review of A. Lillie’s book, Buddha and, Early Buddh ism , by 31. A. (Oxon), our esteemed friend, the critic, takes the opportunity for another quiet little fling at his well-wishers, the Theosophists. On the au tho­rity (?) of Mr. Lillie, who seems to know all about it, the reviewer contradicts and exposes the assertions made and theories enunciated by the Theosophists. Wo will now quote from his review “ Buddhism and Western Thought,” published in the October num ber of the Psychological R e v ie w :

“ I t will be evident to any reader, who has followed me so fur, that, the Buddhist belief is permeated by wlial, I liavo de­scribed as a distinctive, ‘ a peculiar note of Modern Spir itual­ism— the presence a n d g u a rd ia n sh ip o f departed spirits' ( / ?)* 1 confess that, this struck me with some surprise, and, I may say. pleased surprise, for I had come to think that there was a marked antagonism between Eastern and Western modes of thought and belief on this point.. Wc have h eard m uch in d isp arag e­m ent o f this special article o f fa i th from some fr iends who have told as a grea t d ea l about the theosophical beliefs of the H in d u s , an d who have chanted, the praises o f t l i e B uddh is t ic as agains t the Christian f a i t h w ith vehem ent laudationo f the one. a n d with a bundan t scorn o f the o th e r ........................ . .B u t be this as it may, we have been told so often, tha t wo have come to .accept it as a lesson from those who know better than oiuvelves, that, our W estern belief in Lhe action of departed human spirits in this world of ours is n crazy fallacy. JJ c have believed, at least, tha t such w as the E as tern crccd. F o r ourselves, we (some o f us a t least) prefer our own experience to tho instructions of any whose dogmatic statements are so sweeping as those with which we nre met from Eastern experts. T he .statements and claims made have seemed to us altogether too vast. It may be, wo are driven to think, that departed spirits do not operate in the East, bu t at, any rate we find that they do act iu tlio West. And while we are far from declining to recognise the tru th that, pervades much of the Spiritualism of the East, anil have tried our best, to induce our friends to widen their view by adopting it. in somo degree, wo have been sad to think that it should so absolutely contrndiot the experience of tho West.

Mr. Lillie affords me some consolation. I find throughout liis book not, only most instructive variety of opinion, which I can correlate with my own beliefs and theories to benefit and advantage, but I Iind that the belief in the intervention of departed human spirits, which we had all of us imagined to be anathem a m a ra n a th a in the East, is, in ofiect, a permeating principle of Buddhism in his estimation !”.— (Part. I I . p. 17-1.)

The writer, after that, proceeds to speak of “ BuddhisticSpiritualism”........a “ root-principle” of which is “ a beliefth a t the living may be brought en rapport, with their departed friends of adepts being “ highly developed mediums and quotes an interesting clause from a chapter of Mr. Lillie’s hook. Says the last-named authority :—

“ I have dwelt at length on this supernaturalism, because it is o f the highest importance to our theme. B u d d h ism w as plain!;/ an elaborate ap pa ra tu s to n u l l i f y the action o f evil sp irits by the a id o f good spirits opera t ing at their

* Tho italics and points of exclamation are ours. We would like to know what, the learned priests of Ceylon, the lights of Buddhism,

nch a* Smuanaala Unnanse, would have to snv to this.?—Kr>.* - •

highest potentiality, through tlie instrumentality o f the corpse, or a portion o f the corpse o f the chief aiding spirit. T h e Buddhist temple, the Buddhist rites, the Buddhist li turgy, all seem based on this one idea that, n whole or por­tions of a dead body was necessary. W h a t wero these assist­ing spirits ? l ivery Buddhist, ancient or modern, would admit at once that a sp irit that has not ye t attained the Bodily or Spiritual awakenment cannot lie a good spirit. I t is still in the domains o f Kama (death, appetite) .* I t can do no good thing ; more than that, it must do evil things . .T he answer of N orthern Buddhism, i f wo consult such books a-i the ‘ W hite Lotus o f D harma ’ and the ‘ La lit,a "V istara,’ is tha t tho good spirits aro the Buddhas, the dead prophets. T h ey come from the ‘ fields of the Buddhas’ to eomnniiie with earth .”

For all this M. A. (Oxon) rejoices, as he th inks it corro­borates the Spiritual theories and is calculated to con­found the Theosophists. We, however, are afraid tha t it will confound, in the end, bu t Mr. Lillie. “ The life of Buddha is permeated,” says the reviewer “ with whatseems to me uncompromising Spiritualism ........aud intriumph adds : “ I t is a significant fact th a t throughoutthis elucidation of Buddhistic Spiritualism we have not once come upon an Elemental or E lementary Spirit.”

No wonder since they have in Buddhistic and Brah- manical Esotcrieism their own special and technical names whose significance, Mr. Lillie— if ho understood thoir meaning as correctly as ho did t.he word K a m a — was just the person to overlook, or include in the generic name of “ Spirits.” Wc will not try to personally argue out the vexed question with our friend, M. A. (Oxon), as our voice m ight have no more authority with him than Mr. Lillie's has with us. B u t wo will tell him what we have done. As soon as his able review readied us, wo marked it throughout, and sent both the numbers of the magazine containing it, to be, in their turn, reviewed and corrected by two authorities. W e have th e weakness to believe th a t these Specialists in the matter of esoteric Buddhism may be regarded as far greater than Mr. Lillie or any other European authority is likely to ever b e ; for these two are : — (I) II . Sumangala Unnanse, Buddhist High Priest of Adam's Peak, Ceylon, the teacher of Mr. Ivhys Davids, a member of our General Council and the most learned ex­pounder of Southern Buddhism ; and (2) the Chohan-Lama of llinch-elia-tze (Tibet) the Chief of the Archive-regis- trars of the secret Libraries of the Dalai and Ta-shii-hlumpo- Lamas-Riin-bochc,— also a member of our Society. The latter, moreover, is a “Pan-chhen,” or great teacher, one of the most learned theologians of Northern Buddhism and esoteric Lamaism. From the latter we have already re­ceived the promise of showing how very erroneous arc, in every ease, the views of both, the author and his reviewer, the message being accompanied by a few remarks to tho address of the former which would have hardly flattered his vanity as an author. The High Priest Sumangala, we hope, will give his ideas upon “ Buddhistic Sp ir i tu a l ism ” as well, as soon as he finds leisure— no easy matter, by the way, considering his engagements. I f the authority and learning of Mr. Lillie, after that, will still be placed higher than tha t of the two most learned Buddhist expounders of Southern and N orthern Buddhism of our day, then we will have nothing moro to say.

Meanwhile, none will deny tha t esoteric Buddhism and Brahmanism arc one, for tlie former is derived from the latter. I t is well-known that, the most important feature of reform, perhaps, was th a t Buddha mado adeptship or enlightenment, (through tho dhydna practices of L td hi) open to all, whereas the Brahmans bad been jealously excluding all men without the pale of their own haughty caste from this privilege of learning the perfect truth. Therefore, in the present, connection wewill give the ideas of a learned Brahman upon Spiritualism as viewed from the esoteric stand-point. The author of the article which

* We have not read Mr. Lillie's book ; hu t if he teaches in it many other things no truer than his idea tha t Kama means “Death,'’ his authority is likely to prove of a most fragile kind. Kamc* never meant, death, but lust, desire : in this sense— n passionate desire to live again,—TCn.

follows, than whom, no layman, perhaps, in India is better Tersed in the Brahmanical Occult Sciences* outside tlio inner conclave of the adepts— reviews in it the seven­fold piinciple in man, as given in Fragments o f Occult .1 ruth, anil establishes for tliat purpose an exhaustive comparison between the two esoteric doctrines— the Brah- manical aud Buddhistic—which lie considers “ substantially identical.” l iis letter was written at our personal request, with 110 view to polemics, the writer himself being pro­bably very jar from the thought while answering it that it would ever bo published. H aving obtained his permission, however, to th a t effect, we now gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity. Besides being the best review we are likely to ever obtain upon so abstruse a subject, it will show M. A. (Oxon), and onr other friends, the Spiritualists, how far such authors as Mr. Lillie have seized the “root-priuciple” of the Asiatic religions and phi­losophy. A t all events the readers will be enabled to judge, how much modern Spiritualism, as now expounded, is “ a permeating principle” of Brahmanism, the elder sister of Buddhism.

T H E A I t Y A iV-A R1IA T E SO T E R / C T E N E T S O N T H E S E V E N F O L D P R I N C I P L E LiV M A N .

1>V T . S U 11JSA H O W , I i . A . , B . L . f

.................Probably the Aryan (we shall for the presentcall it by tha t name) and the Clialdeo-Tibetan esoteric doctrines are fundamentally identical and the secret doc­trine of the Jewish Kabalists merely an offshoot of these. Nothing, perhaps, can be more interesting now to a s tu ­dent of occult philosophy than a comparison'between the two principal doctrines above mentioned. Your le tter seems to indicate two divisions in the Chaldeo-Tibetan doctrine: (1) tha t of the so-ealleil Lamaists; and (2) that of the so-called Arhats, ( in Buddhism, Arahats, or llahats) which has been adopted by the Himalayan or Tibetan Brotherhood. W hat is the distinction between these two systems '{ Some of our ancient Brahmanical writers have left us accounts of the maim doctrines of Buddhism and the religion and philosophy of tho A rha ts—- the two branches of the Tibetan esoteric doctrine being so called by them. As these accounts generally appear in treatises of a polemical character, I cannot plate much- reliance upon them. ‘

I t is now very difficult to say what was the real ancient Aryan doctrine. I f an enquirer were to a t tem p t to answer it by an analysis and comparison of all the various systems of esotericism prevailing in India, he will soon be lost in a maze of obscurity and uncertainty. No comparison between our real Brahmanical and the Tibetau esoteric doctrines will be possible unless one ascertains theteachings of tha t so-called “ Aryan doctrine,” ..........................and fully comprehends the whole range of the ancient Aryan philosophy. Kapila’s "Sankhya,” Patanjali’s “ Yog philosophy,” the different systems of “ Saktaya” philoso­phy, the various A (jamas and T a u tiu s are bu t branches of it. There isadoc ti ine though, which is their real foundation aud which is sufficient to explain the secrets of these various systems of philosophy ami harmonize their teach­ings. I t probably existed long before the Vedas were compiled, and it was studied by our ancient Ilishis in con­notation with tho H indu scriptures. I t is a ttr ibu ted to one mysterious personage called Malia J ............

The Upunishads and such portions of the Vedas as aro not chiefly devoted to the public ceremonials of the ancient Aryans are hardly intelligible without some

* See article “The Twelve Siyns of the Zodiac” by tbe same author in the November number of the T hkosopiust.—E d.

+ W o g i v e b u t e x t r a c t s f r o m t h o l o n g l e t t e r o f t h e a b o v e - n a m e d g e n t l e -

m a n . - E u .

£ T h e v e r y t i t l e o f t h e p r e s e n t c h ie f o f t h o E s o t e r i c l l i u u d a y a u B r o th e r * fcood.— Ei>> *

knowledge of that doctrine. Even the real significance of the grand ceremonials referred to in the Vedas will not be perfectly apprehended without its light being thrown uponth e m ........The Vedas were perhaps compiled mainly forthe use of the priests assisting at public ceremonies, bu t the grandest conclusions of our real secret doctrine are therein mentioned. I am informed by persons competent to judge of the matter, that the Vedas have a distinct dual mean­ing—one expressed by the literal sense of the words, the other indicated In/ the metre and the sw am which are, as it were, the life of the Vedas........Learned Pundits and philo­logists, of course, deny th a t S w a m has anything to do with philosophy or ancient esoteric doctrines. But the mys­terious connection between S w a m and light is one of its most profound secrets.

Now it is extremely difficult to show whether the 'Tibetans derived the ir doctrine from the ancient Ilishis of India, or the ancient Brahmans learned their occult science from the adopts of T ib e t ; or again whether the adepts of both countries professed originally the same doctrine and derived it from a common source.* I f you were to go to the Sram ana Balagula and question some of the Ja in Pundits there about the authorship of the Vedas and the origin of the Brahmanical esoteric doc­trine, they would probably tell you that the Vedas were composed by l la lsh a sa s f or Ihytgas and tha t the B rah­mans had derived their secret knowledge from tliem.j Do these assertions mean tha t the Vedas and the Brah­manical esoteric teachings had their origin in the lost Atlantis— the continent th a t once occupied a consider­able portion of the expanse of the Southern and the Pacific oceans ! Your assertion iu “ Isis Unveiled ” tha t Sanskrit was the language of the inhabitants of the said continent, may induce one to suppose th a t the Vedas had probably their origin there,— wherever else might be the birth-place of the Aryan esotericism. § B u t the real esoteric doctrine as well as the mystic alle­gorical philosophy of the Vedas were derived from another source, again, whatever th a t source may be— perchance, from the divine inhabitants-gods— of the sacred Island which, as you say, once existed in the sea tha t covered in days of old the sandy tract now called Gobi Desert. How­ever tha t may be, the knowledge of the occult powers o f nature possessed by the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis was learnt by the ancient adepts of India and was append­ed by them to the esoteric doctrine taught by the residents of the sacred Island.If The Tibetan adepts, however, have not accepted this addition to their esoteric doctrine. And, it is in this respect th a t one should expect to find a difference between the two doctrines.||

The Brahmanical occult doctrine probably contains every th ing th a t was taugh t about the powers o f natura and their laws, either in the mysterious Island of the North, or iu the equally mysterious continent of the South. And, if you mean to compare the Aryan and the Tibetan doctrines as regards the ir teachings about the occult pcwers of nature, you must beforehand examine all the classifications of these powers, their laws and mani­festations and the real connotations of the various names assigned to them in the Aryan doctrine. Here are some

* S e c Appendix, N o t e I . — E d .

f A L i n d o f d o m o u s —

i * A n d s o w o u l d t l i o C h r i s t i a n p a d r i s . D u t t h o y w o u l d n o v ’ o r a d m i t t h a t t h e i r “ f ; d l e n a n g e l s ” w o r e b o r r o w e d f r o m t h o JLukskmax j t l i a t t h o i r ‘ D e v i l ” i s t h o i l l c g i t i i n n t o s o u o f JiciV'-l — t h o S i n h a l e s e f e m a l o d e m o n , o r t h a t t h o ‘ W a r i n l l o a v e n ” o f I h o .[poculyjjM: — t h e f o u n d a t i o n o f t h e C h r i s t i a n

d o g m a o f i h o “ f a l l e n A n g * i l s ” - - - w a H c o p i e d f r o m t h o H i n d u s t o r y u l > o u t S i v a h u r l i n g - t h e Tarai'asa o w h o r e b e l l e d a g a i n s t l i r a h m a i n t o - I nd/uihl-ar—

t l i o a b o d o o f D a r k n e s s , a c c o r d i n g t o l i r a h m a m e ; d i S h u s t n i s E jj.

§ N o t n e c e s s a r i l y . — S e o Apptnduv N o t e I I . F r o m r a r e M S S . j u s t

r e c e i v e d , w e w i l l s h o r t l y p r o v e S a n s k r i t t o h a v e b e e n s p o k e n i u J a v a

a n d a d j a c e n t i s l a n d * f r o m r e m o t e a n t i ' j u i t y . — E u .

* , [ A l o c a l i t y w h i c h i s s p o k e n o f t o t h i s d a y b y t h o T i b e t a n s a n d

c a l l c d b y t h e m “ S c h a m - b h a - ) a ” t h o Jh(pi>y Laud.Scc A p p e n d i x , N o t e

I I I . — E u .

| | T o c o m p r e h e n d t h i s p a s s a g e f u l l y , t h o r e a d e r m u s t t u r n t o V o l . I . p p .

p & y - 5 D i o f Isia O i r n V c t f . - — E u ,

11. do. do.

III . do. do.

IV. do. do.

of tlie classifications contained in the Bralunan ieal system : 1. Classification of tlie occult powers a.s apper t a in ing

to Parabivhma'in a n t i e x i s t ­. i n g i n ( l ie M .K /uocos .m .

as ap pe r t a in in g to man and exi st ing in the M i c r o ­c o s m .fo r t h e p u r p o s e s o f T h a ra la Yog o r J 'r tm ara ] og. fo r t h e p u r p o s e s o f Sankhya- Yoq ( w h e r e t h e y a r e , a s i t

■were, t l i e i n h e r e n t - a t t r i ­b u t e s o f P rakr it i) . fo r t h e p u r p o s e s of I I at a Yog. rfo r t h e p u r p o s e s o f Koala A tjama.for the purposes of Sakta

A ijama. _for tlie purposes of Siva

A (jama.for the purposes of Sreecha- kram ( The Srceehakram you referred to in “ Isis Unveiled ” is not the real esoteric Srcech.akram of the ancient adepts of Aryavar- ta). *i n A th a rv a n a Veda, &C.

Yr. do. do.

VI. do. do.

VII. do. do.

V III. do. do.

IX. do. do.

X. do. do.In all those classifications, subdivisions have been m ul­

tiplied, indefinitely by conceiving now combinations of tlie Primary Powers in different proportions. B u t I must now drop this subject and proceed to consider the article headed ‘‘ Fragments o f Occult T ru th ,” in the October num ber of the Tlino.Soril lST.

I have carefully examined it., and find tha t the results arrived at ( in the Buddhist doctrine ) do not seem to differ much from the conclusions of our Aryan philoso­phy, though our mode of stating the arguments may differ in form. I shall now discuss the question from n\y own standpoint, though following for facility of comparison and convenience of discussion the sequence of classification of the seven-fold entities or Principles constituting man which is adopted in your article. The questions raised for discussion are (I) whether the dis­embodied ■'■phiis of human beings (as they aie called by Spiritualists) appear in the seance-roc ms and elsewhere; and (2) whether the manifestations taking place are pro­duced wholly or partly through the ir agency. '

I t is hardly possible to answer these two questions satisfactorily unless the meaning intended to be convryed by the expression “ disembodied xpirits o f hum an beings” be accurately defined. The words S p i r i tu a l i s m and S jrir it are very misleading. Unless English writers in general, and Spiritualists in particular, fir.st ascertain clearly the connotation they mean to assign to the word spir it there will be no end of confusion, and the real nature of these so- called spiritualistic phenomena and the ir modus occvrrcndi can never be clearly defined. Christian writers generally ,speal< of only two entities in man— the body, and the sold or sp ir i t (both seeming to mean the same th ing to them.) European philosophers generally speak of B ody and M ind , and argue th a t soul or spirit cannot be anything else than, mind. They are of opinion th a t any belief in L in g a - s a r ir a in f is entirely unpliilosopliicaL These views are certainly incorrcct, and are based on unwarranted assump­tions as to the possibilities of nature, ami on an impel feet understanding of its laws. I shall now examine (from the stand-point of the Brahmanieal esoteric doctrine) the Spiri­tual constitution of man, the various entities or principles existing in him, and ascertain whether e ither of those entities entering into his composition can appear on earth :dter his death ; and, if so, what it is that so appears.,

* V e r y t r u e . B u t w h o w o u l d b e - a l l o w e d t o g i r o o u t t h o “ r e a l e s o t e r i c o n e ” ? — E l ) .

t Tlie Astral Body—so called-—Ed.

You have read some of Professor Tyndal l ' s excellent papers on what, he calls ‘■Germ T h e o i y / ’ giving the facts a scei lained by liis exper iment s. His conclusions may be brie fly sta ted thus :— Even in a very small volume of space th e re are myriads of protoplasmic ge rms floating in ether. If, for instance, say,— wate r (clear water) is exposed to the m and if t hey fall into it, seme form of life or other will be evolved out, of them. Now, what are the agencies for tlie b r ing ing c.f this life into existence ? Ev id en t ly :—

I. The icafer, which is the field, so to say, for the growth of life. ,

It. Tlie protoplasmic germ, out of which life or a living organism is to be evolved or developed. And, lastly—

III . The power, energy, force or tendency which springs into activity a t the touch or combination of the protoplasmic germ and the water, and which evolves or develope life and its natural attributes.

Similarly, there are three primary causes which bring the human being into existence. 1 shall call them for the purpose of discussion by the following names

(1) Parabralunam—The Universal Spirit.(2) Sakti (The crown of the astral light combining in

itself all the powers of nature).(o) P r a k r i t i , which in its original or primary shape is

represented by Akasa (really, every form of m atter is filially reducible to Alatsa)*

I t is ordinarily stated th a t P r a k r i t i or Akasa is tho K s h d tra m or the basis which corresponds to water in the example we have taken : B ra h m a m the germ, and Sakti the power or energy th a t comes into existence at their union or contact, i*

B ut this is not the view which the Upaulshadft tnke of the question Accoidingto tllem, B rahm um l is the K sha tron or basis, Akasa or Prakriti, the germ or seed, aud Sakti the power evolved by thpir union or contact. And this is the real scientific, philosophical mode of stating- the case.

Now-, according to the adepts of ancient Aryavarta, seven p r inc ip les arc evolved out of these three primary entities. Algebra teaches us th a t the number of combinations of n things taken one a t a time, tv:o at a time, three at a timeand so forth = 2 u— 1.

Applying this formula to the piesent case, tlie number of entities evolved from different combinations of thesethree primary causes amounts to 2 6 — 1 = 8— 1 ==7.

As a general mle, whenever seven entities are mentioned in the ancient occult science of India, in any connection whatsoever, you m ust suppose tha t those seven entities came into existence from three p r im a r y entities ; and th a t these three entities again, are evolved out of a single entity or M o n a d . To take a familiar example, the seven coloured rays in the solar rav are evolved out of three p r im a r y coloured rays ; and the three primary colours co-exist with the four

* Tlio Tibetan esoteric Buddhist doctrine teaches th a t Prakriti is cosmic matter, out of which ali visible forms are produced ; and ^ a s a tha t .same cosmic matter,—but still more imponderablo its .spirit, as it were, “ P ra kr i t i ’ being the body or substance, aud “ Akasa-Sakti” its soul or energy.—En.

+ Or, in other word.v^/’mXyid', Swabhitvitt or Akasa is—Spack as the Tibetans have it ; Space tilled with whatsoever substance or no substance a t all ; i-e- wiih substance so imponderable as to be only metaphysically conceivable- Brahmam then, would be the germ thrown into the soil of tha t field, and Sakti , that mysterious energy or force which develops it, and which is called by the Buddhist Arahats of Tibet—F o -h a t “ That which we call form (rupa) isnot different fi om that which we call space (SiUiyata)........Spucois not different from Form. Form is the same as Space; Space is the same as Form- And so with the other skandhas, whether vedana, or sanjua, or sanskara or vijnava, theyr are cach the sameas their opposite”........(Book of Sin-king or the “ H eart Sutra.”Chinese translation of the “ Maha-Prajna-Paramita-Hridaya-Sutra.” Chapter on the “ Avalokiteslnvara,” or the manifested IluddJia-) So

. that, the Aryan and Tibetan or Arhat doctrines agree perfectly in substance, differing but in names given and the way' of putt ing it, a distinction resulting from the fact tha t the Vedantin Brahmans believe in Parabrahmam, a dcific power, impersonal though it may be, while the Buddhists entirely reject i t ,—El}.

$ See Appendixx Note IV,—Eo-

S e c o n d a r y c o l o u r s i n t h e s o l a r r a y s . S i m i l a r l y , t h e t h r e e p r i m a r y e n t i t i e s w h i c h b r o u g h t m a n i n t o e x i s t e n c e c o ­e x i s t i n h i m w i t h t h e / o w r secondary e n t i t i e s w h i c h a r o s e f r o m d i f f e r e n t c o m b i n a t i o n s o f t h e t h r e e p r i m a r y e n t i t i e s .

N o w t h e s e s e v e n entities w h i c h i n t h e i r t o t a l i t y c o n s t i t u t e m a n , a r e a s f o l l o w s :— I s h a l l e n u m e r a t e t h e m i n t h e o r d e r a d o p t e d i n y o u r a r t i c l e , a s f a r a s t h e t w o o r d e r s ( t h e

B r a h m a n i e a l a n d t h e T i b e t a n ) c o i n c i d e :—Corresponding names in your

classification.Sthulasariram (Physical Body).I .

I I .

I I I .IV .

V.

VI.

V II .

Prakriti.Tlie enti ty evolved } out of the combinn- ( tion of Prakriti nnd J Sakli )Sakti.The entity evolved] out of the combina- ( tion of Brahmam, Sakti and Prakriti.'

D o. 'Brahmam and Prakriti.

D o.Brahm am and Sakti. Brahmam.

Sdkshmasarh-am or Linga- sartram (Astral Body).

Kdmarupa ( t h e Perisprit).

Jtvdtmd (Life-Soul).

Physical Intelligence (or nial soul).

Spir itual Intelligence (or Soul). T h e emanation from the Au- s o l u t e , & c . (or pure spirit.)

B e f o r e p r o c e e d i n g t o e x a m i n e t h e n a t u r e o f t h e s e s e v e n

e n t i t i e s , a f e w g e n e r a l e x p l a n a t i o n s a r e i n d i s p e n s a b l y

n e c e s s a r y . .I . . T h e s e c o n d a r y p r i n c i p l e s a r i s i n g o u t o f - t h e c o m ­

b i n a t i o n o f p r i m a r y p r i n c i p l e s a r e q u i t e d i f f e r e n t i n t h e i r

n a t u r e f r o m t h e e n t i t i e s ' o u t o f w h o s e c o m b i n a t i o n t h e y c a m e i n t o e x i s t e n c e . T h e c o m b i n a t i o n s i n q u e s t i o n a r e n o t o f t h e n a t u r e o f m e r e m e c h a n i c a l j u x t a p o s i t i o n s , a s i t w e r e . T h e y d o n o t e v e n c o r r e s p o n d t o c h e m i c a l c o m ­b i n a t i o n s . C o n s e q u e n t l y n o v a l i d i n f e r e n c e s a s r e g a r d s t h e n a t u r e o f t h e c o m b i n a t i o n s i n q u e s t i o n , c a n b e

d r a w n b y a n a l o g y f r o m t h e n a t u r e [ V a r i e t y ? ] o f t h e s e

c o m b i n a t i o n s . .I I . T h e g e n e r a l p r o p o s i t i o n t h a t w h e n o n c e a c a u s e i s

r e m o v e d i t s - e f f e c t v a n i s h e s , i s n o t u n i v e r s a l l y a p p l i c a b l e . T a k e , f o r i n s t a n c e , t h e f o l l o w i n g e x a m p l e :— i f y o u o n c e c o m m u n i c a t e a c e r t a i n a m o u n t o f m o m e n t u m t o a b a l l , v e l o c i t y o f a p a r t i c u l a r d e g r e e i n a p a r t i c u l a r d i r e c t i o n i s t h e r e s u l t . N o w , t h e c a u s e o f t h i s m o t i o n c e a s e s t o e x i s t

w h e n t h e i n s t a n t a n e o u s s u d d e n i m p a c t o r b l o w w h i c h c o n v e y e d t h e m o m e n t u m i s c o m p l e t e d ; b u t , a c c o r d i n g t o

t h e first Law of Motion, t h e b a l l w i l l c o n t i n u e t o m o v e o n f o r e v e r a n d e v e r w i t h u n d i m i n i s h e d v e l o c i t y i n t h e s a m e d i r e c t i o n u n l e s s t h e s a i d m o t i o n i s a l t e r e d , d i m i n i s h e d , n e u t r a l i z e d o r c o u n t e r a c t e d b y e x t r a n e o u s c a u s e s . T h u s , i f t h e b a l l s t o p , i t w i l l n o t b e o n a c c o u n t o f t h e a b s e n c e o f t h e c a u s e o f i t s m o t i o n , b u t i n c o n s e q u e n c e o f t h e e x i s t e n c e o f e x t r a n e o n s c a u s e s w h i c h p r o d u c e t h e

s a i d r e s u l t .A g a i n , t a k e t h e i n s t a n c e o f subjective phenomena.N o w t h e p r e s e n c e o f t h i s i n k - b o t t l e b e f o r e m e i s p r o ­

d u c i n g i n m e o r i n m y m i n d a m e n t a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f i t s f o r m , v o l u m e , c o l o u r a n d s o f o r t h . T h e b o t t l e i n q u e s ­t i o n m a y b e r e m o v e d , b u t s t i l l i t s m e n t a l p i c t u r e m a y c o n ­t i n u e t o e x i s t . H e r e , a g a i n , y o u s e e , t h e e f f e c t s u r v i v e s t h e c a u s e . M o r e o v e r , t h e e f f e c t m a y a t a n y s u b s e q u e n t t i m e b e c a l l e d i n t o c o n s c i o u s e x i s t e n c e , - w h e t h e r t h e o r i g i n a l

c a u s e b e p r e s e n t o r n o t .

N o w , i n t h e c a s e o f t h e f i f t h p r i n c i p l e a b o v e - m e n t i o n e d — t h e e n t i t y t h a t c a m e i n t o e x i s t e n c e b y t h e c o m b i n a t i o n o f Brahmam and Prakriti ,— i f t h e g e n e r a l p r o p o s i t i o n ( i n t h e “ F r a g m e n t s o f O c c u l t T r u t h ” ) i s c o r r e c t , t h i s p r i n ­c i p l e w h i c h c o r r e s p o n d s t o t h e Physical intelligence m u s t c e a s e t o e x i s t w h e n e v e r t h e Brahmam o r t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e s h o u l d c e a s t t o e x i s t f o r t h e p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l ; b u t t h e f a c t i s c e r t a i n l y o t h e r w i s e . Y o u s t a t e d t l i e g e n e r a l p r o p o s i t i o n u n d e r c o n s i d e r a t i o n i n s u p p o r t o f y o u r a s s e r t i o n t h a t w h e n e v e r t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e c e a s e s t o e x i s t ' f o r a n y p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l t h e s i x t h p r i n c i p l e a l s o

p e a s e s t o e x i s t f o r h i m . T h e a s s e r t i o n i s u n d o u b t e d l y t r u e

t h o u g h t h e m o d e o f s t a t i n g i t a n d t h e r e a s o n s a s s i g n e d f o r i t a r e t o m y m i n d o b j e c t i o n a b l e .

Y o u s a i d t h a t i n c a s e s w h e r e t e n d e n c i e s o f a m a n ’s m i n d a r e e n t i r e l y m a t e r i a l , a n d a l l s p i r i t u a l a s p i r a t i o n s a n d

t h o u g h t s w e r e a l t o g e t h e r a b s e n t f r o m h i s m i n d , t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e l e a v e s h i m e i t h e r b e f o r e o r a t t h e t i m e o f d e a t h , a n d t h e s i x t h p r i n c i p l e d i s a p p e a r s w i t h i t . I l c r e , t h e v e r y p r o p o s i t i o n t h a t t h e t e n d e n c i e s o f t h e p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i ­d u a l ’s m i n d a r e entirely m a t e r i a l , i n v o l v e s t h e a s s e r t i o n t h a t t h e r e i s n o s p i r i t u a l i n t e l l i g e n c e o r s p i r i t u a l Jigo i n h i m . Y o u s h o u l d t h e n h a v e s a i d t h a t , w h e n e v e r s p i r i t u a l i n t e l l i g e n c e s h o u l d c e a s e t o e x i s t i n a n y p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l , t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e c e a s e s t o e x i s t f o r t h a t

p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l f o r a l l p u r p o s e s . O f c o u r s e , i t d o c s n o t f l y o f f a n y w h e r e . T h e r e c a n n e v e r b e a n y t h i n g l i k e a c h a n g e o f p o s i t i o n i n t h e c a s e o f B r a h m a m . * T h e

a s s e r t i o n m e r e l y m e a n s t h a t w h e n t h e r e i s n o r e c o g n i t i o n w h a t e v e r o f Brahmam, o r s p i r i t , o r s p i r i t u a l l i f e , o r s p i r i t u a l c o n s c i o u s n e s s , t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e h a s c e a s e d t o e x e r c i s e a n y i n f l u e n c e o r c o n t r o l o v e r t h e i n d i v i d u a l ’s d e s t i n i e s .

I s h a l l n o w s t a t e w h a t i s m e a n t ( i n t h e A r y a n d o c t r i n e ) b y t h e s e v e n p r i n c i p l e s a b o v e e n u m e r a t e d .

I . — Prakriti. T h i s i s t h e b a s i s o f SthiUasariram a n d r e p r e s e n t s i t i n t h e a b o v e - m e n t i o n e d c l a s s i f i c a t i o n .

I I . Prakriti a n d Sakti.— T h i s i s t h e Lingasarirarn, o r a s t r a l b o d y .

I I I . S akti--This p r i n c i p l e c o r r e s p o n d s t o y o u r Kdmariipa. T h i s p o w e r o r f o r c e i s p l a c e d b y a n c i e n t o c c u l t i s t s i n t h e Ndbhichakram. T h i s p o w e r c a n g a t h e r akdsa o r prakriti a n d m o u l d i t i n t o a n y d e s i r e d s h a p e . I t h a s v e r y g r e a t s y m p a t h y w i t h t h e f i f t h p r i n c i p l e , a n d c a n b e m a d e t o a c t b y i t s i n f l u e n c e o r c o n t r o l ,

I V . Brahmam, Sakti a n d Prakriti.— T h i s a g a i n c o r ­r e s p o n d s t o y o u r s e c o n d p r i n c i p l e , Jvrnhna. T h i s p o w e r

r e p r e s e n t s t h e u n i v e r s a l l i f e - p r i n c i p l e w h i c h e x i s t s in n a t u r e . I t s s e a t i s t h e Anahatachakram ( h e a r t ) I t i s a f o r c e o r p o w e r w h i c h c o n s t i t u t e s w h a t i s c a l l e d Jrvo, o r l i f e . I t i s , a s y o u s a y , i n d e s t r u c t i b l e , a n d i t s a c t i v i t y i s m e r e l y t r a n s f e r r e d a t t h e t i m e o f d e a t h t o a n o t h e r s e t o f a t o m s , t o f o r m a n o t h e r o r g a n i s m . B u t i t i s n o t c a l l e d Jicutmd in o u r p h i l o s o p h y . T h e t e r m Jhvtrnd i s g e n e r a l l y a p p l i e d b y o u r p h i l o s o p h e r s t o t h e s e v e n t h p r i n ­c i p l e w h e n i t i s d i s t i n g u i s h e d f r o m Paravdtinid o r Parahrahmam.'f

V . Brahm a n d Prakriti.— T h i s , i n o u r A r y a n p h i l o s o p h y , c o r r e s p o n d s t o y o u r f i f t h p r i n c i p l e , c a l l e d t h e Physical Intelligence. A c c o r d i n g t o o u r p h i l o s o p h e r s , t h i s i s t h e e n t i t y i n w h i c h w h a t i s c a l l e d Mind h a s i t s s e a t • o r b a s i s . T h i s i s t h e m o s t d i f f i c u l t p r i n c i p l e o f a l l t o e x p l a i n , a n d t h e p r e s e n t d i s c u s s i o n e n t i r e l y t u r n s u p o n t h e v i e w w e t a k e o f i t .

N o w , w h a t i s m i n d ? I t i s a m y s t e r i o u s s o m e t h i n g w h i c h i s c o n s i d e r e d t o b e t h e s e a t o f c o n s c i o u s n e s s — o f s e n s a t i o n s , e m o t i o n s , v o l i t i o n s a n d t h o u g h t s . P s y c h o l ­o g i c a l a n a l y s i s s h o w s i t t o b e a p p a r e n t l y a c o n g e r i e s o f m e n t a l s t a t e s , a n d p o s s i b i l i t i e s o f m e n t a l s t a t e s , c o n n e c t e d b y

w h a t i s c a l l e d m e m o r y , a n d c o n s i d e r e d t o h a v e a d i s t i n c t e x i s t e n c e a p a r t f r o m a n y o f i t s p a r t i c u l a r m e n t a l s t a t e s o r i d e a s . N o w i n w h a t e n t i t y h a s t h i s m y s t e r i o u s s o m e t h i n g i t s p o t e n t i a l o r a c t u a l e x i s t e n c e ? Alemory a u d expectation w h i c h f o r m , a s i t w e r e , t h e r e a l f o u n d a t i o n o f w h a t i s c a l l e d individuality, o r Ahankaravn, m u s t h a v e t h e i r s e a t

o f e x i s t e n c e s o m e w h e r e . M o d e r n p s y c h o l o g i s t s o f K u r o p o

* T r u e — f rom t h e s t a n d p o in t of A ry a n Esotericism, and th e Upanitshads ; n u t q u i te so in th e cat-e of t h e Arahat or T ib e ta n esoteric do c t r in e ; an d i t is only 0 11 t h i s one so l i ta ry p o in t t h a t tlio two te a c h in g s d isagree , as fa r as w e know . T h e difference is very t r if l ing th o u g h , res t ing , as i t does , solely up o n th e tw o var ious m e th o d s of v iew ing th e one and th e sa m e th in g f rom tw o d if feren t a spec ts .— See A ppend ix , N o te I V — K l\

t T h e I m p t r s o n a l P i i ra tua l im d in t h u s b e in g m a d e to m erge or s e p a ra te i tse l f in to a personal “ j iv a tn ia ,” o r th e personal god of every h u m a n c re a tu r e T h is is, again, a difference necess i ta ted by th e I jrahnianir .a l belief in a God w h e th e r personal o r im personal , w h i le th e B u d d h i s t A ra h a t s , re jec t ing t h i s idea en t i re ly , recoguiso no deity apart from man.—See Appendix, Note V.—Eel.

g e n e r a l l y s a y t h a t t h e m a t e r i a l s u b s t a n c e o f Brain i s t h e s c a t o f m i n d ; a n d t h a t p a s t subjective experiences, w h i c h c a n b e r e c a l l e d b y m e m o r y , a n d w h i c h i n t h e i r t o t a l i t y c o n s t i t u t e w h a t i s c a l l e d individuality, e x i s t t h e r e i n i n t h e s h a p e o f c e r t a i n , u n i n t e l l i g i b l e m y s t e r i o u s i m p r e s s i o n s a n d c h a n g e s i n t h e n e r v e s a n d n e r v e - c e n t r e s o l t h e c e r e b r a l h e m i s p h e r e s . C o n s e q u e n t l y , t h e y s a y , t h e m i n d — t h e i n d i v i d u a l m i n d — i s d e s t r o y e d w h e n t h e b o d y i s d e s t r o y e d ; s o t h e r e i s n o p o s s i b l e e x i s t e n c e a f t e r d e a t h .

B u t t h e r e a r e a f e w f a c t s a m o n g t h o s e a d m i t t e d b y t h e s e p h i l o s o p h e r s w h i c h a r e s u f f i c i e n t f o r u s t o d e m o l i s h t h e i r t h e o r y . I n e v e r y p o r t i o n o f t h e h u m a n b o d y , a c o n s t a n t c h a n g e g o e s o n w i t h o u t i n t e r ­m i s s i o n . E v e r y t i s s u e , e v e r y m u s c u l a r f i b r e a n d n e r v c -

t u b e , a n d e v e r y g a n g l i o n i c c e n t r e i n t h e b r a i n i s u n d e r ­g o i n g a n i n c e s s a n t c h a n g e . I n t h e c o u r s e o f a m a n ’s

l i f e t i m e t h e r e m a y b e a s e r i e s o f complete tram-1 ormations o f t h e s u b s t a n c e o f h i s .lirain. N e v e r t h e l e s s t h e m e m o r y o f h i s p a s t m e n t a l s t a t e s r e m a i n s u n a l t e r e d . T h e r e m a y

b e a d d i t i o n s o f n e w s u b j e c t i v e e x p e r i e n c e s a n d s o m e m e n t a l s t a t e s m a y b e a l t o g e t h e r f o r g o t t e n , b u t n o i n d i v i d u a l m e n t a l s t a t e i s a l t e r e d . T h e p e r s o n ’s s e n s e of individual­ity r e m a i n s t h e s a m e t h r o u g h o u t t h e s e c o n s t a n t a l t e r a ­t i o n s i u t h e b r a i n s u b s t a n c e . [ T h i s i s a l s o s o u n d B u d d h i s t p h i l o s o p h y , t h e t r a n s f o r m a t i o n i n q u e s t i o n b e i n g

k n o w n a s t h e c h a n g e o f t h e skandhas.— L'd.] I t i s a b l e t o s u r v i v e a l l t h e s e c h a n g e s , a n d i t c a n s u r v i v e a l s o t h e

c o m p l e t e d e s t r u c t i o n o f t h e m a t e r i a l s u b s t a n c c o f t h e b r a i n .

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i t s s e a t o f e x i s t e n c e , a c c o r d i n g t o o u r p h i l o s o p h e r s , i n a n occult power or force w h i c h k e e p s a r e g i s t r y , a s i t w e r e , o f a l l o u r m e n t a l i m p r e s s i o n s . T h e p o w e r i t s e l f i s i n d e s t r u c ­t i b l e , t h o u g h b y t h e o p e r a t i o n o f c e r t a i n a n t a g o n i s t i c c a u s e s i t s i m p r e s s i o n s m a y i n c o u r s e o f t i m e b e e f f a c e d , i n p a r t o r w h o l l y .

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o r e n t i t i e s a b o v e - m e n t i o n e d . T h e s e s e v e n o c c u l t p o w e r s i n t h e m i c r o c o s m c o r r e s p o n d w i t h , o r a r e t h e c o u n t e r p a r t s o f t h e o c c u l t 2> o w e r s i n t h e m a c r o c o s m . T h e m e n t a l a n d s p i r i ­t u a l c o n s c i o u s n e s s o f t h e i n d i v i d u a l b e c o m e s t h e g e n e r a l c o n ­s c i o u s n e s s o f Brahmam w h e n t h e b a r r i e r o f i n d i v i d u a l i t y i s

w h o l l y r e m o v e d , a n d w h e n t h e s e v e n p o w e r s i n t h e m i c r o ­c o s m a r c p l a c e d en rapport w i t h t h e s e v e n p o w e r s i n t h e m a c r o c o s m .

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t r a n s m iss io n o f e n e r g y o r pow er.

N o w t h i s f i f t h p r i n c i p l e r e p r e s e n t s i n o u r p h i l o s o p h y , Ilia mind, o r , t o s p e a k m o r e c o r r e c t l y , t h e p o w e r o r f o r c e

a b o v e d e s c r i b e d , t h e i m p r e s s i o n s o f t h e m e n t a l s t a t e s t h e r e i n , a u d t h e n o t i o n o f i n d i v i d u a l i t y o r Ahankdra.m, g e n e r a t e d b y t h e i r c o l l e c t i v e o p e r a t i o n . T h i s p r i n c i p l e i s c a l l e d m e r e l y physical intelligence i n y o u r a r t i c l e . 1 d o n o t k n o w w h a t i s r e a l l y m e a n t b y t h i s e x p r e s s i o n . I t m a y b e t a k e n t o m e a n t h a t i n t e l l i g e n c e w h i c h e x i s t s i n a v e r y l o w s t a t e o f d e v e l o p m e n t i n t h e l o w e r a n i m a l s . Mind m a y e x i s t in d i f f e r e n t s t a g e s o f d e v e l o p m e n t , f r o m t h e v e r y

l o w e s t f o r m s o f o r g a n i c l i f e , w h e r e t h e s i g n s o f i t s e x i s t e n c e o r o p e r a t i o n c a n h a r d l y b e d i s t i n c t l y r e a l i s e d , u p t o m a n , i n w h o m i t r e a c h e s i t s h i g h e s t s t a t e o f d e v e l o p m e n t .

I n f a c t , f r o m t h e f i r s t a p p e a r a n c e o f l i f e * u p t o Thureeya Avastha, o r t h e s t a t e o f i S i r v a n a , t h e p r o g r e s s i s , a s i t w e r e , c o n t i n u o u s . W e a s c e n d f r o m t h a t p r i n c i p l e u p t o t h e s e v e n t h b y a l m o s t i m p e r c e p t i b l e g r a d a t i o n s . B u t l o u r s t a g e s a r e r e c o g n i s e d i n t h e p r o g r e s s w h e r e t h e c h a n g e i s

* i n th e A ry a n do c t r in e wliich b L n d s Brahmam, Sakli , a n d l ’ra- kri l l in one, i t is th e fo u r th principle , th e n ; in th o B u d d h i s t esoteri- pism tho second iu c o m b in a t io n w i th th e f irs t .— E d ,

o f a p e c u l i a r k i n d , a n d i s s u c h a s t o a r r e s t a n o b s e r v e r ’s a t t e n t i o n . T h e s e f o u r s t a g e s a r o a s f o l l o w s :—

(L) W h e r e l i f e ( f o u r t h p r i n c i p l e ) m a k e s i t s a p p e a r a n c e .(2) W h e r e t h e e x i s t e n c e o f m i n d b e c o m e s p e r c e p t i b l e

i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h l i f e .( 3 ) W h e r e t h e h i g h e s t s t a t e o f m e n t a l a b s t r a c t i o n

e n d s , a n d spiritual consciousness c o m m e n c e s .( 4 ) W h e r e s p i r i t u a l c o n s c i o u s n e s s d i s a p p e a r s , l e a v i n g

t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e i n a c o m p l e t e s t a t e o fNirvana, o r n a k e d n e s s .

A c c o r d i n g t o o u r p h i l o s o p h e r s , t h o f i f t h p r i n c i p l e u n d e r c o n s i d e r a t i o n i s i n t e n d e d t o r e p r e s e n t the mind in every possible state of development, from the second stage up to the third stage.

IV. Brahmam and Sakti.— T h i s p r i n c i p l e c o r r e s p o n d s t o y o u r “ s p i r i t u a l i n t e l l i g e n c e . ” I t i s , i n f a c t , Buddld (I u s e t h e w o r d Buddhi n o t i n t h e o r d i n a r y s e n s e , b u t i n t h e s e n s e i n w h i c h i t i s u s e d b y o u r a n c i e n t p h ilo s o p h e r s ) ; i n o t h e r

w o r d s , i t i s t h e s c a t o f Bodlia o r Atmabodha. O n e w h o h a s Atma- bodlia i n i t s c o m p l e t e n e s s i s a Buddha. Buddhists know very well what this term signifies. T h i s p r i n c i p l e i s d e ­s c r i b e d i n y o u r a r t i c l e a s a n e n t i t y c o m i n g i n t o e x i s t e n c e b y t h e c o m b i n a t i o n o f Brahmam and Prakriti. I d o n o t a g a i n k n o w i n w h a t p a r t i c u l a r s e n s e t h e w o r d Prakriti i s

u s e d i n t h i s c o n n e c t i o n . A c c o r d i n g t o o u r p h i l o s o p h e r s i t i s a n e n t i t y a r i s i n g f r o m t h e u n i o n o f Brahm a n d Sakti. 1 h a v e a l r e a d y e x p l a i n e d t h e c o n n o t a t i o n a t t a c h e d b y o u r

p h i l o s o p h e r s t o t h e w o r d s Prakriti a n d Sakti.I s t a t e d t h a t Prakriti i n i t s primary s t a t e i s Akdsa. *I f Aldsa b o c o n s i d e r e d t o b o Sakti o r Power b y T h e o s o ­

p h i s t s , - f t h e n m y s t a t e m e n t a s r e g a r d s t h e u l t i m a t e s t a t e o f Prakriti i s l i k e l y t o g i v e r i s e t o c o n f u s i o n a n d m i s a p p r e ­h e n s i o n u n l e s s I e x p l a i n t h e d i s t i n c t i o n b e t w e e n Akdsa, a n d Sakti. Akdsa i s n o t , p r o p e r l y s p e a k i n g , t h e Crown of the Astral light, n o r d o e s i t by itself c o n s t i t u t e a n y o f t h e six primary forces. B u t , g e n e r a l l y s p e a k i n g , w h e n e v e r a n y phenomenal result i s p r o d u c e d , Sakti a c t s i n conjunc­tion with Akdsa. A n d , m o r e o v e r , A kdsa s e r v o s a s a b a s i s

o r Adhishlhanum f o r t h e t r a n s m i s s i o n o f f o r c e c u r r e n t s a n d f o r t h e f o r m a t i o n o r g e n e r a t i o n o f f o r c e o r p o w e r c o r r e l a ­t i o n s . |

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y o u w i l l f i n d t h a t t h i s s y l l a b l e e n t e r s i n t o m o s t o f t h e s a c r e d f o r m u l a ; i n t e n d e d t o b e u s e d i n p r o d u c i n g p h e n o ­m e n a l r e s u l t s . B u t b y i t s e l f i t d o c s n o t r e p r e s e n t a n y Sakti. Y o u m a y , i f y o u p l e a s e , c a l l Sakti, a n a t t r i b u t e o f Akdsa.

I d o n o t t h i n k t h a t a s r e g a r d s t h o n a t u r e o f t h i s p r i n ­c i p l e t h e r e c a n , i n r e a l i t y , e x i s t a n y d i f f e r e n c e o f o p i n i o n b e t w e e n t h e B u d d h i s t a n d B r a h m a n i c a l p h i l o s o p h e r s .

B u d d h i s t a n d B r a h m a n i c a l i n i t i a t e s k n o w v e r y w e l l t h a t m y s t e r i o u s c i r c u l a r m i r r o r c o m p o s e d o f t w o h e m i s p h e r e s w h i e h r e f l e c t s a s i t w e r e t h o r a y s e m a n a t i n g f r o m t h e “ b u r n i n g b u s h ” a n d t h e b l a z i n g s t a r — t h e S p i r i t u a l s u n

s h i n i n g i n C u iD A K A S A M .

T h e s p i r i t u a l i m p r e s s i o n s c o n s t i t u t i n g t h i s p r i n c i p l e h a v o t h e i r e x i s t e n c e i n a n o c c u l t , p o w e r a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e

e n t i t y i u q u e s t i o n . T h e s u c c e s s i v e i n c a r n a t i o n s o f B u d d h a , i n f a c t , m e a n t h e s u c c e s s i v e t r a n s f e r s o f t h i s m y s t e r i o u s p o w e r o r t h e i m p r e s s i o n s t h e r e o n . T h e t r a n s f e r i s o n l y

* A ccord ing to t h e B u d d h i s t s in Akdsa lies t h a t e te rna l , p o te n t ia l en e rg y w hose fu n c t io n i t is to evolve a l l v is ib le th in g s o u t of itself.— E d

( t ) I t was n e v e r ho cons idered , as wo h a v e show n i t B u t as th e “ F r a g m e n t s ” a re w r i t te n in E ng lish , a language lack in g such a u ab u n d a n c e of m e ta p h y s ic a l t e r m s to exp ress every m in u te change of form, su b s ta n c e a n d s t a te a s found in th e S a n s k r i t , i t was de e m e d useless to confuse th e W e s te rn r e a d e r u n t r a in e d iu t h e m e th o d s of E a s t e r n e x p re ss io n — m o re th a n necessary, w i th a too nice d i s t in c ­t ion of p ro p e r technical t e r m s . A s “ Prakri ti in i t s p r im a ry s ta te ia A kdsa,’’ an d S ak li “ is a n a t t r i b u t e of A k a s a ,” i t becomes e v id e n t t h a t for th e u n in i t i a te d i t is a ll one. I n d e e d , to sp e a k of th e “ un ion of B r a h m a m a n d P r a k r i t i ” in s tea d of “ B r a h m a m a n d S a k t i ” is no worse th a n for a t.heist to w ri te t h a t “ m an lias come in to ex is tence by th e c o m b in a t io n of sp i r i t a u d m a t t e r , ” whereas , liis w o rd s f ra m e d in an o r th o d o x shape, o u g h t to r e a d “ m an as a l iving soul was c rea ted b y the power (or b r e a th ' of G od o ve r m a t t e r ”__ E d .

J T l ia t is to say, t h e A r y a n Akdsa is a n o t h e r word fo r B u d d h is t S p a c e (iu i t s m e ta p h y s ic a l m eau ing ) ,— E d .

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l a t e d h i s Ahankdram a n d r e d u c e d i t t o a s h e s i n C ii id a g - N IK U N D U M a n d h a s s u c c e e d e d i n m a k i n g h i s t h o u g h t s c o r r e s p o n d w i t h t h e e t e r n a l l a w s o f n a t u r e a n d i n b e ­c o m i n g a c o - w o r k e r , w i t h n a t u r e . O r t o p u t t h o s a m e t h i n g

i n o t h e r w o r d s , w h e n h e has attained the state of Nirvana, the condition of final negation, negation of individual or separate existence. f

V I I . Atma .— T h e e m a n a t i o n f r o m t h e a b s o l u t e ; c o r ­r e s p o n d i n g t o t h e s e v e n t h p r i n c i p l e . A s r e g a r d s t h i s e n t i t y t h e r e e x i s t s p o s i t i v e l y n o r e a l d i f f e r e n c e o f o p i n i o n b e t w e e n

t h e T i b e t a n B u d d h i s t a d e p t s a n d o u r a n c i e n t H i s h i s .W e m u s t n o w c o n s i d e r w h i c h o f t h e s e e n t i t i e s c a n a p p e a r

a f t e r t h e i n d i v i d u a l ’s d e a t h i n s & m c e - r o o m s a n d p r o d u c e

t h e s o - c a l l e d s p i r i t u a l i s t i c p h e n o m e n a .N o w , t h e a s s e r t i o n o f t h e S p i r i t u a l i s t s t h a t t h e “ d i s ­

e m b o d i e d s p i r i t s ” o f p a r t i c u l a r h u m a n b e i n g s a p p e a r i n

s ^ a n c e - r o o m s n e c e s s a r i l y i m p l i e s t h a t t h o e n t i t y t l i a t s o a p p e a r s b e a r s t h e s t a m p o f s o m e p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l ’s individuality ?

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e n t i t i e s i n d i v i d u a l i t y h a s i t s s e a t o f e x i s t e n c e . A p p a r e n t ­l y i t e x i s t s i n t h e p e r s o n ’s p a r t i c u l a r f o r m a t i o n o f b o d y , a n d i n h i s s u b j e c t i v e e x p e r i e n c e s , ( c a l l e d h i s m i n d i n t h e i r

t o t a l i t y ) . O u t h e d e a t h o f t h e i n d i v i d u a l l i i s b o d y i s d e ­s t r o y e d ; l i i s lingasarirarn b e i n g d e c o m p o s e d , t h e p o w e r a s s o ­c i a t e d w i t h i t , b e c o m e s m i n g l e d i n t l i e c u r r e n t o f t h e c o r r e ­s p o n d i n g p o w e r i n t h e m a c r o c o s m . S i m i l a r l y , t h e t h i r d a n d f o u r t h p r i n c i p l e s a r e m i n g l e d w i t h t h e i r c o r r e s p o n d i n g p o w e r s . T h e s e e n t i t i e s m a y a g a i n e n t e r i n t o t h e c o m p o s i ­t i o n o f o t h e r o r g a n i s m s . A s t h e s e e n t i t i e s b e a r n o i m p r e s ­s i o n o f i n d i v i d u a l i t y , t h e S p i r i t u a l i s t s h a v e 110 r i g h t t o s a y t h a t t h e “ disembodied spirit” o f t h e h u m a n b e i n g h a s a p ­p e a r e d i n t h e s i i a n c e - r o o m , w h e n e v e r a n y o f t h e s e e n t i t i e s

m a y a p p e a r t h e r e . I n f a c t , t h e y h a v e 110 m e a n s o f a s c e r ­t a i n i n g t h a t t h e y b e l o n g e d t o a n y p a r t i c u l a r i n d i v i d u a l .

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l a n g m i s s i o n i r i e s w h o m i x g r e a t l y w i t h t h e s e p e o p l e o n t h e b o r d e r s o f B r i t i s h L a h o u l — a n d o u g h t t o k n o w b e t t e r —

b e t w e e n t h e B h o n s a n d t h e t w o r i v a l B u d d h i s t s e c t s , t h e Y e l l o w C a p s a n d t h e R e d C a p s . T h e l a t t e r o f t h e s e

h a v e o p p o s e d t h e r e f o r m o f T z o n g - k a - p a f r o m t h e f i r s t a n d h a v e a l w a y s a d h e r e d t o o l d B u d d h i s m s o g r e a t l y m i x e d u p n o w w i t h t h e p r a c t i c e s o f t h e B h o n s . W e r e o u r O r i e n t a l ­i s t s t o k n o w m o r e o f t h e m , a n d c o m p a r e t h e a n c i e n t B a b y l o n i a n B e l o r B a a l w o r s h i p w i t h t h e r i t e s o t t h e B h o n s , t h e y w o u l d f i n d a n u n d e n i a b l e c o n n e c t i o n b e t w e e n t h e t w o . T o b e g i n a n a r g u m e n t h e r e , p r o v i n g t h e o r i g i n o f t h o a b o r i g i n e s o f T i b e t a s c o n n e c t e d w i t h o n e o f I h e t - i r o e g i v a t r a c e s w h i c h s u p e r s e d e d e a c h o t h e r i n B a b y ­l o n i a , w h e t h e r w e c a l l t h e m t h e A k k a d i a n s ( i n v e n t e d b y

F . L e n o r m a n t , ) o r t h e p r i m i t i v e T u r a n i a n s , C h a l d e e s a n d A s s y r i a n s — i s o u t o f q u e s t i o n . B e i t a s i t m a y , t h e r e i s r e a s o n t o c a l l t h e t r a n s - H i m a l a y a n e s o t e r i c d o c t r i n e C h a l d e o — T i b e t a n . A n d , w h e n w e r e m e m b e r t h a t t h e V e d a s c a m e — a g r e e a b l y t o a l l t r a d i t i o n s — f r o m t h e M a n s - s o r o w a L a k e i n T i b e t , a n d t h e B r a h m i n s t h e m s e l v e s f r o m t h e f a r N o r t h , w e a r e j u s t i f i e d i n l o o k i n g o n t h e e s o t e r i c d o c t r i n e s o f e v e r y p e o p l e w h o o n c e h a d o r s t i l l h a s i t — a s h a v i n g p r o c e e d e d f r o m o n e a n d t h e s a m e s o u r c e : a n d , t.o t h u s c a l l i t t h e “ A r y a n - C h a l d e o - T i b e t a n ” d o c t r i n e , o r U n i v e r s a l W isd om R e l i g i o n . “ S e e k f o r t h e L o s t W o r d a m o n g t h e h i e r o p h a n t s o f T a r t a r y , C h i n a a n d T i b e t , ” w a s t h e a d v i c e o f S w e d e n b o r g , t h e s e e r .

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n o w r e g a r d a s I n d i a . T h e y w e r e n e v e r i n d i g e n o u s t o i t s s o i l . T h e r e w a s a t i m e w h e n t h e a n c i e n t n a t i o n s o f t h e W e s t

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t h e la s t s e n t e n c e a s ig n o f in te r ro g a t io n , as w ell h e m ay.

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n o r t h - w e s t o f T i b e t . S o m e p l a c e i t w i t h i n t h e u n e x p l o r e d . c e n t r a l r e g i o n s , i n a c c e s s i b l e e v e n t o t h e f e a r l e s s n o m a d i c

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Iswara— t h e p e r s o n a l G o d . T h e Upanishads— t h e V e d a n ­ta^ S c r i p t u r e s — m e n t i o n n o s u c h G o d a n i , o n e w o u l d v a i n l y s e e k i n t h e m a n y a l l u s i o n s t o a c o n s c i o u s d e i t y .

T h e B r a h m a m , o r P a r a b r a h m , t h e ABSOLUTE o f t h o V e d a n t i n s , i s n e u t e r a n d - u n c o n s c i o u s , a n d h a s n o c o n ­n e c t i o n w i t h t h e m a s c u l i n e B r a h m a o f t h e H i n d u T r i a d ,

o r Trimurti. S o m e O r i e n t a l i s t s r i g h t l y b e l i e v e t h e n a m e d e r i v e d f r o m t h e v e r b “ B r i l l , ” t o grow o r increase, a n d t o b e , i n t h i s s e n s e , t h e universal expansive force of nature, t h e v i v i f y i n g a n d s p i r i t u a l p r i n c i p l e , o r p o w e r , s p r e a d

t h r o u g h o u t t h e u n i v e r s e a n d w l i i c h i n i t s c o l l e c t i v i t y i s t h e

o n e A b s o l u t e n e s s , t h e o n e L i f e a n d t h e o n l y R e a l i t y .

SU PPLEM EN TAL N OTE TO “ THE BENI-EL OIIIM.”

B Y M I K Z A M O O R A D A L E E B E G , F . T . S .

I t a k e t h i s o p p o r t u n i t y o f a c k n o w l e d g i n g t h e k i n d n e s s o f M r . J o h n Y a r k e r , o f M a n c h e s t e r , i n c o m m u n i c a t i n g f o r m e h i s r e m a r k s o n “ T h e B o o k o f E n o c h ” p u b l i s h e d i n t h o A u g u s t n u m b e r o f t h o T h e o s o p h is t . I t a f f o r d s m e t h e h i g h e s t g r a t i f i c a t i o n t o f i n d t h a t t h e s l i g h t e « s a y w h i c h , u n d e r t h e n a m e o f “ T h e B e n i E l o h i m , ” I m a d e t o u n r a v e l t h e t a n g l e d w e b o f p r i m e v a l O c c u l t - S y m b o l i s m , h a s m e r i t ­e d t h e a p p l a u s e o f s o d i s t i n g u i s h e d a n i n v e s t i g a t o r o f m y s t i c a l A n t i q u i t i e s . I n t h e p e r h a p s p r e s u m p t u o u s e n ­d e a v o r t o d i r e c t h i s a t t e n t i o n t o n e w c l u e s f o r t h e “ L o s t W o r d , ” I v e n t u r e t o o f f e r a f e w r e m a r k s w h i c h s u g g e s t

t h e m s e l v e s t o m e o n r e a d i n g t h e e x t r a c t s h e s o k i n d l y

f o r w a r d e d .A s h e v e r y t r u l y s a y s , “ Samyaza" a n d “ Azazi-el" a r e i d e n ­

t i c a l w i t h “ S a m i - E l , ” w h i c h i s t h e s a m e a s “ S a t a n ” o r t h o

“ G r e a t S e r p e n t , ” t h e P r i m e v a l G i v e r o f L i g h t a n d K n o w ­l e d g e a n d o f Life— a s t h e w o r l d i n g e n e r a l u n d e r s t a n d s i t . A l s o w i t h “ S h a m s ” o r “ S h a m a s h ” — t h e “ S u n ” a n d m y t h i ­c a l a n c e s t o r o f t h e S h e m i t e s ; w h o , a g a i n , i s t h e s a m e a s S h e t l i , S e t , S h i s l i , S a t , T a t , T a u t , S i s u t , H e r m e s , a n d t h e

o t h e r m y t h i c a l F a t h e r s o f S c i e n c e . T h u s “ S h a m i - A z a ” i s “ t h e B l a z i n g S u n , o r t h e M i g h t y S u n ’' ; “A z a z i - E l ” “ t h e

B r i l l i a n t o r M i g h t y G o d . ” ; “ S h a m i - E l ” “ t h e S u n - G o d . ” A n d s o o n , r i n g i n g t h e c h a n g e s o n “ A z a ”— t h e E n e r g e t i c o r M i g h t y , o r B l a z i n g , a n d “ S h a m s ”— t h e S u n — a n d “ E l ” t h e p a t r o n y m i c s u f f i x o f t h e E l o h i t e s . A s t h e E s o t e r i c s i g n i f i c a n c e o f t h i s i s t o u c h e d o n m o r e i n d e t a i l in m y a r t i c l e “ T h e W a r i n H e a v e n , ” j u s t p u b l i s h e d i n t h o T iie o s o p ii is t , I s h a l l s a y n o m o r e o n t h i s p a r t o f t h e s u b ­j e c t s a v e t h a t t h e n a m e “ S m n s - a v i - e l , ” g i v e n a s o n e o f t h e n a m e s o f t h o a n g e l s i n “ E n o c h , ” s e e m s t o b e o n e o f t h o s e “ r o l l i n g s u p ” w h i c h I h a v e s o f r e q u e n t l y n o t i c e d i n S h e m i t e M y t h o l o g y , b y a combination o f t h e s e p a r a t e G o d h e a d s o f “ S h a m s ” ( t h e S u n ) , a n d “ Y a v a ” ( J u p i t e r ) .I a m n o w w o r k i n g o n o t h e r “ a n g e l s ’ ” n a m e s w i t h a v i e w t o t h e i r i d e n t i f i c a t i o n w i t h o l d S h e m i t e a n d K l i a m i t e d e i t i e s a n d w i t h t h e P l a n e t s , b u t I d o n o t y e t f e e l j u s t i f i e d i n p u b l i s h i n g t h e r e s u l t s a r r i v e d a t . P e r h a p s t h i s m a y s e t M r . Y a r k e r o n t h e s a m e t r a c k , a n d a c o r r e l a t i o n o f t h o r e s u l t s w e i n d e p e n d e n t l y a c h i e v e , m a y p r o v e v a l u a b l e a s ' a h e l p t o O c c u l t a n d M a s o n i c s t u d y .

I n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e a b o v e , I w i s h t o d r a w t h e a t t e n ­t i o n o f M r . Y a r k e r t o t h e c o n s i d e r a t i o n o f t h e i d e n t i t y o f “ S a t a n ” w i t h “ S a t u r n . ” I t i s w e l l k n o w n t h a t “ S a t u r n ” w a 3 a n o l d I t a l i a n d e i t y , w h o w a s v e r y a r b i t r a r i l y i d e n t i f i e d w i t h t h e G r e e k “ K r o n o s ” h y t h e R o m a n s . T h i s h a s c r e a t e d a n a l t o g e t h e r f a l l a c i o u s c o n c e p t i o n e v e r s i n c e .“ K r o n o s ” i s “ B a - a l , ” “ Z e r v a n a A k a r a n a , ” “ B o u n d l e s s T i m e , ” “ T h e F a t h e r - G o d . ” “ S a t u r n , ” 011 t h e c o n t r a r y , w a s i n t r o d u c e d i n t o I t a l y b y t h e “ K h i t a ” i n v a d e r s o f “ H i t - r u r i a ” ( H e t r i m a ) s o m e 2 , 0 0 0 y e a r s B . C . , a n d i s t h e

s a m e a s “ M a l u k - S a t u r ” o f P h o s n i k i a a n d C a n a - a n , w h o

1S , 1 ° t l i e . “ , S a t ” a n d “ T a u t ” o f t h e H i t t i t e s , H y k s o s , ff l E g j ' p t i a n s , a n d should l i a v e b e e n c o - o r d i n a t e d w i t h H e r m e s . I m a y a l s o m e n t i o n t h a t I s e e a v e r y d e c i d e d ' o c c u l t ” s i g n i f i c a n c e i n p o r t i o n s o f t h e X I V C h a p t e r o f t h e B o o k o f E n o c h a s g i v e n b y M r . Y a r k e r . U n f o r t u n a t e ­l y , n o t h a v i n g p e r u s e d t h e w h o l e w o r k , I c a n n o t p r e s u m e

t o g i v e a n o p i n i o n a s t o t h e e v i d e n c e o f a n t i q u i t y i t i n t r i n s i c a l l y p r e s e n t s . J u d g i n g , h o w e v e r , f r o m t h e e x ­t r a c t s g i v e n , I s h o u l d r e f e r i t s a u t h o r s h i p t o t h o p e r i o d o f t h e “ C a p t i v i t y , ’ w h i c h w o u l d g i v e i t j u s t a s g o o d a r i g h t a s “ D a n i e l ' ’ o r “ E s t h e r ” l i a s t o i n s e r t i o n i n t h e B i b l e . T h e B i b l e i t s e l f , i f c a r e f u l l y r e a d , o f f e r s a b u n d a n t p r o o f t h a t t h e a u t h o r s o f i t s “ b o o k s ” s u b s e q u e n t t o t h e s a i d d a t e b e l i e v e d i n w h a t w a s s u b s t a n t i a l l y t h e s a m e t a l e a s t o l d i n “ E n o c h . ”

I n m y i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f t l i e a l l e g o r y o f t h e E l o h i m - m y t h , I d i f f e r m a t e r i a l l y f r o m w h a t , f r o m t h e f e w w o r d s h e s a y s 011 t h e s u b j e c t , a p p e a r s t o b e t h e t h e o r y o f M r . Y a r k e r .

H o p i n g h e w i l l f o r g i v e m e f o r d i f f e r i n g f r o m s o h i g h a n a u t h o r i t y , I r e f e r h i m t o m y f o r t h c o m i n g a r t i c l e s 011

P i l e W a r i n H e a v e n ” a n d “ t h e G r e a t S e r p e n t ” f o r m y v i e w s in f u l l ; w h i c h I m a y b e a l l o w e d t o s a y , I s h o u l d f o o l h o n o u r e d b y h i s c r i t i c i z i n g . W i l l h e k i n d l y f a v o u r m e w i t l i ^ s o m e a c c o u n t o f t h e s e x u a l c o n n e c t i o n w i t h t h e

E l o h i m w h i c h , a s l i e s a y s , w a s c l a i m e d b y t h e R o s i c r u c i a n s ?

L A K S U M IB AT,

( The Authentic Story of a BUM.)*T ! Y P I A l ? A T L A L L C H A C F T O N D I A , F . T . S .

I b e l i e v e t h a t t h e f o l l o w i n g s t o r y o f a g h o s t I r e c e i v e d f r o m a w o r t h y f r i e n d o f m i n e ( P a n d i t N . B . N a k l i s e , r e s i ­d e n t o f S a u g o r C . P . ) , a n e y e - w i t n e s s t o a l m o s t a l l t h e

p h e n o m e n a d e s c r i b e d — w i l l b e w e l c o m e t o s t u d e n t s o f

S p i r i t u a l i s m . A s t l i e n a r r a t i v e i s b a s e d n o t o n l y o n t h e P a n d i t ' s p e r s o n a l e x p e r i e n c e a n d t h a t o f h i s f a m i l y , b u t

a l s o a t t e s t e d t o b y o t h e r p e r s o n s o f t h e t o w n w h e r e i t t o o k p l a c e , I c a n n o t s a y l a m p r e p a r e d t o d e n y i t s t r u t h . A t

a l l e v e n t s n o t a s i n g l e f a c t h a s b e e n e x a g g e r a t e d , a n d t h o P a n d i t ’s s t o r y i s a t r u e a c c o u n t o f w h a t h a s a c t u a l l y h a p ­p e n e d . L e t t h o s e w h o c a n t h r o w l i g h t u p o n i t c o m e o u t a n d e x p l a i n . I g i v e t h e s t o r y s i m p l y a s I h a d i t f r o m

P a n d i t N . B . N a k l i s e , a n d i n h i s o w n w o r d s .

“ I l i a d a paternal a unt named Lakshmibui, who in the

beginning of A pril 1871 wns suddenly taken sick. E v ery remedy was vainly tried. D ay by day she bccamo weaker, and nt last we lost all hope for her recovery. O ur sad apprehensions becanio very soon realized.

II On the day before her death she told my mother that feeling Riiro she would not live more than a day or two, she desired to be removed beforo her death to some other plaee, as every one, she said, who bad died in the room she occupied had becomo

a b lm tf (£cT) and that she wanted to avoid such a terrible fate.

“ T h a t da}7 passed and another dawned, which was an “ Ekadashi” ( th e 1 1 th day of every fo r tn ight ) and a Sunday.

From morning till 8 a . m . there were symptoms of im provem ent ;

b u t all of a sudden she collapsed, lost her power of speech, and finally becoming unconscious, she remained without uttering one

syllable, cold and insensible for about three hours. T hen came tho agony. W hat she suffered can better be imagined than de­

scribed. About 11 o’clock she suddenly arose from iier bed, and

begged my mother to prepare for her a b a th— for the last time

ns she said. H aving bathed, my a unt gave alms to Brahmins, d iank of tho sacred Ganges water, bade us all good-bye, and having thrice uttered Kama’s holy name, expired towards

noon, and in the same sick-room, she had so desired to be re-

• A ghost, or an earth-bound soul. We give room to this interesting story, in order to show the Western Spiritualists, once more and again, that , while believing in the possibility of returning “ spirits,” the Hindus fear and detest them, giving them the epithet of “ devils” instead of “ departed angels,” and considering such a return in each case as a curse to be avoided and removed as soon as possible.—Ed

t A ghost, an e*rth-bound spirit or “Elementary.”—Ed,

moved from. N one of us scorned to have remembered tho wish

expressed by h er 011 the preceding day.

“ H a lf a year had passed after the sad event, when, one morning, m y elder brother’s wife told mo th a t she

had seen m y a u n t th a t night in a dream ; nnd, th a t the deceased had promised her to return again on tha t morning.

Scarcely had an hour passed, after w hat sho had told me when there came an extraordinary change over mv sister-in-law’s

features and general appearance. Sho was seized with violent

trembling, her eyes flashed and glowed liko fire, and her body became burning hot, I was so taken aback by the unusual sight, that, unable to account for the phenomenon, I a t once hurried to call witnesses. On seeing her in such a state, my mother conjec­turing nt once that an evil spirit had taken possession of her daughter-in-law, she proceeded to question her to ascertain who

th a t particular devil was. A fter a minute or so th e ghost spoke* and introduced itself as Lakshmibai, my aunt, who had ju s t

died ! ■ .“ A t first wo doubted tho evil spirit’s statement. Till then,

we could not have believed that a person like her, whose whole life had been so virtuous and pure, and who, at the time of her death had drunk o f the sacred Ganges water, and uttered thrice the holy name o f llama, had been refused salvation, t W c, therefore, put some moro questions to the ghost, such as would, we thought, prove or disprove the tru th of its statements;

b u t when wo found tha t every ono of them was satisfactorily

answered we had bu t to accept the sad assertion. I t wag tho ghost of the late Lakshmibai, my aunt, as beforo stated. J

“ On being asked what sin of hers had doomed h er to such a

fate, tho ghost replied tha t she had to suffer in consequence of

tlie idea, of her not being removed from the sick-room, forcibly striking her nnd preying 011 h er mind a t the timo of death. How

far the explanation given is true, I cannot say b u t leave it to th o criticism of learned readers.IT

“ W hen the clock struck twelve the ghost was requested to

release t h e ‘ m edium’ and allow h er to take h er food. The ghost, thereupon, obligingly left her for that, day. B u t from the

following morning it began to come and trouble the poor woman daily for au hour or two regularly. E v ery possible means to

release her from the claws of the evil spirit was resorted to : b u t tho more we tried the moro troublesome, the ghost proved.

A t last i t told us plainly one day, that all efforts to dislodge it

* Through the sister-in-law’s mouth, of course, she being a medium.—Eo.

f Tho italics are ours. We underline the sentence to show in ■what light the orthodox Hindus and especially the Brahmans—• view those manifestations.—“ Salvation ” means with the Hindus “ absorption in Brahm '\Moksha—a state from which no Spirit can return.—Ed,

J The ghost’s assertions through her medium, prove nothing in this case. The lady so possessed know as much of the deceased as the rest of the family. I t might have boe.n any spook for all tho narrator knows-i\vho personated Lakshmibai, and the correct a n ­swers wore no test at all.—En.

If This, again, may lead ono to suspect (and we now speak from tlio standpoint of Eastern Occultism) tha t it was the dying woman’s last thought, the idee fixe (the intensity of which makes of living peoplo monomaniacs, and spreads for an indefinite time its magnetic unhealthy influence after the brain which generated it had long timo ceased to exist)—th at idea that had so long worried her dying mind, namely, tha t she was going to becomo a bhi),t unless removed—that infected also the mind of her relative. A man dies of a contagious disease; months after his death, aye, years—a bit of clothing, an object touched by him during his sickness, may communicate tlie disease to a person more physiologically sensitive than the persons around him, and while having 110 effect upon the latter. And why should not an idea, a thought, exercise the same influence? Thought is no less material nor objective than the imponderable and mysterious germs of various infectious diseases the causes of which are such a puzzle for science. Since the mind of a living person can so influence another mind, th a t the former can force the latter to think and be­lieve whatever it will—iu short, to psychologize another mind, so can tho thought of a person already dead- Onco generated and sent out, th a t thought will live upon its own energy. I t has become indepen­dent of the brain and mind which gave it birth- So long as its concen­trated energy remains undissipated, it can act as a potential influence when brought into contact with the living brain and nervous system of a person susceptibly predisposed- The unhealthy action thus provoked may lead the sensitive into a temporary insanity of self­delusion that quite clouds the sense of his own individuality. The morbid action thus once set up, the whole floating group of the

dead man’s thoughts rushes into the sensitive’s brain, and he can give what seems test after test of the presence of the deceased and convince the predisposed investigator tha t the individuality of tho control, “ guide,” or coinmunicatinscintelligence is thoroughly estab­lished.— Ep. '

by means of mantras * would fail, and tliat unless wo totally abandoned tlio idea we would never bo rid o f the bhClt.

“ Seeing no other alternative, we were a t last obliged to humour the bhtlt, which, it is only fair to say, has ever sinco

faithfully kept its promise. I t has even on several occasions rendered us useful services for which all in th e family have

been duly grateful.

“T he wonders w rought by it have been various and amusing, of which I beg to relate a few.

“ One day we had to celebrate in our family, a religious ri te. T h e exigency was unexpected, and it could no t be post­poned oven for a day. M y father’s advice was indispensable, bu t ho was at a distance of some tw enty miles from our town.

T h e re was no available post-oflice nor a telegraph. W e were

in a perfect dilemma. Then the ghost came andsaid :— ‘ G ive me a letter, und I will bring a writ ten answ er w ith in an hour.’ U pon this my brother wrole a message to m y father, informing

him of the circumstances under which it was sent, and of the weird

ghost-carrier who was to wait there for his reply, aud then

placed it upon th e tabic. T h o letter , strange to say, suddenly disappeared, ami to the w onder of all present, my father’s reply, in his own hand-writ ing, reached us within the time promised.

W hen, some time after, my fa th er came home on leave, I asked h im how and where he had found my letter. l i e replied tha t

at about 8 o’clock on the morning in question, upon putt in g his

hand into his tobacco-pouch, he found there a paper, which proved to be a letter dated on th e same day— from Raoji ( m y brother’s p e t name ). ‘I was much surprised ’ he said, ‘ to see

a letter reaching from Saugor to Banda ( the place where my father w as) iu so short a time. But when I read tha t a ghost was

tho carrier my surprise was all gone. I replied to it instantly as desired and placed the reply on tho lloor. I t disappeared

from m y sight within u few sceonds.’ T h is took place in

May 1 8 7 2 . _“ Upon another occasion, the ghost camo as usual and said it

was hungry. Dinner was prepared and it was asked to eat it without using the medium’s body, if it could do so without

inconvenience. Consenting, when the dishes were suitably placcd,

it mado away w ith tho food w ithout making itself visible. T h e most astonishing thing was th a t th e quantity of food con­

sumed by tlie ghost, was nearly ten times the allowance of ail

ordinary man in good health. W henever a dish was emptied,

a voice asking for more was h eard in the air. Sinco then it has become customary in our family to invito the ghost to din­ner on days of festivity. Incidents liko this have often oecurrcd

within our experience.

“ In 18 7 3 my brother G u n p a t Rao ( the said Rnoji ) was at

Allahabad studying for the B. A. degree, and his wife ( the m e d iu m ) was with him. Once he found himself in urgent want of money and being a stranger could not borrow it. See­

ing him in th a t difficulty, the ghost came and said th ro u g h tho

medium th a t if he promised to repay tho amount as soon as ho got his scholarship, it would try to get the required sum to meet

his present wants. H e agreed, and the money was brought to him within half an hour by an invisible hand. T h ough I was not an eye-witness to this phenomenon, y e t I eonld hardly dis­

believe it as it was related to mo by my own brother and I had

seen such occurrences before.

“ I n December 1 8 7 U w hen I had come home to Saugor

in the school vacation, the ghost one day entered tho body o f its medium and began to talk with me. A fte r tho exchange of usual compliments I asked it to give me sw eetm eats for tlia

occasion o f the birth of its grand-son ( the child of Raoji ) born somo three months before. It. consented, promising to give

them to me tho next day. On tlie following afternoon, it

accordingly came, and told mo to call m y father and mother, to

share in the feast. W hen all were assembled a leaf-cup ( W T ) Dromia was seeu to descend fron tho roof ot tlie room in which

we wero tilting. I t was full of jilebees nearly a seerin weight, which wero distributed among us. O n being asked whenco’ it could havo brought the sweetmeats, tlia ghost

replied that it had bought them from tho confectioner's for8 annas.— ‘A nd where did you get the money to buy it with

was our n ext question.— ‘ I found the coin in tho tank.’“ One more incident deserves to be mentioned here. My brother

G un p u t Rao during that Christmas vacation of 1879 had como to Saugor to settle about my inurriiige. T h e 2 5 th of J a n u a ry ( 1 8 8 0 ) was tho day fixed for my wedding. IIo could not stay

go long as his vacation lasted for ton days only. So he went

» C harm s o f exorc ism,

back to B u rhanpur, promising to t r y for a ten-days’ leave, and

come a day or two before th e wedding. But, the 2 3 rd of J a n u a r y had passed without our either seeing him or receiving a le t te r . I n hopes of ascertaining the reason, my father ques­

tioned the ghost. Accordingly, it left for B u rh a n p u r imme­diately, and in au hour re turned with tlie news, th a t he was com­

ing ; tha t ho was then at a certain place, and would arr ive at4 o’clock the n e x t morning. T h is prediction was verified to

the letter, aud that a t the time mentioned he had actually beeu at the place mentioned by the ghost.”

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P e r m i t m e , a l w a y s i f p o s s i b l e o n t h i s n a t u r a l p l a n e , t o s p e ­c u l a t e a l i t t l e . M a n e n t e r s u p o n a n e x i s t e n c e h e r e , l i m i t e d a s t o i t s i n f o r m a t i o n u p o n p a s t , p r e s e n t , a n d f u t u r e , b y t h o r a n g e o f h i s s e n s e s . S t i l l t h e r e a r e a t l e a s t c o n c e i v a b l e , w a y s i n w h i c h o u r s e n s e - k n o w l e d g e m i g h t b e a u g m e n t e d .

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p h o t o s p h e r e o r t h e c e n t r a l g l o r i e s o f A l c y o n e j u s t a s n a t u r a l a s t h e s p e c t a c l e s o f e a r t h , p r o d i g i o u s l y d e v e ­l o p e d i n s c a l e a n d s t a t e o f b e i n g . B u t o u r e a r t h l y s e n s e s ,

l i k e o u r e a r t h l y o r g a n s , a r e t h e p r o d u c t s o f t h e c o n d i t i o n s o f t e r r e s t r i a l l i f e . C o u l d t h o s e s e n s e s o n l y b e s u d d e n l y e x t e n d e d a s I a m i m a g i n i n g — i n t o h a r m o n y w i t h t h e c o n d i t i o n s p r e v a i l i n g i n t h e S u n o r u p o n S i r i u s — a n i m m e n s e l y v a s t e r , b u t y e t e n t i r e l y n a t u r a l , u n i v e r s e w o u l d s u r e l y b e m a n i f e s t e d . U n d r e a m e d - o f l i g h t m i g h t w a k e t o a c t i o n i m m e a s u r a b l y s u b t l e r o p t i c n e r v e s . I n v i s i b l e

e l e m e n t s a n d o b j e c t s n o w c a l l e d “ s p i r i t u a l , ” m i g h t b e ­c o m e c o m m o n l y v i s i b l e . T h e t o u c h , t h e t a s t e , t h e h e a r i n g , a n d t h e s m e l l m i g h t r i s e w o n d r o u s l y b u t q u i t e n a t u r a l l y

t o p o w e r s a n d p l e a s u r e s u n s p e a k a b l y e n h a n c e d b e y o n d t h o s e w e k n o w . A l l t h i s i s a t a l l e v e n t s u n i m a g i n a b l e

i n t h e d i r e c t i o n o f a n o r d e r e d t h o u g h a b r u p t d e v e l o p ­m e n t o f l i f e i f i t w e r e n o t t h a t w e a r e b o u n d t o e a r t h b y o u r b o d i e s , a n d m u s t d i e t o b e f r e e . Y e t b e i n g t h u s b o u n d o u r s e n s e s t h e m s e l v e s b e a r w i t n e s s t o t h e p o s i t i v e e x i s t e n c e o f o b j e c t s d e s t i n e d f o r h i g h e r s e n s e - k n o w l e d g e

b e y o n d t h e m . T h e c o m m o n e s t r e f l e c t i o n p r o v e s i t u n s c i e n t i f i c t o d i s b e l i e v e i n w h a t w c c a n n o t s e e 01 f e e l . T h e p i e c e o f i c e o n w h i c h t h e s k a t e r s a f e l y s t a n d s c a n

b e r e n d e r e d i n v i s i b l e a s s u p e r - h e a t e d s t e a m . T h e g a s " w h ic h b u b b l e s i n v i s i b l y f r o m a s o d a - w a t e r b o t t l e c a n b e t r a n s f o r m e d , u n d e r g r e a t p r e s s u r e , i n t o a w h i t e w o o l l y t u f t . T h e s o a r o f a m i l i a r i n s t a n c e s o f t h e t r a n s f o r m a t i o n o f s e e n a n d u n s e e n t h i n g s . I n o p t i c s i t i s k n o w n h o w g r a s s , w a t e r a n d a l u m a r c i m p e r v i o u s t o d a r k r a y s w h i c h e a s i l y f i n d t h e i r w a y t h r o u g h r o c k s a l t , a n d s h o w h e a t a c t i o n b e y o n d t h e r e d . W i t h h i g h t e m p e r a t u r e s , e v i ­d e n c e i s o b t a i n e d b y v e r y s i m p l e e x p e r i m e n t s o f a c t i n i c

o r c h e m i c a l r a y s w h i c h l i e b e y o n d t h e v i o l e t . I n o t h e r w o r d s , w e d o n o t s e e w i t h o r d i n a r y e y e s i g h t e v e n a l l o f o u r o w n l i g h t ; w e d o n o t h e a r e v e n a l l t h e s o u n d s o f o u r

o w n v i b r a t i n g a t m o s p h e r e . B u t t h e u n s e e n l i g h t a n d t h e u n h e a r d s o u n d s n e v e r t h e l e s s t r u l y e x i s t . I s t h e r e n o t a s t r o n g s u g g e s t i o n h e r e t h a t t h e r a n g e o f t h e s e n s e s m a y b e f r o m t i m e t o t i m e e x t e n d e d o f t h e s e n s e s b e y o n d t h e u s u a l c o r p o r e a l e x p e r i e n c e , a n d p e r h a p s h a s o f t e n b e e n ?

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t h e e v i d e n c e o f g o o d f a i t h a n d a u t h e u t i c o c c u r r e n c e i s s o s t r o n g t h a t w e m u s t e i t h e r f i n d s o m e t h e o r y t o f i t t h e m , o r s e t a s i d e e v e r y t h i n g r e l a t e d , e x c e p t i t b e c o n ­f i r m e d b y p e r s o n a l e x p e r i e n c e . T o s e e a v e r i t a b l e g h o s t s u c h a s w e a r e a s s u m i n g m a y m a k e i t s a p p e a r a n c e , e i t h e r t h e e y e m u s t b e t e m p o r a r i l y a r m e d w i t h a b n o r m a l c a p a ­c i t y , o r s o m e s o r t o f m a t t e r n o t u s u a l l y v i s i b l e m u s t ^ b y s o m e m e a n s b e r e n d e r e d s o . P e r h a p s b o t h o f t h e s e c h a n g e s c a n b e a t t i m e s , a n d i n p l a c e s b r o u g h t a b o u t b y n o t h i n g w h a t e v e r s u p e r n a t u r a l , b u t m e r e l y b y m e a n s u n ­u s u a l a u d u n r e g u l a t e d . T h e e t h e r i s n o t s u p e r n a t u r a l . I t m u s t b e , i f a n y t h i n g i s r e a l , a s r e a l a s g r a n i t e , f o r n o t o t h e r w i s e c o u l d l i g h t a u d h e a t p a s s t o u s o v e r i t s e x q u i s i t e b r i d g e , o r s u n s a t t r a c t t h e i r p l a n e t s . I t p e r m e a t e s a l l v i s i b l e m a t t e r , a n d is , p e r h a p s , i t s o r i g i n . U n i v e r s a l , e l a s t i c , p l a s t i c i t s e e m s t o b e a r t o o r d i n a r y m a t e r i a l s u c h a r e l a t i o n a s t h e w i l l i n m a n b e a r s t o t h e c o a r s e r f o r c e s i n n a t u r e . W h a t m a k e s i t i m p o s s i b l e t h a t t h e s t r o n g e x e r c i s e o f e m o t i o n o r v o l i t i o n , c o n s c i o u s l y o r u n c o n s c i o u s l y p u t f o r t h

m a y , i n w a y s w h o l l y n a t u r a l b u t a s y e t u n f o r m u l a t e d fo r s c i e n c e , i m p r e s s i t s e l f v i s i b l y u p o n e t h e r . T h e r e a r e o p e r a ­t i o n s i n e x p e r i m e n t a l s c i e n c e a l m o s t a s s u b t l e i n c h a r a c ­t e r . S u n s h i n e f a l l i n g u p o n a m i x t u r e o f c h l o r i n e a n d h y d r o g e n e x p l o d e s t h e m w i t h b r i g h t f l a m e ; a n d s e l e n i u m t h r o b s e l e c t r i c a l l y w i t h l e s s o r m o r e c o n d u c t i v i t y o n t h e c o n t a c t o f l i g h t . I t w o u l d h a r d l y b e m o r e o f a m i r a c l e i f

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s o m e t i m e s e m b o d y i t s e l f 011 t h e f i n e m a t t e r w h i e h m u s t b e i t s m e d i u m t h a n i s t h e d a i l y u n e x p l a i n e d m a r v e l o f a n a r t i s t ’s i n v e n t i o n e x p r e s s i n g i t s e l f f r o m b r a i n b y m u s c l e a n d n e r v e i n l i n e o r c o l o u r . I t w o u l d s c a r c e l y b e l e s s c o m p r e ­h e n s i b l e i n u l t i m a t e a c t i o n t h a n t h e p r o d i g y a l r e a d y v u l g a r o f t h e e l e c t r i c t e l e g r a p h , w h e r e t w o m e t a l p l a t e s q u i c k e n e d b y a n a c i d t h r i l l c o n s t a n t m e s s a g e s r o u n d t h e e a r t h . T h e m o d e a s ra in o f m a n u f a c t u r i n g t h e s a i l o r s ’ n e e d l e b y s t r o k i n g a h a r d s t e e l b a r w i t h m a g n e t s , w o u l d s e e m b e f o r e h a n d a l m o s t w i l d e r i n c o n c e p t i o n . S c i e n c e k n o w s e n o u g h a l r e a d y i n t h e d i r e c t i o n o f s t r a n g e f o r c e s

n o t t o b e s o d e s p e r a t e l y h o p e l e s s a b o u t k n o w i n g m o r e . W h y s h o u l d i t n o t a d d r e s s i t s e l f q u i e t l y t o t h e s e p r o ­b l e m s i n t h e l i n e i n d i c a t e d ? T h e h a b i t o f s c e p t i c i s m is , I g l a d l y a l l o w a m o s t u s e f u l o n e . I t k i l l s o f f t h o s e r a s h a n d r e c k l e s s t h e o r i e s b y w h i c h i g n o r a n c e a n d h a s t e , w h a t e v e r t h e i r g o o d - w i l l , d a r k e n t h e b e g i n n i n g o f k n o w l e d g e . I t i s s a l u t a r y w h e n i t s i f t s e v i d e n c e r i g i d l y , a n d s e n d s h u m ­b l e d s c i o l i s t s b a c k t o b e t t e r e x p e r i m e n t s ; b u t i t g r o w s

s t u p i d w h e n i t s h u t s i t s e y e s t o a p p a r e n t f a c t , a n d c a l l s w h a t i s a t p r e s e n t m e r e l y e x t r a - n a t u r a l , s u p e r n a t u r a l , a n d ,

t h e r e f o r e , n o t t o b e i n v e s t i g a t e d .

I t d o e s n o t r e n d e r m y s u g g e s t i o n l e s s w o r t h m a k i n g b e c a u s e t h i s i s , a s h a s b e e n l a t e l y p o i n t e d o u t , t h e s o l u t i o n o f f e r e d b y t h e E a s t e r n p s y c h o l o g y . T h e s e c r e t o f t h e H i n d o o O c c u l t i s t s c o n s t a n t l y h i n t e d a t o r s t a t e d i n t h e i r s a c r e d w r i t i n g s i s t h a t a l l s o - c a l l e d s p i r i t u a l p h e n o m e n a t a k e p l a c e i n t h e A k a s a o r e t h e r , b y e x e r c i s e o f a s c e t i c p o w e r s o r c u l t i v a t e d w i l l . T o t h e s a m e o r d e r o f i d e a s b e ­l o n g s t h e n o t a l t o g e t h e r i m p l a u s i b l e t h e o r y t h a t o u r i n n e r l i f e 011 e a r t h i s a l l t h i s w h i l e b u i l d i n g u p a n e t h e r e a l b o d y w h i c h f o r m s t h e a b o d e o f t h e i m m o r t a l p r i n c i p l e a f t e r d e a t h , a n d i s i n t u r n c a p a b l e i n o t h e r s p h e r e s o f f r e s h r e ­f i n e m e n t s . A s i a t i c p e o p l e s k n o w a s l i t t l e o f t h e t r u t h o f s u c h v i e w s a s I m y s e l f d o , a n d y e t t h e s e c r e t i n f l u e n c e o f t h e i r p a s s i n g i n t o B u d d h i s m a n d B r a h i n i n i s m h a s c e r ­t a i n l y t a k e n a w a y a l m o s t a l l d r e a d o f d e a t h i n t h e E a s t . W h y , n e v e r t h e l e s s , s h o u l d b i r t h b e b e t t e r u n d e r ­s t o o d t h a n d e a t h , o r s e e m h a p p i e r w h e n b o t h a r e s o n a t u r a l ?

I n o n e w o r d , s c i e n t i f i c m e n m i g h t n o w t a k e u p t h i s q u e s t i o n o n t h e g r o u n d o f n a t u r a l f a c t s . I t i s n o t f o r m e t o s u g g e s t l i n e s o f e x p e r i m e n t , n o r w i l l i t b e e v e r p o s s i b l e f o r a n y e x p e r i m e n t , w h a t e v e r t o b r i d g e t h e c h a s m w h i c h l i e s b e t w e e n m a t t e r a n d t h o u g h t . Y e t j u s t a s i m p o s s i b l e

i s i t t o e x p l a i n u l t i m a t e l y m a n y a n d m a n y a n e s t a b l i s h e d p r o c e s s , w h e r e N a t u r e , e m p l o y e d t h o u g h n o t c o m p r e h e n d e d ,

b e n e f i t s a l l m a n k i n d . W i t h o u t a n y f o o l i s h h o p e , t h e r e f o r e , t h a t s c i e n c e c a n o r w i l l e v e r a r r i v e a t “ all t h e t r u t h a b o u t

g h o s t s ” t h e r e i s r e a l l y n o g o o d r e a s o n t h a t I c a n s e e w h y t h e s u b j e c t o f t h e s e p h e n o m e n a s h o u l d n o t b e < a t l a s t r e s c u e d f r o m u n t r a i n e d i n q u i r i e s a n d d e a l t w i t h s o b e r l y

l i k e o t h e r s t r a n g e b u t a c k n o w l e d g e d p o w e r s o f l i f e , w h i c h a r e u s e f u l l y i n v e s t i g a t e d , s u c h a s m e m o r y a n d t h o u g h t . —

'IHE UNIVERSE I N A NUT-SIIELL.

T h e a r t i c l e o n d r e a m s a l l u d e d t o i n t h e f o l l o w i n g l e t t e r i s r e p r i n l o d w i t h t h e d e s i r e d e x p l a n a t o r y n o t e s f o r t h e i n f o r m a t i o n o f o u r r e a d e r s :—

To THE EDITon. '

The Rccompniiying extract is from mi article in a recent issue

of (Jhnrnbers’s Journal. I hope you will reprint tlio same and kindly give full explanations upon tile following subjects :—

(1) Are dreams always real I If so, what produces them ; if not real, j e t may they not have in themselves some deep significance ?

(2) Tell us something about our antenatal state of existence and the transmigration of soul ?

(3) Give us anything that is worth knowing about Psychology ns suggested by this article ?

Your most fraternally and obediently,

J E I I A N G IR C U R S E T J I T AR A CH AN D, I M S.

B o m b a y , N o v e m b e r 10, 1881-

. Editor's Answer.

T o put our correspondent’:; request more exactly , lie desires the T i i e o s o i ’i i i s t to cull into the limits of a column or two tho facts embraced within tho whole range of all the sublunar mysteries with “ full explanations.” T h ese would em brace—

( 1 ) T h e complete philosophy o f dreams, as deduced from their physiological, biological, psychological and occult aspects.

. {2) T h e Buddhist Jatakas ( re -b ir th s and m igrations o f our Lord S a k y a-M u ai ) with a philosophical essay upon tho

transmigrations of the o87,00U Buddhas who “ lunied the

wheel of faith,” during the successive revelations to the world of tho 1 2 5 ,0 0 0 oilier Buddhas, the Saints who e;m “ overlook nnd unravel the thousand-fold knotted threads of the moral chain of causation,” throwing in a treatise upon the Nidhanus, the chain of twelve causes with a complete list o f their two

millions of results, nnd cupious appendices by some Arahats, “ who have attained the stream which floats into N irvana .”

( 3 ) T he compounded reveries of tho world-famous psycho­logists ; from the E g y p tian Hermes, and his Book o f the Dead; Plato’s definition of tho Soul, iu Timceus ; and so on, down lo

tho Drawing-lloom Nocturnal Chats with a Disembodied Soul, by Rev. Adramelech Uomco Tiberius T o u g h sk in from

Cineiunalti.Such is the modest task proposed. Suppose we first give tho

article which has provoked so g reat a thirst fur philosophical information, aiul then try to do w hat we can. I t is a curious

case, — if not altogether a li terary fiction :—

DKICAM-LAND ANIJ SOMN'AJIUUI.IS.M.

“ T h e w r i t e r o f t h i s a r t i c l e l i a s a b r o t h e r - i n - l a w w l i o l i a s

f e l t s o m e o f l i i s i . I r e a m s t o b o o f a r e m a r k a b l e a n d s i g n i ­f i c a n t c h a r a c t e r ; a m i h i s e x p e r i e n c e s h o w s t h a t t h e r e i s a s t r a n g e a n d i n e x p l i c a b l e c o n n e x i o n b e t w e e n s u c h d r c a m s a n d t h e s t a t e o f s o m n a m b u l i s m . B e f o r e g i v i n g i n d e t a i l s o m e i n s t a n c e s o f s o m n a m b u l i s m a s e x h i b i t e d b y h i m a n d a l s o b y h i s d a u g h t e r , I w i l l g i v e a n a c c o u n t o f o n e o f l i i s d r e a m s ,. O ’ O . . . . . |w h i c h h a s b e e n f o u r t i m e s r e p e a t e d i n i t s s t r i k i n g a i u l s a l i e n t p o i n t s a t u n c e r t a i n p e r i o d s , d u r i n g t h e p a s t t h i r t y y e a r s , i l e w a s i n l i i s a c t i v e y o u t h a p r a c t i c a l a g r i c u l t u r i s t , b u t n o w l i v e s r e t i r e d . A l l l i i s l i f e h e h a s b e e n s p a r e o f f l e s h , a c t i v e , c h e e r f u l , v e r y c o m p a n i o n a b l e , a n d n o t i u a n y s e n s e w h a t i s c a l l e d a h o o k - w o r m . - H i s d r e a m w a s a s f o l l o w s :— ■ I l e f o u n d h i m s e l f a l o n e , s t a n d i n g i n f r o n t o f a m o n u m e n t o f v e r y s o l i d m a s o n r y , l o o k i n g v a c a n t l y a t t h e n o r t h s i d e

o f i t , w h e n t o h i s a s t o n i s h m e n t , t h e m i d d l e s t o n e s o u t h e l e v e l o f h i s s i g h t g r a d u a l l y o p e n e d a n d s l i d d o w n o n e o n a n o t h e r , u n t i l a n o p e n i n g w a s m a d e l a r g e e n o u g h t o

u p h o l d a m a n . A l l o f a s u d d e n , a l i t t l e m a n , d r e s s e d i u b l a c k , w i t h a l a r g e b a l d h e a d , a p p e a r e d i n s i d e t h e o p e n ­i n g , s e e m i n g l y f i x e d t h e r e b y r e a s o n o f h i s f e e t a n d l e g s b e i n g ' b u r i e d i n t h e m a s o n r y . T h e e x p r e s s i o n o f h i s f a c e w a s m i l d a n d i n t e l l i g e n t . T h e y l o o k e d at. e a c h o t h e r f o r w h a t s e e m e d a l o n g t i m e w i t h o u t e i t h e r o f t h e m a t t e m p t ­i n g t o s p e a k , a n d a l l t h e w h i l e m y b r o t h e r ’s a s t o n i s h m e n t i n c r e a s e d . A t l e n g t h , a s t h e d r e a m e r e x p r e s s e d h i m s e l f ,1 T h e l i t t l e m a n i n b l a c k w i t h t h e b a l d h e a d a n d s e r e n e c o u n t e n a n c e ’ s a i d : “ D o n ’t y o u k n o w m e V I a m t h e m a n w h o m y o u m u r d e r e d i n a n ante-natal date of existence; a n d I a m w a i t i n g u n t i l y o u c o m e , a u d s h a l l w a i t w i t h o u t s l e e p i n g . T h e r e i s n o e v i d e n c e o f t h e f o u l d e e d i n y o u r s t a t e o f h u m a n e x i s t e n c e , s o y o u n e e d n o t t r o u b l e y o u r s e l f i n y o u r m o r t a l l i f e — s h u t m e a g a i n i n d a r k n e s s . ”

T h e d r e a m e r b e g a n , a s h e t h o u g h t , t o p u t t h e s t o n e s in t h e i r o r i g i n a l p o s i t i o n , r e m a k i n g a s h e e x p r e s s e d h i m s e l f — • t o t h e l i t t l e m a n :— ‘ T h i s i s a l l a d r e a m o f y o u r s , f o r t h e r e i s n o a u t e - n a t a l s t a t e o f e x i s t e n c e . ’ T h e i i t t l e m a n w h o s e e m e d t o g r o w l e s s a n d l e s s , s a i d : ‘ C o v e r m e o v e r a n d b e g o n e . ’ A t t h i s t h e d r e a m e r a w o k e . .

Y e a r s p a s s e d a w a y , a n d t h e d r e a m w a s f o r g o t t e n i n t h e c o m m o n a c c e p t a t i o n o f t h e t e r m , w h e n b e h o l d 1 w i t h o u t a n y p r e v i o u s t h o u g h t o f t h e m a t t e r , h e d r e a m e d t h a t h e w a s s t a n d i n g i n t h o s u n s h i n e , f a c i n g a n a n c i e n t g a r d e n - w a l l t h a t b e l o n g e d t o a l a r g e u n o c c u p i e d m a n s i o n , w h e n t h e s t o n e s i n f r o n t o f i t b e g a n t o f a l l o u t w i t h a g e n t l y s l i d i n g

m o t i o n , a n d s o o n r e v e a l e d t h e s e l f - s a m e m y s t e r i o u s p e r s o n ,

a n d e v e r y t h i n g p e r t a i n i n g t o h i m , i n c l u d i n g h i s v e r b a l u t t e r a n c e s a s o n t h e f i r s t o c c a s i o n , t h o u g h a n u n c e r t a i n n u m b e r o f y e a r s h a d p a s s e d . T h e s a m e i d e n t i c a l d r e a m h a s s i n c e o c c u r r e d t w i c e a t i r r e g u l a r p e r i o d s ; b u t t h e r e w a s n o c h a n g e i n t h e f a c i a l a p p e a r a n c e o f t h e little man, in Hack."

Editor's Note.— Wo do not fuel competent to pronounce upon the merits or demerits of this part icu lar dream. T h e in te rp re ­

tation of it may be safely left with the Daniels of physio logy who, like \V. A. I lam m oud, RI. D., of New Y ork, explain dream s it ml somnambulism as due to an exalted condition cf.the spinal cord. I t may have been a meaningless, oliance- dream, bro u g h t about by a concatenation of thoughts which

occupy mechanically tlie mind during sleep-—■“ T h a t dim twilight of the mind,When lieason’s beam, half hid behind The clouds of sense, obscurely gilds Each shadowy shape th a t fancy builds.’’—-

— when our mental operations go on independently of our conscious volition.

O u r physical senses are the agents by means of which tho

astral spirit or “ conscious som ething ” .w ithin, is b ro u g h t by contact w ith the external world to a knowledge, of actual e x is t­ence ; while the spiritual senses of the astral man are (lie media, the telegraphic wires by means of which he communicates w ith his h igher principles, and obtains therefrom the faculties of clear

perception of, aud vision into, the realms o f t l ie invisible w orld .*

T ho Buddhist philosopher holds th a t by (he practice of the dhi/a- nas one may reach “ the enlightened condition of mind w hich

exhibi ts itself by immediate recognition o f sacred truth, so that on opening the Scriptures (or any books whatsoever ? ) their true meaning ,-t once flashes into the heart.'' [ B e a l ’s Catenu, &c., p. 2 5 a , ] I f the first, time, however, theabove dream was meaning­

less, the three following limes ic may have recurred by the suddenly awakening o f th a t portion o f t l ie brain to which it was d u e —as iu dreaming, or iu somnambulism, the brain is asleep only in parts, and called info action through th e a g c n e y of the external senses,

owing to some peculiar cause : a woid pronounced, a thought, or

p icture lingering d o rm au t in one of the cells of memory, and awakened by a sudden noise, the fall of as-toue, suggesting instanta­neously to this hall-dream y fancy o ft l ie sleeper walls o f masonry,

aud so ou. W hen ono is suddenly startled iu his sleep w ith o u t becoming fully awake, he does not begin and term inate his dream with the simple noise w hich partially awoke him, b u t often experiences in his dream, a long Irain of events concen­

trated within tho b rief space of t ;mo the sound occupies, and to be a ttr ib u ted solely to th a t sound. Generally dream s are induced by the w aking associations which precede them. Some of them produce such au impression that the slightest idea in

the direction of any subject associated with a part icu lar dream

may bring its recurrence years after. Tartiu ia , the famous Ita lian violonist, composed his “ D evil’s S o n a ta ” under the in ­

spiration of a dream. D u rin g his sleep lie thought the Devil

appeared to him and challenged him to a trial of skill upon liis own private violin, b ro u g h t by him from the infernal regions which challenge T a r t iu ia accepted. W hen lie awoke, th e melody of ihe “ D evil’s Sonata” was so vividly impressed upon liis mind th a t he there and then noted it down ; b u t when arr iv in g

towards th e finale all fu r th e r recollection of it was suddenly obliterated, and ho lay aside tho incomplete piece of music. T w o years later, ho dream t the very same thing and tried iu his

dream to make him self recollect t \w finale upon aw aking. T h o dream was repeated owing lo a blind strcet-musician fiddling on his ins tru m en t under tho a r t i s t ’s window. (Jolcridgo com­posed in a like m anner his poem “ Kublai K h a n ,” in a dream,

which, on awaking, he found so vividly impressed upon his miiul th a t ho wrote down the famous lines which are still preserved.

T h o dream was duo to the poet falling asleep iu his chair while reading in l ’urclm’s ‘ P ilgrim age ’ the following words : “ H ere ,the IChuii Kublai commanded a palace to be b u i l t ............. enclosed

within a wall.” -

T h e popular belief tha t among the vast num ber of meaningless

dreams there aro some in which presages are f requently given o f coming events is shared by many well-informed persons, bin.

not a t all by science. Y e t there are numberless instances of well-attested dreams which wero verified by subsequent event.-, and which, therefore, may be termed prophetic . T h e G reek and L atin classics teem with records of remarkable dreams, some of

* See Editor's iVotc, on the letter that follows this one “ Aro Dreams but Idle Visions / ’

w h ic h 11:1 vc b e c o m e h is to r ic a l . Fiii l.h in t h e s p i r i t u a l n a t u r e o f d r e a m i n g w n s ;t^ w id e ly d i s s e m i n a t e d a m o n g th e p a g a n p h i l o s o ­p h e r s a s a m o n g the, C l u i s t i a u f a th e r s o f t h e c h u r c h , n o r is b e l i e f in s o o t h s a y i n g a n d in t e r p r e h i t ions o f d r e a m s ( o u e i r o m n n c y ) l im i te d t o ih e h e a t h e n n a t io n s o f A s i a , s i n c e t h e B i b l e is fu l l of t h e m . T h i s is w h a l 101 i j > I iris L e v i , t b e g r e a t m o d e m K a b a l i s t , s a y s o f s u c h d iv in a t io n s , v is io n s an d p r o p h e t i c d r e a m s .if

“ S o m n a m b u l i s m , p r e m o n i t i o n s a n d s e co n d s i g h t s a re b u t a d i s p o s i t i o n , w h e t h e r a c c id e n ta l o r h a b i tu a l , to d r e a m , a w a k e , o r d u r i n g a v o l u n t a r y , s e l f - in d u c e d , o r y e t n a t u r a l s leep , i. e., to p e r c e i v e ( a n d g u e s s b y i n t u i t i o n ) t l io a n a l o g i c a l reflection-! o f Iho A s t r a l L i g h t , . . T h e p a r a p h e r n a l i a a n d i n s t r u m e n t s o f d iv in a t io n s n r e s i m p l y m e a n s fo r ( m a g n e t i c ) c o m m u n i c a t i o n s b e t w e e n th e d i v i u a l o r an d h im w h o c o n s u l t s h im : t h e y s e r v e to i i x a n d c o n c e n t r a t e tw o w il ls ( b e n t in th e san io d i r e c t i o n ) up o n t h e s a m e s ign o r o b j e c t ; i h e q u e e r , c o m p l i c a t e d , m o v i n g f i g u re s h e l p i n g to c o l l e c t t h e r e f le c t io n s o f th e A s t r a l flu id . T h u s ono is e n a b le d , a t t im e s to see in t h e g r o u n d s o f a eof lee c u p , o r int h e c lo u d s , in th o \ ' h i l o o f a n e g g , &o. ■ &c., f a n t a s t i c f o rm sh a v i n g t h e i r e x i s te n c e , b u t in t b e t r a n s h i c i d ( o r Ih e se e r ' sim a g i n a t i o n ) . V i s io n - s e e in g in Ihe. w a t e r is p r o d u c e d b y Ihef a t i g u e o f th e d a z z le d o p t i c n e rv e , w h i c h c u d s b y c e d i n g i ls J u n c t io n s to t h e t r a n s h i c i d , a n d c a l l i n g f o r l h a c e r e b r a l i l lu s ion , w h ic h m a k e s to s e e m ns r e a l i m a g e s t h e s i m p l e re f le c ­t io n s o f t h e a s l r a l l ig h t . T i m s t h e f i t t e s t p e r s o n s fo r t b i s k i n d o f d iv in a t io n a r e t h o s e o f a n e r v o u s t e m p e r a m e n t w h o s e s i g h t is m e e k a n d i m a g in a t io n v iv i . l , c h i ld r e n b e in g tb o b e s t o f all a d a p t e d fo r it. l i n t l e t no one m i s in t e r p r e t (he n a tu r e o f the f u n c t i o n a t t r ib u te d hy 71s to im a g i n a t i o n in the a r t o f d iv in a t io n . W e see t h r o u g h o u r im a g i n a t i o n d o u b t l e s s , a n d t h a t is t h e n a t u r a l a s p e c t o f t h e m ir a c le ; b u t ive sec a c t u a l ar,d t ru e th in g s , n n d i t is in t h i s t h a t l ie s t h e m a r v e l o f t h e n a t u r a l p h e n o m e n o n . W e a p p e a l for c o r r o b o r a t i o n o f w h a t w e s a y to t h e te s l im o ii} ' o f a l l fhe a d e p t s . . . ”

A n d n o w w e g i v e r o o m to a se c o n d lei te r w h i c h r e l a t e s to u s a d r e a m ver i f ied by u n d e n ia b l e e v e n t s .

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n n d w a s s t a y i n g a t K a n d i w i t h B a b u S o o r j i C o o i n a r B a s a k b ( S u b - D e p u t y C o l l e c t o r o f t h e S u b - D i v i s i o n , ) a t t h e r e s i ­d e n c e o f t h a t g e n t l e m a n .

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J u g u t C h u n d e r m a d e a r r a n g e m e n t s a c c o r d i n g l y t o s t a r t t h e n e x t d a y . D u r i n g t h a t n i g h t h e d r e a m s , s e e i n g h i s w i f e a t t a c k e d w i t h c h o l e r a , a t B e r l i a m p o r e , a n d s u f f e r ­i n g i n t e n s e l y . T h i s t r o u b l e s h i s m i n d . H e r e l a t e s t h e d r e a m t o B a l m S o o r j i C o o m a r i n t h e m o r n i n g , a n d b o t h t r e a t i n g t h e s u b j e c t a s a m e a n i n g l e s s d r e a m , p r o c e e d w i t h ­o u t g i v i n g i t a n o t h e r t h o u g h t t o t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e b u s i n e s s .

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a c u t e l y , w i t n e s s e s t h e s a m o s c e n e , a n d a w a k e s w i t h a s t a r t . H e n o w b e c o m e s a n x i o u s , a n d a r i s i n g , r e l a t e s a g a i n d r e a m N o . 2 , t o B a b u S o o r j i , w h o k n o w s n o t w h a t t o s a y .

I t i s t h e n d e c i d e d , t h a t a s B a b u J u g u t C h u n d e r h a s t o s t a r t f o r t h e p l a c e h e i s o r d e r e d t o , h i s f r i e n d , B a b u S o o r j i C o o m a r w i l l f o r w a r d t o h i m w i t h o u t d e l a y a n y l e t t e r s o r n e w s l i e m a y r e c e i v e t o h i s a d d r e s s f r o m B e r l i a m p o r e , a n d h a v i n g m a d e s p e c i a l a r r a n g e m e n t s f o r t h i s p u r p o s e , B a b u J u g u t C h u n d e r d e p a r t s .

11 a r d l y a f e w h o u r s a f t e r l i e h a d l e f t , a r r i v e s a m e s ­s e n g e r f r o m B e r l i a m p o r e w i t h a l e t t e r f o r B a b u J u g u t . l i i s f r i e n d r e m e m b e r i n g t h e m o o d i n w h i c h h e h a d l e f t K a n d i a n d f e a r i n g b a d n e w s , o p e n s t h e l e t t e r a n d f i n d s i t a c o r r o b o r a t i o n o f t h e t w i c e - r e p e a t e d d r e a m . B a b u J u g i i t ' s w i f e w a s a t t a c k e d w i t h c h o l e r a a t B e r l i a m p o r e

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o n t h e v e r y n i g h t h e r h u s b a n d h a d d r e a m t o f i t a n d w a s s t i l l s u f f e r i n g f r o m i t . H a v i n g r e c e i v e d t h e n e w s s e n t o n• 1 •w i t h a s p e c i a l m e s s e n g e r , B a b u J u g u t r e t u r n e d a t o n c e t o B e r l i a m p o r e w h e r e i m m e d i a t e a s s i s t a n c e b e i n g g i v e n , t h e p a t i e n t e v e n t u a l l y r e c o v e r e d .

T h e a b o v e w a s n a r r a t e d t o m e a t t h e h o u s e o f B a b u L a i C o r i M n k o r j e e , a t B e r l i a m p o r e , a n d i n l i i s p r e s e n c e , b y B a , b u s J u g u t C h u n d e r a n d S o o r j i C o o m a r t h e m s e l v e s , w h o h a d c o m e t h e r e o n a f r i e n d l y v i s i t , t h e s t o r y o f t h o d r e a m b e i n g t h u s c o r r o b o r a t e d b y t h e t e s t i m o n y o f o n e w h o h a d b e e n t h e r e , t o h e a r o f i t , a t a t i m e w h e n n o n e o f t h e m e v e r t h o u g h t i t w o u l d b e r e a l i z e d .

T h e a b o v e i n c i d e n t m a y , I b e l i e v e , b e r e g a r d e d a s a f a i r i n s t a n c e o f t h e p r e s e n c e o f t h e e v e r - w a t c h f u l a s t r a l s o u l o f m a n w i t h a m i n d i n d e p e n d e n t o f t h a t o f h i s o w n p h y ­s i c a l b r a i n . I w o u l d , h o w e v e r , f e e l g r e a t l y o b l i g e d b y y o u r k i n d l y g i v i n g u s a n e x p l a n a t i o n o f t h e p h e n o m e n o n . B a b u L a i C o r i M u k e r j i i s a s u b s c r i b e r t o t h e T h e o s o p h is t a n d , t h e r e f o r e , t h i s i s s u r e t o m e e t h i s e y e . I f h e r e m e m ­b e r s t h e d a t e s o r s e c s a n y c i r c u m s t a n c e o m i t t e d o r e r r o n e o u s l y s t a t e d h e r e i n , t h e w r i t e r w i l l f e e l g r e a t l y o b l i g - ' e d b y h i s f u r n i s h i n g a d d i t i o n a l d e t a i l s a n d c o r r e c t i n g ,

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T h e in s t a n c e as a b o v e g i v e n is ono o f a s e r i e s of w h a t m a y b e r e g a r d e d a s e x c e p t i o n a l c a s e s .in d r e a m life , t h o g e n e r a l i t y o f d r e a m s , b e i n g in d e e d , b u t “ i n t e r lu d e s w h i c h f a n c y m a k e s . ” A n d , i t is th e p o l i c y o f m a t e r i a l i s t i c , m a t t e r - o f - f a c t s c i e n c e to •superb ly i g n o r e s u c h e x c e p t i o n s , 011 th e g r o u n d , p e r c h a n c e , t h a t t h e e x c e p t i o n c o n f i rm s t h e r u l e , — wo r a t h e r t h i n k , to a v o id t h e e m b a r r a s s i n g t a s k o f e x p l a i n i n g su c h e x c e p t i o n s . I n d e e d , i f o n e s i n g l e i n s t a n c e s t u b b o r n l y r e f u s e s c la s s i f i c a t io n w i t h “ s t r a n g e c o - i n c i d e n c e s ” — so m u c h in f a v o r w i t h s c e p t i c s —- t h e n , p r o p h e t i c , o r v e r i f ie d d r e a m s w o u ld d e m a n d a n e n t i r e r e ­m o d e l l i n g o f p h y s io lo g y . A s in r e g a r d to p h r e n o l o g y , t h e r e ­c o g n i t i o n a n d a c c e p ta n c c b y s c ie n c e o f p r o p h e t i c d r e a m s — ■ ( h e n c e t h e r e c o g n i t i o n o f t l ic c la im s o f T h e o s o p h y a n d S p i r i ­t u a l i s m ) — w o u ld , i t is c o n t e n d e d , “ c a r r y w i t h i t a n e w e d u c a ­t io n a l , social , p o l i t i c a l , n n d th e o lo g ic a l s c ie n c e .” R e s u l t : S c i e n c e w i l l n e v e r r e c o g n i s e e i t h e r d r e a m s , s p i r i t u a l i s m , o r o c c u l t i s m .

U n m a n n a t u r e is a n a b y s s , w h i c h pli3' . s io logy a u d h u m a n s c i e n c e iu g e n e r a l , h a s s o u n d e d less t h a n s o m e w h o h a v e n e v e r h e a r d I lio w o rd p h y s i o l o g y p ro n o u n c e d . N e v e r a ro t h e h i g h c e n s o r s o f t h e R o y a l S o c i e t y m o re p e r p l e x e d t h a n w h e n b r o u g h t face to facc w i t h t h a t i n so lv a b lo m y s t e r y — m a n ’s i n n e r n a t u r e . T h o k e y to i t i s— m a n ’s d u a l b e ing . I t is t h a t k e y t h a t t h e y r e fu s e to use , w e l l a w a r e t h a t i f o nce th e d o o r of t h e a d y t u m bo f lu n g o p e n t h e y w i l l b e f o r c e d to d r o p o n e b y o n e t h e i r c h e r i s h e d th e o r i e s a u d ii 11 al c o n c l u s i o n s — m o r e th a n o n c e p r o v e d to h a v e b e e n 110 b e t t e r t h a n h o b b ie s , fa lse as e v e r y t h i n g b u i l t u p o n , a n d s t a r t i n g f ro m fa lse o r i n c o m p l e t e p r e m is e s . I f w e m u s t r e m a in sa t is f ied w i t h t h e h a l f e x p l a n a t i o n s o f p h y s i o l o g y a s r e g a r d s m e a n i n g l e s s d r e a m s , h o w a c co u n t , in su c h case for t h e n u m e r o u s f a c t s o f v e r i f ied d r e a m s ? T o sa y t h a t m a n is a d u a l b e i n g ; t h a t in m a n — to use t h e w o r d s o f P a u l — “ T h e r e is a n a t u r a l b o d y , a n d t h e r e is a s p i r i t u a l b o d y ” — nud th a t , th e r e fo r e , b e m u s t , o f n e c e s s i t y , h a v e a d o u b l e s e t o f s e n s e s — is t a n t a m o u n t in th e o p in io n o f th o e d u c a t e d sc e p t ic , t ) u t t e r i n g a n u n p a r d o n a b le , m o s t u n s c ie n t i f i c f a l l a c y . Y e t i t h a s t o be u t t e r e d — sc ie n c e n o t w i th s t a n d in g .

Alan is u n d e n i a b l y e n d o w e d w i th a d o u b le s e t : w i t h n a t u r a l o r p h y s ic a l s e n s e s ,— -th e se to be sa fe ly left, to p h y s i o l o g y to d e a l w i th ; a n d , w i t h s u b - n a t u r a l o r s p i r i t u a l s e n s e s b e l o n g i n g e n t i r e ^ to th o p r o v i n c e o f p s y c h o lo g ic a l s c ie n c e . T h o L a t i n w o r d “ sul) ,” l e t it be w e l l u n d e r s to o d , is u se d h e r e iu a s e n se d i a m e t r i c a l l y o p p o s i t e to t h a t g i v e n to i t — in c h e m i s t r y , f o r in s ta n c e . I n o u r c a s e i t is n o t a p r o p o s i t io n , b u t a p re f ix a s iu ‘‘ s u b - t o n i c ” o r “ s u b - b a s s ” in m u s ic . I n d e e d , a s t h e a g g r e g a t e s o u n d o f n a t u r e is s h o w n to b e a s in g l e d e f in i t e tone , a k e y ­n o t e v i b r a t in g f ro m n u d t h r o u g h e t e r n i t y ; h a v i n g a n u n d e n i a b l e

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f T h e s ix th principle , o r s p i r i tu a l soul, a n d th e s e v e n t h — i t s p u r e ­ly s p i r i tu a l p r inc ip le , th e “ S p i r i t ” o r Parabrahni, t h e e m a n a t io n from th e u n consc ious A u s o l u t e (See F r a g m e n t s of O ccu l t T r u t h , ” October n u m b e r T h e g s o p i i i s t , 1881.)

I To th is teach in g every k in d of ex cep t io n will be t a k e n b y th e T h e is ts a n d va r io u s ob jections ra ised by th e S p i r i tu a l i s ts . I t is evident, t h a t we c a n n o t be ex p ec ted to give w i th in th e n a r ro w l im i ts of a s h o r t a r t ic le a fu ll e x p l a n a t io n of t h i s h ig h ly a b s t ru s e a n d esoteric d o c t r in e T o sa y t h a t th e A u s o m j t u C o n s c i o u s n e s s i.s U n­conscious of i t s consciousness, hence to t h e l im i te d i n te l l e c t of m an m u s t be *• A u s o l u t e U n c o n s c i o u s n e s s , ” se em s l ike sp e a k in g of a sq u a re t r ia n g le . W e hope to dev e lo p t h e p ro p o s i t io n m o re fully in one of th e forth c o m in g n u m b e r s of “ F r a g m e n t s of O ccu l t T r u t h ” of w h ich we m ay p u b l i sh a series. W e will t h e n p rove , p e rh a p s , to th e sa t is fac t ion of th e l io u -p re ju d iced t h a t t h e Absolute, ov tlio Un­conditioned, a n d (especia lly) t h e u n r e l a t e d is a m e re fan c i fu l a b s t r a c ­t ion , a fiction, un less we v iew i t f rom t h e s t a n d p o in t a n d in th e l ig h t of t h e m ore e d u c a te d p a n th e i s t . T o do so, we will h a v e to r e g a rd t h e " A b s o lu te ' ’ m ere ly as th e a g g re g a te of a ll in te l l ig e n e ie s , t h e to t a l i t y of all ex is tences, incap ab le of m a n i f e s t in g i tse l f b u t th o u g h th e in t e r r e l a t i o n s h ip of i t s p a r t s , as I t is a b s o lu te ly incogn izab le a n d n o n - e x i s t e n t o u ts id e i t s p h en o m en a , a u d d e p e n d s en t i r e ly 011 i ts e v e r -o u rre la t in g F o rc e s , d e p e n d e n t in t h e i r t u r n ou th e O n e G r e a t L a w — Er>.

w i t h p u r e s u b l i m a t e d a n d . ( t o n s ) i m p o n d e r a b l e m a t t e r — i m p a r t s t h e s e a t t r i b u t e s iu n d e g r e e to t h e a s p u r e A s t r a l Etjo. H e n c e h i g h l y s p i r i t u a l p e r s o n s , w i l l sec v i s io n s n n d d r e a m s d u r i n g s le ep nm l e v e n in t h e i r h o u r s o f w a k e f u ln e s s : th e s e lire t b e s e n s i t i v e s , t h e n a t u r a l - b o r n se e rs , n o w lo o se ly t e r m e d “ s p i r i t u a l mediums'' t h e r e b e in g no d i s t i n c t i o n m a d e b e t w e e n a s u b j e c t i v e seer , a neun/pnoloffical su b je c t , a n d e v e n an a d e p t —-one w h o h a s m a d e h i m s e l f i n d e p e n d e n t o f h i s p h y s io lo g ic a l i d i o s y n c r a c i c s a n d h a s e n t i r e l y s u b j e c t e d t h e o u t e r lo t h e inner m a n . T h o s e less s p i r i ­t u a l l y e n d o w e d , w i l l see s u c h d r e a m s b u t a t r a r e i n t e r v a l s , tho a c c u r a c y o f t h e l a t t e r d e p e n d i n g 011 t h e i n t e n s i t y of t h e i r f e e l in g iu r e g a r d to t h e p e r c e i v e d o b je c t .

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T h u s , in t h i s q u e s t io n o f v e r i f i e d d r e a m s , ns in so m n n y o th e r s , S c i e n c e s t a n d s b e fo ro a n u n s o lv e d p r o b le m , th o insol v- nb le n a t u r o o f w h i c h l ias b e e n c r e a t e d b y h e r o w n m a t e r i a l i s t i c s t u b b o r n n e s s , n n d h e r t i m e - c h e r i s h e d ro n t in e -p o l i c y . F o r , e i t h e r m a n is a d u a l b e in g , w i t h ail i n n e r E g o * in h im , t h i s E g o “ tho r e a l ” m a n , d is t inc t , f ro m , a n d i n d e p e n d e n t o f t h e o u t e r m a n p r o p o r l i o u a l l y lo t h e p r e v a l e n c y o r w e a k n e s s o f t h e m a t e r i a l b o d y ; an E g o tliflf s c o p o o f w h o s o s e n se s s t r e t c h e s f a r b e y o n d ih e l i m i t g r a n t e d to t h e p h y s i c a l s e n se s o f m a n ; a n E g o w h i c h s u r v i v e s th e d e c a y o f i ts e x t e r n a l c o v e r i n g — a t l e a s t f o r a t im e , e v e n w h e n a n ev i l c o u r s e o f l ife h a s m a d e h i m fail to a c h i e v e a p e r f e c t u n io n w i t h i t s s p i r i t u a l h i g h e r Se lf . , i.e., to b le n d i t s iiidividuulitij w i t h it , ( t h e personaliti/ g r a d u a l l y f a d in g o u t in e a c h ease) ; o r — th e t e s t i m o n y o f m i l l io n s o f m e n e m b r a c i n g se v e ra l t h o u s a n d s o f y e a r s ; th e e v i d e n c e f u r n i s h e d iu o u r o w n c e n t u r y b y h u n d r e d s o f t h e m o s t e d u c a t e d m e n — o f te n b y th o g r e a t e s t i is jh ts o f s c i e n c o — all t h i s e v id e n c e , w e say , g o e s to n a u g h t . W i t h t h e e x c e p t i o n o f a h a n d fu l o f s c ie n t i f ic a u t h o r i ­ties , s u r r o u n d e d by a n e a g e r c r o w d o f sc e p t i c s a n d sc io lis ts , w h o h a v i n g n e v e r s e e n a n y t h i n g , c la im , t h e r e fo r e , t h e r i g h t o f d e n y ­i n g e v e r y t h i n g , — th e w o r ld s t a n d s c o n d e m n e d a s a g i g a n t i c L u n a t i c A s y l u m 1 I t h as , h o w e v e r , a sp e c ia l d e p a r t m e n t in i t . I t is r e s e r v e d for those , w h o , h a v i n g p r o v e d t h e s o u n d n e s s o f t h e i r m in d , m u s t , o f n e c e s s i t y be r e g a r d e d a s I m p o s t o h s n n d L t,U!S...........

H a s th e n th o p h e n o m e n o n o f d r e a m s b e e n so t h o r o u g h ly s t u d i e d b y m a t e r i a l i s t i c sc ien ce , t h a t s h e h a s n o t h i n g m o r e to l e a rn , s in c e s h e s p e a k s in su c h a u t h o r i t a t i v e to n es u p o n th e s u b j e c t ? N o t in t h e leas t . T h o p h e n o m e n a o f s e n s a t io n a n d v o l i t io n , o f in t e l l e c t a n d i n s t i n c t , a r e , o f c o u r s e , a l l m a n i f e s t e d t h r o u g h th e c h a n n e l s o f t h e n e r v o u s c e n t r e s t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t o f w h i c h is t h e b r a in . O f t h e p e c u l i a r s u b s t a n c e t h r o u g h w h i c h th e s e a c t i o n s t a k e p l a c e — a s u b s t a n c e Ih e tw o fo rm s o f w h i e h a r c th e v e s i c u l a r n n d t h e f ibrous , t h e l a t t e r is h e ld to b e s im p ly t h e p r o p a g a t o r o f th o im p r e s s io n s s e n t to o r f ro m t h e v e s i c u l a r m a t t e r . Y e t w h i l e t h i s p h y s i o l o g i c a l oflico is d i s t i n g u i s h e d , o r d i v i d e d b y S c i e n c e in to t h r e e k i n d s — t h e m o t o r , s e n s i t i v e a n d c o n n e c t i n g — tb e m y s t e r i o u s a g e n c y o f i n t e l l e c t r e m a i n s as m y s ­t e r io u s am i as p e r p l e x i n g to t h e g r e a t p h y s io lo g i s t s as i t w a s iu t h e d a y s o f H i p p o c r a t e s . T h e sc ie n t i f i c s u g g e s t io n t h a t t h e r o m a y bo a f o u r t h s e r i e s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e o p e r a t i o n s o f t h o u g h t h a s n o t h e l p e d t o w a r d s s o lv in g t h e p r o b l e m ; i t hns f a i led to s h e d e v e n th e s l i g h t e s t r a y o f l ig h t 011 t h e u n f a t h o m a b l e m y s t e r y . N o r w il l t h e y e v e r f a th o m i t u n le s s o u r m e n o f S c i e n c e a c c e p t t h e h y p o t h e s i s o f D u a l M a n .

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“ I n a r e c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d a r t i c l e w c g n v o s o m e h i n t n f ll ic m i s c h i e f w h i c h is b e i n g c a u s e d in N o r t h I n d i a h y w h a t is t .e im cd T h o o s o p h i s m . I f w c d id n o t b e l i e v e t lm t t h i s m i s c h i e f w n s rea l , a n d n f re s h h i n d r a n c e to th o p r o g r e s s o f C h r i s t i a n i t y , i t w o u ld n o t be w o r t h w h i l e r e v e r t i n g to i t . I t is so d i s g u s t i n g a n d r e v o l t i n g to t h e C h r i s t i a n m in d , t h a t s i l e n c e u p o n s u c h a s u b j e c t w o u ld bo p r e f e r a b l e to s p e e c h ; b u t a s t h e r e a r e m a n y , o v e n in I n d i a , i g n o r a n t o f t h e t r u e n a t u r e o f it, i t d o e s s e e m to b e a p l a in d u l y , in w h ic h th e C h u r c h M is s io n a r y S o c i c t y h a s a d is t inc t , c o n c e r n , lo e x p o s e t h e t r u o n a t u r e o f i t . T h i s is d o n ein v e r y p l a in t e r m s in t h e a r t i c l e f rom th o ............... w h i c h w cs u b jo in . T h e tone n u d s ty le o f t h e a r t i c l e a r c n o t l ik e w h a t wo u s u a l ly a d m i t in o u r p a g e s ,* b u t t h e s y s t e m a n i m a d v e r t e d u p o n is e q u a l l y u n p r e c e d e n t e d . F r o m w h a t w e le a rn i t i s s p r e a d i n g , n n d i f i t e x t e n d s m u c h f u r t h e r , i t is l ik e ly to bo q u i t e a s n o x i o u s a s t h e B r a h m o S o m a j a b o u t w h i c h so m u c h l e a r n e d n o n s e n s e is t a lk e d . A s r e g a r d s u s in E n g l a n d , t h o c h i e f i m p o r t a n c e o f th e m a t t e r is th is , t h a t l l i e n t t c m p t , i s a b o ld a n d e n e r g e t i c o n e to r e d u c o to c o n s i s t e n c y a n d p r a c t i c e t h e n o t io n s w h i c h h a v e s p r u n g f rom , a n d h a v e b e e n s t i m u l a t e d b y , C o m p a r a t i v e R e l ig io n , a f t e r h a v i n g b e e n fo r s o m e t im e he ld iu so lu t io n in th o m i n d s o f l e a r n e d m e n111 E n g l a n d a n d G e r m a n y . I t is th o p r a c t i c a l a n d s t a r t l i n g o u t ­c o m e o f t h e i r s p e c u la t i o n s . P e r h a p s s o m e w o u ld p r o t e s t t h a t a l l th i s is a c a r i c a t u r e o f w h a t t h e y m e a n t . It, m a y be a v u lg a r e x a g g e r a t i o n , b u t i t is n o t th o loss s u b s t a n t i a l l y a l e g i t i m a t e r e ­s u l t o f t h e i r t h e o r i e s . W e . o f c o u r s e , e x c e p t f ro m th i s what, is a p p a r e n t l y l e g e r d e m a i n [ ,s /c] , b u t there h a v e been som e rec.c.nt even ts in E n g l a n d w h ic h h ave e n g a g e d ihe a t ten t ion o f som e e m in e n t f r e e t h i n k e r s a n d scientific, m e n ; i t is d i f f ic u l t n o t to c o n n e c t th e s e w i t h T h o o s o p h i s m as r e c e n t l y d e v e lo p e d .

“ I t s e e m s n o t im p o s s ib l e t h a t , a s p a r t i c l e s o f q u i c k s i l v e r m u t u a l l y a t t r a c t e a c h o th e r , B r a h m o S o m a j i s m f a n d T h e o s o p h i s m m a y y e t m e r g e in to ea c h o t h e r ; t h e r o is a g o o d den i in th e s e t w o fo rm s o f e r r o r w h i c h a re s y m p a t h e t i c [■«/«]. O n e t h i n g is q u i t e c c r t a in , t h a t T h e o s o p h i s m is n o t m o r e b l a s p h e m o u s o r e x t r a v a g a n t in i ts a b s u r d i t i e s th a n th e s y s t e m w h i c h K e s l iu b C h u n d e r S en is a t t e m p t i n g to d e v e l o p . J T h e r e is s o n e t h i n g c o m p l e t e l y i d e n t i c a l in tl io e l e m e n t s o u t o f w h i c h t h e y a r ea t t e m p t i n g to e v o lv e t h e m .................T h e r e i.s m o r e f e a r t h a t in t h eu n w h o le s o m e c o n d i t io n o f p a r t i a l l y i n f o rm e d m i n d s in I n d ia , t h e r e m i g h t bo a t t r a c t i o n in t h i s n o v e l t y . T h e l i g h t y o k e a n d e a s y b u r d e n o f C h r i s t i a n i ty ' , w h e n s u p e r f i c i a l l y i n s p e c t e d , a r e too p r e s s in g to be e n d u r e d . T h e r o is s t ra i tn e s s in C h r is t ia n m o r a l i t y ; t h e r e is l i t t lo sc o p e fo r a u d a c i o u s s p e c u l a t i o n in a s y s t e m w h o s e p r im o r e q u i s i t e is tlTat t h e re c ip ie n t , s h o u ld b e c o m o as a l i t t lo c h i ld .§ T h e r e m n y too bo a t t r a c t i o n s in d o c ­t r i n e s w h i c h p o s tp o n e C h r i s t i a n i t y to wdiat a r e h e ld to bo th e m o ro v e n e r a b l e c l a im s o f H i n d u i s m nnd B u d d h i s m . A l l t h i s to s c e p t i c a l nnd u n r e g e n e r a t e m in d s , d e m o r a l i z e d by the s e c u la r l ea c h in g in I n d i a n TTn.inersi.ties, a u d c a s t a d r i f t w i t h o u t r u d d e r o r c o m p a s s u p o n nn e n d le s s s e a o f v a g u e i n q u i r y , m a y well , u n l e s s th e g r a c e o f G o d b e g iv e n , be c o n s id e r e d p r e f e r a b l e to t h e s t e rn a n d u n c o m p r o m is i n g d o g m a t i s m o f C h r i s t i a n i t y . F e w p r o b a b l y w il l s to p to c o n s id e r h o w m u c h t h e r e m a y be o f v u l g a r e h a r l a t a n c y in th e m e r e s y s t e m p r o p o u n d e d . T h e I l i n d u , in m a t t e r s o f I h is d e s c r ip t i o n , w o u ld bo quite, p r e p a r e d to g i r e anil. take. H e h a s a la rg o a p p e t i t e fo r t h e m a r v e l lo u s . T l ic o - s o p h i s m a p p e a l s to h i s f a n c y , h i s i m a g i n a t i o n , his su p p o se t l l e a r n in g , his v a g u e a sp ira t io n s , h is conce it n n d h is l e a r n e d ig n o r a n c e . T h e c a s te q u e s t io n , too, is n o t in th e w a y . M u c h p r u d e n c e a n d v ig i l a n c e wil l b e r e q u i r e d on th o part, o f o u r m i s ­s io n a r ie s to e n c o u n t e r th is g r o w i n g e v i l , a n d to e x p o s e tlio

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r e s o l v e s . A f t e r h i m f o l l o w e d c l a d i u t h e i r S i n h a l e s e n a t i o n a l c o s t u m e , th o . t h r e e B u d d h i s t g e n t l e m e n , w h o h a d c o r n e a s d e l e g a t e s f r o m t h e C o l o m b o B r a n c h o f t h e T h e o ­s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y . T h e y h a d b e e n s e n t a c r o s s , f r o m L a n k a t o t h o m a i n c o n t i n e n t t o b e p r e s e n t a t t h o o p e n i n g o f a B r a n c h S o c i e t y in T i n n e v e l l y , a n d c o n v e y t o t h e n e w m e m b e r s , a m e s s a g e o f g o o d - w i l l , p e a c e a n d b r o t h e r l y l o v e . T h e o f f i c i a l a s w e l l a s n o n - o f f i c i a l l e a d e r s o f t h e n a t i v e s o c i e t y o f t l i o t o w n , b r o u g h t u p t h e r e a r . T h e p o p u l a c e b y t h o u s a n d s t h r o n g e d 011 e v e r y s i d e . T h e b a n d o f m u s i ­c i a n s a t t a c h e d t o t h e p a g o d a , p l a y i n g t h r i l l i n g n a t i v e a i r s t h a t f i l l e d t h e a i r w i t h j o j o u s b u r s t s o f m u s i c , p r e c e d e d t h e p r o c e s s i o n , w h i c h , e n t e r i n g t h e t e m p l e a t t h e o a s t g a t e , m o v e d s l o w l y a r o u n d t c t h e n o r t h e r n p r a k a r a m i n ­s i d e . J u s t b e f o r e t h e p r o c e s s i o n h a d r e a c h e d t h e e n ­t r a n c e t o t h o t e m p l e a c o c k f l e w r i g h t u p a t t h e b r a s s j a r , t o u c h e d t h e h e a d o f o n e o f t h o n e w H i n d u T h eosop h ists, a n d t h e n d i s a p p e a r e d o u t o f t h e d e n s e c r o w d a s m y s t e r i o u s l y a s i t h a d f o u n d i t s w a y i n t o i t . I t w a s c o n s i d e r e d a h i g h l y p r o p i t i o u s o m e n . A r o u n d a t e m ­p o r a r y p l a t f o r m , p u t u p f o r t h e p u r p o s e , t h e n o r t h e r n c o r r i d o r o f t h o p a g o d a w a s s e e n , s q u a t t e d in t h e o r t h o d o x fashion 011 t h e c a r p e t e d f lo o r , a c r o w d o f h i g h - c a s t e H i n d u s , n u m b e r i n g a b o v e f i v e t h o u s a n d . T h e p o t w a s p l a c e d 011 t h e p l a t f o r m . T h e C o l o n e l a n d t h e S i n h a l e s e I h i d d h i s t g e n t l e m e n s t e p p e d u p on t h e p l a t f o r m , a n d r e c i t e d t h i s

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“ May all happiness attend ye ;May all good deities protect ye ;May all blessings of the sagesOpen to ye, the gates of eternal bliss.”

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s p i r i t u a l w i s d o m w a s s c a r c e l y y e t c o m p r e h e n d e d . H e t o l d t h e m t o g i v e t h e i r i n f l u e n c e a n d d e v o t e t h e i r t a l e n t s t o p r o m o t e t h e i n t e r e s t s o f H i n d u a r t s , s c i e n c e s a n d p h i l o s o p h y , j f e d e p r e c a t e d t h e a g n o s t i c a l p r o c l i v i t i e s o f t h e m o d e r n e d u ­c a t e d H i n d u u n d e r t h e i m p u l s e o f a f o r e i g n c u l t u r e i m p e r ­f e c t l y a p p r o p r i a t e d a n d n o t w h o l l y c o n g e n i a l . l i e

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p r o p e r t y o f I n d i a , t h e a n c i e n t m o t h e r o f g r e a t m e n , t h o u g h , a t t h e s a m e t i m e , h i s m o r a l p r e c e p t s a r c t h e h e r i t a g e o f t h e w h o l e h u m a n r a c e . E v e n i n g h a d f a l l e n w h e n t h e C o l o n e l ’s s p e e c h w a s c o n c l u d e d , a n d w i t h g r e a t , s h o u t s o f a p p l a u s e h e w a s e s c o r t e d t o h i s r e s i l i e n c e b y t h e p o p u l a c e o f t h e t o w n . M a y t h e s p i r i t s , V y a s a a n d K a p i l a , a n d t h e g a l a x y o f I l i s h i s o p e n t h e e y e s o f t h e i r p o o r , b l i n d c h i l d ­r e n t o t h e t r u e l i g h t ! . . . O m . ”

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“ Though I have never been in India, I havo spent nearly the whole of my life in the literature of India, and among the b es t creations of the Indian inind. I sometimes feel as if I had almost become an Indian myself. What I want to see in India is the rising of a national spirit, an honest pride in your past history, a discri­minating love of your ancient li terature. All th i.s need in now ay interfere with a determinate effort to make your future better and brighter even than your past. Take all tha t is good from Europe, only do not try to become Europeans, bu t remain what you are, sous of Mann, children of a bountiful soil, seekers after t ru th , wor­shippers of the same unknown (Jod, whom all men ignorantly worship, but whom all very truly and wisely serve by d o i n g what i.s just, bright and good.’’

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may b e w a r m e r ; ” a n d s o , t o o o f t e n , t h e y w a i t a n d w a i t u n t i l t h e h o u r i s p a s t , a n d t h e o p p o r t u n i t y l o s t f o r e v e r .

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t h a t y o n s h o u l d c e a s e t o l o n g f o r , o r l o v e f o r t h e m s e l v e s , t h e s e m e r e w o r l d l y v a n i t i e s , c e a s e t o p l a n a n d s c h e m e , a n d c r a v e f o r t h e m s o e a r n e s t l y , a n d r e c o g n i s i n g t h e i r t r u e v a l u e , t h e i r i n t r i n s i c n o t h i n g n e s s , s e t y o u r h e a r t s i n ­s t e a d o n l e a d i n g g o o d a n d u s e f u l l i v e s , a n d o n u n s e l f i s h l y m i n i s t e r i n g t o t h e h a p p i n e s s o f o t h e r s .

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s o u r c e s o f i n n o c e n t a n d l a w f u l p l e a s u r e a r e o p e n e d t.o o n e o r o t h e r o f u s . L e t n o n e g i v e a t h o u g h t t o w h a t i s d e n i e d t o t h e m ; l e t a l l t a k e a n d s o b e r l y e n j o y w h a t l i f e f r e e l y g i v e s , b u t w i t h o u t s e t t i n g a n y g r e a t s t o r e t h e r e b y . B e

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T o s o m e t h e s e w i l l s e e m b u t i d l e w o r d s . “ W h a t , ” t h o y w i l l s a y , “ d o w e k n o w o f a n y f u t u r e ( A f e w s h o r t f l e e t ­i n g y e a r s — a l a s , h o w s h o r t — a n d w h y s h o u l d w e n o t e n j o y t h e m w h i l e w e m a y ? A f e w b r i e f y e a r s , a n d t h e n t h e c u r t a i n l u l l s f o r a l l , a n d t h e g l o o m y e a r t h o r b l a z i n g p i l e c l o s e s t h e v i s t a f o r e v e r 1”

F o r e v e r , i n d e e d , t o t h e e y e s o f t h e b l i n d m o r t a l s w h o r e m a i n b e h i n d , b u t n o t s o t o t h o s e d e p a r t i n g . T h e t r a v e l ­l e r l e a v e s y o u r h o s p i t a b l e d o o r ; h e p a s s e s i n t o t h e w o r l d . Y o u s e e h i m , h e a r o f h i m , p e r h a p s , 110 m o r e . B u t h e e v e r t r a v e l s o n , t h o u g h y o u k n o w n o u g h t o f i t , w e l l o r i l l , a c ­c o r d i n g t o t h e f o r e s i g h t a u d w i s d o m w i t h w h i c h l i e h a s© O .e q u i p p e d h i m s e l f b e f o r e s t a r t i n g . W e a l l a r e w a n d e r e r s a n d t r a v e l l e r s , r e s t i n g b u t f o r a b r i e f p e r i o d o n e a r t h , a n d w h e n w e s t a r t t h e n c e i t f a r e s w e l l o r i l l w i t h u s a c c o r d i n g a s w o h a v e u s e d o r m i s u s e d t h e o p p o r t u n i t i e s a f f o r d e d h e r e .T h o s e w h o h a v e c l u n g p e r s i s t e n t l y t o m a t e r i a l p l e a s u r e s , w h o s e h e a r t s h a v e b e c o m e b o u n d u p i n e v i l o r e a r t h l y t h i n g s , d r a w n d o w n b y t h e b o n d s o f a s e l f - c r e a t e d a t t r a c ­t i o n f o r m a t t e r , p a s s t o a l o w e r , m o r e m a t e r i a l s p h e r e , t o o

s e l d o m t o r i s e a g a i n , t o o g e n e r a l l y t o s i n k a f t e r a p e r i o d o f s u f f e r i n g , t h e e x a c t m e a s u r e o f t h e i r o w n t r a n s g r e s s i o n s , i n t o a n n i h i l a t i o n .

T h e s e a r e t h e t r a v e l l e r s — a l a s , t o o m a n y — w h o p e r i s h b y t h e w a y s i d e T h r o u g h o u t t h e u n i v e r s e t h e i n e x o r a b l e l a w o f t h e e x a c t r e q u i t a l o f g o o d f o r g o o d a n d e v i l f o r e v i l r u l e s ; a n d t h o s e w h o f a i l t o f i t t h e m s e l v e s f o r . t h e u p w a r d c o u r s e , s i n k d o w n w a r d s a n d b e c o m e e x t i n c t .

B u t t h e y , o n t h e o t h e r h a n d , t h e w i s e a n d p r e s c i e n t t r a v e l ­l e r s , w h o s e a s p i r a t i o n s h a v e b e e n t o w a r d s t h i n g s s p i r i t u a l , w h o , u n b l i n d e d b y t h e g l a m o u r o f t h i s w o r l d ’s e m p t y s h o w s , h a v e f i x e d t h e i r s o u l ’s g a z e e v e r o n t h e t h i n g s b e -1 o oy o n d e a r t h ’s p r i s o n wra l l 3, t h e y , f r e e d f r o m t h e f e t t e r s o f t h e f l e s h , p a s s o n r e j o i c i n g i n t o p e a c e a n d i m m o r t a l i t y .

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t h e u n i v e r s a l . T o o g e n e r a l l y , h u m a n l i f e i s s u c h a t a n g l e d s k e i n o f g o o d a n d e v i l t h a t e v e n t h e f a b l e d a n g e l s

a n d d e v i l s w o u l d f a i l t o u n r a v e l t h e b l a c k a n d w h i t e , i n e x t r i ­c a b l y i n t e r - k n o t t e d t h r e a d s . O n l y w h e n t h e e n t i r e t e n d e n ­c i e s a r e e v i l o r m a t e r i a l , a n d f u r t h e r d e v e l o p m e n t t o w a r d s p u r i t y a n d s p i r i t u a l i t y i s i m p o s s i b l e , d o e s t h e c o n s c i o u s e l f s i n k s a d l y i n t o n o t h i n g n e s s ; o n l y w h e r e p e r f e c t p u r i t y e n v e l o p e s i t w i t h s p o t l e s s r o b e c a n t h e s o u l w i n t u p w a r d s w i t h e a g l e w i n g , r e l e a s e d f o r e v e r f r o m t h g ’ w h i r r i n g g r o a n i n g w h e e l o f t r a n s i t o r y e x i s t e n c e , t o t h e u n e c h a n g i n g b l i s s o f t h e i m m u t a b l e . I n a l l o t h e r c a s e s cac- has t o w o r k their w a y u p w a r d s , s t e p h y s t e p , l i f e b y l i f / i . a n d w o r l d b y w o r l d , t h r o u g h t h e w h o l e c i r c l e o f n e c e s s i t y e

r a p i d l y a n d c o m p a r a t i v e l y h a p p i l y , o r s l o w l y a u d p a i n , ; f u l l y , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e i r m e r i t s . E a c h g o o d d e e d i n o n l i f e b l o o m s a l l o w e r o f r e j o i c i n g i u t h e n e x t ; e a c h e v i - o n e r a n k l e s a t h o r n o f s u f f e r i n g s h a r p e r t h a n a s e r p e n t ’ c t o o t h . A s w e s o w , s o , f o r e v e r a n d f o r e v e r , s h a l l w e r e a p

T h e f i r s t g r e a t t r u t h , t h e n , t h a t e a c h m u s t t a k e t o h e a r t i s t h a t t h i s l i f e h e r e i s b u t a s o n e d a y ’s s a i l i n t h e v a s t v o y a g e t h a t a l l m u s t m a k e , w h o e s c a p i n g u t t e r s h i p w r e c k

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t h i s e n t i r e p i l g r i m a g e , o u r f a t e s a r e i n o u r o w n h a n d s . W e s h a l l p e r i s h m i s e r a b l y b y t h e w a y ; w e s h a l l w i n o n ­w a r d s , s l o w o r f a s t , in s t o r m o r s u n s h i n e , j u s t a s d u r i n g e a c h f r e s h d e p a r t u r e w e a c t , s p e a k , o r t h i n k . T h e r e i s n o s t e r n d e i t y p u n i s h i n g , n o m e r c i f u l o n e f o r g i v i n g . L e t n o o n e d u l l t h e s e n s e o f y o u r o w n i n d i v i d u a l r e s p o n s i b i l i t y b y s u c h d o c t r i n e s , b u t y o u r o w n d e e d s , w o r d s , a n d t h o u g h t s h e r e a r e t h e i r o w n a v e n g e r s , o r r e w a r d e r s i n t h eO O ^

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p e r i o d t o p r e p a r e a r i g h t f o r t h a t , i f t h e y s o w i l l i t , e n d l e s s f u t u r e .

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011 e a r t h , o n c e r e a l i z e t h e d r e a d s i g n i f i c a n c e o f a l l y o u r a c t i o n s , a l l y o u a r e i n t h i s l i f e , a n d y o u w i l l c e a s e t o w o n ­d e r why y o u .should m a k e t h e p l u n g e ; why y o u s h o u l d c e a s e t o c o v e t a n d c r a v e fo r t h e p l e a s u r e s a n d g l o r i e s o f t h i s w o r l d ; a n d w h i l e t h a n k f u l l y e n j o y i n g t h e s e a s d o e s t h e w a y - f a r e r t h e b e a u t i f u l s c e n e r y , t h e t u n e f u l b i r d s , t h e p e r f u m e d f l o w e r s t h a t e v e r a n d a n o n g l a d d e n h i s p i l g r i m ­a g e , s u f f e r n o n e s u c h t o b e g u i l e y o u t o t h e r i g h t o r l e f t , b u t k e e p i n g y o u r e y e s s t e a d f a s t l y f i x e d 011 t h e d i s t a n t g o a l , m a r c h o n w a r d s t o i t s t r a i g h t , g a t h e r i n g o n l y a s y o u p a s s t h o s e j e w e l s o f a p u r e h e a r t a n d a l l - l o v i n g s o u l t h a t w i l l a l o n e a v a i l y o u t h e r e .

A n d , r e m e m b e r , i t i s n o t o n l y y o u r o w n e t e r n a l w e l f a r e t h a t m a y h a n g u p o n t h e i s s u e — t h e r e a r e t h e c h i l d r e n w h o s e v e r y l i v e s a r e y o u r s — t h e h u s b a n d s , m o t h e r s , f a t h e r s y o u s o d e a r l y l o y e , M o r e t h a n w e t h i u k d o e a c h

i in d a l l o f u s p o s s e s s t h e p o w e r o f i n f l u e n c i n g f o r g o o d or e v i l t h o s o n e a r a n d d e a r : t o u s . M o r e o f t e n t h a n w e r e a ­l i z e a r e t h e e n t i r e l i v e s o f c h i l d r e n c o l o u r e d b y t h e p r e ­c e p t s i n s t i l l e d b y t h e e x a m p l e s s e t b e f o r e t l i e i r e y e s , in

e a r l i e s t c h i l d h o o d b y t h e i r m o t h e r s . I f y o u c a n n o t b e b r a v e a n d p u r e f o r y o u r o w n s a ^ e s , s h a l l y o u r c h i l d r e n h a v e t o c u r s e y o u i n d a r k u n d e r - w o r l d s f o r y o u r e v i l i n - l l u e n c e , o r b l e s s y o u i n b r i g h t e r s p h e r e s for t h a t l i g h t , w h i c h y o u r l o v i n g c a r e s f i r s t k i n d l e d i n t h e i r s o u l s ?

D e a r s i s t e r s , i t i s a n a w f u l r e s p o n s i b i l i t y w h i c h r e s t s o n a l l o f n s , m e n a n d w o m e n — a r e s p o n s i b i l i t y , r e a l a n d f r o m w h i c h t h e r e i s n o e s c a p e . Y o u m a y g l i d e o n w a r d s , d r u g g e d a n d b l i n d e d b y t h e d e l u s i v e p l e a s u r e s n u d a t t r a c ­t i o n s o f t h i s e a r t h l y l i f e , d r a g g i n g w i t h y o u , p e r h a p s , t o

t h e b o t t o m l e s s p i t o f d e s t r u c t i o n , t h o s e o r s o m e o f t h e m ,

t o s a v e w h o s e e a r t h l y l i v e s y o u w o u l d s o g l a d l y l a y d o w n y o u r o w n ; o r y o u m a y b e s t r o n g a n d w i s e i n t i m e , a n d b u r s t i n g t h e g i l d e d c h a i n s o f m a t e r i a l p l e a s u r e s a n d d e s i r e s , r i s e t r i u m p h a n t , s p i r i t - b u o y e d , o v e r t h e a b y s s , d r a w i n g a f t e r y o u b y s i l k e n t h r e a d s o f l o v e a n d r e v e r e n c e a l l t o w h o s e h e a r t s , i n l i f e , y o u h a v e b e e n t h e s u n s h i n e .

“ I t i s s o h a r d !” I t d o e s , i n d e e d , seem s o , b u t n o t h i n g w o r t h t h e h a v i n g , n o t h i n g e v e n o f e a r t h ’s e m p t y g l o r i e s

w a s e v e r w o n w i t h o u t t o i l a n d t r o u b l e .“ I t i s i m p o s s i b l e f o r u s t o b e c o m e p e r f e c t l y p u r e a n d

g o o d !” I t i s s o ! S o l o n g a s t h e s p i r i t c o n t i n u e s p r i s o n e d i n t h i s h o m e o f c l a y , s o m e m a t e r i a l t a i n t s w i l l e v e r c l i n g t o i t . N a t u r e s , t o o , d i f f e r , a n d a p u r i t y a n d s p i r i t u a l e x a l t ­a t i o n , c o m p a r a t i v e l y e a s y t o o n e w h o h a s l e a r n t t h e s o l e m n l e s s o n o f e x i s t e n c e i n e a r l y l i f e , i s t o b e a t t a i n e d b y a n o t h e r , w h e n e v i l h a b i t s a n d d e s i r e s h a v e l o n g h a d s w a y , o n l y a f t e r a b i t t e r s t r u g g l e a n d s o r e t r a v a i l o f m i n d . B u t o n e a n d a l l c a n b e b e t t e r t h a n t h e y o r e ; o n e a n d a l l c a n h u n ­g e r a n d t h i r s t a f t e r r i g h t e o u s n e s s ; o n e a n d a l l c a n s u r e l y , e v e n i f s l o w l y , t r a m p l e o u t , o n e b y o n e , t h e n o x i o u s w e e d s s o w n b y m a t e r i a l i n f l u e n c e s i n t h e g a r d e n s o f t h e i r s o u l s ; o n e a n d a l l c a n , s t e p b y s t e p , s c a l e t h e p e a k s o f s n o w y p u r i t y , w h e n c e t h e s p i r i t c a n s o a r t o a n o t h e r a u d a b r i g h t e r w o r l d . Y e s ; a l l c a n s t r i v e i n e a r n e s t t o r i s e , t o g r o w p u r e r , m o r e u n s e l f i s h , m o r e b e n e f i c e n t , a n d n o o n e m a n o r w o m a n e v e r t h u s t r i e d , p a t i e n t l y a n d p e r s e v e r i n g l y , b u t s o o n o r l a t e , r e a p e d a r i c h h a r v e s t o f t h e i r t o i l . I t i s n o t really s o h a r d 1 i t o n l y vcenis s o . H o w h a r d i t s e e m e d t o

l e v e l t h e d u l l g r o s s m o u n d t h a t o n c e s t o o d y o n d e r , a n d r e a r i n s t e a d t h e n o b l e t e m p l e p o i n t i n g t o t h e s k i e s , t h a t n o w d e l i g h t s a l l e y e s ! Y e t , i f y o u w a t c h e d t h e w o r k , y o u s a w h o w b y s l o w d e g r e e s , b e f o r e t h e p a t i e n t w o r k m a n , s h o v e l b y s h o v e l f u l , a n d b a s k e t b y b a s k e t f u l , t h e g l o o m y m a s s w a n e d a n i l h o w , t o o , s t o n e b y s t o n e , i n l o n g y e a r s , t h e t e m p l e r o s e a n d w a x e d , u n t i l a t l a s t i t s g o l d e n p i n n a c l e s h o t u p , u n t a r n i s h a b l e i n t o t h e s m i l i n g h e a v e n s .

T a k e c o u r a g e ! I t i s no/so h a r d e v e n t o b e g i n ; y o u h a v e b u t t o w i l l ; t o t u r n y o u r h e a r t t o t h e t a s k i n s i n c e r i ­

t y a n d p a t i e n c e , a n d t h e w o r s t i s o v e r . D a y b y d a y t h e v o i c e s o f t h e w o r l d c a l l i n g t o i t s p h a n t o m f e a s t s w i l l g r o w f a i n t e r a n d f a i n t e r , a n d d a y b y d a y t h e l o w w h i s p e r s i r o m

h e a v e n w i l l w a x c l e a r e r a n d s w e e t e r , u n t i l , a f t e r a w h i l e , w h e n y o u l o o k b a c k , y o u w i l l w o n d e r h o w y o u e v e r e v e n

t h o u g h t i t h a r d .

“ B u t w h a t a r e w e t o d o ? ” W e t r u l y b e l i e v e t h a t t h e r e i s n o t o n e o f y o u w h o r e a d s t h i s t h a t d o c s n o t f o r h e r s e l f k n o w t h i s f a r b e t t e r t h a n w e c a n h o p e t o t e l l i t . D e e p i n e a c h h e a r t i s p l a n t e d t h e k n o w l e d g e o f g o o d a n d e v i l ; y o u may n e e d p r e a c h e r s t o a r o u s e y o u t o t h e t e r r i b l e c o n ­s e q u e n c e s o f a w r o n g c h o i c e , t o w a r n y o u o f t h e e t e r n i t y t h a t d e p e n d s u p o n y o u r c l i n g i n g t o t h e o n e a n d s h a k i n g o f f t h e o t h e r ; b u t o n c e y o u k n o w a n d f e e l t h i s , o n c e y o u h a v e c h o s e n t h a t b e t t e r p a t h , y o u c a n h a r d l y n e e d a n y o t h e r t e a c h e r s t h a n y o u r o w n s o u l s .

D o y o u n o t k n o w ? Y o u k n o w f u l l w e l l ! Y o u r o w n d a r l i n g s i n , b o i t s l o t h , e x t r a v a g a n c e , s e n s u a l i t y , g r e e d , a n g e r , p r i d e , e n v y , o r w h a t n o t , y o u k n o w i t w e l l . That s i n y o u m u s t b e a t d o w n w i t h s t e a d f a s t p u r p o s e ; o n i t s n o c k y o u m u s t s e t y o u r h e e l — i t o r y o u m u s t p e r i s h — t h e s t r i f e i s o n e f o r y o u r o w n e x i s t e n c e , a y e , a n d , m o r e o r l e s s , f o r

t h a t o f a l l w h o l o v e y o u , a l l y o u l o v e . B o s t r o n g a n d

r e s o l u t e , w i l l t h a t i t shall d i e , a n d ( f o r , i n t h i s u n i v e r s e , r i g h t w i l l i s o m n i p o t e n t ) , s l o w l y i t s s n a k y f o l d s s h a l l u n c o i l f r o m r o u n d y o u r h e a r t , t h e h a t e f u l f e t t e r s c r u m b l e , a n d y o u

s h a l l o n c e m o r e b e f r e e a n d h a p p y .

Y o u aro, s u r r o u n d e d b y p e o p l e , s o m e t o w h o m y o u o w e o b e d i e n c e , s o m e s u b j e c t t o y o u r a u t h o r i t y . N e e d w e t e l l y o u t h a t y o u s h o u l d s e r v e t h e f o r m e r i n a l l s i n c e r i t y a n d l o y a l t y , n o t w i t h . l i p s e r v i c e , b u t f r o m y o u r h e a r t , i u t r u t h a n d l o v e , a s you w o u l d o t h e r s s h o u l d s e r v e you ? O r n e e d w e s a y t h a t t h o ^ e o t h e r s , h i g h a n d l o w , g o o d a n d b a d , s h o u l d f i n d i u y o u a n e v e r - g r a c i o u s , f o r g i v i n g a n d m o t h e r ­l i k e r u l e r ? S o m e w i l l l i e , a n d s o m e w i l l s t e a l o r s i n i n o t h e r w a y s , a n d m a n y w i l l n e g l e c t t h e i r d u t i e s . P i t y t h e m ,

f o r t h e y a r e w e a v i n g f o r . t h e m s e l v e s a r e t r i b u t i o n e l s e w h e r e w h i c h t h e y c a n n o m o r e e s c a p e t h a n you c a n e s c a p e t h e c o n s e q u e n c e s o f y o u r o w n d e e d s . P i t y t h e m ! f o r t h e m

t h e l i g h t t h a t g u i d e s y o u h a s n o t y e t s h o n e . E n d e a v o u r b y g e n t l e n e s s , b y j u s t c o n s t r a i n t u n m i x o d w i t h a n g e r , b u t a b o v e a l l b y y o u r o w n e x a m p l e , t o t e a c h t h e m h o w g o o d a t h i n g i t i s t o b e h o n e s t , p u r e , a n d t r u e , a u d t o p e r f o r i n e v e r y d u t y o f l i f e t h o r o u g h l y a n d c h e e r f u l l y .

A h u n d r e d i d l e s u p e r s t i t i o u s o b s e r v a n c e s g o o n a r o u n d

y o u d a i l y , b u t i f a n y o f t h o s o t o w h o m y o u o w e l o v e a n d d e f e r e n c e , r e v e r e n c e o r c l i n g t o t h e s e , d o n o t v e x t h e i r m i n d s b y r i d i c u l i n g o r d e s p i s i n g s u c h . R e m e m b e r t h a t t h o u g h i n t h e m s e l v e s o f n o a v a i l , t h e y h a v e h a d i n p a s t d a y s a v a l u e i n r e m i n d i n g m o r t a l s ( a l m o s t s m o t h e r e d i u t h e c a r e s a n d d e s i r e s o f t h i s m a t e r i a l l i f e ) o f b e t t e r a n d s p i r i t u a l t h i n g s a n d t h a t a l l o f t h e m ( t h o u g h t h e s i g n i f i ­c a t i o n m a y l o n g s i n c e h a v e b e e n f o r g o t t e n ) t y p i f y b y m a t e r i a l , v i s i b l e o b j e c t ? , t h i n g s s p i r i t u a l a n d u n s e e n . M a k e f o r e a c h s e e m i n g l y f u t i l e f o r m w h i c h y o u c o m p l y w i t h , t o

s a v e p a i n t o o t h e r s , a h i g h e r s p i r i t u a l s i g n i f i c a t i o n , a n d l e t t h e a s p i r a t i o n s o f y o u r h e a r t s g l o r i f y e a c h e m p t y r i t e . S o l e t t h e g r a i n s o f r i c e y o u s c a t t e r r e m i n d y o u o f t h e g o o d w o r d s a u d d e e d s t h a t s h o u l d f a l l s o f t l y f r o m y o u a l l n r o u n d ; s o l e t t h e f l o w e r s y o u p l a c e u p o n t h e s h r i n e r e c a l t h o s e h o l i e s t o f o f f e r i n g s , t h o s e i m p e r i s h a b l e f l o w e r s , p u r e a n d l o v i n g h e a r t s !

S e e , h o w e v e r , t h a t y o u r c h i l d r e n a r e r e a r e d i n t h e f u l l c o m p r e h e n s i o n o f t h e f r a i l t y a n d n o t h i n g n e s s , in than- aeli'CK, o f t h e s e a n d a l l m e r e o u t w a r d o b s e r v a n c e s , b u t

a b o v e a l l t h i n g s i u t h e l i v i n g , e v e r p r e s e n t c o n s c i o u s n e s s ,

o f t h e e t e r n a l v e r i t i e s t h e y s y m b o l i z e .

l l i d i c u l e , d e s p i s e , n o r e l i g i o u s o b s e r v a n c e , p e r f o r m e d iu s i m p l e f a i t h a n d h o n e s t y o f p u r p o s e . M a n y p a t h s l e a d t o t h e m o u n t a i n t o p , a n d n o s o u l , h o w e v e r i g n o r a n t a n d f o o l i s h , s e e k i n g in s i n g l e n e s s o f h e a r t t o f i n d t h e w a v, e v e r f a i l e d , s o o n e r o r l a t e r , t o r e a c h t h a t s u m m i t . C h e r i s h y o u r o w n b e t t e r k n o w l e d g e , l a b o u r s i l e n t l y , b u t u n t i r i n g l y , t o s p r e a d i t t o a l l o t h e r s c a p a b l e o f r e c e i v i n g i t ; b u t b e w a r e h o w y o u s h o c k t h e f e e l i n g s o f w e a k e r s i s t e r s , b y c o n t e m n i n g

w h a t t h e y b e l i e v e i n , s h a k i n g p e r h a p s t l i e i r s i m p l e f a i t h

( f o o l i s h , i t m a y b e , y e t i n s o f a r a s e a r n e s t l y c l u n g t o , n e v e r w i t h o u t s o m e , s a v i n g p o w e r ) , a n d t h u s r e t a r d t h e u p w a r d

p r o g r e s s o f t l i e i r t i m i d s o u l s . S t r i v e g e n t l y , t h a t t h e t r u t h m a y , d r o p b y d r o p , s o d i s t i l i n t o t h e i r h e a r t s , t h a t t h e y m a y n e v e r r i s k t h e d a n g e r s o f t h e s u d d e n d r o w n i n g o u t o f o l d l o n g - c h e r i s h e d b e l i e f s . '

I n t e m p e r a n c e a n d a n a d d i t i o n t o s p i r i t u o u s l i q u o r s i s o n e o f t h e g r o w i n g v i c e s o f t h e m e n o f y o u r r a c e . T h e r e , i s 110 s e n s u a l i n d u l g e n c e w h i c h l e a d s t o m o r e e v i l , n o n e

m o r e d e s t r u c t i v e o f t h e s i n n e r ’s s p i r i t u a l h o p e s , o r m o r e f a t a l t o t h e p e a c e , w e l l - b e i n g a n i l h a p p i n e s s o f f a m i l i e s . O n p u r e l y s e l f i s h g r o u n d s , i f f o r n o h i g h e r m o t i v e , e v e r y w o m a n s h o u l d s e t h e r f a c e a g a i n s t t h i s p e r n i c i o u s p r a c t i c e . B u t y o u — y o u w h o h a v e a h i g h e r g o a l t h a n s e l f i n v i e w — s h o u l d s t r u g g l e t o p u t i t f a r f r o m y o u , a n i l a l l y o u l o v e , w i t h a l l y o u r s t r e n g t h a n d w i t h a l l y o u r h e a r t s . N o p e r ­s u a s i o n s , n o t e m p t a t i o n s s h o u l d l e a d y o u e v e r h e n c e f o r t h t o a l l o w o n e d r o p t o c r o s s y o u r o w n l i p s , a n d a l i k e w i t h h u s b a n d , b r o t h e r , s o n , y o u s h o u l d s t r i v e , n o t b y n o i s y r e p r o a c h e s o r o p e n p r e a c h i n g , b u t w i t h a l l t h e p o w e r o f a g o o d w o m a n ’s s i l e n t , l o v i n g i n f l u e n c e , t o m a k e , o r k e e p , - t h e m e q u a l l y t e m p e r a t e , '

I n t h i s l i f e w e h a v e t h e p o o r a n d s u f f e r i n g w i t h u s a l w a y s . I t i s n o t b y o s t e n t a t i o u s s u b s c r i p t i o n s t o p u b l i c c h a r i t i e s , i t i s n o t b y f o r m a l a l m s t o p r o f e s s i o n a l m e n d i ­c a n t s — ^ w h e t h e r t h e s e c l a i m a r e l i g i o u s d i a m e t e r o r n o — t h a t t h e b e 3 t a n d h i g h e s t w o r k i s t o b e d o n e , b u t b y t h e u n b l a z o n e d r e l i e f o f h u m b l e s u f f e r e r s . L e t y o u r c h a r i t y f a l l l i k e h e a v e n ’s d e w , u n h e a r d o f a n d u n s e e n . T h e r e c a n s c a r c e l y b e o n e a m o n g s t y o u w h o , t h r o u g h k i n s m e n o r s e r v a n t s , d o n o t h e a r f r o m t i m e t o t i m e o f

g r i n d i n g p o v e r t y a n d b i t t e r d i s t r e s s i n h u m b l e h o m e s .

R e m e m b e r , a s y o u m e t e , u n t o o t h e r s h e r e , s o s h a l l i t b o

m e t e d u n t o y o u i n t l i e n e x t l i f e .

T h e w a s t e o f t i m e f o r w h i c h m a n y o f y o u a r e r e s p o n ­s i b l e i s g r i e v o u s . D a y s , w e e k s , m o n t h s , n a y , a l m o s t t h e e n t i r e l i v e s o f n o t a f e w , p a s s i n i d l e n e s s o r i n o c c u p a t i o n s

a n d a m u s e m e n t s s o u s e l e s s a n d f r i v o l o u s a s t o d e s e r v e n o b e t t e r n a m e t h a n i d l e n e s s d i s g u i s e d . L e t a l l r e a l i z e h o w

p r e c i o u s a r e t h e f l e e t i n g h o u r s , h o w s h o r t t l i e s p a c e w i t h i n w h i c h w e c a n w o r k a n d f i t o u r s e l v e s f o r t h e c o i n i n g j o u r n e y ,

a n d r e s o l v e — a n d keep t h a t r e s o l v e — t h a t t h e n c e f o r t h

w a s t e d a n d m i s - s p e n t t i m e s h a l l n o t b e a m o n g s t t h e i r s i n s .

H o w w e l l m i g h t s o m e o f t l m t t i m e n o w w a s t e d b e d e v o t e d ©t o t h o u g h t a n d s u p e r v i s i o n t h a t w o u l d m a k e t h e h o m e

h a p p i e r f o r a l l i t s m e m b e r s , t o t e a c h i n g a n d l e a d i n g t h o s e a m e n a b l e t o o n r g u i d a n c e i n t o t h e p a t h o f t r u t h , o r t o e n q u i r i n g i n t o a n d d e v i s i n g m e t h o d s f o r a l l e v i a t i n g s o m e p o r t i o n o f t h e m i s e r y e v e r s e e t h i n g r o u n d u s .

B u t w h y l i n g e r o v e r d e t a i l s ? T o a l l i n w h o m t h e s p i r i t i s t r u l y a w a k e n e d , a h u n d r e d p a t h s o f u s e f u l n e s s a n d b e n e f i c e n c e r u e o p e n , d e s p i t e t h e a p p a r e n t d i s a d v a n t a g e s

n f t h e p o s i t i o n s i n w l i i e l i m a n y a r o p l a c e d . B e p i n e , b e h u m b l e , a n d b e l o v i n g t o a l l e a r t h ’s c r e a t u r e s , h i g h a n d l o w , a n d n o t o n l y w i l l a l l l o v e you , n o t o n l y w i l l y o u s e c u r e f o r y o u r s e l v e s , a n d h e l p t o s e c u r e f o r t h o s e d e a r e s t t o y o u ,

i m p e r i s h a b l e j o y s i n t h e u n s e e n , b u t r e a l a n d l i m i t l e s s u n i v e r s e t h a t l i e s b e y o n d a n d a l l a r o u n d t h i s l i t t l e v i s i b l e e a r t h - c l o d o f d e l u s i o n s , b u t e v e n i n t h i s t r a n s i t o r y l i f e ,

w h e r e , a t f i r s t , t h e w a t e r s o f r e p e n t a n c e s e e m s o d a r k a n d d r e a r y , y o u s h a l l f i n d a p e a c e , a j o y , a b l e s s e d n e s s , f a r b e ­y o n d a u g h t t h a t s e l f i s h e a r t h l y s t r i v i n g c a n e v e r y i e l d ,

a n d u n l i k e t h e i r f r u i t s ( w h i c h , a t b s s t , e l o y , a n d t o o o f t e n t u r n t o a s h e s 011 t h o l i p s ) , p r o o f a g a i n s t s o r r o w a n d s u f f e r ­

i n g , a g a i n s t t i m e , a n d c h a n g e a n d d o a t h .

Mr. E G L I N T O N ' S P H E N O M E N A .

T o t h e E d it o r o f thio T h e o s o p h is t .

M a d a m e , — Y o u a r e d o u b t l e s s a w a r e o f t h e a r r i v a l i u C a l c u t t a o f t h e s p i r i t u a l M e d i u m , M r . W . E g l i n t o n . H o a r r i v e d o n 1 7 t h N o v e m b e r a n d i s a t p r e s e n t l i v i n g w i t h 1110 a s m y f r i e n d a n d g u e s t . M y o b j e c t i n w r i t i n g t o y o u is t o g i v e y o u t h e p a r t i c u l a r s o f a v e r y r e m a r k a b l e m a n i f e s t ­a t i o n t h a t o c c u r r e d a t m y r e s i d e n c o l a s t S u n d a y e v e n i n g , 2 ' ) t h N o v e m b e r . M r . E g l i n t o n a n d m y s e l f h a d b e e n t o d i n e a t H o w r a h w i t h C o l . a n d M r s . G o r d o n a n d r e t u r n e d h o m e a b o u t h a l f p a s t t e n . B e f o r e r e t i r i n g t o b e d , M r . E g l i n t o n

a s k e d m e t o c o m e a n d s i t w i t h h i m i n t h e v e r a n d a h a s h e f e l t i m p r e s s e d t h a t s o m e m a n i f e s t a t i o n w o u l d t a k e p l a c e . A f t e r s i t t i n g t o g e t h e r f o r a s h o r t t i m e , M r . E g l i n t o n

w e n t i n t o a t r a n c e a n d w h e n i n t h a t c o n d i t i o n a s k e d m e t o f e t c h h i m a b o o k f r o m t h e r o o m b e h i n d u s . T h i s I d i d , t a k i n g u p t h o f i r s t b o o k t h a t c a m e i n t o m y h a n d . H e t o o k t h e b o o k f r o m m y h a n d a n d p l a c e d i t 011 a c h a i r b e s i d e h i m . H e t h e n t o o k m y t w o h a n d s i u h i s , a p p e a r e d t o b e v i o l e n t ­l y c o n v u l s e d f o r , a f e w s e c o n d s a n d t h e n r e q u e s t e d m e t o o p e n t h e b o o k a n d s e e w h a t w a s i n i t . I o p e n e d t h e c o v e r o f t h e b o o k a n d t h e r e f o u n d a l e t t e r , written in Lon­don that same evening. T h e l e t t e r w a s f r o m a v e r y i n ­t i m a t e f r i e n d w h o i s a l s o a p o w e r f u l m e d i u m a n d w i t h w h o m I h a v e b e e n i n c o n s t a n t c o r r e s p o n d e n c e s i n c e I r e t u r n e d t o I n d i a t w o y e a r s b a c k . M y f r i e n d ’s h a n d ­w r i t i n g i s a s f a m i l i a r t o m e a s m y o w n , a n l t h e s u b j e c t - m a t t e r o f t h e l e t t e r c o u l d n o t b y a n y p o s s i b i l i t y h a v o b e e n w r i t t e n b y a n y o t h e r t h a n t h e w r i t e r . I n t h e f i r s t

- p a r a g r a p h o f t h e l e t t e r m y f r i e n d w r i t e s th a t . “ E r n e s t , ”

M r . E g l i n t o n ’s s p i r i t g u i d e , w a s w a i t i n g t o t a k e c h a r g e o f t h e l e t t e r a n d w o u l d b r i n g i t t o m e d i r e c t .

A c c o u n t f o r i t a s a n y o n e m a y , t h o f a c t r e m a i n s t h a t a l e t t e r w r i t t e n i n L o u d o n 011 t h e e v e n i n g o f S u n d a y , 2 0 t h N o v e m b e r 1881 , w a s p u t i n t o m y h a n d s i n C a l c u t t a a t11 1*. M. o f t h e s a m e d a y , t h u s ( t a k i n g t h e d i f f e r e n c e i u t i m e i n t o a c c o u n t ) t h e t r a n s m i s s i o n m u s t h a v e b e e n a l m o s t i n s t a n t a n e o u s .

I m u s t c o n f e s s t h a t m u c h a s I b e l i e v e i n t h e p o w e r s o f

t h e m y s t i c b r o t h e r s o f t h e T h e o s o p h i s t s , I c a n s e e 110 w a y o f a c c o u n t i n g f o r t h i s s t a r t l i n g m a n i f e s t a t i o n o t h e r

t h a n t h e S p i r i t u a l H y p o t h e s i s .I t r u s t t h a t f o r t h e s a k e o f a l l t h a t a r e i n v e s t i g a t i n g , y o u

w i l l p r i n t t h i s l e t t e r . B y t h e o u t g o i n g m a i l I a m s e n d i n g a n a c c o u n t t o L o n d o n t o t h e E d i t o r o f Light.

Y o u r s s i n c e r e l y ,

J . G . M E I T G E N S .

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t h a t h o w i l l t r y a n d t a k e a s h e e t o f p a p e r , p r i v a t e l y m a r k e d b y m e f o r i d e n t i f i c a t i o n , t o m y f r i e n d i n L o n d o n , a n d b r i n g i t b a c k t o m e w i t h a m e s s a g e i n m y f r i e n d ’s

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T u n l l i iom rrsT Tkm it.k ok Homr.i G a y a . — Says tlio Enrj/i . i / imm):—■“ F o r more than eighteen months past ex tens ive oxenv itioiH have boon Harried <m under the direction of Gcnural C n ; 111 in ; lr im und Mr. J . D. H ollar o f the Indian Archreolo- gic il I) !(>!irl.mf)nt. and the base o f the toinpls has heen cleared from 11 ::cu inula ted d ib rU to a deptli o f nearly tw enty feet. Every cut of the sp ide has unearthed a curiosity, and very valuable information, both original and corroborative, has been ■'aim I by arehanlogi.sts and historians. A m ong tho most in­s tructive of these revel 'itions aro considerable portions of tin ornamented stone-railing of the Asoka period, the pictorial c u t ­tings upon which are lmrdly less valuable than inscriptions. Nirnoroiis stone-reprosentatious of Buddha in bas-relief have also been recovered, portraying the “ G rea t Enlightened,” in a tt itudes of blessing, meditation und Nirvana. T he importance of this temple will be be tte r appreciated when it is remembered t h a t a b n i t 3 1 per cent, of the human race aro followers o f the toucher iu whose h'>:nur it was built 2 , 0 0 0 years ago, upon the spot where lio him ;olf had dwolt and laboured. Tho structure which is entirely o f brick, has of lale been in considerable danger, aud iu ISTG the Burmese Govern nent depute 1 some offiners to restore tiie building. They found, however, tha t the work requ ire .1 wi> too vast, aud returned after erecting a mural support upon the northern side. To Sir Ashley Eden belongs the credit of the complete restoration which has noiv taken place, aud the Buddhists of China and Tibet, of Burma aud Ceylon, will learn witli g ratitudo c f tho preservation of th is sacred pile.”

T i i e A n g l o - I n d i a n P a d u i s appear to be in hot water, und to have provoked the w rath o f even the “ Zeuana Medical Mission,” as one o f tha t Ins titu tion tells them in plain lan­guage in the P io n e e r — what ho th inks o f them. Wo quote v e r b a t im :—

I trus t that G overnm ent will not be deterred from g ran t­ing aid to b o n a - f id e medical practit ioners because tho grunts mado to medical missionaries have not been ap ­preciated. S i strongly do I feel about the action of tho so-called medieal missions and the great injury I believe them to bo liable to inflict on the propagation of rational medicine in India, that I would decline to meet a medical missionary in consulta­tion, and that for the same reason th a t I would decline to in jet. a hom copathic practit ioner, v iz . , that neither of them is iietiu; honestly— the homoeopath professes, wliat, I believe, no person w in has received a medical education cu i possibly believe iu himself, the other degrades the noble profession o f which I urn an unw orthy member, so as to subserve theological aims. T ha t the real aim of tho medical missionary is to dis­seminate thf’o l o g n o r medicine, is seen from tho fact th a t they

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usually establish themselves in large stations w here there, is a lready available European medical aid, while if they do hap­pen to bo stationed in districts w here famine abounds, 110

opportunity is lost of making the occasion one for the adver­tisement of the mission. I have never heard of the so-called medical missionaries Hocking to epidemic-stricken districts , as H urd war in 1879, M eerut iu the same year, or A m ri tsa r a t the present time. In this respect, the i r conduct contrasts strongly with tha t of self-denying Sisters o f Mercy in Europe. In con­clusion, I trus t that ere long tho medical skill of an English qualified lady will be at the service of the ladies of the zenana iu Allahabad and tho adjacent towns, nnd that; native gentle­men, iu availing themselves of he r services, may feel assured tha t 110 subterfuge is being resorted to, and tlmt they may do so, satisfied that. 110 a t tem pt will be made to tam per with the religion o f their households. T h is will be to found a true

Z E N A N A M E D IC A L M I S S I O N .”

It becomes evident, tha t i t is not the universally ostracised Theosophists a lone who accuse the missionaries of— “ subter­fuges.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

T in : \Vi>nihioi;s “ Vftjr,” o f B u lw er’s “ Coming R ace” as­serts w ith every day its exis tence aud possibilities. T h a t it lies somewhere, iu 1111 unexplored corner of the Universe is what the men of Science themselves are on the eve of admitting.

“ As wo enter the building al. n igh t ,” says a w rite r in The Alltenceiim, " we are bewildered with the fniryhind o f science tha t appears before us ; eyes, ears, and brain arc a t once as­tonished. T h e whole atmosphere is tilled with the blaze and splendour of Ihe thousands of powerful electric lamps which illu­minate the main building. L am ps such as we have been accus­tomed to admire when e ight or ten were placed in a large railway station are here hanging iu clusters and bunches, as if — ns is, indeed, the case— they were elose pressed for space. Movement on the tloor of the building i.s difficult, so closely is it packed with electrical marvels, each one o f which would re­pay hours o f careful study. Meanwhile the car is deafened by the rattle of the electric bells and alarums from, perhaps, fifty model signal boxes and railway stations, all assuring the public at once that there is the most: imminent danger of a collision. Below the in term ittent ra ttl ing o f the bells we feel and hear a continuous deep roar and throb from the long row o f steam engines and the hundreds of electric generators driven from them, which extend from end to end o f one side o f the building: while this sound again is confused by the splashing o f the two big waterfalls, each worked by a centrifugal pump driven by the electricity conveyed to it by a wire one-sixteenth o fau inchin diameter.” ........ In the Exhibit,ion “ we see side by side theearly instruments o f the pioneers o f te legraphy and the last refinements of the present day. A more instructive contrast can scarcely be imagined... .Concerning the fu ture o f a science with such a past and such a present, 110 prediction is unreasonable, save one whieh denies or limits its possibilit ies o f advance. I t seems now mere folly to say to any application o f the electricforce, “ T h u s far and no far ther .” ........ T h e secret o f Edison’ssuccess may be summed up in his own words :— “ Whenever hi) theory, ana log;/ and calculation I have satisfied myself that the result I desire is impossible, I am then sure that 1 am on the verge o f a d i s c o v e r y E v en the Roman Catholic Weekly Register places its tr ibute of admiration 011 the a ltar of the unfathomable Force, iu words w orthy o f being noted.

“ T h e details of tho future his tory of electricity cannot be conjectured:” it says, “ but it may safely be declared to be a his­tory which will run coeval with the history of mankind. W hat electrical potentialities aro y e t unexhausted we know not; but it seems probable that when the fullest development o f human intelligence has done its best, some of these potentialities will still remain unutilized aud u n kn ow n .”

M . A . ( O x o n ) i i e v i e w i n g C o l . O r.corr’s “ A B u d d h i s t

C a t e c h i s m ” iu a recent number o f Light, says:— “ T h is little manual should be useful to English readers, who desire to know what is the view of Buddhism favoured by the Theosophists.” Our good friend is mistaken. T he work in question is exactly what it claims to be, au epitome of Buddhist doctrines, and of the life of Lord Buddha, as found in the canon o f the Southern Church. It is so endorsed by the H ig h P ries t Sumangala, iu the certificate which accompanies tho book. I t has nothing whatever to do with the p r ivate views o f e ither C o l . O lcott or any other I 'heosophist, no 1‘oferenco to which is anyw here made by the author.

The Civilization th a t India needs ... . . . . .. 87

Is it Idle fo Argue Further ! 90 Esoteric Axioms and Spirit­

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Tenets 011 the Sevenfold Principle in M an .. . . . . !)',)

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Lakshinibai ... ............ J 00Ghosts ... .................101

I'lie Universe iu a ‘>Nut-Sliell.Are Dreams but Idle Visions ?On Tlieosopliism in India ...A Voice from the West . . .An Astrological Calculation

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e x p o s e d t o t n a u y s u c h l i b e l l o u s a c c u s a t i o n s a s t h e T h e o ­s o p h i c a l m o v e m e n t e x c i t e s t h e h o s t i l i t y o f t w o g r e a t a r m i e s o f b i g o t s — t h e b i g o t s o f s c i e n c c , a n d t h e b i g o t s ot r e l i g i o n . B u t e n e m i e s w h o a r e h o n e s t e n e m i e s , w h o a s s a i l t l i e t e a c h i n g , o r w h a t t h e y c o n c e i v e t o b e t h e t e a c h ­i n g o f t h e T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y i n a l e g i t i m a t e w a y b y a r g u m e n t — e v e n w h e n t h e a r g u m e n t i s i n t e m p e r a t e a a d u n c i v i l i n t o n e — m a y b e l e f t t o t h e i n f l u e n c e o f t i m e a n d

t h o s e t e n d e n c i e s i n h u m a n t h o u g h t w h i c h h a v e g e n e r a l l y

d e f e a t e d B i g o t r y i n t h e l o n g r u n . F o r t h e r u d e n e s s o fa n t a g o n i s t s w h o k n o w ' n o t h i n g a b o u t t h e r e a l n a t u r e o f » . ® t h e i r p u r s u i t s , a n d w i l l n o t t a k e t h e t r o u b l e t o e n q u i r ei n t o t h e s e , t h e F o u n d e r s o f t h e T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y a r ef u l l y c o m p e n s a t e d b y t h e s y m p a t h y a n t i r e g a r d o f t h o s ew h o a r e b e t t e r i n f o r m e d a n d m o r e i n t e l l i g e n t .

I t h a p p e n s s o m e t i m e s , h o w e v e r , t h a t o c c a s i o n a l e n e m i e s w h o a r e n o t h o n e s t , — p e o p l e w h o h a v e c o n c e i v e d a g r u d g e a g a i n s t t h e F o u n d e r s , o r e i t h e r o f t h e m — o n p r i v a t e g r o u n d s ,

w i l l t a k e a i l v a n t a g e o f o p p o r t u n i t i e s a f f o r d e d b y t u e h o s t i ­l i t y o f t h e o r t h o d o x p r e s s t o T h e o s o p h y , a n d w i l l w r i t e a r t i ­c l e s o s t e n s i b l y a b o u t T h e o s o p h y , b u t r e a l l y f o r t h e p u r p o s e

o f i n s i n u a t i n g s o m e i g n o b l e c a l u m n y a b o u t t h e f o r e m o s t , t h o u g h h u m b l e , r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s t h e r e o f . I n t h i s w a y a n a r t i c l e , t h e a u t h o r s h i p o f w h i c h i s a s o b v i o u s t o t h e u n d e r ­s i g n e d , a s t h a t , o f a f a m i l i a r h a n d w r i t i n g w o u l d b e , w a s

l a t e l y c o n t r i b u t e d t o t h e S t a t e s m a n o f C a l c u t t a . T h e w r i t e r h a d p r e v i o u s l y j > r o c u r e d t h e i n s e r t i o n o f s i m i l a r s l a n d e r o u s a t t a c k s i n t h e C iv i l a n d M i l i t a r y G a ze t te , b u t a t l e n g t h r e f u s e d f u r t h e r f a v o u r s b y t h a t p a p e r h e l i a s

a p p a r e n t l y s o u g h t a n o t h e r o p e n i n g f o r h i s c o n t r i b u t i o n s , f i n d i n g t h i s w i t h t h e S t a t e s m a n - O n t h e b 'th i n s t a n t

t h a t j o u r n a l p u b l i s h e d a l o n g , l e a d i n g a r t i c l e i n v i l i f i c a t i o n

o f t l i e T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y , i t s F o u n d e r s a n d i t s f r i e n d s . T h e g r e a t e r p a r t o f t h i s i s u n w o r t h y , e i t h e r o f q u o t a t i o n o r r e p l y , b u t o n e p a s s a g e w a s n o t a l o n e i n s u l t i n g a n d c a l u m n i o u s ; i t w a s l i b e l l o u s , e v e n a s l i b e l s a r e e s t i m a t e d b y C o u r t s o f L a w . M e s s r s . S a n d e r s o n a n d C o . , s o l i c i t o r s o f C a l c u t t a , w e r e , t h e r e f o r e , d u l y i n s t r u c t e d o n b e h a l f o f

t h e u n d e r s i g n e d t o a p p l y f o r l e g a l r e d r e s s , a n d t h e y a d d r e s s e d t o t h e e d i t o r o f t h e S t a t e s m a n t h e f o l l o w i n g l e t t e r :—

T h e T ii e o s o w iis t s .'l'o the Editor.

N o . 101513, C a lc u t t a , D e c e m b e r 16, 1861.

S i r , - T il th e Statesinaii of T u e s d a y , t h e Oth i n s t a n t , t h e r e a p p e a r s tin a r t ic le h a v in g r e fe ren ce , among' o th e r m a t t e r s , to M a d a m e .Blavatsky a n d C olonel O lco t t , t i le F o u n d e r s o f t h e T h e o so p h ic a l Society. I n t h e course of t h a t ar t ic le , i t is s t a t e d ;—

“ I t is no w a s s e r te d n o t on ly t h a t t h e r e so u rces of b o th (M ad am e B la v a ts k y a m i Col. O lcott) , a r e e x h a u s te d , b u t t h a t th e y a re la rge ly iu debt , on a c c o u n t , i t is a l leged, of t h e expenses of t h e Socie ty , i ti.s no t difficult f o r a n y one to a r r iv e a t th e conc lus ion t h a t i t w ould be h igh ly d e s i ra b le a n d e x p e d ie n t for th e F o u n d e r s o f t h e T heoso - phieal Soc ie ty to h a v e th e se d e b t s pa id oft'. T h i s is a s im p le a n d n o t u n p ra i s e w o r th y iu s t in c t . T h e q u e s t io n t h a t r e m a in s is, as r e ­gards t h e m o a n s by w h ich th i s c o n s u m m a t io n ia to be cHbcled.”

_ lie r e m a in d e r of t h e ar t ic le , w h ich we need n o t q u o te a t len g th , is a n e la b o ra te i n s in u a t io n Lhat M a d a m e B la v a ts k y is e n d e a v o u r in g to p io e n re f ro m ;i g e n t l e m a n n am e d , by s p u r io u s r e p re s e n ta t io n s , th e p a y m e n t o f h e r deb ts .

Now, th e a l le g a t io n a b o u t M a d a m e B la v a t s k y b e in g in d e b t is, we a ie . i n s t r u c t e d , a b s o lu te ly false to begin w ith ; n o r is t h e So c ie ty w.i ich s h e h e lped to to u u d in d e b t , unless , indeed , i t be t o herself. I n e a c co u n ts of th e Society , p u b l i s h e d in th e T u k o so im i ik t for las t i a} , sh o w t h a t t h e o u t la y i n c i u r e d on b eh a l f of t h e So c ie ty u p to t h a t d a te h a d exceeded th e r e c e ip t (co n s is t in g of “ in i t ia t io n fees” Isa .3,,)U0, a u d a few d o n a t io n s ) by a su m of Its. 19,8-Ki, b u t t h i s de-ii.it was su p p l ie d t r o m th e p r iv a t e r e so u rces of M a d a m e B la v a t s k y

a u d C olonel O lcott .

\Ye m a y f u r t h e r exp la in t h a t M a d a m e B l a v a t s k y ia a R u s s ia n lady of h ig h r a n k by b i r th ( t h o u g h since n a tu r a l i s e d in t h e U n i t e d S ta tes) , a n d h a s n e v e r been in th e p e n n i le s s c o n d i t io n y o u r a r t ic le in su l t in g ly asc r ib es to h e r — w h a t e v e r m i s t a k e s m a y h a v e a r isen j i o m th e im p r o p e r p u b l ic a t io n o f a p r iv a t e l e t t e r b y Colonel O lcott to a m e n d in A m er ica , t h e care less e x a g g e ra t io n s of w hich , d es igned m e re ly for a c o r re s p o n d e n t f a m i l i a r w i th t h e real s t a t e o f t h e affa irs to w h ich th e s e re fe r re d , h a v e u iven you occasion fo r som e offensive r em ark s . ° J

We, th e re fo re , d u ly i n s t r u c t e d on b e h a l f o f M a d a m e B la v a ts k y a n d Colonel O lc o t t , now r e q u i r e of you t h a t you sh o u ld pub l ish th is le t te r , t o g e th e r w i th a n apo logy fo r t h e sc a n d a lo u s l ibel to w hich } ou h a v e been m isled in to g iv in g cu r re n cy .

W e also re q u i re t h a t in f u r t h e r r e fu ta t io n of these a n d in gen e ra l rep ly to th e in su l t i n g lan g u a g e o f y o u r a r t ic le , you s h o u ld p u b l ish t h e enclosed e x p la n a t io n s e x t r a c t e d f ro m th e Pioneer of th e 10th in s tan t .

I n t h e e v e n t o f y o u r f a i l u r e f o r th w i th to c o m p ly w i th o u r r e q u e s t , o r to g ive u p th e n a m e of th e w r i t e r of t h e a r t ic le in q u e s t io n , we a r e i n s t r u c t e d to p roceed a g a in s t you iu t h e H ig h C o u r t f o r recovery of d a m a g e s tor t h e l ibe llous a t t a c k of w hich o u r c l ien ts c o m p l a i n . - Y o u rs f a i th fu l ly ,

S .lN 'D E l iS O X & C O .

T h i s l e t t e r w a s p u b l i s h e d b y t h e e d i t o r o f t h e Statesman i n h i s i s s u e o f D e c e m b e r 1 7 , t o g e t h e r w i t h a n a r t i c l e w h i c h , i n a p r i v a t e l e t t e r t o M e s s r s . S a n d e r s o n a n d C o . ,

h e r e f e r s t o a s h i s “ a p o l o g y . ’'’ T h i s s o - c a l l e d a p o l o g y , i n

t h e m i d s t o f a g o o d d e a l o f c o m m e n t d e s i g n e d a p p a r e n t l y

t o s o u n d a s o f f e n s i v e a s i t c a n b e m a d e c o m p a t i b l y w i t h s a f e t y f o r t h e w r i t e r a s r e g a r d s l e g a l p e n a l t i e s , s a y s :—

. .. “ T h e s t a t e m e n t t h a t th e F o u n d e r s o f th e T h eo so p h ica l S o ­cie ty w ere in d e b t , h a s a l r e a d y b e e n c o n t r a d i c t e d by us, on t h o a u th o r i ty o f t h e Pioneer, iu o u r issue of M o n d a y las t , t h e 12 th in s ta n t . A s soon a.s we l e a rn e d f rom th e Pioneer t h a t th e defici t in t h e a c c o u n ts of t h e Soc ie ty had b een paid oft 'by M a d a m e B la v a ts k y a n d Colonel O lco t t o u t of t h e i r p r iv a te resources , we took th e ea r l ie s t o p p o r t u n i t y of g iv in g p u b l i c i t y to th e f a c t .........”

L a t e r o u , t h e a p o l o g y a d d s :—

. . . " W e are , o f cou rse , d e l ig h te d to h e a r t h a t M a d a m e B la v a ts k y h a s n e v e r been in t h e p e n n i le s s co n d i t io n in w h ich she w a s r e p r e ­s e n te d to be, a u d t h a t b e in g so, we r e g re t t h a t t h e p u b l ic sh o u ld h ave b een so m is led , a n d t h a t we sh o u ld h a v e b een led to base a m is ta k e n in fe ren c e u p o n th e s t a t e m e n t s t h a t w ere before th e pub l ic . W e m a y a d d t h a t we h a v e m u c h p leasu re in p u b l i s h in g M e ss rs . S a n d e r s o n ’s r e p u d ia t io n , ( fo r u n le s s i t i.s so, t h e i r l e t t e r h a s no m e a n in g ) o f a n y wish o r i n t e n t io n ou t h e p a r t of t h e F o u n d e r s of th e T h e o so p h ic a l S o c ie ty to o b t a in m oney f rom w e a l th y m e m b e r s o f th e Society . T h is , we s h o u ld h a v e t h o u g h t , w o u ld lie one of t h e i r g rea t ob jec ts , a s we do n o t see how o th e rw is e t h e S oc ie ty can go on a n d Hottrish ; b u t wc n e v e r sa id t h a t th e y w ere l ik e ly to seek t h a t

oliject bv dishonest means, and therefore, we do not see clearly wherein the scandalous libel consists....... ”*

T h e Statesman t h e n g o e s o n t o o f f e r a g r a t u i t o u s o p i n i o n o n c e r t a i n “ a p p a r e n t l y m i r a c u l o u s a c h i e v e m e n t s a t t r i b u t e d t o M a d a m e B l a v a t s k y b y t h e Pioneer.” A s t h e Statesman t h u s s h o w s t h a t i t h a s n o t y e t r e a c h e d t h e s t a g e o f b e i n g a b l e t o d e f i n e w i t h a c c u r a c y t h e o b j e c t o f i t s d i s b e l i e f , i t i s u n n e c e s s a r y t o p a y m u c h a t t e n t i o n t o i t s c o n c l u s i o n s n s t o w h o a r e “ d u p e s ” i n t h i s c a s e , — t h e o p e n - m i n d e d s t u d e n t s o f N a t u r e ’s m y s t e r i e s w h o f i n d h e l p in T h e o s o p h y , o r t h e o r t h o d o x p r o f e s s o r s o f f a i t h i n t h e s c i e n c e o f t h e P e n t a t e u c h , a n d t h e r e l i g i o n o f M r . H u x l e y .

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s e e m s d e s i r a b l e — d i s t a s t e f u l a.s i t i s t o M a d a m e B l a v a t s k y

t o a d v a n c e a n y c l a i m s t o p u b l i c r e s p e c t , e x c e p t t h o s e

w h i c h s h e c o n f i d e n t l y r e s t s o n h e r d e v o t i o n t o t h e n o b l e i n t e l l e c t u a l r e v i v a l o n w h i c h t h e T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y i s e n g a g e d — t o r e p u b l i s h i n c o n n e x i o n w i t h i t a c e r t a i n

a r t i c l e w h i c h w a s p u b l i s h e d o n t h e a p p e a r a n c e o f t b e l i b e l l o u s a r t i c l e i n t h e Statesman, i n t h e Pioneer o f

D e c e m b e r 1 0 . T h i s w a s a s f o l l o w s :—

MADAM1S BLAVATSKY AND “ TIIR STATESMAN.”

P ending any fu r ther proceeding thnt, may be tnken by the Indy concerned, in reference to a libellous attack on Madame Blavnt.sky in tlie Calcutta S ta te s m a n of T uesday, we feel bound

•to publish n translation of a letter we have ju s t received, (by the mail which arrived yesterday morning.) from Odessa. The establishment ot' Madame Blavatsky’s real identity by formal proofs of this nature hns never been necessary for any person of culture or intell igence who knows her, bu t foolis-h or male­volent people, proceeding on vague and erroneous conjectures ns t.o the nature of' the work to which she has devoted herself in this country, have ventured lo imply tha t th e m ust be an impostor, aiming nr, common place ends — money, or social position. Thi! nbsurdily of this contention is made evident liy the following lei ter, which shows to w hat rank iu society she properly belongs :— .

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t h e v r o r ' d p e r s e n s w h o h a v e n n i m e r c s t i n d e n y i n g t h e p c r s c n a ' i t y o f m y

n i e c e , M i n e . I I . P . B ' a v n t s k y , p r e t e n d i n g t h a t s h e h n s a p p r o p r i a t e d t o

h e r s e l T a n a m e t h a t d o c s n o t b e l o n g t o h e r , I h a s t e n t o s e n d v e i l t h e s e l i n e s ,

b e g g i n g y e n t o m a k e u s e o f t h e m t o d i s s i p a t e t l i e v e r y s t r a n g e c a l u m n y .

1 s a y s t r a n g e , b u t I m i g h t s a y s e n s e l e s s (inscns(c). F o r w h y s h c u l d s h e

c h o o s e ( s u p p o s i n g s h e h a d r e a l l y a n y n e c e s s i t y t o c h a n g e h e r n a m e ) a

f a m i l y w i n c h i s n o t a t a l l i l l u s t r i o u s e x c e p t b y l i t e r a r y a n d s c i e n t i f i c m e r i t s ,

w h i c h , i n d e e d , w o u l d d o l i o n o u r t o i t s n a m e w h a t e v e r t h a t m i g h t b e .

W l i a t a s t o n i s h e s m e e s p e c i a l l y i s t h a t a n y o n e c a n m a k e a m i s t a k e a b o u t

t h e o r i g i n o f a p e r s o n s o e r u d i t e a n d o f s o c u l t i v a t e d a n e d u c a t i o n a s t h a t

o t m y n i e c e .

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h e r a s a n i m p o s t o r , w i l l y o u r e c e i v e m y p e r s o n a l g u a r a n t e e ( g i v e n o n m y

h o n o u r ) t h a t s h e i s w h a t s h c a f T i r m s h e r s e l f t o b e M a d a m e H e l e n T B l a v a t s k y ,

w i d o w o f a C o u n c i l l o r o f S t a t e , c x - Y i c e - G o v c r n o r o f t h e I ’ r o v i n c e o f E r i v a n

n t h e C a u c a s u s , d a u g h t e r o f a R u s s i a n C o l o n e l , I ’ i e r r e V o n I l a h n ( w h o s e

a n c e s t o r s w e r e a l l i e d w i t h t h e C o u n t s V o n 1 1 a i m o f G e r m a n y , a n d w h o s e

m o t h e r w a s net: C o u n t e s s I ’ r o b s t i n g ) a n d m y n i e c e b y h e r o w n m o t h e r ,

m y s i s t e r m ? e F a d e e f f , g r a n d - d a u g h t e r o f t h e P r i n c e s s D o l g o r o u k y o f t h e e l d e r p r i n c e l y l i n e

T o e s t a b l i s h h e r i d e n t i t y I c n c l - s e i n t h i s l e t t e r t w o o f h e r p o r t r a i t s , o n e

t a k e n t w e n t y y e a r s a g o i n m y p r e s e n c e , t h e o t h e r s e n t f r o m A m e r i c a f o u r

o r f i v e y e a r s a g o . F u r t h e r m o r e , i n o r d e r t h a t s c e p t i c s m a y n o t c o n c e i v e

s u s p i c i o n s a s t o m y p e r s o n a l i d e n t i t y , I t a k e t h e l i b e r t y o f r e t u r n i n g y o u r l e t ­

t e r r e c e i v e d t h r o u g h M l e l ’ r i n c e D o n d o u k o f f - K c r s a k o f f , G o v e r n o r - G e n e r a l

o f O d e s s a I h o p e t h a t t h i s p i o o f o f a u t h e n t i c i t y i s p e r f e c t l y s a t i s f a c t o r y .

I b e l i e v e , m o r e o v e r , l l i a t v o n w i l l h a v e a l r e a d y r e c e i v e d t h e c e r t i f i c a t e o f

t h e i n d i v i d u a l i t y o f M a d a m e B l a v a t s k y t h a t t h e G o v e r n o r - G e n e r a l d e s i r e d

h i m s e l f t o s e n d t o B o m b a y .

I o u g h t a l s o t o m e n t i o n a r a t h e r i m p o r t a n t f a c t , w h i c h i s , t h a t s i n c e t h e

d e p a r t u r e o f m y n i e c e H e l e n e B l a v a t s k y f r o m O d e s s a f o r A m e r i c a , i n 1872 ,

s h e h a s a l w a y s b e e n i n c o n t i n u o u s c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , n o t o n l y w i t h m e , b u t a l l h e r r e l a t i o n s i n R u s s i a — a c o r r e s p o n d e n c e w h i c h h a s n e v e r b e e n i n t e r r u p t e d

e v e n l o r a m o n t h , a n d t h a t a l l t h i s t i m e t h e r e h a s b e e n n o c h a n g e w h a t e v e r

i n h e r s t y ' e , w h i c h i s p e c u l i a r t o h e r s e l f , n o r i n h e r h a n d w r i t i n g T h i s c a n

b e p r o v e d b y a l l h e r l e t t e r s t o a n y o n e w h o w i s h e s t o c o n v i n c e h i m s e l f .

T h i s f a c t a l o n e c a n l e a v e 110 c l o u b t e x c e p t t o i d i o t s o r c v i l - i n t e n t i o n e d

p e r s o n s w h o h a v e t h e i r o w n e n d s t o s e r v e I i u t w i t h t h e s e t h e r e i s n o n e e d

t o w a s ! e t i m e .

I c a u s e m y s i g n a t u r e t o b e c e r t i f i e d b y t h e c o n f i r n a t i o n o f a n o t a r y .

O n w h i c h I b e g y o u t o r e c e i v e t h e e x p r e s s i o n s , & c ( s i g n e d ) N a d e j d a A .

F a d e e f T ( d a u g h t e r o f t h e P r i v y C o u n c i l l o r ) , m e m b e r o f t h e C o u n c i l o f t h e

_ * Tho innocent "s im plic i ty" of tho a rg u m e n t is tru ly rem arkab le 1 I f aecns- in!r ft person of seeking to obta in money u nde r false prc te iiecs (tho la t te r t i ' i n g tho “ ftpparent mirnculuu-; ach ievem ents .” and o th e r alleged claims) be uot a scandalous libel, th e n wc do n o t know wliat th e word ‘‘ honesty ” convoys to th e mind nf the e d i to r of the Ftaiesman ? Tho excuse is cer ta in ly calcula ted to leave every rea d e r u n d e r th e impression that- the ed i to r of tlio jom ij il in quest ion lias very s t ran g e notions of accuracy of language, "Whut, wc wonder, would he have done u n d e r like e ireumstaneos ? °

T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c i e t y , d a u g h t e r o f t h e l a t e R u s s i a n P r i v y C o u n c i l l o r , f o r m e r ­

l y d i r e c t o r o f t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f S t a t e L a n d s i n t h e C a u c a s u s , a n d m e m b e r

o f t h e C o u n c i l o f t h e V i c e r o y o f t h e C a u c a s u s -

O d e s s a , 3 r d ( 15 ) N o v e m b e r .

( T h e signature is formally authenticated by tbe Notary of the Bourse at, Odessa, nud the letter bears bis ofiicin! stamp.)

W e must mid, iu explanation, that the enclosed portraits are undoubtedly portraits of Madame Blavatsky, and tlmt we have seen the formal certificate* of her identity forwarded direct, (for the bet ter assurance of sceptics to the care o f a gentleman in high official position at Simla) by General Fadeeff, nt present J o in t Secretary of State in the Home D epartm ent a t St. l elers- bnrg. Wo have also seen tlio le t ter addressed to Madatne Blavatsky ns to 1111 intimate friend by Prince DondoukofF, express­ing, besides warm sympathy, no small measure of (well-de­served) contempt for persons who could misunderstand her tnio character.

T he S ta te sm a n now argues at great leng th that Madame Blavatsky must have come to India in order to beguile any well-to-do persons she might, be able to dupe, into giving her hospitality and possibly money. O f course, 110 one can escape beyond the limits of bis own nature in estim ating the motives of others ; and the author of the article in the S ta te s m a n may be unable to imagine human creatures governed by nny oilier motive bu t the desire to procure money or meals ; but, for most people it will be plain tha t if so, the imagination of the S ta te sm a n docs not range over the whole subject, in this case.

One element in the present libel is to the effect tha t in con­nection with the affairs of the Theosophical Society Madame B lavatsky has incurred large indebtedness. T h is statement, which is entirely false, is a blundering misconception of the published fact, tlmt tho receipts of the Theosophical .Society have fallen short, of its expenditure by Rs. 10,000 or more. But this deficit is not a debt, b y Mnd.ime Ulavatsky ; it would be a debt to her, if she cured to regard it, in tha t light, she having supplied tlie money from her private, resources supplemented hy those of the other equally self-devoted apostle of Theosophy— Colonel Olcott.

T h e c e r t i f i c a t e s e n t b y G e n e r a l F a d e e f f a n d r e f e r r e d t o in t h i s s t a t e m e n t r u n s , a s f o l l o w s :—

“ 1 certify l.y the present that Madame II . P . Blavatsky now residing nt Simla (British India) is from her fatlies’s side t.he daugh te r of Colonel Peter I lahn nnd grand-daughter o f Lieuten­ant-General Alexis I lahn von H ottens tern-Ilahn (a noble, family ol' Mecklemburg, Germany, settled in Russia). And, that she is from her m other’s side ihe daughter of Helene Fudeew nud grand-daughter of Privy Councillor A ndrew Fudeew nnd of the P rincess Ilelene Dolgorouki ; that she is the widow o f (lie Coun­cillor of State, N icephore Blavatsky, late V ice-Governor of the Province of E rivan , Caucasus.

“ (Signed.) M a j o r - G e n e r a l R o s t i s l a v F a d e e v , of II . 1. Majesty’s Staff, “

“ Jo in t Secretary of State a t the M inistry of the Interior. St. Pe tersburg 21), Little Morskaya,

“ 18th September, 1881.”

T a k e n i n c o n n e x i o n w i t h t h e o f f i c i a l d o c u m e n t s p u b ­l i s h e d i n t h e rl H E O S O P H I S T o f J a n u a r y 1 8 8 1 , c o n c e r n i n g t l i e s o c i a l s t a t u s i n A m e r i c a o f C o l o n e l O l c o t t , , t h e s e

e x p l a n a t i o n s , m a y , i t i s h o p e d , l a y a t r e s t o n c e f o r a l l t h e

w o n d e r f u l q u e s t i o n o n w h i c h m a u y p e o p l e i n I n d i a h a v e

w a s t e d a g o o d d e a l o f s p e c u l a t i o n , w h e t h e r t h e u n d e r ­s i g n e d a r e o r a r e n o t “ a d v e n t u r e r s . ” T h e y w e r e m ost , u n w i l l i n g i n t l i e b e g i n n i n g t o m a k e a n y f u s s a b o u t t h e i r o w n p e r s o n a l i t y , o r t h e w o r l d l y s a c r i f i c e s t h e y h a v e m a d e

i n t l i e h o p e o t s e r v i n g t h e p r i n c i p l e o f “ U n i v e r s a l B r o ­t h e r h o o d ’’ a n d o f c o n t r i b u t i n g t o r e v i v e t h e p h i l o s o p h i c a l s e l f - r e s p e c t o f t h e I n d i a n p e o p l e . B u t w h e n m a l e v o l e n t

a n t a g o n i s t s — a s s h o r t - s i g h t e d a s t h e y a r e v i n d i c t i v e , — a t t e m p t t o i m p e d e t l i e p r o g r e s s o f T h e o s o p h y b y t r y i n g t o r e p r e s e n t i t s A p o s t l e s i n t h e c o u n t r y u s s e l f - s e e k i n g a s p i r a n t s f o r c o n t e m p t i b l e w o r l d l y a d v a n t a g e , i t i s t i m e t o s h o w o n c e f o r a l l , b y a n e x h i b i t i o n o f t h e w o r l d l y a d v a n t a g e s t l i e y h a v e c h o s e n t o s u r r e n d e r , t h e a b j e c t a b s u r d i t y o f t h i s m i s e r a b l e a c c u s a t i o n . *

H . P . B L A V A T S K Y .H . S . O L C O T T .

B o m b a y , D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 1 8 8 1 .

* No copy of th is cer ti ficate is iu our possession a t th is moment, or we would publish it herewith , b u t its t e n o r precisely corresponds with the explanat ion in th e above l e t t e r .—13d. Pioneer, -

O U R B R A N C H S O C I E T I E S .

T h is C o l o m b o ( C e y l o n ) B r a n c h .

T h e a c t i v e c a n v a s s o f t l i e W e s t e r n P r o v i n c e o n b e h a l f o f t h e N a t i o n a l F u n d , b y C o l o n e l O l c o t t , w a s t e m p o r a r i l y s u s p e n d e d o n t h e 2 9 t h o f N o v e m b e r , a c a n v a s s i n t l i e

G a l l e D i s t r i c t o f t h e S o u t h e r n P r o v i n c e h a v i n g b e e n a r ­r a n g e d f o r . T h e c o n c l u d i n g l e c t u r e w a s d e l i v e r e d a t B e l l a i m , i n P a s d u n l v o r a l e . T h e f o l l o w i n g w e e k w a s o c ­c u p i e d a t C o l o m b o i n p e r f e c t i n g t h e d e e d s w h i c h g i v o a l e g a l e x i s t e n c e t o t h o W e s t e r n P r o v i n c e B o a r d o f T r u s t ­e e s a n d B o a r d o f M a n a g e r s , a n d t l i e m o n e y w h i c h h a d b e e n c o l l e c t e d f r o m s u b s c r i b e r s t o t h e F u n d w a s f o r m a l l y t u r n e d o v e r b y C o l o n e l O l c o t t t o t h e n e w T r u s t e e s . T h e l e g a l d o c u m e n t s i n q u e s t i o n , a s w e l l a s a c o n s o l i d a t e d r e p o r t t o d a t e , b y t h e S e c r e t a r y o f t h e C o l o m b o B r a n c h ,

o f t h e r e c e i p t s a u d e x p e n d i t u r e s o n b e h a l f o f t h e F u n d , a r e g i v e n b e l o w :— '

(The Board of 'Trustees.)N o. 1909.

T o A L L T O W H O M T H E S E l ' R E S E X T S S H A L L C O M E

Colonel H en ry Steel Olcott, President of the Theosophical

Society, of the first part , mul Amiris P erera D harm agunaw ar- dliaua Muhaudiram o f Pettah , Colombo, H endrick de Silva Giimt'i'kiint of Negombo, I l c W a d e w a g e Amaris F ernando of

Peliyagodn, Kolambapalabei.dige A b rn h i i in P erera of l l o r e - kele, Mirisso Lankage Don Carolis of M utwal, Colombo ; all members of the Koltimba Param awigiianarlha B auddha Sama-

gama, of the second part, hereinafter called the Trustees, send

greeting. Whereas )i T ru s t culled the Si .v g u ai .h sk N a t i o v a i . liumniiSTlO F u n d has befit c r e a t e d by Colonel H enry Steel Olcott., President o f tho Theosophical Society, fo r and on behalf of tho lvolamba ParamawignanarLha B auddha Saniagama, being a branch of the Buddhist Section of the Theosophical

Society, from monies raised by him self assisted by members of the Parnm aw ignanartha Bauddha Samagama and others, by col­lections, subscriptions, donations, legacies, the profits on sales of publications, and from o ther source-. And whereas the sum of

Rupees throe thousand seven hundred and forty-three and cents seventy-five (R s . 3,7-13-75 cents,) raised as aforesaid, have been transferred into the names of the said T ru stees of the second part hereto, and doth now stand in their jo in t names in the books kept at tlie Colombo Branch of the Madras Bank, for the sole

use and benefit of the said T ru st .

N o w T i i k s i s P h i s s e n t s W i t n e s s th a t they, the said Andris P erera D harinagunaw ardhana M uhandiram, H endrick ' de Silva

Gmmsekara, Mewadewage Amnris F ernando, IvolambapaLa-

beiubgo Abraham Perera and Mirisso L ankage Don Carol is, do and each of them for himsolf severally and respectively and for

their successors in office doth by these presents acknowledge, testify and declare that as well the said sum of IJupeos three thousand seven hundred and forty-three and cents seventy-livo (R s . 3,7-13-75 cents ), as also all fu r th e r aud o th e r sums w hich shall a t any time or times hereafter be transfer­red into their jo in t names for the benefit o f the said •“ S in g ­

halese National Buddhistic F u n d ” shall be a t all times here­after deemed and taken to be the property o f and belonging

to the said Fund, and that the same shall, from time to time, as the same shall be so transferred, stand and remain in tho jo in t names of tlio said T ru stees and be held by them together with all dividends, in terest and yearly or other income and proceeds thereof respectively arising therefrom In trust only, and to and for tho solo use and benefit and advantage of the said “ Singhalese National Buddhistic F u n d ”

and to and for no other use, tru s t or purpose whatsoever. And it is hereby fu rther declared by all tho parties hereto tha t tho trustees of tho said F u n d shall bo five in number.

T h a t the monies aforesaid aud their incremont shall bo deposited in the Colombo B ranch of the Bank of Madras or other solvent Banking corporation, as collected ; aud the incre­ment only shall be drawn for disbursem ent upon warrants or drafts presented to the said- Trustoes or their successors in offieo ; aud signed by the Chairman, T reasu rer an t Secretary of a certain Board of Managers of the said F u n d , (w h ic h eaid Hoard of Managers is simultaneously organized, under a separate

agreem ent between the said ‘ Colonel H en ry Steel Olcott., Mohottiwatto G uuanauda Uunanse, aud thirteen o ther persons

named in the said agreem ent) and countersigned by the said

Colonel H e n ry Steel Olcott , liis successors in office nr legal representatives connected with the Kolamba Parainawignanai tIn

ISaudilha Samagmna. T h a t the trustees shall have (he power of

investment of 'the principal of tlie said fund on good seeiuity of productive immoveable properly situated within the gravels

of Colombo, to the e x te n t of one half the estimated value ol the propel I y. That, the appraisem ent thereof shall be nia.le by a p ­praisers named by the Trustees. 'That no more than Rupees threo thousand shall be loaned on any one piece o f propci tv ;

and interest at the rale of ten per centum per annum shall be

levied on all loans ; and if default be made in tho payment «>f interest for the space of three months, then interest, sliall bo reckoned and levied a t the rale of twelve per centum per annum,

or ihe loan shall bo called in. T h a t in ease of the de.uh of any T ru stees or his disqualification by reason of incapacity, unwillingness, neglect., or inability to act, the aforesaid Colonel

H enry Stee I ( ) 1 eo11, his successors in office or legal representatives as above, shall appo in t a T ru s te e in his stead on the nomination

of the IColamba P aram awignanartlia Bauddha Samagnma, should the same be I,hen iu existence, nr if not then, the said Colonel H enry Steel Olcott shall in connection with the said lizard of

M anagers fill the vacancies, under ihe general advice am! counsel

of the C omm ittee of priests nainei' in the instrument abovo described ; and as soon as .the said Colonel H e n ry Steel Olcott , his successors in office or legal representatives, shall have, as above, nominated or appointed any oilier person or persons lo become trustee or trustees in their or any of tlieir place or stead

then the person or persons in whom (he said trust monies, funds

and securities shall be vested, shall with all convenii nt. speed transfer and assign the same in such manner and so a> that the same may bo legally nnd effectually vested in such new tru>tee or

trustees jo in tly with the continuing trustees upon the same tru-ts as arc hereinbefore declared concerning the same. And every such trustee so to bo appointed as aforesaid sliall a'“t or a sisl in

th e execution o f the T ru s ts o f these presents as fully and effec­tually and shall have such and tho same powers to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if he ha I been originally appointed a trustee aud bad been party to these presents. T h a t the said Colonel H enry Steel Olcott as the principal creator ot the said

F u n d shall have full power, and it shall be his duty to adopt such precautions as from time to time may seem necessary to pro­

tect th e money subscribed by the public from embezzlement or m-iladministraiioii, to preserve the good ch aracter of t.he Society and to reali/.i the objects for which the fuiul is collect­ed. In witness w hereof the said Colomd l le n ry Steel Olool.f, A n d ris Pe era Dharm nguiiaw ardhana M uhandiram, H en d rick do Silva G unasekara, I iew ad ew ag c Amaris Fernando, Kolaiu-

bapatabeudige A b rah am P erera aud Mirisso L ankage D.m Carolis, do set their hands to three of the same tenor as these

presents at Colombo and G alle this e ighth aud tenth days of D ecember in the y e a r one thousand e ight hundred and

eighty-one.

Witnesses to tho signatures of

(S ig n e d . ) A. P. D. Mu h a n m r a m .

„ II . D u S i l v a .

„ II . A. F krjjan’do.

„ AUUAIIM PuKEItA.

„ D o n C a k o l i s .G. L o u i s P e i i a .

U. II . K u u u .

W itnesses to tho signature of(S ig n e d . ) 11. S. O l c o t t .

G. C. A . J ay as gkara .

T. IV.UEIIA.

D. S.niAitAWiKriAMA, N. P.

I, William Perera llanesinyhe, o f Colombo, Notary Public do herd))/ certif// and attest that the foregoing Instrument having been dub) read over by the said Hewadewa:/ Ann.ri.c Fernando and Mirisse Lankage Don Carolis. and >’r pi n med by me the said Notary to the said I / tlris Perera Dharma- gunawardhaita Muhandiram, Hendrick de Silva Gnnnsrkara, and Kolambapatabendige Abrahnm Perera in the prcsi'nm o f the witnesses Gagodavilage I.onis Perera o f Ku/te, and Iiulatsinhulagi Ilarmanis Coorey o f Colombo, all of whnm are known to me, the same was signed b y them ami In/ the said Witnesses in my presence and iu the jiresr.ncc of one another, all being present at the same time at Colombo this eighth day o f December in the year o f our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

I further certify and'attest that the duplicate o f this deed ban s .'■tnmp o f Ns.

Dated the eighth d jy o f December 18S1.{Signed.) JV. P. fianeshin/ic,

Notary Public.No. 2 7 7 4 .

I, Dionysius Saniarawitirama o f Callc, Notary I ’ublic, do herein) certify and attest that the foregoing instillment haring been dull/ read over bif the said (,i11n//rl Jlenry Steel Olcott in the presence o f the W itnesses Messrs. ( C. A. Jayas<'/tara and I ’erera o f Galle, all of whom are Imoirn to me, the same icas sif)ned bi/ him find the said ivifnesses in. my pi escm.c and in. the presence o f one. annthei, all. being present at the same time at Galle, Hus 10th day o f December in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

Attested t/iis I Oth day o f December 1 8 8 1 .

(Signed) D. Samarawikrmna,Notary Public,

( The Board <f Managers.)N o . 1 9 0 8 .

A R T I C L E S O F a g r e e m e n t m a d e a n d E N T E R ­E D I N T O B E T W E E N C o lo n e l l l e n r y S tee l O lc o t t , L ' re s id en t o f I lie T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c ie ty , p a r t y of t h e f i r s t p in t , M o h o t t i - w -, l le G u u n . m u d a U n n a u s e , p a r l y o f t h e se co n d p a r t a n d A m i row P e r e r a , S e n a d i r e g e T e p n n i s P e n ^ i S im o n I e r e n , D h a r m a g u nil w n r d h a n a V ic iaun A n . . h e n , W,1 » ,n 1 - r e d n c kW i i i ‘v<“ 'ikei'n W i l l i a m D e A b r e w , l i ie lun* .1 A < ln n n M n a n d o , U v m f o n s D e S i lv a G u n n s e k a ra , I l a r n n k u b a A r . i c l . c h . g e C a ro l , s J V r c r a M a h a m a r a k k a l a g e S a m e e l P e r e r n , V u h i u e l a g e . l o h a n n e s M a t h e w s D e M el , E d i r i m u n i M a r t i n . . L a t e r . . M u d a l a b , l a r o l i s J ’tijifii G u n a w a r d h a n n , J o h n R o b e r t D e S i lv a , m e m b e r s o f t h e r a r n m a w i . - . a n n r t h a B a u d d h a S a m a g a m a , p a r t i e s o t h e t h i r dm r ( __ .,H r e p r e s e n t i n g w lm t is k n o w n us (lie B u d d h i s t S e c t io no f t h e T h e o s o p h i c a l S o c ie ty ; for t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of a c e r t a in f u n d n a m e d " T h o S i n h a l e s e N n t io n a l h ' ' " u' " h -in t h e W e s t e r n P r o v i n c e o f I h e I s l a n d o C e y lo n . Whereas a F u n d h a s b e e n n n d is h e r e b y c r e a t e d m th o W e s t e r n 1 . o u n c eo f C e v lo n for t h e p ro m o t io n o f t h e B u d d h i s t r e l i g io n a n d th ed iffus ion o f u se fu l k n o w l e d g e a m o n g t h e S i n h a l e s e peo p le . T iiesic 1'r k s k n t s W i t n e s s , as f o l l o w : _

j l _ __T h e T i t l e o f t h i s f u n d s h a l l b e T h e Sin lmle .sc N a t io n a l

B u d d h i s t i c F u n d . ’' .I I I _ T I k> F u n d sha l l b o u n d e r t h e g e n e r a l g u a r d i a n . -h ip of

t h e B ud d h is t , p r i e s th o o d of t h e W e s t e r n P r o v i n c e a n d u n d e r t h e i m m e d i a t e S u p e r v i s i o n o f a C o m m i t t e e o f e n . m e n t p r ie s t s ,v jz :__ U d m m m p o l a R a tu a p a l a S a m n .u a i . s e , l^o inpo B u d d h , u a k -k h i t a • -am in n u n se , S im m n g a lu N a y a k a S a in tn n a n s c , A m b a - i ; a h a p i t i y o W i m a l a s a r a S a u i in u a n s e . W e l i g , m a S u m a n g a l a S a m im u iu s e , P - . t n w i l a I n d a j li S a m in n a n s e , W e l i t a i 'a D h . im - l i . a h iu k a ra S a m in n a n s e , W a s k a . l i . w e S u b h u . i S a m i n n a n s e , T i l i ihene A m - . ra m o l i S a m in n a n s e , A m b a g a l . a w a t t c e I n d . , s a b h a S a m i n n a n s e , K o t a l a w a l e S . . w a n n a J o t i San . i i . im i.se , a u d M ig a - n u iv e N a n d a i am at iss i i S a m i n n a n s e w h o s e C o u n s e l sh a l l be t a k e n in all i m p o r t a n t m e a s u r e s a f fe c t in g t h e i n t e r e s t s ol B u d d h i s m .

I V . — 'T h e a fo re sa id fu n d sh a l l bo c iea t . -d out. of m o n ie s r e ­a l iz e d f ro m s u b s c r ip t io n s , d o n a t io n s , leg ac ie s , t h e p ro f i t s on saleo f p u b l i c a t i o n s , a n d o t h e r s o u rc e s . . .

y . __X o p a r t of th e p r in c ip a l t h u s r e a l i z e d sh a l l be expended ,^b u t o n ly t h e a n n u a l i n c r e m e n t a s r e p o r t e d b y i h e B o a rd o f T r u s t e e s c r e a t e d b y a c e r t a in D e e d o f T r u s t b e a r i n g e v e n d a t e w i t h th o se p r e s e n t s a u d e x e c u t e d b y th e m t h e sa id 1 r u s t e e s

mill t h e sa id O lc o t t .V I . __N o m o r e th a n the. in c o m e fo r a n y o n e y e a r sh a l l lie a p ­

p r o p r i a t e d w i th in t h a t y e a r . S h o u l d a n y u n e x p e n d e d s u r p l u s r e m a in a t t h e e n d o f a n y y e a r t h e s a m e sh a l l be c r e d i t e d on th o next , y e a r ' s a c c o u n t s to t h o f o l lo w in g o b j e c t s , v iz E d u c a t i o n a l L i t e r a r v a n d M is ce l lan eo u s , in th o p i o p o r t i o n s h e r e i n a f t e r n a m e d .

V I J . I_O f e a c h y e a r ’s i n c o m e o n e - h a l f s h a r e s h a l l b e so t a s id ef o r "T a n t s - in -a id o f sc h o o ls ; o n e - f o u r t h for p u b l i c a t i o n s o f v a r io u s k i n d s ; o n e - f o u r t h for w o r t h y o b j e c t s o f a m i s c e l l a n e o u s c h a r a c ­t e r , p r o in o t iv e o f th e i n t e r e s t s o f B u d d h i s m ; t h e s u r p l u s sh a l l be d iv id e d in l ik e ra t io .

V I I I . — T h e in c o m e a v a i l a b l e fo r a p p r o p r i a t i o n in a n y y e a r sha l l bo u n d e r s t o o d to m e a n t h e n e t t in c o m e , a f t e r d e d u c t i n g t h o n e c e s s a ry e x p e n c e s o f i t s c o l lec t io n . T h o fu n d a v a i l a b l e fo r i n v e s tm e n t by th o T r u s t e e s sha l l bo t h e n e t t s u m o f c o l l e c ­t io n s f rom all s o u rc e s , a f t e r d e d u c t i n g t h e a c t u a l c o s t s o f c o l le c ­t ion , su c h ns s t a t i o n e r y , p r i n t i n g , d i s c o u n t s , p o s t a g e , t r a v e l l in g e x p e n s e s , w a g e s a n d o t h e r u su a l a u d l a w f u l c h a r g e s .

I X . — N o appropriation of money shall be made for any reli­gious sectarian object ns sueh, but only in its character of a national object., and ns bearing upon the interests o f Buddhism. N o r shall any locality, w h eth er within or w ith o u t the Western

Province, be favoured, merely as such locality, with ap p ro p ria­tions above any o th e r locality, in whatever province ; but its claims shall only bo considered in their relation to Sinhalese national interests, anil to the welfare of the religion of Buddha.

1 he fund shall be regarded as a sacred trust accepted ou behalf of the Sinhalese nation and their religion; nml it is agreed between the parties aforesaid that in its administration, merely sectional, social and sectarian claims shall be made subordinate to the general good.

X . — Tho responsibili ties of administration shall be thus divided : (a) T h o parties o f the third part who nre l.ereb}' con­stituted a 11 Board of Managers,” shall have exclusive power to select, the objects upon which the income is to be expended,

aud to vote the appropriations ; {!>) a . evisionary authority shall

be exercised by t.he party of tho second part; ( c ) t.he party of the first part , being ex-oflicio president o f the whole B u d ­dhist Section and thus representing iheeombined interests of both

clerg}’ and laity, shall havo tho power to approve or disapprove of proposed grants of money, nnd thus validate or invalidate the warrants drawn in payment o f the same. Iu case he should disapprove, of 1.113' appi opriuf.ion, he shall return tho paper with his objections', in writing, to the Board of Managers. Should

tlio Board insist upon the g ra n t and the party o f tho second part concur, the papers shall be so endorsed and sent back to the party of tho first, part . I f ho still should disapprove, ho shall report, the ease to the Secretary o f the Kohunba Parama- wignanai tlm B auddha S.unagama ; and that Society shall appoint a Committee of Appeal comprising thirteen mem hers,

neither o f whom shall be a Manager or T ru s tee ; their decision shall bo final. Should the proposed g ra n t be by them sustained tho p arty of the first part shall upon penalty of disqualification countersign the w a rra n t upon t.he Board of T ru stees draw n by tho Board of Managers. Ilo shall also bo the arbitra tor in all disputes or disagreem ents cither between members o f the Board

of .Managers, or between tho Board aud the party o f tlio second part ; and his decision shall be final.

X I . — The Board o f .Managers shall be th u s constituted and conducted : (n) T h e present, thirteen members shall hold office

for tho t e r m o f one calendar year from the date o f these pre­sents : ( b) should any vacancy occur a new member shall he Selected b}' the party who appointed the retiring member, nnd in ease he should have been appointed b}' a priest, or by the said

Olcott tlien the name of the new appointee shall by the secre­tary of tho Board, be subm itted to the Ivolamba Param nwig- linnailha Bauddha Samagama for ratification by vote at its n ext regular meeting ; (c) their successors in ofiicc shall be annually

n o m i n a t e d by tho original appointin'; power, subject to confir­mation by the said Kolainba Parm aw iguauarthn B auddha Samagama a t a regular meeting ; (d) five members shall be a q u o r u m for the transaction of business nt any meeting ; but 110 meeting shall lie hold unless a printed or w ritten Notice shall h a v o been sent, by post or messenger, to every member of the Board nt least ten ( 1 0 ) days previously ; ( e ) all questions be­fore the Board shall be decidcd by a majority vote. In case of

a tie the m atter shall be referred to the party of the first, part

for decision w ithout appeal ; ( f ) no member of tho Board shall

r e c e i v e any compensation for his services as such member, nor

havo any pecuniary interest., t direct or remote, iu nny g rant of

money. Should it. be discovered th a t this rulo has been ovaded

or violated, the offender shall bo nt once expelled from the Board, and disgraced nnd expelled from the Theosophical

Society, l i e shall be regarded as an outcast whom 110 honour­able inan can associate with. Disqualification will be caused by( I ) death, ( 2 ) incurable ilhioss, ( 3 ) insanity, ( 4 ) permanent r e ­moval of residence from tho Island, (5 ) conviction of any cr i­

minal ofi’oiice, (G) neglect, of duty including absence from three consecutive m eetings of the Board w ithout valid excuse, ( 7 ) mal­administration. (g) T h e officers of the B m rd, to bo chosen by t.he members from among their own number, shall be a Chair- -

man, Secretary and Treasurer. T^he Chairman shall preside at

all meetings aud g euendty look after t.he business of the Board j should he absent him self from a meeting any o th e r m em ber may be elected tem porary Chairman. T h e Secretary shall lmve charge o f tho correspondence, notices of m eetings and the official books and papers. T h e T reasu rer shall keep an account of t.he state o f tho three several sub-funds above specified, the Educational, L iterary and Miscellaneous, nnd always havo

ready for th o i u f o r a m t i o a o f th o B o a r d a a a c c u r a t e e x h i b i t o f

tlie appropriations to date, and the unexpended credit b i la n c e 8 with t!.e Trustees. l i e shall also draw nnd d isburse all peity

cash items of expense, sucli as postage, stationery, ('ie., iueiilental

to office work, (/i) T h e Board shall m ake nt least once annually a report upon ils transactions during the year, to the party of

the first part, who shall communicate the same wilh ihe reports from other provinces, to the public, ( i ) No sum greater than TCs. 50 (fifty Rupees) shall lie voted at any meeting ex cep t upon

the favourable report of a sub-committee of ihe Hoard to whom

the m atter had been referred by the Chninivm, at, lea-4, one week previously. ( ; ) Applications for grants of any kind must be

made in writing and be favourably endorsed by two Managers

before they can even be considered ; should ihe vote thereupon be favourable the papers 'vill then be submitted for approval to tlio party of tho second part , who shall, within one week return

the same marked as “ a p p r o v e d ” or “ disapproved.” In the

former ease ihe Secrctnry of the Board shall draw a warrant

upon tho Trustees for the amount voted, in favour o f iho

applicant ; sign it, nud procure the s ignatures of tlie Chairman and T reasurer of the Board. T h e w arran t with accompanying

papers shall then be referred to the p arty o f tho first part for examination ; and upon liis countersigning tho warrant, aud

returning i t to the Secretary of ihe Board, the latter shall number nnd register i t nnd then forward it to the payee for eodeeiion.

X I I . — E v ery new member before taking bis seat, in Ihe Board shall sign a copy of this agreem ent and bind himself to

abide by and enforce tbe Bye-Laws and Rules adopted l>y the Board for the governm ent of its proceedings and I lie responsi­bility of its members.

X IIT .— T h e Subscriptions made by the public shall lie c o l­

lected by the Kolamha I’nram awiguanartha Baud lha Samiigania, and the n e t t proceeds shall be deposited in Bank within one week from the dale of tho receipt, thereof by the. Secretary, to

the credit of the Trustees, taking the usual receipts for the same and exchanging receipts wilh the Trustees.

X I V . — [n care the party of the first p->rt should die or be otherwise disqualified or incapable to act, his power? and funeiions under this agreement, shall be transferred lo bis successor iu the Presidency of the Buddhi~t Section, or to

such other person as may bo selected by the parent T h e o ­

sophical Society with the approval of the majority of Ihe branch societies embraced in the aforesaid Buddhist, Section ; nnd it shall be the duty of the said P a r e n t Society to mail a notice of such selection within th ir ty d-iys after tho death or ascertainment o f the disqualification of the party of the fir.st, part ; failing in which t.he vacancy may be tem ­porarily filled by the unanimous vole of the branch societies

comprised within the Buddhist Section ; and in case tiie said P arent Society shall not within one year have, selected a person who is approved by the said branch societies, then the person

temporarily selected by the latter shall hold ihe appointm ent during good behaviour, subject t.o the provisions of ibis agree­

ment. Should the party of the second pari die or be o th e r­

wise disqualified tlie vacancy shall not be filled, but. in sueii case approved grants shall be forwarded by the Managers for approval directly to the party of the first,, part.

XV.-—-The pai ty of tiie first part as ihe principal creator of the Sinhalese National Buddhistic F u n d , shall have full

p ) w e r a n d it shall lie his duty to adopt, such precautions as IVom time to lime may seem necessary to protect the m oney subscrib­ed by the Public from embezzlement, or mal-admiuistration, to

preserve the good character of tho Society, and to realize tho objects for which the Fund is being collected ; ihe management and direction of the practical details for th e collection of the subscriptions shall as heretofore be left to him. In case paid assistance should be required, preference shall be given to members of the Kolamha P .mimuw ignanartha Bauddlin Samagania, il such should be. available.

X V I . — Ih e terms of this In s tru m en t may from time lo time be modified by the mutual consent of the party of the first, part, and the parly of the second part, (should he be still in ollice), and a majority of tho parlies of th e third p a rt or their successors in office.

X V I I . — sh o u ld Boards similar to this be hereafter or­ganised in o ther provinces in the, Is land, this Board of th e Western Province shall ever ac t in brutherly harm ony wilh them giving them w hatever help their Province may require ami this Board enii grant., aud reciprocally ask from (hem help as the exigencies of the W estern Province may demand.

In witness whereof ihe said Colonel H en ry Steel Oleott, Mohottiwatto G uuanauda U nnauie, A ndrew Perera, Senadirugo

Tepauis Perera, Simon P e re ra D h a r n w u n a w a r d h n n Yidana Arachehi, William F red r ick Wijeyesakera, William Do

Abrew, Richard Adrian Mirando. U vadoris De Silva Gum’i- rtokara, I la ra n k a h a A rachchige Carolis Perera, Mahamarak- kalage Samel Perera, Vidanelage Jo h a n n e s M'U.hews

De Mel, Kdirimuni M artinn L ateru, Carolis P u j i t i G tm a- wardh ma, J o h n R o b ert De Silva, do set their hands to

three, o f the same tenor as these presents at Colombo and Galle. this eighth and tenth davs of December, in the y e a r one

thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

Witnesses to ihe s ignatures of

( S i g n e d ) M. G u n a x a n d a .

„ A n d r e w P k r e r a .

' „ S. T . P e r e r a .

„ S. P . DriARMAGUNAWARDIIANA.

„ W . F . WlJEYESAKKRA.

„ I I . A. M i r a n d o .

„ U . do S. G u n a s r k a r a .

„ 0 . P e r e r a .

„ S . P e r e r a .

,, J . M. d e M e l .

„ E . M. L a t e r u .

„ 0 . P . G oo n a w a r d h a n a .

„ J . Pi. D e S i l v a .

G. L o u is P e r e r a .

B. I L C o o r a y . .

W i t n e s s e s to th o s i g n a t u r e s of

(Signed.) H . S . O lc o tt .„ W . D e A b r e w .

G. 0 . A. J a y a s e k a r a .

T . P e r e r a .

D. S.VMARWrCKRAMA, N. P .J, Wt/h.am P 'rv 'a R-tn"sia-ihi o f Colombo, Notary Public, do

her'by re-tify n m l attest that the f o n f t i n i havin'! h m i(I 'd1/ r e . - f i r , b y me a n d n vp ’a>Hfd to t h 1. sa ;d Mnhnttiw . ttc Gu.na- n t nd t V i m n sv!, Andrew Perera, Henadiraie T-na * ' Prre.ra. S imon

iVtar-n iqunnuri '-dan i V i. l ina .1 ra-hehi, W i'/iam Frederick I lri./ <"a, Richard .1 d riii >i Mirando, I 'yadoris de Si . 'c i Gunasr.k-i"a,

] l a ' - t i i i ' n Am-hchi' te C v o 'U Ptrera. M -ih im am bhi 'n i f* Samel / ‘ v e r t , V ■hie j-iqe ./’nhanls d 1. Ms’. E I i n m u n i Martinu Latent,

irolis P u /i ta G u n a ie:trdhrina, John R^h-ft cl’. S ih 'a — in thep"eArnee ot th', w l ln e t f ’s G inyodarilaqe Liwis Perera o f Kotte a n d fiulat- sin h a ’a je I I irm.-in.ii Coo rut/ ol C ilombo, aV o f whom are known to m e— thi s n n * »' h si. /no I b'/ them an I h / thi s i.id Wl.in-ases in niv v e - s-;nei un i >ii th i )ir-senr->. o f one anodi ’.r, ad, bein') -present at the s-tme tin i ;. nt Ci^i-nb) thi* eighth d m o f Dcc-.mber, in the year o f our Lord oil", thousand eiqht hundred a n d eighty-one.

I further certify a n d attest that the duplicate o f this deed bears stamps' o f Us.

Dated the eighth d a y o f December 1881.

(Signed) TIr. P. R A N U S I .V G f fE , Notary Public.

N o. 277 0 .

T Dionysius S imarawik '-arna of Gal’c, N otary Public, do hereby certify a n d attest th tt the foregoing instrument havimj beenduly read over hi/ Ho1,. Uznr)/ S '"c ’ O'cMt, a n d William de Abrew in the pre ­sence o f the witness's Mnss<ms. G. C .1. Jayasekttra and. T. Perera, both ol G die, who are known to m*., the same was signed by them a n d by the sa id iritness-* in mu -presence a n d in the presence o f one another at Guile, this tenth d a y o f December, in the year one thousand eiyht h undred a n d eighty-one.

Attested this lOi/i d a y o f December 1881.

By me,(S igned) D. S A .U A R A W I K R A M A .

T h e s u m re a l iz e d fo r t h e F u n d by C o lo n e l O l c o t t ’s le c ­

t u r e s — a b o u t s e v e n t e e n th o u s a n d r u p e e s — t h o u g h o n ly a

t i t h e o f w h a t lie i n t e n d s to m a k e it, is y e t a l a r g e o n e

u n d e r tl ie n ire u m sta n e e .s . I t m u s t b e r e m e m b e r e d t h a t

t h o g r e a t e s t p o ss ib le o b s ta c le s h a d to be s u r m o u n t e d a t

t h e b e g i n n i n g o f s u c h a g r e a t n a t i o n a l u n d e r t a k i n g l i k e

th is . T h e S i n h a l e s e p e o p le h a d n e v e r b e fo re b e e n a p ­

p e a le d to to u n i t e in a p o p u l a r s u b s c r ip t io n , i r r e s p e c t iv e of

c a s t e o r se c t , for t h e fo u n d i t io n o f schools, t h e d is s e m i ­

n a t i o n o f l i t e r a t u r e , a n d t h o g e n e r a l p r o m o t i o n o f B u d ­

d h is m . A m a j o r i ty o f t h e p e o p le w e ro a l m o s t , i f n o t

q u i t e , i l l i t e r a te , a n d c e r t a in l y a 1 i r g o m a j o r i t y to t a l l y ig ­

n o r a n t o f tlio g r e a t p r in c ip le s of t h e i r re l ig io n . A d d to

t h i s t h e i r s t a t e of p o v e r ty , a n d t h e s u s p ic io n , n a t u r a l to

feel, as to t h e d i s i n t s r c s t e d u c s s o f a w h i l e m a n w h o lmd

R E T UR y o f a series o f L ie tares delivered by Colonel I I S. Olcott in the Western Province o f Ceylon, in aid o f the National Buddhistic Fund, and o f Collections made, from 7th May to 5th December 1881. .

Date-Names of the Places of Lectures and

M iin b ji’s appointed to canvass houses for sale of tickets.

N aires of Parties assist­ing in the Lectures.

Tickets. Subscriptions.

P e t tyCollections

Issued. Sold. Pled- ed. Paid.

S 1 25 8 4 25!

72 25 72 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9°. 10 25

27 25 27 25 . . . . . . . . .

10 . . . . .

g i . . . 48 25 • • . . . . . .

S8 50 57 25 • • « • • > 77>3G 50 3G 5 0 , , . •

2 7 0 25 7 0 255 7 1 5 I 1254 ’ ’

105

7 0 5 6

1C 25 1 G 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

iii) 5') o') 50 31 1 . . . 2 10 . . . 31()7 25 2 . . . . . .

32 25 1 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 75 1)

''. . . . . . . . .

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10 7 5 Id 75 . . . . . .o !

. . .

1 I . . . 271 . . . '25 . . . . . .

s .25 8 25 . . . . . . . . . • • 2 92 4 4 25 100 75 105G SG8 . . . . . . 34

G 25 (1 2 5 2 2 6 50 255 1 25 25 7 5 - * o f > . . . 4 4 . . .

24 2.3 9 2 5 178 5 0 10 . . . . . . 47100 . . . . . . . . •

l > (*> . . . I f) 5 5 7 GO!)2 75 C l ) . . . 4 5 G • • 6 0 *2 75104 7 o k ; 7 5 4 8 5 3 2 5 . . .

1 £5 , j 25 1 01 2 5 0 4 5i

. . . 1■j 25 2 2 5 3G5 G2J- 1 1 l * ) i A - 2 . . . . . .

47 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . -■ . . . |

Names of Parties to be Credited for influencing the Subscriptions.

Remarks.

1 8 6 1 .May 13

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> * 15

5 ) 18

18

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9* 19

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30

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610

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August. 3 & 4

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