,,studies ,,in ,,occultism  by  ,h4,p4  
,,blavatsky     ,,studies ,,in          
,,occultism   ,a ,series of ,reprints   
from the ,writings  of  ,h4,p4          
,,blavatsky  ,,no4 #a   ,,practical     
,,occultism  ,,occultism ,,versus ,,the 
,,occult ,,arts  ,,the ,,blessings ,,of 
,,publicity  ,,point ,,loma ,,edition   
,the ,aryan ,theosophical ,press ,point 
,loma1 ,california #aiaj    ,see ,book  
,list at the end of this volume for the 
other numbers of this ,series and also  
for other ,theosophical literature4     
,,contents                              
,,page  ,practical ,occultism           
#a   ,from ,lucifer1 ,april1 #ahhh      
,occultism versus the ,occult ,arts     
#ag   ,from ,lucifer1 ,may1 #ahhh  ,the 
,blessings of ,publicity                
#db   ,from ,lucifer1 ,august1 #ahia    
,occultism is not magic1 though magic is
 one of its tools4  ,occultism is not   
the acquirement of powers1 whether      
psychic or intellectual1 though both are
 its servants4 ,neither is occultism the

 pursuit of happiness1 as men understand
 the word2 for the first step is        
sacrifice1 the second1 renunciation4    
,occultism is the science of life1 the  
art of living4--,lucifer1 ,vol4 ,i1 p4  
#g4     ,,practical ,,occultism         
,,important ,,to ,,students   ,as some  
of the letters in the ,correspondence of
 this month show1 there are many people 
who are looking for practical           
instruction in ,occultism4 ,it becomes  
necessary1 therefore1 to state once for 
all3--  7a7 ,the essential difference   
between theoretical and practical       
,occultism2 or what is generally known  
as ,theosophy on the one hand1 and      
,occult science on the other1 and3--    
7b7 ,the nature of the difficulties     
involved in the study of the latter4    
,it is easy to become a ,theosophist4   
,any person of average intellectual     
capacities1 and a leaning toward the    
metaphysical2 of pure1 unselfish life1  
who finds more joy in helping his       
neighbor than in receiving help himself2

 one who is ever ready to sacrifice his 
own pleasures for the sake of other     
people2 and who loves ,truth1 ,goodness1
 and ,wisdom for their own sake1 not for
 the benefit they may confer--is a      
,theosophist4  ,but it is quite another 
matter to put oneself upon the path     
which leads to the knowledge of what is 
good to do1 as to the right             
discrimination of good from evil2 a path
 which also leads a man to that power   
through which he can do the good he     
desires1 often without even apparently  
lifting a finger4  ,moreover1 there is  
one important fact with which the       
student should be made acquainted4      
,namely1 the enormous1 almost limitless 
responsibility assumed by the teacher   
for the sake of the pupil4 ,from the    
,gurus of the ,east who teach openly or 
secretly1 down to the few ,kabalists in 
,western lands who undertake to teach   
the rudiments of the ,sacred ,science to
 their disciples--those western         
,hierophants being often themselves     

ignorant of the danger they incur--one  
and all of these ,teachers are subject  
to the same inviolable law4 ,from the   
moment they begin really to teach1 from 
the instant they confer any             
power--whether psychic1 mental1 or      
physical--on their pupils1 they take    
upon themselves all the sins of that    
pupil1 in connexion with the ,occult    
,sciences1 whether of omission or       
commission1 until the moment when       
initiation makes the pupil a ,master and
 responsible in his turn4 ,there is a   
weird and mystic religious law1 greatly 
reverenced and acted upon in the ,greek1
 half-forgotten in the ,roman ,catholic1
 and absolutely extinct in the          
,protestant ,church4 ,it dates from the 
earliest days of ,christianity and has  
its basis in the law just stated1 of    
which it was a symbol and an expression4
 ,this is the dogma of the absolute     
sacredness of the relation between the  
god-parents who stand sponsors for a    
child4,a  ,these tacitly take upon      

themselves all the sins of the newly    
baptized child--7anointed1 as at the    
initiation1 a mystery truly67--until the
 day when the child becomes a           
responsible unit1 knowing good and evil4
 ,thus it is clear why the ,teachers are
 so reticent1 and why ,chelas are       
required to serve a seven years         
probation to prove their fitness1 and   
develop the qualities necessary to the  
security of both ,master and pupil4     
,occultism is not magic4 ,it is         
comparatively easy to learn the trick of
 spells and the methods of using the    
subtler1 but still material1 forces of  
physical nature2 the powers of the      
animal soul in man are soon awakened2   
the forces which his love1 his hate1 his
 passion1 can call into operation1 are  
readily developed4 ,but this is ,black  
,magic--,sorcery4 ,for it is the motive1
 and the motive alone1 which makes any  
exercise of power become black1         
malignant1 or white1 beneficent ,magic4 
,it is impossible to employ spiritual   

forces if there is the slightest tinge  
of selfishness remaining in the         
operator4 ,for1 unless the intention is 
entirely unalloyed1 the spiritual will  
transform itself into the psychic1 act  
on the astral plane1 and dire results   
may be produced by it4 ,the powers and  
forces of animal nature can equally be  
used by the selfish and revengeful1 as  
by the unselfish and the all-forgiving2 
the powers and forces of spirit lend    
themselves only to the perfectly pure in
 heart--and this is ,divine ,magic4     
,what are then the conditions required  
to become a student of the ,divina      
,sapientia8 ,for let it be known that no
 such instruction can possibly be given 
unless these certain conditions are     
complied with1 and rigorously carried   
out during the years of study4 ,this is 
a sine qu non4 ,no man can swim unless  
he enters deep water4 ,no bird can fly  
unless its wings are grown1 and it has  
space before it and courage to trust    
itself to the air4 ,a man who will wield

 a two-edged sword1 must be a thorough  
master of the blunt weapon1 if he would 
not injure himself--or what is          
worse--others1 at the first attempt4    
,to give an approximate idea of the     
conditions under which alone the study  
of ,divine ,wisdom can be pursued with  
safety1 that is without danger that     
,divine will give place to ,black       
,magic1 a page is given from the private
 rules1 with which every instructor in  
the ,east is furnished4 ,the few        
passages which follow are chosen from a 
great number and explained in brackets4 
99       99       99       99       99  
#a4 ,the place selected for receiving   
instruction must be a spot calculated   
not to distract the mind1 and filled    
with influence-evolving 7magnetic7      
objects4 ,the five sacred colors        
gathered in a circle must be there among
 other things4 ,the place must be free  
from any malignant influences hanging   
about in the air4       ,the place must 
be set apart1 and used for no other     

purpose4 ,the      five sacred colors   
are the prismatic hues arranged in a    
certain      way1 as these colors are   
very magnetic4 ,by malignant influences 
are meant any disturbances through      
strifes1 quarrels1 bad feelings1        
etc41 as these are said to impress      
themselves immediately on the           
astral light1 i4e41 in the atmosphere of
 the place1 and to hang      about in   
the air4 ,this first condition seems    
easy enough to      accomplish1 yet--on 
further consideration1 it is one of the 
most      difficult ones to obtain4  #b4
 ,before the disciple shall be permitted
 to study face to face1 he has to       
acquire preliminary understanding in a  
select company of other lay upsakas     
7disciples71 the number of whom must be 
odd4       ,face to face means in this  
instance a study independent or apart   
from others1 when the disciple gets his 
instruction face to face      either    
with himself 7his higher1 ,divine ,self7
 or--his guru4 ,it is      then only    

that each receives his due of           
information1 according to      the use  
he has made of his knowledge4 ,this can 
happen only toward      the end of the  
cycle of instruction4  #c4 ,before thou 
7the teacher7 shalt impart to thy ,lanoo
 7disciple7 the good 7holy7 words of    
,lamrin1 or shalt permit him to make    
ready for ,dubjed1 thou shalt take care 
that his mind is thoroughly purified and
 at peace with all1 especially with his 
other ,selves4 ,otherwise the words of  
,wisdom and of the good ,law1 shall     
scatter and be picked up by the winds4  
,lamrin is a work of practical          
instructions1 by ,tson-kha-pa1 in       
two portions1 one for ecclesiastical and
 exoteric purposes1 the      other for  
esoteric use4 ,to make ready for        
,dubjed1 is to prepare      the vessels 
used for seership1 such as mirrors and  
crystals4 ,the      other selves1 refers
 to the fellow students4 ,unless the    
greatest      harmony reigns among the  
learners1 no success is possible4 ,it is

      the teacher who makes the         
selections according to the magnetic and
      electric natures of the students1 
bringing together and adjusting         
most carefully the positive and the     
negative elements4  #d4 ,the upsakas    
while studying must take care to be     
united as the fingers on one hand4 ,thou
 shalt impress upon their minds that    
whatever hurts one should hurt the      
others1 and if the rejoicing of one     
finds no echo in the breasts of the     
others1 then the required conditions are
 absent1 and it is useless to proceed4  
,this can hardly happen if the          
preliminary choice made was             
consistent with the magnetic            
requirements4 ,it is known that ,chelas 
otherwise promising and fit for the     
reception of truth1 had to      wait for
 years on account of their temper and   
the impossibility      they felt to put 
themselves in tune with their           
companions4 ,for--  #e4 ,the            
co-disciples must be tuned by the guru  

as the strings of a lute 7vina7 each    
different from the others1 yet each     
emitting sounds in harmony with all4    
,collectively they must form a key-board
 answering in all its parts to thy      
lightest touch 7the touch of the        
,master74 ,thus their minds shall open  
for the harmonies of ,wisdom1 to vibrate
 as knowledge through each and all1     
resulting in effects pleasing to the    
presiding gods 7tutelary or             
patron-angels7 and useful to the ,lanoo4
 ,so shall ,wisdom be impressed forever 
on their hearts and the harmony of the  
law shall never be broken4  #f4 ,those  
who desire to acquire the knowledge     
leading to the ,siddhis 7occult powers7 
have to renounce all the vanities of    
life and of the world 7here follows     
enumeration of the ,siddhis74  #g4 ,none
 can feel the difference between himself
 and his fellow-students1 such as ,i am 
the wisest1 ,i am more holy and pleasing
 to the teacher1 or in my community1    
than my brother1 etc41--and remain an   

upsaka4 ,his thoughts must be           
predominantly fixed upon his heart1     
chasing therefrom every hostile thought 
to any living being4 ,it 7the heart7    
must be full of the feeling of its      
non-separateness from the rest of beings
 as from all in ,nature2 otherwise no   
success can follow4  #h4 ,a ,lanoo      
7disciple7 has to dread external living 
influence alone 7magnetic emanations    
from living creatures74 ,for this reason
 while at one with all1 in his inner    
nature1 he must take care to separate   
his outer 7external7 body from every    
foreign influence3 none must drink out  
of1 or eat in his cup but himself4 ,he  
must avoid bodily contact 7i4e41 being  
touched or touch7 with human1 as with   
animal being4       ,no pet animals are 
permitted1 and it is forbidden even to  
touch      certain trees and plants4 ,a 
disciple has to live1 so to say1 in his 
own atmosphere in order to individualize
 it for occult purposes4  #i4 ,the mind 
must remain blunt to all but the        

universal truths in nature1 lest the    
,doctrine of the ,heart should become   
only the ,doctrine of the ,eye1 7i4e41  
empty exoteric ritualism74  #aj4 ,no    
animal food of whatever kind1 nothing   
that has life in it should be taken by  
the disciple4 ,no wine1 no spirits1 or  
opium should be used2 for these are like
 the ,lhama-yin 7evil spirits71 who     
fasten upon the unwary1 they devour the 
understanding4       ,wine and spirits  
are supposed to contain and preserve the
 bad      magnetism of all the men who  
helped in their fabrication2 the meat   
of each animal1 to preserve the psychic 
characteristics of its      kind4  #aa4 
,meditation1 abstinence in all1 the     
observation of moral duties1 gentle     
thoughts1 good deeds and kind words1 as 
good will to all and entire oblivion of 
,self1 are the most efficacious means of
 obtaining knowledge and preparing for  
the reception of higher wisdom4  #ab4   
,it is only by virtue of a strict       
observance of the foregoing rules that a

 ,lanoo can hope to acquire in good time
 the ,siddhis of the ,arhats1 the growth
 which makes him become gradually ,one  
with the ,universal ,,all4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,these   
#ab extracts are taken from among some  
#gc rules1 to enumerate which would be  
useless as they would be meaningless in 
,europe4 ,but even these few are enough 
to show the immensity of the            
difficulties which beset the path of the
 would-be ,upsaka1 who has been born and
 bred in ,western lands4,b  ,all        
western1 and especially ,english1       
education is instinct with the principle
 of emulation and strife2 each boy is   
urged to learn more quickly1 to outstrip
 his companions1 and to surpass them in 
every possible way4 ,what is mis-called 
friendly rivalry is assiduously         
cultivated1 and the same spirit is      
fostered and strengthened in every      
detail of life4  ,with such ideas       
educated into him from his childhood1   
how can a ,western bring himself to feel

 towards his co-students as the fingers 
on one hand8 ,those co-students1 too1   
are not of his own selection1 or chosen 
by himself from personal sympathy and   
appreciation4 ,they are chosen by his   
teacher on far other grounds1 and he who
 would be a student must first be strong
 enough to kill out in his heart all    
feelings of dislike and antipathy to    
others4 ,how many ,westerns are ready   
even to attempt this in earnest8  ,and  
then the details of daily life1 the     
command not to touch even the hand of   
one's nearest and dearest4 ,how contrary
 to ,western notions of affection and   
good feeling6 ,how cold and hard it     
seems4 ,egotistical too1 people would   
say1 to abstain from giving pleasure to 
others for the sake of one's own        
development4 ,well1 let those who think 
so defer till another lifetime the      
attempt to enter the path in real       
earnest4 ,but let them not glory in     
their own fancied unselfishness4 ,for1  
in reality1 it is only the seeming      

appearances which they allow to deceive 
them1 the conventional notions1 based on
 emotionalism and gush1 or so-called    
courtesy1 things of the unreal life1 not
 the dictates of ,truth4  ,but even     
putting aside these difficulties1 which 
may be considered external1 though their
 importance is none the less great1 how 
are students in the ,west to attune     
themselves to harmony as here required  
of them8 ,so strong has personality     
grown in ,europe and ,america1 that     
there is no school of artists even whose
 members do not hate and are not jealous
 of each other4 ,professional hatred and
 envy have become proverbial2 men seek  
each to benefit himself at all costs1   
and even the so-called courtesies of    
life are but a hollow mask covering     
these demons of hatred and jealousy4    
,in the ,east the spirit of             
non-separateness is inculcated as       
steadily from childhood up1 as in the   
,west the spirit of rivalry4 ,personal  
ambition1 personal feelings and desires1

 are not encouraged to grow so rampant  
there4 ,when the soil is naturally good1
 it is cultivated in the right way1 and 
the child grows into a man in whom the  
habit of subordination of one's lower to
 one's higher ,self is strong and       
powerful4 ,in the ,west men think that  
their own likes and dislikes of other   
men and things are guiding principles   
for them to act upon1 even when they do 
not make of them the law of their lives 
and seek to impose them upon others4    
,let those who complain that they have  
learned little in the ,theosophical     
,society lay to heart the words written 
in an article in the ,path for last     
,february3--,the key in each degree is  
the aspirant himself4 ,it is not the    
fear of ,god which is the beginning of  
,wisdom1 but the knowledge of ,,self    
which is ,,wisdom ,,itself4  ,how grand 
and true appears1 thus1 to the student  
of ,occultism who has commenced to      
realize some of the foregoing truths1   
the answer given by the ,delphic ,oracle

 to all who came seeking after ,occult  
,wisdom--words repeated and enforced    
again and again by the wise             
,socrates3--,,man ,,know ,,thyself4     
,chelaship has nothing whatever to do   
with means of subsistence or anything of
 the kind1 for a man can isolate his    
mind entirely from his body and its     
surroundings4 ,chelaship is a state of  
mind1 rather than a life according to   
hard and fast rules1 on the physical    
plane4 ,this applies especially to the  
earlier1 probationary period1 while the 
rules given in ,lucifer for ,april last 
pertain properly to a later stage1 that 
of actual occult training and the       
development of occult powers and        
insight4 ,these rules indicate1 however1
 the mode of life which ought to be     
followed by all aspirants so far as     
practicable1 since it is the most       
helpful to them in their aspirations4   
,it should never be forgotten that      
,occultism is concerned with the inner  
man1 who must be strengthened and freed 

from the dominion of the physical body  
and its surroundings1 which must become 
his servants4 ,hence the first and chief
 necessity of ,chelaship is a spirit of 
absolute unselfishness and devotion to  
,truth2 then follow self-knowledge and  
self-mastery4 ,these are all-important2 
while outward observance of fixed rules 
of life is a matter of secondary        
moment4--,lucifer3 ,,iv1 #cdh1 note4    
,,occultism ,,versus ,,the ,,occult     
,,arts      ,i oft have heard1 but ne'er
 believed till now1     ,there are1 who 
can by potent magic spells     ,bend to 
their crooked purpose ,nature's laws4   
,milton   ,in this month's              
,correspondence several letters testify 
to the strong impression produced on    
some minds by our last month's article  
,practical ,occultism4 ,such letters go 
far to prove and strengthen two logical 
conclusions3--  7a7 ,there are more     
well-educated and thoughtful men who    
believe in the existence of ,occultism  
and ,magic 7the two differing vastly7   

than the modern materialist dreams of2  
and3--  7b7 ,that most of the believers 
7comprising many theosophists7 have no  
definite idea of the nature of          
,occultism and confuse it with the      
,occult sciences in general1 the ,black 
art included4  ,their representations of
 the powers it confers upon man1 and of 
the means to be used to acquire them are
 as varied as they are fanciful4 ,some  
imagine that a master in the art1 to    
show the way1 is all that is needed to  
become a ,zanoni4 ,others1 that one has 
but to cross the ,canal of ,suez and go 
to ,india to bloom forth as a ,roger    
,bacon or even a ,count ,st4 ,germain4  
,many take for their ideal ,margrave    
with his ever-renewing youth1 and care  
little for the soul as the price paid   
for it4 ,not a few1 mistaking           
,witch-of-,endorism pure and simple1 for
 ,occultism--through the yawning ,earth 
from ,stygian gloom1 call up the meager 
ghost to walks of light1 and want1 on   
the strength of this feat1 to be        

regarded as full blown ,adepts4         
,ceremonial ,magic according to the     
rules mockingly laid down by liphas     
,lvi1 is another imagined alter ego of  
the philosophy of the ,arhats of old4   
,in short1 the prisms through which     
,occultism appears1 to those innocent of
 the philosophy1 are as multicolored and
 varied as human fancy can make them4   
,will these candidates to ,wisdom and   
,power feel very indignant if told the  
plain truth8 ,it is not only useful1 but
 it has now become necessary to disabuse
 most of them and before it is too late4
 ,this truth may be said in a few words3
 ,there are not in the ,west            
half-a-dozen among the fervent hundreds 
who call themselves ,occultists1 who    
have even an approximately correct idea 
of the nature of the ,science they seek 
to master4 ,with a few exceptions1 they 
are all on the highway to ,sorcery4 ,let
 them restore some order in the chaos   
that reigns in their minds1 before they 
protest against this statement4 ,let    

them first learn the true relation in   
which the ,occult ,sciences stand to    
,occultism1 and the difference between  
the two1 and then feel wrathful if they 
still think themselves right4           
,meanwhile1 let them learn that         
,occultism differs from ,magic and other
 secret ,sciences as the glorious ,sun  
does from a rush-light1 as the immutable
 and immortal ,spirit of ,man--the      
reflection of the absolute1 causeless1  
and unknowable all1--differs from the   
mortal clay--the human body4  ,in our   
highly civilized ,west1 where modern    
languages have been formed1 and words   
coined1 in the wake of ideas and        
thoughts--as happened with every        
tongue--the more the latter became      
materialized in the cold atmosphere of  
,western selfishness and its incessant  
chase after the goods of this world1 the
 less was there any need felt for the   
production of new terms to express that 
which was tacitly regarded as obsolete  
and exploded superstition4 ,such words  

could answer only to ideas which a      
cultured man was scarcely supposed to   
harbor in his mind4 ,magic1 a synonym   
for jugglery2 ,sorcery1 an equivalent   
for crass ignorance2 and ,occultism1 the
 sorry relic of crack-brained1 medieval 
,fire-philosophers1 of the ,jacob       
,boehmes and the ,st4 ,martins1 are     
expressions believed more than amply    
sufficient to cover the whole field of  
thimble-rigging4 ,they are terms of     
contempt1 and used generally only in    
reference to the dross and residues of  
the ,dark ,ages and its preceding aeons 
of paganism4 ,therefore have we no terms
 in the ,english tongue to define and   
shade the difference between such       
abnormal powers1 or the sciences that   
lead to the acquisition of them1 with   
the nicety possible in the ,eastern     
languages--pre-eminently the ,sanskrit4 
,what do the words miracle and          
enchantment 7words identical in meaning 
after all1 as both express the idea of  
producing wonderful things by breaking  

the laws of nature 66 as explained by   
the accepted authorities7 convey to the 
minds of those who hear1 or who         
pronounce them8 ,a ,christian--breaking 
of the laws of nature1                  
notwithstanding--while believing firmly 
in the miracles1 because said to have   
been produced by ,god through ,moses1   
will either scout the enchantments      
performed by ,pharoah's magicians1 or   
attribute them to the devil4 ,it is the 
latter whom our pious enemies connect   
with ,occultism1 while their impious    
foes1 the infidels1 laugh at ,moses1    
,magicians1 and ,occultists1 and would  
blush to give one serious thought to    
such superstitions4 ,this1 because there
 is no term in existence to show the    
difference2 no words to express the     
lights and shadows and draw the line of 
demarcation between the sublime and the 
true1 the absurd and the ridiculous4    
,the latter are the theological         
interpretations which teach the breaking
 of the laws of ,nature by man1 ,god1 or

 devil2 the former--the scientific      
miracles and enchantments of ,moses and 
the ,magicians in accordance with       
natural laws1 both having been learned  
in all the ,wisdom of the ,sanctuaries1 
which were the ,royal ,societies of     
those days--and in true ,,occultism4    
,this last word is certainly misleading1
 translated as it stands from the       
compound word ,gupt-,vidy1 ,secret      
,knowledge4 ,but the knowledge of what8 
,some of the ,sanskrit terms may help   
us4  ,there are four 7out of the many   
other7 names of the various kinds of    
,esoteric ,knowledge or ,sciences given1
 even in the exoteric ,purnas4 ,there is
 7#a7 ,yaja-,vidy1,c knowledge of the   
occult powers awakened in ,nature by the
 performance of certain religious       
ceremonies and rites4 7#b7 ,mah-,vidy1  
the great knowledge1 the magic of the   
,kabalists and of the ,tntrika worship1 
often ,sorcery of the worst description4
 7#c7 ,guhy-,vidy1 knowledge of the     
mystic powers residing in ,sound        

7,ether71 hence in the ,mantras 7chanted
 prayers or incantations7 and depending 
on the rhythm and melody used2 in other 
words a magical performance based on    
,knowledge of the ,forces of ,nature and
 their correlation2 and 7#d7 tma-,vidy1 
a term which is translated simply       
,knowledge of the ,soul1 true ,wisdom by
 the ,orientalists1 but which means far 
more4  ,this last is the only kind of   
,occultism that any ,theosophist who    
admires ,light on the ,path1 and who    
would be wise and unselfish1 ought to   
strive after4 ,all the rest is some     
branch of the ,occult ,sciences1 i4e41  
arts based on the knowledge of the      
ultimate essence of all things in the   
,kingdom of ,nature--such as minerals1  
plants1 and animals--hence of things    
pertaining to the realm of material     
,nature1 however invisible that essence 
may be1 and howsoever much it has       
hitherto eluded the grasp of ,science4  
,alchemy1 ,astrology1 ,occult           
,physiology1 ,chiromancy exist in       

,nature1 and the exact                  
,sciences--perhaps so called because    
they are found in this age of           
paradoxical philosophies the            
reverse--have already discovered not a  
few of the secrets of the above arts4   
,but clairvoyance1 symbolized in ,india 
as the ,eye of ,siva1 called in ,japan1 
,infinite ,vision1 is not ,hypnotism1   
the illegitimate son of ,mesmerism1 and 
is not to be acquired by such arts4 ,all
 the others may be mastered and results 
obtained1 whether good1 bad1 or         
indifferent2 but tma-,vidy sets small   
value on them4 ,it includes them all1   
and may even use them occasionally1 but 
it does so after purifying them of their
 dross1 for beneficent purposes1 and    
taking care to deprive them of every    
element of selfish motive4 ,let us      
explain3 ,any man or woman can set      
himself or herself to study one or all  
of the above specified ,occult ,arts    
without any great previous preparation1 
and even without adopting any too       

restraining mode of life4 ,one could    
even dispense with any lofty standard of
 morality4 ,in the last case1 of course1
 ten to one the student would blossom   
into a very decent kind of sorcerer1 and
 tumble down headlong into black magic4 
,but what can this matter8 ,the ,voodoos
 and the ,dugpas eat1 drink and are     
merry over hecatombs of victims of their
 infernal arts4 ,and so do the amiable  
gentlemen vivisectionists and the       
diploma-ed ,hypnotizers of the          
,faculties of ,medicine2 the only       
difference between the two classes being
 that the ,voodoos and the ,dugpas are  
conscious1 and the ,charcot-,richet crew
 unconscious ,sorcerers4 ,thus1 since   
both have to reap the fruits of their   
labors and achievements in the black    
art1 the ,western practitioners should  
not have the punishment and reputation  
without the profits and enjoyments they 
may get therefrom4 ,for we say it again1
 hypnotism and vivisection as practised 
in such schools1 are ,sorcery pure and  

simple1 minus a knowledge that the      
,voodoos and ,dugpas enjoy1 and which no
 ,charcot-,richet can procure for       
himself in fifty years of hard study and
 experimental observation4 ,let then    
those who will dabble in magic1 whether 
they understand its nature or not1 but  
who find the rules imposed upon students
 too hard1 and who1 therefore1 lay      
tma-,vidy or ,occultism aside--go       
without it4 ,let them become magicians  
by all means1 even though they do become
 ,voodoos and ,dugpas for the next ten  
incarnations4  ,but the interest of our 
readers will probably center on those   
who are invincibly attracted towards the
 ,occult1 yet who neither realize the   
true nature of what they aspire towards1
 nor have they become passion-proof1 far
 less truly unselfish4  ,how about these
 unfortunates1 we shall be asked1 who   
are thus rent in twain by conflicting   
forces8 ,for it has been said too often 
to need repetition1 and the fact itself 
is patent to any observer1 that when    

once the desire for ,occultism has      
really awakened in a man's heart1 there 
remains for him no hope of peace1 no    
place of rest and comfort in all the    
world4 ,he is driven out into the wild  
and desolate spaces of life by an       
ever-gnawing unrest he cannot quell4    
,his heart is too full of passion and   
selfish desire to permit him to pass the
 ,golden ,gate2 he cannot find rest or  
peace in ordinary life4 ,must he then   
inevitably fall into sorcery and black  
magic1 and through many incarnations    
heap up for himself a terrible ,karma8  
,is there no other road for him8        
,indeed there is1 we answer4 ,let him   
aspire to no higher than he feels able  
to accomplish4 ,let him not take a      
burden upon himself too heavy for him to
 carry4 ,without ever becoming a ,mahtm1
 a ,buddha1 or a ,great ,saint1 let him 
study the philosophy and the ,science of
 ,soul1 and he can become one of the    
modest benefactors of humanity1 without 
any superhuman powers4 ,siddhis 7or the 

,arhat powers7 are only for those who   
are able to lead the life1 to comply    
with the terrible sacrifices required   
for such a training1 and to comply with 
them to the very letter4 ,let them know 
at once and remember always1 that true  
,occultism or ,theosophy is the ,great  
,renunciation of ,,self1 unconditionally
 and absolutely1 in thought as in       
action4 ,it is ,,altruism1 and it throws
 him who practises it out of calculation
 of the ranks of the living altogether4 
,not for himself1 but for the world1 he 
lives1 as soon as he has pledged himself
 to the work4 ,much is forgiven during  
the first years of probation4 ,but1 no  
sooner is he accepted than his          
personality must disappear1 and he has  
to become a mere beneficent force in    
,nature4 ,there are two poles for him   
after that1 two paths1 and no midward   
place of rest4 ,he has either to ascend 
laboriously1 step by step1 often through
 numerous incarnations and no           
,devachanic break1 the golden ladder    

leading to ,mahtmship 7the ,arhat or    
,bodhisattva condition71 or--he will let
 himself slide down the ladder at the   
first false step1 and roll down into    
,dugpa-ship4444  ,all this is either    
unknown or left out of sight altogether4
 ,indeed1 one who is able to follow the 
silent evolution of the preliminary     
aspirations of the candidates1 often    
finds strange ideas quietly taking      
possession of their minds4 ,there are   
those whose reasoning powers have been  
so distorted by foreign influences that 
they imagine that animal passions can be
 so sublimated and elevated that their  
fury1 force1 and fire can1 so to speak1 
be turned inwards2 that they can be     
stored and shut up in one's breast1     
until their energy is1 not expanded1 but
 turned toward higher and more holy     
purposes2 namely1 until their collective
 and unexpanded strength enables their  
possessor to enter the true ,sanctuary  
of the ,soul and stand therein in the   
presence of the ,master--the ,higher    

,self6 ,for this purpose they will not  
struggle with their passions nor slay   
them4 ,they will simply1 by a strong    
effort of will put down the fierce      
flames and keep them at bay within their
 natures1 allowing the fire to smolder  
under a thin layer of ashes4 ,they      
submit joyfully to the torture of the   
,spartan boy who allowed the fox to     
devour his entrails rather than part    
with it4 ,oh1 poor1 blind visionaries6  
,as well hope that a band of drunken    
chimney-sweeps1 hot and greasy from     
their work1 may be shut up in a         
,sanctuary hung with pure white linen1  
and that instead of soiling and turning 
it by their presence into a heap of     
dirty shreds1 they will become masters  
in and of the sacred recess1 and finally
 emerge from it as immaculate as that   
recess4 ,why not imagine that a dozen of
 skunks imprisoned in the pure          
atmosphere of a ,dgon-pa 7a monastery7  
can issue out of it impregnated with all
 the perfumes of the incenses used8444  

,strange aberration of the human mind4  
,can it be so8 ,let us argue4  ,the     
,master in the ,sanctuary of our souls  
is the ,higher ,self--the divine spirit 
whose consciousness is based upon and   
derived solely 7at any rate during the  
mortal life of the man in whom it is    
captive7 from the ,mind1 which we have  
agreed to call the ,human ,soul 7the    
,spiritual ,soul being the vehicle of   
the ,spirit74 ,in its turn the former   
7the personal or human soul7 is a       
compound in its highest form1 of        
spiritual aspirations1 volitions and    
divine love2 and in its lower aspect1 of
 animal desires and terrestrial passions
 imparted to it by its associations with
 its vehicle1 the seat of all these4 ,it
 thus stands as a link and a medium     
between the animal nature of man which  
its higher reason seeks to subdue1 and  
his divine spiritual nature to which it 
gravitates1 whenever it has the upper   
hand in its struggle with the inner     
animal4 ,the latter is the instinctual  

animal ,soul and is the hotbed of those 
passions1 which1 as just shown1 are     
lulled instead of being killed1 and     
locked up in their breasts by some      
imprudent enthusiasts4 ,do they still   
hope to turn thereby the muddy stream of
 the animal sewer into the crystalline  
waters of life8 ,and where1 on what     
neutral ground can they be imprisoned so
 as not to affect man8 ,the fierce      
passions of love and lust are still     
alive and they are allowed to still     
remain in the place of their birth--that
 same animal soul2 for both the higher  
and the lower portions of the ,human    
,soul or ,mind reject such inmates1     
though they cannot avoid being tainted  
with them as neighbors4 ,the ,higher    
,self or ,spirit is as unable to        
assimilate such feelings as water to get
 mixed with oil or unclean liquid       
tallow4 ,it is thus the mind alone--the 
sole link and medium between the man of 
earth and the ,higher ,self--that is the
 only sufferer1 and which is in the     

incessant danger of being dragged down  
by those passions that may be reawakened
 at any moment1 and perish in the abyss 
of matter4 ,and how can it ever attune  
itself to the divine harmony of the     
highest ,principle1 when that harmony is
 destroyed by the mere presence1 within 
the ,sanctuary in preparation1 of such  
animal passions8 ,how can harmony       
prevail and conquer1 when the soul is   
stained and distracted with the turmoil 
of passions and the terrestrial desires 
of the bodily senses1 or even of the    
,astral man8  ,for this ,astral--the    
shadowy double 7in the animal as in     
man7--is not the companion of the divine
 ,ego but of the earthly body4 ,it is   
the link between the personal ,self1 the
 lower consciousness of ,manas and the  
,body1 and is the vehicle of transitory1
 not of immortal life4 ,like the shadow 
projected by man1 it follows his        
movements and impulses slavishly and    
mechanically1 and leans therefore to    
matter without ever ascending to        

,spirit4 ,it is only when the power of  
the passions is dead altogether1 and    
when they have been crushed and         
annihilated in the retort of an         
unflinching will2 when not only all the 
lusts and longings of the flesh are     
dead1 but also the recognition of the   
personal ,self is killed out and the    
astral has been reduced in consequence  
to a cipher1 that the ,union with the   
,higher ,self can take place4 ,then when
 the astral reflects only the conquered 
man1 the still living1 but no more the  
longing1 selfish personality1 then the  
brilliant ,augoeides1 the divine ,self1 
can vibrate in conscious harmony with   
both the poles of the human ,entity--the
 man of matter purified1 and the ever   
pure ,spiritual ,soul--and stand in the 
presence of the ,master ,self1 the      
,christos of the mystic ,gnostics1      
blended1 merged into1 and one with ,,it 
for ever4,d  ,how then can it be thought
 possible for a man to enter the strait 
gate of occultism when his daily and    

hourly thoughts are bound up with       
worldly things1 desires of possession   
and power1 with lust1 ambition and      
duties1 which1 however honorable1 are   
still of the earth earthy8 ,even the    
love for wife and family--the purest as 
the most unselfish of human             
affections--is a barrier to real        
occultism4 ,for whether we take as an   
example the holy love of a mother for   
her child1 or that of a husband for his 
wife1 even in these feelings1 when      
analysed to the very bottom1 and        
thoroughly sifted1 there is still       
selfishness in the first1 and an goisme 
deux in the second instance4 ,what      
mother would not sacrifice without a    
moment's hesitation hundreds and        
thousands of lives for that of the child
 of her heart8 and what lover or true   
husband would not break the happiness of
 every other man and woman around him to
 satisfy the desire of one whom he      
loves8 ,this is but natural1 we shall be
 told4 ,quite so2 in the light of the   

code of human affections2 less so1 in   
that of divine universal love4 ,for1    
while the heart is full of thoughts for 
a little group of selves1 near and dear 
to us1 how shall the rest of mankind    
fare in our souls8 ,what percentage of  
love and care will there remain to      
bestow on the great orphan8 ,and how    
shall the still small voice make itself 
heard in a soul entirely occupied with  
its own privileged tenants8 ,what room  
is there left for the needs of ,humanity
 en bloc to impress themselves upon1 or 
even receive a speedy response8 ,and    
yet1 he who would profit by the wisdom  
of the universal mind1 has to reach it  
through the whole of ,humanity without  
distinction of race1 complexion1        
religion or social status4 ,it is       
altruism1 not ego-ism even in its most  
legal and noble conception1 that can    
lead the unit to merge its little ,self 
in the ,universal ,selves4 ,it is to    
these needs and to this work that the   
true disciple of true ,occultism has to 

devote himself1 if he would obtain      
theo-sophy1 divine ,wisdom and          
,knowledge4  ,the aspirant has to choose
 absolutely between the life of the     
world and the life of ,occultism4 ,it is
 useless and vain to endeavor to unite  
the two1 for no one can serve two       
masters and satisfy both4 ,no one can   
serve his body and the higher ,soul1 and
 do his family duty and his universal   
duty1 without depriving either one or   
the other of its rights2 for he will    
either lend his ear to the still small  
voice and fail to hear the cries of his 
little ones1 or1 he will listen but to  
the wants of the latter and remain deaf 
to the voice of ,humanity4 ,it would be 
a ceaseless1 a maddening struggle for   
almost any married man1 who would pursue
 true practical ,occultism1 instead of  
its theoretical philosophy4 ,for he     
would find himself ever hesitating      
between the voice of the impersonal     
divine love of ,humanity1 and that of   
the personal1 terrestrial love4 ,and    

this could only lead him to fail in one 
or the other1 or perhaps in both his    
duties4 ,worse than this2 for1 whoever  
indulges1 after having pledged himself  
to ,,occultism1 in the gratification of 
a terrestrial love or lust1 must feel an
 almost immediate result2 that of being 
irresistibly dragged from the impersonal
 divine state down to the lower plane of
 matter4 ,sensual1 or even mental       
self-gratification1 involves the        
immediate loss of the powers of         
spiritual discernment2 the voice of the 
,,master can no longer be distinguished 
from that of one's passions or even that
 of a ,dugpa2 the right from wrong2     
sound morality from mere casuistry4 ,the
 ,dead ,sea fruit assumes the most      
glorious mystic appearance1 only to turn
 to ashes on the lips1 and to gall in   
the heart1 resulting in3--      ,depth  
ever deepening1 darkness darkening      
still2     ,folly for wisdom1 guilt for 
innocence2     ,anguish for rapture1 and
 for hope despair4  ,and once being     

mistaken and having acted on their      
mistakes1 most men shrink from realizing
 their error1 and thus descend deeper   
and deeper into the mire4 ,and1 although
 it is the intention that decides       
primarily whether white or black magic  
is exercised1 yet the results even of   
involuntary1 unconscious sorcery cannot 
fail to be productive of bad ,karma4    
,enough has been said to show that      
sorcery is any kind of evil influence   
exercised upon other persons1 who       
suffer1 or make other persons suffer1 in
 consequence4 ,karma is a heavy stone   
splashed in the quiet waters of ,life2  
and it must produce ever widening       
circles of ripples1 carried wider and   
wider1 almost ad infinitum4 ,such causes
 produced have to call forth effects1   
and these are evidenced in the just laws
 of ,retribution4  ,much of this may be 
avoided if people will only abstain from
 rushing into practices neither the     
nature nor importance of which they     
understand4 ,no one is expected to carry

 a burden beyond his strength and       
powers4 ,there are natural-born         
magicians2 ,mystics and ,occultists by  
birth1 and by right of direct           
inheritance from a series of            
incarnations and aeons of suffering and 
failures4 ,these are passion-proof1 so  
to say4 ,no fires of earthly origin can 
fan into a flame any of their senses or 
desires2 no human voice can find        
response in their souls1 except the     
great cry of ,humanity4 ,these only may 
be certain of success4 ,but they can be 
met only far and wide1 and they pass    
through the narrow gates of ,occultism  
because they carry no personal luggage  
of human transitory sentiments along    
with them4 ,they have got rid of the    
feeling of the lower personality1       
paralysed thereby the astral animal1 and
 the golden1 but narrow gate is thrown  
open before them4 ,not so with those who
 have to carry yet for several          
incarnations the burden of sins         
committed in previous lives1 and even in

 their present existence4 ,for such1    
unless they proceed with great caution1 
the golden gate of ,wisdom may get      
transformed into the wide gate and the  
broad way that leadeth unto destruction1
 and therefore many be they that enter  
in thereby4 ,this is the ,gate of the   
,occult arts1 practised for selfish     
motives and in the absence of the       
restraining and beneficent influence of 
tma-,vidy4 ,we are in the ,kali ,yuga   
and its fatal influence is a            
thousand-fold more powerful in the ,west
 than it is in the ,east2 hence the easy
 preys made by the ,powers of the ,age  
of ,darkness in this cyclic struggle1   
and the many delusions under which the  
world is now laboring4 ,one of these is 
the relative facility with which men    
fancy they can get at the ,gate and     
cross the threshold of ,occultism       
without any great sacrifice4 ,it is the 
dream of most ,theosophists1 one        
inspired by desire for ,power and       
personal selfishness1 and it is not such

 feelings that can ever lead them to the
 coveted goal4 ,for1 as well said by one
 believed to have sacrificed himself for
 ,humanity--,strait is the gate and     
narrow is the way which leadeth unto    
life eternal1 and therefore few there be
 that find it4 7,matt4 vii1 #ad7 ,so    
strait indeed1 that at the bare mention 
of some of the preliminary difficulties 
the affrighted ,western candidates turn 
back and retreat with a shudder4444     
,let them stop here and attempt no more 
in their great weakness4 ,for if1 while 
turning their backs on the narrow gate1 
they are dragged by their desire for the
 ,occult one step in the direction of   
the broad and more inviting gates of    
that golden mystery which glitters in   
the light of illusion1 woe to them6 ,it 
can lead only to ,dugpa-ship1 and they  
will be sure to find themselves very    
soon landed on that ,via ,fatale of the 
,inferno1 over whose portal ,dante read 
the words3--      ,per me si va nella   
citta dolente     ,per me si va nell'   

eterno dolore     ,per me si va tra la  
perduta gente4444     ,,the ,,blessings 
,,of ,,publicity   ,a well-known public 
lecturer1 a distinguished ,egyptologist1
 said1 in one of his lectures against   
the teachings of ,theosophy1 a few      
suggestive words1 which are now quoted  
and must be answered3--       ,it is a  
delusion to suppose there is anything in
 the experience or      wisdom of the   
past1 the ascertained results of which  
can only be      communicated from      
beneath the cloak and mask of           
mystery4444      ,explanation is the    
,soul of ,science4 ,they will tell you  
we cannot      have their knowledge     
without living their life4444 ,public   
experimental research1 the printing     
press1 and a free-thought      platform1
 have abolished the need of mystery4 ,it
 is no longer      necessary for science
 to take the veil1 as she was forced to 
do for      security in times past4444  
,this is a very mistaken view in one    
aspect4 ,secrets of the purer and       

profounder life not only may but must be
 made universally known4 ,but there are 
secrets that kill in the arcana of      
,occultism1 and unless a man lives the  
life he cannot be entrusted with them4  
,the late ,professor ,faraday had very  
serious doubts whether it was quite wise
 and reasonable to give out to the      
public at large certain discoveries of  
modern science4 ,chemistry had led to   
the invention of too terrible means of  
destruction in our century to allow it  
to fall into the hands of the profane4  
,what man of sense--in the face of such 
fiendish applications of dynamite and   
other explosive substances as are made  
by those incarnations of the ,destroying
 ,power1 who glory in calling themselves
 ,anarchists and ,socialists--would not 
agree with us in saying3--,far better   
for mankind that it should never have   
blasted a rock by modern perfected      
means1 than that it should have         
shattered the limbs of one per cent even
 of those who have been thus destroyed  

by the pitiless hand of ,russian        
,nihilists1 ,irish ,fenians1 and        
,anarchists4 ,that such discoveries1 and
 chiefly their murderous application1   
ought to have been withheld from public 
knowledge may be shown on the authority 
of statistics and commissions appointed 
to investigate and record the result of 
the evil done4 ,the following           
information gathered from public papers 
will give an insight into what may be in
 store for wretched mankind4  ,england  
alone--the center of civilization--has  
#ba1bfh firms fabricating and selling   
explosive substances4,e ,but the centers
 of the dynamite trade1 of infernal     
machines1 and other such results of     
modern civilization1 are chiefly at     
,philadelphia and ,new ,york4 ,it is in 
the former city of ,brotherly ,love that
 the now most famous manufacturer of    
explosives flourishes4 ,it is one of the
 well-known respectable citizens--the   
inventor and manufacturer of the most   
murderous dynamite toys--who1 called    

before the ,senate of the ,united       
,states anxious to adopt means for the  
repression of a too free trade in such  
implements1 found an argument that ought
 to become immortalized for its cynical 
sophistry--,my machines1 that expert is 
reported to have said--are quite        
harmless to look at2 as they may be     
manufactured in the shape of oranges1   
hats1 boats1 and anything one likes4444 
,criminal is he who murders people by   
means of such machines1 not he who      
manufactures them4 ,the firm refuses to 
admit that were there no supply there   
would be no incentive for demand on the 
market2 but insists that every demand   
should be satisfied by a supply ready at
 hand4  ,that supply is the fruit of    
civilization and of the publicity given 
to the discovery of every murderous     
property in matter4 ,what is it8 ,as    
found in the ,report of the ,commission 
appointed to investigate the variety and
 character of the so-called infernal    
machines1 so far the following          

implements of instantaneous human       
destruction are already on hand4 ,the   
most fashionable of all among the many  
varieties fabricated by ,mr4 ,holgate   
are the ,ticker1 the ,eight ,day        
,machine1 the ,little ,exterminator1 and
 the ,bottle ,machines4 ,the ,ticker is 
in appearance like a piece of lead1 a   
foot long and four inches thick4 ,it    
contains an iron or steel tube full of a
 kind of gunpowder invented by ,holgate 
himself4 ,that gunpowder1 in appearance 
like any other common stuff of that     
name1 has1 however1 an explosive power  
two hundred times stronger than common  
gunpowder2 the ,ticker containing thus a
 powder which equals in force two       
hundred pounds of the common gunpowder4 
,at one end of the machine is fastened  
an invisible clock-work meant to        
regulate the time of the explosion1     
which time may be fixed from one minute 
to thirty-six hours4 ,the spark is      
produced by means of a steel needle     
which gives a spark at the touch-hole1  

and communicates thereby the fire to the
 whole machine4  ,the ,eight ,day       
,machine is considered the most         
powerful1 but at the same time the most 
complicated1 of all those invented4 ,one
 must be familiar with handling it      
before a full success can be secured4   
,it is owing to this difficulty that the
 terrible fate intended for ,london     
,bridge and its neighborhood was turned 
aside by the instantaneous killing      
instead of the two ,fenian criminals4   
,the size and appearance of that machine
 changes1 ,proteus-like1 according to   
the necessity of smuggling it in1 in one
 or another way1 unperceived by the     
victims4 ,it may be concealed in bread1 
in a basket of oranges1 in a liquid1 and
 so on4 ,the ,commission of ,experts is 
said to have declared that its explosive
 power is such as to reduce to atoms    
instantly the largest edifice in the    
world4  ,the ,little ,exterminator is an
 innocent-looking plain utensil having  
the shape of a modest jug4 ,it contains 

neither dynamite nor powder1 but        
secretes1 nevertheless1 a deadly gas1   
and has a hardly perceptible clock-work 
attached to its edge1 the needle of     
which points to the time when that gas  
will effect its escape4 ,in a shut-up   
room this new vril of lethal kind will  
smother to death1 nearly                
instantaneously1 every living being     
within a distance of a hundred feet     
radius of the murderous jug4 ,with these
 three latest novelties in the high     
season of ,christian civilization1 the  
catalog of the dynamiters is closed2 all
 the rest belongs to the old fashion of 
the past years4 ,it consists of hats1   
porte cigars1 bottles of ordinary kind1 
and even ladies' smelling bottles1      
filled with dynamite1 nitro-glycerin1   
etc41 etc4--weapons1 some of which1     
following unconsciously ,karmic law1    
killed many of the dynamiters in the    
last ,chicago revolution4 ,add to this  
the forthcoming long-promised ,keeley's 
vibratory force1 capable of reducing in 

a few seconds a dead bullock to a heap  
of ashes1 and then ask yourself if the  
,inferno of ,dante as a locality can    
ever rival earth in the production of   
more hellish engines of destruction8    
,thus1 if purely material implements are
 capable of blowing up1 from a few      
corners1 the greatest cities of the     
globe1 provided the murderous weapons   
are guided by expert hands--what        
terrible dangers might not arise from   
magical occult secrets being revealed1  
and allowed to fall into the possession 
of ill-meaning persons6 ,a thousand     
times more dangerous and lethal are     
these1 because neither the criminal     
hand1 nor the immaterial invisible      
weapon used1 can ever be detected4  ,the
 congenital black magicians--those who1 
to an innate propensity towards evil1   
unite highly-developed mediumistic      
natures--are but too numerous in our    
age4 ,it is nigh time then that the     
psychologists and believers1 at least1  
should cease advocating the beauties of 

publicity and claiming knowledge of the 
secrets of nature for all4 ,it is not in
 our age of suggestion and explosives   
that ,occultism can open wide the doors 
of its laboratories except to those who 
do live the life4                       
,h4,p4,b4   ,,footnotes3  ,a ,so holy is
 the connexion thus formed deemed in the
 ,greek ,church1 that a marriage between
 god-parents of the same child is       
regarded as the worst kind of incest1 is
 considered illegal1 and is dissolved by
 law2 and this absolute prohibition     
extends even to the children of one of  
the sponsors as regards those of the    
other4  ,b ,be it remembered that all   
,chelas1 even lay disciples1 are called 
,upsaka until after their first         
initiation1 when they become            
,lanoo-,upsaka4 ,to that day1 even those
 who belong to ,lamaseries and are set  
apart1 are considered as laymen4  ,c    
,the ,yaja1 say the ,brhmans1 exists    
from eternity1 for it proceeded forth   
from the ,supreme ,one 444 in whom it   

lay dormant from 'no beginning4' ,it is 
the key to the ,traividya1 the thrice   
sacred science contained in the ,rig    
verses1 which teaches the ,yajus or     
sacrificial mysteries4 ',the ,yaja'     
exists as an invisible thing at all     
times2 it is like the latent power of   
electricity in an electrifying machine1 
requiring only the operation of a       
suitable apparatus in order to be       
elicited4 ,it is supposed to extend from
 the ,ahavaniya or sacrificial fire to  
the heavens1 forming a bridge or ladder 
by means of which the sacrificer can    
communicate with the world of gods and  
spirits1 and even ascend when alive to  
their abodes4--,martin ,haug's ,aitareya
 ,brhmana4  ,this ,yaja is again one of 
the forms of the ksa2 and the mystic    
word calling it into existence and      
pronounced mentally by the initiated    
,priest is the ,lost ,word receiving    
impulse through ,,will ,,power4--,isis  
,unveiled1 ,vol4 ,i4 ,introduction4 ,see
 ,aitareya ,brhmana1 ,haug4  ,d ,those  

who would feel inclined to see three    
,egos in one man will show themselves   
unable to perceive the metaphysical     
meaning4 ,man is a trinity composed of  
,body1 ,soul and ,spirit2 but man is    
nevertheless one and is surely not his  
body4 ,it is the latter which is the    
property1 the transitory clothing of the
 man4 ,the three ,egos are ,,man in his 
three aspects on the astral1            
intellectual or psychic1 and the        
,spiritual planes1 or states4  ,e       
,nitro-glycerin has found its way even  
into medical compounds4 ,physicians and 
druggists are vying with the ,anarchists
 in their endeavors to destroy the      
surplus of mankind4 ,the famous         
chocolate tablets against dyspepsia are 
said to contain nitro-glycerin6 ,they   
may save1 but they can kill still more  
easily4     ,there is ,no ,religion     
,higher than ,truth  ,the ,universal    
,brotherhood and ,theosophical ,society 
,established for the benefit of the     
people of the earth  all creatures      

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,,objects  ,this ,,brotherhood is part  
of a great and universal movement which 
has been active in all ages4  ,this     
,organization declares that ,brotherhood
 is a fact in ,nature4 ,its principal   
purpose is to teach ,brotherhood1       
demonstrate that it is a fact in nature 
and make it a living power in the life  
of humanity4  ,its subsidiary purpose is
 to study ancient and modern religions1 
science1 philosophy and art2 to         
investigate the laws of nature and the  
divine powers in man4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,the     
,universal ,brotherhood and             
,theosophical ,society1 founded by      
,h4,p4 ,blavatsky at ,new ,york1 #ahge1 
continued after her death under the     
leadership of the co-founder1 ,william  
,q4 ,judge1 and now under the leadership
 of their successor1 ,katherine         
,tingley1 has its ,headquarters at the  
,international ,theosophical ,center1   
,point ,loma1 ,california4  ,this       

,organization is not in any way         
connected with nor does it endorse any  
other societies using the name of       
,theosophy4  ,the ,universal            
,brotherhood and ,theosophical ,society 
welcomes to membership all who truly    
love their fellow men and desire the    
eradication of the evils caused by the  
barriers of race1 creed1 caste or color1
 which have so long impeded human       
progress2 to all sincere lovers of truth
 and to all who aspire to higher and    
better things than the mere pleasures   
and interests of a worldly life1 and are
 prepared to do all in their power to   
make ,brotherhood a living energy in the
 life of humanity1 its various          
departments offer unlimited             
opportunities4  ,the whole work of the  
,organization is under the direction of 
the ,leader and ,official ,head1        
,katherine ,tingley1 as outlined in the 
,constitution4         99       99      
99       99       99  ,do not fail to   
profit by the following3       ,it is a 

regrettable fact that many people use   
the name of ,theosophy      and of our  
,organization for self-interest1 as also
 that of ,h4,p4      ,blavatsky1 the    
,foundress1 to attract attention to     
themselves and to      gain public      
support4 ,this they do in private and   
public speech and      in publications1 
also by lecturing throughout the        
country4 ,without      being in any way 
connected with the ,universal           
,brotherhood and      ,theosophical     
,society1 in many cases they permit it  
to be      inferred that they are1 thus 
misleading the public1 and many honest  
inquirers are hence led away from the   
truths of ,theosophy as      presented  
by ,h4,p4 ,blavatsky and her successors1
 ,william ,q4 ,judge      and ,katherine
 ,tingley1 and practically exemplified  
in their      ,theosophical work for the
 uplifting of humanity4     ,the        
,international ,brotherhood ,league     
,founded in #ahig by ,katherine ,tingley
   ,,its ,,objects ,,are3  #a4 ,to help 

men and women to realize the nobility of
 their calling and their true position  
in life4  #b4 ,to educate children of   
all nations on the broadest lines of    
,universal ,brotherhood1 and to prepare 
destitute and homeless children to      
become workers for humanity4  #c4 ,to   
ameliorate the condition of unfortunate 
women1 and assist them to a higher life4
  #d4 ,to assist those who are1 or have 
been1 in prisons1 to establish          
themselves in honorable positions in    
life4  #e4 ,to abolish capital          
punishment4  #f4 ,to bring about a      
better understanding between so-called  
savage and civilized races1 by promoting
 a closer and more sympathetic          
relationship between them4  #g4 ,to     
relieve human suffering resulting from  
flood1 famine1 war1 and other           
calamities2 and1 generally1 to extend   
aid1 help and comfort to suffering      
humanity throughout the world4  ,for    
further information regarding the above 
,notices1 address  ,,katherine ,,tingley

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,headquarters1 ,point ,loma1 ,california
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