" There dwelleth in the heart of every creature, 0 Arjuna, the Master- (.,hajar u-who ::y his n~agicpower causeth all things and creatures to revolve mounted upon the uliiversal n heel of time. Take sanctuary with him alone, O son of Rharata, with all thy soul ; by his grace thou shalt obtain supreme happirless, the eternal peace."--h'/~a~yavad-Gzta.

No. 8.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. I.-CHILDHOOD.

BY ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D.

4E heart of man only rerne~~lbersa similar plane with the person of the what moves and impassions it, ' ' story. says the hero of our story. The Lamartine has admirably fulfilled popular taste never looks to details in these conditions. He was horn when history, but only to the men 1%-hohave the storm was rising that should change associated their own history with these the whole face of things, shake all ex- facts. History, as a book, is a dead isting institutions and the very ground thing, but when personified in a living on which they stood, break up the old person it becomes itself alive through arrangements of society, overturn the and through with his vital forces. Sym- throne of France and involve all Europe pathy is the key to memory. The sketch in commotion. of a career is interesting from its epic His family was of a rank sufficiently and dramatic features, from what the high to distingtlish its members from actor has experienced, from the toil, the neighboring community, and its vicissitude and anguish that he has en- representatives had attained honorable courlterecl The reader contenlplates all position in the public service. His these as though actually enduring them, grandfather won the cross of St. Louis feeling that he likewise under sinlilar at the battle of Fontenoy, and was made conditions might do the same things. a captain of cavalry. He afterward mar- We may be preached to till we acquire ried a wealthy heiress, and became the an in~pervious insensibility ; we may father of six children. The mother was attend to lessons till we are ready to thoroughly loyal to the ancient customs drop them in utter disgust, but when we and the careers of the sons and daughters have a living person for a model who is were shaped accordingly. The first-born of like passions with ourselves, we are son was the inheritor of the family never weary. property, and was expected to marry It is for this reason that the actor on and maintain the establishment. The the stage charms us more than the younger sons and the portionless daugh- preacher at his desk, that the novel is ters were required to live single. One read in preference to history, and the daughter became Canoness at Salles and biography delights us beyond other lit- took the vows, and the other two were erature. We seem to ourselves to be on placed in convents as inmates. Con- 412 UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD. vents were the asylums of that period leans. This nobleman, the first prince of for girls of rank for whom there was no the blood, was always an innovator. 111 other sufficient provision. The second his Palais Royal, the reforniers of gov- son, in spite of his profound repugnance ernment, the philosophers of the new to the profession, was designed by his age, and men of science, were frequent parents for a priest. guests. Among those were Franklin The third son was set apart to the from -4merica, Edward Gibbon from army. Perhaps he, too, might obtain England, Grimnl and others from Ger- the cross of St. Louis, become a captain of many, Voltaire, D'Alembel-t, Buffon, cavalry and be dismissed with a pension. Raynal, Sieyes, Necker and other think- He could go back then to his brother's ers, artists and scientists. Ptladanle de house and vegetate. He would take Genlis was the governess of his children. charge of the garden, dress his hair, play The wife of 31. des Koys was their under- with the children, make one at a game governess, and the generous Duchess of chess or backgammon with the neigh- permitted her children to share the les- bors, living as a domestic slave, con- sons and pastimes of the young princes tenting liiniself with existing, loved per- and princesses. One of these was Louis haps, but overlooked by everybody, and Philippe, afterward King of the French. so passing his life unnoticed, without The young girl, Alix des Roys was property, wife or children, till infirmity one of these children. She listened and disease should banish him from the eagerly to the discourses of the illus- drawing-room to the solitary chamber trious visitors, and though always a sin- where hung on the wall the sword and cere Catholic, she became a devoted ad- helmet long laid aside. Then a day mirer of the writings of Jean Jaques would come when it would be announced Rousseau. in the mansion : " The Chevalier is At the age of sixteen she was ap- dead. " pointed by the Duke to the Chapter of Such was the career marked out for Salles, where the sister of 1,amartine's the junior son of the family. He ac- father was Canoness. This situation cepted it regretfully, but without a niur- has been described as an elegant and mur, His mother was a tenacious ad- agreeable transition between the Church herent to tlie social regulations and these and the world. ' ' The members were per- in the old France were like the regime of niitted to spend part of the tinie with caste in India, and apparently as irrevo- their families, and thotlgh men were cable as the ancient lau-s of the Medes generally excluded, canonesses received and Persians. A new contingency had visits from their brothers. In this way arisen. The young man had formed an the young captain had met Alix des attachment and the eldest brother had Roys. The sister encouraged their at- determined not to marry. This was tachment, but it required all their con- made a plea in his behalf, but it was of stancy to sustain the long years of pa- no avail. The suggestion that tlie cadet rental opposition. of the family should nlarry was mon- Opportunely for their wishes, French strous. It would extend the fanlily link Society was undergoing a radical trans- into obscure branches which would be a formation. The arbitrary caste-regula- crime against the blood. The niother tions gradually gave way, and the ob- was unyielding, and the young man was stacles to their marriage were finally hurried away to his regiment and antici- snrmounted. pated destiny. The husband was no longer young. M. des Roys was intendant-general He was thirty-eight, and still held his of the exchequer of the Duke of Or- command. His regiment of cavalry was as his faniily ; he knew the names of all The wife and infant 1,amartitle were the officers and nienibers, and was adored left at the family niansion under the by them all. Every >-ear lie devoted a surveillance of insolent soldiers. Her season to hunting. He was like an oak condition niay easily be inmgined. '' It casting- off his age and renewing his is no wonder, " says Lamartine, (( that strenqth, till past eighty years, preserv- those whose birth dates fro111 those woful ing his I~odysound and his teeth entire daj-s carry a shade of sadness and an aricl perfect to the last. imprint of n~elancholyin their disposi- -4lphonsc Marie Louis de Pret de La- tion. ' ' niartine was born at Rfiicon in Burgundy She emploj-ecl numerous expedients, on the 2 1st day of October, 1790. The remarkable for ingenuity and discretion. Revolution was then in progress. IIis The place \%-hereher husband was con- father was still in the arniy, and was fined was across the street in full view afterward placed with the Royal Guard. of the mansion. She was not long in He barely escaped the massacre of the obtaining a sight of him. She would tenth of August, 1792, and in~nlediately hold up the infant Alphonse to his view made his way with his wife froni Paris and then bestow her caresses on the to 31Acon for safety. child as representing tl:e father. She The other menibers of the faniily were wrote a message in letters of a size large partisans of the Constitution of 1791. enough for him to read, telling him of The Abbe Lamartine was n personal her plans. She also learllccl to shoot friend of LaFaj-ette till death separated with a bow and sent arrows into liis them ; and tlie grandfather liad entes- \I-indow. To this a thread as attached tained Rfirabeau. It should be borne in by nieans of which she supplied him with mind that the great movement in France messages, paper and ink. I11 this way was not in its inception any uprising- of they carried on a correspondence. She the multitude. " It was not the Com- furnished him with a file, which enabled monalty that made tlie Revolution, " liim to niake a passage out of his prison

Lamartine avers ; " it was the nobility, and spend hours in her company. the clergy and the thinking inen of the She, however, strenuously opposecl his nation. Superstitions often have their wisli to escape. It would have con- birth with the comnion people ; but phi- signed the jailer to certain death, and all losophies are born with those only who their opportunities had been due to liis constitute the liead of Society. Kow, the leriitj-. The Laniartine estates would be French Revolution was a philosophy. " confiscated and the other meliibers of the The populace, however, came upper- fanlily would perish on the scaffold. most, and presently those who liacl first She took the matter in hand in 1:er promoted the movement for the renol a- own way. Procuring a pass froni the tion of the social and political system, Kevolutionarj- Authorities at 31 Acon, she becanie the ol~jects of its rage. The repaired to Dijon, to lay the case before father of Lamartine was imprisoned at Citizen Javogues,* the Representative of NBcon, where, by the kindness of the the Central Powers. She took the little jailer, he was afterward placed in a room Alphonse with her. The oficial received of the building that had been an Ursu- her courteous1~-,made her sit down, and line Convent. The old grandfather now set the child on his knees. She made a over eighty years old, the grandniother gesture of alarm, fearing that the infant also aged and infirm, the two uncles and would fall. three aunts were arrested as suspected, "Do not he afraid," Jarogues ex- and conveyed in a cart to Autun and The Republicans of the Re\ olution discarded a1 1 titles of sank, and adopted for themsel~esthat of Clt- there placed in confinement. oyt71 at~dCitoyenne--Citizen and Citi~eness. 414 UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD. claimed; "the Republicans also have The house was plain, the furniture children. ' ' barely what was necessary, and every- Little Alphonse quickly gained confi- thing was in humble style. Here Lamar- dence, and began to play with the offi- tine spent twelve happy years. His cial's tri-colored scarf. This greatly parents were his first teachers. He was pleased him, and he added : not set to tasks, but was ingeniously led

" Your child is too good for an aristo- to receive instrnction as a favor. " I san- crat's son. I'ou must bring him up for then1 reading, " he says, " and I desired the Fatherland, and make him a citizen. " to read. I saw them u-riting, and I He made her such encouraging assur- asked them to help me inake my letters. ances as were in his power, and intim~ted It \\-as all done as play, at spare mo- that there was hope that her husband ments, n-ith smiles, badinage, and ca- would be set at liherty. How far he resses. I thus acquired 111~-taste. I set kept faith in this matter is only to he myself at ~vorkwith short and amusing guessed. Any official notice of the lessons. It is true that I niade slow prisoner would have been the signal for progress in this way, but it was without condelnnation and death. But he was remembering how I was learning, and

'' forgotten. " without a severe look to make me apply Eighteen long nlonths passed ill this myself. I advanced without being con- way. The Ninth of Thermidor canle, and scious of going forward. My thought, Robespierre himself perished. The Ter- always in conimunication with that of ror ended, and the prisons were opened. my mother, was developed, so to speak,

The mother of young Lamartine hurried in her bosom. " to Autun with the joyful news. The aged It was as he describes, like being again couple returned to their own home, where gestated in a new term of existence. In shortly after, they died peacefully. this way his early years went on till 11e

The nenTlaws had abolished primogen- was taken away to lire the " :lie P7~frirfe iture and released from the vows of pov- o2c tozc f az 1120ius glacin Z dcs colleq cs ' '- erty. The family estates were to be divided the pntrid or at least the freezing life of equally among the six children. Bt~t colleges. the father of Alphonse refused to accept Nadanie Alix de Lanlartine was 11ot his share. A little estate had been given anxious that her son sllould be preco- him at 31i11~-on his ~narriage, v;hich cious. I-Iis attainments were not cnm- yielded an income of about five hundred pared with those of others of like axe. dollars a year. ,4 xvord wo111d have She aimed to make his childhood happy. made him richer, but he adhered stub- develop an affectionate temper and re- bornly to the rule of the former order of ligious conviction. Herself instructed at things, and acted accordingly. St. Cloud, in company with the young Despite an increasing family and nar- princesses of the Ducal House of Or- row financial circumstances, he lived leans which stood at the rery summit of contented1y. It was alxvays necessary the social order in France, she bore in to nlaintain sinlplicity and carefulness mind that her own family was in a more in expenditure. His wife, though ac- lowly condition. In her judgment it uTas customed to elegance in the Orleans of little account whether a person was a household, conformed cheerfully to the prince or a comnlon laborer, but whether new conditions. One day as she pointed he was what he ought to be. out their little holdings to her son, she She endeavored to regulate his passion said : '' They are very small, but if we for reading. He had such books as the know how to adapt our desires to our Holy Bible Abridged and Expurgated, 1,a conditions, they are large enough. " Fontaine's Fables, Tasso's Jerusalenz De- lizlered, the works of Fenelon, St. Pierre, A countrynian at PIlilly presented him nladanie de Genlis. with a lamb. He was in lore with it at

" My education \\-as a philosophic edu- once, fed it and took every care neces- cation at second hand," he reniarlts ; sary. It grew up finely and would fol- " it was a ~)hilosophiceducation cor- low him everj-wtiere like a clog. One rected and tenlpered ?,j- mot1:erhood." day the cook remarked to his mother . . . *'In a word the unconscious in- that the lamb was fat and ought to be struction which I received n-as never in given to the butcher. Young Lamartine the form of a lesson. It was the action could :lot conceive what a butcher was, of living, thinking and feeling, which I and \\-hen he was told, he was CO~will- perfornled under her eyes, like her, and ing to believe that anybody would be so by her. " In short it was an education cruel. X few days later his mother took flowing naturally after the manner of lliiil to a slaughter-house. IYhat he saw Pythagoras, as clescribed by Rousseau. there filled hi111 with pity and horror. It had as a ground\\-orl; the greatest sim- could not look upoil a butcher as plicity in clothing, ancl a rigorous frn- much different from the executioner at gality in diet. She taught kindness to the scaffold. animals. and he \\-as a1wa-t-s gentle to Fro111 that time he refused to eat flesh, them, and his caresses werc eagerly until in later years he was obliged to do sougllt by them. it by the usages cf society. He ;idliered The 1;illing of aninials for food was to a bloodless diet. &'My health was not held hy her in aversion. She considered less firni nor was niy growth less rapid, " it one of the faults cf our liuman condi- he declares ; ' and perhaps I owe to this tion, a curse on lllaxl either fro111 the Fall reginllen that delicacy of touch, that es- or his own obdurate perverseness. 'I She quisite sensibility to inipi-essions, and believed and I believe with her, " says that serene gentleness of te~nperand dis- Lamartine, "that these habitudes of position wlliclz I have prtservecl to the hard-heartedness in regard to the gentle present time. " animals, our companions, our helpers, His nlothcr took the grcr,te-t pains to our brothers in labor and affection here irlstil into his 1ili:nd the I-eligious senti- below-that these slaughters, these appe- ment. '$ Her system was not an art ; it tites for blood, the sight of quivering was a love. " She believed with humil- flesh-operate to brutalize and harden ity, she hoped confidently. Like an the natural inipulscs of the heart, She obedient Catholic, she read little, and believed arid I believe with her, that this believed without attenipt at reasoning-, foocl, though apparently more nutritious In lier speech, action and example, she and strengthening, contains in itself taught piety and benevolence to her stimulating and putrid qualities which children. She inculcated benevolecce inflanle the blood and shorten the days to the poor, especially to those 'i~liowere of hunian beings. " suffering fro111 disease. She herself She referred to the inhabitants of India, studie2 nledicine and administereci reme- so numerous, gentle and religious; to dies with her o\.vtl hands. Her children the shepherd population so vigorous and were eniployed to collect medicinal herbs healthy, and to the laboring folk who anc? prepare thetn for use. Her name worked hard and lived long and blanie- was a llousehold word for leagues lesslj-, and yet did not taste flesh ten tinies around, and they were known as " the in their lives. She kept her son from eat- children of the Lady. " They were her ing it till he left home for college. She almoners. did not argue the matter, but relied upon Young Lamartine was by no means instinct as better than reasoning. innocent of pranks. He went out of autumnal daj-s to the nloutitain in com- Lamartine ; I' and nobody knew hj- pany with the boys that took charge of heart as well as I did, the simple folk- the flocks. While the sheep and goats songs which were sung in the open were feeding, the lads would go to a fields, or under the window, or at the gorge out of sight of the houses, and door of the stable* where the engaged there build a fire and eat their dinner. maiden lay. ' ' Sometinies there were chestnuts that This state of things created much dis- had been left on the trees. These they satisfaction at home. The youth was would bring to tlie ground with stones sadly behind others of his age in niental skilfully aimed, and then roast then1 to attainments. The older uncle ruled the add to tlie repast. Perhaps one of the family with an iniperious will. He cared number ~vouldfind some potatoes in a little for hook-learning, but lie feared neighboring field. These were promptly that the niotlierly tentlerness was sap- placed in tlie hot cinders, and when ping the virility of his nephew's cliarac- thorough1y cooked, were eaten wliile ter, and insisted that he must be placed still smo!iing. The seasoning consisted where he \vould receive training in com- in the elation of spirits at having found pany with young men. The mother them, and in the charm of the stealing. pleaded the dangers which beset stu- When young Alphonse had attained dents in public institutions of learning. the age of ten, it was decided that he On this account she had sought to pro- must learn itiore than his parents were long the period of childhood. The father, teaching. In Bussii.res, the nest town, who concealed an exquisite sensibility there mas a little school kept by the under a cold, external demeanor, 13-as parish priest and his assistant. They also reluctant to send his son from were men of the former period. The home. xevertheless, he took sides with priest was old and left i~iostof tlie work the two uncles. It was a stormy season of teaching to his assistant, the Abbe in that household. Dumont. Tlie niother of the latter was Tlie mother finally yielded. It was their hot~:;el;eeper. Dumont liad be- not, however, withont mucll procrasti- longed t9 the great world, and liad a nating, and many tears, that this n.as ac- secret sorrow of his o\vn. He had the complislied. A long search was iilade tastes of a gentleman, the ways of a sol- for a school where religious principles dier, and the manners of the Court. He were inculcated as well as learning. had been familiar with then1 all. To his Finally one was found at 1,yons I\-hicli, mother lie was gentle ; to his principal, it 11-as believed, met these requirements, respectf~~l; to his pupils, supercilious. and thither the mother acconipanied He was passionately addicted to hunting. him. La~nartine, who afterward knew him Young Larnartine himself was from more intimately, thought that he the first dissatisfied with all that he saw. grudged the time which he bestowed on It may have been a natural result from the pupils. the abrupt breaking from home-life, but

There was little discipline and little it seexiis also to have been intuitive. I' I was learned. Lamartine had been sent entered there, " he says, " as one con- there to study Latin, but acquired only demned to death enters his last prison- two or three declensions. The pupils cell. The counterfeit smile, the hypo- wasted much of their time. They skated critic caresses of the teachers of that in winter, swam in the summer, attended school, who for the sake of money, at- social entertainments all around, and *Americans are t~otalnraysaware that in Continental sung serenades. I spoke the country Europe the stable for ariimals is part of the abode dialect like my native language, " says among the poorer inhabitants. ALPHOXSE DE LAMARTINE. 417 tenipted to inlitate the affection of a street, he contrived to get outside the father did not deceive me. I compre- place. He hurried to the woods upon hended that all that show of affection the banks of the river Saone, and there was venal and mercenary. My heart sat down to mature his plans. He knew was brolcen for the first time in my life, that his father would receive him un- and \vllen the iron grating was shut be- kindly. He decided to make his way tween nie and my mother, I felt that the back to Milly, and ask an asylum of a hone?-moon of my former years was gone countryman who kne'iv and loved him, -ne\-er to rettlrn." or else hide in the kennel of the watch- He found it worse than he had feared. dog at home. He had lain many hours He was sensitive to the slightest harsh- with the animal and was on the best of ness, or coolness of manner, and he had terms with him. He xvould then corn- never known fear except that of giving niunicate with his mother who would pain to others. He had been rudely placate his father. transferred into a collection of some two He then set out with three francs in liundrecl children, all of them strangers his pocket. He reached a little village and very niany of them untruthf~~land six leagues from Lyons, and stopped for vicious. His teachers xTere repulsive in dinner. Here he was overtaken by the manners, ill-tempered and selfish. Their principal of the school acconipanied by a more pleasant utterances sounded insipid policeman. They seized him, tied his to him, and did not I:ic!e their lack of feel- hands, and in this plight exhibited him ing. to the villagers. He was taken back and He regarded then1 as his jailers. He placed in a kind of dungeon. The prin- was repelled and disgusted by his fellow- cipal alone visited him there, endeavor- pupils. He spent his hours of recreation ing to niake hinl repent of his offense. alone and moping. Everything added to This continued for tn~ornonths. Young his clepression of spirit, and thoughts Lamartine as like many persons ap- crowded upon him to end his sufferings parently yielding and timid, abounding by suicide. He meditated day and night with an unsuspected reserve of firmness. upon rnear~sto lay down a life that was He was finally sent home. Everybody only miserable. there reproached him but his nlother. Months passed in this way. IIe fin- She had her way this time, and he was ally cleterniined to escape. He was long not sent back to Lyons. in devising plans. Pretending one day Thus ended the first period of his that he had thrown his ball into the child-hood. THE VOICES OF A STILL NIGHT.

BY MARY KONOPNITSKY.

a murmur of tlie ocean and as 111. the rumbling of thunder, thou If thou hadst once been weeping over speakest to me, 0 stillness of the this suffering world and wast a brother night ! Thy stormy breath plays with to the sad ones of the earth, it is possi- the hair of iny head ; thou strikest into ble 110\1~ that there will open for thee, the corners of ~nyhouse. My spirit througti the multitudes of shadows, the hears thy call, as though of a roaring gates to tlie paradise of hope, 1)looming lion in the wilds, and 111y heart burns in all over with azure celestial flowers ! me 1%-henthy voice is speaking. 'I'hy soul is there divinely calnl ; it As the buzzing of a golden bee, thou breathes out the light of peace. \vl!ich speakest to me, 0 stillness of the night ! the -Ingel of the Future gathers ray hy As a whisper of growing grass, as the ray in its alabaster urns ; and eve11 now, tinkling of the sand of the desert, and above this gloomy worid, a dawn of a as the rustling of a leaf that sways in the clear day begins to shine, as a purple wind. The breath of the life of the whole lustre of a nlorning moon. earth breathes in thy sigh. . . . And IV. my heart stops in me, when thy voice is In a robe of innocence clothe thyself, speaking. 0 niy spirit ! and in a robe of freshness. I. As eyer the virgin nlountain-snow, which I will tell thee xvhat is the secret of has not been touched by the vern:~lsun. happiness, 0 lliy heart! Die for that are the silver-blossomed pure s;is?.nn- which has the face of death and utters a flowers, such aromas inust thou gain, groan of paill for a passing life ; and do and such a sno~v-broideredrainlen t, O not sow thy grain for the harvest of the my spirit ! grave. Y. I will tell thee what is the secret of The u-eakness of hate is this, that upon happiness, 0 my heart ! Kevi17e for that its skies it sees neitller sun nor stals, which endures for aye above death ancl neither the iris nor the purple of tile sorrow and above all illusion ; ancl let dawn, neither the grand cloud of a smn- thy trembling anchor fall, where is the nier storm, nor endless niilky garlands peace of the depths, and where the of the starlit skies,-it sees naught of silence reigns. these but only the veil of self,-a huge 11. and eiupty shadow, which so envelopes Gain for thyself the seeing faith, 0 it, as the torture of an eternal night. my spirit ! Let not slavish fear oppress thee ! Rend the veil, by the rtlovenlents And the power of love is, that upon its of which thou now surmisest that there skies it never sees itself; but in the is hidden an ever-living power. Cross niorning or in the twilight of eve, there the threshold of the mystery; lift thy unfolds before its enraptured sight, eyes and behold the divine truth of the worlds of endless brightness, roses of world ! the suns, deep azure of the starry fields, THE VOICES OF A STILL KIGHT. 419 white lunar asters of the garden of the will appear, the bl~cknessof the soil skies, silver alabasters of the urns, and mud. wherein the altars of the soul burn their ?-TI I. eternal fires . . . and upor1 its Advance, 0 valiant soldier, and do not shadow it looks as upon a mirage. question whereto the dawns are leading 1-1. thee through their ruby-gates, and where And n-hen thy path thou liftest from will thy golden-azure star enierge aflarne the liigll-\\-ays of this earth, ascend into fro111 the gray mists into the eternal the clearest azures, and stop not on the skies, shaking off her dying sparks into threshold of a phantom-cloud ! the ocean of the el~er-silence. The path ,lncl when thou soarest froill the nests which will lead thee out of all wa! s of of earth take an eagle-flight towards the life, out of all experience of nian, out of sun itself, and be not stayed by the fiery the whole horizon of the heavens and sand of meteoric dust. of the earth, out of thy own self through Let thy track be towards the highest the threshold of the azure light, that light. . . . So aims a lark its winged path lies neither before thee ncr behind, course towards the brightest dawn. nor on any side ; it is not cleep, lieither Scan with thy eye the farthest span it is before thy sight, a~~dit is neither of space; scorn those goals wliicll lie near nor far. too near ; and leave for the weak ones of the earth the timid step into the filture. ,ldvance boldly, aild when thy lzst ,lnd have iio fears, though there be no battle is won, tho11 wilt find thyself inileposts 011 the way, where thy will upon this shilling field, \I-a-lking ;.~itli is set so straight and free. . . . A such ease anlong the glcbes of the world, bird knows whereto it has to flj~in its as now, when on a ~llorili~igin 31q thou niigration. diclst walk the nieadows as a child and And the spirit is as the waters of the pluck its blossoms. rivers : both the traveler and the path. IS. It needs no one to lead it, it finds the Desire notking for thyself, either in current of its own. the heavens or upon the eai-tli, 0 n1y VII. heart ! Strive not after that which can Keep thy soul at peace, as a still and be grasped in thy hand, and is talcen quiet lake, that the depth of the skies away from others, that it might be in may find its reflection in thee ; and a thy house, 0 n1y heart! But above all flower of the shore see again in thee its the treasures of the skies and of the vernal beauty ; and that clo~~d-boattrav- earth and above all actualities of life, elling on the blue with its taut sails and desire that inheritance, which ma\- be hiding at times the sun; and that sun shared with thy brotliers. Desire infi- emerging from the cloud, sliining so nitely that which can be, as a flame, di- radiant above the earth, sweet and re- vided among n~illions and niillions of freshed by the rain ! fires,-and yet exist undiniinished and Lull thy soul into the endless harmony entire. Desire that, which, as the ocean, with the silence of the world, which can not be shut in a rooni, neither put seems to buzz as a golden bee. That in a box, but above which forever burns m-liich is divine, is reflected on thy wave; the blue light of the eternal don~eof the that 11-liich is earthly, lies on the bot- heavens. to111 deep. When thou art still, the radi- X. ance of eternity is burning upon thee; Beware lest thy heart permit its shad0117 but when a stone of passion falls into to fall upon the path, the shadow of thy thy waters, the blackness of thy deeps own desires and trembling fear, and to 420 UNT-ERSAL BROTHERHOOD. corer it with a pall of gloom ; for then angel shall then appear in thc fires of thy feet will be in terror rooted to that the dawn of infinity. The diviile bal- darkness. The sun of spirit will not ance leans towards thee for a ~nonlent; reach thee then, neither will it disperse and as though by a miracle, thspirit the shadows of thy pain and joy of for that ~iioriientis not thine, hut of the earthly, carnal substance. These shado\vs Great Soul. And it is a nionlent of thy will then grow to a giant size, obscure cooperation with the immortal labor of thy path with over-hanging mists, cut it the spirit of eternity ! Even for a sin- in twain and forl; it in thy eyes, iiiislead ner there inay be such a moment. And thee. ant1 deafen with the whispers of an what, if he is condemned, if he has a evil clouht, and thou wilt fall, and thy scaffold for his bed ? Tliat one ~iloment feet not enter into the house of silence. of his life is saved. And when his body XI. shall have dissolved to dust, his soul Though thousands of iiiiles ~vouldpart as a bee upon a flon-er, 11-ill alight upon thee from thy brothers, if thou shouldst this single moment, and drink froni it call to them, thy voice will not be lost ; the honey-dew of divine clreanls, in the but over rivers, steppes and niountains morning of an undying bi-iglitness. it will fly with faster wings than any XIII. bird, and nothing will it stop upon its Do not curse, my soul, thy failures way, till by a ii~ysterious\vliisper or a and thy errors ; they are steps of the piercing cry it will, with thy language, ladder which thou niust climb, if thou speak in their hearts. xvouldst lift thyself froni the dust of And though a message thou ~voulclst earth to the sunny skies. . . . Jacob, send xvith only a thought, it never will the shepherd, had to dl-ean1 a stairway be lost; but passing o'er the oceans for the angels ! many a league, flying through the great XIV. spans of this wide world, as some liquid Dost tliou fear death, as some crnel flanie, it will fall at the threshold of thy executioner ? Make thy own the life of brother's dwelling, as a dove sent oat the world ; tear clown and debtroy tlicise \vitl-1 a far nicssage, and will beat there walls, with which thou linst ferlcetl thy- wit11 its pinions by day and night, till self from tlie rest of nature ! In the inl- his door will unclose at last. ~nensityof the worlds feel thyself with For between thee and him throughout thy own kin, as though in th). father's the heavens and the earth there is open honie ; and as thou walkest from a a vibrant way for the shooting stars of chamber into a clialnber thus pass thought, a road of our common iiiental through the worlcls, pass through exist- atmosphere, sensitive to the faintest ences, and say: " I step from life to whispers, which fills all space, and pene- life, " but not :-' Death changes me. " trates all time and distance ; and, by its xv. mysterious movements, heart to heart it Tliat which thou hast loved and for brings, and lips to listening ears ; and which thou hast suffered, will appear to though it seems to be a void, in it there thee in new angelic robes, 0 niy soul ! cdls and lives the spirit. The still, fragrant breeze shall bring XII. to thee thy loves and hopes, and the Seek for the nionient which will make itlists of thought will bloom, as mead- thee a sower-in the desert ; free-in ows, into a rosy tint, and into a tint of captivity ; smiling-in pain ; silent-in blue, 0 my soul ! the storm ; full of hope-even when It is thyself, in thy silent meditating defeated ; a king-amongst the ruins ; eves, that breathest these bright glories, and holy-though thou failest. Thy paintest these glad hues, 0 my soul ! THE VOICES OF A STILL NIGHT.

Till at last extending thy arms into down, all veiled in a cloak of dusk, and the air, thou wilt be carried with thy own sings a song of nothingness,-then are sigh through many ages of an endless drawing near the white swans of day, spring of ;\lay, anlong the flo~verswhich and the ear of the wheat of light is com- were concei~edand born from thee, 0 ing to its ripeness. my soul ! ?IlTII. XVI. Sweet is this wisdom, which is not It'hen all the threads, which were censured by the sorrow of the human spun by the heart on earth, are broken ; kind, and which makes life and death to when the pink fingers of hope drop the grasp their hands in the vernal joy of wilted rose ; when the night of life sits ideal concord.

SELFLESSNESS AND SELFISHNESS.

ERE is one word that expresses of life are the outgrowth of selfishness. all good, and one word that op- But this e-,~ilis sham. It is on the out- poses it. The great-all power- side. Behind all, and underneath and ful-tip-lifting and up-building word is rooted in the past is Love. Covered up Love ! It is Harmony ! There is a light with rust and rot is the divine spark that and warmth, a shadow and coolness, a we all worship ! I'nderneath is the beauty joy and rest even in the word itself. that fires love and devotion ! In the heart There is a tumult and a calm, a combina- of hearts is that Harmony of Eternity, tion of the forces that is indescribable. Love ! Love is rooted in eternity and its A kindly thought, a loving deed, is threads that focus in the present are so life-giving, and revivifies even a dying pomerf~llthat when the clouds and the spark ; it helps to burn away the dross, corruptions of life are wiped anray, reveal- and lift the life one step nearer the de- ing the natural self, that self is God-like. sired end. The opposing power and word is We are always surrounc!ed by affini- Selfishness. All evil, meanness and ties. If we will hold Lorie in the heart, crime, all lust and wordliness are tracea- Brotherhood in the mind and help with ble to selfishness as its cause. Ambi- our hands, we shall be surrounded by tion, jealousy and the innumerable ills angels and a glorious golden light. THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS TO HIS FRIEND JOHK W INCKELSTEINER.

the l~onestand wise man, John although I have not tried all of them Tt'ii~ckelsteiner,of Friburge, his myself, yet I liave theni from, and have 111ost intilllate Friend, and dear approved them by others, arid I know Brother, 'I'heophrastus Paracelsus, wish- theni by that kind of experience, as also eth all health. by the light of Nature. If in sonlt. pl;;ces It is n~ostfit that I should (most inti- you cannot understand me what I biiall mate Friend and dear Brother) satisfy say, and in some processes rtcil.lirc of your friendly and daily requests ex- nie further explication, \\-I ite to :ne pressed in your frequent Letters to me, privatelj-, and I ~i!ldeclare the ii1::tter and seeing tliat in your last Letters you more clearly, and give yon s~lfiicit.:it in- do earriestly and courteously invite me struction and intelligence. Althr~cgllI to you, if it were convenient (I cannot believe you cannot well misundcr-s:~::d dissemble with you), yet by reason of xvllat I shall write, seeing I kliow i ou many hindrances I cannot; but as for are so well qualified or gifted God your other 1-equests, viz., that I sllould I\ ;i;i Arts and a good understanding. gix-e you some clear Instructions, T can- Moreover, you have known my mind not deny you, but an1 constrained to and meaning, and therefore will quickly gratify you therein. and easily understand me. No\\- I hope, I know the honesty of your mind, and and do not doubt, tliat you wi:l respect that you do willingly hear or see any- this present work, comme~~dedio 2 ou, thing that is new or \\-onderful in Art. and esteem of it according to it. worth, I lcnou- also that you have spent a good and not at all divulge it, but kcti) :t in part of your estate arid life in it. Be- great secret for your self, and )-out-\. as cause, therefore, you hare expressed indeed, it is a hid and grezt treaiure, much good will and Brother1 y fidelity to. an excellent gem, and precious thing, wards me, I cannot forget either, but which is not cast to swine, i. e., Sophist- am constrained to be thankful, and if I ers, and conten~nersof all good nat::ral never see you more, to leave a Brotherly Arts, and secrets, who are worthy xeither Legacy to you and yours, as a remeni- to read them, niuch less to have, kn~w brance of me. For I will not here only or unclerstarlcl them. answer but clearly instruct you concern- And although this book be very little, ing those points only of which j-ou have consisting of few words, yet it is fell of asked me, but will also declicate a Book many and great secrets. For I do not here to you, -cvhicll I will call Of the Nntzcreof write out of speculations, and iheorie, Thizgs, and will divide it into nine little but practically out of the light of Xatul e, Books. In this Rook I will satisfy all and expzrience, lest I should burden j-cu, your requests, and further those you de- and make you weary with many words, manded ; although haply you XI-ill~nucli etc. Wherefore most dear Friend, and wonder and perhaps doubt whether all loving Brother, seeing I have wrote this these things are true that I shall write. book out of love to you alone, and to no But do not so, yea believe them not to be body else, I beseech you that you will specnlations and theories, but practical keep it as a thing of value, and a and proceeding from experience. And great secret, and not let it go out THE CHOIR INVISIBLE. of your hands as long as you live, and fore, they account wisdom as folly, be- at your death, bequeath it in like cause nothing doth them any good, they manner to your children, and heirs, know the use of nothing. that they also may keep this book se- As one workman cannot use the in- cretly, which also I shall particularly struments of another so a fool can use desire of them, that they will not let it no weapons better than his own stick or go out of your family at any time, and boughs ; and there is no sound pleasanter be made public, so as to come to the to him than the ringing of his 0~~11bell. hands of Sophisters, and scoffers, who Wherefore, most dear Brother, be you contemn all things, which are not agree- faithfully admonished, as I have en- able to them, and, indeed, detract from treated you, and do what I have in- them ; these are pleased only with what formed you, which I hope you will, and is their own, as, indeed, all fools are yet shall do what is right and ell. wont to be, whom their own toys only Farewell, with the protection of God. please, not anything which is another's, Dated at Villacum, in the year 1537. hating all kinds of wisdom. Where- Printed in London 1674.

" THE CHOIR INVISIBLE."

BY HENRY B. MONGES, Jiq.

" 0 may I join the choir invisible exists, this state of unrest will exist; Of those inlmortal dead who live again but speaking relatively, nian can seek In minds made better by their presence- and find this point of rest in regard to ...... feet1 pure love, this plane. By the force of the spiritual hget the smiles that have no cruelty, will residing in himself, he cqn focus Ile the sweet presence of a good diffilsecl And in diffusion evermore intense, these tn70 forces-make them l~alance, So shall I join the choir invisible, and thus reach a high point in the scale lI7\l'hosemusic is the gladness of the world." of evolution. -CEOIICE ELIOT. The ordinary individual has no con- '7ATN and pleasure, who can say where ception of such powers, and if he has, one begins and the other ends ? does not possess the strength of charac- Jl,'; Jl,'; - Could one-and some very few ter to put them into execution. Pew can-stand the ultiinate of either, they understand the complex nature of nlan, ~vouldfind a point in which pain in its which, while complex, is also very sim- intensity becomes pleasure, and pleasure, ple-in the latter aspect, i. e., simply pain. considered, nlan is " god and beast. " Pleasure and pain, good and evil, male Few have as yet, even intellectually, and female, positive and negative are the been able to distinguish between the phenomenal aspects of the two forces in inner and the outer man, and still fewer the Universe endeavoring to become bal- are able to realize it actually. Until anced ; there is an ever seeking for the one is able to distinguish between him- line of least resistance-the seeking for self and his body, so long will he be like the point of rest. a leaf blown about by the wind, unable As long as the manifested Universe to control either itself or the wind. 424 UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD.

&Ian stands between these two forces, to us now unconscious efforts, hut each suffering, enjoying, intensely, deeply had to be learned step by step nncl re- affected by both, unable to control either, peated until it becarne unconscious. \{-e living in the senses, unable to distin- had to learn to breathe, to circulate the guish between the real and its phe- blood, to digest and assimilate food, 1)~- nomena. Yet this suffering and enjoying a conscious effbrt of the will, just as the are a nleans to an end. So surely as one child learns to walk and the bird to fly- enjoys seeing only the external, the forni, until at last, after ages, each of these so surely will he, froin reaction, suffer processes heconles what we call involun- pain; he enjoys through the senses, tary. Could 11-e at any tinie withdraw merely a channel, thinking that they the will froni tliat efhrt on its part to are the enjoynient itself, and the form, perforrn involnntarj- actions, that pro- the cause of the enjoyment-a grave error cess would at once cease. If we really n-liich eventually causes pain. ceased to desire to live, tliat 11101i:ent we Tlie inner man, seeking to contact the would do so : saj-ing that one viisllcs to outer world, becomes entangled in the die and really desiring to are tlift'erent myriad sensations that present them- things. The fact that one continues to selves through the senses, and thus not live and to carrjr on the f~inction~,even only loses sight of his own inner being, where there is great pain and suffering, but fails to perceive the inner being of shows that there is still pleasure in liv- the object he sought to enjoy. It is ing, though it be full of pain ; therefore good to enjoy through the senses, not in c-~iste~zceisjoy, and is selfish 0111~-when then1 ; to enjoy the soul in the form, not the iilotive for existence is for indiviclual the form itself-then, and then only, can advancement and attainment; it is un- man experience real joy free from pain, selfish when it is for the goocl of the and every added enjoyment will become whole of which it is a part.

niore intense, a drop of the *1 ambrosia Virtue if worshipped in itself as an end of the gods "-not a stupefying process will not lead to the goal. The anchorite as is the case with the sensualist, who who shuns pleasure as sometllillg cvil, finally kills all capacity for enjoyment is as far fro111 the goal as is the sens:~al- by the dulling in of the Soul nature, and ist who burns his life away in the grati- thus sinks into misery, suffering and fication of passion-each are the es- pain. tremes of selfishness and can oniy he The Soul, the real man, would enrich continued in until the Soul final;^ rebels itself with knowledge on all planes, and and then extrenies nieet, ar~clthe i)'~ihof it must learn by experience many tinies peace is before the weary soul. repeated, until it knows its lesson by The road to Hell is as hard as the road heart, and when at last it has learned to to Heaven-in the worst character there distinguish between the real and unreal, is always that Spark of the Oversoul. the pernlanent and impermanent, the dimmed though it be, but not entirely soul and the forni, then in proportion to obliterated. its realization of this truth, will be its The selfish nian seeks the road of capacity for real enjoyment. pleasure, sense enjoyment, fancies him- Is it selfish to wish to enjoy? If one self separate from his fellows ; he is told can reach tliat point where there is no that he is travelling the broad, easy desire for joy, then existence for that in- road to Hell. Let him who says it is vidual ceases. easy, try the journey-nat~re is kind- Every act, voluntary as well as invol- she xvill not let her children cast them- untary, is accomplished by an effort of selves into the burrling furnace unless the will-the involuntary processes are they fight long and strong. Pain, sor- THE CHOIR IN\'ISIBLE. row, death are her agents and strong in- is pure-all the latent faults as well as deed is he in his selfishness who can the virtues, come to the surface more or overcome tliem. less rapidly, in proportion to tlie inten- Some who talk loudly, would gladly sity of the aspiration and consequent try the lower path, but indolence and sacriiice. fear hold the111hack. This power to sacrifice the gratifica- The Inan who would attain the lleiglits, tion of our personal wants has been the liiust be able to enjoy deeply and strong- aim and teaching of all the world's ly but niust also be able to refrain from saviors, and not only their teaching but that enjoyment in sense gratification, exemplified in their lives-the true and must be able to be intense in love, in only method of teaching;-sacrifice of hate, in passion, but also be able to be the personal desires to the great Self of master of these capacities, and not be all things. their slave ; then will his nature, his life, 111 all ages, every individual who has partake of the godlike, tlie inipersonal- stepped to the front has had this power he will beconie a vehicle for the manifes- -the fruit of experience aud pain-to a tation of the divine. greater or less degree. All true leaders He who begins to aspire, to sacrifice ancl pioneers of higher thought have at- the selfish longings, lights anew the tained to it and this sell-sacrifice is to spark of divinity within himself. His - then1 a spontaneous, unconscious, in- faults stick out in all directions like voluntary act, as unconscious to them as quills of the porcupine ; he hates him- breathing is to us, attained only by long self-can see nothing but his own faults and repeated effort through ages of time and evil doings ancl they also appear until it has become unconscious. more evident to those around him. The Much so-called sacrifice is not sacrifice deeper the aspiration the hotter the fire at all, because of tlle conscious effi7rt on of trial becollles : the aniilial beconies the part of the individual in having per- more beastly in its endeavor to control fornied the act, and the want of spon- the god within. taneity. It is however, the stepping Froni long flights in the soul realms stone, the first step in conscious willing the soul returns to earth and to the which will eventually beconie uncon- fierce struggles of lust and passion. scious and inroluntary. What at first The man-always dual-becomes niore required great effort and perhaps pain, evidently so. The good and evil in hini beconies easy and a pleasure. fight for supremacy, and sad as it is the Glance down the long vistas of time- way is strewn with niany who have of such as we have written records- fallen prey to the beast of self. Others some events are merely historical data, ancl stronger ones reach the goal ; they recorded only for reference and conipari- were equal to the power they invoked, son-events that but for the carefully for potent is that power one calls up written records ~vouldbe lost and no one when he deniands the right to step out be a whit worse off for the losing; but fro111 the ranks and lead the way, and all there are events in history, in the history the shafts of the enemy are trained upon of all ages and peoples that have lived, hiiii. which will live whether they are written The scui~lalways rises to the top in or not. These events and tlie actors the boiling pot and must be thrown off themselves-synibols for all time-live ere the liquid is pure and clear-the in the consciousness of the 1%-orld,in the greater the heat the faster the dregs rise consciousness of the whole hun~anrace, to the surface ; so with aspiration, pro- indelibly written in the soul of things. ducing self-sacrifice-where the motive No change, political or social, can affect UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. their immortality. They seem as alive have left marks on the steep sides of and vital as truths to-day as on the clay human life through self-sacrifice, which they were enacted. They seen1 to have will guide the next weary traveller and being-immortal being ! The poets and perflaps enable him to reach greater bards have sung them in their myths heights. and legends. I speak of those occurrences Thus civilizations rise and fall and in- that stir the hearts of tlie coldest, that dividuals leave their shining niarks on make the blood course more freely the pathway of life. through the veins and tnake men eager Great and vast are the multitudes who to imitate them-those deeds perfor~ned have beaten down the path, hundreds through sacrifice to the Self; of indi- who have lived and died, to the world viduals who were willing to offer them- unknown, giving their lives on thealtar selves oil the altar of unselfishness, of humanity-swelling the great sym- willing to give all that was considered phony of life-leaving hehinc! a new most dear, even to life itself-spon- hope, invisible as yet, to the on-conling taneously and wholly. These acts are re- host, building a living bridge with their corded not only in books and legends but souls over the great chasm of selfishness in the hearts, minds and souls of the and separateness, cutting with their whole human race,- st, because the hands and feet till they bieed, a path- actors were and are a part of the whole, 2d, way to the entrance of the " mystic because these acts were an expression of portal "-writing messages of warning the " soul of the world, " the " divine and SIX-ellingthe great " song of life. " man " residing within everything, and We may read the names of many, thus they gained not only individllal im- many turned out into the darkness, or mortality for themselves hut what is what appeared darkness to the scoffers- greater brought tlie whole of hu~nanitya beaten, scourged, crucified, yet un- step nearer the goal. murmuring, pitying the ignorance of ,411 ~villhave, or have had, opportuni- those who beat theni-who knew not ties for some great sacrifice. Fexv, very what they did. few, know the opportunity when it pre- Bring your Soul in accorcl with the sents itself and turn it to account, but Souls of others and human testimony let it slip and then perhaps cerituries will will not be necessary to pro\-e to you who elapse ere another one is gained. tinless are the Saviors of the Race. we wntch and pray for light the hour To us in the western world there is no may pass us as a thief in the darkness. fipilre so prominent or familiar as the Jlan and races of men, toil through lov, ;-, Xazarene-humble but n:ajestic in great hardships and peril to gain the his huttlility-truly a ICing. 3Iany such mountain height and when the first liad come before him, many have collie height is reachecl, fancy that it is all to since-some we know well. 'I'heir lives be striven for, that it is the time to rest speak the great lesson to be learned. -failing to look up;^-ard into the dis- The World is a great Orchestra and tance where peak on peak rises to the choir, and each one of us a living in- eternal blue of heaven. They are blinded strument that must be properly tuned by the success of having reached so great or be cast out. a height and blindly stroll down into the The strong have reached the mystic easy valley, losing the golden oppor- portals-some have passed through, be- tunity to reach greater heights at the hind which as a vast choir all the good time when they were strong and hardy, they have done bursts forth in a great and accustomed to peril and toil. Still, symphony-" the gladness of the world " in reaching even the lowest peak, they -each instrument of well tempered THE CHOIR INVISIBLE.

metal, each string of well proven " Then again whole events in history strength-proven in the great fire of self- come down to me with the effect of an sacrifice, of renunciation, of the personal orchestra, playing in the distance ; single to the impersonal, of the individual to lives sometimes like a great solo. the Self of all. " As for the people I know or have Each planet sings its song whirling known, some have to me the sound of through space and all make the music brass, some the sound of wood, some of the spheres. the sound of strings.

I think a quotation from the little " Only-so few, so very few, yield the book entitled " Choir Invisible, " by perfect music of their kind.

James Lane Allen, will complete my '" The brass is a little loud ; the wood idea, which was inspired by the reading is a little too muffled ; the strings- of that book. some of the strings are invariably

" Have you ever thought how much broken. of life can be expressed in terms of " Martin Luther, he was a cathedral music ? Every civilization has given organ, and so it goes. And so the whole out its distinct musical quality ; the past sounds to me; it is the music of ages have their peculiar tones ; each the world ; it is the vast choir of the century its key, its scale. For genera- ever-living dead. tions you can hear nothing but the " Plato ! he is the music of the pipes, during other generations nothing stars. but the lyre. Think of the long, long '' The most we can do is to begin a time among the Romans when your ear strain that will swell the general volume

is reached by tlie trumpet alone. and last on after we have perished. " OUR PYGMY BROTHERS.

BY F. M. G. CAMP.

CCORDING to that eminent man rather than long ; jaws very slightly-if of science, &I.de Quatrefages, at all-prognathous ; hands and feet the pygmies or dwarf tribes of very small and delicate. All these and the human race may be divided into two other points, taken along with their great divisions - the Eastern and the primitive ideas and customs stamp them, Western. The Eastern conlprises all according to 31. de Quatrefages, as those tribes found among the South Sea " truly human-true men, ) ' -and thus Islands and on the Asian Continent and entitled to our brotherly interest and in Japan. The Western, those of Africa. sympathy. We will let his facts speak Of the two divisions the Eastern is for themselves, presenting the most im- somewhat better known, owing to the portant. efforts of the English traveler - Mr. RELIGION. Man. This gentleman resided among Among the &fincopies [Andamanese] the Mincopies, the dwarf tribe found there is a universal belief in a Supreme among the Andaman Islanders, for a Being. Here are their own terms de- number of years, and his observations scribing this belief, as translated liter- are largely utilized by M. de Quatre- ally by Mr. Man :

fages in his work on " The Pygmies. " "Although He resembles fire, He is What Mr. Man did among the Minco- invisible. pies Mr. Hahn did anlong the tiny "He was never born and He is im- Bushmen of South Africa. The testi- mortal. mony of these two men in particular '' By Him were created the world, all refutes the generally accepted opinion things animate and inanimate-except that all these dwarfs races are a little the powers of evil. less than human, and scarcely superior " He is angry when one comniits cer- to the ape. In his work, M. de Quatre- tain sins, and full of pity for the un- fages collects an enormous array of happy and miserable and sometimes He facts to prove the contrary. The true deigns to help them. It is He who pygmy, he declares, should not be con- judges the souls after death, and pro-

founded with the men of short stature nounces for each of them its sentence. "

(a very common error*) ; nor with ' " His name is PuZugn. He dwells in hairy peoples ; nor with the negro a great stone mansion in the sky ; when proper. For though black, and having it rains he descends to gather food- kinkly and woolly hair, they have none grains, fruits and seeds. It is from the of the other racial characteristics of the hands of Puluga that we receive all that true negro ; they are a smooth-skinned supports us. and hairless people as to body, and the ' ' Puluga himself never kills the guil- Eastern pygmies are generally remark- ty ; He points them out to a class of bad able for well-proportioned stature and spirits called ChoZ. good features. The skulls of all are broad " Puluga is not alone in His palace. He lives with a wonzan of green color *The average height of the true pygrny is from 36 to 38 inches. whom He has created for Himself, and OUR PYGMY BROTHERS. 429 who has two names, one of them signi- appear to be unknown among them. fying ' hfother Eel. ' By her he had a Adultery is very rare. Marriage is son who lives with his parents and is strictly monogamous - and usually their prime minister. There are many happy daughters. They bear the name Moro- ' ' Lying, theft, murder, adultery, etc., wi?~(spirits of heaven). They are a kind are all regarded as crimes which arouse of good angel or power. Besides these the wrath of Puluga. The children of are many spirits of evil-self-created, both sexes are carefully looked after as that have existed from time immemorial. to morals. They have what they call

" The chod, however,-executors of a ' guardian of the youth.' Boys and Puluga's vengeance, have a totally dif- girls, husband and wife-all have equal ferent origin-a common ancestor, mnin- rights. A father calls his son ' He chol-a man, who perished miserably whom I have begotten. ' A mother calls after committing the crime of stealing him, ' He whom I have borne. ' This in a pig killed by one of his fellows. ' He itself shows an intelligent conception of' lives on the invisible bridge ' between parentage. earth and heaven, and he and his de- " The rights of property are strictly scendants are under the form of black respected. Hospitality is one of the birds with long tails. characteristic virtues of the Mincopies, ' ' The sun and moon figure as secondary Children from the most tender age are deities among the Mincopies. They do taught to respect guests and friends, not appear to worship them, but (like In each family there is constantly kept the Bushmen) honor them with certain an amount of food for visitors who may observances. The Bushmen also cele- arrive. brate the rising of the Pleiades with " Of course they have their share of something like a religious festival. human weakness and sometimes quarrel Though both divisions of the Pygmy and fight among themselves. Charges race do not appear to worship trees or of cruelty to shipwrecked strangers have. rocks, yet they seem to attach signifi- a basis of truth, but the fact that they cance to certain localities legendary or have always suffered at the hands of in- traditional. Moreover, the Bushman vaders, pirates, thugs, etc., has made hails the rising of the sun by a few mo- them unduly suspicious of newcomers, ments of silent meditation, paid in a Once treat them fairly and they lay their solitary spot, just before dawn. enmity aside. Cannibalism is zot prac- " Among the hfincopies even Puluga tised among them. It is the last resort does not appear to be the object of any of desperate starvation-and rare at that,

external worship. He is sonietimes " Their social state is communal. The prayed to as the 'Giver of Lzfe, ' and dur- influence of chiefs is principally moral, ing a tempest He is recognized as a sort They have wise men, and a sort of of Thunderer or Jove, and the leaves of magic is practised by the latter. . . . the fifimuso#s Indica are sometimes As a whole the little people are honest,

burnt in his honor or as a propitiation. " kindly, industrious, morally upright,. and governed by religious ideas which MORAL NOTIONS. are in part as lofty as any held by their " These little negritos, " says Mr. more civilized brethren. ' ' hfan, " have moral notions similar to our own, and their conduct is generally NATURE OF MAN: THE OTHER LIFE. in accord-when not contaminated by in- According to the Mincopies man is a tercourse with the wh ites. triple being, constituted of body, soul

" Rape, seduction, and unnatural vice and spirit, the latter two invisible, The 430 UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD. spirit is black (with them a good color) flat. It rests upon an imnze?zsc7 Pnlvz and the soul, red. " From the former Tree. Its roots are below the earth. proceeds all good, from the latter, all ' * There will be a general resurrection, bad." " The soul quits the body in which will be ushered in by an earth- dreams-the sleeper being conscious of quake brought about by Puluga. The what it, the soul, sees and does. " They Palm Tree which suports the earth therefore pay especial attention to will be broken; the earth itself =,ill dreams. turn. Then all living will change places

" At death the soul and spirit are sepa- with their deceased ancestors. For the rated. The spirit goes to heaven where latter a new life will begin like the it continues all its earthly occupations. present-but sickness and death will The soul being guilty of all the wrong have disappered, and there wiZL be no doing of the man, goes to a sort of pur- more marriage. gatory, a place of punishment which " Experiments in education show that however, does not endure forever. " the Pygmies are capable of great intel- Their purgatory is ice-cold, and queerly lectual development--on a par with the enough is located above heaven. Be- average white. The language of all is tween earth and heaven is an invisible of the agglutinative order, and very rich bridge of rushes. ' ' in words. But every little tribe has its own language differing from that of ad- REINCARNATION. jacent tribes as much as Russian does

" If the dead person be a child under from English. This separation as to six years of age, its soul and spirit do languages occurred after the deluge-by not separate. They betake themselves order of Puluga. " to a certain locality-subterrene, and The pygmies of the Philippines, are are placed under a fig tree, the fruit of called Aetas. Such first-hand knowl- which serves as their food. " They re- edge of them as we possess shows them turn to earth and are again reborn. similar to the Mincopies in character " Every woman who has lost a little and disposition. But contact with the child looks for its retnrn as the soul of whites has caused them to degenerate her next child, and if that child be of sadly. So with those also in all the the same sex, she is sure it is the same other parts of the world where they one and gives it the same name. abide. Disease, moral and physical,

" The hfincopies have some vague has set in to their undoing. Soon, like teachings that their early ancestors could the Tasmanians and other South Sea take on the form of marine and terrestial Islanders, they will pass away as a race animals. They have traditions of a and the world will know them no more. Deluge. A very interesting tradition As they are, the Universal Brother- connected with it is that after the deluge hood Organization embraces them in its one of their ancestors returned from the intent, and as an integral part of hu- subterrene world with the gzyt of fire manity, we owe our pygmy brothers our which he had stolen from Puduga. fraternal interest, sympathy and ser- " The world, the Mincopies regard as vice. WILL AND IDEA.

EXTR,lCTS COKDENSED FR0'R.I BALZAC'S " LOUIS LAMBERT. "

TRANSLATED BY HARRIET GREEN COURTIS.

E next day after dinner we a seco~zdbeing for which nly body serves started for a walk, our goal be- as an envelope, since as I lay in bed I ing the celebrated castle of Roch- saw this landscape,-and this idea upsets ambeau. We walked rapidly until we many systems;-or, these facts took reached a little hill from which we place either in some nervous centre, could see both the castle half way up whose name is unknown to me, where the mountain and the winding valley se;lzsafion arises, or in the cerebral centre where the river ran sparkling through whence come ideas. This last hypothe- the gently sloping meadows. A beauti- sis raises strange questions. I walked, ful landscape ! so full of charni ! My com- I saw, I heard. Motion is inconceivable panion cried out suddenly, " I saw all without space, sound acts only in angles this last night in lily dream ! " I asked or over surfaces, and color is cat~sedby hini if he might not have come here in light. If during the night, with my his childhood ; my question startled eyes shut, I have seen within myself col- him, but after thinking awhile, he an- ored objects, if I have heard noises in the swered in the negative. From this most absolute silence and without the strong impression analogous to sonie conditions for the formation of sound, phenomena of sleep known by niany if, in a perfectly nlotionless state I tra- people, he later deduced a system resem- verse space, there must be internal fac- bling Cuvier's in another order of things ulties, independent of physical, external -i. e.. seizing a fragment of thought laws. Material nature must be pene- and building upon that basis a whole trable by spirit. How is it that man structure. Seated upon an old oak has not thought that these events dur- trunk he said to me, " If the landscape ing sleep prove a double life ? did not come to me, which is absurd to " If there is not a new science in this think of, I myself came here, to it. If phenomenon, it shows enormous powers 1 was here while I was sleeping quietly in man, and also a frequent separation in niy bed, does not this fact prove a of our two natures. I have at last dis- complete separation between my body covered a proof of the superiority of our and my inner self? Does this not attest latent senses over those that are ap- to some locomotive faculty of the mind ? parent! Man is duplex ! Sight and or to an effect equivalent to the change hearing are the sheaths of a n~arvellous in location of the body ? Now if my tool perhaps. " soul and my body could leave each After a pause, with a doubtful gesture, other in sleep, why should I not be able he went on " perhaps we have not in us to separate them while awake? I see these taro natures. We may be simply no middle term between those two prop- endowed with hidden and perfectible ositions. But to go farther into details : qualities whose exercise, whose develop- Either these facts are brought about by ment, produce in us two phenomena of means of a faculty which makes use of activity, of penetration, of vision hither- UNIVERSAI, BROTHERHOOD.

-to unnoticed. In our love of the marvel- fluid from whence rushes forth ideas and lous, a passion created by our pride, we volition ; whether the human hair which ,transform these effects into poetic crea- becomes discolored, fades, falls and dis- tions because we do not understand appears according to the different de- them. It is so natural to deify the in- grees of decay, or by the crystallization comprehensible ! Ah ! I confess I of thought, whether it did not form a should weep over the ruin of my illu- system of electric capillarity either ab- sions. I long to believe in this double sorbing or exhaling. If the fluid phe- nature of man. Will a new knowledge nomena of our Will-a substance pro- prevent ? Examination of our unknown created in us and so spontaneously re- faculties implies an apparently materia- active at the Will of unknomn condi- listic science, for the Spirit employs, tions, were more extraordinary than divides, animates substance, but does those of the invisible fluid produced by not destroy it. " This day's thought led the voltaic pile upon the nervous system to a treatise on the Will, just as the of a dead man. electric sensation always felt by Mesmer Whether the formation of our ideas when his valet approached him, proved and their constant exhalation were less to be the origin of his discoveries in incomprehensible than is the evapora- magnetism hitherto hidden in the depths tion of the imperceptible atoms of a grain of the mysteries of Isis, of Delphi, or of musk which loses no weight by the of the Cave of Trophonius. His ideas action ? began to extend to grand proportions ; Whether-allowing to the cutaneous he separated scattered truths and brought system a defensive, absorbing, exuding them together ; then like a smelter, he and tactile purpose-the circulation of fused all in one group. His philosophi- the blood and its apparatus does not cal speculations ought to admit him answer to the transubstantiation of our aniong the number of those great Will, as the circulation of the nervous thinkers who appear among men to fluid responds to that of Thought ? reveal principles of a corning science, Finally, whether the influence of these whose roots grow slowly to bear some two real substances does not result from day rich fruitage in the domain of in- a certain perfection or imperfection of telligence. organs whose conditions must be studied He held that the word WiGlserved to de- in all their phases ? note the centre whence Thought evolved, These principles established, he or to speak less abstractly-the mass classed the phenomena of human life of force by which man can repro- in two series of distinct effects, and de- duce, outside himself, actions which manded for each of them an especial *make up his external life. Will and analysis. After admitting, after long Thought are the two generating powers, observation, two separate motions in all Volition and Idea are the two products. creation, he named this antagonism, Volition seemed to him to be the idea, which is vital : Action and Reaction. having passed from an abstract to a con- He said : " A desire is a fact accom- crete condition, from fluid to a solid plished in our Will before becoming so state, if one can express by such words, externally. This the totality of our vo- subtile perception. Thus Thought and litions and of our ideas coiistitutes Ac- Ideas are the movement and acts of the tion, and the totality of our external acts inner organism as Volition and WilG are is Reaction. Nature has delighted in those of the outer man. He often asked having a double design in the different himself whether the principles of elec- constitutive apparatus of her creatures, .tricity did not enter as base in the very and the double action of our organism WILL AND IDEA. 433 supports by proofs of daily occurrence true without seeing them to be radiations these deductions relative to Action and from a common centre. Each person Reaction. wishes to convert one simple fact into a The inlzer being-the active one-the science. Thence arise demonology, as- hitherto unknown species-designates trology (judicial), sorcery, finally all the mysterious ensemble of little fibres divinations founded on essentially tran- to which are due the different powers- sitory accidents which vary according to not yet completely observed-of Thought temperaments, at will of circumstances and Will; in fact this unnamed being, still entirely unknown. But from these acting, bringing everything to a conclu- learned errors, church trials and law- sion, accomplishing all before any bodily suits to which the martyrs succumbed, demonstration, this inner self should resulted splendid proof of the enormous not, conformably to its nature, be sub- power of the inner being (astral), trans- jected to any of the physical conditions lator, which can isolate itself con~pletely by which the visible man-the external from the outer reactionary man, break being-is hindered in his manifestations. its envelope, cause its walls to fall before Heaven perhaps is the survival of our the all powerful sight of this inner man ; perfected faculties, and Hell, the abyss then by use of another fzculty, can seize into which our imperfections fall. in the brain, in spite of its thickest cir- In the centuries between Christ and cumvolutions, the ideas which have Descartes, between Faith and Doubt, formed or are forming there, as well as why xot explain the mysteries of our the past of the consciousness. inner nature by a divine interven- Following step by step, the effects of tion ? Of whom, if not of God himself, thought and of will in all their methods, can the savants demand reason for an a crowd of phenomena can be explained invisible creature, actively and reactively which justly have been considered incom- sensitive, gifted with such extended prehensible. Thus sorcery, the pos- faculties, so perfectible, so powerful sessed, second sight, demoniacs of all under certain occult conditions that kinds, can be explained so naturally that often he is seen, by means of phenomena this very simplicity seems the stamp of of vision or of locomotion, to annihilate truth. space, that is, its two niodes of Time and The marvellous gifts of powers which Distance, the one intellectual and the the Romish Church punished by the other physical space? Again the past stake were the result of certain affinities is reconstructed, either by the power of between the constituent principles of retrospection or by the mystery of a pa- Matter and those of thought, which pro- lingenesis quite like the power a man ceed fro111 the same source. The man may exercise of divining by the cover- with a hazel wand, finding springs of ing, lineaments, roots of a grain or seed living water by its aid-obeys a certain -its former blossoming time with all the sympathy or some antipathy unknown varieties of the tints, the perfumes and to himself. Phenomena of sym$nthies forms ; and finally, sometimes he may have rarely been verified but those feel- be able to divine the future, either by ings which arise from thwarted or op- discernment of first causes or by a phe- posed affinities have been very fortu- nomenon of physical foresight. nately noted whenever they occurred to Other men less poetically religious, celebrated persons. cold reasoners, charlatans maybe, en- Erasmus had fever from the smell of thusiasts through the brain, at least if fish, Bayle fell into convulsions if he not the heart, recognizing some of those heard water running, Scaliger turned isolated phenomena, consider them as pale at the sight of water cresses; all UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. these three antipathies arose from aqua- call flowers. Their production as object tic substances. Marie de Medici always of man, is besides no more astonishing fell ill on seeing a rose, even a painted than that of perfumes and colors in the one. Tycho Brahe fainted if he saw a plant. Perfu??zes are ideas perhaps ! fox. Bacon was always ill during an Thinking of the inexplicable and invis- eclipse of the moon and could not be ible mystery of the constant transforma- said to be alive even, yet when the phe- tion of our fluids into horn which takes nomenon had ceased he rose and felt no place at the line where our flesh ends inconvenience or effect afterwards. A and the finger-nail begins, we must ad- logical and simple deduction from the mit that nothing is inipossible in the principles of the Swiss Dr. Ptlesmer, marvellous niodifications of hunian sub- caused niy friend to see that Wild, stance. Do we not notice in ?~ornlna- through some movement of the inner ture phenomena of motion or weight like being, might collect itself, then project those in Pt'zysicnl nature. JVaitirig-to itself outside even upon material ob- choose an example all can synipatliize jects. So the entire force of a human with-is tiresome only by the effect of being might have the property of react- the law in virtue of which the weight of ing upon others, penetrating them with a body is multiplied by its velocity. an essence foreign to them, unless they The burden of the feeling of fatigue defend themselves against this aggres- which waiting produces, is increased by sion. Will and Thoz~ghf are living a constant addition of past sufferings of forces in a way visible and tangible. the kind, to the pain of the monient. To Sometimes in the midst of calmness what, if not to an electrical substance, and silence when our inner faculties are can we attribute the magic by which asleep or when we fall into a reverie con- Will enthrones itself so majestically in templating external things, suddenly an a look, beating down all obstacles, at idea darts, passes with the rapidity the command of a strong soul ? The of lightning through infinite spaces into current of this king of fluids is the oc- which our inner sight gives us vision. cult minister to whom are due the fatal This brilliant idea, like a will o' the or benevolent efforts of the arts an2 of wisp, never returns. It is an ephemeral passions, whether the intonations of the existence. Often, the idea instead of voice, rude, suave, terrible, blood-curdl- springing up with force and dying still- ing or seducing by turns-vibrate in the born, begins to peep forth-it balances heart, in the entrails, or in the brain, at itself in the unknown limbo of the or- the pleasure of our will ;-again all the gans that give it birth, it develops, be- delusions of touch, whence proceeds the comes fruitful, grows in its youthful mental transfusions of artists whose grace and comniands the admiration at creative hands evoke nature after many last that carefully elaborated works ex- passionate studies; then the infinite cite. Sonletimes ideas come in swarms, gradations of the eye from the absolute one leads to another ; some ideas are a inertia at first to the most terrible of complete system like a sort of blossom- glances. God loses none of his rights. ing. Everything in us and without, Material thought adds new grandeurs to proves the life of such creations that I our conceptions. GEORGE WASHINGTON.

BY G. A. MARSHALL.

'P it be true, as Colonel Robert G. even been willing. The army, at the Ingersoll has said, that Washing- end of the war, was justly dissatisfied ton has become to the American with its treatment. . . His influence, people only a steel engraving, it is high and that alone, secured the quiet dis- time that those who have the welfare of banding of the discontented army. His the country at heart should bestir them- influence was as powerful after he had selves to revive and arouse a living retired to Mount Vernon as before his memory of his life and character. Let resignation. He was in constant cor- me first call your attention to a short respondence with public men in every quotation from the Encyclop~diaBrit- part of the country. . . The current annica : of events leading into the Annapolis

" It was more than appropriate that convention of 1755, and the final conven- he who had been the mainspring of the tion of the next year [in ~vhiclithe war, and had borne far more than his Constitution was framed], show Wash- share of its burdens and discourage- ington's close supervision at every ments, should end it with the campaign point. "--Enc. Brit., Stoddart ed., vol. of Yorktown, conceived by himself, and xxiv., p. 410. the surrender of Cornwallis. The war Such is the estimate by a foreign was then over, but the Commander-in- writer of \Vashington7s character, posi- chief retained his commission until De- tion and influence at the close of the war ceniber 28, 1783, when he returned it to of the Revolution, and during the time Congress, then in sessioil at Annapolis, of the formation of the Constitution. Md., and retired to Mount Vernon. This estimate is a lofty one; let us re-

l By this time the canonization of call briefly sollie of the events of his life, Washington had fairly begun. He oc- and see if it is not just. cupied such a position in the American He was the son of a Virginia planter ; political system as no man can possibly and although one biographer has traced hold again. He had become a political his genealogy back to Odin, it cannot be element, quite apart from the Union, the satisfactorily shown beyond the emigra- States, or the people of either. In a tion of his great-grandfather to Virginia country where communication was still in 1657. His boyhood life was like that slow and difficult, the general knowl- common in the colony among families edge that Washington favored anything in easy circumstances. "Hunting, superseded argument and the necessity fishing, plantation affairs, and a little of information with very many men. . . reading made up its substance. His On resigning his commission, . . he education was but elementary and very was able to do what no other man could defective, except in mathematics, in have done with propriety or safety : which he was largely self-taught. " At he addressed a circular letter to the gov- the age of sixteen, he was appointed ernors of the States pointing out changes surveyor of the vast Fairfax estates, and in the existing form of government followed that pursuit three years. At which he believed to be necessary. . . nineteen, in anticipatiou of the outbreak He might have had a crown if he had of the French and Indian war, he was UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. appointed adjutant of the Virginia settled by men of differeat traditions, troops, with the rank of major ; in 1753, habits of life, and purposes. Personal when barely of age, he was made com- as well as local ambitions and jealousies mander of the northern military district must be met and overcome. Nothing of Virginia ; and his gallant conduct in but the weight of his personal character, leading the troops that began hostilities made effective by constant correspond- gave him such distinction that in 1755, ence and earnest appeal to the leading at the age of twenty-three, he was corn- men of the several colonies, enabled him missioned Commander-in-chief of all the to keep alive the love of liberty among Virginia forces. In I 758 he commanded the people and sustain the flagging zeal the advance guard of the expedition of his discouraged followers. The same which captured Fort Du Quesne. ' ' The personal influence enabled him to dis- war in Virginia being at an end, he re- band at the end of the war his unpaid signed his post, . . and settled at and ill-clad troops, and send them with- Mount Vernon. " out mutiny to their homes. " His life for the next fifteen years He retired to Mount Vernon, to be was that of a typical planter, a consist- again called out in 1785 to attend the ent member of the Episcopal Church, convention to form a more perfect union, . . . a strict but considerate master, which resulted in the formation of the and a widely trusted man of affairs. . . . present constitution. He was offered a His diaries show comparatively little crown, but refused it ; he was active and reading, a minutely methodical conduct influential in the foundation of the Re- of business, and a wide acquaintance public, and with reluctance accepted the with the leading men of the country. " presidency in the new government ; he He was modest and unostentatious, wished to retire at the end of his first and did not seek personal advancement term, and insisted upon doing so at the or push his claims for place, but he kept expiration of the second. closely in touch with all public events, Always reluctant to take office, either and he \\-as repeatedly elected to the Vir- civil or military, he was zealous, pains- ginia Legislature. He was one of the taking and efficient in every official duty delegates from Virginia to the Continen- after it was once assumed. Impelled by tal Congress in 1774 ; and after the bat- the force of circumstances, and in virtue tle of Lexington he was selected as Corn- of his towering and overmastering abil- mander-in-chief of the armed forces of ity and influence, he held really, though the United Colonies. He refused a sal- not in name, a dictatorship from the ary, but accepted payment of his ex- time of his commission as commander- penses, of which he rendered a strict ac- in-chief in 1775 to the time of his elec- count. He was conimissioned May 19, tion to the presidency under the consti- 1775 ; reached Cambridge July 2 in that tution in 1789. He was in very deed year ; employed the autumn and winter " first in war, first in peace, and first in in organizing and disciplining and equip- the hearts of his fellow citizens. " ping the army, and in March, 1776, he Where shall we look for the secret of drove the British army out of Boston. his power? Was it in his magnificent " From that time until his death he was physical development ? He stood six the forenlost man on the continent. " feet three in height, and had a frame and The colonies were poor, unaccustomed form proportional to his stature ; but we to act together, and jealous of each know that many well-built giants are other ; the congress was without author- noted for nothing above the reputation ity to enforce its requisitions for men or of a John C. Heenan. Was it in his money ; and the different sections were intellectual acquirements ? He was al- GEORGE WASHINGTON. most entirely without scholastic train- equal and uniform greatness in all quali- ing and the lore of books and teachers ; ties of mind and heart-he is unique; his training Lvas in the school of experi- but not in the utter inadequacy of his ence, a school which he shared with a ancestry to account for that greatness. multitude of pioneers and frontiersmen We need only recall the names of Lin- who have shown no such ability. Was coln, Franklin, Shakspere, Milton, and it in a direct spiritual intuition, a gift many others who, so far as mental hered- from God as the Father of spirits ? He ity is concerned, are as utterly without never manifested any such spiritual visible ancestry as was Melchisedek of qualities ; and in fact devout spiritu- old. That there is a genuine heredity ality is not generally considered a step- of mind and spirit as well as of body we ping stone to military or political pre- may well believe ; but it is a heredity ferment. Nor will the fact that in him whose course is, figuratively speaking, was an unusually perfect balance of the mostly under ground, and only comes three factors, of body, soul and spirit, prominently into view when a great furnish a sufficient and satisfactory man is raised up to meet an extraordi- explanation of his greatness. If any nary occasion. choose to believe that George Washing- The whole truth in regard to this com- ton was created and endowed with his plex, triple heredity of body, soul, and superlative qualities by direct, miracu- spirit is not yet discovered. Glimpses of lous intervention of Almighty God for part of the truth have been caught, and the special purpose of establishing a free profound theories of survival of the fittest, nation in America, it is only necessary of atavism, etc., have been enunciated, to say that the character thus created but these do not account for all the facts. was worthy of its creator. This doctrine Larger and juster views may perhaps be of special creation has been and doubt- reached by comparing the observations less still is held by many ; but the trend of men of different times and of different of opinion nou7is toward looking for the nations and races. Students of myth- explanation of all events in the opera- ology agree that many of the personages tion of natural forces working in obedi- worshipped as gods in the several pan- ence to immutable laws. This does not theons are the exaggerated representa- mean to dethrone Deity and to deify Law, tions of divinely endowed men, who by but to consider that God is, as the apos- their superior powers wrought deliver- tle puts it, " without variableness or ance for their people, or led them out shadow of turning, " and that Law is into a higher and better life. only the manifestation of Divine Order I11 the Hindu mythology perhaps no in action. manifestation of deity holds a higher Especially is much stress now laid on rank than that of Krishna, the friend the law of heredity in accounting for in- and counsellor of Arjuna in the civil dividual characteristics Evolution has mar which in so-called prehistoric times come to be the generally accepted doc- resulted in the overthrow of usurpation, trine of the origin of humanity as well the uplifting of the nation, and the res- as of all else in nature. Undoubtedly storation of the rightful claimant to the Washington inherited his large degree throne. Indeed, the similarity of the of physical perfection from his physical name and of several incidents in his life ancestors-but is there anything in his led many to suppose, when the Hindu known genealogy that will account for records were first rendered into English, him as a native, untaught intellectual that the life of Krishna as there given giant ? No ; and in this he is not unique. was merely an adaptation of the biogra- In the greatnness of his manhood-an phy given in the gospels of the founder 438 UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. of Christianity ; but later investigations of the great unknown, " and in a noble by the best Sanscrit scholars carry these form prepared by a suitable physical records back many centuries before the heredity, take the helm and pilot a Christian era. Krishna is worshipped struggling nation into the safe harbor of as a god by millions of people in Hindu- higher privileges and greater opportu- stan, and the date of his death, the 17th nities for the development of humanity. day of February, 3102 B. c., is com- Such a man was Washington ; his body memorated as the beginning of the black received the possibility of manly perfec- age of misery and iron. But Krishna tion from his ancestors ; that body 11-as himself is represented in the great epic merely a recombination of material ele- which gives the history of the war just ments under the laws of material devel- now referred to as saying that his wis- opment; but it is incredible that the do111 was not a divine gift, but was the real George Washington, the iniperial result of the training and experience soul that infornled and controlled that gained in many previous lives as a man body, and conciucted the ,Imerican colo- on earth. This feature of evolution nies through all the discouragenlei~tsof sounds strange to our ears, but it was a oppression, selfishness, jealousy and coninion belief among the nations of an- treason to independence under a free tiquity, and is still maintained by a and stable government-it is incredible, majority of the inhabitants of the earth. I say, that such a soul begari its exist- It is implied in the expression of Horace, ence on February 22, 1732, and reached " Late may you return to heaven," in the zenith of its power within three score his ode to Augustus Czsar, the ruler of years and ten. No ; George Washington the Roman world in its Augustan age of claims and holds a place in the ranks of highest glory. It is also recognized in those great souls n7ho have the writings of several of the Christian fathers. Taken in connection with the 'i Gained the gains of various men. fundamental law of evolution, that every Ransacked the ages, spoiled the effect presupposes a cause, or rather a climes, " combination of many causes, it seems and reappeared upon earth from time to indeed the most natural thing in the tinie gaining new experience and Iielping universe that a man who has improved the upward march of humanity. I-Iuman the opportunities of many lives, who nature shows an infinite possibility of has, as Browning puts it, growth, expansion and perfection ; and " Given up [hinrlself so many times, George Washington, unapproachable as Gained [him] the gains of various men, he may seem to be in virtue of his Ransacked the ages, spoiled the supreme ability as a leader of men, and climes, " yet more in virtue of his self-sacrifice should follow the ' ' gossamer links ' ' of and altruism, furnishes a model toward the higher heredity "out from the shores which we may all strive to attain. SELF-KNOWLEDGE.

BY HERBERT CORYN.

E Delphic injunction " know thy- tigation. They said " may the sight of

self " implies the possibility of That One who is vision itself be also our the achievement, and there is no sight." We could not do better than one with so little time and power that imitate, raising the same petition, if our he cannot go some way upon this path. dissection is to be solemn and real. The Each of us has to look into himself, and naked truth about our lower nature is each is helped by learning from others seen long before we can fully act upon what they have found in their attempts. what we see. There need be no discour- Each soul will find parts of itself that agement in that. For a long time after are beautif111 and parts that are hideous, we know the good we do the evil things and it is necessary to face them all. It as usual. Knowing the fiend to be the is easier to deal with the baser ones fiend, we yet obey. No one is strong when we have thoroughly exposed them. enough to erect a dead wall against The classifying is not easy ; some of the which the forces of old habit shall at parts cannot be instantly labelled once wreck themselves utterly. " good " or " bad " ; there is a mixture, Let us enumerate at random a few and it is subtle. Some of the parts seen1 things discoverable on dissection and to have a consciousness and independent state a few problen~sthat come up for life of their own ; they argue or appear solution. to be pained when we label them " bad "; Suppose a man sits thinking over they take subtler forms and creep in something that excites high feeling and closer ; sometimes they masquerade un- takes his consciousness to its highest der the guise of some virtue. A man levels. His cigarette is half burned may decide that the wish to go to thea- through as he meditates, and the long tres is bad and must be killed. But it ash is bending over. He finds that may refuse to die and thus explain it- whereas one part of his consciousness self-"I am not the wish to go to the remains loftily occupied, there is also a theatre for myself, but that I may raise part which from time to time says triv- the tone of theatrical performances and ially to itself " How long will it be be- benefit the people. " The members of fore that inch of ash falls off? " It is the &' Church and Stage Guild " might concerned for the welfare of his trousers perhaps look to this little point. All and takes precautions that it shall not fall the lower wishes are infinitely tricksy. there. Then perhaps comes a whisper from It is much simpler for the Demon to imi- another dark corner of consciousness- tate the Deus or add a small percentage "How far above the common run of of Deus to himself than to reverse him- men am I! " So, although he is self and become the Deus. So we have really in a state of high feeling, part of to work firmly, carefully, and honestly. him is in a state of vanity, part occupied Then we get the help of the higher parts, with the welfare of his trousers. Which those that see in truth. are his thoughts and feelings, or are Some of the old writers prayed to the they all his ? And where are the sepa- Lord that he would be adjuvant, before rate parts of him, so to speak, to which they entered on any philosophical inves- they can be traced ? 440 UXIVERSAI, BROTHERHOOD.

Or suppose our man is rather addicted the prompter of its " dreams " ; just as to alcohol, and is trying to give it up. sometimes we lay down some high book In the morning, it may be, he has no and stay awhile, floating on the wings trouble. But in the afternoon he is of thought. Yet at that very rnomeut in suddenly swept away by the impulse to the darkness without the chamber, Ort- have some. He resists ; within his con- rud, representing the dark elements in sciousness are two contending forces, consciousness below the human soul and after awhile he is led, against his proper, is plotting an evil to ripen in wishes, his legs actuated by an enemy, the immediate future and overthrow the towards a place where alcohol is obtain- union of Elsa and Lohengrin. able. It would seem that human consci- The seeds of our conscious failings are ousness is the battle-field of many enti- often sowed in the fields of unconscious- ties, distinct and often contending. ness. Happily it is the same with the I once knew a woman who began to seeds of good. Lohengrin, Elsa, and imagine that her children were ceasing Ortrud have each their level of con- to care for her, but intermixedly with sciousness. When we are most utterly this she knew that their affections had at peace with our better nature, the for- not changed. Then she thought, whilst ces of evil within us may be making sinlultaneously knowing that it was not ready for their mcst completely victori- true, that they were plotting against ous attack, called by us " the reaction. ' ' her. The fight went on for months, Often two currents are to be felt. Let but at last she gave way, and that in some calamity be impending, say a her which suspected the plots quite ab- bankruptcy. We may give our " whole sorbed her consciousness and blotted out attention " to some other matter, but all that which knew that her children loved the time we are conscious of an uneasy her as of old. background, a cloud over the heart, as So it looks as if there were at least if some one muttered ceaselessly * ' bank- two beings in each of us; a higher, ruptcy, bankruptcy. " The undercur- who should be onlooker at the impulses, rent may not always be so unpleasant. thoughts, and doings of the lower, but For instance we occasionally become who often or usually gets drowned or aware that for the last ten minutes we self-forgetfully absorbed in these ; and have been dimly hearing a phrase of a lower who is the seat of sensuality, music or a melodious line of poetry, and, vanity, suspicion and the lower aspects in addition to our proper color of consci- of consciousness generally, and who ousness, it has a subshade of the color of interpolates trivialities when the higher the phrase of music. part wants to think worthily. The lower thing or being, in consci-

This was Arjuna's problem. ('By ousness, seems to be always watching us. what, 0 Krishna, is man propelled to- You say a neat thing In conversation. ward offences ; seemingly against his You hear it echoed in your mind ; then will and as if dominated by some secret that other tenant, in the basement, adds force ? " And Krishna answers, " It is on his own account "That was rather passion, the enemy of nian on earth, " clever ; how neat a conversationalist treating it thus as distinct from, though an1 I." If you accept that, if you, the present in, man. thinker, take up that wave of self-ap- The problem is pictured in Wagner's proval into the permanent structure of drama, Lohengrin. The human soul, your self-picture, you are lost. It will Elsa, is communing in divine rest with have to be painfully dissected out by Lohengrin, Lohengrin standing here for the sharp, slow knifz of karmic circum- the spirit of the soul, its inspiration and stance. Just as mistaken, from the same SELF-KNOWLEDGE. lower source, and more paralyzing to Drink deep of the pleasures that are our work, is it to accept the thought, I innocent, in their proper degree and am a complete failure, useless, ignorant, place ; be honorable, and sin not, as nien uninteresting, unimportant. Humility count sin ; be religious in talk and and vanity are two poles of the same thought at the appointed times and vice, the hooking of the soul down to places; be kindly. So run the injunc- the level of a false self-estimation. tions of the churches. By so doing you But whence come these things ? What will lay up a sufficiency of treasures in is this which against our wish is vain heaven; and you will not have denied and snarlish and suspicious, which is yourself a reasonable amount of pleasure sometimes insane and irritable and self- on earth. This is doubtless a fairly easy ish, forcing us where we would not go ; programme, but if all men held to it, this evil conscious echo who waits out- life would be a much better thing than side the divine chamber of thought, it is. shooting malodorous vapors through It is however by no means a life of the keyhole ; the promoter of reactions "giving up " and "killing out." If of jealousy, of ambition ; the trifling elf we are asked to explain these hard say- who skips about disturbingly in the ings, what answer have we ? If then, deeply thinking brain ; who reminds us these and all silnilar emckions, distract of calamities to come and makes mem- the attention of the soul from its proper ories ferment into fruitless and paralyz- aims, they must be "killed out " and ing remorse ; who fears, who hates, who " given up." The saying is hard and doubts where we know ; who is full of are resent the inference. But when the passion ; who may lead on his victim to process conies it may not be so pain- insanity, suicide, or murder ? ful as it looks at first. Preliniinarily Perhaps if we studied this creature or it may be noted that the tunnel we nest of creatures the path would seem a are actually going through is never little less formidable. It is sometimes so black from within as it looked frorn formidable because of a number of in- outside before we entered it. And sec- junctions written in many places, all of ondly, there is the continued tend- which begin with the words ' ' kill out, ' ' ency to grow out of pleasures and thus or " give up." It is hard to be told to make the " giving up ' ' superfluous. that in order to live spiritually it is But some amount of conflict is inevitable, necessary to give up all that was hither- at some point. We all gain the wish to to accounted pleasurable, and to kill out work at our best, and to grow to our ut- that which enjoyed the pleasure. More- most. This may not come at once. We over it refuses to be " killed, " and can- preserve for a long time a degree of com- not recognize that it is the same creature promise, turning back from time to whose obviously evil courses we have time to the old methods of pleasure ;

been considering. What will be left some of them " innocent, " some of them

when the " giving up " and " killing less so, some of them positively ap- out " is over ? Will anything remain to proved and enjoined by the common have, or will anything remain alive to judgment. But throughout the times of have it? There are hearts that well- work and of aspiration the soul has been nigh stop beating at the mere prospect. growing in power and wisdom, and of Let us try and restate the case. It is this the due recognition comes in- just as well to have the shadow out in directly. full view. To classify pleasures as inno- First is the sense of incongruity be- cent and sinful is usual, especially in the tween the old pleasures and the new churches. It makes life very easy. levels whose attainment has begun. UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD.

Then begins the suspicion, ripening to planet constantly circulates through it, knowledge, that the work and the as- and all the forces of matter constantly piration is the feebler for each recurrence play in it. Speaking from a deeper stand- to pleasure. Then the pleasure begins point, for all matter is conscious in its to feel wrong,and the rift in conscious- way, we learn and know concerning the ness widens apace. Two warring ele- consciousness of phjrsical (including as- ments are declared ; one, longing for the tral) nature by that complete set of pleasure the more keenly that it is about samples of it that exists in our own body. to be denied it ; the other, engendering Let us look at another possibility. at last a sense of positive guilt when The mind is not only open to influence pleasure is allowed a place amidst our from below, but also to influence from aims. These two are henceforth irrecon- above. But from above comes, not pic- cilable, and the candidate faces his own tures, but something much less defined, dual nature. Now may come his revolt, a subtle inspiration, a wave, a formless a fully chosen relapse upon the lower vision or feeling of possibility. '' Thou levels of his nature, or some disastrous too, if thou wilt, canst be immortal. " attempt to blend sensuality and spirit- Such waves come to us all, even when uality. Putting this aside, there remains we are but casually thinking. They are henceforth nothing but a fight till one inspiration, undefined promise, sight of of the combatants is destroyed, a fight possibility, half realization of the unity that for a long time turns now this way of men, a far off view of the life to come and now that. The theatre of the fight on earth, a pressure outward of the fire is the mind ; the candidate is himself the of Brotherhood, a breath from the Over- general in both camps, and the armies soul. are the upper and lower desires. All These things are not of the mind, but these have to be studied, and the whole they come for a second down into it and of the study is done by each upon him- awake divine desire ; as the others come self. Wisdom in shilling manuals will up into it and awake fleshly desire. not suffice. And unless these two, the divine and The mind will continue to deal with the fleshly, came from consciousness, any subject upon which it is placed, un- they could never be known by and ap- til disturbed, just as a cannon shot will peal to consciousness. Above and be- continue to move in a straight line till low the mind are two unending, un- something pulls or pushes it out of that mixing rivers of consciousness, and the line, or interrupts it. In the case of the mind of man is their meeting point. mind, the disturbing factors are the de- And for each mind comes the conflict ; sires, and because of these the mind re- which of the twain shall be desired in mains but a little time quiet upon any- full. If the upper alone be finally de- thing. sired in full, then will come wisdom con- Being in touch with the body, we are cerning upper and lower and of the all of us in touch with the life of mat- lower, due use in appointed ways accord- ter, for the life of the body is the life of ing to the wisdom ; but if the lower be matter at its vividest. The life of the finally desired in full, then the mind be- body sums up the other kinds of matter- comes clouded, at last inchoate, dis- life, and also transcends them. As food solved away from its selfhood and lost to and as air and otherwise, the matter of the humanity. MUSIC.

BY EDWARD C.

1-DGED from the standpoint of the state; color for instance represents a occultist, music in its essential na- higher vibration than audible sound. It ture is a subject whose f~~lleluci- has also been shown that color is sound dation would dellland an investigation though inaudible to us ; and we niay add into, and explanation of, some of the without stretching the concl~~sionsof greatest secrets of microcosmic and niac- modern physics that all vibration is rocosmic life. sound. ,4ncient wisdoili declares the It is therefore with sonie feeling of manifested,-not nierely objective,- inconipetence that I shall endeavor to universe to be made up of vibrations and present what, at best, is a poor and in- their mutual contacts; thus declaring coniplete statement of facts lying at the the universality of sound. surface ; leaving unexplored many veins Philosophy was to t3e ancients no of thought whose following out would single department of knowledge, leaving certailily lead to rich and varied results. religion to be the plaything of dogma- In early days, much greater signifi- tists, for it synthesized in one grand cance was attached to niusic than obtains harnionious whole the Trinity of Sci- in our own tinie, notwithstat~diligthe ence, Religion, and Philosophy. The enormous developiuent this art has relation of music and niathematics to reached both in structural form and philosopliy becomes apparent if we con- polyphonic coniplexity since the era sider that each deals with vibrations, beginning with Sebastian Bach. and that the manifested universe is vi- To the wisc among the ancients, music brating life and being. The great uni- was not to be separated from Mathemat- versal truths of philosophy were per- ics and Philosophy ; they formed an in- petuated by the BIathematicians in vari- separable Trinity, whose final expression ous symbols, and it has been said the was Unity. Atid because of this inter- Arabic numerals symbolize, especially blending, each coiitained ~vithinitself the in their original form, long forgotten full explanation of what the others demon- truths riiade public only within the last strated. 'l'he modern science of Acous- q~~arterof this century. tics shows that every tone represents a Having by way of introduction briefly mathelnaticall y fixed nuiiiber of vibra- indicated the mutual relations of music, tions. JVhen sounded as single notes, mathelllatics and philosophy ; I shall as chords, or combined 11-iili all the con- proceed directly to niore particular con- trapuntal skill of Rack, or the knowledge clusions as to the Important part music of srri~tiletcne rtlatio~~sc!ispia:, c-d by plays in our 1rui;lan develop::~ent. That IV:~gller,the seirt.n, or possible twelve, n111sic does play this iii~portautpart was note,.: of' tlic t~~asicnlsale represent a fElly realized by the old pi~ilosophers, cot~glo;:lei~t!c\~of Lgur~sthat :;ho,~!c! co:iseq:lentljf a theoretical knoi~leclgeat

P* 7 cit'ligll~C~.II:J ~ii;~t~:elii~tti~ir?fi.I lit rtla- le:ist, of the ai-t was zui indispensable tic;:i of a:usic to nlatllea~iatics is thus preliininary to admission into the high- llir:tcc! :it. est of their scl:ools. Scieuce Iias s:!own e\-esytllin;; in the it was knoxvn to tlios: qualified to llialerixl z~nii-erseto be in a vil~ratory impart wisdom, tliat an appreciation of 444 UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. harmonious sounds and a technical revelation of harmony, an unheard mu- knowledge of their mutual relations, sical idyl or lyric ; or perchance it is was no mean aid in bringing the student some delicate instrument unnoticed in into sympathetic vibration with the great the rush and sweep of nature's mighty harmonious laws of being ; quickening symphonic crescendo ; but in those his perception of those spiritual laws and quieter, serener moments when the roar conditions of which the Illaterial plane, of brass and the roll of kettle-drums has the objective Universe, the field of mod- ceased, its peculiar penetrating power ern scientific research, is but a distorted finds a wTayto the heart, there revealing and deluding reflection, and subject as its own individual message. The potent such to radical change should man's if inaudible voices made manifest to the power of cognition suddenly be enlarged eye in the beauties of cloud and sky ; in or diminished. the manifold marvels of budding spring- It was the conception of Pythagoras time life ; Summer's mature growth ; that the planets speeding on their circular Autumn's ripening realization of earlier pathsrepresented,each in its totality of vi- promise ; and even Winter's season of bratory force, and gave utterance to, some recuperative rest-all sing their song to particularly sound. These tones in their the inner ear. varied combinations produced, for beings The winds, whispering their secrets capable of perceiving them, the " music through the dancing leaves ; the artless

of the spheres. " This is derided to-day calls of forest birds ; waves wheeling by some, and yet, that branch of sci- landward, breaking on the sandy shore, ence dealing with sound is working un- or encountering in full course some de- consciously toward the same conclusion. fiant rock or promontory-all are vocal The ancient Chinese, Hindus, and in that universal chorus. These heard some others, understood the seven and and unheard voices repeat with ever twelve divisions of our diatonic musical varying rhythm, polyphonic device or scale. It was also known to ancient subtilely graduated effect, one theme,- wisdom that each note of the seven is " The essential underlying unity of all capable of seven sub-divisions, making things. " But, " while this muddy ves- the total number forty-nine. Moreover, ture of decay doth grossly close it in, we

the occult relations of the minor and cannot hear it. " major scales each to the other were It becomes the specific province of known, and that the seven and forty- music to interpret these voices of the nine divisions corresponded to other world around us, but its power would be septenaries-some secret-in nature and unfelt in human life, did not man, as man. But the twelve notes of the chro- the microcosm, synthesize within him- matic scale are sufficient for practical self at least potentially the Macrocosmic musical effect. whole. If the great mathematicians of Could we, while acknowledging the the past perpetuated universal truths universality of sound, extend the domain through glyph and symbol, appealing of our observation beyond the limits of therein to all future time, it becomes the the physical organs of hearing, we should province of Modern Music to bring home undoubtedly know the varied harmoni- to the very heart, in a manner particu- ous forms of nature to be the outward larly adapted to our own day and condi- expression of an euphony having its tion, the old, always new axiom reiter- origin in the beneficent laws guiding ated by Sage, Philosopher and Poet in the atoms in their evolutionary progress. every age-the mutual interdependence The humble flower, with its perfection of each and all, and the consequent ne- of color and symmetry of design, is a cessity of brotherly feeling and practice. MUSIC. 445

Music, of all the arts, most completely a longing with Schumann's Mignon to brings about that mental state, that return and make once more our own that touch of nature which, as the poet phi- land where the citrons grow-the Father- losopher says, " Makes the whole world land, as it was to Schubert's wanderer,

akin. " heartbroken, for his mortal eye shall Modern Music ! What visions of ne'er again behold his childhood home ; beauty, what enchantments spring to to us, the imperishable sacred land life before the potency of those magic where the first race in the purity of ig- words ? Hark ! A practiced hand in- norance started on its evolutionary way deed touches the keys; the mighty around the world. organ responds in tones of ever grow- Hush ! let us listen still more intently, ing complexity. Surely it is he, the for we may even then lose the elusive great master of fugue, the humble, unos- quality of this most unique yet search- tentatious Leipsic Choir-master. Now ing voice, in its sinuous chromatic wind- Heaven and Earth are singing in pro- ings. Chopin, if thine was no Organ phetic tones Hallel~ijahsfor a regenerate tone, it was nevertheless a revelation of

world. 'Tis " The Messiah, " the great subtle evanescent beauty-the bloom Oratorio, we hear, and its culminating upon the morn-awakened flower. chorus. A feeling as of perpetual youth, But while we stood so rapt, oblivi- of gladness and spontaneity lays hold of ous; dark clouds have gathered over- us. Why should we not rejoice with head. That harsh reverberating thunder Father Haydn at "the marvellous must be the din of battle. Woden and work " while " the heavens are telling all the warriors of Valhalla have met the glory of God " ? Now there is a their ancient adversaries upon the long peace and calm in the air, the landscape fore-told and fatal field. But no, the takes on richer color, glowing in a purer world still moves, for we hear at inter- light than Earth's sun has ever shed ; vals the gentle cadence of some shep- for the spell of Mozart's versatile genius herd's pipe, mingling its artless joy with is over all ; but as we listen to his lim- the weird grief-laden chant of the peni- pid notes of diamond purity, scintillat- tent pilgrims seeking the sacred shrine ing from Opera, Mass, and even the at Rome. humble peasant dance, we feel a strange Having thus very briefly characterized mesmeric power drawing us to diviner the different epoch makers in musical beauties ; visions of Edens yet to be, history, from Bach to Wagner, I would wherein no sophistry, no serpent guile say in concluding that the creative Mu- can harm, for the necessary fruit of the sician should, like the Poet, keep him- tree of knowledge has strengthened us : self in constant sympathetic touch with bitter experiences have we known, but nature. Thus will he, understanding in we have learned the true lesson of life,- his inner being her hidden ways, be compassion for all. better fitted for his office as interpreter. " The scene by the brook, " a simple How can he more surely bring about and pastoral scene !-hear Beethoven, sub- preserve that harmonious condition so lime Master, in this new Eden he has necessary to his mission, than in the pictured for us ; Man, the lord, realizes practice of unselfishness ? No selfish- his true position as guide and helper to ness or partiality is displayed in the those lower forms of life he was wont working of nature's laws. The fructi- to believe existed simply for his own fying shower softens the sun-dried soil convenience. Alas, these glimpses of and completes the conditions necessary Edenic bliss are only glimpses, and a to the germinating seed ; but it recks deep mysterious yearning has seized us, not who shall be the harvester. Deep in 446 UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD. the human heart a seed lies buried, music whispers of the spiritual, of \\-hat though too often the soil, dried and har- is beyond our finite, form-limited con- dened by the fires of passion and selfish- ception. Thus it reaches the innlost ness, refuses to yield, and the impris- heart, quickens into life the germinating oned seed helplessly awaits the benefi- seed, and softens the reluctant soil with cent rain of synipathy and conipassion. its harnionious rain. Who can tell what Modern Music with its infinity of rich that mature growth will be when, at the and varied effects is more potent, it close of the great day-the seventh seems to me, than the idealized forms of round and seventh race con~pleted-the sculpture and the painter's art, and even perfected humanity of this globe, dial1 the inspired language of Poetry, for stand by the shore of the ca11n unfath- these all convey to the mind conceptions omed waters, the boundless ocean of the of conditions more or less fixed, while unknown.

FRAGMENT-INTELLECT AND INTUITION.

is always difficult to know what "real " I mean that of which we are we are doing, and more difficult sure of having taken place. yet is to know how we do it. The We thus see that thinking is a process thousand and one functions of our body by which we try to establish a tie which take place without ourselves being con- connects two facts of which one is a scious of having given the necessary reality and the other a supposed fact. orders, nor do we know how these orders We call the tie between facts '' Rarma, " are given and executed. The reason of and thus thinking is a search after it is that our thoughts are on a different Karma, and correct thinking nlust be one plane froni our instinct, and the latter with the law of Icarma. Thinking takes can only be understood when we become time becaeise the physical ~liodifications conscious on the plane of instinct. in the brain, by 11-hich thought-images The action of our intellect is thinking. become conscious to us, require time to This conlprises observing, coordinating take place. and concluding. Now, \\-hat is a con- Intuition is something like thinking clusion? It is a supposed fact on the with the difference that it takes no time, thought plane. Thus we start from real and thus cause and effect are simultane- facts and arrive at supposed facts, either ous. Intuition therefore is the absolute by going backward by considering the knov;ledge of the law of Karma, and for real facts as effects and trying to find the intuitive iacultp time cannot exist the causes, or by going fol-ward by con- whereby cause and effect are separatecl sidering the real fzcts as cnuses acd try- when t!~o:~g-$:htof. ing to find cut the effects. IVhen we Of oar thinking we niostly know only start froni si~y)~>oscdfacts instead of f1-01n a series of 1)rait;-pictures, ljut ho\v these real ones, the thinking !.?cl;c; a. real ba~e pictnres are really co~~~iectedwe do not a~idis less sure ; but if wc once start 1;noir. Tlris co~nectior~is also intuition froni a given fact, our col!clrrsions he- as it at)soshs no time. We insta~tzne- come realities for vs and als~C~IISCS fcr ously jump fro111 one image to another new conclusions, and so forth. By across an unthinkable abyss. llTccoulc? THE VBIL OF MATTER. 447 not think if we had no intuition, because his mind, he would never dare to pass. our tlioughts or mind-pictures \~oulclbe But m-e had to give up our obedience to without connection. Sow, if we arrest our (let us call them) instinct-devas, in tlie modification of the thinking princi- order to develop our thinking principle, ple and stop with the last mind picture just as we have to give up the latter for without adding a new one, then if we the time during which we want to con- can do this, we are on the intuitional centrate on intuition. But of course no plane and live outside of time and con- step of the ladder can be left out, and sciously within Karma. Nothing of it unless we have done with our mind can be expressed in time and mind, and plane we cannot rise to the plane of in- therefore it is incomprehensible to the tttition. Far be it froni me to say that we intellect. have to live in intellect or dry-reason It is easy enough to form niind-pic- alone, before we can get ready for a tures, but by intuition alone such pic- higher plane ; we know that hIanas (the tures are formed which follow each other principle of hlind) has a double aspect in true karmic order, and by even a lit- and that the real intellect is the higher tle intuitive faculty the thinking is im- Manas, which overlaps already into niensely intensified. Bnddhi (the principle of Iutaitiotl). il word about instinct. Tie say that Man cannot go back In development, animals ha\-e instinct, because naturally, and when he has reached the buddhic \vithout thinlcing, they do the right plane, he cannot possibly lose l~isfac- thing according to their species. This ulty of free will and begin again, like is simply the result of their obedience to the animal, to blindly obey some presid- laws and orders provided for then1 by ing deva. Thus, even on the plane of in- the devas wlio preside over them respect- tuition he has a choice, and Bucldhi must ively. They could not think of doing then necessarily become to him a duality. otherwise, because they have not yet the What these conditions tilay be we can- faculty to think. Even we, when inind- not even guess at; we can only think less, act the same ; for instance a person with rapture of a condition which awaits during sleep-walking will pass tlie most us, in which we shall have an absolute dangerous places without hesitation, knowledge of cause and effect without where when awake and in possession of the least hesitation or doubt.

THE VEIL OF MATTER.

BY W. E. GATES.

raise the veil of matter and to guided all anconsciously to ourselves in understand the hidden meaning courses that lead to this unveiling. of sacred books-how great an One of the first distinctions drawn be- undertaking, for those wllo did not even tween the ancient and modern material- know that aught was hidden. And yet istic metllods, ~vasthat tlie former did who can look back over the century now not seek to impart a formal instruction, closing without seeing an unfolding but rather only offered a key, which the comprehension on the part of the world, student must use and try himself. And which would seen1 most truly to bear men forthwith wondered where that key witness to our having been at school, could be found, what it was like, and UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. what sort of a door it unlocked. But anything but fleeting. It begins to many became interested in the ancient dawn on us that a show " shows ' ' solnr- philosophy now again presented to the thing, and that all of nature is worth world and the interest grew, and with it something, mirroring and working out a came new (to us) ideas, ideas which men great conscious life within. perforce had to treat and consider in a " Religion " is no longer a thing of different manner from the old classifica- form, the expression of the bondage-as tions and labelings, and in the handling by chains-of man to some god impos- of which men learned new methods, and ing hisjat law upon him; it begins to had to break out of many habits of connote the inter-relation of real planes mind, abandon many hard and fast con- of consciousness and activity. Brother- ventions of thought. Knowledge came hood is ceasing to be an unscientific, un- to be seen as different from learning, businesslike sentiment, and is becoming form (mental and physical) as one thing an actually sufficient reason for conduct, and reality another. Old ideas full of more and more a recognized fact in the meaning and value in the life of the universal economy. race, long buried and encrusted till they And the greatest wonder of all would passed for dry nothings, came again to seem to be the additional raising of the life and influence. veil of matter which is involved in the Nothing could show this more clearly evidence accumulating through it all of than a study of the language of to-day a guiding, helping hand, leading the compared with that of fifty years ago. human race by the infiltration of ideas The enlarged vocabulary required by our which necessitate the use of divine meth- increasing dominion over material things ods of study and develop divine con- is not more wonderful than the expand- sciousness by their very presence in our ed circuit of ideas now involved by the minds. Who would have believed that words we use, fifty years ago as latent the great nineteenth century, the most and unrealized as were the telephone or physical and materialistic in thought of X-rays, Almost every distinctive word all, would so unveil the divine, give in the realni of philosophy and senti- reality to consciousness, show a unified ment has suffered some modification, in evolutionary progress inside the mani- every case in the way of greater mani- fested, and suggest to human beings festation of the underlying reality be- that each one's soul is the real working hind the '(fleeting show." The very part of him, his actual conscious self, words "fleeting show" mean a great while what he has regarded as his self- deal more to us than when we then used centre is only a make-believe, the protege them- mere counters, for we thought the of the real. matter that composed the ' ' show " was THE SOKRATIC CLUB.

BY SOLON.

E summer vacation was over and as being so important and fundamental nienibers of the Sokratic Club when the very opposite is at the same were coming back to the city. time true, that non-brotherhood, or if But though many had been away and the you like to put it so, enmity and hatred meetings had been discontinued, the are also facts in Nature. As I recently niembers who had stayed in town had heard a friend of mine say in discussing been more active than ever along practi- this statement, death is also a fact in cal lines of Brotherhood work. As was nature. No one will deny that Broth- my habit I dropped into the club on erhood may be found practiced by sonie, Saturday afternoon to see who was there and that in the lives of some there is a and found Dr. Roberts, Mrs. Miller and sincere attempt to attain to the realiza- Miss Holdy. tion of this high ideal. Perhaps it may Dr. Roberts had just come back from be found cotnpletely exemplified in rare the country and was asking if the inter- instances, and this would then be, as esting discussions in which the Profes- you say, a fact in Nature. " sor used to join had been kept up. He The Professov.-" I am very glad that said how helpful it had been to him in you, Miss Holdy, and you, Doctor, have his profession and every part of his life. brought up this matter, fcr I esteem it " It has given me such an insight into of the highest importance, and I think character that the whole world has that spreading broadcast the knowl- taken on a new aspect. " edge of Brotherhood as a fact in Nature MYS. Millev.--" I think those little will do more than anything else, more discussions were beneficial to us all, it than any legislation or refornis or preach- showed me, at least, how much we can ing or charity to lessen the misery in learn if we are only observant and try the world and to bring sunshine and to get beneath the surface of things. happiness into the lives of all the sor- If we do this we can learn not only from rowing ones of earth. But pardon me, our own experience, but from the expe- Doctor, I am using the statement as rience of others. " though completely understood by you, Just then the Professor came in, and whereas you have asked me to explain after greetings and exchange of news, a my meaning. ' ' discussion sprang up between him and DY. Roberts.--" Yes, Professor, that is bliss Holdy and the Doctor, which I re- what I would like to hear, for I cannot produce here. Mrs. Miller and I took see that the knowledge of the fact that the part of listeners. a state of Brotherhood exists anlong ilfiss Holdy.--" Professor, I have so certain people, whether few or niany-it olten heard you say that Brotherhood is matters not-will have the effect you an- a fact in Nature, but have never been ticipate, offset as it is by the greater fact quite able to understand in what sense of the manifest unbrotherliness also ex- you niean it. I do wish you m-ould help isting in the I\-orld. " lile to uliderstalid it. ' ' The Pvofcsso~-.-" The question turns Du. Robe~-fs.--'~Yes, Professor, and I on what is a fact in Nature. You will join in Xiss HoIdy 's request. I can~~otagree ~vithme that there are different see why you put forward the statemeilt classes of facts; such as, Washington UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. was the first President of the United for this reason, conceded by )-our science States ; the earth revolves in an orbit that both the earth and tlie sun had a around tlie sun. Each of these is par- beginning and will pass away. Yet this ticular, but there is a third class that is relationship, expressed by the eartli re- uiiiversal both as to sphere of operation volving around the sun, is in a deeper and duration ; aljsolutely independent of sense and taken as a type, a fact in Sa- time anc1 space; iiihei-ent in the nature ture ancl in the same category as the fact of things; a siu(1 qrcn 1201~of the maiiifest- of Br~~therlloocl;indeed, it is an ex- ation of Sature herself. In other words, pression of the fact of 13rotherhood. " it is not only a universal fact but a uni- DY. Ro6r.1-ts.- ' ' IITell, I'rofessor, you versal law. Such a fact and such a law astonish nle Inore ancl more. ' ' is Brotherhood. Such a fact is a fact in L4Yi~sHolrZ_11.-' ' I'rofessor, 1 wish you ZC'ature, ir~hereritin xature and a fact of .ivotlld clelilie Brotl~erhood. I think I Nature. Seither death nor unbrother- know n-hat nleaning you give to it, but liiless cone it1 this category. " I want to un(lerstan6 yon f111l)-. Don't Dv. A'o6cvf.s. -" IVlly not death Pro- you mean by Brotherhood that we are all fessor ? I don't follow you. And I sliould as inti1:lrttelj- connected and rt:atecl as eertaiilly call the fact that you nien- are the meml~ersof the same f;~lliil~-,or tioned, zliz.,that the earth nioves around as are the different parts and cells of the tlie sun, a fact in Xature. " body, so that what affects one, affects The PT-,;fe~sov.--'~Of course in one all ? " sense both of these are facts in xat~~re, The P?~ofc>~-.for.-"Precisely. That is i. c., taking place in the realin of Nature. a very good clefinition, bliss Elolcly. Nothing can, in fact, act outside of Ea- Xl~d,Iloctor, you kno\v Newton's state- ture. 1 will trj. to esplairl a little me~ltof the lam- of gravitation, that ft~rther.Death does ilot come within the every particle of matter attracts every saiiie category as Brotllet-hood, for the other particle with a force depending on reason that death is not to he found on rn:lss and distance. Kow, that statenleiit all planes of esistecce, whereas Brother- is nothing more nor less than a statenlent liood is on all planes. There is no death of 13rotherhood on the purely material on the higher planes of being, it is only plane. Displace one particle of matter to be found on the lover ancl lnxy even in the Universe and the whole 1-niverse be overconle by illan oil these lower is affected and a readjust~uentmust take planes. Indeed, I believe it is the des- place to preserve equilibrium. If you tiny of the hunian race as a whole, in the could entirely re~iiove or destroy one future, though perllaps far distant, to particle you would shatter the whole conquer death. " cosmos and reduce it to chaos. That is Dr. Ro6cvL.s.-" You are taking me be- strictly in accordance with iilodern yond my depth again, Profe~sor,and I science, if you please. Rut modern must beg you to return once lilore to science has not been able, perhaps has more material things. How about tlie feared, to assert the same law in respect earth and the sun ? Let us touch solicl to the subtler thought-world and to ground once Illore and deal with scien- sho~vthe same interdependence and mu- tific facts. " tual relationship existing there. And Tize P~fof~sso~~.--'(Yet, after all, Doc- yet they have attempted to solve the tor, it niay be fonnd so~l~eday that what most difficult part of the problem, thus I hare said about death is scientific al- maliing it the :nore strange that they though not as yet found in )-our science. should have neglected the more obvious But as for the sun and the earth, the part, I mean the Brotherhood that exists fact I mentioned is in a different category through the mind and heart. ' ' THE SOKRXTIC CLUB. 4,s I

DY. Robel-ts. - But, Professor, so AIiss /l'oZdy.-Li I think I begin to un- many are ~lutbrothers and even those cle~-standnow xvliat you liiean bj- Brotl~er- belonging to the same family are bro- hood as a fact in Kature. " thers onlj- in name and not in fact-i. P., Dv.Ro~PT~s.--" Yes, and I too, but the not brothers in niilicl or heart-which is thought of the awful responsibilitj- is directly contrarj- to your statement." simply appalling, I'rofessor. According T~cP~@/~'ssoY.-'~ I think we should to that kind of Brotherhood which one draw a distinction 1)etween Brotherhood cannot help but recognize once lie begins as a fact, and brotherliness arising froni to think of these things,-and tlie iogical a recognition of the fact and a striving outco:ne of the proposition-every evil to act in accordance with it. Because thought even if not carried into act bx two I~rothersare enemies, they are none the person thinking, niust go to swell the less brothers, though there be little the evil thoughts of the ~vo~-ldand per- 1)rotherliness between tliem. And I feel haps lielp to incite sorne poor clevil, less sure that the surest way to bring about strong than ourselves, to coninlit sonle a true brotlierliness is to teach the fact crime. " of Brotherhood. " The P~-of~~sso~*.--''iZ~~cl that poor devil ,lIiss 1Xoldy.-"But what d'd you is one of our brothers and so we owe it mean, I'rofes-;or, when you said that the to him and to ourselves to help him and

Brotherhood that exists in the niind ancl not push hill1 farther into tlie mire. " heart is tlie niore obvious part of the Afiss JXol&l -' @Itis an a\vFLllresponsi- prol)leni?" bility, but surely tlie other side is true Tht. P~.qi~ssor.--~' Simp1 y tliat the also and should give liope to everyone. strcngest ties that bind people together Isn't that so, Professor 3 I iiiean that are those of the mind and the heart ancl in tittles of difficulty and sorroxv, what a also that it is through the mind and lieart help and colilfcrt it lilust be to realize that the masses of the people are no st tliat there is an inexllaustible store, as easily affected and also through the pas- it were, of all the helpful, loving an(1 sional nature. It is on this outernlost unselfish thoughts of the world, on which plane of lilatter that we find the most we niay draw and to which we are linked differences and yet Science has recognized by our own efforts to clo the right. " the intinlate relationship existing be- The P~o@sso~.--"Yes. Brotherhood tween all force and all matter. Only a exists in both of these directions, it simple consideration is needed to recog- exists in all we may do or tllirik and in nize the much closer links that hind us all that we are. And you are right, together on the inner planes of the minil i>octor,that the responsibility is appal- and heart. ling, but at the same time we nlust not Dv. Ro6evts.-Do I then unclerstand permit ourselves to be appalled. Each you to mean that Kewtonls statelliellt of of us has his silnple duty to perforlii and the law of Gravity applies nz;l~tnfis?HZ- nothing more, but each should remenl- trrlzdis to the realm of thought, ancl that ber that that duty concerns not liimself ever!. one throughout the TVorld is af- alone but every human being. The duty fected 11y every thought and to a degree of everyone faithfully periornied xvill according to the intensity cf the thought? bring to him opportunity to help the 'IVhq', what an awful respotlsibility it sorrowing and suffering, and innumer- places upon one ! " able xvays of performing true brotherly The 1'~ofssov.-('This is qtlite true acts will present the~nsel~es.If 117e per- and it shows also that by our thoughts niit ourselves to be appalled we are we aid or retard the progress of the whole hampered, but if we see!; each moment of humanity. " to do the duty of the moment our way UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. will open out to wider and wider spheres without regard to the rules of the club of usefulness. " or its work throughout the country. Aliss 1i'oldy.-" Oh, here coine Mrs. Whether this nian wanted to make politi- Wilding and Mr. Turner. I do believe cal capital out of it or not, is not for tne they have some nenTs. They certainly to say, but he certainly overreached hi~n- seem very much amused. What's the self and the whole thing ~17illprobat)!p news, Mrs. Wilding ? " work out the exact contrary of what Iie Mrs. JViZdifzg. - (After exchange of expected. " greetings.) ii The news. Oh ! only a MYS. IVildi?c

11Ziss H~ldy.-'~Oh ! do tell us then. " deed, but we can't help but rejoice at AZYS. JVildi~~g.-" But it would be a the way our organization has been safe- pity to break in on any discussion you guarded. When will people learn that may be having. " they cannot do real Brotherhood work if The P~ofessor.-" Not at all, Mrs. at the same time they are seeking fame Wilding. We have been talking on and self-glorification ? " Brotherhood, but really we have come to The P~ofessor.-'~ And yet that man, a very good stopping place. Besides it for I know whom you mean, has a good does one good at times to turn from the side to his nature and generous impulses, serious to the more humorous side of and after all this is his opportunity even things and flit from grave to gay, occa- now if he only has sense enough to sionally. " clinib down. True Brotherhood work is Mrs. Wilding.-" It certainly is hu- a more serious matter than many think, morous to us. Pity 'tis, it is not hu- and those wlio wish to help in it must morous to the principal actors in the be willing to lay aside their personal little tragico-comedy. They take it ambitions or else they will get some seriously enough. But you tell the pretty hard knocks. " news, Mr. Turner, wont you? " Mr. Tz~rner.-~~But how foolish such MY. Turzter.--" Well, it is merely an- people are to think that it is a personal other case of failing to appreciate the matter. Our Leader doesn 't defend her- eternal fitness of things, and that there self-though we would ever do that- is sure to be a mix up if one seeks for but seeks merely to protect the work and fame while trying to do this work for cares only for the work. When will Brotherhood. You know the practical people learn that no obstacles can with- Brotherhood work the Sokratic Club is stand the work of the Universal Brother- doing all over the country, and how hood ? Surely people will soon learn the much has been accoinplished through its wisdom of putting aside and rising above united efforts and following the course their little personalities, and living in the laid down by otlr Leader. Well, to make pure sunlight of unselfish work for a short story of it, a few in a little town others. " in a neighboring State, who had never The P~~ofessov.--"Until that is done, talren any very active interest in the no one can know what the joy of life is tvork, suddenly co~iceivedthe idea that and what glorious oppol-tunities lie be- here was their chance-or rather one fore the liunian race. But that day is person particularly did so and the others fast coining and we all can hasten its fell in with his plans. 13ut u~~fortunatelyapproach. " for themselves and for their local work, Dr. Roberts here said he had a patient they wanted everything to run their nray to see, and the party broke up. STUDENTS' COLUMN.

CONDUCTED BY J. H. FUSSELL.

If Brotherhood is a fact in Nature, why stration that a law, universal in its ap- do we see so much cruelty, the stronger plication, really exists. If we are to everywhere oppressing and living upon the understand the wherefore and the why weaker ; birds living upon insects, beasts of these things we must seek for the law upon other beasts, fishes upon snialler fishes, underlying the apparent facts. man upon all ; and even so much unnecessary Man as the highest physical being cruelty, as when a cat plays with a muuse be- fore killing it ? dominates-if he realizes it or not-the kingdoms below him in the scale of evo- OTHERHOOD is a fact in Nature lution. The physical and mental matter just as health is and so also that has become impregnated with his un-brotherhood and un-health qualities and tendencies is thrown off by are facts in Nature. The conditions of him all during life and during the decay brotherliness and healthiness are the re- of the body after death. This matter is sult of living in harmony with the law in part absorbed by the bodies of those of brotherhood and the law of health entities evolving through the animal while the conditions of un-brotherliness kingdoms and is built into their animal and un-healthiness are brought about by and mental bodies and thus it is that the violating the law of brotherhood and the animals reflect to a greater or less extent law of health, as the case may be. the qualities and tendencies with which It is a well recognized fact that any man by his power of thought has im- infraction of the law of health results in pregnated the material that they are inharmony and antagonism between the obliged to make use of. different organs and functions of the Cruelty, oppression and tyranny are body, for such infraction is always due things of which the animal as such has to the undue absorption by one organ or no conception ; man alone conceives function of more than its share of the them and gives them birth. The cat powers of the whole organism and then that chases and cruelly tortures the each other organ or function must mouse but reflects on its plane the far struggle to gain its own proper share. greater, because more intelligent, cruelty Helping and sharing is what Brother- of the man who cruelly chases with dogs hood means " but helping one's self to trained by him for that purpose, the more than one's share is un-brother- timid hare, whose long spent agony of hood. effort to escape a cruel death on the The cruelty and oppression that is to course, is hailed as furnishing fine sport be found in the animal kingdom seems to the cruel instincts of perverted men. to negative the fact of brotherhood and And so also the bull-fight, cock-fight, so it truly does in a sense for it asserts fox chase, pigeon match. the eqtlal fact of un-brotherhood. And the slaying of one class of ani- R:lt it does not negative or disprove mals by another and feeding upon them, the L~ZUof brotherhood, quite otherwise. may not this have been brought ahout Tile struggle to niaintain any one of the by perverted desires ? There seems to pa:;fiaZ brotherhoods-which are each be no good reason why one aninnal species and race of beings-is a denion- should feed on another, and t%is all 45 4 UNIVERSAI, BROTHERHOOD. seems to have been brought about by dependence, then he will do even more diseased conditions. than he is now doin;: to make this

Perverted desire has brought about a '' Law of Love reign king of all. " condition where tlie One Life 111ust needs 11. 11. I~~freedom of choice instinct. It is both a fact and x law in lllust come the opport~lnityto do wrong, Nature that contact with fire is destr~zc- and in illally cases wrong action results tive to insect life, yet it is seldom that a and therefore in some cases cruelty. prudent consideration of thnt truth de- An essential Unity is necessary to ters a moth froill flyin;; into a flxme. make a Crotherhooc!, but cclually neccs- It is liu\\. a gect.s:::!y recogni~ec! fnct sary is an apparent outside di\-er>ity. in Nriture that all life slioul~ibe hc;d 0tlle:-\vise there would be c.nb one t1iir.g sacred fro111 \r~r:ton Gestruction ; yet :L7e -not a Crotiier!l~od ~ftlzt~z~~s.In the nivst h~cdlesslydestroy myi-:zds of livicg crent- perrect :drm of Br;)iher!iood of \vliich we ures ever)- tiiilc we niove a muscle, clrnw car1 concei\le there mnst be an izicreasiiig a breath or ezt a meal. And most of us intelligence on the outside, a continual delllaild the slanghter of certain of the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. superior animals so that we may have a cruelty nor suffering negatives this fact wider variety of choice in our foods. of Brotherhood, nor can imprisonment Shall we expect reptiles to be more con- or isolation prevent the operation of the siderate ? law of Brotherhood. All are linked to- Can we not do better than speculate gether, not one can stand alone. upon whether or not Brotherhood is a However, there still remains this to fact in Nature ? If it is not, we have the be done : to bring about a recognition of potentiality to make it so. And if it be the fact of Brotherhood and a conscious so, as all the Saviors of men have de- endeavor to act in accordance with it. clared, may it not be well for us to fol- Then will cruelty and suffering cease low their example and spread the glad and brotherliness and love prevail. tidings of solace and comfort to tired and J. H. F. discouraged humanity whenever we can, and show in our daily life that we accept Do Theosophists believe in prayer? If so, what the teachings ? H. A. FREEMAN. meaning do they put upon it? To whom or what do they pray ? This question is certainly at first sight Few Theosophists, I trust, believe in a perplexing one. The cruelty in the a selfish petition for one's own bene- world does apparently negative the state- fit, especially if to the detriment of ment that Brotherhood is a fact in others. The object of a Theosophist Nature. But if we look below the sur- should be to make brotherhood a liv- face I think we shall find the fact of ing power in the life of humanity. Brotherhood in spite of the cruelty. I How can he do this if pleading selfishly do not think we should confuse Brother- to a higher power ? No ! Theosophists hood with Brotherliness, though when do not believe in such prayers ; nor in understood and practiced the former prayers to personal deities for favoritism must result in the latter. The former is or special benefits or exceptions. What a fact and a law of Nature, the latter is they do believe in is a steady aspiration the outcome of a recognition and realiza- for the enlightenment of humanity and tion of the fact in one's individual life. the intense desire that they may perform Hence I do not altogether agree with their part in the uplifting of the world. the first statement in the answer by Bro. They know that in doing this they lift Freeman and do not think that Death as themselves to higher planes of activity a fact is in the same category as Brother- and consciousness and become channels hood as a fact. Death is a fact of time through which the great cry of distressed and condition, occurring at a particular humanity can be heard and through period of the soul's career-though this which, also, help and relief can be sent. may vary and does vary for every indi- H. T. P. vidual. Brotherhood is a fact independ- ent of and beyond time and existing on I think every man in some sense be- all planes and in all conditions. lieves in prayer, for I take prayer to be a I understand the fact of Brotherhood putting forth of one's energies to attain to consist in the interrelation and inter- a given end, whether that end is con- dependence of all human beings, and sciously striven after or not. Thus there between human beings and all other is a prayer of the lips, and a prayer of creatures; and that what affects one, the heart, and also a prayer of hands affects all ; that no act and no thought and of the brain. But surely true prayer, of any one person but affects to greater the highest, is a prayer of the whole life. or less degree all others and helps or re- Every spoken word, no matter how idle tards the progress of the whole. Neither or how earnest, is an invocation ; every STUDENTS' COLUMN. thought, every action, every desire, is an forces become powerless to harm us, but in-:ocation. There is nothing we may transmuted become our servants for good. do or think that does not invoke and What a tremendous power is conscious call to our aid-or to our harm-some prayer, for it is a bond that unites the one of the pomrers of Nature. There is one praying with that Power towards then conscious prayer and unconscious whom the prayer is addressed, and con- prayer, but usually where prayer is tains within itself the seed of that which spoken of, conscious prayer, i. e., prayer is prayed for and which will ripen into directed to some end, is meant. fruit according to the intensity of the To whom or what should we pray? prayer and the knowledge of the one Each man prays to that which is in ac- praying. It will be seen then that that cord with his own nature and his ideal. which determines the character of the Surely it should be our aim to seek ever prayer is the motive, and only that prayer higher and higher ideals, even the can lead to good which is unselfish and highest, and that highest will be to ex- says, addressing the Divine Self within : press perfectly in our lives the divinity " Thy will, not mine, be done." This which is the root and mainspring of all surely is the highest prayer and not any life. That should be the object of our prayer for any particular end, though it prayer; let us invoke that and all our may appear to us to be the greatest good. life will become transformed into a beauty None of us can see all the links of our and a glory. lives or read our own natures truly, and Some men have conceived the divinity that which may seem to us good, might, to be outside, external to them, and so if granted, become the greatest obstacle have thought of a God dwelling apart in our path. Hence it is the Good, the from them. Hence they address their Beautiful, the True, we should desire, petitions to this far-away power and all- content to live each moment as it comes, doubtingly look for an answer, looking knowing that all things work together for aid to come from without instead of for good for those who trust the Divine from within. Truly there are powers Self within and seek to make their lives external to man, and these he awakes by radiant with its Light. his prayers for good or ill. But the ' ' Unveil, 0 Thou from whom all pro- highest power is to be found only within, ceeds, to whom all must return, that in the heart of each, and in the heart of face of the true sun, nom7 hidden by a all our fellow-men. If we invoke that vase of golden light, that we may see power, then all the beneficent forces in the Truth and do our whole duty on our the Universe are ours and all the evil journey to thy sacred seat " J. H. F. YOUNG FOLKS' DEPARTMENT. A SATURE', STORY

is not every day that you nieet traps that torture 11s. This I could not with a soul who will let a fly talk believe as I had never seen one thing in as if it, too, had niaily lives. our house that was iiieant to hu:t a fl~. Why, if it ere not for a piece of bad But I niust get on with my tale. One luck (or was it good ?) I had to-day, I of the ~vinglessones in our house has could not be telling you this tale. been ill, and as she is always good to us I am not an old fly, but I have seen I stayed in her room with her, anc1 at some qneer things in my time, and lieard last a strange thing took place. She more. When I was quite tiny an old had in her hand a nice large she~tof blue-bottle gave me sonie of his life talk, what they call paper. It Tvas sniooth and it was sad to hear. He said the and cool for my feet, so I was putting great wingless flies who build the big myself to rights on it, when she sj?okt fo nests they call houses, are hardly ever me. I stopped just as I a-as with 111~- known to be kind to flies, or to take a back legs on the top of nly wings, ! \\-as hint from our wisest ones. Yet, he said, so startled and glad. we never stop buzzing round, doing our The11 I knew that what the fair3 flies best for them, eating up their bad smells said was true, and the terror of it n.e~:t and trying to warn them as well as we can. through me from wing-tip to foot. The house I live in is not in a town, After that I never went far from n~y but near enough for town news to reach friend, and as she had by her bed a cup us now and then. It has a garden round from which she kept sipping, I thougllt it which we flies go in and out of all day it woulci be civil on my palt to taste if long. One day I m7as so happy and too. And then came my bad luck. I fcll skippy, as if some nice thing were com- in, and as she had gone back to lier p:ll,ei- ing to me, and, sure enough, I lieard I thought I ~ho~l~ldie before help cai;ie. such a sweet singing, and flew out of tlie Just as I was giving up hope I was lifted open window to find myself in a great out, and foui~cl :r;yself resting on soft cloud of flies. They were not strong, white ~arnbrictliat soaked up sollie of black fellows like me, but ever so small, the stuff, but alas, tn70 of 111~legs were with wings and bodies like fine clear so stuck to each other tliat I could not gauze. I said they ~iiustbe fairy flies. get tliern free. I\Ly friei~dlay quite still Tesound of their wings was like tlie to xvatch me, only now and then giving hu~nof a lig-kt wi:ld ir, the sill; liarps the me a touch wit11 a fine i~oil~tecltlairlg ~pidei-sbuild in "cie flowers. 'I'hey told that heiptcl to lift the sticky stuK an ajr 115 tlley n'ere going to tell the great that clog;;:-t.(lr:ly I\-il?gs. Otlce. \\-hen s1.e

I, Ingiess fli~sin thc to\\-11 that the river said '' I tll~nkj ou '11 cc\~!it.rou!:c! nrsn- '' u :ii nkcs ty, slid all that ckLy our garden she begr~nto i;~li~:lgei:ti\ AS if "14' c:~~tics \:-:IS t;~icl; \\.ith tllem. were funny. Pt.chaps they n elu, tile? * 1 1hy~;told me so nl~~chtirat I cxn"l tired liie badly. ,it lxst L Il:.r! tt> zs!; !,,gin to repeat it :-Ol; the frtte of flies anothtr fJ- to keel] nie. IIe c:,:i:~ nl:c! every\vhere, arlil :io.i;. tlie ?);g 1iu:ilalls sipped the stufi ii u1i1 iiiIr two iit-;pit-s:. give neither help nor l)ity, l,nt spread legs, and at last, ~~ltera long and I\-cL:lq THEOSOPHICAL ACTIVITIES. time, I half flew, half hopped onto the for if one fly helps another she thinks wingless one's pillow. I felt I must tell there is a U. B. for flies, and if that is her what the old blue-bottle said, and so, all the children will like to know the great cloud of tiny flies, and how I about it. That is all. Only you may did not think all of her kind were cruel, be sure I am very wary now when I taste so my friend said she will write down for things. My friend may not be there to the Young Folks how the fly helped me, save me next time.

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A NEW CRUSADE. that the need is most urgent, the heart e,N the New 170rk He~faldof October cry of the whole world is in the appeal. 18th~is an appeal for help for the Our Leader will probably take with *' sufferers from the War, in Havana. her two physicians and several nurses, The American Evacuatioil Commission and, as we who have worked with her has stated that it will be glad to aid in know, she is a host in herself. But we this work and four ports in Cuba have also know that for the work to be s~lc- now been opened for the free entry of re- cessful, we have to do our share at tkis lief supplies. end of the line. The united efforts of Mrs. Tingley had already been making all the members sent the Crusade around preparation to go to Cuba not later than the world in 1896. This expedition to Nov. ~gth,but the need is so great that our suffering Brothers is another C:-u- in response to the appeal for help she sade and in it we all must and, i know, has decided to push forward the prepara- we all will, share. Some have already tions and hopes to be able to start within dolie 1111ich to help the Relief TTTork al- a week. At the Headquarters of the ready done for our soldiers at the Camp League there are a quantity of supplies at Illontauk, but some perhaps have not and these will be made ready for ship- helped. And no matter how small niay ment at once. be the power of one, it is the united ef- Our Leader and President of the forts of all that makes our work success- League has obtained recognition of the ful. International Brotherhood League from Then too we know that the aid which the I'resident of the United States and our Leader gives to the suffering is not also free tratlsportation for all supplies merely physical aid, but it is help to the and xvorkers. There are sufficient sup- soul, reviving hope and courage in the plies on hand to begin with, but liiore heart and awakening new life. In this will be needed, for the work will have to way the assistance given is not merely be continued for some months. This is temporary but permanent. an opportunity that all the members of At the Headquarters the War Relief the Organization have been looking and Corps are inore busy than ever and it hoping for, to reach and help our suffer- will require all our energy night and day ing fellow-men and practice true Broth- to make all the necessary preparations erhood. We know there is suffering all for the departure of the Relief Expedi- over the world, in every large city, but tion. When Havana is reached it will Cuba is the central suffering part of the be necessary to hire some native help. world at the present time. It is there This will of course require money, and UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. money will be needed for other things, begged permission to use it, as it touched but if we believe in Brotherhood we know a deep chord of feeling. It TV~Sintended this is the best possible investment, to to have published it in the Search Light, use our money in this way for the pur- but at the last moment it was mislaid. pose of helping others. Here it is, in part : Some people are apt to connect the International Brotherhood League with DECEMBER23, 1897. other organizations, but it should be As the holiday season draws near and distinctly understood that it is entirely the old year fades into history, I want to separate and distinct, it is connected with express to you my deep sympathy and no politics, no religion, no party. It is appreciation of the heroic work you have entirely unsectarian and for hurnanitar- been doing since Judge put off his armor ian purposes alone, helping all without and joined the Immortals. I have wished reference to any distinctions of nation- a thousand times that I could have been ality or creed. The members of the I. nearer and helped to bear the burden. B. L. should at all times insist on this. You haveundertaken herculean tasks and E. AUG.NERESHEI~ER. at great odds and worked with entire forgetfulness of self. What the results Letters of inquiry come from mem- may be neither you nor I can know. I bers from all over the country and am sure not only that you have done from Europe, Australia and India, ask- your best, but no one has or can do ing about the Leader's health, and ex- more. pressing anew their devotion and loyalty It may seem a trifling thing to say to her. It may not come amiss, then, how firmly my heart has upheld you, but for one who has had recent opportunities I want to say it. I only wish the saying for observing her, to say that never has of it may convey to your weary body and she seemed so well and so f~~llof energy, overtaxed energies one little ray of com- and this despite the daily increasing fort. It requires a brave soul, a Lion rush of work. Even as long as a year heart to stand in the front of such a battle ago the future of the movement appeared and take all the poisoned darts aimed at so great that one scarcely could com- the Great Work. To know that this is prehend all that it meant and now the realized and appreciated may make the work is more than doubled. And as task a little lighter. they did then so now the members pledge Different as your work has been I ho:d their faith in the Leader and by deed and it in my heart, and you as the great pro- by letter show their loyalty to her, and moter, side by side with H. P. B. Not their desire to help her in every 11-ay pos- idly and as a mere sentiment do I wish sible. We cannot tell how inuch her you all the complinients of the season. burdens hare been lightened by sym- but from my heart of hearts do I send pathetic thoughts sent her by the mem- you love and sympathy, confidence and bers. But we all realize our privilege support. May you be strengthened from and opportunity in being thus permitted the Great Fountain of Life and may your to help in this glorious work for Human- work prosper. May the Great Ones bless ity. In this connection a letter, written and keep you in unwearied courage arid by our old friend and comrade, J. L). in perfect peace. Buck, of Cincinnati, to the Leader, less Sincerely yours, than ten months ago, comes in very J. D. BUCK. apropos. It expresses what all the work- ers feel to-day. The writer came across Sunday, October gth, was a great day it in looking over some old letters, and for the Bridgeport Local Centre of the THEOSOPHICAL ACTIVITIES.

International Brotherhood League. Fol- INTEKSATIO?;ALBROTHERHOOD lowing the work done in the I. B. L. LEAGUE, hospital in caring for the sick soldiers, To Advance the Cause of Human Broth- who through our Leader's efforts had erhood.-Branches Throughout the been sent to Bridgeport, and in which World. -Unsalaried Officers work the citizens had so generously and Workers. helped, our Leader determined to hold a The International Brotherhood League, public meeting in order to acquaint the through recent events, has been brought inhabitants of Bridgeport more fully into great prominence in America. The with the aims and objects of the League. very successful work carried on at the Dr. Herbert Coryn, K. Lundberg and Camp, Montauk Point, L. I., among the B. Harding went on an early train Sun- sick soldiers, endeared it to the hearts day afternoon to Bridgeport, taking of many thousands in all parts of the with them the Crusade flags, and they United States and we therefore offer to and Mrs. Butler, the Misses Hall and those hitherto unfamiliar with it some Miss Whitney-who had also gone from account of its work. New York--decorated Varuna Hall with This League was founded in New York flags and flowers and plants, so that it in April, 1897, by Katherine A. Tingley, was all ready when our Leader and the its President for life, and during its others arrived two hours later. Those short term of existence it has already accompanying our Leader were Mrs. E. entered upon many lines of active work. C. Mayer, the two Misses Fuller, F. 34. Directly after its formation it saved from Pierce. H. T. Patterson, D. N. Ilunlop starvation through its unsalaried agents and J. FI. Fussell. thousands of famine-stricken sufferers in The meeting began at 8.15 with a India, especially at Benares. musical selection on piano and violin by In several of the largest cities of Eng- the Misses Fuller. Mrs. Butler, of land, including London, 11-ork among Bridgeport, welcon~ed the visitors, and the poor has been in continuous prog- then H. T. Patterson took the chair and ress, and the same is true of the branches introduced our Leader as the first of the League in Holland, Sweden, Ire- speaker. In a stirring and sympathetic land and Australasia. In Anierica alone, address she said that the present time was there are over one hundred actix-e one of the greatest opportunities to get in branches, where the same important touch with our fellow-men, especially lines of work have been carried on, and with the heroes of the war ; that if she in addition special Brotherhood work had a thousand lives she would give has been done in the prisons, for those thilrsl all to this glorious cause of by whon~the warmth of human sym- Brot1:erhood. The other speakers were pathy and encouragement is so urgently J il Fussell 011 The Neressicv fov nrz Ov- needed. Lqulliznfio?t; I)r. Herbert Coryn on The To enumerate all the special activities Di;~ii~i

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I. To help men and women to realize to either of the following officers of the the nobility of their calling, and their League : E. A. Neresheimer, or H. T. true position in life. Patterson, and addressed to 144 Madison 2. To educate children of all nations Avenue, New York. on the broadest lines of Universal Broth- PER31ANENT INSTITUTIONS REL0NC;ISG erhood, and to prepare destitute and TO THE LEAGUE IN NEW YOKK S'I'ATE. hor::eless children to become workers for " Lotus Home " for friendless and un- i~unlanity. clainied children, Buffalo, N. Y. ; " The ;. To ameliorate the condition of un- Wayfare " for friendless and homeless fortunate women and to assist them to a women, Buffalo, N. Y.; " The Do-good higher life. Mission, " 607 East 14th Street, New 4. To assist those who are, or have York, for general Brotherhood work ; byen, in prisons to establish thenselves special attention here paid to work in honorable positions in life. among children. 5. To endeavor to abolish capital pun- Although the League is not yet two iskznent. years old the above institutions are per- 6. To bring about a better understand- manently established and in full work- ing Setu-een so-called savage and civil- ing order. ized races, by promoting a closer and KATHERINEA. TIKGLEU, Inore sympathetic relationship between President International Brotherhood them. League. 7. To relieve human suffering result- Headquarters, 144 Madison Ave., ing from flood, famine, war and other New York. ca:arnities ; and generally to extend aid, Copies of above circular may be ob- help and comfort to suffering hurrlanity tained from H. T. Patterson, General t!;rnughout the world. Superintendent of the I. B. L. , 144 Madi- It will thus be seen that these objects son Avenue, New York, to whom all in- naturally fall into two groups, one of quiries regarding the work of the League temporary application, one of far-reach- should be addressed. I. B. I,. Corn- ing and permanent results. mittees and Centres will find the circu- Of temporary application is the last, lar valuable for propaganda; single the relief of such forms of suffering as copies, 5 cents, 50 copies for $1.00. are at present inevitable in modern life. The other objects aim at the bringing about of a better state of society, and the An entertainment for the benefit of development of a nobler, higher human- the Relief Corps of the International ity. Working for the future by provid- Brotherhood League was given in New iiig for the training of children and their York, Thursday, Oct. 13, under the aus- education along the noblest lines, the pices of Universal Brotherhood Lodge, League also works for all, of whatever No. 10 (H. P. B. Lodge, Harlem). age or sex or position, whose errors or Stereopticon views illustrating the niisfortunes constitute their claim and war were shown. The views were very our opportunity. kindly lent for the purpose by Mr. Keith ,4t the present time active prepara- of the 14th St. Theatre, New York, and tions are being pushed forward for a re- the stereopticon by Messrs. Riley Bros., lief expedition to either Cuba or Manila, of 16 Beekman St., New York, Mr. Frank -investigation now being made as to Raymond of Messrs. Riley Bros. operat- the needs in these places by the repre- ing the lantern. Messrs. Clark & Zu- sentatives of the League. Contributions galla, of New York, furnished the tickets of supplies and donations should be sent and all the printing. Bros. Schenck and 464 UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. Hermann and Mr. Falkenstein furnished Block, corner Champa and Fifteenth most beautiful music. D. N. Dunlop, Streets, where it will proceed with the President of Lodge No. 10, described the Brotherhood work in a vigorous man- views and gave a brief account of the ner. The first meeting held in the new progress of the war. The views ended home was a business meeting, Septem- with pictures of the International ber 19. The rest of the evening was Brotherhood League Camp at Montauk, spent in discussing plans for the winter L. I., and a portrait of our Leader. The work. Hall was crowded and the entertainment GII,ROY,CALIF., U. B. L. NO. 14.-Gil- in every way a success. roy Lodge meets every Wednesday as a study class. The Lotus Group is growing and much interest is shown by the little The Fall work has now fully begun all folks ; they meet Sunday afternoon. over the country, and everywhere the Los AN(;EI,ES, CAI,IP., U. B. L. No. Lodges report renewed activity and 62.-\Ve have just expended $60 in fix- bright prospects for the f~~ture.Many ing up our hall; new carpet, new gas of them have written for a new stock of fixtures, etc. It is much more attractive application blanks, and are expecting a and home-like. The War Relief work is large increase in membership. going on nicely. One box of clothing There has been a surprising increase has been sent and another \\rill soo~be in membership since last spring, a steady ready. stream of applications coming in all the LOS GATOS,CAI,IF., U. B. Ii. NO. 13s. time. All this will be told in the record -We have so far only adopted the regu- of the work at the first annual Congress lar xvork of the society, our membership of the Universal Brotherhood Organiza- being scattered over a large territory. tion at Point Loma, next spring. \Ve have, however, kept our ~neetings We have received the monthly report of through the summer with varying sue- the Pacific Coast Coinmittee for Univer- cess. sal Brotherhood. The following is an MERCEI) CITY, CAI,II?.--A Brother- abstract of the Lodge reports. Cali- hood conversazione was given here on fornia Academy of Sciences Building, September 8, by Mrs. 3I. C. Skelton. room 30, 819 Market Street, San Fran- PETAI,I';\IA,CALIF., IT. B. I,. So. 6.- cisco. \Ye are keeping up the work in the usual OCTOBER,1898. manner. ALAMEDA,CALIF., U. B. L. NO. I 7.- REDDISG, C.\I,IF., IT. B. 1,. NO. 20.- The Lodge work goes on as usual, and a Lodge No. 20 met as usual in the tcor~th great deal of interest is taken by niem- of September. bers and visitors in all our lectures, SALTI,AKE, UTAH, U. B. L. NO. 5 I .- papers, and discussions. September We have taken more commodious quar- showed a substantial increase in attend- ters in the Dooly Block. Attendance is ance over the same month in 1897. Dur- gradually on the increase. ing the month three new members came SANFRAXCISCO, CALIF., U. B. I,. No. into the Lotus Group. On September 7.-The Lodge has just purchased a new 15, an entertainment was given by the piano. Instrumental and vocal music is Lodge, and a fine literary and musical now a feature in the Sunday lectures as programme was presented, followed by well as in the U. B. I,. meetings. At- refreshments. tendance is good at all meetings. The DENVER,COL., U. B. L. NO. 104.-The monthly lecture was given at San Quen- Lodge has now moved into new quarters, tin Penitentiary, September 25, by Dr. in a new building, No. 214 Enterprise J. A. Anderson. The ladies of the Re- THEOSOPHICAL ACTIVITIES. lief Corps have been busy during the the Sunday evening meetings at head- month. quarters the first Sunday in October, and SANJOSE, CALIF., U.B.1,. NO. 4.-We the regular Tuesday evening meetings resumed Sunday meetings the first Sun- will be resumed. day in September, after a vacation for TACOMA,WASH., U. B. L. NO. 116.- the summer. We are trying to find a The fall activity at Tacoma has com- practical side to all our work. We are menced. Great earnestness is shown at few and arouse no excitement, but have Lodge meetings by the members and the perseverance, which will sometime show public meetings are well attended. We a result. were very pleasantly surprised by Sid- SANTACRUZ., CALIF., U.B.L. NO. 19. ney G. P. Coryn, of London, England, --Work seems to be boonling here now, walking in on us on September 12. We had no regular Lodge studies, but That night he met the members and took up what seemed necessary. A visit brought a strong '' headquarters-breeze " from Mrs. Bostwick of Stockton, was with him. rtiuch appreciated. Sunday evening VANCOUVER,B. C., U. B. I,. NO. I I .- meetings are held in a more interesting We are happy to report progress this iizanner than heretofore, including music month. Sunday afternoon meetings are and recitations, concluding with short much better attended since the cold talks on Theosophical subjects, and weather set in. There is a growing in- questions and answers. Lotus work is terest in the meetings in which ure en- as prosperous as ever ; the meiiibership deavor to make Brotherhood the leading is large and great interest shown ; plans idea. On September I I and 20 we had are being laid for another entertainment special lectures by Brother Sidney G. P. in the near future. The Beginners Class Coryn, of London, England. These lec- has a large attendance, and genuine tures and Brother Coryn's presence among heart interest is felt by all in the work. us gave us a tremendous lift, and the In War Relief work a large box of con- people were all more than delighted and tributions is being prepared, and the free in their expressions of appreciation. general pt~blicis being interested in this VICTORIA,B. C., U. B. I,. NO. 87.- as much as possible. Mrs. L. A. Kus- Brother Coryn's lectures were splendid. sell, one of our best workers, leaves us On both occasions, in spite of the very soon at the call of duty, and we shall short notice we received of his conling, miss her very much. good audiences gathered to hear him SANTAMONICA, CALIF., U. B. L. NO. speak and manifested great interest in 75 .-Our Lodge meetings were discon- his addresses. The Lodge has been busy tinued during the summer, but we have in the work gathering clothing and begun our study class again and will money for the relief of the sufferers by continue it regularly during the winter. the disastrous fire which occurred at SEATTLE,WASH., U. B. I,. NO. 100.- New Westminster, B. C., 'on September Brother Sidney G. P. Coryn was warmly I I, which destroyed the greater part of received everywhere. We are having that city, rendering hundreds of people good meetings in Seattle. It is proposed homeless and destitute. The relief was to inaugurate a system of leaflet distri- immediate and most liberal and came bution on one of the boats between here from all parts, indicating the fact that and Tacoma. Brotherhood is fast beconling a living STOCKTON,CALIF., U. B.L. NO. 3.-At power in the lives of mankind. Especial the end of our vacation we reassembled credit is due to the U. B. Lodge at Van- on Friday, September 27, somewhat re- couver, which did noble work in the freshed after the rest. We will reopen cause of the sufferers. UNIVERSAL, BROTHERHOOD.

OUR PUBLICATIONS. ERHOODMagazine and The New Cfrtfu?y, HOW MEMBERS MAY HELP. both at 144 Madison Avenue, New I'ork. But do not delay, the present time is Many do not fully realize the great in- the best for this work. fluence which our literature plays on the thought of to-day, and the opportunity We much regret to hear of the death for work in this direction is increasing of Brother John Fitch McEwen. The all the time. This is one of the most members of the Youngstown Lodge of important features of our work. Every the E. S. T. passed the following reso- Lodge and every member can help in lution : this, and no effort should be spared to By the death of our dear Brother and circulate more widely, so as to reach all Co-worker John Fitch hicEwen, the classes of people, both the UNIVERSAL Youngstown Lodge, E. S. T., feel that BROTHERHOODmagazine and The New they have met with a great loss, and Ce~zfury. that the community generally has been Not only are these the best propaganda deprived of a benefactor. Bro. 114cEwen publications, but they are used for the was really the father of the local organi- sole purpose of furthering the work, and zation, the Theosophical Society in any success that may accrue to them Youngstown, and although a constant from increased circulation will but in- sufferer he was untiring in his efforts to crease their usefulness and benefit the make practical the brotherhood of man. whole organization. The present time It was his earnest endeavor to help afords the best opportunity of doing everyone towards that larger life lead- this, and it is earnestly hoped that all ing to contentment, which is the result members will help. The Lodges as a of a knowledge of the true science of whole should consider this, that the nature and of Universal Brotherhood. work in their cities or districts may His was a heart that beat in sympathy be done systematically and all news- for all who were unfortunate, his hand dealers be supplied with both publica- was ever stretched out to give relief. tions, and also the public appealed to I,. F. BARZER, directly. An enthusiastic effort made A. L. ACHE SO;^, at the present time will bear a great har- NINA B. KIXG, vest. H. PARROCK, For further particulars as to special Committee. rates, etc., apply to UNIVERSALBROTH- RECORDER.

Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn.- The American Schodar. EMERSON.