THE
THEOSOPHIST.
JULY,
VOL. XII.
- NO.
- 1891.
- 10.
IS
THERE
NO
RELIGION
THAN
TRUTH.
HIGHER
- motto
- the
Uaharajahs
[Family
- of
- of
Benares.]
"H. P.
B.'S" DEATH.
bereavements which
are certain
THEsRileEnce,
one would
to bear in
prefer
- Under
- justice.
do
- to
- are too
- them
since words
poor
such aro
I,
- the
- and
- of
- the members
Theosophical
- one
- Society,
an
especially, loss is too
- for
- Our
great
be
now
adequate expression.
Ordinary
even in
but
forgotten,
suffering.
time
nor can
and
friends there is
- may
- replaced,
Petrovna,
acquaintance no one to
Helena of her
she ever be for replace
have none have them all.
certain like,
This
- Others
- gifts,
the next
gotten.
will
her
not.
Take her
has not seen
probably
demerits, her
generation
- and her dark
- all, with
- merits and
her
moods, as one
history. in
all
bright
above her she towers
foibles,
- her
- and
her virtues
contemporaries in modern
- striking personages
- and
- most
as of the
Her
picturesque have known friend,
col
I
it
as
life,
- these
- seventeen
the
past
years,
of
- tragedy
- collaborator,
- a
- has been a
martyr-phi
and
tragedy,
league
intellec
and
welfare spiritual
the
- with zeal for
- Burning
lanthropist.
- selfish
- no
- tual
- of
moved
- by
- humanity,
- enfranchisement
inspiration^
work, sho her altruistic
slanderer, the that
unwilling
and without
to
- herself
- freely
- price
by giving has the and bigot
- to her
- the
- been hounded
death-day,
sho should
- even
- These wretches are
Pharisee. in vain have
theii* in the
- urn
- burial
and
her
aro now
her defiling
sleep hope peace,
- Catholics
- Roman
as the
of
;
besmirching Cagliostro
memory
Germain,
those of
by
and St.
her
predecessors, fail, becauso she has left
will
Their scheme mendacious
biographies.
- character
- to her
- for,
- than
myself, to do
- behind her a multitude of witnesses
- ready
None intimate
1874,we have been
justice
more so
and show the
of her motives.
purity
with
lines friends, imbued
- in
- first
- our
- since
- meeting
on
ns
- and, in fraternal
- working
- parallel
common
- a
- sympathy,
and purpose
dissimilar as in abilities
In
towards a common temperament goal.
- radically
- two
- could
- and often
- any
- well be,
- disagreeing
persons
[July
- Theosophist.
- The
of
574
t
- in
- lie.work
as
- heart
- mind and
- regards
- been
- one
- details, we have
yet
Masters, its
- and
- Teachers
to our
and in
- reverent
- hand
- our
- allegiance
We than
a
she
of
- them
- and
knew
overlookers. times more
- both
- personally,
made the
rupture planners hundred
I,
- our
- and this
intimately
- unthinkable
- the tie of
sense, as
but rather
She
earth-lives.
as
as the dissolution of
a
relationship
question
in
- sister
- a
uterine brotherhood.
- She was to me
- a
peculiar
- alliance,
- to our
- had
- there
- been no
- of
- period
- beginning
- though
a
which dated from
- psychical
- anterior
one of them
consanguinity was
- a
- double-selfed
- anti
- very
- pre-eminently
personality,
Her almost to me and some others.
- and the
- ill-health
- pathetic
constant
irritable, her want
of touch between herself and
- modern
- made
- society,
- —
- —
and
I
- often
- was
But she
self, never common
- the most
- which was also
unquiet
place.
- unjust.
- thought
other,
I loved her for the
One
the higher
fullest
in
I had her
- us
- have said
seventeen mysterious. confidence,
- would
- together
seeing the
- of
- fact is that,
- intimacy
- yet
despite to years
- work,
- daily
I
she was an
would think
to me the end. Often enigma
and
I
knew her
that there were discover
perfectly,
self-hood
Helena presently
deeper could find out
who
in her
I had not
I
- sounded.
- never
depths
Hahns and
not as whose
- Petrovna,
- of
she was,
the
- daughter
- Dolgo-
mysteri
had
"
B.,"
the
H. P.
- roukis,
- but as
- was
- to trace,
lineage
easy
wonders. ous wrote, and worked
Her
- which
- individuality
family
- of
- stream
curious
- whence
- drew her exhaustless
erudition.
- no idea
- she
aunt the but
begun,
- and
- soon after the
wrote
asked her
I
- question,
- respected
was
"
she could afford no
- of
- Isis Unveiled"
clue. pre
writing
Madame
"
—
:
When I last saw her" some five
- years
- Fadeyef replied
—in
- know, even
- her dreams, the learned
"she did not she is now things that first of viously
you
her of
H.
I
- P. B. on
- tell me
- discussing."
helped
"
Isis," works,
and
- and saw written or edited
- wonderful
every page
- the
- of
The galley
proof-sheets. and its
the MSS.
every
production of
numberless
- with its
- erudition,
she
- book,
- was
that
- quotations
- strange
me,
satisfy
- all,
- that
and for
- to
- once
miracle
enough the possessed
quite
order.
highest
But
there was far more of
gifts
that.
far proof psychical
- we
- two
- often,
- were
working
- and
- when
- Often
- at
of
alone even
than our
- she would
- illustrate her
- into
- the night,
desks
descriptions nature
man and
- by impromptu
- experimental
in
that
pheno phenomena
occult
mena. powers
Now
it, I
- back to
- can see
I look chosen science, as the that these
of educating the with
specific me in
or were
design seemingly
- of
- laudatory
to lead the experiments
Tyndall,
seriatim
through psychical
Cooke
Faraday the curricu
as
so
are
planned or pupil
- There were
- lum of
mud, no no
- then
- chemistry.
to
- Coulombs
- above the
or
physics
third
befool, none
- for
- parties
- waiting
- jewelry
presents,
- or
- about the short cut to
Nirvana :
- Yoga
- tips
literary help
she powers, wanted special and, on her book
- to
- make me
- the
- moment's discussion, she
;
merely
hend the occult my compre
laws involved in
the scientific
experi things
she stood
mentally
were
ground
never
More
- proved
- upon.
thus
shown me that have been
- the
- written
- than all
about, done wondrous
works
the
public
- has read
- about
her
the
in
pre
having
"
H. P. B.'s" Death.
then, that all
575
1891.] the
- it
- Is
strange,
humbugging
witnesses.
by
- of
- other
sence tales
critics,
about her
of
and
- interested
- trickery
- and
- reports
her real
to shake
failed what
knowledge
- psychical
- my
charlatanry,
I,
who have been favoured with these valid of transcendental chemis wonder that
And others
}*
powers in the
- Spciety
- Theosophical
- all
who
beyond proofs
her the realities by
- shown
- was
;
the
marvellous
of
human of
and the who was led soul
dynamic
potencies
- her into the
- by
- and
- physics,
try
will,
which delightful path
and
;
mind,
truth
and who
trodden
joyfully
was made since
;
have ever
know,
I
—
the Eastern Teachers
what and with
and talk
see,
to
personally wonder friend,
- as a
- a
her
teacher,
with her as
loved
that I have her
priIzed
?
her,
exer sacred
- might quarrel
- Living,
- memory
- evermore keep
- and
- loss,
irreparable
- redouble
- my
- her
- bewail
I must
push
dead, to
- but
- only
- work.
- on our
joint
tions moment to answer
- the
- seems
- as
to
This
what
many questions cabal
proper
I think about the Patterson-Coulomb-Hodgson against
nauseam,
- ad
- are
friend. The hostile
- dear
- rechauffing
- those
- papers
my
I
in IAustralia
meats.
stir
- Wherever
- lectured
compost.
- baked
- there
can
- funeral
- were
- the
- then,
- to
feculent that I muck-rakes
- up
- say,
- do
the
than that
- nobody
- consider
More
- not
- charges proven.
un
go, have the
- should
- of
- innermost
- the
- consciousness
- less he
- gift
- reading
- of
and accused.
On the
when day
—
- accusers
- the
the her very
charges against
—
first
in the
in
Times, she then
London
were an
- published
- wrote
- that
denial.
I
- no
- have seen
- since
- then to
- proof
- indignant
The
- paper
- support
shown
charac to Mme. Coulomb as to