The Theosophist Volume 4 No. 12

· A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO. ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ART, LITERATURE AND OCCULTISM: EMBRACING MESMERISM, SPIRITUALISM, AND OTHER SECRET SCIENCES. VOL. 4. No .. 12. MADRA S, S E P T EMB'E R, 1883. No. 48. ~ " ~ any additional discoveries be made in this field Dr. ~;nr~ tRr~: I Salzer will, w:ith his usual kindness, report them th;ough THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH. the Theo8oph-l,st. The masterly expositions of ancient [Family 'fIwtto of the 1I-faharajqhs of Benares.] Ary~n philo~ophy, by Mr. T. ~ubba Row, B. A., B. L, F. 'I ..S., WhICh have attracted WIde notice in Europe and OUR FIFTH YEAR. AmerICa as well as at home, will be continued; and we are promised the favours of many other able scholars. AGA.IN we have the pleasure of noting tho continued As the:e is every likelihood of an eager demand for the prosperity of the Theosophist, and the fact that its publi forth<\ommg volume, on the above and various other cation will be continued as heretofore. The experimental accou~ts, it will be but a kindness to remind our present stage was passed a few months after the journal was subSCrIbers and readers that we publish an edition only launched, and it now appears to be growillg in influence large enough to meet the demand, and cannot undertake even more decidedly than in circulation. Yet the latter to supply back numbers after the edition has been has long been extensive enough to reach regular sub exhausted .. rr~ be sure of a set for ~he year, the~, one scribers in nearly every quarter of the globe; and the must send ~n h1s nart;le and money as early as possible. contributions which some of these have made to its Since the magazine is-not published for profit, and the columns have been alike instructive and interesting. With proprietors have hitherto given its whol~ earnings and some of them friendships have also been formed by the much more towards the support of the '1'heosophical founders of the Society, which are likely 'to be lasting.. Society, we will not consider ourselves open to the Such is the case usually where the tie is based upon a reproac1;l of covetousness, if we beg our subscribers to community of intellectual tastes and moral aspirations. try to enlarge its circulation. Each can without much Begun as a convenient channel through whieh to reach, trouple send in 'th~ name of at least one new subscriber, the scattered members of our Society, the journal has' and so help' pn a" movement which grows by its own become a delight to its founders, and the task of con inherent vitality, arid has never been nursed orstimu ducting it a labour of love. Its most important feature lated by artificial means. Fellows of the Society are e"speci is that the adept Mahatmas, until now hidden from the' ally bound to do this much, since the Supplement pub sight of the public, and guarding the. fact of their very lished solely for the benefit of our numerous Branches existence a. close secret, have permitted many occult to announce and 'discuss' in it our Society's business truths to he given out, through Chelas, in its pages. And is printed entirely at the expense of the Founders. The as these seeds of thought have here and there found soil circulation of the Theosophist is the soil from which for their germiuation, though . for the most part they every ~ecent branch of t~e Soc:iety has sprung. have fallen on the hard and stony ground of modern It Will have to be agam notICed that our subscribers " culture" (!) the series of Fragments of Occult 'l'ruth have been given much more matter in the Volume than will be continued and other pregnant ideas thus dissemi was promised: instead of the agreed 288 pages, Volume nated. The hidden meaning of the Aryan Shastras being IV has contained 430, including the Supplements. These a matter of the .highest importance for Hindus and latter addenda£orm, in faot, a large Journal oBhe Society others to learn, such expositions will be from time to in themselves, and as said, is printed at the exclusive time made in the journal. We shall begin this work cost of the Founders, since no Branch or individual by expounding, so far as permitted, the esoteric mean member has seemed to feel called upon to contribute to ing of the text of the BHAGAVAT GI'l'A. On0 of the first wards the expense. Let us hope that when those two numbers of onr Vohlme V will contain the first individuals shall pass out of sight, others may take their chapter, and the commentary be continued monthly until places who are as willing to carry the burden without the whole is finished. Some of our readers, especially waiting for the cheerful help that the leaders of public Hindus, will be' doubtless astonished to discover the organisations usually receive from their colleaD'ltU.3 es almost perfect identity· between the concealed sense of pecially when their services are given gratis. "" , this immortal epic and. the Arhat Tibetan Doctrine, '1'he Business Notice of the Manager will be found on which has been m part expounded in the F1'agments, our last page. ~ud other writings. Colonel Olcott will, as heretofore, • write in the intervals of leisure allowed him by his EllRATA. arduous official duties; and, at our request, explain the Owin g to the negligence of final proof-reading .t~o scientific rationale of his seemingly miraculous cures. .A. misprints and! blunders were allowed to appe&l" _ new field of scientific discovery has been opened up by month in the ~upplement. the learned Prof. Jaeger, of Stuttgard, in his researches On page 1, 2nd column, 14th line from below, it reads: into the nature of odors and the law of their propaga- . And would it be tuen either fair or just to sacrifice the vital tion. This subject involves even the question of a interests of the majority becuuse they are I1on·Cbristians and . molecular psychology, and its high value was shown by supposed to belong to "the dusky and Heathen majority"-to Dr. Leopold Salzer,]i'. T, S., of Calcutta, in his paper at the &c" whereas it ought to read :- And WOJLld it' be then either fai'f or j11St to 6acdfice the vital the first anniversary celebration of the Bengal Theoso interests oj the many because they are non-Oh?"istialls and belong phical Society, reprinted in ournumberfor. July. Should to "tlte dU8lcy "and He'athej~ majority" to the ~c. 294 THE THEOSOPHIST. [September, 1883. ' " On page 3, 2nd column, from 15th line from the top, Charles Darwin accepted Hahn's collections of photo graphs of fossils fonnd in meteorites, in the metals, and it ?'eads: , ",' : . "Scattered all over the globe; every sinnH. group~havIn~ in the oldest crystalline formations of the earth, as proof ~llce ChOB'3U i~s own -path-b.eing bound to m?ve on--;-up.less It of the earliest evolution of life. prefers to shamefully desert I~S colours-~otwl~hstandlll', perse· 'rhis concurrence of Western scientific oplmon and cution and difficulties; surrouuded, etc-IS leglOn ; the,lhcoso· .discovery struck me forcibly when I was reading an phical BraGches, e~c."-wben it ought to read:- . " Scatim'ed all over the globe; ev01'Y small group havtng on.ce article published at page 205 of the May 1883 Number chosen its own path, 1m/esB it in'eferB to Bl~amefully d~8e1·t ~tB of the Theosophist, (~ The Religion of the Future." colow's, is bOlmd to move on-notwithstand1ng, pe!'sec1~lton and The correctness of the doctrine, that ideas based .upon cli,(ficulfy. S.wTounde~ by ill1?ishm's and a com~onenemy whose fundam~ntal trutlisp:issthrough different minds simul name is Zegwn, the '1 heosoplHcal Bmnches, elc. taneously,~arid' at' all' ·places all over the world, is as • manifest as that Life pervades all matter. What I am FUNDA],fENTAL TRUTII~ ETERNAL. now writing tends tosupport the explanations of evolu tions of the seven kingdoms through the seven worlds By GILBERT ELLIOT, F: T. S.*· contained in number VIII of the Occult Fragrnents. IN 'Westermann's JrIonatshefte, No. 299, published at The truth of the great principles of evolution forces' Brunswick in August 1881, there was an article by.Ernst itself into view of s.cientificobservers everywhere. In Kaff, (C Zur neuen Vveltannhat'lung"-The new VIew of Germany, besides Phmss, Dr. We inland and Dr. Ziifer, the 'Vorld-in which Kaff quotes and reviews Dr. O. Hahn's zoologists of the' first order admit t.hat the' zo~phytes work on Meteorites and their Organisation. I extract as follows:- '., . which make coral have been found m chondrodltes* of meteoric origin, in olivinet and in felspar.t Hahn in hi~ " About the year 1865 news came to, Europeofa dIS. last publication testifies to having. discovered low forms covery at Montreal in Canada WhiC~I caused muc.h sur of anirnalliJe in c'ryst,alline formatIOns, so much so that prise to Geologists and Palooontologists. w8;s sald th~t It. he says chonarodites, olivine, aiI~ £elspar· are forme.d :fossil remains of animals had been found mSlde, certam not merely of layers of dead. ammals, but that theu' balls embedded in the Serpentine limestone of Mont.real.: bodies are woven, together lIke felt. These ,German In the controversy which followed, Hahn wrot? so vlgor writers in opposition to a theory of French savants co? ously against that view of the discovery WhICh called tend that the system of melting processes set forth m the Montreal fossils Eozoon, and asserted they were Daubree's experimental geol~gy, can~ot apply.

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