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Theosophist V13 N08 May 1892 ■ .: > ■-14 " "■ ■ a magazine of t" • : • -/ t , v ,. , - t * • ' . --\ ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ‘.ART,LITERATURE AND OCCULTISM. ■ - , i 1- ' ^ . C o n d u c t e d B y H . 8 . O l c o t t .1 ' - - > . ' \ . - i TTTr- K \ ■ ' , ." VOL. X m :,N o. 8,-f-MAY 18<J2. ; . / .7. ;y“. •>*. - - .* .• -J • * v. T. • V • "^-W ^ .V'’* .:V; , V-\ ; * \ , P a g e . »- ^ -v L Old Diary Leaves II........... .; v.v... ..................... ........................ 455 - - > II. Analysis.of Ramayana, 1st Canto... ..*...... ........... 464 • III. Tlie:Qualifications Needed for Practical Occultism. 470 " LY. A Trip to the Seven Pagodas,...;.7...;....V..i. ; v 474 V . - V . The Indian Doctrine of Reincarnation......... ; . 480 . y VI. The Mystery Cards'.,.... ‘ :.>.. .......; 7./......... 486 V I I. A Translation of the Sankhya>-Tsi.ttwa- Kaumudi of 7 v' f tVachaspati M i s r a * . 492 . V I I I. ' An Evocation by Sorcery;v.v'>..^..’.,..v ..^:..L,^.;. 498 IX. Sri Sankaracharyars Malmvakyadarpanam______ .... 503 •• ; R e v i e w s . i . 508 ^jCOKKESPOXDENCE.,....;-i.,.i.i.. 511 ’ v S u p p l e m e n t . .. /.;... 7.-. .1-................ i .V.'A.... <,. lix— lxyi * ' MADRAS : - ; v PUBLISHED BY.THE PROPRIETORS ; • AT THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY’S HEAn-QUAETEKS, ADVAE. ■Uc ' • MDCCCXCII. f“*metyr}:tis\:&iich, w'inot responsible.. 1/or ant/ f\4-'J-i’jti**&- T r \ * i ««n r § l -.-. f x m •; <*t\h r\n i *TJie -w^ e^^Hjalbi^h^ild’ wjll contain not less t.han 64 pages of:^3pi ? ' reading.. j'taatt^r. taafit&r. TtLt isis'nowin.its now in its 13thyearvdf13th vpar of publication.rmblication. 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It it particularly requested that no remittances shall be madeto individuals by name, as the members ofthe staff are often absent from Adyar oib duty. , . * ' : \ NOTICE. Subscribers to the Theosophist .should notify any change of address to the Business/ Manager, so that the Magazine may reach them safely. The Proprietors of the Tiieoso- piiist.can not undertake'to furnisl copies gratis to replace those that go astray thron'o-h. carelessness on the part of subscribers who neglect to notify their change of address. THE THEOSOPHIST VOL. XIII. NO. 8. MAY, 1892. W T O W I THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH. [Family motto of the Maharajahs of Benares.] OLD DIARY LEAVES* C h a p te r II. J O Y be with the Good People of Fairyland, for helping me find a letter to myself from an older acquaintance of Madame Blavatsky’s than even Miss Ballard, the existence of which I had forgotten. The last-named lady met her at N ew York within the first week after her arrival from France, but Dr. Marquette knew her in Paris, before she started on that long and brilliant career which led, per aspera ad astra, to end at W oking for the moment, and then keep on and ever onward. The dastardly innuendos about her having led a wild life at the French capital are answered by this frank statement of an educated lady physician, whom I personally knew at N ew York, but who, I under­ stand, is now deceased. She says : “ New York, December 26, 1875. D ear S i r , “ In reply to your inquiries, I have to say that I made Madame Bla- “ vatsky’s acquaintance in Paris, in the year 1873; she was living in the Hue du Palais, in an apartmentf with her brother, M . Hahn, and his * I shall be under great obligations to any friend who wishe? well to this his­ torical sketch, if he (or she) will give or lend me for reference any interesting documents, or any letters written them during the years 1875, 6, 7 and 8, by either H. P. B. or myself, about phenomena, the occult laws which produce them, or events in the history of the T. S., or any newspapers or cuttings from the same relating to the same subjects. Loans of this kind will be carefully returned, and I shall be glad to refund, if desired, any expense for postage incurred by the senders. Reminiscences of occult things shown by H. P. B., if described to me by the eye-witnesses, will be specially valued. I may not live to get out a second Edition of my book, and wish to make the first as interesting and trustworthy as possible. One ought not, at the age of sixty, to trust too much to one’s own memory, although mine seems not to fail mo as yet. Friendly Editors will oblige very much by giving currency to this request. H. S. 0 . +An “ appartement” does nofc mean, as with us, a single chamber, bufc a suite of rooms, comprising reception, dining and bed-rooms, with a kitchen and servants’ quarter?.—0. “ intimate friend, M . Lequeux. I saw her almost daily and, in fact, spent the Book of H um an Accounts ! If any doubt it, let them go and pass a “ a good part of my time with her when I was not in the hospitals or stormy day or night in the steerage of an emigrant ship. “ attending the lectures. I am, therefore, able to state from positive W e have seen how Miss Ballard found H . P. B. living in a wretched u knowledge, what her behaviour was. It gives me great pleasure to tenement-house in an East-end N e w York street, pending the arrival of “ say that that behaviour was unexceptionable and such as to entitle her money from home, and honestly supporting herself by sewing cravats. “ to every respect. She past her time in painting and writing, seldom This was in July, 1873. In the following October her ever-indulgent, for­ “ going out of her room. She had few acquaintances, but among the bearing and beloved Father died and, on the 29th of the month, she received “ number were M. and Mme. Leymarie. Mme. Blavatsky I esteem as a cable dispatch from Stavropol, from her sister 44 Elise,” conveying one of the most estimable and interesting ladies I ever met, and since the news and informing her as to the amount of her heritage : adding “ m y return from I ranee, our acquaintance and friendship have been that a draft for 1,000 roubles had been sent her. [I have the original 44 renewed. dispatch before me as I write.] In due course of post she received all Yours respectfully, the money, and then shifted her quarters to better neighbourhoods in N ew (Sd.) L. M. M arquette, m.d/’ York city— Union Square, East Sixteenth St., Irving Place, etc., and it was A large proportion of the calumnious reports circulated about her in the last-named I found her domiciled, upon returning from the Eddy in Europe for many years, arose from the fact that other ladies of the Homestead. Her money did not stay with her long, however, for, as it is same surname— Mesdames Julie, Nathalie, Heloise, etc., etc. Blavatsky— recorded in Mr. Sinnett’s book, while she could endure with perfect pa­ were mixed up in adventures of various kinds, some not very creditable, tience the miseries of poverty if compelled, no sooner did money fall into her and the enemies of H . P. B. attributed them to her. H er aunt, Mile! lap than she seemed to be unhappy unless she was throwing it away with N .
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