A THEOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. DESIGNED TO "BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS.” FOUNDED BY H. P. BLAVATSKY. EDITED BY ANNIE BESANT & G. R. S. MEAD. The Light-bearer is the Morning Star, or Lucifer; and “Lucifer is no profane Daylight." -YONGE. . VOLUME XVIII. MARCH, 1896-AUGUST, 1896. LONDON: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, NEW YORK: 65, FIFTH AVENUE. BENARES: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 1896. Berkeley and the Occult Philosophy. ERNEST SCOTT III 361 495 Helping of the People, The. IVY HOOPER House of Dreams, A. MARYON URQUHART Letter to the American Section. A. P. SINNETT Letters to a Catholic Priest. Dr. A. A. Wells Lives of the Later Platonists, The. G. R. S. MEAD Madame de Guyon and the Quietists. The Hon. OTWAY CUFFE Man and his Bodies. ANNIE BESANT 389 131 246, 470 185, 288, 368, 456 69 9, 122, 215, 313 Reviews Animal Magnetism. W. GREGORY Ashtâdhyâyi of Panini, The. Books II. and III. Tr. by SHRISHA CHÂNDRA VASU 524 81 Book of the Secrets of Enoch, The. Tr. by W. R. MORFILL 345 Devil-Worship in France. A. E. WAITE En Route. J. K. HUYSMANS 643 437 Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, The. Tr. by THOMAS TAYLOR 82 Porphyry to Marcella. Tr. by ALICE ZIMMERN. 77 Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life, A. T. J. HUDSON 519 Sword of Moses, The Theosophy of the Upanishads, The Story of Atlantis, The. W. SCOTT-ELLIOT System to which we Belong, The. A. P. SINNETT Tarot of the Bohemians, The. PAPUS Transactions of the Scottish Lodge. Vol. III. Upanishads, The. Tr. by G. R. S. MEAD and JAGADISHA CHANDRA CHATTOPADYAYA 170 84 260 524 Spirit of the Age, The. ALEXANDER FULLERTON "Spirits" of Various Kinds. H. P. BLAVATSKY 303, 381 273 Sûfîsm. The Hon. OTWAY CUFFE 230, 335, 393 System of Chaitanya, The. RAJENDRA LÂLA MUKHOPADHÂYA 146 LUCIFER. ON THE WATCH-TOWER. "NOTHING TOO MUCH." THERE is an old Greek adage, μndèv ǎyav, “nothing too much.” Therein is much wisdom, for it lays down the injunction to tread that middle way which lies between extremes. In perhaps no book of modern times has that injunction been so flagrantly set at defiance as in the two volumes of biography and autobiography which have just issued from the pen of Mr. Edward Maitland, in recording the experiences of himself and the late Dr. Anna Kingsford, the writers of The Perfect Way and other works. (Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary, and Work, by Edward Maitland. London, Redway, 1896. Price 31s. 6d. net.) We are quite willing to believe in the sincerity of the biographer and recorder of the experiences of Mrs. Kingsford, but we cannot have confidence in the accuracy of the author with regard to the controversial incidents which form no inconsiderable part of the narrative. We do not intend, however, to revive ancient history, and quote the views of the "other side," for no one is any longer interested in the matter. It is sufficient to remark with regard to the presidency of the London Lodge, that the majority of the members of that Lodge preferred their studies conducted on the lines of the possibility of help from living men who were trained seers, rather than those of the "illuminations of the gods which were entirely out of the control of the recipient. Mr. Sinnett's point-blank denial of the allegation that he denied the truth of reincarnation also gives us pause, and so with other things personal. |