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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
or Satanic title. It is the Latin Luciferus, the Light-bringer, the Morning Star,
equivalent to the Greek Φωσφόρος
the name of the pure, pale herald of

Daylight." -YONGE.

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VOLUME XVIII.

MARCH, 1896-AUGUST, 1896.

LONDON:

THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY,
26, CHARING Cross, s.W.

NEW YORK: 65, FIFTH AVENUE.

BENARES: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY
MADRAS: The Theosophist OFFICE, ADYAR

1896.

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Berkeley and the Occult Philosophy. ERNEST SCOTT
Buddhism, Christianity and Phallicism. H. P. BLAVATSKY
Cagliostro

Catholic Priest, Letters to a. Dr. A. A. Wells

III

361

495

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Helping of the People, The. IVY HOOPER

House of Dreams, A. MARYON URQUHART

Letter to the American Section. A. P. SINNETT

Letter, An Important

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

Occultism in English Poetry. Ivy HOOPER

Orpheus. G. R. S. MEAD

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

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643

437

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Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, The. Tr. by THOMAS TAYLOR

82

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Porphyry to Marcella. Tr. by ALICE ZIMMERN.

77

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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

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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

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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.

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