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<Untitled> (The Hindus are now turning the table upon the Missionaries...)
The Hindus are now turning the table upon the Missionaries. The other day Baboo Nabeen Krishna Banerjea, Deputy Magistrate, Berhampore, delivered a lecture to the élite of that city on “the Mythology of the Bible.” Now Baboo Nabeen Krishna is not a Bramho but a Hindu, and his acquirements are of the highest order. As a profound thinker and as a debater, Baboo Nabeen Krishna has very few rivals among the educated Hindus in India. We have no desire to enter into the merits of the controversy raised by him but this much we can say that, the Missionaries will find in him a very formidable adversary. He tried to prove that, the Mythology of the Bible was borrowed from the Hindus. Babu Nabeen Krishna, we understand, has joined the Theosophical Society.
<Untitled> (We have become civilized indeed!..)
We have become civilized indeed! Our ladies have learned the art of memorializing,—a very noble art which we have cultivated with success under the benign British rule. A petition has been addressed to the Queen-empress by some Hindu widows of Madras against their priests who want to throw obstacles in the way of their re-marriage. In older days Hindu wives regarded their husbands as gods and perished on their funeral piles. Those who did not follow their husbands thus, adopted Brahmachariya crushing their carnal desires and devoting themselves to religion. European civilization brands this as barbarism and our ladies have been taught to think in this way. What progress, what enlightenment! Why should these ladies forego the pleasures of re-marriage, sweeter perhaps than those of the first? Old ideas were foolish, old people were fools. Our females have perceived this. Thanks to Europeanism. It has made its way into our Zenana and has implanted such moral courage in the hearts of our ladies as to make them take up the bayonet of a memorial against orthodox priestcraft.
The “Theosophist.”
Conducted by H. P. Blavatsky, Corr. Sec.,
Theosophical Society.
This intensely interesting Asiatic Magazine has now attained a wider circulation than any publication in India or in all Asia. It is the steadfast champion of Aryan religion, philosophy and science. Every month brimful of instructive matter. It is published at about cost, and sold only for cash. Subscription Rs. 8 per year; Rs. 5 for six months; and one rupee per copy; postage included. No name entered until the cash is received. Specimen copy sent on receipt of a rupee. Make all remittances in favour of “Proprietors of the Theosophist.” Address Manager, Theosophist Office, Breach Kandy, Bombay.
Esoteric Theosophy.
The entire subject, pro and con., argued out in a masterly style by an eminent Anglo-Indian, in a handsomely printed pamphlet of 108 pages, which is published for the benefit of the Theosophical Society. This work is even more remarkable and interesting than Mr. Sinnett’s “Occult World.” Price Re. 1. To be had at the “Mirror” Office, and also from Messrs. Newman & Co., “Limited.”
… आजकल कलकत्ते में “थिओसोफिकल सोसायटी” का प्रेम लोगों के हृदय में आ रहे हैं।
The “Theosophist.”
Conducted by H. P. Blavatsky, Corr. Sec.,
Theosophical Society.
This intensely interesting Asiatic Magazine has now attained a wider circulation than any publication in India or in all Asia. It is the steadfast champion of Aryan religion, philosophy and science. Every month brimful of instructive matter. It is published at about cost, and sold only for cash. Subscription Rs. 8 per year; Rs. 5 for six months; and one rupee per copy, postage included. No name entered until the cash is received. Specimen copy sent on receipt of a rupee. Make all remittances in favor of “Proprietors of the Theosophist.” Address Manager, Theosophist Office, Breach Candy, Bombay.
Mr. Bennett as Seen by Indian Eyes.
The Philosophic Inquirer, published in Madras, India, and printed in two tongues—English and another language in characters which we have never before encountered—in its issue of Feb. 19th, contains the following:
Wednesday in the week has been an important day to us, for on that day noon, our esteemed American brother, and the Editor of The Truth Seeker, of New York, honored our poor self with an interview with us, and greeted us, as a friend and fellow-laborer in the field of thought. But better it would be if he did not content himself with mere seeing and conversing with us, at a quarter where he witnessed our status something akin to slavery—for what does dependence upon one for the necessaries of life, mean other than bondage, while the very thought there that “preferment” invariably goes on earth “by letter and affection,” mortifies all reasonable hopes and expectations of principles, and seekers after justice and truth. While, however, there has been some consolation to us by our noble brother’s converse with us, for the shortest time of an hour on that whole day, our many earnest friends who were day after day anxiously expecting his arrival on the Madras shores from Calcutta, had to be disappointed in their hopes of gaining a sight of this highly cultured and noble being. Mr. Bennett is one of the very best men we have ever seen, read, or heard of. His graceful looks, his grave, serene forehead, his affectionate talk, his good will to his friends, his inimitable modesty, and his hearty recognition of the services done to him in Bombay by Madame Blavatsky and Col. H. S. Alcott, in the dishonorable and cowardly Joseph Cook’s affair, have been marked by us as characteristics of the good and valuable man, who has proved himself a hero, a martyr of the Freethought cause in America, where the Christian law is as unrighteous and despicable as is now witnessed in the Bradlaugh affair, and where Christian charity and greatness in persecuting and slandering heretics is as rampant as in the boasted “free” England. Mr. Bennett during his conversation with us was seen with a copy of the Philosophic Inquirer in one hand, the other hand almost touching our shoulders as an emblem of his real fraternal love. For Madame Blavatsky and Olcott he had deservedly high regards, and he joyfully told us they were “good people.” Mr. Bradlaugh, he remarked, “is a great man and works very hard for the cause.” Mr. Bennett gave us a fine photo of his, which brings each moment his valuable person to our affectionate memory, and took leave of us on the evening of the same date; and he had his own reasons to be on board on that day, for unfortunately his vessel was not to stay in Madras the next day. While solely regretting for the loss our city friends had of his sight, and while regretting more particularly on behalf of the Hindoo Freethought Union, which had high hopes of securing the some special services of his fine, eloquent tongue at the Union’s hall, we wish our excellent brother Bennett reaches the Atlantic …
Editor's notes
- ↑ The Hindus are now turning the table upon the Missionaries... by unknown author, Amrita Bazar Patrika, The, May 28, 1882, p. 352
- ↑ We have become civilized indeed!.. by unknown author
- ↑ The “Theosophist.” by unknown author
- ↑ Esoteric Theosophy by unknown author, Indian Mirror, The, Calcutta, Thursday, May 4, 1882
- ↑ The “Theosophist.” by unknown author, Mittra Vilasa, The
- ↑ Mr. Bennett as Seen by Indian Eyes. by unknown author, Truth Seeker, The, New York, Saturday, April 8, 1882; quoting The Philosophic Inquirer of February 19. The text after “Atlantic” is hidden by the scrapbook mount.