| <center>BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1876</center> | | <center>BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1876</center> |
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| {{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|This is published in "A Modern Panarion", p. 88 as "Huxley and Slade."|center}} | | {{Style S-HPB SB. Archivist note|This is published in "A Modern Panarion", p. 88 as "Huxley and Slade."|center}} |
| In the Chaturhôtri Mantra (Book V, ch. iv, § 23, of the Aitareya-Brâhmana ) the Goddess Earth (iyam), who is termed the Queen of the Serpents (sarpa-râjñî), for she is the mother of everything that moves (sarpat), was in the beginning of time completely ''bald''. She was nothing but ''one round head'', which was soft to the touch (i.e., a “gelatinous mass”). Being distressed at her baldness, she called for help to the great Vâyu, the Lord of the ''airy'' regions; she prayed him to teach her the ''Mantra'' (invocation or sacrificial prayer, a certain part of the Veda), which would confer on her the magical power of creating things (generation). He complied, and then as soon as the Mantra was pronounced by her “in the proper metre” she found herself covered with hair (vegetation). She was now hard to the touch, for the ''Lord of the air had breathed upon her''—(the globe had cooled) . She had become of a variegated or motley appearance, and suddenly acquired the power {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-188}} | | In the Chaturhôtri Mantra (Book V, ch. iv, § 23, of the Aitareya-Brâhmana ) the Goddess Earth (iyam), who is termed the Queen of the Serpents (sarpa-râjñî), for she is the mother of everything that moves (sarpat), was in the beginning of time completely ''bald''. She was nothing but ''one round head'', which was soft to the touch (i.e., a “gelatinous mass”). Being distressed at her baldness, she called for help to the great Vâyu, the Lord of the ''airy'' regions; she prayed him to teach her the ''Mantra'' (invocation or sacrificial prayer, a certain part of the Veda), which would confer on her the magical power of creating things (generation). He complied, and then as soon as the Mantra was pronounced by her “in the proper metre” she found herself covered with hair (vegetation). She was now hard to the touch, for the ''Lord of the air had breathed upon her''—(the globe had cooled) . She had become of a variegated or motley appearance, and suddenly acquired the power {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-188}} |