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  | title        = Am I My Brother's Keeper?
  | title        = Am I My Brother's Keeper?
  | title link    = Judge W.Q. - Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
  | title link    = Judge W.Q. - Am I My Brothers Keeper?
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author signed = William Brehon
  | author signed = William Brehon
  | comment      = Part II, continuing from Part I (April 1887); examines the first chapter, "The Despondency of Arjuna."
  | comment      = Part II, continuing from Part I (April 1887); discusses the undisclosed meaning of the Vedas, the Aryan psychological system, and the blindness of Dhritarashtra as a symbol of material existence.
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  | author        = [[Collins, F. S.|F. S. Collins]]
  | author        = [[Collins, F. S.|F. S. Collins]]
  | author signed = F. S. Collins
  | author signed = F. S. Collins
  | comment      = Part I. A paper read before the Malden Theosophical Society, indebted to D. J. Snider's ''Goethe's Faust, a Commentary''. Continues in a later issue of Volume II, outside the scope of this project.
  | comment      = Part I. A paper read before the Malden Theosophical Society, indebted to D. J. Snider's ''Goethe's Faust, a Commentary''.
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author signed = William Brehon
  | author signed = William Brehon
  | comment      = Part III, "The First Abyss," continuing from Part II (November 1887).
  | comment      = Part III, "The Despondency of Arjuna," continuing from Part II (November 1887); examines the first chapter's two sets of opposing forces.
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  | page          = 289-290
  | title        = Rays from the East (Fragments of MSS written down by J...) (1888/1/1)
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  | month        = January
  | month        = January
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  | page          = 291-295
  | title        = The Bhagavad-Gita (4) (from December) The First Abyss (To be continued) (1888/1/1)
  | title        = The Bhagavad-Gita
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| title link    = Judge W.Q. - The Bhagavad-Gita
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  | author signed = William Brehon
  | author signed = William Brehon
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  | comment      = Part IV, "The First Abyss," continuing from Part III (December 1887); discusses the nature of will and desire.
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  | month        = January
  | month        = January
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  | page          = 296-300
  | title        = Rahula's Inheritance (1888/1/1)
  | title        = Rahula's Inheritance
  | author        =  
| title link    = Keightley J - Rahula's Inheritance
  | author signed = J Campbell Ver Planck
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  | author        = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]
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  | author signed = J. Campbell Ver Planck
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  | comment      = An allegorical tale of a prince whose birthright—a gem symbolizing Life—is lost when he tries to hoard it for himself.
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  | volume        = 2
  | volume        = 2
  | number        = 10
  | number        = 10
  | month        = January
  | month        = January
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  | page          = 300-303
  | title        = Keeley's "Inter-Etheric Force" Tr from A French rendering of passages from "The Secret Doctrine" (1888/1/1)
  | title        = Keeley's "Inter-Etheric Force"
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| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n10_p300
  | author signed = Editor
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  | author        =
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  | comment      = Unsigned editorial translation, from a French rendering, of passages from H. P. Blavatsky's forthcoming ''The Secret Doctrine'' on sound as an occult force, with a following news item on the Keeley Motor Company's 1887 annual meeting.
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  | page          = 304-308
  | title        = The Appeal unto Caesar. (1888/1/1)
  | title        = The Appeal unto Caesar
  | author        =  
| title link    = Keightley J - The Appeal unto Caesar
  | author signed = Jaspar Niemand FTS
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  | author        = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]
  | type          =  
  | author signed = Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.
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  | comment      = On the seeker's "appeal unto Caesar"—the conscious turn to one's own higher nature when the resources of intellect and heart are exhausted.
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  | month        = January
  | month        = January
  | page          = 309
  | page          = 309-310
  | title        = Answers to Questioners (1888/1/1)
  | title        = Answers to Questioners
  | author        =  
| title link    = Judge W.Q. - Answers to Questioners
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author signed = Zadok
  | author signed = Zadok
  | comment      =  
  | comment      = The third installment of the "Zadok" question-and-answer department.
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| volume        = 2
| number        = 10
| month        = January
| page          = 311-314
| title        = Theosophical Aspects of Contemporary Thought and Literature
| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n10_p311
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| author        =
| author signed =
| comment      = Unsigned, continuing from previous issues: Edward Bellamy's "At Pinney's Ranch"; Percival Lowell's concluding chapters of "The Soul of the Far East"; J. Milner Fothergill's "The Effects of Town Life upon the Human Body"; and an account of the Rev. Arthur May Knapp's farewell as the American Unitarian Association's envoy to Japan.
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  | year          = 1888
  | year          = 1888
  | volume        = 2
  | volume        = 2
  | number        = 10
  | number        = 10
  | month        = January
  | month        = January
  | page          = 314
  | page          = 314-317
  | title        = Tea Table Talk (1888/1/1)
  | title        = Tea Table Talk
  | author        =  
| title link    = Keightley J - Tea Table Talk
| title style  = small-caps
  | author        = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]
  | author signed = Julius
  | author signed = Julius
  | comment      =  
  | comment      = On helping "elemental" beings, instances of astral-light thought-pictures surfacing in waking life and dreams, and Paracelsus's "Evestrum" and "Srarames."
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| year          = 1888
| volume        = 2
| number        = 10
| month        = January
| page          = 318
| title        = Literary Notes
| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n10_p318
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| author        =
| author signed =
| comment      = Unsigned notices: a new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita by Mohini M. Chatterji; a forthcoming theosophical novel by Franz Hartmann; a note on ''The Theosophist''{{'}}s editorship; and a notice of ''Lucifer''.
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| volume        = 2
| number        = 10
| month        = January
| page          = 318-320
| title        = Theosophical Activities
| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n10_p318b
| title style  = normal
| author        =
| author signed =
| comment      = Unsigned notices from America (Chicago, Boston, the Krishna T. S. of Philadelphia, the newly chartered Ishwara T. S. of Minneapolis, the Aryan T. S. of New York), India (the forthcoming Annual Convention at Madras, new members and Branches), Japan (a new charter at Kyoto), and Austria (a new vegetarian Branch at Vienna).
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  | page          = 320
  | page          = 320-324
  | title        = A Theosophical Tract #1 An Epitome of Theosophy (Issued by New York Theosophists for Distribution) (1888/1/
  | title        = An Epitome of Theosophy
  | author        =  
| title link    = Judge W.Q. - An Epitome of Theosophy
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
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  | comment      = A tract issued by the New York Theosophists for general distribution, summarizing Theosophical teaching point by point; later revised and expanded by Judge into a separately-issued pamphlet of the same title.
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  | title        = The Bhagavad-Gita (5) (from January) Chapter 11 (To be continued) (1888/2/1)
  | title        = The Bhagavad-Gita
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| title link    = Judge W.Q. - The Bhagavad-Gita
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  | author        = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]]
  | author signed = William Brehon
  | author signed = William Brehon
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  | comment      = Part V, beginning the Second Chapter, continuing from Part IV (January 1888); on the permanence of the soul and the scrupulous performance of natural duty.
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  | title        = illustration, The Seeress of Prevorst Keisanbach (?)
  | title        = illustration: The Seeress of Prevorst
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| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n11_p330
  | author signed = (Gabriel Max)
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  | author        =
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  | author signed = Gabriel Max
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  | comment      = An "ideal" portrait by Gabriel Max, reproduced with permission from the German magazine ''Sphynx'' (ed. Dr. Hübbe-Schleiden).
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  | title        = The Seeress of Prevorst (1888/2/1)
  | title        = The Seeress of Prevorst
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| title link    = Path/Vol2/Text#path_v2_n11_p330b
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  | author signed = B.
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  | comment      = A sketch of Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829), the "Seeress of Prevorst" studied by Dr. Justinus Kerner, and the phenomena attending her case. Author not identifiable from the initial alone.
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  | title        = Stray Thoughts (1888/2/1)
  | title        = Stray Thoughts
  | author        =  
| title link    = Keightley J - Stray Thoughts
  | author signed = Jasper Niemand FTS
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  | author        = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]
  | type          =  
  | author signed = Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.
  | links to text =  
  | comment      = A series of aphorisms on love, Karma, resignation, and the nature of the Deity.
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  | page          = 335-339
  | title        = The Lessons of Karma (1888/2/1)
  | title        = The Lessons of Karma
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| title link    = Johnston C - The Lessons of Karma
  | author signed = Charles Johnston FTS
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  | author        = [[Johnston, Charles|Charles Johnston]]
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  | author signed = Charles Johnston, F. T. S.
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  | comment      = On Karma as discipline and development rather than mere compensatory reward and punishment, illustrated by the lessons of sex and of discord.
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  | month        = February
  | page          = 340
  | page          = 340
  | title        = The Bean of Pythagoras (1888/2/1)
  | title        = The Bean of Pythagoras
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| title link    = Sumner HL - The Bean of Pythagoras
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  | author        = [[Sumner, H. L.|H. L. Sumner]]
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  | author signed = H. L. Sumner, F. T. S.
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  | comment      = Explains Pythagoras's injunction against beans as a political, not dietary, prohibition.
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  | page          = 341-343
  | title        = The Way of the Wind (1888/2/1)
  | title        = The Way of the Wind
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| title link    = Keightley J - The Way of the Wind
  | author signed = J Campbell Ver Planck
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  | author        = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]]
  | type          =  
  | author signed = J. Campbell Ver Planck
  | links to text =  
  | comment      = A commentary on Prof. William H. Parker's "Arguments for the Unseen" (''The Forum'', December 1887).
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  | title        = Answers to Questioners (1888/2/1)
  | title        = Answers to Questioners
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| title link    = Judge W.Q. - Answers to Questioners
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| comment      = Unsigned reviews and notices: A. d'Assier's ''Posthumous Humanity'' (translated and annotated by H. S. Olcott); E. D. Babbitt's ''The Philosophy of Cure''; W. P. Phelon's ''The Future Rulers of America''; an announcement of E. D. Walker's forthcoming ''Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten Truth''; and Ursula N. Gestefeld's ''The Popular Craze—Christian Science''.
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Volume 2

April 1887 – March 1888
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar


April 1887

Vol. 2, No. 1
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 1-2


The Second Year

Unsigned editorial opening the issue.

 W. Q. Judge


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 3-6


Heralds from the Unseen

Concluded; Part I appeared in Volume I, no. 12 (March 1887).

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 6


Seek Out the Way

A short poem signed only "F. T. S."; author not identifiable.

F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 7-9


A Perplexed Inquirer

A letter to the editor questioning T. Subba Row's treatment of the sevenfold and fourfold classifications of principles in man.

 Constance Wachtmeister

Countess Constance Wachtmeister, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 9-13


Studies in the Numeric Powers

William H. Kimball

Wm. H. Kimball


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 13-16


Suggestions as to Primary Concepts

Part I; marked "(To be continued.)"

 J. D. Buck

J. D. Buck


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 16-20


Thoughts in Solitude

Part III, "Content & Satisfaction." Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 20-25


Paracelsus

Part I; a review of Franz Hartmann's The Life of Philippus Theophrastus... known by the name of Paracelsus (1887).

 Sylvester Baxter

S. B.


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 25-27


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part I; marked "(To be continued.)" Signature "William Brehon" is a pseudonym of W. Q. Judge.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 27-29


On the Soul of Man

Reply to the Sixteenth Question propounded to him by Dr. Balthasar Walter, in A. D. 1620; continues the page begun in Volume I, no. 5 (August 1886, replies to the Eighth and Eleventh Questions). Not a Theosophical work: a 17th-century reprint.

 Jacob Boehme

Jacob Boehme


vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1887, p. 29-32


Tea Table Talk

Continuing installment of this recurring column; begun in Volume I, no. 9 (December 1886). The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted precept from the Chandogya-Upanishad and "OM."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


May 1887

Vol. 2, No. 2
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 33-44


Reincarnation. A Western Study of the Subject

Part I; concludes "The second portion of our study will be—Reincarnation in the Light of our own Poets," continued in a later issue of Volume II, outside the scope of this project.

 E. D. Walker

E. D. Walker


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 44-46


The Doctrine of Innate Ideas

Subtitled "A Problem of Western Metaphysics Solved in the Light of the Esoteric Doctrine."

 E. D. Fawcett

E. D. Fawcett


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 46-52


Paracelsus

Part II, discussing Robert Browning's poem Paracelsus.

 Sylvester Baxter

S. B.


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 52-56


Suggestions as to Primary Concepts

Part II, "(Continued from April number.)"; marked "(To be continued.)" at its end.

 J. D. Buck

J. D. Buck


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 56-57


Some Teachings of a German Mystic

Part I, "Dreams and the Inner Life." Anonymous translation from Kerning's Wege zur Unsterblichkeit.

 J. B. Kerning

J. Kernning


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 57-61


Thoughts in Solitude

Part IV. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 2, May, 1887, p. 61-64


Tea Table Talk

Continuing installment of this recurring column.

 Julia Keightley

Julius


June 1887

Vol. 2, No. 3
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 65-71


Letters on the True

Part I, addressed to "My Comrades."

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 72-75


Suggestions as to Primary Concepts

Part III, concluded.

 J. D. Buck

J. D. Buck


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 75-77


The Lake and the Pool

A short allegory.

 C. H. Hinton

C. H. Hinton


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 77-80


Notes on the Astral Light

Part I. A compendium of extracts from the works of Eliphas Lévi (the pen-name of Abbé Alphonse-Louis Constant) on the Astral Light. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone; marked "(To be continued.)"

B. N. Acle, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 81-85


Some Teachings of a German Mystic

Part II, "The True Destiny of Man."

 J. B. Kerning

J. Kernning


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 85-90


Thoughts in Solitude

Part V, "The Two Pathways." Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 90-93


Tea Table Talk

Discusses the Ansel Bourne case of "dual existence," followed by an occultist's explanation of the dangers of leaving the body without a pure motive.

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 93-95


Literary and Theosophical Notes

Unsigned notices: Prayer Book of the Aryans and a new English translation of the Vedas, both by R. C. Bary; a French translation of Light on the Path; Solar Biology by Hiram E. Butler; a forthcoming new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita; A Woman in the Case by Elliott Coues; the new Paris magazine The Lotus; the founding of the Krishna Theosophical Society of Philadelphia; and a response to a claim in The Christian Advocate that Theosophy was dead in India.


vol. 2, no. 3, June, 1887, p. 95-96


Existence of Mahatmas

A reader's letter prompted by Edwin Arnold's account, in India Revisited, of a conversation with a Buddhist pundit in Ceylon, with a reply discussing why such questions are often met with an evasive answer.

C. F. B. (with reply from Julius)


July 1887

Vol. 2, No. 4
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 97-101


Letters on the True

Part II, addressed to "My Comrades," continuing from Part I (June 1887).

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 102-107


The Poetry of Reincarnation in Western Literature

Part I, "American Poets," retitling and continuing the series begun as "Reincarnation. A Western Study of the Subject" (May 1887); quotes poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne, J. G. Whittier, Bayard Taylor (two), T. B. Aldrich, Charles G. Leland, Maurice Thompson and N. P. Willis. Continues through English, Continental and Platonic poets in later issues of Volume II, outside the scope of this project.

 E. D. Walker

E. D. Walker


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 108-114


Evidence and Impossibility

Subtitled "The Logic of a Priori Negation and the Relations of the Subjective to the Objective in the Estimation of Evidence."

 E. D. Fawcett

E. D. Fawcett


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 114-117


Reincarnations of Mahatmas

Signed "S. B.," identified as Sylvester Baxter by the established pattern of his other signed Path contributions.

 Sylvester Baxter

S. B.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 117-118


Some Poetry of the Sufis

A reader's letter from Rome, Italy, with a translated Sufi poem, "A Parable of Jellaleddin." Signed only "K. H."; author not identifiable from the initials alone.

K. H.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 118-119


Thoughts in Solitude

Part VI, "Sir Philip Sidney." Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 119-121


Shall We Know Our Friends in Heaven?

Signed "Charles Johnston, F. T. S.," dated "Dublin, Ireland."

 Charles Johnston

Charles Johnston, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 121-124


Some Theosophical Statistics

Unsigned. A tabulation of Theosophical Society branches founded in India and Ceylon since 1880, by year, with totals of branches worldwide by country as of January 1887, and a note on the American Branches.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 124


Branch and Society Notes

Unsigned notes: a convention of pundits and scholars at Hardwar, India, on 1 June to discuss the revival of Sanskrit and Aryan literature, attended by Col. Olcott; a paper on "Cycles of Time" read by Bro. J. Ralston Skinner at the Cincinnati Branch; the growth of the Aryan Theosophical Society's library; and the founding of the Pranava Theosophical Society in St. Louis.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 124-125


Literary Notes

Unsigned notices: the announcement that Mabel Collins ("M. C.") is the author of Through the Gates of Gold; a forthcoming work, The Yoga Way, from the Eastern Publishing Company; a review of A. P. Sinnett's theosophical novel United; and a notice of S. C. Gould's paper The Staff of Adam and the Shem-Hammephorash.


vol. 2, no. 4, July, 1887, p. 126-128


Tea Table Talk

Collects an astral-projection anecdote from "Quickly," two experiences from "the widow," and a correspondent's quotation from Herodotus on the luminous pillars of the temple of Hercules at Tyre alongside an extract from Reichenbach's researches in animal magnetism. The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted precept from the Saddharma-Pundarika and "OM."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


August 1887

Vol. 2, No. 5
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 129-133


Letters on the True

Part III, continuing from Part II (July 1887).

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 133-138


The Poetry of Reincarnation in Western Literature

Part II, "British Poetry"; quotes poems and extracts by William Wordsworth, Dean Alford, Joseph Addison, R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton), Philip James Bailey, Tennyson, Shelley, Henry Vaughan, Edmund W. Gosse, William Sharp and Robert Browning. Continues through Continental and Platonic poets in later issues of Volume II, outside the scope of this project.

 E. D. Walker

E. D. Walker


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 138-140


Notes on the Astral Light

Part II, continued from Part I (June 1887), a compendium of extracts from the works of Eliphas Lévi. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

B. N. Acle, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 141-143


The Symbolism of the Equilateral Triangle

Read at a meeting of the Aryan Theosophical Society, N. Y., 31 May 1887.

 Lydia Bell

Lydia Bell


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 144-147


Theosophical Fiction

Signed "S. B.," identified as Sylvester Baxter by the established pattern of his other signed Path contributions. A response to the brief review of A. P. Sinnett's novel United printed in the previous (July 1887) number.

 Sylvester Baxter

S. B.


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 147-149


Thoughts in Solitude

Part VII, "The Higher Carelessness." Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 149-152


Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Subtitled "—Genesis iv, 9." Signed "American Mystic"; identified as Judge by TheosophyLib.com, TheosophyTrust.org and Blavatsky.net.

 W. Q. Judge

American Mystic


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 152-156


Christianity—Theosophy

Signed "Wm. H. Kimball," dated "Concord, N. H."

 William H. Kimball

Wm. H. Kimball


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 156-159


Tea Table Talk

Discusses the instinctive basis of belief in reincarnation, with anecdotes of children's unreflective recollections and of intuition trusted or disregarded, illustrated by a tale of King Vala and Damayanti from a Sanskrit drama.

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 159


Theosophical Notes

Unsigned notes on the Krishna Theosophical Society of Philadelphia, the Branches on the Pacific Slope in California, and the Chicago Branch.


vol. 2, no. 5, August, 1887, p. 159-160


Literary Notes

Unsigned notices: a review in The Hour on "Where are the Theosophists?"; Lydia Bell's brochure Thoughts of Healing on the "Mind Cure"; and a lengthy critical review of J. C. Street's The Hidden Way Across the Threshold, charging it with wholesale unacknowledged borrowing from the Vedas, Paracelsus, Isis Unveiled and The Path itself. The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted epigram from Emerson and "OM."



September 1887

Vol. 2, No. 6
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 161-168


Letters on the True

Part IV, continuing from Part III (August 1887).

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 168-172


The Poetry of Reincarnation in Western Literature

Part III, "Continental Poetry"; quotes H. H. Boyesen, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Beranger and Tommaso Campanella. Concludes with Platonic poets in a later issue of Volume II, outside the scope of this project.

 E. D. Walker

E. D. Walker


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 172-178


Gospels and Upanishads

Signed "Charles Johnston, F. T. S."

 Charles Johnston

Charles Johnston, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 178-180


Papyrus

"Three Who Sought Out the Way," an allegory of three seekers on the spiritual path told by Judge's recurring "Tale-teller" narrator.

 W. Q. Judge

Rameses


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 180-182


Notes on the Astral Light

Part III, continued from Part II (August 1887), a compendium of extracts from the works of Eliphas Lévi. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

B. N. Acle, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 183-185


"The Word"

A response to "Heralds from the Unseen" (April 1887) and to a discussion of the author's own article "Occultism in Germany" in The Theosophist.

 Franz Hartmann

Franz Hartmann, M. D.


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 185-187


Literary Notes

Unsigned notices: the launch of H. P. Blavatsky's new monthly Lucifer in London; a review of the novel The Duchess Emilia; a German translation of the Bhagavad-Gita in progress; Hugh Junor Brown's pamphlets Atheism Philosophically Refuted and Comfort for the Bereaved; a review (signed "J. N.") of Franz Hartmann's Among the Rosicrucians; and a notice of Swedenborg, the Buddhist by Philangi Dasa.


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 188


Correspondence

A letter from London, dated 17 July 1887, on the prefaces to The Gates of Gold, Light on the Path and The Idyll of the White Lotus.

Mabel Collins


vol. 2, no. 6, September, 1887, p. 188-192


Tea Table Talk

Discusses anecdotes of children's recollections suggestive of reincarnation, Biblical and Kabbalistic evidence, and the relation between religious emotion and understanding. The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted precept from the Upanishads and "OM."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


October 1887

Vol. 2, No. 7
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 193-201


The Poetry of Reincarnation in Western Literature

Part IV, "Platonic Poets," concluding the series; quotes Henry More, Milton, an anonymous Platonist from Dodsley's Collection, Shelley, Coleridge, Emerson and Elizabeth Rowe.

 E. D. Walker

E. D. Walker


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 201-206


Nature's Scholar

Signed under her married name at the time, before her 1891 marriage to Archibald Keightley.

 Julia Keightley

J. Campbell Ver Planck, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 206-208


Astral Intoxication

Unsigned.

 W. Q. Judge


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 208-212


Thoughts in Solitude

Part VIII. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Pilgrim


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 212-215


Some Teachings of a German Mystic

Part III, "The Captain's Double," a narrative illustrating the teaching with the tale of a captain haunted by his own double.

 J. B. Kerning

J. Kernning


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 215-217


Theosophical Aspects of Contemporary Literature

Unsigned survey of theosophical themes in contemporary fiction and periodical literature: essays by George Frederic Parsons, "The Peckster Professorship" and "A Crucial Test" by J. P. Quincy, "The Blindman's World" by E. W. Bellamy, "The Strange Story of Pragtna" by Harvard B. Rooke, an "Anima Mundi" piece in the Atlantic's "Contributors' Club," "The Soul of the Far East" by Percival Lowell, and reviews of periodical articles on hypnotism, Buddhism's influence on early Christianity, and mental healing.


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 217-220


Tea Table Talk

Two readers' accounts of out-of-body and astral experiences, with Julius's replies on the nature of such recollections.

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 220


Notice to Inquirers

Unsigned, addressed to correspondents as "Zadok."

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 221-222


Literary Notes

Unsigned notices: Kenjiu Kasawara's letters and the magazine The Temperance from Japan; the launch of Lucifer; Franz Hartmann's forthcoming book Jehoshua the Prophet of Nazareth and his work The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians; and S. L. MacGregor Mathers's translation The Kabbalah Unveiled.


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 222-223


Theosophical Activities

Unsigned branch reports "In India" (Col. Olcott's tour: Bulandshahr, the Baran T. S., a Purity Alliance for boys, Hardwar, Lahore; Anantapur, Bellary, Secunderabad, Ceylon) and "In America" (Chicago, the Ramayana T. S. of Chicago, Mohini M. Chatterji's return to India, St. Louis's Arjuna T. S.).


vol. 2, no. 7, October, 1887, p. 224


Correspondence

A letter from Kioto, Japan, dated 30 July 1887, on Buddhism in Japan. The issue closes on the same page with a quoted aphorism and "OM."

Matsuyama M.


November 1887

Vol. 2, No. 8
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 225-230


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part II, continuing from Part I (April 1887); discusses the undisclosed meaning of the Vedas, the Aryan psychological system, and the blindness of Dhritarashtra as a symbol of material existence.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 230


Reincarnation

A sonnet.

 A. E. Lancaster

A. E. Lancaster


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 231-233


Mediumship

Signed "Albertus."

 W. Q. Judge

Albertus


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 233-242


The Theosophical Meaning of Goethe's Faust

Part I. A paper read before the Malden Theosophical Society, indebted to D. J. Snider's Goethe's Faust, a Commentary.

 F. S. Collins

F. S. Collins


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 242-244


Cain and Abel

Signed "Charles Johnston, F. T. S.," dated "Dublin, Ireland."

 Charles Johnston

Charles Johnston, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 244-247


Personalities

Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Harij


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 247-249


The Path of Action

Signed "Hadjii Erinn."

 W. Q. Judge

Hadjii Erinn


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 249-251


Answers to Questioners

The first installment of the "Zadok" question-and-answer department announced the previous month.

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 252


Authority

Unsigned editorial reply to a reader's letter signed "E. W. F."

 W. Q. Judge


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 252-253


Theosophical Aspects of Contemporary Literature

Unsigned, continuing from the October 1887 issue: "Astral Perception" in The Platonist; Gen. J. G. R. Forlong's concluding essay on Buddhism's influence on early Christianity; and Georgia Louise Leonard's "The Occult Sciences in the Temples of Ancient Egypt."


vol. 2, no. 8, November, 1887, p. 254-256


Tea Table Talk

Reflects on fellowship, sympathy with nature, and a review of Laurence Oliphant's Life of Adventure. The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted verse and "OM."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


December 1887

Vol. 2, No. 9
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 258-262


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part III, "The Despondency of Arjuna," continuing from Part II (November 1887); examines the first chapter's two sets of opposing forces.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 263


Songs of the Unseen

Two short poems, "Efflux and Influx" and "Recollection," with an Envoi. Signed under her married name at the time, before her 1891 marriage to Archibald Keightley.

 Julia Keightley

J. Campbell Ver Planck, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 264-270


The Theosophical Meaning of Goethe's Faust

Part II, concluding the series.

 F. S. Collins

F. S. Collins


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 270-272


Notes on the Astral Light

Concluding part, continued from Part III (September 1887), a compendium of extracts from the works of Eliphas Lévi. Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

B. N. Acle, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 273-277


Some Teachings of a German Mystic

Part IV, "A Sailor and His Love," headed "Translated for The Path."

 J. B. Kerning

J. Kernning


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 278-281


Answers to Questioners

Second installment of the question-and-answer department; the final answer is signed "Julius."

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 281-283


Theosophical Activities

Unsigned branch reports "In India" (Col. Olcott's tour: Calcutta, Darjiling, Barisal, Adyar, Ceylon), "In England" (the new Blavatsky Lodge; H. P. Blavatsky editing Lucifer and finishing The Secret Doctrine) and "In America" (the Aryan T. S. of New York, New Zealand, Los Angeles, the resumption of the Abridgements of Discussions, the Purana T. S. of Santa Cruz, and Alexander Fullerton's report on his visit to Adyar and Bombay).


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 283-285


Correspondence

A letter dated 27 October 1887, discussing the name "Lucifer" with quotations from Eliphas Lévi and Jacob Boehme. Signed under her married name at the time.

 Julia Keightley

J. Campbell Ver Planck, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 9, December, 1887, p. 285-288


Tea Table Talk

Includes a recounted dream of a disciple's quest for "the Wonder," reflections on occult symbolism in daily life, and a child's dialogue about God and death. The issue and volume close on the same page with a quoted verse and "OM."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


January 1888

Vol. 2, No. 10
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 289-290


Rays from the East

Fragments of MSS, written down by "J....." Author not identifiable from the signature alone.

J.....


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 291-295


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part IV, "The First Abyss," continuing from Part III (December 1887); discusses the nature of will and desire.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 296-300


Rahula's Inheritance

An allegorical tale of a prince whose birthright—a gem symbolizing Life—is lost when he tries to hoard it for himself.

 Julia Keightley

J. Campbell Ver Planck


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 300-303


Keeley's "Inter-Etheric Force"

Unsigned editorial translation, from a French rendering, of passages from H. P. Blavatsky's forthcoming The Secret Doctrine on sound as an occult force, with a following news item on the Keeley Motor Company's 1887 annual meeting.


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 304-308


The Appeal unto Caesar

On the seeker's "appeal unto Caesar"—the conscious turn to one's own higher nature when the resources of intellect and heart are exhausted.

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 309-310


Answers to Questioners

The third installment of the "Zadok" question-and-answer department.

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 311-314


Theosophical Aspects of Contemporary Thought and Literature

Unsigned, continuing from previous issues: Edward Bellamy's "At Pinney's Ranch"; Percival Lowell's concluding chapters of "The Soul of the Far East"; J. Milner Fothergill's "The Effects of Town Life upon the Human Body"; and an account of the Rev. Arthur May Knapp's farewell as the American Unitarian Association's envoy to Japan.


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 314-317


Tea Table Talk

On helping "elemental" beings, instances of astral-light thought-pictures surfacing in waking life and dreams, and Paracelsus's "Evestrum" and "Srarames."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 318


Literary Notes

Unsigned notices: a new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita by Mohini M. Chatterji; a forthcoming theosophical novel by Franz Hartmann; a note on The TheosophistTemplate:'s editorship; and a notice of Lucifer.


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 318-320


Theosophical Activities

Unsigned notices from America (Chicago, Boston, the Krishna T. S. of Philadelphia, the newly chartered Ishwara T. S. of Minneapolis, the Aryan T. S. of New York), India (the forthcoming Annual Convention at Madras, new members and Branches), Japan (a new charter at Kyoto), and Austria (a new vegetarian Branch at Vienna).


vol. 2, no. 10, January, 1888, p. 320-324


An Epitome of Theosophy

A tract issued by the New York Theosophists for general distribution, summarizing Theosophical teaching point by point; later revised and expanded by Judge into a separately-issued pamphlet of the same title.

 W. Q. Judge



February 1888

Vol. 2, No. 11
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 325-330


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part V, beginning the Second Chapter, continuing from Part IV (January 1888); on the permanence of the soul and the scrupulous performance of natural duty.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 330


illustration: The Seeress of Prevorst

An "ideal" portrait by Gabriel Max, reproduced with permission from the German magazine Sphynx (ed. Dr. Hübbe-Schleiden).

Gabriel Max


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 330-332


The Seeress of Prevorst

A sketch of Friederike Hauffe (1801-1829), the "Seeress of Prevorst" studied by Dr. Justinus Kerner, and the phenomena attending her case. Author not identifiable from the initial alone.

B.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 333-334


Stray Thoughts

A series of aphorisms on love, Karma, resignation, and the nature of the Deity.

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 335-339


The Lessons of Karma

On Karma as discipline and development rather than mere compensatory reward and punishment, illustrated by the lessons of sex and of discord.

 Charles Johnston

Charles Johnston, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 340


The Bean of Pythagoras

Explains Pythagoras's injunction against beans as a political, not dietary, prohibition.

 H. L. Sumner

H. L. Sumner, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 341-343


The Way of the Wind

A commentary on Prof. William H. Parker's "Arguments for the Unseen" (The Forum, December 1887).

 Julia Keightley

J. Campbell Ver Planck


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 344-346


Answers to Questioners

The fourth installment of the question-and-answer department; the final answer is signed "Julius."

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok & Julius


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 346-351


Tea Table Talk

An allegorical Brahmanic tale of trial by slander before chelaship, a discussion of the inner attitude needed to "prove one's faith," and an extended allegory of a butterfly's metamorphosis as a type of reincarnation.

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 352-354


Literary Notes

Unsigned reviews and notices: A. d'Assier's Posthumous Humanity (translated and annotated by H. S. Olcott); E. D. Babbitt's The Philosophy of Cure; W. P. Phelon's The Future Rulers of America; an announcement of E. D. Walker's forthcoming Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten Truth; and Ursula N. Gestefeld's The Popular Craze—Christian Science.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 354-355


Correspondence

A collective letter of 10 January 1888 to H. P. Blavatsky, signed by W. Q. Judge and 25 others, urging her not to withhold publication of The Secret Doctrine.


vol. 2, no. 11, February, 1888, p. 356


Theosophical Activities

Unsigned notices from America (the separately-printed Epitome of Theosophy, Cincinnati T. S., the newly organized Ishwara T. S., the Aryan T. S. of New York) and India (the Headquarters library, a Buddhist Catechism sent to the Chinese fleet, the Bombay free dispensary, a proposed European convention at Bayreuth).



March 1888

Vol. 2, No. 12
Place Title Author


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 357-360


Two Years on the Path

Unsigned editorial on the magazine's second anniversary, its relation to the Theosophical Society and to H. P. Blavatsky, and its devotion to the "Light which comes from the East."

 W. Q. Judge


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 360-365


The Bhagavad-Gita

Part VI, continuing the Second Chapter; on the system of initiation and Karma-Yoga. Not marked "(To be continued.)"; no further installment appeared within this volume.

 W. Q. Judge

William Brehon


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 365-370


East and West

Argues against the habit of comparing East and West to the advantage of either, since both are temporary phases of the one Humanity.

 Julia Keightley

Jasper Niemand, F. T. S.


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 370


Identity

A short poem on being both the centre and the puppet of the Universe. Author not identifiable from the initials alone.

E. J. H.


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 370-372


The Pride of Possession

On pride as the great obstacle to Universal Brotherhood, concluding with the poem "The Great Orphan." Author not identifiable from the pseudonym alone.

Harij


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 373-375


Give Us One Fact

A reply to Western students demanding tangible proof of occultism, arguing that the only fact to be offered is self-knowledge.

 W. Q. Judge

Nilakant


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 375-378


Tea Table Talk

A collection of readers' anecdotes of apparent thought-transference and premonition, and a theory of "synchronous vibration."

 Julia Keightley

Julius


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 378-381


Answers to Questioners

The fifth and final installment of the question-and-answer department within this volume; the last answer is signed "Julius."

 W. Q. Judge

Zadok & Julius


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 382-383


Keeley's Motor

A letter relating H. P. Blavatsky's private predictions, made two years earlier, about the ultimate fate of John Keely's "Etheric Force" motor.

 Constance Wachtmeister

Constance Wachtmeister


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 383-385


Theosophical Activities

Unsigned notices from America (the annual Convention, a note on Mohini M. Chatterji denying a rumored intention to join the Catholic Church, new Branches in Nebraska, the Aryan T. S., Boston), India (the December 1887 Convention at Adyar, the Adyar Library, a new Branch in Ceylon), and Ireland (the Dublin Lodge admitting associates).


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 386


American Branches: Theosophical Society

A tabular directory of the Society's American Branches, with charter dates, presidents, secretaries, and addresses.


vol. 2, no. 12, March, 1888, p. 387-388


The Theosophical Publication Society

An announcement of a new London society for reprinting and publishing Theosophical literature, with its officers and a notice distinguishing it from the Theosophical Society itself.


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