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m (Fill in the table of contents for issues 6-8 (September-November 1889), replacing the draft skeleton; issues 10-12 left as skeleton (issue 9 was absent from the raw skeleton)) |
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| year = | | year = 1889 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-265-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 265-271 | ||
| title = | | title = Morven's Christmas Gift | ||
| author = | | title link = Keightley J - Morvens Christmas Gift | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = J. Campbell Ver Planck | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A Christmas Eve tale of a man drifting toward an engagement he does not truly want, startled out of a sleep-born memory of past lives by a photograph and an anonymous note written in his own private hand, who recognizes at last that his true love is his fiancée's cousin, whom he had loved, unknowingly, since before this life. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-271-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 271-272 | ||
| title = | | title = Reincarnation and Memory | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p271 | ||
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| type = | | author signed = Harij | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Part IV: distinguishes physical memory, the phenomenal and partial record of experience, from reminiscence, the noumenal precipitate that becomes a permanent, unlosable part of the ego, likening the relation to that between chemical elements and a compound. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-272-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 272-281 | ||
| title = | | title = Cycles | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Cycles | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = A paper read before the Aryan T. S. (October 22, 1889) on cyclic law as the key to the periodic descent of celestial influences and progressed souls among men, the vast figures of the Hindu Yugas and Manvantaras, and the Theosophical Society itself as a cycle begun in 1875 under the guidance of "the sacred tribe of heroes." | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-281-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 281 | ||
| title = | | title = Quote | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p281 | ||
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| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = A short filler quotation from the ''Voice of the Silence'' on stepping out of the sunlight into shade to make room for others. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-282-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 282-284 | ||
| title = | | title = Letters That Have Helped Me | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Letters That Have Helped Me (Path series) | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = Z., Jasper Niemand | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Part XII (letter numbered "XIV" in the original): on the Lodge's "seven rays" and why their names cannot be given, followed by a reflection on H. P. Blavatsky's relation to Theosophists as that of a Guru to a chela, owed gratitude and justice rather than blind veneration. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-283-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 283 | ||
| title = | | title = The Wheel of the Law | ||
| author = | | title link = Keightley J - The Wheel of the Law | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = J. Campbell Ver Planck | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A two-part poem, noted as an almost literal transcription from the Buddhist Suttas, on the King of Glory's homage before the Wheel of the Law and its own unchanging roll through the rise and fall of worlds. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-283-02 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 283-286 | ||
| title = Tea Table Talk | | 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 the proper limits of altruistic T. S. work against personal development, quoting several unpublished letters of Adepts on philanthropy and discipleship, and reflecting on teaching children the inner meaning of the Christ-birth without literalism. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-286-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 286-289 | ||
| title = | | title = Literary Notes | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p286 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Unsigned reviews of Edward Clodd's ''The Story of Creation'', a novel ''Earth Born'', H. P. Blavatsky's ''The Voice of the Silence'', and Fredrik Björnström's ''Hypnotism''. | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-290-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 290-293 | ||
| title = | | title = Theosophical Activities | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p290 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = Unsigned notices: America (the Brooklyn T. S.; the new Aryan Press; the Golden Gate Lodge, its ''ad interim'' Pacific Coast Convention and resolutions, and the new Aurora Branch; various Branch elections); India (Bro. Tukaram Tatya's new press; T. S. incorporation; new Ceylon Branches); Europe (Col. Olcott's tour of England and Ireland; an appeal for ''Lucifer''). | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-294-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 294 | ||
| title = | | title = The American Section and the Headquarters in India | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p294 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = | ||
| links to text = | | comment = An unsigned financial report explaining the American Section's remittance practices to Adyar and detailing contributions for the year totaling $409.87. | ||
| in russian = | | type = notice | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-294-02 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 294-295 | ||
| title = | | title = The Tract-Mailing Scheme | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p294 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = | ||
| links to text = | | comment = An update on the tract-mailing scheme announced the previous month, reporting 47 participating Theosophists and inviting further contributions of time or money. | ||
| in russian = | | type = notice | ||
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| year = | | id = 04-295-01 | ||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = | | number = 9 | ||
| month = | | month = December | ||
| page = | | page = 295 | ||
| title = | | title = Correspondence | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p295 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A letter from the Adyar Headquarters (R. Ragoonath Row and Richard Harte) requesting the distribution of a pamphlet to American Fellows. | ||
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| id = 04-296-01 | |||
| year = 1889 | |||
| volume = 4 | |||
| number = 9 | |||
| month = December | |||
| page = 296 | |||
| title = Obituary Notice | |||
| title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n9_p296 | |||
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| comment = An obituary for Dr. Renaud Thurman, a colleague of Drs. Pioda and Hartmann in projecting the Theosophical Retreat near Locarno; followed by a resolution of the Boston Theosophical Society affirming its loyalty to H. P. Blavatsky without claiming her infallibility, and a reader's query about the name "Moira" for Ireland. | |||
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| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
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| id = 04-297-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 297-301 | ||
| title = | | title = Yoga and Common Sense | ||
| author = | | title link = Connelly JH - Yoga and Common Sense | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Connelly, James H.|James H. Connelly]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = J. H. Connelly | ||
| links to text = | | comment = On the practical value of Yogic concentration independent of its religious trappings, illustrated by a mathematician who solved problems in his sleep and a physician who diagnosed by intense, single-pointed attention. | ||
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| id = 04-301-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 301-305 | ||
| title = | | title = Fohat's Playground | ||
| author = | | title link = Keightley J - Fohats Playground | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = J. Campbell Ver Planck | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A Child's Story: on New Year's Eve, Uncle John explains Fohat to little Carlo as the great Son of Light who kindles the stars and atoms into life and motion, binds the worlds together with threads of love and music, and lights the "Christ-spark" in a loving human heart. | ||
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| id = 04-305-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 305-313 | ||
| title = | | title = Zodiacal Chronology | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p305 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = G. E. W. | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A survey of ancient Chinese, Hindu, Chaldæan, and Egyptian astronomical and zodiacal records, and of geological evidence for the great antiquity of man, arguing that the orthodox chronology of the Creation and the Flood is untenable. | ||
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| id = 04-313-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 313-316 | ||
| title = | | title = To Those Who Suffer | ||
| author = | | title link = Keightley J - To Those Who Suffer | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = Jasper Niemand | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Opens with an allegorical dream of a suffering man whose only helper and only tormentor is himself, then counsels comrades thwarted by Karma, and those suffering through love or bereavement, to accept Karmic environment with Resignation, recognizing all personal love as a stray tendril of the one eternal Love. | ||
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| id = 04-317-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 317-319 | ||
| title = | | title = Velocity and Motion | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p317 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = E. Aldred Williams | ||
| links to text = | | comment = On the metaphysics of instantaneous velocity at a point of time, arguing against the purely quantitative, materialistic definition of science and toward velocity as an inherent condition of the moving object itself. | ||
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| id = 04- | | format = linked | ||
| id = 04-319-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 319-321 | ||
| title = | | title = Of Studying Theosophy | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Of Studying Theosophy | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = William Brehon | ||
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| id = 04-321-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 321-324 | ||
| title = | | title = Tea Table Talk | ||
| author = | | title link = Keightley J - Tea Table Talk | ||
| author signed = | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = Julius | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Two correspondents' precognitive dreams explained through the Astral Light, a clairvoyance-through-walls anecdote, and a playful anecdote about elementals hiding a shirt stud. | ||
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| id = 04-324-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = | | page = 324-326 | ||
| title = | | title = Theosophical Activities | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p324 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = Unsigned notices: America (Mr. B. Keightley's address to the Chicago T. S.; new Branches at Oakland, Cal. and Kansas City, Mo.; the Abridgments of Discussions offer; a San Francisco pamphlet; the new Branches at Fort Wayne, Ind. and Omaha, Neb.; Mr. Bertram Keightley's tour through Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, Omaha, and Grand Island, Neb., including his address to the Nirvana Branch; the Brooklyn T. S.); India (the Bombay conference call and news from Ceylon). | ||
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| id = 04-326-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = 327 | | page = 326-327 | ||
| title = | | title = Literary Notes | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p326 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = Unsigned notice of Kate Hillard's translation of Dante's ''Il Convito, The Banquet''; a price correction for ''The Three Sevens''; notices of ''Zadkiel's Almanac'' and ''Raphael's Almanac and Ephemeris'' for 1890; and the ninth number of the ''Revue Theosophique'', quoting from H. P. Blavatsky's ''Alchemy in the 19th Century''. | ||
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| id = 04-327- | | format = linked | ||
| id = 04-327-01 | |||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
| volume = 4 | | volume = 4 | ||
| number = 10 | | number = 10 | ||
| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = 327 | | page = 327-328 | ||
| title = | | title = Gifts to India | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p327 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = | ||
| links to text = | | comment = An unsigned notice of two remittances to Col. Olcott, £200 and $85.50, from members of the Aryan T. S. | ||
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| id = 04-328-01 | | id = 04-328-01 | ||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
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| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = 328 | | page = 328 | ||
| title = The | | title = The Tract-Mailing Scheme | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p328 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = An update reporting 60 coadjutors now enlisted in the tract-mailing scheme. | ||
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| id = 04-328-02 | | id = 04-328-02 | ||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
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| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = 328 | | page = 328 | ||
| title = The | | title = The Aryan Press | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p328 | ||
| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = An unsigned notice that the Aryan Press, a Theosophical co-operative press, is in full working order for commercial and private printing, at cost price for subscribing members and Branches. | ||
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| id = 04-328-03 | | id = 04-328-03 | ||
| year = 1890 | | year = 1890 | ||
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| month = January | | month = January | ||
| page = 328 | | page = 328 | ||
| title = | | title = Obituary Notice | ||
| author = | | title link = Path/Vol4/Text#path_v4_n10_p328 | ||
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| links to text = | | comment = An obituary for Dr. Seth Pancoast, one of the Society's first Vice-Presidents, who died December 16, 1889. | ||
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| number = 11 | | number = 11 | ||
| month = February | | month = February | ||
| page = 329 | | page = 329-331 | ||
| title = Culture | | title = Culture of Concentration | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Culture of Concentration | ||
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| author signed = Ramatirtha | | author signed = Ramatirtha | ||
| comment = | | comment = Part II: on the virtues (patience, freedom from anger, envy, vanity, and fear) and the sustained, lifelong practice required for success in concentration, as against the merely book-learned "eye-knowledge" of the pretended adept, illustrated by Eliphas Lévi's failed necromantic experiment. | ||
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| month = February | | month = February | ||
| page = 332 | | page = 332-333 | ||
| title = Our Sun | | title = Our Sun and the True Sun | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Our Sun and the True Sun | ||
| author signed = Marttanda | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = Marttanda | ||
| links to text = | | comment = On the mystic doctrine of a "true sun" of which our visible sun is but a reflection, and the limits of modern astronomy's knowledge of solar heat, sunspots, and the sun's place in the galaxy. | ||
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| page = 333 | | page = 333-335 | ||
| title = Is Karma Only Punishment? | | title = Is Karma Only Punishment? | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Is Karma Only Punishment | ||
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| author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | |||
| author signed = Hadji Erinn | | author signed = Hadji Erinn | ||
| comment = | | comment = In answer to a reader's letter, argues that wealth and happiness are properly called Karmic reward just as misfortune is properly called punishment, and that the same person's outer and inner conditions may carry opposite Karmic verdicts at once. | ||
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| title = Letters | | title = Letters That Have Helped Me | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - Letters That Have Helped Me (Path series) | ||
| author signed = X. | | title style = small-caps | ||
| comment = | | author = [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] | ||
| type = | | author signed = X., J. N. | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Part XIII: further notes on Letter XIV, recounting a friend's quiet self-testing in the inner attitude of chelaship, followed by a Master's "Answer to Y." on the dangers and the proper trust required of one who persists in seeking discipleship. | ||
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| title = | | title = H. P. Blavatsky | ||
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| comment = An unsigned editorial notice accompanying a portrait of H. P. Blavatsky published in this issue, praising her as the most remarkable person of the century regardless of friend or foe's view of her. | |||
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| title = Reincarnation | | title = Reincarnation and Memory | ||
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| author signed = Harij | | author signed = Harij | ||
| comment = | | comment = Part V, concluded: distinguishes physical memory, a function of the brain that perishes with the body, from reminiscence, the spirit's own record of experience that bridges death and anchors experience to the real ego, arguing for man's immortality as within his own grasp. | ||
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| title = | | title = Mahatmas. A Hindu's View | ||
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| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = K. P. Mukherji, F. T. S. | ||
| links to text = | | comment = A letter from Berhampore, India (Dec. 6, 1889) explaining the Hindu understanding of "Mahatma" as a condition of the Higher Self rather than a title, distinguishing the "Jivan Mukta" and "Nideha Mukta," and the seven Paths of an Upasaka. | ||
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| page = 345 | | page = 345-347 | ||
| title = Some Notes on the Mahatmas | | title = Some Notes on the Mahatmas | ||
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| author signed = | | title style = normal | ||
| comment = | | author = | ||
| type = | | author signed = K. H. | ||
| links to text = | | comment = Part II: further extracts from ''Lucifer'' and H. P. Blavatsky's ''Key to Theosophy'' and ''Five Years of Theosophy'' on the Adept's seclusion, the meaning of "Mahatma" as a restricted rather than absolute term, and the four stages of spiritual progress culminating in Nirvana. | ||
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| title = The Allegorical Umbrella | | title = The Allegorical Umbrella | ||
| author = | | title link = Judge W.Q. - The Allegorical Umbrella | ||
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| author signed = William Brehon | | author signed = William Brehon | ||
| comment = | | comment = On the umbrella as a symbol, in Buddhist and Hindu tradition, of the Adepts and Mahatmas who shield mankind from the unbearable intensity of the true spiritual centre behind the visible sun. | ||
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| comment = Unsigned reviews of Subhadra Bhikshu's ''A Buddhist Catechism'', Hargrave Jennings's ''The Indian Religions'', and the Phelons' ''Three Sevens''. | |||
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| author = [[Keightley, Julia|Julia Keightley]] | |||
| author signed = Julius | | author signed = Julius | ||
| comment = | | comment = Relates a correspondent's secondhand account of a medium's clairvoyant reading of a murdered man's skull found near Laramie, Wyo., followed by two further correspondents' accounts of apparent precognition and coincidence, and closes with reflections on Love as the living link between all beings. | ||
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Volume 4
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April 1889
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. -
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filler quoted from the Vishnu Purana
Epigraph on the unnumbered page preceding the masthead. |
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 1-6
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Lo Here! And Lo There!
On the signs by which true and false teachers may be known, and on the attacks made upon H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 6-7
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Culled from Aryan Science
Unsigned short extracts from the Vishnu Purana and other Sanscrit sources on rain, the planets, the end of the world, and the earth's sphericity. |
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 7-10
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part V, on standing firm against despair at the world's suffering and at the apparent absence of the Masters' presence. |
W. Q. Judge
Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 10-13
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The Magic Screen of Time
A direct sequel to "The Serpent's Blood," continuing the narrator's story after death, and his vision of the astral light as the "Magic Screen of Time." |
W. Q. Judge
Bryan Kinnavan
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 13-17
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The Seven Dwipas
Part I (concluded in May): on the Vishnu Purana's seven concentric continents (dwipas) and the subdivisions of Jambu-dwipa, identifying Bharata-varsha with India. |
Charles Johnston
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 17-20
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The Fourth Dimension
A paper read before the Malden Theosophical Society (concluded in May), on the geometrical idea of a fourth dimension of space, chiefly after C. H. Hinton. |
F. S. Collins
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 20-22
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Theosophical Aspects of Contemporary Thought and Literature
Unsigned, on Harry Perry Robinson's story "The Gift of Fernseed" (Atlantic, February 1889) and on the Theosophical affinities of Laurence Gronlund's socialist writings. |
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 22-23
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A Word on Pronouns
Objects to capitalizing pronouns referring to the Mahatmas as a form of "hero-worship," with a dissenting editorial note. |
Frances Ellen Burr
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 23-24
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Answers to Questioners
On the universality of Truth and the meaning of "subconscious mind," and on the name "Koothoomi" in an 1871 reference work predating Sinnett. |
W. Q. Judge
Jasper Niemand
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 24-27
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part I: on Branch activity, libraries, distribution of literature, open meetings, and a discussion topic on Universal Brotherhood for April. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 27-30
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Tea Table Talk
On concentration, drawing on Ribot and a Scribner article, followed by anecdotes of a psychometric experience with a Persian rug. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 30-31
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Book Notes
Unsigned reviews of Walter Besant's The Inner House and J. D. Buck's A Study of Man, with notices of the T. P. S. Fund, Franz Hartmann's Geomancy, and Judge's forthcoming edition of Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms. |
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| vol. 4, no. 1, April, 1889, p. 31-32
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: Col. Olcott's order extending the American Section's jurisdiction; new Branches in Brooklyn and San José; the Aryan T. S.'s study of concentration; the April Convention; Dublin Lodge; photographs of H. P. Blavatsky; and Col. Olcott's reception in Kyoto, Japan. |
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May 1889
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 33-37
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part VI (letter numbered "VIII" in the original), on standing firm against doubt and despair at the suffering of the age, and the "higher patience" that lies between pride and humility. |
W. Q. Judge
J. N., Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 37-41
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The Seven Dwipas
Part II (concluded): completes the account of the Vishnu Purana's dwipas and Varshas, and reads the whole scheme as a veiled description of the Planetary Chain. |
Charles Johnston
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 41-47
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Why a Guru is Yet Premature
A paper read before the Aryan Theosophical Society of New York, arguing that no one has a right to expect a Guru until all other, already-available resources have been exhausted. |
Alexander Fullerton
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 47-49
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A Dream of Gold
A speculation, after Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, on the social consequences if the Adepts' alleged power to make gold were used to destroy its value as a medium of exchange. |
James H. Connelly
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 49-50
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The Wandering Eye
An allegorical tale of a skeptic whose lingering karma of doubt, after death, leaves his wandering astral eye forever searching and never finding. |
W. Q. Judge
Bryan Kinnavan
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 51-55
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Tea Table Talk
On taking to the woods in spring, anecdotes of children's confusion between self and astral reflection, a dog's astral visitation at death, and correspondents' experiences in the culture of concentration. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 55-56
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Answers to Questioners
On the Hodgson report and newspaper references to Mme. Blavatsky's alleged "exposure." |
W. Q. Judge
Hadji
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 56-59
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part II: on the Initial Effort, conviction, and fear, followed by further thoughts on living Universal Brotherhood as a practical daily discipline. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 59
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Refractions
A sonnet on light and its spectrum as a symbol of the soul's fitness to receive and reflect truth. |
O. E. W.
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 59-61
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (Brahmana T. S. of Milwaukee; Cincinnati; new Brooklyn Branch; Dr. A. Keightley's visit; the daily press); Ireland (Dublin Lodge); Japan (Col. Olcott's reception at Kyoto); France (the Countess D'Adhemar's new Revue Théosophique). |
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| vol. 4, no. 2, May, 1889, p. 61-64
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The Theosophical Convention Held in Chicago
Unsigned report of the Theosophical Society in America's third annual convention, April 28-29, 1889: elections, the treasurer's and General Secretary's reports, Dr. A. Keightley's address on behalf of the British Section, and a letter from H. P. Blavatsky. |
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June 1889
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 65-71
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part VII (letter numbered "IX" in the original), on the illusory nature of Good and Evil as poles of a single thing, on murder and the law of Karma, and on judging no man since the true cause of his acts is unknown to us. |
W. Q. Judge
Z., J. N.
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 71-75
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True and False Astrology
Dated Chicago, March 25, 1889. Distinguishes "horary" astrology (telling fortunes by the hour, dismissed as chimerical) from the doctrine of nativities (planetary influence at birth), defended as consistent with Karma and spiritual free will; criticizes the contemporary "Zadkiel" almanac's failed predictions. |
G. E. W.
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 75-80
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The Practical Ethics of Theosophy
A paper read before the Krishna T. S., illustrating with homely anecdotes how Theosophists fail to live their professed philosophy in small daily trials, and calling for Theosophy to be lived rather than merely talked. |
Em'ly
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 80
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June
A short poem on Theosophy as the eternal, undying truth surviving every age and creed. |
J. C. T.
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 80-85
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The Tell-Tale Picture Gallery
Continuing the narrator's story after "The Wandering Eye": a secret gallery on the Sacred Island where every disciple's living picture brightens or blackens to record, infallibly, the exact state of his spiritual progress. |
W. Q. Judge
Bryan Kinnavan
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 85-87
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The Fourth Dimension
Concluded: argues from the analogy of a two-dimensional "plane being" perceiving only cross-sections of solids that individual human lives may likewise be partial manifestations of a single higher life — a basis for universal human brotherhood. |
F. S. Collins
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 87-89
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Answers to Questioners
On whether there is a "Parent" Theosophical Society, on the Esoteric Section and why H. P. Blavatsky waited to proclaim it publicly, on the nature of a Nirmanakaya, and on the illusory character of both good and evil in the Mind Cure system. |
W. Q. Judge
Hadji, Moulvie, Nilakant
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 89-91
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part III: analyses Universal Brotherhood by the Hermetic law "as above, so below," drawing analogies from nature, science, the human body, and the animal world. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 91-94
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Tea Table Talk
On the astral pictures unconsciously created by one's own thoughts, with an invalid's waking fears of her sister's death producing a reciprocal apparition, and anecdotes of children's recollections of a former life. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 3, June, 1889, p. 94-96
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (Brooklyn T.S.; Aryan T.S. of New York's study of Patanjali; a new circulating library at the General Secretary's office; Dr. A. Keightley's visit to Boston; Golden Gate Lodge of East Oakland; Satwa and Los Angeles T.S.); Ireland (Dublin Lodge, signed by Fred J. Dick); an errata notice for the April issue. |
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July 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 97-105
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Judge the Act: Not the Person
Written on the occasion of Mabel Collins's public retraction of her claim to adept inspiration for Light on the Path and her accusation that H. P. Blavatsky had induced it; argues, from a Master's teaching that the deed must be judged apart from the doer, and explains the distinction between an Adept's active agency and a medium's passive one to account for Collins's having never understood the material "given through her." |
Julia Keightley
Jasper Niemand
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 105-106
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Hiding Theosophy under a Bushel
Urges Theosophists not to withhold the Society's doctrines and literary work out of false modesty or fear of the Society's name, since true loyalty requires actively directing inquirers to theosophical books and to the Society itself. |
J.
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 106-107
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There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men
On the cyclic ebb and flow of enthusiasm in the study of occultism, arguing that right knowledge blends meditation and concentration, repose and action, so that the student may act wisely when the tide rises and wait patiently through the ebb, rather than mistaking a low tide for its permanent withdrawal. |
Jirah Dewey Buck
J. D. B.
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 108-114
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part VIII (letter numbered "X" in the original): a letter on the three qualities (gunas) of the Bhagavad-Gita as poles of Nature rather than moral absolutes, followed by J. N.'s commentary on Turya, on the stages of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, and on the nature of spirituality as distinct from mere virtue. |
W. Q. Judge
Z., J. N.
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 108
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The Astral Light
A short poem on every deed, word, and thought being stamped imperishably on the Astral Light, to be read by whoever wills, and on the resolve to purge the soul of iniquity. |
St. George Best
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 115-116
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Peace with Honor; or, A Scientific Frontier
An editorial response to the Religio-Philosophical Journal's publication of Mabel Collins's and Dr. Elliott Coues's letters on Light on the Path and the Esoteric Section, arguing that both are motivated by disappointed vanity and jealousy, and that the controversy will only separate genuine Theosophists from those in the Society for gain or glory. |
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 116-119
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part IV: on Intuition as a resource to be exhausted before seeking a Guru's aid, its relation to contemplation and to true versus false imagination, and on the purpose of these papers in generating common currents of thought among Branches. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 119-121
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of The Light of Egypt (identified as a plagiarism by Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten), the Sanscrit translation of Light on the Path by Pandit N. Bhashyacharya, and Elizabeth Hughes's Hertha; with an advance-sheet excerpt from H. P. Blavatsky's forthcoming The Key to Theosophy, a report on the Bombay Publication Fund's revision of Patanjali, and a notice of Blavatsky's forthcoming The Voice of the Silence. |
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 121-125
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Tea Table Talk
On the moral power of art for Universal Brotherhood, illustrated by Vassili Verestchagin's paintings and his own words on war and humanity, a digression on Dr. James C. Jackson's observations on American womanhood, a discussion of hypocrisy among members leaving a Branch, and an anecdote of the astral light betraying a confidence kept in the letter but broken in the spirit. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 4, July, 1889, p. 125-128
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (Brooklyn T. S.'s first public meeting; the Chicago Branches; Vedanta T. S. of Omaha; Bro. W. H. Hoisington's lecturing; the chartering of the Blavatsky T. S. in Washington, D. C.; publication and office funds); Ireland (Dublin Lodge, signed by Fred J. Dick); questions from "Forum No. 2"; a notice of Dr. Elliott Coues's expulsion from the Society and the revocation of the Gnostic T. S.'s charter; the Circulating Theosophical Library's book list; and an obituary for Mrs. Martha Bangle. |
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August 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 129-134
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part IX (letter numbered "XI" in the original): a letter from "Z." to the ailing "Jasper," urging him to live rather than welcome death, on the futility of self-doubt, on gentle versus violent self-control, and on learning the Self from within rather than through others' philosophies. |
W. Q. Judge
Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 134-137
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The Worship of the Dead
Unsigned extracts from a private letter, in question-and-answer form, on the dangers of mediumship: how suicides and victims of accident become "earth-walkers" tempted by mediums into a vicarious, Karma-laden existence, and how every such seance multiplies the causes of future misery for the Ego so entrapped. |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 137-138
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What Are You Doing for Theosophy?
A series of pointed questions urging passive members of the Society to turn their Theosophy into active work—financial, verbal, social, and through the press—before the closing of the cycle. |
Exeter
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 139-142
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The Stream of Thought and Queries
Part I: a new Q&A column answering readers on the meaning of Resignation, on Karma as both reward and punishment, on pictures and symbols seen in the Astral Light, on the overlapping nature of cycles, and on black versus white magicians. |
W. Q. Judge
Hadji Erinn
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 143-145
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Influence
A paper read before the Aryan T. S. of New York in April 1889, arguing that the passive, unspoken "atmosphere" of a person's character influences others more powerfully than any deliberate word or deed, and is the true means of forming the nucleus of Universal Brotherhood. |
Katharine Hillard
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 145-147
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Theosophy
A paper read before the Satwa T. S., Los Angeles, on Theosophy as embracing all philosophies of existence, and on the duties and responsibilities that grow with the enlargement of knowledge and power. |
S. Calhoun
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 147-150
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Answers to Queries
Replying to correspondents who pressed the Tea Table Department for its views on Mind Cure and Christian Science, explains why such questions lie outside the department's scope, then gives a personal view that mental healing only transfers disease from one plane to another, closing with unattributed manuscript remarks of an Adept on the occult dangers of such practices. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 150-153
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"The Light of Egypt"
Unsigned follow-up to the July review of The Light of Egypt, tracing the book to a reprint of paid circular "instructions" issued around 1884 by T. H. Burgoyne, private secretary of the "Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor," sold earlier to members for $60 and now reprinted as a $3 book. |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 153-154
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Correspondence
Two unsigned readers' letters asking for an explanation of apparent psychic phenomena—unseen forces interrupting piano practice, and an apparition of a deceased aunt—with editorial answers attributing both to elementals and astral-light impressions rather than genuine returning spirits. |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 154
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Theosophical Tracts
An unsigned suggestion that Theosophists of modest means can spread the teaching inexpensively by mailing printed tracts to strangers, with sales figures for the Society's two existing tracts. |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 155-157
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of C. G. Raue's Psychology, as a Natural Science; notices of The Theosophical Review (Paris), a new Sanskrit-English edition of the Bhagavad-Gita, Balzac's Seraphita, Caroline Huling's The Reality of Theosophy, and the May-June Theosophist, Lucifer, and The Vedantin. |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 157-160
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part V: on the meaning and practise of Contemplation, its relation to true prayer, and the danger of confusing the active discipline of concentration with the passive danger of self-mesmerism. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 160
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All-Pervading
A short poem on the universal peace attained by surrendering self and care. |
J. C. T.
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 160-164
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (new gifts to the Headquarters; the Pranava, Vedanta, and Golden Gate branches; Wilkesbarre; the new Blavatsky T. S. of Washington); Japan (Col. Olcott's lecture tour and the new Yamato T. S. of Kioto); Europe (Dublin Lodge; H. P. Blavatsky's visit to Paris and Fontainebleau; a letter of support from "An English F. T. S." and an Esoteric Section lodge); India (new and relocated branches, Bro. C. F. Powell's tour, two obituaries); Tasmania (a new charter at Hobart); and questions from "Forum No. 3" and "No. 4." |
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| vol. 4, no. 5, August, 1889, p. 164-168
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Tea Table Talk
On a pet dog's apparent psychic sensitivity to imagined commands, thunderstorms, and unseen presences, a physician's method for distributing vitality through the body and his vision of two Atlantean beings, and a correspondent's letter of steadfast loyalty to Theosophy and to H. P. Blavatsky amid the Collins-Coues controversy. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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September 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 169-176
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A Survey of Sanskrit
On the practical stages of learning Sanskrit, the difficulties and ambiguities of the Devanagari writing system (word-fusion, the displaced i and r, and the "block" method), and proposals for a clearer transliterated spelling of Sanskrit terms in English, with a transliterated specimen from the Bhagavad-Gita. |
E. Aldred Williams
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 176-179
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One Touch of Nature
A paper read before the Aryan T. S. (April 2, 1889) on Shakespeare's line "one touch of nature makes the whole world kin" as an unconscious witness to universal brotherhood, illustrated by passages from Walt Whitman. |
K. H.
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 179-184
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The Story of Ste. Cecile
An allegorical tale of a dying painter who recalls a previous life on another planet, his banishment to Earth for dragging down his "twin soul," and his lifelong search for her, reunited with her only in the completion of his last painting at the moment of his death. |
M. Sears Brooks
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 184-186
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Reincarnation and Memory
Part I: argues that the absence of memory of past lives is no argument against reincarnation, since memory even within a single lifetime is always partial, while consciousness and Karma retain the full record of past experience independent of memory. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 186-188
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The Stream of Thought and Queries
Part II: on why the Society does not exist for the training of occultists, on the one condition (practising Universal Brotherhood) under which the study of Patanjali's Yoga may safely be pursued, and on the meaning of the "daily initiation" met in the small events of everyday life. |
W. Q. Judge
Hadji Erinn
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 188-191
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Tea Table Talk
On a correspondent's near-death experience of leaving the body and being told "it is not time" by a luminous presence, the value of the Society's shared current of thought, the proper spirit in which to judge a comrade's fault without condemning the person, and an anecdote of an office boy's unspoken name sensed through the aura. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 191-193
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A Chat with Correspondents
An unsigned editorial on the growing volume of office work at The Path and the General Secretary's office, asking correspondents for concise letters and explaining why not every submission can be published. |
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 193-194
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Answers to Questioners
On whether and when it is right to publicly denounce or condemn a wrongdoer in defense of an accused Adept, distinguishing condemnation of an act from condemnation of a person. |
W. Q. Judge's department
Jasper Niemand
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 194
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Correspondence
A reader's question, following up on the August "Worship of the Dead," asking whether those who die young of disease share the Kama-loka fate of suicides and accident victims; with an editorial answer that they do not, since their natural term of life was reached. Followed by a notice that "Letters That Have Helped Me" will resume in October. |
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 194-197
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (W. Q. Judge's lecture tour through Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Grand Island, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Cincinnati; a new Branch at San Diego; Golden Gate Lodge's public meetings); India (Col. Olcott's return from Japan to Ceylon and the farewell ceremonies there); Ireland (Dublin Lodge). |
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 197-198
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of the July Theosophical Review (Paris), Mrs. Sidney Rosenfeld's Twixt Heaven and Earth, Frederick Gerhard's The Coming Creed of the World, and the English supplement The Buddhist. |
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 198-200
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part VI: on selfishness as the root cause of the Society's slow progress toward Universal Brotherhood, and on the many ways—writing, distributing tracts, giving money—by which every member, however placed, can contribute active work. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 6, September, 1889, p. 200
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The Magnetic Congress in Paris
A brief unsigned notice of an international congress on medical magnetism to be held in Paris in October 1889. |
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October 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 201-204
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part X (letter numbered "XII" in the original): on the nature and qualifications of chelaship, the difference between lay and probationary chelas, and the Guruparampara chain of spiritual influence running from teacher to teacher. |
W. Q. Judge
Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 204-206
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Modern Astrology Defended
A reply from Grenada, W. I., disputing G. E. W.'s July charge that the astrologer "Zadkiel" is a pretender, defending the record of his published predictions. |
E. D.
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 206-208
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The Present Situation Disconnectedly Considered
Four short, unconnected calls to concerted, practical Theosophical work: meeting public misrepresentation with argument rather than silence, and judging the act, not the actor. |
Exeter
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 208-211
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The Skin of the Earth
An allegorical vision of the elemental beings dwelling within the earth's crust, laboring to sustain its rotation and orbit, and of the malign mist of men's own thoughts that disrupts their harmony and breeds epidemics and crime. |
W. Q. Judge
Bryan Kinnavan
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 211-214
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Lead, Kindly Light!
Argues against abusing or attacking Christianity, urging Theosophists instead to separate its esoteric kernel from its dogmatic husk and to treat it, and its adherents, with charity. |
G. E. W.
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 215
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Sanscrit Pronunciations
An unsigned table of common Sanskrit theosophical terms with their meaning and English-phonetic pronunciation. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 216-218
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Reincarnation and Memory
Part II: argues that the absence of memory of a past life poses no real obstacle to reincarnation, since cause and effect, and the capacity for registering experience, do not depend on memory's partial and fleeting record. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 218-219
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H. P. Blavatsky and Theosophists
A compilation of H. P. Blavatsky's remarks from the Revue Theosophique on the necessity of union and altruism among Theosophists for success in occult or practical work. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 219
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A Sonnet to Night
A short sonnet on the fragrance and light of the night sky. |
T. H.
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 219-225
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Universal Applications of Doctrine
Against the narrow habit of applying Theosophical doctrines only to the whole man, extends Karma, Reincarnation, and Devachan to every cell of the body, to animals and insects, to nations, and to the Cosmos itself. |
W. Q. Judge
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 225-226
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Prof. Max Muller on Buddhism
Unsigned summary of Max Müller's Gifford Lectures remarks on Buddhist Karma as a morally beneficial, if theologically unclassifiable, belief. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 226-227
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The Key to Theosophy
An unsigned notice of H. P. Blavatsky's then-new book, with a summary of its fourteen chapters. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 227-229
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Tea Table Talk
Collects anecdotes of apparent astral projection and thought-transference, including G. Hijo's account of a sleeping student's astral double finding a mislaid library book. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 229-230
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of the John W. Lovell Co.'s new occult reprint series, the August Theosophical Review (Paris), E. A. Sheldon's Testimonia, and Nizida's The Astral Light. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 230
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Correspondence
A reader's letter from Pasadena, signed "B.," comparing Edward Bellamy's vision of social change to a July article's speculation on the manufacture of gold, with an editorial reply. |
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| vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1889, p. 230-232
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (the Aryan T. S.'s resumed meetings; the Blavatsky T. S. of Washington; the Golden Gate Lodge; a proposed ad interim Pacific Coast Convention; a new Branch applied for at Kansas City); India (the Adyar Library; Bro. Powell's detail to Ceylon); England (H. P. Blavatsky's return; Col. Olcott's lecture tour; Annie Besant's new role at Lucifer); Switzerland (the "Fraternitas" retreat society); Ceylon (new Branches; Bro. Powell's conversion to Buddhism; news of Damodar). |
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November 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 233-237
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Some Notes on the Mahatmas
A paper read before the Aryan T. S. of New York (October 8, 1889), compiling definitions and descriptions of the Mahatmas from Theosophical literature—Five Years of Theosophy, Mrs. Sinnett's Purpose of Theosophy, Esoteric Buddhism, The Secret Doctrine, and Patanjali—to argue that the Mahatma is, properly speaking, a purely spiritual attainment rather than any particular visible personality. |
K. H.
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 237-242
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The Lining of the Hand
A paper read before the Chicago T. S. (September 2, 1889) on the occult origin of the word "lining," the history and limits of cheiromancy as an exact science, and its inseparable relation to astrology. |
G. E. W.
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 242-245
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part XI (letter numbered "XIII" in the original): on the Lodge of Masters and chelas, the nature and divisions of Gurus, and the sacred bond of adoption between a chela and his "little guru." |
W. Q. Judge
Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 245-247
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Reincarnation and Memory
Part III: develops the ego as the self-conscious center standing between the "seen" world of action and the "unseen" world of causes, and argues that personal memory and individual (Karmic) memory are necessarily different things. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 247-248
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Brotherhood
Distinguishes the one true meaning of "Universal Brotherhood"—an intellectual assent to the fact joined with a determined effort to act upon it—from its mere profession, and finds pure Theosophy and genuine Christianity to be, in this sense, the same thing. |
J. D. Buck
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 248-251
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The Society and its Object
Argues that the Theosophical Society's superiority lies in welcoming every seeker, since its three objects are in reality one; counsels disappointed members, through the analogy of three classes of artist, to examine whether their disappointment stems from wounded self-will rather than a genuine love of Truth. |
Arthur Gebhard
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 251
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Quote
A short filler quotation on speaking with love or not speaking at all. |
Kapilya
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 252-253
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Popular Misconceptions about the Fourth Dimension
A response to F. S. Collins's two-part article on the Fourth Dimension, arguing that "space" (Extension) is inherently three-dimensional as a property of matter, and that C. H. Hinton's four-dimensional reasoning really describes astral perception rather than a true fourth dimension. |
H. T. Edge
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 253
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Quotes
Two short filler quotations on fire and the nature of life. |
Bodhi Mur, Jacob Boehme
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 254-256
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Kama Loka—Suicides—Accidental Deaths
Unsigned extracts from a private letter distinguishing the Kama-loka fate of suicides, accident victims, and those who die of vicious excess, with an account of the astral punishment of a murderer such as "a Guiteau." |
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 256
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Literary Notes
An unsigned notice of the Hermetic Publishing Co.'s Christos. |
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 256-257
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To Theosophists Willing to Work
Judge, as General Secretary, describes and invites support for the organized scheme of mailing Theosophical tracts to names gathered from small-town newspapers across the United States. |
W. Q. Judge
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 257-259
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part VII: on the proper attitude of a Theosophist toward non-Theosophists, cautioning against indiscriminate missionary zeal and urging patience modeled on the Masters' own willingness to wait for a seeker's readiness. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 260-262
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Theosophical Activities
Col. Olcott's Presidential Order summoning a Special Session of the General Council for May 1890; America (the Golden Gate Lodge's new tract; the Brooklyn T. S.'s full season schedule of topics; new Circulating Library books; the Gautama T. S. of San Diego; a new tract on reincarnation); Ireland (the Dublin Lodge's new rooms; Col. Olcott's lecture tour with Bro. B. Keightley). |
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| vol. 4, no. 8, November, 1889, p. 262-264
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Tea Table Talk
On devotion to the Masters' Cause rather than to one's own personal development, correspondents' differing views on fixed hours for concentration, two anecdotes of apparent thought-transference between distant friends, and a small child's account of having seen "a great beautiful Light" before birth. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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December 1889
| Place | Title | Author
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 265-271
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Morven's Christmas Gift
A Christmas Eve tale of a man drifting toward an engagement he does not truly want, startled out of a sleep-born memory of past lives by a photograph and an anonymous note written in his own private hand, who recognizes at last that his true love is his fiancée's cousin, whom he had loved, unknowingly, since before this life. |
Julia Keightley
J. Campbell Ver Planck
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 271-272
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Reincarnation and Memory
Part IV: distinguishes physical memory, the phenomenal and partial record of experience, from reminiscence, the noumenal precipitate that becomes a permanent, unlosable part of the ego, likening the relation to that between chemical elements and a compound. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 272-281
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Cycles
A paper read before the Aryan T. S. (October 22, 1889) on cyclic law as the key to the periodic descent of celestial influences and progressed souls among men, the vast figures of the Hindu Yugas and Manvantaras, and the Theosophical Society itself as a cycle begun in 1875 under the guidance of "the sacred tribe of heroes." |
W. Q. Judge
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 281
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Quote
A short filler quotation from the Voice of the Silence on stepping out of the sunlight into shade to make room for others. |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 282-284
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part XII (letter numbered "XIV" in the original): on the Lodge's "seven rays" and why their names cannot be given, followed by a reflection on H. P. Blavatsky's relation to Theosophists as that of a Guru to a chela, owed gratitude and justice rather than blind veneration. |
W. Q. Judge
Z., Jasper Niemand
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 283
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The Wheel of the Law
A two-part poem, noted as an almost literal transcription from the Buddhist Suttas, on the King of Glory's homage before the Wheel of the Law and its own unchanging roll through the rise and fall of worlds. |
Julia Keightley
J. Campbell Ver Planck
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 283-286
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Tea Table Talk
On the proper limits of altruistic T. S. work against personal development, quoting several unpublished letters of Adepts on philanthropy and discipleship, and reflecting on teaching children the inner meaning of the Christ-birth without literalism. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 286-289
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of Edward Clodd's The Story of Creation, a novel Earth Born, H. P. Blavatsky's The Voice of the Silence, and Fredrik Björnström's Hypnotism. |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 290-293
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (the Brooklyn T. S.; the new Aryan Press; the Golden Gate Lodge, its ad interim Pacific Coast Convention and resolutions, and the new Aurora Branch; various Branch elections); India (Bro. Tukaram Tatya's new press; T. S. incorporation; new Ceylon Branches); Europe (Col. Olcott's tour of England and Ireland; an appeal for Lucifer). |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 294
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The American Section and the Headquarters in India
An unsigned financial report explaining the American Section's remittance practices to Adyar and detailing contributions for the year totaling $409.87. |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 294-295
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The Tract-Mailing Scheme
An update on the tract-mailing scheme announced the previous month, reporting 47 participating Theosophists and inviting further contributions of time or money. |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 295
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Correspondence
A letter from the Adyar Headquarters (R. Ragoonath Row and Richard Harte) requesting the distribution of a pamphlet to American Fellows. |
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| vol. 4, no. 9, December, 1889, p. 296
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Obituary Notice
An obituary for Dr. Renaud Thurman, a colleague of Drs. Pioda and Hartmann in projecting the Theosophical Retreat near Locarno; followed by a resolution of the Boston Theosophical Society affirming its loyalty to H. P. Blavatsky without claiming her infallibility, and a reader's query about the name "Moira" for Ireland. |
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January 1890
| Place | Title | Author
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|---|---|---|
| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 297-301
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Yoga and Common Sense
On the practical value of Yogic concentration independent of its religious trappings, illustrated by a mathematician who solved problems in his sleep and a physician who diagnosed by intense, single-pointed attention. |
James H. Connelly
J. H. Connelly
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 301-305
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Fohat's Playground
A Child's Story: on New Year's Eve, Uncle John explains Fohat to little Carlo as the great Son of Light who kindles the stars and atoms into life and motion, binds the worlds together with threads of love and music, and lights the "Christ-spark" in a loving human heart. |
Julia Keightley
J. Campbell Ver Planck
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 305-313
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Zodiacal Chronology
A survey of ancient Chinese, Hindu, Chaldæan, and Egyptian astronomical and zodiacal records, and of geological evidence for the great antiquity of man, arguing that the orthodox chronology of the Creation and the Flood is untenable. |
G. E. W.
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 313-316
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To Those Who Suffer
Opens with an allegorical dream of a suffering man whose only helper and only tormentor is himself, then counsels comrades thwarted by Karma, and those suffering through love or bereavement, to accept Karmic environment with Resignation, recognizing all personal love as a stray tendril of the one eternal Love. |
Julia Keightley
Jasper Niemand
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 317-319
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Velocity and Motion
On the metaphysics of instantaneous velocity at a point of time, arguing against the purely quantitative, materialistic definition of science and toward velocity as an inherent condition of the moving object itself. |
E. Aldred Williams
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 319-321
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Of Studying Theosophy | W. Q. Judge
William Brehon
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 321-324
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Tea Table Talk
Two correspondents' precognitive dreams explained through the Astral Light, a clairvoyance-through-walls anecdote, and a playful anecdote about elementals hiding a shirt stud. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 324-326
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: America (Mr. B. Keightley's address to the Chicago T. S.; new Branches at Oakland, Cal. and Kansas City, Mo.; the Abridgments of Discussions offer; a San Francisco pamphlet; the new Branches at Fort Wayne, Ind. and Omaha, Neb.; Mr. Bertram Keightley's tour through Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, Omaha, and Grand Island, Neb., including his address to the Nirvana Branch; the Brooklyn T. S.); India (the Bombay conference call and news from Ceylon). |
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 326-327
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Literary Notes
Unsigned notice of Kate Hillard's translation of Dante's Il Convito, The Banquet; a price correction for The Three Sevens; notices of Zadkiel's Almanac and Raphael's Almanac and Ephemeris for 1890; and the ninth number of the Revue Theosophique, quoting from H. P. Blavatsky's Alchemy in the 19th Century. |
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 327-328
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Gifts to India
An unsigned notice of two remittances to Col. Olcott, £200 and $85.50, from members of the Aryan T. S. |
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 328
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The Tract-Mailing Scheme
An update reporting 60 coadjutors now enlisted in the tract-mailing scheme. |
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 328
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The Aryan Press
An unsigned notice that the Aryan Press, a Theosophical co-operative press, is in full working order for commercial and private printing, at cost price for subscribing members and Branches. |
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| vol. 4, no. 10, January, 1890, p. 328
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Obituary Notice
An obituary for Dr. Seth Pancoast, one of the Society's first Vice-Presidents, who died December 16, 1889. |
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February 1890
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 329-331
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Culture of Concentration
Part II: on the virtues (patience, freedom from anger, envy, vanity, and fear) and the sustained, lifelong practice required for success in concentration, as against the merely book-learned "eye-knowledge" of the pretended adept, illustrated by Eliphas Lévi's failed necromantic experiment. |
W. Q. Judge
Ramatirtha
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 332-333
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Our Sun and the True Sun
On the mystic doctrine of a "true sun" of which our visible sun is but a reflection, and the limits of modern astronomy's knowledge of solar heat, sunspots, and the sun's place in the galaxy. |
W. Q. Judge
Marttanda
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 333-335
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Is Karma Only Punishment?
In answer to a reader's letter, argues that wealth and happiness are properly called Karmic reward just as misfortune is properly called punishment, and that the same person's outer and inner conditions may carry opposite Karmic verdicts at once. |
W. Q. Judge
Hadji Erinn
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 335-338
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Letters That Have Helped Me
Part XIII: further notes on Letter XIV, recounting a friend's quiet self-testing in the inner attitude of chelaship, followed by a Master's "Answer to Y." on the dangers and the proper trust required of one who persists in seeking discipleship. |
W. Q. Judge
X., J. N.
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 338
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H. P. Blavatsky
An unsigned editorial notice accompanying a portrait of H. P. Blavatsky published in this issue, praising her as the most remarkable person of the century regardless of friend or foe's view of her. |
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 341-343
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Reincarnation and Memory
Part V, concluded: distinguishes physical memory, a function of the brain that perishes with the body, from reminiscence, the spirit's own record of experience that bridges death and anchors experience to the real ego, arguing for man's immortality as within his own grasp. |
Harij
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 344
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Mahatmas. A Hindu's View
A letter from Berhampore, India (Dec. 6, 1889) explaining the Hindu understanding of "Mahatma" as a condition of the Higher Self rather than a title, distinguishing the "Jivan Mukta" and "Nideha Mukta," and the seven Paths of an Upasaka. |
K. P. Mukherji, F. T. S.
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 345-347
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Some Notes on the Mahatmas
Part II: further extracts from Lucifer and H. P. Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy and Five Years of Theosophy on the Adept's seclusion, the meaning of "Mahatma" as a restricted rather than absolute term, and the four stages of spiritual progress culminating in Nirvana. |
K. H.
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 347-348
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The Allegorical Umbrella
On the umbrella as a symbol, in Buddhist and Hindu tradition, of the Adepts and Mahatmas who shield mankind from the unbearable intensity of the true spiritual centre behind the visible sun. |
W. Q. Judge
William Brehon
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 349-350
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Literary Notes
Unsigned reviews of Subhadra Bhikshu's A Buddhist Catechism, Hargrave Jennings's The Indian Religions, and the Phelons' Three Sevens. |
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 350-353
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Tea Table Talk
Relates a correspondent's secondhand account of a medium's clairvoyant reading of a murdered man's skull found near Laramie, Wyo., followed by two further correspondents' accounts of apparent precognition and coincidence, and closes with reflections on Love as the living link between all beings. |
Julia Keightley
Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 353-355
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Aryan Reserve Fund
Unsigned notice of the Aryan T. S.'s resolutions establishing a reserve fund, in the custody of a five-member committee including W. Q. Judge, toward a permanent New York headquarters, with over $1,600 already subscribed. |
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 356-358
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Suggestions for Branch T. S. Work
Part VIII: on the influence of one's thoughts and personal aura upon others, as a form of Theosophical work on "a Higher Plane," urging purification of thought, word, and deed for its unseen effect on the wider current of humanity. |
G. Hijo
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 358-359
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Theosophical Activities
Unsigned notices: a fuller account of Mr. Bertram Keightley's tour through Omaha, Grand Island, San Francisco, and Oakland; new officers at the Nirvana, Chicago, Ramayana, and Point Loma Branches; and notice of the H. P. Blavatsky portrait published in this issue. |
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| vol. 4, no. 11, February, 1890, p. 360
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The Tract-Mailing Scheme
An update reporting 66 coadjutors and 83,000 tracts distributed, followed by notices of back numbers of Lucifer for sale, a free portrait-group of Blavatsky and Olcott for Theosophist subscribers, and the removal of the PATH office to 132 Nassau Street. |
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March 1890
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 361
ID: 04-361-01 |
Letters that Have Helped Me (14) (from February 1890)
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Z.
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 365
ID: 04-365-01 |
Astral & Physical Law
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HSB
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 367
ID: 04-367-01 |
Theosophy in its Practical Application to Daily Life (1) (A Paper read to the Aryan TS of New York.) (1890/1/7)
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Alexander Fullerton
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 373
ID: 04-373-01 |
Apparent Failure
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Katharine Hillard
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 376
ID: 04-376-01 |
filler quoted from Voice of the Silence P32
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HPB
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 377
ID: 04-377-01 |
The Impossibility of a Unitary Rule of Conduct in the Manifested World of Duality
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Jas M Pryse
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 379
ID: 04-379-01 |
Tea Table Talk
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Julius
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 382
ID: 04-382-01 |
review,
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Karma in the Animal Kingdom by Mrs AP Sinnett
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 382
ID: 04-382-02 |
review,
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Magic White & Black by Dr F Hartman
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 382
ID: 04-382-03 |
review,
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The Nature & Aim of Theosophy by Dr JD Buck
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 383
ID: 04-383-01 |
To Non-Subscribers
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Report
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 384
ID: 04-384-01 |
Cincinnati Branch (1890/1/5)
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 384
ID: 04-384-02 |
Mr Bertram Keightley's Tour (1890/1/19)
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anon
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 385
ID: 04-385-01 |
California
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 385
ID: 04-385-02 |
The Aryan TS of New York
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 385
ID: 04-385-03 |
Why I became a Theosophist
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Annie Besant
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 386
ID: 04-386-01 |
Col Olcott sailed for Colombo (tour)
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anon
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 386
ID: 04-386-02 |
Forum #9 sent to all Branches
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 386
ID: 04-386-03 |
Two New Charters
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 387
ID: 04-387-01 |
The Bombay Conference
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 388
ID: 04-388-01 |
The First Theosophical Society in Italy
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Report (Europe)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 388
ID: 04-388-02 |
The Swedish Branch of the Theosophical Society
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Report (Europe)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 389
ID: 04-389-01 |
Health of Mdme Blavatsky improved
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Report
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 389
ID: 04-389-02 |
The Tract Mailing Scheme
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 389
ID: 04-389-03 |
Two new Charters
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Report (Europe)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 390
ID: 04-390-01 |
List of American Branches Theosophical Society
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 391
ID: 04-391-01 |
The New Headquarters
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 391
ID: 04-391-02 |
The Secret of Death (vf)
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Edwin Arnold
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 392
ID: 04-392-01 |
Resolutions of the Blavatsky TS
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Report (America)
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 392
ID: 04-392-02 |
filler quoted from Secret Doctrine
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HPB
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 392
ID: 04-392-03 |
Obituary, Brother Charles Powell Deceased (1890/2/10)
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anon
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| vol. 4, no. 12, March, 1890, p. 392
ID: 04-392-04 |
Obituary, Pandit N Bashya Charya Deceased (1889/12/22)
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anon |