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In answer to a reader asking whether Swedenborg's authority settles the question of recognizing friends in heaven, Judge states that the Society recognizes no authorities, not even the Mahatmas, since the final authority is the man himself. +
On questions raised about the authorship of ''Isis Unveiled'' and ''The Secret Doctrine'', and H. P. Blavatsky's own role as their writer. +
On recorded cases of spiritualistic-type phenomena from before the 1848 Rochester rappings, examined for what they show about the true nature of such phenomena. +
A warning about anonymous and bogus messages falsely claiming to come from the Mahatmas, circulating among members. +
A series of short cautionary maxims for Theosophical workers, on avoiding confusion of Theosophy with politics, religion, and false notions of progress. +
An editorial announcing that, beginning with its tenth volume, ''The Path'' would change its name to ''Theosophy''. +
An early article on chirognomy and palmistry as arts of reading character and fate from the hand, with their history and relation to occultism. +
A reply to G. R. S. Mead on whether early Christian Fathers held or rejected the doctrine of reincarnation. +
On the archaeological theory, and its occult parallel, that the remains of ancient cities lie buried beneath those of the present. +
On a Master K.H. letter's warning about the coming of false claimants to be Jesus or the Christ, and how to recognize them. +
On why Private Branches of the Theosophical Society, however occasionally justified, cannot thrive or grow compared to open Branches, since the missionary, altruistic function of a Branch is incompatible with secrecy and exclusiveness. +
On the Theosophical and occult explanation of the genesis, constitution, movements, and function of comets. +
Judge enumerates the many factors — the minds of medium and sitters, physical memory, elementals, and above all astral shells — that must be weighed before accepting any spirit communication as evidence of a discarnate individual's continued identity. +
On the nature and danger of occult magic, distinguishing selfish phenomena-seeking from the disciplined, impersonal path of true occultism. +
On the growing presence of Karma and Reincarnation in contemporary fiction and magazines, from Stevenson's account of how "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" came to him, to Harper's Monthly's treatment of heredity and Karma. +
Judge's recollections of conversations with H. P. Blavatsky in New York in the late 1870s, touching on occultism and her own powers. +
A short compilation of statements on rain, the planets, the sphericity and atmosphere of the earth, and ocean currents, drawn from the Vishnu Purana and other ancient Aryan astronomical treatises. +
On the true meaning of concentration (Raja Yoga) as distinct from 'self culture' and from Hatha-Yoga, the gradual development of the inner ethereal body, and the dangers of anger, envy, vanity, and fear along the way. +
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." +
On the unreliability of psychometric and clairvoyant testimony, prompted by a proposal to use psychometry to detect crime. +