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Answers to correspondents' questions arising from an earlier article on evolution, explaining the Theosophical doctrine of planetary rounds and periods of obscuration. +
On the Theosophical doctrine of planetary rounds and root races, cautioning against accepting any such teaching uncritically as proven fact. +
A Theosophical reading of several sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, including the temptation in the wilderness and the Sermon on the Mount. +
A critical commentary on H. G. Hellon's poem "The Seer," distinguishing seership and trance from the states of Sushupti and Turya. +
An editorial marking the start of ''The Path'''s seventh year of publication, reviewing the progress of the preceding seven years. +
An editorial marking seven years since ''The Path'' began publication, reviewing the growth of Theosophical work in America. +
A retrospective comparing Col. Olcott's 1875 inaugural address as President with the Society's actual progress seventeen years later. +
A response to a lecture on teaching clairvoyance at Adyar, cautioning against premature or indiscriminate development of psychic powers. +
A brief editorial marking six years since ''The Path'' began publication. +
On why "spiritual gifts," in Paul's sense, are better understood as the natural fruits of growth than as gifts bestowed from without, and on the two practical disciplines — welcoming every divine impulse, and faithfully performing every known duty — by which such growth is attained. +
A paper read before the Aryan T.S. explaining spiritualistic phenomena — materializations, precipitations, slate-writing, levitation, and the carrying of objects — as the work of the astral remains of the dead, the medium's own astral body, and elemental forces, rather than the return of departed spirits. +
Examining the Religio-Philosophical Journal's 1877 séance transcripts of the "spirit" Jim Nolan, whose own account of how "materialized forms" are electro-magnetic shapes built from the medium's and sitters' vitality — never the physical form of the departed — Judge finds in close accord with Theosophical teaching, though ignored by Spiritualists. +
On the widespread modern expectation of great coming change, and the Theosophical doctrine of cycles and the Kali Yuga that underlies it. +
On two spiritualistic prophecies published in 1877, examined for whether later events bore them out. +
Scattered notes on why esoteric teaching is not given out wholesale to the Society's rank and file, and on the real requirements of occult study. +
On how imprecise use of words such as "space," "sat," and "Jiva" causes needless confusion among students of Theosophy, and the need to attend to the idea behind a term rather than to the word itself. +
A Theosophical perspective on suicide, arguing that it does not escape the self or its responsibilities but only postpones and complicates them. +
A letter correcting a professor's public misstatement of Theosophical doctrine on reincarnation, karma, and the soul. +
A condensed answer to common objections to the Theosophical teaching of the existence of Adepts, and an account of their nature and work. +
Drawing on the Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett published in ''The Occult World'', Judge explains why the Adepts refuse to offer convincing phenomena to modern science, and the philanthropic basis distinguishing occult science from materialistic science. +