Masons and Jesuits
Our Masonic readers, of whom very respectable numbers are scattered throughout India, ought to be on the lookout for recent publications against their Fraternity. We… Read More »Masons and Jesuits
Editorials, Notices, Society Affairs, etc.
Our Masonic readers, of whom very respectable numbers are scattered throughout India, ought to be on the lookout for recent publications against their Fraternity. We… Read More »Masons and Jesuits
A wise and just interpretation of the main objects of our Society was given by our esteemed contemporary the Mahratta of Poona in its issue… Read More »Correct Definitions and Incorrect Insinuations
“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; yet am I also judged as a sinner?”—Romans, iii, 7.… Read More »Which the Truth, and Which a Lie?
In a recent issue of the China Mail appears an account of the destruction of the “Temple of Longevity,” one of the richest and most… Read More »Buddhist Morals
When the Heliocentric system was finally and irretrievably established, and no escape from it was found possible, the Church, letting go the “Joshua stopping the… Read More »Whipped into Admission
Permanganate of Potash, better known as Condy’s Fluid, has evidently a future before it. It is already the most popular of disinfectants; no good orthodox… Read More »[An Antidote]
Our friend Mr. Terry, of Melbourne, is fortunate in having access to a clairvoyante of exceptionally good lucidity, as he informs us. Quite recently she… Read More »Koot-Hoomi in Australia
“. . . . We of the secret knowledge do wrap ourselves in mystery, to avoid the objurgation and importunity of those who conceive that… Read More »The Hermetic Bretheren
A valued friend and correspondent in Upper India writes:— “We have not had the pleasure of hearing from you since your return to Bombay. We… Read More »A Needed Explanation
No names—but one—having been mentioned in the article “Western ‘Adept’ and Eastern Theosophists;” and positively not one word of an insulting character directly relating to… Read More »Answers to Correspondents—Mr. “Joseph Wallace”
“J.K.”—Your letter headed “Under which ‘adept’ Theosophist?” will not be published, for the following reasons: 1. Personal abuse to the address of the editor, however… Read More »Answers to Correspondents—J.K.
A letter signed by a Mr. R. Barnes Austin of Heathfield, England, addressed to the editor of The Theosophist, has been lying for two months,… Read More »Doomed!
Article Selections detailing comments from Mr. Cook’s Lecture | Notes and Reply by H.P.B. [Note: the following was preceded by letters to Mr. Joseph Cook… Read More »From Madame Blavatsky to Mr. Joseph Cook
Following is an article taken from the Bombay Gazette of January 30, in which we find a new and very important proof of the reality… Read More »A Conjurer Among the Spiritualists
The emotional letter to the Editor of a Christian journal of London, from a well-known native clergyman of Ceylon, which we copy below, is generously… Read More »In Desperate Straits
A correspondent of Light having asked Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, the famous Spiritualist speaker and author, to state her beliefs as regards the existence of… Read More »“Nature-Spirits and Elementals”
The Spiritualist of Nov. 18th takes notice of the article published in the THEOSOPHIST for October under the heading “Fragments of Occult Truth,” but it… Read More »Spiritualism and Occult Truth
It is impossible for the Founders of the Theosophical Society to answer more than a few of the attacks made upon them in the Anglo-Indian… Read More »A Personal Explanation
In a lengthy review of A. Lillie’s book, Buddha and Early Buddhism, by M. A. (Oxon), our esteemed friend, the critic, takes the opportunity for… Read More »Esoteric Axioms and Spiritual Speculations
Says Light, in its “Notes by the Way,” edited by M.A. (Oxon):— “The current number of The THEOSOPHIST contains an important manifesto, which establishes and… Read More »“Is it Idle to Argue Further”?
The article on dreams alluded to in the following letter is reprinted with the desired explanatory notes for the information of our readers:— TO THE… Read More »The Universe in a Nut-Shell
“The Crimes of Preachers in the United States”1 for the last five years—from May 1876 to May 1881, “translated out of the original newspapers and with previous… Read More »[Crimes of Preachers in the United States]
Our much respected contemporary Light has taken us quite unexpectedly to task. Turning a sentence of ours—the one which heads the present protest—into a weapon,… Read More »“We Will Not Quarrel But Simply Argue”
Enter Ghost. Hamlet: . . . . . . “Ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d Bring with… Read More »Hazy Notions
Once fairly started on a friendly discussion—not “quarrelling,” we hope—with Light, 1 we may just as well set matters right regarding another topic, about which,… Read More »What is “A Fact”?
It is upon the above subject 1 that we find Mr. Henry Atkinson, of Boulogne, France, treating in the Philosophic Inquirer of Madras. This gentleman… Read More »The Theosophist and Hindu Pantheism
Magna est veritas et prevalebit. The reality of the phenomena has prevailed, and the Church is now forced to seek alliance with the Spiritualists against… Read More »[Spiritualism and the Christian Churches]
[Note: for some background, see “Madame Blavatsky on ‘The Himalayan Brothers’”] Since the first appearance of The Occult World the London Spiritualist undertook a series… Read More »Western “Adepts” and Eastern Theosophists
Poetry and profanity is the leading feature we find in this month’s otherwise sober English papers, we are sorry to say. There are two short… Read More »[On the Salvation Army]
Oh, that mine adversary had written a Book! was the sad exclamation of the long-suffering Job. “Oh, that our adversaries had always edited newspapers!” is… Read More »[On the Gods of the New Dispensation]
In the August number of The Theosophist there appeared a short paragraph announcing the death of Pandit Shraddha Ram of Jallunder, Puñjab. Several friends and… Read More »The Theosophist and Arya Samajist
The rabid Christians in Ceylon seem to have been rather overdoing their game of detraction in the case of the Theosophists. The love of justice… Read More »[On Col. Olcott’s Opponents in Ceylon]
Nothing promises to prove more dangerous to the Bible and to the Bible Christians—not even the new Revision of the sacred volume by the combined… Read More »[On Cremation]
That golden treasury of arcane knowledge—the Catholic Mirror—reports a “magnificent lecture” upon miracles by Archbishop Seguers. It is a “fascinating discourse” on the “manifestations of… Read More »Miracles
This is the heading of an article I find in a London publication, a new weekly called Light, and described as a “Journal Devoted to… Read More »“The Claims of Occultism”
Insane by Electricity.—A young man, twenty-four years of age, named George Odette, has just been adjudged insane and committed to an asylum for lunatics, in… Read More »[On Mesmeric Healing]
Some time ago we noted the cheering fact (for murderers) that George Nairns, a drunken beast who killed a poor Hindu at Calcutta, and subsequently… Read More »Spotless Murderers
A few weeks ago, one George Nairns, a British sailor, brutally murdered at Calcutta a poor police sepoy who was quietly standing on his beat,… Read More »Sobs, Sods and Posies
The British Theosophical Society We have received no official report as yet from those quarters though we hope to publish the Secretary’s Report next month.… Read More »[On Adepts Living Apart from Society]
Under the heading of “Forgiveness and Chastisement” the New Dispensation, comparing its members to Jesus when whipping out the money-changers from the temple, takes us… Read More »[On “The New Dispensation”]
The nefarious influence of the year 1881 is still asserting itself. The assassination of the President of the United States, General Garfield, follows the murder… Read More »[On the Death of Émile Littré]
The last mail from Europe informs us of the canonization of a new Saint who, if he takes his mundane habits to heaven, will be… Read More »Canonization of a New Saint
In the ordinary run of daily life speech may be silver, while “silence is gold.” With the editors of periodicals devoted to some special object… Read More »A Reply to Our Critics
Fiat Justitia, ruat coelum is not the motto of our century. Nothing is so amusing as to watch at every fresh exposure of some tricky… Read More »Science, Phenomena, and the Press
A strange phenomenon happened, write the Russian papers. “There was a sign in heaven on the day of the regicide. On March 1 about 10… Read More »[Notes on the Czar and the “Nihilist-Socialists”]
. . . “Let the children of Zion . . . praise the Lord’s name in the dance. . . with the timbrel and harp”… Read More »“Praise Him With The Timbrel And Dance”
“Heaven save us from beholding a Russian insurrection, senseless and merciless. Those who in our country would bring about all manner of violent revolutions, are either… Read More »The State of Russia
We extract the following from a letter, dated April 7—from an esteemed friend of ours, a native gentleman and a Fellow of our Society at… Read More »A “Medium” Wanted
Doubt has been expressed of the correctness of the statement that Indian Yogis have lived and still reside at extreme altitudes in the Himalayas. It… Read More »Human Life at High Altitudes
Complying with the pressing invitations of our Buddhist brothers, our President, Col. Olcott, is again on his way to Ceylon. He sailed on April 22,… Read More »[On Ceylon and Christian Converts]
The Bombay Guardian, an organ of the Methodist sect, recently expressed in strong terms the decided opinion that the Government of India should “demand of… Read More »[A Missionary Demand]
The Lucknow Witness, it appears, indulged some time since in a bit of casuistical morality at the expense of the “Theosophists.” The term used by… Read More »A False “Witness”
An important Biblical error is alleged to have been discovered by Mr. Charles Beke, the learned author of a well-known work called Origines Biblicæ, and… Read More »An Important Biblical Error
The great voice of the Giant Bell of the Kremlin at Moscow, called “Ivan Velikiy,” whose heavy tongue has uttered no sound for the last… Read More »The Assassination of the Czar
It is hardly the province of our journal to notice the fugitive vagaries of occasional correspondents in daily papers, unless by chance some article happens… Read More »Logic Versus Peripatetic
We lay aside other matter already in type to give place to the essential portions of an “Introduction to Indian Yoga” which is found in… Read More »A Hindu Professor’s Views on Indian Yoga
Bent upon searching for the origin of all things, the etymology of names included, and giving every religious and philosophical system, without prejudice, stint, or… Read More »The Most Ancient of Christian Orders
Recently, during the progress of some excavations at Marseilles (France), a vast Roman necropolis was found. The tomb of the Consul Caius Septimus proved to… Read More »An Archaeological Drink
We learn from an Italian journal that hardly two years ago “nothing but the intervention of the most distinguished influence prevented a railway company from… Read More »Railway and Other Vandals
Not far from Warsaw (Poland) on January 14, occurred a most extraordinary natural phenomenon. As a matter of religious routine, it was forthwith attributed, even… Read More »A Columnar Meteor
We confess to having read with great surprise an authoritative explanation that the real object in view in the establishment of the Christian Vernacular Education… Read More »The Alleged Real Meaning of Educational Missions in India
Ever since we came to India friends in Europe and America have been asking us to tell them something about the Brahmo Samaj. For their… Read More »The Brahmo Samaj
An important triad of Russian writers has lately been engaged on a discussion of British and Russian relations. One of these, Mr. Martens, Professor in… Read More »A Russian “Symposium”
Our esteemed contemporary, The Spiritualist (London), notes the fact that the Royal Society has actually condescended to express its thanks for a presentation copy of Zöllner’s… Read More »The Royal Society and Spiritualistic Literature
In the Sunday Mirror of February 20, we find a paragraph in which Sir Richard Temple’s opinion on the Brahmo Samaj is quoted from his India in 1880 to… Read More »[On the Brahmo Samaj and Theosophical Society]
The Revue Spirite, edited by that honoured and thoughtful French spiritist, our friend, Mr. Leymarie, F.T.S., has devoted many pages to Theosophy during the past… Read More »[On the T.S. Setting a Good Example]
A plan has just been submitted for the consideration of the Odessa Branch of the Imperial Technological Society for an aërial ship, which does not… Read More »The New Viman
A short time since we had the pleasure of announcing that the aged Baron du Potet de Sennevoy had accepted the diploma of Honorary Fellow… Read More »Another Distinguished Fellow
The dial of Time marks off another of the world’s Hours. . . . And, as the Old Year passes into Eternity, like a rain-drop… Read More »A Year of Theosophy
That cause must be weak and desperate, indeed, that has to resort to the arts of the slanderer to prop it up and injure its… Read More »A Word with Our Friends
Sir Richard has done our Society the great honour of misrepresenting its character and objects to an English audience. A pamphlet edition of “A Speech… Read More »[On Sir Richard Temple’s Lecture]
By “laymen,” in this case, we mean that class of society and humanity in general, who are not “orthodox spiritualists;” neither are they prepared to… Read More »Pranks of “Spirits” Among Laymen
A sentence in the article on “Rahatship” in the August number, has been caught up by the adversaries of our cause and made much sport… Read More »On Rahatship
Doubts have been expressed by Asiatic friends as to the truth of our assertion that Protestantism was fast approaching the crisis of its fate. Yet… Read More »The Decadence of Protestant Christianity
A brother Theosophist suggests one of the tersest and most satisfying definitions of the word miracle, that we have seen. “Would it not be worthwhile,”… Read More »[What is a “Miracle”?]
Noticing the sad fact of the impending dissolution of the “Sanskrit Text Society,” founded at London in 1865, through the exertions of the late Professor… Read More »[The Lack of Interest in Sanskrit Studies]
In the article entitled “War in Olympus” (Theosophist for November 1879), an allusion was made to a great row then raging in Russia, between the… Read More »Russian Superstitions
Like all other pleasant things, our first year’s relations with The THEOSOPHIST’S subscribers are about to terminate. The present is the eleventh number, that has… Read More »Our Second Year
[The Pioneer, July 31, 1880, carried an article titled “The Theosophists in Ceylon”, which recounted H.P.B. and Col. Olcott’s trip to Ceylon. The article was… Read More »[Theosophical Delegation to Ceylon]
It highly gratified our Delegates to Ceylon to find that not only every educated priest and layman, but the uneducated people of that Island also,… Read More »Rahatship
“Verily . . . Truth is often stranger than fiction!” Some three months ago, the Yankee-Irish editor of a unimportant, third-class Anglo-Indian paper, in a fit, apparently… Read More »“Spirit” Pranks Intra Caucasus (intro)
Will some reverend preacher, devoted to the work of propagating Christianity among the “poor Heathens,” generously read at his next Bible-class, Sunday-school, or open-air meeting… Read More »The Christian Art of War
The tone of our private correspondence encourages us to think that our magazine is satisfying the wants of the Indian public, and that it may… Read More »A People’s Monthly
Some weeks ago, the Times of India, in a moment of rancorous spite towards the Invalide Russe, which it had caught, mirabile dictu! in a… Read More »Journalist vs. Missionary
The entire space in a monthly magazine as large as this might be filled with extracts from the journals of Europe and America showing the… Read More »The State of Christianity
Some months ago, the THEOSOPHIST was taken to task by certain Christian Roman Catholic friends, for crediting “supernatural” cock-and-bull “inventions” about spirits and mediums, as… Read More »Cock-and-Bull
“A PERSONAL STATEMENT OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF” is the title of a pamphlet now just appearing at Bombay. It is an unexpected, and very unusual piece… Read More »“A Personal Statement of Religious Belief”
H. Rivett-Carnac, Esquire, of the Bengal Civil Service, C.I.E., F.S.A., M.R.A.S., F.G.S., etc., has placed us under obligations by sending us copies of his paper,… Read More »Cup-Mark Inscriptions
I beg to present my warmest thanks to Mr. William Simpson, F.R.G.S., the distinguished artist and antiquary, who extended last year his researches to Peshawar… Read More »Which First—The Egg or the Bird?
Decidedly the year A.D. 1880 begins as unpropitious and gloomy for that long-suffering, self-sacrificing class, known in Europe as Protestant Missionaries, but in India as… Read More »Lo! The “Poor Missionary”
The work we have to do in India might be so much impeded by foolish misconceptions that we heartily welcome any additional evidence showing that… Read More »[The Theosophists and the British Gov. of India]
Paris is undoubtedly one of the best places in the world for the study of that Protean malady, hysteria; two years ago the “Charité” could… Read More »[On Hysteria, Anesthesia and Occult Phenomena]
In 1808 Juan VI, then Prince-Regent of Portugal, fearing Napoleon I, made his escape to Brazil; and in 1815, was crowned monarch of the United… Read More »“Lieutenant-Colonel St. Anthony”
We begin with a strange story from the Gainesville Eagle—an American journal:— “Some time ago Dr. Stephenson was prospecting the vast hornblende and chloritic slate… Read More »Nocturnal Thoughts on Newspaper Clippings
“All comes in good time to him who knows to wait,” says the proverb. The small party of New York Theosophists, who arrived at Bombay… Read More »A Thunder Cloud With Silver Lining
We feel honored in being able to lay before Western thinkers, preliminary contributions from two of the most eminent priests of the religion of Buddha,… Read More »Buddhistic Exegesis
We have read with great interest the first number of a new French journal devoted to the science of Mesmerism, or, as it is called,… Read More »The Magnetic Chain
An esteemed young English lady of Simla, interested in Occultism, sends us some interesting narratives of psychological experiences which may safely be copied by our… Read More »Spiritualism at Simla (intro)
The foundation of this journal is due to causes which, having been enumerated in the Prospectus, need only be glanced at in this connection. They… Read More »Namastae!
At a meeting of the Theosophical Society, held this day, the statement having been read from a London journal that D. D. Home, the medium,… Read More »To the Public [re: the T.S.]