The Theosophist a Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism November 1907

I would very earnestly press on the attention of the Lodges of the T. S. the value of the papers contributed from all parts of the world to the International Congresses held in Europe. [...] Speaking of this some of you may have recently seen in the N. Y. World a letter addressed to me by an ex Lieut.-Colonel of the General Staff in India a brother of the Earl of Ellenboro testifying to having himself served as one of a Committee selected by the Rajah of Puttiala to superitend a ceremony of this kind and to the fact that at the expiration of 30 days the fakir was dug up and [...] The definitely stated object of each school of Hindu philosophy is to "put an end to pain " and the way to the " ceasing of sorrow" was part of the message of the Buddha to the world. [...] Because pain is the result of the relation arising between the forms where the rhythm of the one form is not harmonious with the rhythm of another and not of the contact of the lives. [...] That is the way in which man evolves—a continual striving for something just within reach but which needs exertion for the gaining ; the putting out of his powers ; the gaining of the object the holding of it and then the rapid wearying of it.