The Theosophist a Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism January 1923

The Order of the Star in the East has its Anniversary and also a public meeting in Madras City in Gokhale Hall on " The Coming of the World Teacher ". The Morning Star has risen in the eastern sky heralding the Dawn. [...] In his opinion the Chinese came originally from the direction of the Mediterranean and Atlantis and only reached the Pacific coast within the historical period."352 THE THEOSOPHIST JANUARY Of the rich heritage of the Chinese from their ancestors H. P. Eslavatsky writes in The Secret Doctrine: It is from the Fourth Race that the early Aryans got their knowledge of the bundle of wonderful things " [...] There was evidently more than one infusion of Aryan blood in the Japanese; the first is traced in the Yemishi or Ainu and probably from the Root Stock ; the later admixture with the second sub-race the Aryo-Semitic would represent the Manchu-Korean (progenitors of the Yamato) race referred to by modern investigators. [...] He needs the strength of endurance the strength of steafastness the strength of concentration the strength of devotion the strength of intellect. [...] Every one who treads that Path knows what is called " the night of the Soul ". It seems to me that that is laid more stress upon in the West than in the East ; that there are more rapid alternations of a catastrophic character more ecstasy and more agony in the experience of the great Mystics of the West than in those of the East.