The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism December 1882

The merchants mid muccadums have authorised the Society to devote the amount thus collected to the maintenance of the proposed Hospital for Animals; to engaging a sufficient number of agents to suppress all sorts of cruelties ; to providing water-troughs in the city where they may be needed ; and to establishing branches of the Society in such towns in the Presidency as the Committee of the Societ [...] We read in the Hebrew book The Revolution of the Souls " that there are souls of three kinds ; the daughters of Adam the daughters of the angels and the daughters of sin. [...] The true explanation of the seemingly magical phenomenon is that it is owing to the metal being very thin and in the polishing some very slight depressions are invisible to the naked eye produced which change the mode of refraction of the solar rays and trace in the projected image the thickest parts (Chinese characters) of' that which is on the back of the mirror. [...] The gentleman says in a private note to us that he has the greatest respect for the Adept Brothers for the Founders of the Theosophical Society and for Ramalingam himself who was no doubt a great man in his own way." He fully believes in the existence of the Brothers and appreciates the work done by our Society " in so far as it tends to awaken in the minds of the Hindus a respect for the w [...] that he occupied through the accident of birth the lowest round of the ladder or in other words he was a Sudraf' Not only Ramalingam Pillai and the Founders of the Theosophical Society but also the Upanishads and the works of the Rishis namedby N. C. and those of Sankarcharya the Guru of the present Brahmins impee.