The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism June 1883

The inner Voice of the Angel of God speaks through the intuitions to all men and women who belong to this order of life and who form the Body Church or system telling each one in their own order the way to the Resurrection of the life : (some partake of the life of more than one order) and every one who perceives a ray of light should follow it for it will lead them to the summit of the Moun [...] Will the Brothers of the Orient take kindly to the stripling by recognising him as the " Heir of the Inheritance " and send down a little of the hoarded stores to nurture the new-born life in the valley below ? The Theosophist admits that notwithstanding the vantage ground of the possession of ancient stores of occult knoledge the Oriental system has from time to time declined: and in spite [...] The one is the Forerunner and prepares the way for the other ; and it is the later one who leads his Chelas--both masculine and feminine beyond the Tree of Knowledge even to the Tree of Life itself.t It is the leaves of this Tree—the life-giving power which are to be given for the " healing of the nations " and by this means the long lost and neglected ones which the Occult system would hope [...] In the face of such statements as made by some writers for example by the celebrated author of Dabistiin who says at the end of his chapter on the Parsi religion " Such is the history of the beliefs of the Persia related in the commencement of this famous book. [...] In case of this kind the effect is no more a dynamical measure of the cause than the elect of the fall of a tree is a measure of the energy of the wind which uprooted it.