The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism May 1884

Just as therefore we are obliged to talk of the setting of the sun in common parlance although we know that it is not the movement of the sun that we really refer to and just as in geocentric system we have to speak as though the earth were a fixed point in the centre of the universe so that the unripe mind of the student may understand.-our teachings so in the same manner the Abstract Truth [...] With these remarks it may be left to the intuition of the readers to find out the relation between the phases of the moon and the states of being known to occultists as the eighth sphere. [...] while the "Seven spirits of God" of the Cabalists are represened in the Oriental teaching by the primary seven Centres of Energy which subsist "indefeasibly in the Divine Nature as the seven rays of the prism in light." We may assure the erudite authors that according to the Orental occult teaching " When a race has reached the Zenith of its " physical intellectuality and developed its h [...] This first emanation of the Supreme the first ray of Light both male and female the Adam Kadmon of the Chadeans the One Life or Vach of the Hindus the Logos of the Greeks the Word or Christ of the Christians and Seventh Principle of the Oeenitists is the beginning by which all things come into existence ; it is the embodiment of the law of evolution the cause and energy manifested in [...] It is therefore absurd to say that the Aryan science is in antagonism to the modern when the fact is that the former leads the student from the point where the latter brings l Ira to a stand-still into the domain of noumena whence proceed the phenomena of the visible world.