The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism March 1885

In the vast ocean of the Akcisa—the all-pervading ether of modern science—the vision of the physical and mental sight hardly penetrates to any extent and where in some instances it goes a short way it is powerless to discriminate between the illusions and the reality and unless the spiritual sight be fully awakeed the explorer in the realms of the invisible forces is liable to fail and fall [...] When the animal man dies the Christ-principle becomes free and the veil of the temple is rent disclosing the eternal truths to the eye of the spirit ; the light of the sun (of the material world) becomes eclipsed by the spiritual light ; the rocks of material desires are torn asunder men that have been (spiritually) dead (during their life) come forth from their graves (the physical bodies). [...] The point of equilibrium between will and desire is the great arcanum of power and the great arcanum of magic ; the inexpressible and incommunicable secret is nothing but the point of equilibrium between the relative and the absolute the infinite of the finite and the finite of the infinite ; it is the omnipotence of man countebalancing the impossible in God. [...] The true religion is that which fosters ophans and has a message of love and hope for the condemed criminal at the foot of the scaffold on which he is to be executed which admits to communion the poor as well as the rich the servant with the master the colored as well as the white man. [...] That religion is true which makes the sovereign pontiff the servarit of the servants of God and commands the bishops to wash the feet of the begars ; but the religion of the huckster's shop which forces the successor of Peter to kill that he may eat the rancorous and putrifying religion of the enemies of science and progress is false because it is hateful because it is opposed to good and