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

foam and her voice is terrible As if beside herself she paces to and fro in her cave and gesticulates as if she would expel the god out of her breast." Like Sri Krishna who tells Arjuna how he the Divine Principle is all and in all visible objects the Sibyl of Cumam exclaims : "I know the number of the grains of the sand and the measure of the sun and the height of the earth and the numb [...] The " Divine Book" of Apollonides surnamed Orapios which is mentioned by Theophilus of Antioch and the secret volume described by Ammianus Marcellinus were further proof of the possession by the Egyptians of the knowledge of the operation of the occult laws of nature and the system of prognosticting human events. [...] To make the propostion thinkable we must postulate the Oriental philosophcal tenets of Karmic rebirth of the sevenfold nature of man ofthe existence of the Akasa and of the power of an adept to detect what transpires in it as easily as the astronomer can observe the size color and motions of the heavenly orbs. [...] In the Para-Nirvana state the pralaya of Brahma the process of the universe is coming to an end and from it rises the process of the next world the next manwantara of Brahma. [...] Moreover the esoteric doctrine is optimism in regard to the worlprocess itself for the first three Rounds like the two last are comparatively free of evil and sorrow while only the preparatory process of the fourth and the crisis of the fifth involve more grief than joy and this grief is more than counterbalanced by the interveing long terms of Devachan not to speak of the blissful e