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

I can recall every detail of the scene just to that moment when I got hold of the mirror with the left hand holding the paper with the mystic characters between the thumb and finger of the right when all of a sudden I seemed to lose all consciousness of the surrounding objects. [...] 1 hear the long agonizing cry my own name prnounced and the dull thud of the falling living body upon the remains of the dead one ; I follow the sudden thrill and the instantaneous perturbation in the brain after it and watch with attention the worm-like precipitated and immenselpintensified motion of the tubular fibres the instantaneous change of colour in the cephalic extrmity of the [...] The superstition of the Hindus properly understood means this: That the accumulated effect of the bad Karmas of men on the earth impressed in the astral fire is to produce a change in the position of the centre of the force which is earth's life. [...] But as the disciple in his present advanced stage is able to understand things better than the generality of mankind Rules 1 to 4 enjoin upon him the necessity of looking for the real warrior within him namely the inner man the rider the soul itself and making him fight the battle although to all outward appearances it is the vehicle namely the outer man that is engaged in the fight as [...] The term " Samadhi " a condition which the disciple reaches when he is fairly on the Path may be defined to be the entire occupation of the thought by the sole idea of Para Bramha without any effort of the mind or of the senses and the entire abandonment of the faculties to this one all engrossing notion.