The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism October 1897

Of course the rectification of character is the real -work which is the duty and the true purpose of every man in every incarnation but equally of coarse the perception of this and the glad attempt for it are only in the few only in those who have either brought over from past lives that evidence of progress or have 'in this incarnation reached the tithe when preparatory discipline comes to the [...] For it insists on the dotrine of tteincarnation the fact that the current life is not the first or the hundredth which the Ego has led on earth that the materials of character are to be sought far back of the only birth we can peceive. [...] Can the click of the ticker the shout of the stocbroker and the fluctuations of the market oupply the harmony of music the beauty of art and poetry and give a k3en appreciation of nature's beauties. [...] Primarily the Mysteries were to teach the states after death and while the Lesser Mysteries dealt with Kama-Inca and familiarised the student with the conditions and phenomena of the Astral Plane the Greater Mysteries taught of Devachan. [...] Now and then the solitary wayfarer in this valley will find himself surrounded by all the noises of a Burmese town—crowing of cocks lowing of cattle the thump of the rice pounder in its wooden bowl and the click of the shuttle thrown through the loom and yet not a thing can be seen but the jungle baking in the midday sun or darkling in the lengthening shadows of evening At other times the tra