The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism April 1898

M. Guyot and the others drew from us a full explanation of the principles of our Society and of the views of the Eastern school of mystics as to the constitution of nature and the alleged powers in man. [...] After Prana or the life principle leaves the body and goes back into the great life reservoir of the universe the ethereal principle departs and disinterates on the ethereal plane froni which it aggregated in the first place and the body of Kama Itupa or the body of passions and desires leaves the body and goes to the plane of Kama Loka which means " place of desire". [...] Hence the mystic value of the Offering on Calvary's cross and of the attention drawn to Jesus by the writer of John's Gospel Behold the Lamb of God which beareth away the sin of the world!" And of the no less mystical Revelation where he is referred to as "The Lamb slain from before the foundation of the World". [...] And Eis we know the literal sun is but the outward vehicle the symbol of that mystic sun which is the source of a higher vitality of that more permanent and imperishable reality which is the spiritual fountain of Light and Life Eternal from whence the supplies are drawn which sustain and build the spiritual man that for the time being tabernacles in a body of flesh which is the product of th [...] A. C. Gregory's Presidential Address to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at Brisbane in 1895 The earliest indications of the existence of land within the limit of the present Australian continent consists in the fact that many of the more elevated summits :are composed of granite which is certainly the oldest rock formation with which we are acquainted." The higher p