The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism May 1898

the tumultuous mental activity within the circle of pecuniary interests the enormous develoment of physical science with its accomranying spiritual prostration and the surviving distrust of mysticism mystical teachers and systems which was caused by the overdose given to Germany by the Rosicrucians the Egyptian Masonry of Cagliostro and the misunderstood claims and labors of the medifeval [...] And they chose that as His shadow as the very opposite of that which He really was ; honouring the Master through His servant ; bowing before the manifestation eldest of time for the timeless ; paing homage to the spirit of the devil-world or rather to beginning and end on which was the foot of the ALL that the ALL or the FlasT and the LAST might be worshipped ; propitiating the evil pr [...] We have already directed attention to the creative power of fire fire as the basis of all that is ; we therefore turn from the general to the particular ; from the subtle living force as taken in the aggregate to the particular manifestations or centres of power of the force from the producer to the product. [...] How the quality and tones of the voice reveal the characteristics of the personality we all know Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh ' whether it be wisdom or folly gracious words of love and compassion or hard words of indiffeence and unkindness. [...] The story of Prometheus and the myth of his stealing the fire from heaven wherewith to animate the man or ensoul the visible world ; the torch borne in all priestly demonstrative processions at all times in all countries; the vestal fires of the Romans the whole mystic meaning of tires on altars the everburning tomlights whether in classic or other lands everything of the kind was intend