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

If it had been a question of attacking the leaders of one of the sects of their own religion it is very doubtful if the interests of public morals would not have been left to take care of themselves but when the chance of discrediting the Society which of all others had the strongest hold upon the confidence of the Indian peoples offered itself the temptation was irresistible and even such uns [...] Then there are again also the two phases which for lack of better terms we may name the natural and the spiritual evolution of man ; the first pertaining chiefly to the casket and the other to the jewel within the casket ; the evolution of the organism and of. [...] The Mexican the Druid the Egyptian the Hindu the Greek and the Romanist worship the same God—one who though slain has become incarnated through a woman which woman is at the same time wife and mother of the deity ; and that the slaying does not destrcy the individuality but liberates it to a wider sphere of usefulness and power. [...] Now setting aside for a moment the teaching that the esoteric constitution of the Kosmos was revealed by the avatars to the flower of humanity at the dawn of time it is only reasonable to conclude that if the ancient Hindus as Bailly acknowledges were such accurate observers they must have observed that besides the changing positions of the Sun and Moon the aspects which these and the plan [...] It is impossible for us to appreciate the sentiment of relgious awe with which the Mediterranean people looked upon the echanted the hoary the civilised monarchy on the banks of the Nile.* A fitting country indeed to which to attribute the origin of aught of tmigic or of glamour—whether it were in fact the parent of our modern methods of Divination or not.