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The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism November 1899

1899

Upon asking what this all meant I was for the first time in my life told about the Barisal Gun." Bearing in mind the physical peculiarity of the sounds the reader will be amused to learn that the following explanations have been gravely offered: the action of the tide (on the beach of the Bay of Bengal sixty-five miles away) ; the surf ; the crumbling of river banks (alluvial and only a few f [...] I have often seen people in the public gardens of Paris feeding the birds but Norendro Babu feeds every morning the cows crows minas and other birds the fishes in the ponds and the ants which swarm in the grass of the wide EsplanadThe animals and birds all seem to knoW his carriage and gather together to his usual feeding ground and the fishes swim towards him in the pond. [...] And yet if you again breath upon the same spot immediately the iprint will reappear ; for it has left an impress at least as great as all the blows of the hammer or quite as indelible—and all the force of the blows had not made one atom of difference in the durability of the ipression made respectively by the hammer and the small bit of paper. [...] [November become a little concentrated in the print or woodcut ; and so when shut up in the dark it begins to radiate therefrom according to the different degrees of absorption by the paper and the ink every bit of that diference being registered by the chemicals in the other piece of paper and so forming a duplicate of the picture. [...] Chemistry does not explain much more than that but it tells is of this effect of the luminous ether ; it tells us of the etheric state of matter and in so doing it tells us in reality of the sidereal ether of the alchemist the Magisterium of the Mystics the azoth and yliaster of Paracelsus ; and in short of the Astral Light.
philosophy religion
Pages
68
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism November 1899
65-128 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist
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