The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism June 1900

It represents the doctrine of the Shingon sect as to the appearance of the Buddhas iu the world and the glorious company of the Apostles (of Shin-gon orthodoxy). [...] Whether in the astrnomical gallery of the Egyptian Pyramid or upon the seven planed tower of Babel or among the mystical palm-leaf fragments of Hindu lore is ever to be seen the figure of the priestly initiate taking counsel of the planets on the all important problems of peace and war of plenty and famine of Government and society. [...] And not only the minds of n►en unite to form this world-soul but all the other contents of the world besides ; for as the physical atom has in latency all the properties of highest developed soul so in their general evolution the rale is all embracing and the infinite grains of sand on the sea-shore the simple flowers blooming in the meadows the savage animals roaming in the forest all combin [...] The men and women of the present age living mostly upon the astral plane following hlindly the impulses of the moment are unable as a rule to resist the planetary influences and so act according to the indication of the great wheel of the law and verify its predictions. [...] 1 feel inclined to think that the original version of Merlin's prophecies was in verse that it was an historical record of the last days of the Atlantean islands and that it was composed by some learned Atlantean (perhaps the original of Merlin himself) who had managed to survive the fury of the elements at the time of the great catastrophe.