The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism September 1900

Under the master's playing we were enraptured to hear the sounds of rolling and crashing thunder among crags the echoing fall of waters the rush of winds the cries of animals and songs of birds the strains of musical insta uments and the soaring voices of men and women. [...] Therefore unless the one who made the attempt to produce the Elixir were in some measure an occultist and could counteract these utoward influences it is hardly probable he would succeed.t Of course all such accounts as the above would be received with a smile of contempt by all the votaries of the science of to-day and the members of the medical fraternity. [...] Up to this point the Monad has circled along the whole of the downward arc of evolution and has reaced on the upward arc asjar as the lower levels of the mental plane ; to complete the circle the third outpouring of life from the first Logos now meets and as it were ensouls the upward evolving Monad. [...] This third outpouring has on its side worked downwards through the Nivanic and Buddhic planes clothing itself in a film of matter of these planes and by the union of the two streams the Causal body of man the vehicle of the reincarnating Ego is formed on the higher levels of the Mental plane." The Man is now complete he has within himself the seed of the highest life outpoured from the f [...] The moment the physical body is separated from the higher bodies as during sleep in trance or under the influence of anaesthetics it becomes unconscious but in the undeveloped man the astral and mental bodies are themselves barely conscious when thus " lakking the strong contacts that spur them while in the physical frame." § The nervous' system and the brain are the organs through which we