The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism January 1890

What was the consequence ? Why that the Hebrews conquered the Philistines slew the Amalakites discomfitted the Hittites annihilated the Jebusites and made away with all the other nations of Palestine—the “Enemies of the Lord;” remaining the undisputed possessors of the Land of Promise and fortUnate usufructuries of Jehovah. [...] The fact is as the sun is the largest and brightest body known to us as he is the great giver of warmth and light which are absolutely necessary to the growth of both animate and inanimate substances in the world and lastly as he is the regulator of time in a remarkably accurate degree that self-luminous body was chosen by the great Vedic seers of antiquity to represent as a " symbolic conce [...] And yet in this way he might learn that the reason of man is able to answer the questions itself suggests by logically demonstrating through their workings the existence and nature of at any rate those secondary causes the presence of which eludes the scalpel of the anatomist and the test tube of the chemist. [...] In this way the evolving potencies of the developing Spirit of the earth including its power of intelligential action are reflections of the potencies of animated life from which indeed they are thus derived and of which they are therefore reproductions : so that the individualized spirits of animated life culminating in the Spirit of man are as regards the Spirit of the earth simply organs [...] Now the aim of the final stage of the evolution of spirit is the elimination of Will : for unyielding volition is incompatible with the renewed condition of the Divine siThstance for restoration to which the whole evolution is a preparation—seeing that in it Will has to gave way to and disappear in duly controlled desire.