Lucifer. A Theosophical Magazine. April 15th 1893

In him is the rare conjunction of the business qualities of the skilful organizer and the mystical insight of the Occultist—a combination I often think painful enough to its possessor with the shock of the two currents tossing the physical.life into turbulence but priCeless in its utility to the movement. [...] The human brain is the meeting-place of what Paul calls the natural and the spirtual the principle of physical life and the principle of thought life as the words he used mean. [...] There are those who have preserved the knowledge of it and also of the arcane meaning of the Mysteries; and it is from these Masters that the writer of the present protest had the good fortune of learning howbeit imperfectly the said language. [...] Thus the rejection of a Divine Principle in the Universe of Soul and Spirit in man and of his Immortality by one set of Scientists; and the repudiation of any Esoteric Philosophy existing in Antiquity hence of the presence of any hidden meaning based on that system of rvealed learning in the sacred writings of the East (the Bible included) or in the works of those Philosophers who were con [...] Subsequently however he gave the lie to the annihilationists by admitting that this state was comprehensible to the intuition of the Arhat who has attained to the fourth degree of Dhyana or mystic development and furthermore that the true self " that is the transcendental subject. actually entered Nirvana I was able to extract from the high priest the admission (a) of the reality of this ov