The Aryan Path February 1938

For earnest thinkers a painstaking penmen the field of the Occult is open but they need to equip themselves with accurate knowledge of both the principles and the details of psychic science." OCCULT FICTION AND PSYCHIC VALUES One of the most remarkable symptoms of the growing intellectual curiosity of our day is the prepondeance on the market of fictional works dealing with phenomena which ha [...] By far the majority of the authors of strange " fiction before the commencement of the nineteenth century illustrate in their attitude to the supernormal the same dichotomy which is observable in the conventional theological structure of these days. [...] With the study of English in schools and colleges as a preparation for the earning of livelihood developed aquaintance with the beauties of Enlish literature and fascination with the political and philosophical ideas met with in the writings of the great thinkers of the West. [...] I am not forgetful of the effortA of the socialist party to improve the happiness of the working-classes but it must be remembered that this is only another leaf taken from the British tree and the socialist movement in India should not be mixed up entirely with the commnist organizations of the Soviet. [...] Here is the translation of °a quatrain in which the poet.describes the resing-place the Selalihini should seek at nightfall Look out fo.r the wood nymphs as they carol on the sands which resemble the cloud-disturbed moon and among the flowers and the creeping vines and the trees close to those spots (of the river bank).