The Theosophist - A Magazine of Brotherhood Oriental Philospphy Art Literature and Occultism June 1913

The difference between the intellectual and spiritual life of the materialistic West and that of the mystic East is very deep and the misunderstandings arising in the one concerning the most vital life of the other are natural. [...] THE RETURN BALL (A ring for the finger to which is attached an elastic cord and on the other end of the cord a ball.)502 THE THEOSOPHIST JULY The child's hand is the bosom of the Father : the ring is the spirit forever in union with the Most High. [...] SNAP THE WHIP In the game of Snap the Whip the secret of not being thrown when the jerk comes lies in holding tight to the hands of one's companions on either side.506 THE THEOSOPHIST JULY In the great crises of life a man needs first and most the support and sympathy of his friends and those he is sure of only if he holds to them firmly and loyally at all times. [...] In a former part of our study we considered the bearings of the psychological fact that the active cosciousness—which is the relative expression and limittion of the Self—cannot ever be in full possession of the total consciousness which is the distillation of our accumulated experience in this or other lives for the very simple and conclusive reason that the part cannot include the whole. [...] The great fact of sex especially in the animal and the human kingdom is the separation of a liffunction which in the lower organisms is found expresing itself in a single organ whereas as evolution prduces higher forms of bodies the two sexes arise out of the common sex found in the lower organism ; in one sex the emotional side is more highly developed in the other the intellectual.