The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism April 1883

It really contains allusions to a great deal that has not yet been elaborated in the "Framents ;" for the return " to earth" —and to the chain of worlds of which the earth is one of the astral souls that have not in the preceding manwantara attained the higest Nirvana has to do with the destinies of individualities (as distinguished from personalities) that are not launched on the main str [...] These quotations would serve on the principle we are now pointing out as foreshadowing the explanation of the Fragments on the sevefold constitution of man the world the system of which it is a part and the system of which that is a part again. [...] Why then should the ultra-red waves be intercepted by bodies like ammonia while the more rapidly-recurrent waves of the whole visible spectrum are allowed free transmission ? The answer I hold' to be that by the act of chemical combination the vibrations of the constituent atoms of the molecules are rendered so sluggish as to synchronise with. the motions of the longer waves. [...] In the emission from both of these sources we have a mixture of obscure and luminous rays ; but the ratio of the latter to the former in the lime-light is greater than in the spiral; and as the very meaning of transparency is perviousness to the luminous 'rays the emission in which these rays are predominant must pass most freely through transparent substances. [...] And again if there be in the patient alone a faith supreme and unshakable in the power of a healer of a holy relic of the touch of a shrine of the waters of a well of a pilgrimage to a certain place and a bath in some sacred river of any given ceremonies or repetition of charms or an amulet worn about the neck— in either of these or many more agencies that might be named then the patient wi