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

In that case that end of it which turns towards the south pole of the earth is its north pole and that end which turns towards the north polo of the earth is its south pole.$ (6.) If two pieces of bar magnets be placed horizotally upon pivots close to each other the north pole of the one will attract the south pole of the other and the south pole of the one will attract the north pole of th [...] On the other hand the north pole of the one will repel the north pole of the other and the south pole of the one will repel the south pole of the other. [...] In the equatorial region of the earth the compass needle stands horizontally on account of the equality of attraction exerted on its poles by those of the earth ; but in the polar region the needle stands obliquely that is one end is depressed and the other end is elevated on acount of the inequality of attraction exerted on its poles by those of the earth. [...] But the theatre of his predictions and of the sucess of his doctrines is positively determined by the cocordance of testimony of the books of the Avesta of classic writers and of Mussulman authors of the Orient. [...] Then what is the doctrine of the Zarvanians ? Is it a veritable corruption of the primtive dogma of Zoroaster ? Did it commence with Aleander the Great and develope itself in the course of the Middle Ages in contact with the Mussalmans and the pan - theistic sects that swarmed in Persia a doctrine now professed by the Parsees fag-end followers of the ideas of the great Bactrian prophet ? Th