The Theosophist A Monthly Journal Devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism August 1883

t The Cultivation of the Speaking Voice by John Relish Oxford The Clarendon Press 1874 European puts the Hindu to sleep and drives the Chinaman to the verge So it it as to the perception and ettioymiett colOrs and odors and so with the thousand anff one thingai which 'make up the sensations thoughts pleasures yams and very exisence of the different races of mankind. [...] His first necessity is to know the esoteric views of the ultimate nature of Spirit of Matter Force and Space ; the fundamental and axiomatic theories as to the Reality and Unreality Form and the Formless (rupa and a-rupa) dream and waking.* Especially should he master—at least approximately—the distinction between the " objective" and the " subjective" in the living man's sensuous perception [...] It is fetching rather too far the presumption that our objective and subjective shall be the true standards for the realities and unrealities of the rest of the universe ; that our criterioof truth and honesty is to stand as the only universal land-mark of the same. [...] But it is neither a " dream" nor in any way " cheating." It may be so from the stand-point of Johnson's dictionary ; from that of fact independent of all human definition and the stand-point of him who knows something of the laws that govern the worlds invisible the intercourse between the monads is real mutual and as actual in the world of subjectivity as it is in this our world of deceptiv [...] " Yes ! came the answer : "he is with us !" The doctor withdrew immediately without further questioning.* Sometimes the devil speaks against himself and works for the glory of God and the salvation of souls which is always the design of God in permitting possessions.t His replies are always in the language of the person possessed so that all may understand.