The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism March 1884

Year by year the Spirit of Christ grows mightier and its meaning clearer as one by one the mists of superstition and misconception melt and drop away from the Holy Name and we learn that the history of Man is the history of perpetut.1 struggle after the Ideal of perpetual aspiration after the more excellent way.' This Ideal this Way which is also the Truth and the Life constitute the Christ [...] This is the Way of Paradise which is equally the Way of the Cross because it is the will of God and therefore the law of the universe that no perfection is possible in anything but by means of self-denial and self-conquest. [...] is it too much to ask of the human race that it should consent to restore the world to the dominion of natural law and order ;—that it should sacrifice the luxury and sensuality of the Few to the peace and joy of the Many and that it should learn to be wise clean pure thrifty and virtuous f Is it too much to ask the suppression of an organized system of carnage involving a foul and unhealthy [...] A STRANGE case of the apparition of the phantom of a deceased student of the Academy at the time of his death to his Holiness the Metropolitan Piston having been narrated by the latter exalted personage in the Moscow Gazette and elsewhere the confession seems to have losened the tongues of several persons who hitherto had avoided saying anything of their personal experiences. [...] The spasms on the other hand of the blood-vessels on the right side of the heart and of the vaso-motor nerves in general appear to be of nervous origin from the very onset; they are due to the specific action of the cholera poison and originate most likely within the vaso-motor centres.