The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism February 1885

The action of the students of the Madras Christian College appears to give the deathblow to any doubt as to whether the higher education such as is imparted in the venerable pile of buildings which the Rev. [...] Man ought to see in himself the image of God and behold in Nature the character of its divinity ; he ought to see God in Nature and to learn to know the foincentres of the universe the centres of the physical astral spiritual and divine worlds The centre of the physical world is ma"February 1885.] THE TgEOSOPHIST. [...].Redemption and regeneration consist in a separation from that bark which clings to the trunk of the spirit in a removing of the stone from the door of the sepulchre by the angel of truth so that the spirit may become resurrected and obtain its freedom. [...] The divine blood of Christ produces a solution of the grosser (astral) materials of the body and man by partaing of the divine bag of Christ (assimilating the higher principles with the purified lower ones) eats the bread of angels and drinks from the water of life that is to say his reason will and activity become invigorated and act in accordance with their high destiny Such is the meani [...] The regeneration of man by Baptism with the water of life tied the divine spirit is a necessary result of that comunication and the true science of the priests of the order of Melchisedeck.