The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism July 1898

Hartmann a caricature sketch of a woman whose double leaving the Two full series of thirty chapters each one tracing the history of the Theosphical Society up to the time of the departure of the Founders from New York to India the other subsequently have appeared The present series is the third 578 The Theosophist. [...] The peculiar sanctity of the Shway DagOn is due to the fact " it is the only payah known to Buddhists which contains actual relics not only of Shin Gautama but of the three Budhs who preceded him in this world." In the relic chamber in the heart of the dagoba are said to be eight hairs from the lead of Gautama Sakhya Muni and the drinking howl of one the robe of another and the staff of a [...] 589 life and surroundings in which be was reared ; and also of the contact of this rough fresh life with the civilising influences of Greece and Rome ; and of the humanising and spiritualising power of the new the Christian religion and its vigorous moralities as contrasted with the popular religious of the.old Roman Empire in the period of its decadence. [...] We only know the divisions of day" and of "night" because they are marked out by the rotation of our globe and the consequent appearance and disappearance of the sun—which if supposed absent from the sky and with it our sense of sight what then becomes of all such conventional divisions ? Upon the plane of the senses the perception of the passage of time is a matter largely dependent upon th [...] Then as man is the microcosm and thus of the nature of the macrocosm (as the less is to the greater) all the sequence of causes and effects be will go through on the lower plane will exist as ideas in the consciousness of his higher self ; and at certain periods he may with his lower mind also perceive them.tt Such being some of the views as to time in relation to the spiritual perception of