The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism October 1899

It is worth the while of an Anglo-Indian to visit Hardwar for the sake of the view of the grand scenery and the bathing in the clear cold current of the rushing Ganges. [...] This is one of the depths to which the sublime religion of the Rishis has sunk in the hands of the degraded scum whofficiate in so many temples defiling the sanctuary of the Gods by their moral effluvia. [...] This was the capital of Runjit Singh the warior king of the Sikhs surnamed the Lion of the North. [...] Coming down the ages we find that the monotheistic teaching as to Deity was brought before the minds of the people and because the teachers did not give out more details of the question and show how the one essence differentiated into many the monotheistic view was held as the only true one. [...] If you know what straight is you know what crooked is and you know that of two wires similar in length the one that zigzags is the shorter in extension and to make it reach the same point as the straight it must have a piece added so the way of the crooked wire is longer than the way of the straight.