The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism December 1899

But on enquiry and after much research both occult and otherwise it was discovered that long ago in the darkness of the middle ages and the time of the crusades a member of the family who then held the place had been killed in Palestine ; and the strange sounds heard were the astral echoes of the wailing cries of the mourners who in true Oriental fashion had used them when the body was conve [...] Blavatsky speaks of the Trinity as the first Logos the Impersonal or Unmanifested the first cause ; then the second Logos Spirit-Matter Purusha and Prakriti and finally the third Logos Cosmic Ideation -Mallet or Intelligence the Universal World-Soul the Cosmic Noumenon of matter the basis of the intelligent operations in and of nature.t " The First Logos ' which stands next to the Absolu [...] From the first L:1.-fos emanates the second manifesting the aspects of life and form the primal duality making the two poles of nature between which the web of the universe is to be woven Life form ; Spirit matter ; positive negative; active receptive ; Father Mother of the worlds symbolized " by a diameter across the circle (:) to denote the separation into Spirit and matter.§ From the [...] Highest among the Spiritual Intelligences are the seven secondary Logoi each of whom is the centre of a distinct department in our Solar System as the Logos is the centre of the whole and has the sun as His physical body.* The seven secondary Logoi are the centres of the seven Planetary chains each consisting of seven globes—partly physical and therefore visible and partly super-physical (built [...] dont and of all the entities therein ; the Maharajas oe Devarojas who superintend the working out of Karmic law ; and then the vast hosts of the Builders who shape and fashion all forms after the ideas that dwell in the treasure-house of the Logos in the Universal Mind and that pass from Him to the Seven each of whom plans out his own realm under that supreme direction and all.inspiring life t