The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism April 1900

The next day I had a grand reception at the chief temple of the Western liongwanji one of the two great divisions of the Shin Shu sect.: The sacred building was decked with the national ensign and in compliment to me and the Ceylon Buddhists the Buddhist symbolical flag which the Colombo Buddhist T. S. had introduced in the Island of Ceylon. [...] One of the quarters of the city bears the name of Tent.tiji the temple of the heavenly Kings from the existence there of one of the most sacred fanes of the Buddhist religion—the one in fact which I visited on the 17th. [...] For the metal of the bell substitute the ether of space ; and for the force which set up the vibrations causing the bell-note substitute that enormous wave of force which represented the awakening of the cosmic consciousness at the dawn of created things and then you have that first Great Tone which was the earliest o*all manifestation the Word " of till scriptures which was the first creati [...] But why should the heart he chosen rather than the brain or the pineal gland or any other suposed seat of life as the figurative source of spiritual action P Is it not because the systole and diastole the contraction and dilation of the heart express best the ebb and flow the attraction and repulsion of our emotional nature upon which depend the glory and the gloom of life ? We live a dou [...] The centrifugal force is as necessary as the centripetal to keep the balance of the worlds ; the presence of pain is necessary to hold the love of pleasure in check ; the existence of error enhani es the value of truth ; the presence of evil is permitted to prove the beauty of good.