The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism July 1900

To the king was given the responsibility of the administration of all government and all the expenses connected therwith ; so that the people held the returns from the one-third assigned to them without claim of the other two ; while with the other two classes whatever they held was still subject to the needs of the people. [...] The Crusades which did so much towards ending the darkest period of European history are usually credited with having been the means of re-introducing the works of the Alchemical writers—or at least it seems certain that the art in Europe took a new turn from about that time ; and the works of the Arabian writers became the standard authorities with the votaries of the furnace and the crucible. [...] Taking these aspects in the broad general order of their manifestation they may be defined as the objective and the subjective or the manifest and the occult—corresponding to the physical and the mental or to the material and spiritual conditions. [...] * Other sentences such as the above might be quoted from other writers ; and they indicate that this aspect of Alchemy referred to the evolution of the Psychic Principle in humanity and the develoment of the powers of the soul—so that a modern writer upon the suject after investigating the works of some scores of alchemistic authors t comes to the conclusiou that these were not in all case [...] All other metals and substances were only variations of gold in which its three elements were mixed with dross and the products of their combinations in undue proportions with the four outer elements—and it consequently became the object of the would-be gold-makers to remove the excess and the dross and thus to restore the just equilibrium of the three principles which would result in the evolut