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

FOURTH SERIES CHAPTER X THE arrangement of our Japanese books and pictures the fitting tgether of the pieces of a huge brass lantern (a replica of those in the great Shin-shu temple at Kioto which had been made specially for our Library at the expense of the Joint Committee of all sects at a cost of 3250) and the reading up of back files of exchanges to get in touch with the movement tookup [...] At Alexandria the two sons of the then reigning Khedive of whom the elder is now his father's successor embarked as passengers amid the thunders of cannon; the manning of the yards and bedecking with flags of the war ships in the Harbour and the attendance on board of the several Ministers of the Egyptian Government. [...] " In compliance with the unanimous request of the Council of the British Section and to obviate the inconvenience and delay of reference to hea2"650 The Theosophist. [...] With this hint of imperial good-wishes no wonder the nation turned en masse towards the messenger of Southern Buddhism and took to heart the message ! It should be added that an explanation of the instant popularity of the Buddhist Flag may be found in the fact that when first shown to the Japanese priests they consulted their own sacred writings and found that the i colors of the vertical strip [...] And the first thing that strikes us is the idea that all things originate in spirit and that from it there emanates the mystic septenary of the seven principles ; for in this sense by the earth of the alchemists we are to understand the physical body by their fire vitality or as the Hindus call it Prana ; and so through all the other emanations and elements we may trace the remaining principl