The Theosophist. June 1904

Now will any one say that provided we have a solid basis of belief in the permanency of human records in nature's " unfading galleries " it is impossible for one possessed of the psychometric faculty supplemented by a knowledge of the sevenfold constitution of man and the convincing reality of the fact of reincarnation that the past lives of any one"518 The Theosophist. [...] CXXXIX.) that there is no place either in Heaven or hell or in the uttermost parts of the sea where man can escape the divine power and it is useless for him to call on the darkness to cover him for " the darness hideth not from Thee ; but the night shineth as the day : the darkness and the light are bath alike to Thee " when one sees how the most hidden remote and unimagined events of the [...] In baptism for example the water is carefully blessed before the ceremony commences ; and even in the services of the Church of England you will still find traces of this for the priest prays that the water shall be sanctified to the mystical washing away of sin and as he utters these words it is usual for him to make the sign of the cross in the water which is to be employed. [...] Almost every object utilized in the service of the church was originally consecrated in the same manner ; the vessels of the altar the vestments of the priest the bells the incense—all had their special services of blessing. [...] In the case of the bells they were permeated with certain rates of vibration and a certain type of magnetism the idea being that the thoughts and feelings which these suggested should be spread abroad wherever the sound of the bells travelled—a perfectly scientific idea from the point of view of the higher occult physics.