The Theosophist. July 1904

The opening passages of the lecture we e a review of the rise of the grosser form of materialism in the begh ning of the present century and the later development of the variou. forms of metaphysical thought which for a time swept materialism a ay. [...] In the great majority of cases the formula does nothing beyond strengthening the will of the person who uses it and impressing upon the mind of the subject the result which it is desired to achieve. [...] wHAT then is the origin of mysticism in the world ? It is the result of the innate yearning of the individual to merge in the Supreme. [...] The ever-blooming lands Greenland amongst others of the Second Continent were transformed from Edens with their eternal spring to Hyperborean Hades a transformation due to the displacment of the great bodies of water of the globe—to oceans changing their beds ; and the bulk of the Second Race perished in this first great throe of evolution and consolidation of the globe during the htinian p [...] The first the Solar or "Pitris of the Gods " ; the second Barhishads or corporeal beings—" Pitris of the Demons." Thus the twelve great Gods the Jayas created by Brahma to assist Him in the work of creation in the very beginning of the Kalpa lost themselves in Samadhi and neglected to create'; thereupon they were cursed to be repeatedly horn until the seventh Kalpa.