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The Theosophist. August 1904

1904

As to Hinduism see the revival of Brahmanism and of Sanskrit Literature the foundation of the Central Hindu College and our Sectional activities ; as to Buddhism see the 200 Schools and the three Colleges opened by our members in Ceylon the enthusiasm in Buddhist Japan the unprecedented friendly union between the Northenn and Southern Buddhists the Buddhist Catechism"846 The Theosophist. [...] For instance it is supposed that they were not aware that the points in space where the plane of the equator cuts the plane of the ecliptic slowly shifted from year to year and that in consequence they chose for the first sign of the Zodiac that in which the vernal equinox happened to be when these divisions of the heavens were adopted under the impression that this equinoctial point would remai [...] Moreover the beginning of the Accadian Zodiac was exactly the same as that of the modern Hindus and the first sign was in the same position on the celestial sphere although the venal equinox was not then within 3o degrees of Aries being in fact in the constellation Gemini."1904.] The Hinds Zodiac. [...] The reason why the magnetic forces are at right angles to the eletric is doubtless due to some property of the etheric medium and the same medium which is the connecting link between the solar systems and the planets may likewise fix the mean plane of the planetary orbits at right angles to some connected group of stars. [...] It stretched across the Atlantic Ocean to the British Isles—a small portion of the North of England forming one of its promontories while its equatorial lands embraced Brazil and the whole stretch of Ocean to the African gold coast— scattered fragments of what eventually became the continents of Europe Africa and America and also some of the remnants of older lands of Lemurian and the Hyperbore
philosophy religion
Pages
64
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120071
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The Theosophist. August 1904
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