The Theosophist a Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism September 1890

As the inter-relation of forces and the possible osmtsis of planes of being become more and more evident the unity of nature of the human race and the superiority of truth over dogma tend to sweep away all that divisions of creeds castes races and human interests have done to obstruct the inflow of divine truth and. [...] The size of the figures is determined by the pitch of the note and the quantity of substance to be set in motion ; and as with the daisy and the pansy so it is with all the other figures some of which are marked with the most perfectly shaded fluted lines representing each vibration of the voice. [...] The other string which has fifty-five beads on it is placed between the second and the third fingers of the same hand and used as the first set of counters.' Thus after one round of the upper rosary has been completed one bead of the lower rosary is sliped through between the fingers—also from its Parent bead—and so on one bead for every turn of the upper rosary until the whole of the whole r [...] But in the case of the repetition of the sacred thiyatri styled the mother of the Vedas" and " the mother of Mantras " these are not needed. [...] The Rudraksha which is of the size of Amalaka (Emblicum officinale) is superior that of the size of Badara (the Jujube nut) is ordinary and that of the size of Chana (Bengal gram) is inferior.