Theosophy Religion and Occult Science (1885)
Theosophy Religion and Occult Science (1885)
BY
HENRY S. OLCOTT
PRESIDENT OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
YORK STREET COVEN 1" GARDEN
MDCCCLXXXV
LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
ON THEOSOPHY
^0 the ^Icmarji of
trary notwithstanding.
In the several hundred discourses I have de-
livered In India and Ceylon, during the last
H. S. O.
concerned.
What are the suppositions of Religion with which
it is assumed that " Science " can never deal ?
And again :
36 ENGLAND'S WELCOME.
38 ENGLAND'S WELCOME.
nexion has been made the pretext by seme not very friendly critics
to charge me with a belief in a personal God. It will be impossible
for any one to point to a single sentence ever spoken or written by
me which would give colour to such a charge. Upon a hundred
public occasions I have defined the " God " of the Founders of our
Society to be identical with the Universal Principle — formless,
changeless, devoid of the attributes of personality and of limitation
— which is postulated by the highest metaphysicians of Asia. This is
made very plain even in the few Lectures that have been preserved
out of several hundreds delivered in India and Ceylon to constitute the
present volume. And it is equally clear that, whatever may be my
personal views or those of INIadame Blavatsky, no one in our
Society is responsible for them, save ourselves
ENGLAND'S WELCOME. 39
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ENGLAND'S WELCOME, 45
"
your Mother is not dead, but only sleepeth !
THE COMMON FOUNDATION OF
ALL RELIGIONS.*
OF ALL RELLGLONS. S3
OF ALL RELIGIONS. 87
OF ALL RELIGIONS. 89
OF ALL RELIGIONS. 91
the dry-rot that eats out the heart of any faith that
builds upon it. This it is which, carried in the
body of a church, foredooms it to ultimate destruc-
tion, as surely as the hidden cancer carried in the
good can never come out of evil the evil tree pro- ;
OF ALL RELIGIONS. 1 1
BASIS OF RELIGION. 1 1
only with the good and true souls who have deep
religious aspirations, and who, deploring the
darkened spiritual state of mankind, would point
back to the beacons of hope that the Ris/iis of old
lit on the mountain peaks of Aryan philosophy.
is something personal
said before, religion and it ;
Nature " !
What can you answer M.A. of the —
—
University of Calcutta though you glitter with
medals, and are clothed in honours as with a gar-
ment ? Theory is one thing, fact another. Do
'
of two fools, —
whose tipsy folly as I am told, though
I speak under correction^made them practically
I. —
To form the nucleus of a Universal
Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of
race, creed, or colour.
2. — To promote the study of Aryan and
other Eastern literature, religions, and sciences, and
vindicate its importance.
3. — To investigate the hidden mysteries of
nature and the psychical powers in man.
I have touched upon these sufficiently, I hope, to
made it clear that our Society has not one feature
of sectarianism in it ; that it regards religion as a
personal matter ; that its founders do not believe
that any actual knowledge can be obtained of
Divine things except through psychical develop-
ment ; that it has not a shadow of political char-
acter ; that it is neither a propaganda nor a special
antagonist of any particular faith ; that its influence
must be in the direction of piety, personal purifica-
tion, unselfishness, and patriotism, in the noblest
" As the Ocean is the goal of all rivers, so Thou art the ultimate
174 THEOSOPHY,
yet casts the first stone at the one who puts into
practice his very sentiments, nay, will himself, if a
widower, marry a wife young enough to be his
grand-daughter's daughter ? Have you not heard
him abhor child-marriage, and yet know that he
had had no sound sleep until his own baby daughter
was pledged and bound to a boy husband or worse ;
178 TIIEOSOPHY,
the East nor from the West; nor from land nor
sea neither from the
; region of nature nor from
that of heaven not from Hind nor China not
; ;
—
ment if, indeed, he can cramp himself down to a
realisation that it exists. How beautiful, how
suggestive, the verse of the poet Hafiz, where, in a
charming allegory, he describes the ease with which
the absolute truth may be attained when the barriers
of flesh arc once surmounted :
;
1
84 THEOSOPHY,
1 86 THEOSOPHY,
—
most sensitive moral part her motive. Ah, shame
on slanderers ! See this great, generous-hearted
soul, filled with love forhumanity; longing to throw
lif^ht into the darkened minds of those who still
—
192 THEOSOFHY,
" He (Prof. Solavief) has been impressed with a sense of the im-
portance of Hindu thought in connexion with pure speculation, by
ITS FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. 193
people.
" But is not your Society established for the sole
—
thought personified and holding out her own
strong hand says, " Sister Science, come The !
all the while, but we, being blind, cannot see it.
—
fragment of an aerolite give to the psychometer Im-
pressions, sometimes amounting to visions sur-
passingly vivid, of the building, monument, mummy,
THE OCCULT SCIENCES, 209
it is and there is
in the stars ;
a close interchange
/
SPIRITUALISM AND THE OS PHY. 217
archaic science.
Wehave seen that the existence of a force-
current has been proved by the experiments of Dr.
Hare and Mr. Crookes so we need trouble our-
;
secrets known
to no other person present except
the inquirer; and even, in rare cases, giving out
facts which no one then in the room was aware of,
and which had to be verified later by consulting
old records or distant witnesses. A more beautiful
form of the rap is the sound of music, as of a cut-glass
vessel struck, or a silver bell, heard either under the
medium's hand or in the air. Such a phenomenon
has been often noticed by the Rev. Stainton Moses,
of University College, London, in his own house
and Mr. Alfred R. Wallace describes- it as occurring
in the presence of Miss Nichol, now Mrs. Volck-
mann, at Mr. Wallace's own house. An empty
SFIRITUALTSM AND THEOSOPHY. 227
Q
242 SPIRITUALISM AND IHEOSOPHY.
ties ;
but he who has mastered the Occult Sciences
finds, dweUing in fire, air, earth and water, a sub-
human some inimical, some favour-
order of beings,
able to man. He not only comes to a knowledge
of them, but also to the power of controlling them.
The folk-lore of the world has embalmed many
truths about this power, which is none the less a
fact because the modern biologist rejects and ridi-
THE PAST.
*'
there are no ages of stone, bronze and iron in
Egypt. . . . We must openly acknowledge
the fact that, up to this time at least, Egypt throws
scorn upon these assumed periods." And now,
Egyptian history and civilization being the most
ancient we have, and this history picturing to us,
nearly 8,000 years ago, a people already highly
civilized, not in the material sense alone, as Brugsch
tells us, but in social and political order, morality
and religion, the next question would be why we
should say that India and not Egypt is the older?
My reason may seem at first sight paradoxical
yet, nevertheless, I answer —because nothing is
THE PRESENT.
If one who loves the memory of the blessed
Aryavarta would not have his heart filled with
sorrow, he must not permit himself to dwell too
long on the past. For, as the long procession of
great men passes before his inner vision, as
he sees them surrounded with the golden light of
their majestic epochs, if he then turn to view the
spectacle presented by the India of to-day, it
268 INDIA : PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,
it will be hard, though he were the most courageous
of souls, to escape a sense of crushing despair.
Where are the sages, the warriors, the giant
intellects of yore ? Where the happiness, the inde-
pendence of spirit, the self-respecting dignity, that
made an Aryan feel himself fit to rule the world,
nay, to meet the very gods on equal terms ?
Where are the cunning artificers whose taste and
skill, as exemplified in the meagre specimens that
remain, were unrivalled ? Whither are departed
the Brahmins in whose custody were all the trea-
sures of Asiatic knowledge ? Gone — all gone. Like
visions of the night, they have departed into
the mist of time. A new nation is being fabricated
out of the old material, in combination ivith innch
alloy. The India of old is a figment of the imagina-
tion, a faded picture of the memory; the India of
to-day is a stern reality that confronts and supplicates
us. The soil is here, but its fatness is diminished ;
THE FUTURE.
Ah when ? The
! oracle is silent ; the book of
destiny none have read. It may be only after a
century or centuries ; it cannot be soon, for the
pendulum swings slowly, and on the dial of Fate
the hours are marked by cycles and epochs, not by
hours or single generations. Enough for us the
present hour for out of the present comes the
;
graphy ;
Electricity and Magnetism, and their
correlationsMathematics, as applied to scientific
;
that after that has done its best, after its proficients
have pushed their researches to the very verge of
objective nature, though not one secret of the
phenomenal world is left uncovered, there is another
and a far more important domain of knowledge still
left to explore. At that outermost verge yawns an
abyss that separates it from the Unknown, and, as
scientific men call it, the Unknowable. Why do
they not enter this boundless department of
Nature ? Why, in all this hurry-skurry of the
biologists after knowledge, have they not solved
the old problem of the why, the whence, the
whither of Man ? Is it not because their methods
are faulty, and their canons of science too narrow ?
Firstly, they have been overshadowed throughout
their investigations by the dark and menacing
influence of a Christian theology ignorant of Christ;
and secondly, they have been hampered by their
ignorant disdain for the claims of Asiatic Occult-
ism, whose adepts alone can tell them how they
may learn the secret laws of Nature and of man.
Read the summary of scientific progress made by
2S8 THE CIVILIZATION THAT INDIA NEEDS.
again :
— " It is true that if
T
290 THE CIVILIZATION THAT INDIA NEEDS.
reason for it beins: the one I find in the secret traditions of the
esoteric doctrine —
namely, that there were several teachers of that
name. Neither Plato nor Aristotle, so accurate in their statements,
is likely to have transformed 200 years into 6,000. As to the
generally accepted native tradition, which makes the great prophet
a contemporary of Darius' father, it is absurd on the very
face of it. Though the error is too palpable to need any elaborate
confutation, I may say a few words in regard to it. The latest re
dred years B.C., instead of the 600 assigned to him ; and thus that
he could not have been a contemporary of Darius Hystaspes, whose
father was so carelessly and for such a length of time confounded in
this connexion Vv'ith the Vistasp who flourished six centuries earlier.
That there were several (in all seve^t, say the Secret Records,) AJnirti-
Ahurmazda, an office corrupted later
asiers, or spiritual teachers, of
and Ziirii-asters from " Zera-Ishtar," the title of
into Gtirii-asters
the Chaldean or Magian priests ; and (2) that the last of them was
Zaratusht of the Desaiir^ the thirteenth of the prophets, and the
seventh of that name. It was he who was the contemporary of
U
-
the sacred books of both the Chaldeans and the Jews. It matters
little whether be accepted or rejected. Since the
this hypothesis
rejection of it would not make the otlicr more trustworthy, it was
as well to mention it,
ZOROASTRIAN RELIGWN. 307
* Not before he learns the true meaning of his own name, and
strives once more to become worthy of it. How many among the
modern priests know that their title of Mobed or '' A/oghed," comei
from Mao^, a word used by the prophet Jeremiah to designate a
Babylonian Initiate, which, in its turn, is an abbreviation of Mag-
insiah — the great and wise? " Maghistom " was once the title of
Zoroaster's highest disciples, and the synonym of wisdom. Speak-
ing of them Cicero says :Sapioitiuni et doctoru/?i genus magoruni
habebattir in Pcrsis.
ZOROASTRTAN' RELIGION: 311
They face the fire, as also they do the sun and the
sea, because in these they picture to themselves the
Hidden Light of Lights, source of all Life, to which
they give the name of Hormazd. How well and
how beautifully is this expressed in the writings of
Robert Fludd, an English mystic of the seventeenth
century (see]\Ir. Hargrave Jennings's Rosicj^ucians^
make you learned but not wise, can teach you about
the shell of Nature, but those silent and despised
unravellers of the tangled web of existence can
evoke for you the soul that lurks within that sheath.
Three centuries before Christ the united kingdom
of Persia and Media exercised a dominion extend-
ing over an area of three or four millions of square
miles, and had a population of several hundred
millions of people. And do you mean to tell me
that the Zoroastrian religion could have dominated
the minds of this enormous mass of people — nearly
ZOROASTRTAN RELIGION. 323
1. Haoma to Zarathustra.
2. As he was purifying the fire and reciting
the Gathas.
3. Zarathustra asked him : Who, O man, art
thou ?
awakens."
of the meditators ;
'•'
The Mobed is the teacher of thy truth, and
the world a school."
( YasJit. xxii.)
ample.
" ZatJui aJiu Sahyo : —The riches of Vohumano
shall be given to him who works in this world for
Mazda," is the promise of the Avesta (Fargard
xxi.). Bear it in mind, ye Mazdiasnians,
and remember the maiden and her dogs by the
Chinvat Bridge. I say this especially to my Parsi
brothers in our Society ; for I have the right to
speak to them as an elder to a junior. As Parsis
they have a paramount duty to their co-religionists,
who want of the pure
are retrograding morally for
light. As Theosophists, embraces their interest
all their fellow-men of whatever creed. For we
read in one of the most valuable of all books for the
thoughtful Parsi — the Dabistan, or School of
Maimers
" The world is a book full of knowledge and of
justice,
The binder of which book is Destiny, and the
binding the beginning and the end ;
* The suggestion was taken up, and shortly after a Parsi Archaeo-
logical Society was organized at Bombay. But the wealthy class
have not as yet subscribed funds, and nothing practical has hitherto
been accomplished.
342 THE SPIRIT OF THE
ness?) told him when life had actually quitted the ca-
daver. This seems to me a very clear and sensible
explanation of a long- veiled practice. Moreover,
I read in Mr. K. R. Cama's translation of Prof.
Duncker's GeschicJite des Altertnuts, that in the
time of Agathias, the Persians carried their dead
outside the gates of a town and exposed them to
be eaten by dogs and birds regarding it as a
;
— —
hatmas perhaps of Rishis who keep their watch
and ward over the slumbering Aryan faith, and await
the hour of its resuscitation. So too — our travelling
348 SPIRIT OF THE ZOROASTRIAN REIIGION.
LESSONS/'^
deeply significant
I have cited this example for the sole and simple
lessons it must
teaches, they not make his followers
of to-day responsible for any extravagant exuber-
ance of past biographers. The doctrine of Buddha
and its effects are to be judged quite apart from
the man, just as the doctrine ascribed to Jesus and
its effects are to be considered quite irrespectively
z
:
garded by common
consent as perfect, changeless,
and Eternal— therefore, in teaching the doctrine
that conquest of the material self, with all its lusts,
desires, loves, hopes, ambitions and hates, frees one
from pain, and leads to Nirvana, the state of Perfect
Rest, he preached the rest of an untlnged, untainted
existence in the Spirit. Though the soul be com-
posed of the finest conceivable substance, yet if
FINIS.
GLOSSARY.
Abiil Pharaj. A
Persian, book ot the Brahmans, dealing
author of the " Book of Dynas- with their rituals.
ties." Aiwydonhana. A waist-band
Agastya. An ancient sage ol worn by Zoroastrians.
Southern India, much revered Akdsa. The subtle supersensu-
throughout tlie country. ous matter pervading all space.
Apii. Fire, and its personified In one aspect it is identical with
principle, in Hindu mythology. the ^ther of Science.
Agnihotra. A
mystic cere- Alexandria, Neo-Platonists of.
monial, performed by the Vedic See N'eo-Platonist'i.
Brahmans, with the object of Allah-Dag. A mountain in
developing the mystic fire latent Central Asia.
in Akasd. Aluf Khan. The Moham-
Agnihotri. One who performs medan Chief who signally de-
the ceremony of Agnihotra. feated the Parsis and disjicrsed
Ahankaram. Personality; them from their home in Persia.
egoism. A jneshaspenfas. The first seven
Ahriman. The Evil Principle angels.
of the Universe. Af/irita Bazar Patrika. A
Ahura Vairya. The funda- Calcutta native journal.
mental Parsee prayer, or confes- Aniritsar. The sacred city of
sion of faith. the Sikhs, in the Punjab.
Ahzirmazihi, or Ahnra Mazda. A nima. The power :; f psychics
The Good Principle of the Uni- of increasing their weight.
verse (see also Hormazd). Arahats (literally, the worthy
AJmruasters. An ancient ones). The initiated holy men of
Persian word, meaning "spirit- the Buddhist and Jain faiths.
ual teachers." Ardai Viraf. The purest of
Ah'giod Lamh (literally, he of Magian priests at the Court of
the golden hand). The name by King Ardeshir Babaganof Persia.
which Zoroaster is referred to in Ardai Viraf Naineh. A Per-
an Irish MS. sian book containing an account
Aitareya Brdhviana. A sacred of Ardai Viraf.
;
\6b GLOSSARY.
i68 GZ0SSy1/^V.
querors.
j
pie of light). A
celebrated shrine Karma. The law of ethical
in ihe Himalayas. causation "whatsoever a man
:
GLOSSARY. 371
372 GLOSSARY.
Mitld'i. Salvation, z'.^., release crossed one over the other, and
from conditioned existence. tl]e body straight.
Mussulman. (See Moslem.) Pahlavi. An ancient language
of the Zoroastrians.
Narada. A great Indian sage. Pali. The language in which
Natitch. An Indian dance, per- the principal scriptures of the
formed by professional female Buddhists are written.
dancers. Palingenesis. Thebeginningof
Nazar, or Nazir. Set apart, the period of Cosmic activity
separated. also re-birth.
Nazars. A very ancient sect of Pandit. A
learned Brahman.
adepts, existing ages before Pdnini. The greatest of San-
Christ. skritgrammarians.
Nazaret. Assyrian Greek Parabrahvia. The supreme
name for Zoroaster. principle in Nature.
Neilrherries. or Nil^iris. The Parasnatha. One of the great
" Blue INIountains." A
range of teachers of the Jain sects.
hills in the INIadras Presidency Parsiism. The religion of the
with which many traditions of Parsis, Zoroastrianism.
ancient sages and wonder-workers Parsis. Followers of the
are connected. ancient Persian faith ; fire-wor-
Neo-Platonists of Alexandria. shippers.
Followers of a school of philo- Parvad. In Hindu mythology
sophy founded by Ammonius the goddess represeniing Cosmic
Saccas, which was highly altruis- Energy.
tic and catholic. It recognized Patanjali. The author of
the existence of some portion of Yoga Philosophy.
divine or spiritual truth in every Pice. A small Indian copper
form of religion, and left a deep coin, worth a little over an
impress upon early Christianity. English farthing.
Niraug. The liquid with which Piti-shahim. According to the
the Parsis wash their faces every Parsis, the period during which
morning. the earth became consolidated
Nirvana. Beatitude, vioksha out of primeval cosmic atoms.
{q.v.). The state of abstract, Prakriti. Nature, Cosmic
spiritual existence. matter.
Nii~i'anic. Pertaining to Nir- Pralaya. Theperiod of Cosmic
vana, the Buddhist name for the rest.
final beatitude. Prarthana SamaJ. A Theistic
Society of Bombay.
Omar. The-second Khali fell of
Prc-Iranian. Anterior to the
the Mohammedans.
Iranians or Persians.
Ormazd- Yacht. A
part of the
Piicca. Ripe, permanent. A
Khordeh-Avesia a prayer.
;
pucca house is one built of good
Osetya. A
province in the
bricks and mortar, or other per»
Caucasian Viceroyalty of Russia.
manent material.
Osiris. The Egyptian sun -god.
Puggri. A
turban.
Padmdsan. A posture practised Pundit. A Brahman learned in
by some Indian mystics. It Sanskrit.
consists in sitting, with the legs Ptoijah. The northernmost
GLOSSARY. 373
374 GLOSSARY.
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the many forms of occultism have exercised upon civilisation." St James's
Gazette.
" To many readers the most fascinating pages in The Real History of the
'
legend to its true proportions, and show how and when it had its origin."
Kno7vledge,
" We have rarely seen a work of this description that was so free from all
attempts at the distortion of facts to dovetail with a preconceived .... His
style is perspicuous. The most interesting portions of the book are those
. . .
be read with deep interest by every one who has the slightest knowledge of
the subject. " Cou7't Journal.
"Mr Waite's painstaking and well written book is one to be
THANKFUL FOR. The subjcct has too long (and never more than at the
. . .
scant justice can be done to a book like Mr Waite's in a short notice such
as this, and therefore all that remains possible is to draw the attention of
all interested in such literature to the careful chapters on the
English mystics
— Fludd, Vaughan, and Heydon— and to emphasise the estimate with which
we commenced." Majichester Examiner.
"There was need of a clear and reliable book on the subject. This need
Mr Waite has supplied. a cultured writer, and has mastered the
He is
entire literature of his subject, the most of which is in the German language.
His 'Real History' cannot fail to interest any curious reader. The . . .
Large Crozvn 8vo, the Cover emblazoned and floriated 7vith Stars and
Serpents and Sunflowers, and the Arms of France and of Navarre.
Gilt top, \os. 6d.
ficing too much of the large utterance and the rich aroma of the originals."—
Daily News.
"The book may be recommended to all who wish to understand that
singular mixture of piety and voluptuousness which distinguishes the French
Renaissance." AthencBtwi.
" The book is not quite one for indiscriminate presentation, but it is exceed-
ingly well done, and is beautifully printed and bound." Glasgotv Herald.
" We owe her [Miss Robinson] thanks for having put in a worthy form
— — — ——— — —
before a new public a w ork to a great extent forgotten, and most assuredly
not deserving forgetfulness." Athenaiim.
"Nothing can be better than the introductory chapter, and the notes and
genealogical tables show that care for minute accuracy which is the fashion
of the present day, and a very good fashion too." Westminster Review.
"A book that people who like to saunter along the by-paths of history
will revel in. As, at the present time, there are thousands of people who
only care to read the gossip and scandal in 'society journals,' so there are
readers of history who chiefly delight in the gossip and scandal of bygone
days. From such people The Fortunate Lovers is certain to meet with a
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'
hearty welcome, while even the more serious students of history will ri>e
from its perusal with a fuller and better knowledge of the times it deals
with." Literary World.
"Many of the stories are not particularly edifying. . . Has a distinct .
By T. EDGAR PEMBERTON.
With New Portraits, in Character, of Miss Jennie Lee,
Mr Irving, and Mr Toole.
Contents : — —
The Stage in his Novels Dickens as a Dramatist Dickens as an Actor—
— —
Adaptations and Impersonations The Stage in his Speeches The Stage in his Letter^
Dickens as a Dramatic Critic.
Posthumous Humanity
A Study of Phantoms.
By ADOLPHE D'ASSIER,
member of the bordeaux academy of science.
Contents :
—
Facts Establishing the Existence of the Posthumous Personality in Man-
Its V^arious Modes of Manifestation —
Facts Establishing the Existence of a Second
Personality in the Living Man—
Its Various Modes of Manifestation —
Facts Establishing-
the Existence of the Personality in Animals, and concerning a Posthumous Animalitj'—
Fluidic Form of Vegetables— Fluidic Form of Gross Bodies— Character of the Posthumous
— —
Being Its Physical Constitution Its Aversion to Light Its Reservoir of Living Force
Its Ballistic—The Nervous Fluid— Electric Animals— Electric Persons Electric Plants—
The Mesmeric Ether and the Personality which it Engenders The Somnambule The — —
— —
Sleep-talker The Seer— The Turning-table The Talking-table— The Medium— IMiracles
— —
of the Ecstatics Prodigy of Magic— The Incubus The Obsessing Spirit— Causes of the
Rarity of the Living Phantom— Causes of the Rarity of the Trans-sepulchral Phantom-
Resemblance of the Spiritistic Phenomena to the Phenomena of the Posthumous Order^
— —
Lycanthropy Glance at the Fauna of the Shades Their Pre-occupations How thej- —
Prolong their Existence — The Posthumous Vampire.
Truth says :
— "If you care for Gi-iosT stories, duly accredited, ex-
cellently told, and scientifically explained, you should read the
translation by Colonel Olcott of M. Adolphe d'Assier's 'Posthumous
Humanity,' a study of phantoms. There is no dogmatism so dogged and
offensive as that of the professed sceptic — of the scientific sceptic especially
who ex vi termini ought to keep mind hospitably open ; and
the doors of his
such scientists as Wallace, Crookes, and M.
it is refreshing, therefore, to find
contempt ... a more piteous literary exhibition than the entire volume has
rarely come under our notice." Knowledge [?J.
" An interesting and suggestive volume." Nezv York Tribune.
"The book is written with evident sincerity." Litei'ary World.
" There is no end to the wonderful stories in this book." Court Circular.
"The book may be recommended to the attention of the marines."
Scotsman.
" A book which will be found very fascinating by all except those person^
— —— — — — —— ——
who have neither interest nor belief for anything but what they can under-
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stand Manchester Exatimier.
. '
Contents — —
Cranmer at the University of Cambridge Cranmer's Participation in the
:
—
Proceedings of the Divorce of Henry VIII. from Catherine His Second Marriage as a
Priest — —
His Oaths on Consecration as an Archbishop The Fate of Anne Boleyn Henry's :
Marriages with Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves. Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr,
—
and Cranmer's alleged Participation in these Acts Henry VIII.'s Political and Social
—
Reforms under Cranmer's alleged Guidance Persecutions, and Cranmer's alleged Par-
ticipation in them —
The Progress of the Reformation under Henry VIII. and Edward VL
— —
Cranmer's Fall and Martyrdom His alleged Recantations His Writings John Fox, — —
—
the Martyrologist The Beatification of Bishop Fisher, the Chancellor More, and others,
as Martyrs.
"Mr Collette brings to his task both breadth and depth of knowledge,
and a desire to be scrupulously free from prejudice." Globe. " He is
animated by an anti-Papal spirit. . . nevertheless, his book is readable."
.
— Scotsman. "No
future student can afford to neglect his work." British
and Colonial Printer. "His book deserves to be read, and his pleadings
should be well considered." Anglican Church Alagazine. " has stated He
HIS evidence with a fulness and fairness beyond CAVIL." Daily
News. " Mr Collette avoids bitterness in his defence, and does not scruple
to blame Cranmer when he thinks blame is deserved." Glasgow Herald.
"On the whole, we think that we have in this book a just and impartial
character of Cranmer." Record. "This book is a valuable contribution to
the literature concerning a period which to the lover of religious liberty is
of the deepest interest. ... it is a work of research of learning, of sound
and generally of impartial judgment," Rock.
— — —
Post 8vo, -cuitJi Plates^ pp. viii. and 359, Cloth gilt, 10s. 6d.
KABBALA DENUDATA,
By S. L. MACGREGOR MATHERS.
The Bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other
book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages
which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their
meaning. That key is given in the Kabbala.
"A translation which leaves nothing to be desired." —Saturday
Review.
*'
Mr Mathers has done his work with critical closeness and care, and has
presented us with a book which will probably be welcomed by many students.
In printing and binding the volume is all that could be desired, and the
diagrams are very carefully drawn, and are calculated to be very useful to all
who are interested in the subject." Nonconfoi'inist.
"We may add that it is worthy of perusal by all who, as students of
psychology, care to trace the struggles of the human mind, and to note its
passage from animalism through mysticism to the clearness of logical light."
— Knozoledge.
" Mr Mathers is certainly a great Kabbalist, if not the greatest of our
time." AtheiKTuni.
The Kabbalah is described by Dr Ginsburg as " a system of religious
philosophy, or more properly of theosophy, which has not only exercised for
hundreds of years an extraordinary influence on the mental development of
so shrewd a people as the Jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the
greatest thinkers in Christendom in the 1 6th and 17th centuries." He adds
that"it claims the greatest attention of both the philosopher
AND theologian."
Crotvn ^to, wrapper, \s.
The Meister.
Edited by W. ASHTON ELLIS.
Contains translations from the literary
works of Richard Wagner; extracts from
letters that have passed between the Poet-Composer and other men who have left their
mark upon the art life of the day original articles and essays explanatory of the inner
;
A SouPs Comedy.
By ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.
A tragedy in its ancient and legitimate sense, depicts the triumph of destiny
over man; the comedy, or story with a happy ending, represents the triumph
of man over destiny. It is in this sense that the spiritual history of Jasper
Cartwright is called a Soul's Comedy.
bute to the many beauties of ' Israfel,' and we are not sorry to meet with
another work from the same pen in 'A Soul's Comedy.' .... It may suffice
to say in general that the poem, cast in a quasi-dramatic form, is a very noble
one, though painful to a degree. The main idea of Jasper's origin is so
horrible in its pathetic tragedy as to raise reminiscences of Ford's masterpiece,
and the after-episode of Mary Blake is little less distressing ; but out of these
seemingly unpromising materials Mr Waite has evolved a tale of human sor-
row, struggle, and final triumph, such as must appeal to the heart of every
true man. .The poetry rises at times to unusual heights, as, for
. .
instance, in the description of Mary's death (p. 31), the benediction in the
monastery chapel, Austin Blake's prologue to the third part, or, best of all,
the scene where Jasper resigns Gertrude to his friend Jasper's prose
fairy tale is delightful, though not, it may be, suited to all comprehensions.
. . . Taken altogether, this is a true and worthy poem."
—
^to, pp. 27i Cloth extra, 1$. 6d. The woodcuts coloiired by hand, 55.
carded the forms of religion while retaining the moral principle to its fullest
extent. It is in harmony with much that was said by Socrates and Plato,
although the author does not use the phraseology of those philosophers, but
rather the language of Buddhism, easily understood by esoteric Buddhists,
but difficult to grasp by those without the pale. Light on the Path may, we
' '
ing who has reached the threshold of Divinity by this road. That it has
reached a third edition speaks favourably for this mtiltiim in parvo of the
science of occultism
future. "
and M.
;
Saturday Revietv.
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may be expected to gather fresh laurels in
— ;
2)2?)io, pp. Co, Cloth gilt, \s, 6d.; %uith pack of ']% Tarot Cards, ^s.
The Tarot
Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune Telling,
By S. L. MACGREGOR MATHERS.
—
The Saturday Review says: "In its closely-printed pages students of
occultism will find hints, practical and otherwise, likely to be of great
'
'
service to them in the pursuit of their studies and researches. ... book A
which may properly have the title of Magic, for if the readers succeed in
practically following its teaching, they will be able to perform the greatest of
all magical feats, the spiritual regeneration of Man. Dr Hartmann's book
has also gone into a third edition, and has developed from an insignificant
pamphlet, '
written originally for the purpose of demonstrating to a few
inexperienced inquirers that the study of the occult side of nature was not
identical with the vile practices of sorcery,' into a compendious volume, com-
prising, we are willing to believe, the entire philosophic system of
OCCULTISM. There are abundant evidences that the science of theosophy
has made vast strides in public estimation of late years, and that those
desirous of experimenting in this particular, and in many respects fascinating,
branch of ethics, have leaders whose teaching they can follow with satisfaction
to themselves."
The Scotsman says :
—
"Any one who studies the work so as to be able to
understand it, may become as familiar with the hidden mysteries of nature as
any occult philosopher ever was."
Lotus
A Psychological Romance.
By the Author of " A New Marguerite."
"Mystical, peculiar, engaging the book has originality
. . . . . .
it a graceful story of the sort which is said to make people some people
is —
— think, and will be read with mixed feelings by most." Athenccum.
" Afierce and passionate book, which illustrates once more the hold that
our subject has on the popular imagination. To be read." Light. —
— —— —— —
Crown ?>vo, pp. iv. and 2^6, Cloth {Cheap Edition), 6s.
A Professor of Alchemy
{DENIS ZACHAIRE).
By PERCY ROSS,
AUTHOR OF "A COMEDY WITHOUT LAUGHTER."
"A clever story. . The hero is an alchemist who actually succeeds in
. .
By H. M. SELBY.
" A handy little
work of reference for readers and students of Shakespeare."
Board Chronicle.
-School
"The book presents a great deal of information in a very small compass."
-School Newspaper.
—— . — — — — — "
Times.
" Will be greatly appreciated in the class-room." Glasgozv Herald.
"Carefully compiled from more authoritative books of reference." Scots-
man.
"The unlearned reader is thus enabled to increase very greatly his enjoy-
ment of Shakespeare." Literary World.
" We have tested the book by looking for several of the obscurest
mythological names mentioned by Shakespeare in each case we found the ;
Demy Svo, pp. iv. and 299, Cloth gilt, 10s. 6d.
Serpent Worship,
And other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism=
By C. STANILAND WAKE.
Contents:— Rivers of Life— Phallism in Ancient Religions— Origin of Serpent Worship—
The Adamites — The Descendants of Cain — Sacred Prostitution— Marriage among Primitive
Peoples— Marriage by Capture— Development of the "'Family" — The Social Position of
Woman as affected by "Civilization" — Spiritism and Modern Spiritualism — Totems and
Totemism — Man and the Ape.
The most important of the thirteen essays discusses the origin of Serpent
*'
Worship. Like other papers which accompany it, it discusses its subject from
a wide knowledge of the literature of earlv religions and the allied themes of
anthropology and primitive marriage. The remaining essays are written
. . .
who hold that kinship through females and the matriarchate preceded paternal
kinship and the patriarchal family, and who connect the phenomena of
exogamy and of totemism with the matriarchal stage of society, and with
belief in a definite kinship of man with the remainder of the sensible universe.
He looks upon female kinship as having existed concurrently with a quasi-
patriarchal system." Athenceum
"Able, and REMARKAHLY INTERESTING." Glasgo%v Herald. -
— — — —
The main objects for which this Society has been established are {a) To :
A Wayfarer's Wallet.
Dominus Redivivus.
By henry G. HEWLETT,
AUTHOR OF "a SHEAF OF VERSES."
"The title * Dominus Redivivus indicates the aim of the poem.
' The . . .
author wishes to tell the stoiy of the actual Jesus, and to contrast his teaching
with that of the Churches professing to be Christian. . He belongs to . .
the great Church to be, which will some day include not only the real Jesus
as one of its worshippers, but Gautama and Socrates, and Plato and every '
holy name which blessed the past.' The work of this Church is to break
down caste, to help the poor, to sweeten all the life of man. This is
sufficient, we trust, to guide some readers to a book interesting in itself, and
probably destined to set many a wavering mind on a path at once definite
and right in regard to Christianity." The hiqtiirer.
"A collection of verses on various subjects and in various styles. . . .
Not one but is worth reading all have the melodiousness and fluency of
:
largest poem in the book, is a plea for the Christianity of Christ, in which
there is a wealth both of poetry and thought." Liverpool Daily Post.
" Mr Henry G. Hewlett's new volume of verse . has many fresh and . .
attractive pieces, and not a dull one among its contents. The ballads . . .
Crown 2>i'o, pp. viii. and 632, Cloih gilt, los. be'.
In Praise of Ale;
Or, Songs, Ballads, Epigrams, and Anecdotes
relating to Beer, Malt, and Hops.
With some curious particulars concerning Ale-wives
AND Brewers, Drinking-Clubs and Customs.
Collected and Arranged by W. T. MARCH ANT.
—
Contents — —
Introductory History Carols and Wassail Songs— Church Ales and
:
— — —
Observances Whitsun Ales— Political Harvest Songs General Songs Barley and —
— — — —
Malt Hops Scotch Ale Songs Local and Dialect Songs Trade Songs— Oxford Songs
— —
Ale Wives Brewers Drinking Clubs and Customs— Royal and Noble Drinkers Black —
— — —
Beer Drinking Vessels Warm Ale Facts, Scraps, and Ana.
"Mr Marchant has collected a vast amount of odd, amusing, and (to him
that hath the sentiment of beer) suggestive and interesting matter. His
volume (we refuse to call it a book) is A volume to have. If only as a
manual of quotations, if only as a collection of songs, it is a volume to
HAVE. We
confess to having read in it, for the first time in our lives, the
right and authentic text of ' A
Cobbler there was and Why, Soldiers, '
'
why ; and to have remarked, as regards the first, that our ancestors were
'
very easily amused, and, as regards the second, that it has a curious at?' de
famille with the triolet. These are very far from being Mr Marchant's only
finds; but that is all the more reason why we should linger upon them."
Saturday Review.
"A kind of scrap-book, crowded with prose and verse which is always
curious AND VERY OFTEN ENTERTAINING, and it may be read at random
beginning at the end, or in the middle, or at any page you like, and reading
either back or forwards —
almost as easily as the Varieties column in a '
'
" The memory of John Barleycorn is in no danger of passing away for lack
of a devoted prophet. The many songs, poems, and pieces of prose written
In Praise of Ale form a fine garden for the anthologist to choose a bouquet
from. It is plainly AN ORIGINAL collection, made with diligence
. . .
of songs and ballads, epigrams and anecdotes, which may be called uniqiceJ'^
— Pall Mall Gazette.
" Beer, however, in conjunction with mighty roast beef, according to Mr
Marchant, has made England what it is, and accordingly he writes his book
to show how the English have ever loved good ale, and how much better
that is for them than cheap and necessarily inferior spirits or doctored wines.
Be that as it may, we have here a collection of occasional verse satires, —
epigrams, humorous narratives, trivial ditties, and ballads VALUABLE AS
—
—
illustrations of manners." Literary World.
Spirit Revealed.
The Book for the Age.
The Nature of the First Great Cause, and the Coming Christ
or Messiah The Approaching End of the World, or
;
" The descriptions of the diseases mentioned are well given, and may very
advantageously be read by the general practitioner. " Lancet.
" To those who wish to perfect themselves in ophthalmic surgery, the book
will be found a really valuable help." Hospital Gazette.
"A valuable course of Lectures calling for something more than passing
notice, an opinion which all who read the discourses will heartily endorse."
— Asclepiad.
Contents :— Bladud, King of Britain or, The Legend of Bath— Joseph of Arimathea
;
and the Legend of Glastonbury— Watchet, The Legend of St Decuman— Porlock and St
Dubritius— King Arthur in Somerset— St Keyna the Virgin, of Keynsham— Gildas
Badonicus, called Gildas the Wise, also Gildas the Querulous— St Brithwald, Archbishop
of Canterbury— King Ina in Somerset, Ina and Aldhelm— St Cougar and Congresbury—
Hun, the Leader of the Sumorsaetas, at the Battle of Ellandune— King Alfred m Somerset,
and the Legend of St Neot— St Athelm. Archbishop of Canterbury— Wulfhelm, Archbishop
of Canterbury— The Landing of the Danes at Watchet— The 1 imes of St Dunstan; His
— — — ——
—
Joan Clifford, commonly called "Fair Rosamond" —John de Courcy— St Ulric the
Recluse, or St Wulfric the Hermit — Sir William de Briwere— Woodspring Priory, and the
Murderers of Thomas a Becket — Richard of Ilchester, or Richard Tocklive or More
Halswell House, near Bridgewater—The Legend of the House of Tynte —Witham Priory
and St Hugh of Avalon (in Burgundy)— William of Wrotham—Joceline Trotman, of Wells
— Hugh Trotman, of Wells— Roger Bacon— Sir Henry Bracton, Lord Chief Justice in the
Reign of Henry IIL— William Briwere (Briewere, Bruere, or Brewer) — Dunster Castle,
Sir Reginald de Mohun, Lady Mohun — Fulke of Samford — Sir John Hautville and Sir
John St Loe — Sir Simon de Montacute — The Evil Wedding, Chew Magna and Stanton
Drew — Robert Burnel — Somerton, King John of France — Stoke-under-Ham, Sir
Matthew Gournay— Bristol (St Mary Redcliffe), The Canyges Chatterton — Thomas de
;
Beckyngton — The Legend of Sir Richard Whittington — The Legend of the Abbot of
Muchelney — Sebastian Cabot— Taunton and its Story — Giles Lord Daubeney and the
Cornish Rebellion, King Ina's Palace and South Petherton — John Hooper, The Marian
Persecution — The Paulets, Pawlets, or Pouletts, of Hinton St George — Richard Edwardes
— Lord Chief Justice Popham—The Last Days of Glastonbury—William Barlow and the
Times of Edward VL — Robert Parsons, or Persons — Henry Cuff— Sir John Harrington
The Wadhams, Wadham College, Oxford Ilminster, Merrifield, Ilton — Samuel Daniel
;
Dr John Bull— Thomas Coryate, of Odcombe, in Somerset — John Pym — Sir Amias Preston
—Admiral Blake—William Prynne— Sir Ralph, Lord Hopton — Ralph Cudworth— On
Witches, Mrs Leakey, of Mynehead, Somerset — John Locke —Thomas Ken, D.D., some-
time Bishop of Bath and Wells— Trent House, Charles IL and Colonel Wyndham — The
Duke of Monmouth in Somerset — Prince George of Denmark and John Duddleston
of Bristol — Beau Nash, with some Account of the Early History of the City of Bath
Wokey or Ockey Hole, near Wells— Captain St Loe —The State of the Church in the
Eighteenth Century, Mrs Hannah and Mrs Patty More and Cheddar— Dr Thomas
Young— Edward Hawkins, Provost of Oriel and Canon of Rochester — Charles Fuge
Lowder—A Tale of Watchet, The Death of Jane Capes— Captain John Hanning Speke
Cheddar Cheese, West Pennard's Wedding Present to the Queen, 1839— In Memoriam,
1811-1833.
GEORGE REDWAY.
— —
Contents: Theosophy or Materialism Which? — The Theosophical Society and its
— —
Aims The Common Foundation of all Religions Thesophy the Scientific Basis of:
— —
Religion Theosophy its Friends and Enemies The Occult Sciences Spiritualism and
: —
— —
I'heosophy India Past, Present, and Future The Civilisation that India needs The
: —
Spirit of the Zoroastrian Religion —
the Life of Buddha and its Lessons, &c.
Truth says :
—
"For any credulous friend who revels in such stories I can
recommend 'Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky.' I read every
line of the book with much interest."
Theosophists will find both edification and interest in the book.
Post 8vo, pp. viii. and 350, C/oth £z/t, ys. 6d.
Contents : The Prhnitive Rite Itself.— {i) Sources of Bible Study — (2) An Ancient
Semitic Rite — The Primitive Rite in Africa— (4) Traces of the Rite in Europe
(3)
(5) World-wide Sweep of the Rite,— (6) Light from the Classics— (7) The Bond of the
Covenant,— (8) The Rite and its Token in Egypt— (9) Other Gleams of the Rite.
Suggestions and Perversions of tlte Rite. — (i) Sacredness of Blood and of the Heart
(2) Vivifying Power of Blood — (3) A new Nature through new Blood — (4) Life from
any Blood, and by a Touch— (5) Inspiration through Blood— (6) Inter-communion through
Blood— (7) Symbolic Substitutes for Blood —(8) Blood Covenant Involvings. Indications
of the Rite in the Bibie.—if) Limitations of Inquiry— (2) Primitive Teachings of Blood
—
(3)The Blood Covenant in Circumcision— (41 The Blood Covenant Tested— (5) The Blood
Covenant and its Tokens in the Passover— (6) The Blood Covenant at Sinai— (7) ihe
Blood Covenant in the Mosaic Ritual—(8) The Primitive Rite Illustrated— (9) Ihe Blood
Covenant in the Gospels— (10) The Blood Covenant applied. Importance of this Kite
strangely undervalued— Life in the Blood, in the Heart, in the Liver— Transmigration
of Souls— The Blood-rite in Burmah— Blood-stained Tree of the Covenant— Blood-
drinking— Covenant Cutting— Blood-bathing— Blood-ransoming— The Covenant-reminder
— —
—Hints of Blood Union Topical Index Scriptural Index.
—
"An admirable .study of a primitive belief and custom one of the utmost
importance in considering the growth of civilisation. ...
In thedetails of
Its
the work will be found much to attract the attention of the curious.
fundamental and essential value, however, is for the student of religions and ;
The Life
OF
Paracelsus.
And the Substance of his Teachings concerning
Cosmology, Anthropology, Pneumatology, Magic
AND Sorcery, Medicine, Alchemy and
Astrology, Philosophy
AND ThEOSOPHY.
Extracted and Translated from his Rare and Extensive
Works, and from some Unpublished Manuscripts,
By FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D.
St James's Gazette describes this as "a book which will have some per-
manent value to the student of the occult," and says that "Students
should be grateful for this book, despite its setting of Theosophical
nonsense."
— ———
The Raven.
By EDGAR ALLAN POE.
Contents: — I. The History — Burma according to Native Theories— Origin of the Bur-
mese — Early History— First appearance of Europeans in Burma— Worrying our Repre-
sentatives—War with Burma— The Inevitable End. II. The Country— Lower Burma
Upper Burma— The Irrawaddy to Mandalay — Mandalay — The Irrawaddyabove Mandalay.
III. The People — Burmese Kings — Burmese Officials — The Hloat-daw — The Officers of
the Household — Method of Appointment and Payment — The People — Their Faults
Excellence as Buddhists — Doctrine of Good Works — Superstitions — Lucky and Unlucky
Days — The most Sociable of Men — Freedom of the Women — A Nation of Smokers
Contented with British Rule — Ascendency of the Chinaman Trade — Hill-tribes — Their
Religion — Hope for the Nomads— The Kachyens.
By henry W. CLARKE.
Contents :— The History of Tithes before the Christian Era— From the Christian Era
to A.D. 400— From a.d. 400 to a.d. 787 — —
From a.d. 787 to a.d. iooo From a.d. loaoto a.d.
T215 — —
From a.d. 1215 to the Dissolution of Monasteries Monasteries Infeudations —
Exemption from Paying Tithes—The Dissolution of Monasteries The Commutation Act —
of 1836, 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 71— Tithes in the City and Liberties of London— Redemption
of Tithe Rent Charge— Some Remarks on "A
Defence of the Church of England against
Disestablishment," by the Earl of Selborne.
"An impartial and valuable array of facts and figures, which should be read
by allwho ai"e interested in the solution of the tithe problem." Athemcum.
*'The best book of moderate size yet published for the purpose of
enabling an ordinary reader to thoroughly understand the origin and history
of this ancient impost." Literary World.
Crown SvOj pp. xl. and 395, Cloth extra, ']s. 6d.
Large Paper Edition, Royal ^vo, pp. xvi. and 60, 7^-. dd.
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ASTROLOGY THEOLOGIZED.
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are the Stars which a Wise Man ought to rule. Touching a double Firmament and Star
in every Man; and that by the Benefit of Regeneration in the Exercise of the Sabbath, a
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Primitive Symbolism as
Illustrated in Phallic Worship
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By HODDER M. WESTROPP.
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Geometrical Psychology
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An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of
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By LOUISA S. COOK.
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