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Y o u I. N o. 3. B O M BA Y . D E C E M B E R , 1870.

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i s it h i a t t e r (if c o n j e c t tt i c n u ly.” To remove this necessity
THE THEOSOPHIST. for blind guess-work, and show modern science w hat the
Aryas knew of th e infirmities to which mankind are
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liable, is tbe aim ol our contributor and fellow Theoso­
■■ --------- - ............... ....--------- ------- —— phist, Dr. Pandurang.
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e a c h , i>er a n n u m , cash in <alrance\ writing the names Cnristian world is preparing to celebrate th e most noted of its
.mil addresses plainly, ainl stating in w hat language tliey so'.ci unities— th e birth of tho F o un der of their religion. When
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th e ir oilers are accepted should . receive the subscription and in A m erica th e holly and ivy will decorate each home,
money of that number, we will then a t once issue such an a i d the churches be deckod with e v ergreens; a custom
e d i t i o n o f the TllKosniMtis'r, commencing with the Itrst di rived from th e ancient practices of tho pagan D ruids " th a t
number, taking the risks of publication upon ourselves. s) Ivan spirits m ig h t flock to the evergreens, and remain mi­
B u t we could not consent to allow present subscribers to ni pped by frost till a milder season.” In Roman Catholic
the English edition to transfer their names to tho verna- ci.untrics large crowds flock during the whole Ovcning and
C iila '" edition’s list, should such an edition be undertaken. night of ‘ C hristmas-cve’ to th e churches, to salute waxen
They and we are mutually bound by our present contract.: images of the divine Infant, and his Virgin mother, in her
if they wish a vernacular I’l l k o S o i m i i s t , they must sub ­ g rr b of "Q ueen of Heaven.” To an analytical mind, this
scribe for it. We are subsidized by no government, prince, hi avery of rich gold and lace, pearl-broidcred satin and velvet,
or patron, and therefore must see to it. th a t for every r u ­ and the bejewelled cradle do seem ra th e r paradoxical. When
p e e of ex penditure there are It! anna.s of assets forth­ oi o thin ks of the poor, worm-eaten, dirty manger of the
coming. J( wish coiiiitiy-inn, in which, if wo m ust credit the Gospel,
tl e future “ R ed eem er” was placed a t his birth for lack of
A recent num ber of the London S / d r d u a l i s t contains one a bettor shelter, wc cannot help suspecting th a t before the
of the most important ai ta lcs— from the standpoint of p h y ­ ill zzled eyes of the unsophisticated devotee the Bethlehem
sical M'iencc ever printed on the subject, of the medinm- stable vanishes altogether. T o p u t it in the mildest terms,
istic I'l iriiomciin. It is a detailed report, by Mr. \\ . tl is gaudy display tallies ill with the democratic feelings and
II. Harrison, of an experim ent with a self-registering the truly divine c on tem p t for riches of the “ Son of Man,”
apparatus to verify tin' weight of a medium while a “ m a ­ who had “ not where to lay his head.” I t makes it all the
terialised spirit,” so called, or, more properly, visible psy­ harder for the average Christian to regard the explicit state-
chic form, is being s e e n , felt, aud conversed with by the nient th a t— “ it is easier f o r a camel to go through the
observers present. V ' t h e t l e n t r o m l i t i o n s m e s u j > ] i h c d i" e of a needle, than for a rich man to en te r the kingdom
by t h e t i i f t r h i i i ’ r t / : and this e x perim en t has at once sug­ ol heaven” as a n ything more than a rhetorical threat. The
gested that the substance of the psychic form is taken I’nman Church acted wisely in severely' forbidding her
from the bull; of medium, the autom atic register show­ parishioners to either read or interpret the Gospels for
ing that his weight, is reduced the m om ent the form themselves, and leaving the Rook, as long as it was possi­
steps oil" tho floor of the suspended box in which he sits, ble, to proclaim it-s tru th s iu L atin— “ the voice of one
a n d recovers itself the moment it steps back again. Mr. ciying in the wilderness.'’ In that, she b u t followed the
Harrison's report is illustrated with a num ber of largo wisdom of the ages— th e wisdom of the old Aryans, which
and small drawings which— if the resources of Bombay is also “ justified of her child ren;” for, as n either the mo­
do not. prove utterly inadequate— we hope to reproduce, di rn Hindu devotee understands a word of the Sanskrit.,
together with the report, itself, in the .January num ber nor tho modern Parsi one syllable of the Zend, so for tho
of our journal. This experiment is b u t the beginning ol a -,erago Roman Catholic the Latin is no b e tte r than Hie-
a series which cannot tail to prove, in the most, striking n glyphics. T he result is th a t all the throe— Brahm ani-
and irrefutable manner, the truth of the Aryan hypothesis c r l l l i g h Priest, Zoroastrian Mobed, and Roman Catholic
of psychology. It would be prem ature to en te r into the PintitV. are allowed unlim ited opportunities for evolving
rellections liatuially suggested by this subject before lay­ ii';w religious dogmas o u t of the depths of the ir own fancy,
ing the report before our renders, so wc refrain. b u t wc for the benefit of their respective churches.
may say, at least, that tile idea instantly occurred to us To usher in t his g re a t day the hells are set merrily ring­
th a t the experimenters had omitted one most, im portant ing at midnight, throughout England and th e Continent.
detail— the V'riijh ni;/ o f the psychic Jorni itself while the In France and Italy, after the celebration of the ma-ss ill
autoinatie bidnnrc. was recordin'/ the altered v e h jh t of churches magnificently decorated," it is usual, for th e re­
the meilinm. N othing is easier. It needs only to place vellers to partake of a collation (reveillon) th a t they m a y be
an ordinary American ' platform-scale ’ a t a short distance bi tter able to su sta in thefa-tiijues o f the night,” saith a hook
from the suspended cabinet, and have the psychic form treating upon Popish church ceremonials. This night of
stand upon it long enough to be weighed by one of the Christian fasting reminds ono of the S i earn tree of the fol­
Committee, who could ad ju st the counterpoise, and read lowers of the god Siva,— the great day of gloom and fast­
the markings, by the light of an ordinary phosphoriis-lamp. ing, in th e 1 ltli m onth of flu; H indu year. Only, with tho
] f it should be found th a t the weight of the form tallied latter, th e nig h t’s lonir vigil is preceded and followed by
with the sum abstracted IVom the weight of the medium, a strict and rigid fasting. N o rercillmis or compromises lor
here would Ik; presumptive physical proof th a t tin; former tl em. True, th ey an; b u t wicked “ heathens,” and th e re ­
was exuded from the latter. And th e n — b u t perhaps our fore their way to salvation m u st be tenfold harder.
friends, tho S p iritualists will prefer to fill o u t the sentence Though now universally observed by Christian nations as
for themselves ! tl e anniversary of th e birth of Jesus, th e 2oth of D ecem ­
ber was not originally so acccptcd. The most movable of
A Wl',1,1, Pf.ACI'.l) PlKTV.— T he ('hn rir nri. deploring the the Christian feast days, during the early centuries, Christ-
growing infidelity of the day, gives as an instance of iiias was often confounded with the Epiphany, and conc­
mediaeval piety the following letter, from the collection of iliated in th e months of April and May. As there never was
autographs of liaron Girardot, which was recently adver­ any a u th e n tic record, or proof of its identification, whether
tised to be sold at auction. T h e m other of Cardinal in secular or ecclesiastical history, the selection of th a t day
Richelieu writes to a young married lady :— long remained o p tio n a l; and it was only during tho 4th
“ F o r t / c a r s / i n i s J c r c c i i i l y p r a y i n i / ^>'<></ t o . v o i d t o n t y o( litury that, urged by Cyril of Jerusalem, the Rope (Julius
n o n a m i s t r e s s l i k e y o u ; o n e t h a t h a s i d I ( h e d e s i r e d q u a ­ I.) ordered th e bishops to m ake an investigation and conic
lities. I now find that. God A lm ighty was pleased to Ii .tally to some agreem ent as to the presumable date of tho
accept, my humble prayer, since you have allowed my dear nativity of Christ. T h eir choice fell upon the 2.‘>th day
son to bo your humble servant.” ol December,— and a most, unfortunate choice it has since
C harm ing picture, forsooth, of mother, son,priest, church, j) 'oved ! I t was Dupuis, followed by Volnoy, who aimed tho
and Clod ! li -st shots a t this natal anniversary. They proved th a t for
ii calculable periods before our era, upon very clear ostrono-
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mical data, nearly all th e ancient peoples had celebrated the cred privacy than under the eyes of the dangerous, argu s­
births of their sun-gods on that very day. “ Dupuis shows eyed reporter. Yet the eating and drinking festivities are
th a t tho celestial sign of tlio V i i u j i n a n d ( U l l U ) was in e x ­ preserved th rou gh ou t tb e Christian world ; and, more
istence several thousand years before C h rist”— remarks H ig­ sudden deaths an* doubtless caused by gluttony aud inte m ­
gins in bis A imcalypsiu. As Dupuis, Yolney, and Higgins perance during the Christm as and Easter holidays, than a t
have all been passed over to posterity as infidels, and e n e ­ any other time of the year. Yet, ( ‘hristiau worship bccomes
mies of Christianity, it may he as well to quote in this every year more and more a false pretence. The lieart-
relation, tho confessions of the Christian Bishop of Itatis- Icssuess of this lip-service lias been denounced in num er­
bone, “ th e most learned man th a t th e middle ages pro­ able times, b ut never, we think, with a more affecting touch
du c e d ”— the Dominican, A lbertus Magnus. “ Tho sign of of realism than in a charm ing droam-tale, which appeared in
the celestial Virgin rises above the horizon a t the m om ent the X e w Yoih lie rah! about last ( ’hristmas. An aged man,
in which we f i x the birth o f the Lon I J e su s C h r i s t ’’ lie says, presiding at a public meeting, said lie would avail himself
in the llccherelies hlstoriques su r F uluise.jxir La tujcviii pre- of the opportunity to relate a vision he had witnessed on
tre. So Adonis, Bacchus, ( >siris, Apollo, etc., were all born on the previous night. “ H e thought, he was standing in the
tho 2oth of December. Christm as comes just at tho time pulpit of the most gorgeous and magnificent cathedral ho
of tho winter solstice ; tho days then are shortest, and had ever seen. lielore him was (he priest or pastor of
Durl'uess is more upon tho face of th e earth than ever. the church, and beside him stood an angel with a tablet
All the sun-gods were believed to be annually born a t th a t and pencil in hand, whose mission it was to make record
epoch ; for from this time its Light diapuls more nnd more of every act of Worship or prayer th a t transpired in his pre­
dark ness with each succeeding day, anil th e power of the sence and ascended as an acceptable offering to the throne
S u n begins to increase. of God. Every pew was lilied with i icldy-attired worship­
However it may be, the Christm as festivities th a t were ers of e ith er sex. T he most sublime music th a t ever fell
held by the Christians for nearly fifteen centuries, were of on his enraptured ear filled the air with melody. All the
a particularly pagan character. Nay, we are afraid that beautiful ritualislict !huivh services, including a surpassingly
even the present ceremonies of the church can hardly eloquent sermon from the gifted minister, had in turn tran s­
escape the reproach of being almost literally copied pired, and yet the recording angel made no entry in his ta b ­
from the mysteries of Egypt anil Greece, held in honour let ! The congregation were at lengt h dismissed by the pastor
of Osiris and Horns, Apollo ami Bacchus. Both Isis with a lengthy and beautifully-worded prayer, followed
and Ceres were called “ Holy Virgins,” aud a D i v i n k by a benediction, and yet th e angel made n o sign !”
B a i i e may be found in every " h e a t h e n ” religion. W e ii “ A ttended still by th e angel, I lie speaker left t lie door of
will now draw two pictures of the Merrie Christm as ; one the church iu rear of the richly-attired congregation. A
portraying the “ good old times,” and the other the poor, tattered castaway stood in the g u tte r beside the
present state of Christian worship. From the first days of curbstone, with her pale, famished baud extended, silent­
its establishment as Christmas th e day was regarded in ly pleading for alms. As the richly-attired worshipers
the double light of a holy commemoration and a most from the church passed by, they shrank from the poor Mag­
cheerful festivity : it was equally given up to devotion and dalen, tho ladies withdrawing aside their silken, jewel-
insane merriment. "A m ong the revels of the Christmas bedecked robjs, lest they should be polluted by her touch.”
season wore th e so-called feasts of fools aud of asses, grotes­ “ J u s t then an intoxicated sailor came reeling down the
que saturnalia, which were termed ‘ December liberties,’ iu sidewalk on the oth e r side. When he got opposite the
which every th ing serious was burlesqued, tho order of socie­ poor forsaken girl he staggered aeios; the street, to where
ty reversed, and its decencies ridiculed”— says ono compiler she stood, and, f.aking a few pennies from his pocket,, lie
of old chronicles. “ During tho Middle Ages, it was celebrated thrust them into her hand, accompanied with the a djura­
by the gay fantastic spectacle of dram atic mysteries, p e r­ tion. ‘ Here, you poor forsaken cii-^s, take this I ’ A ce­
formed by personages in grotesque masks and singular cos­ lestial radiance now lighted up the lace of tin; recording
tumes. Tho show usually represented an infant in a cra­ angel, who instantly en tered the sailor’s act of sym pathy
dle, surrounded by the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, by and charity in his tablet, and departed with it as a sweet
bull’s beads, cherubs, E astern Magi, (the Mobeds of old) and sacrifice to God.”
manifold ornaments.” Tho custom of singing canticles a t A concretion, one m ig ht say, of the Biblical story of
Christmas, called Carols, was to recall th e songs of the shep ­ the ju d g m e n t upon l.lie woman taken in adultery, lie it
herds a t the N ativity. “ Tho bishops and the clergy s o ; yet it portrays with a m aster hand the state of our
often joined with th e populace in carolling, and the Christian society.
songs were enlivened by dances, and by th e music of ta m ­ According to tradition, on Christmas-eve, th e oxen may
bours, guitars, violins and o rg a n s...” W e may add tha t always be found on th e ir knees, as though in prayer and d e­
down to the present times, during th e days preceding votion ; anil, “ there was a famous hawthorn in the c hurch­
Christmas such mysteries are being enacted, with mario­ yard of Glastonbury Abbey, which always budded on the
nettes and dolls, iu Southern Russia, Poland, and G a lic ia ; 24th, and blossomed on the 2'>(h of D e c e m b e r ;’’ which,
and known as the KalUlotvki. In Italy, Calabrian m in ­ considering th a t t he day was chosen by the Fathers of the
strels descend from their mountains to N aples and Rome, church a t random, and th a t t.lu; calendar has been changed
and crowd tho shrines of tho Virgin-Mother, cheering her from the old to the new style, shows a remarkable perspi­
with their wild music. cacity in both the animal and the vegetable ! There
In England, the revels used to begin on Christm as eve, is also a tradition of the church, preserved to us by Olaus
and continue often till Candlemas (Feb. 2), every day being archbishop of IJpsal, that, a t the festival ol Christmas,
a holiday till Tw elfth-night (Jan. (»). In the houses of “ the men living iu the cold N orthern parts, are suddenly
great nobles a “ lord of misrule,” or “ abbot of u nreaso n” and strangely metamorphosed into wolves; and that, a huge
was appointed, whose d u ty it was to play the p art of m ultitu de of them m eet tog ether a t an appointed place
a buffoon. " The larder was filled with capons, liens, t u r ­ and rage so fiercely against mankind, th a t it suiters more
keys, geese, ducks, beef, mutton, pork, pies, puddings, nuts, from their attacks than ever they do from the natural
plums, sugar and honey”............ “ A glowing lire, made wolves.” Metaphorically viewed, this would seem to bo
of great logs, the principal of which was term ed the “ Yule more than ever the case wit It men, and particularly with
log,” or Christm as block, which m ight be b u rn t till Candle­ Christian nations, now. There seems no need to wait for
mas eve, k ept o ut th e cold ; and th e abundance was Christmas-eve to see whole nations changed into “ wild
shared by the lord’s te n a n ts " am id music, conjuring, b e a s ts ”— especially in tim e of war.
riddles, hot-cockles, fool-plough, snap-dragon, jokes,
laughter, repartees, forfeits and dances.” BtvtNf! Poult.— An American wag says— There is no dis­
In our modern times, tho bishops and th e clergy join grace in being poor. Tin; tiling is Io keep it quiet, ami
no more with the populace in open carolling and dancing; not let your neighbors know a ny th in g about it.
uml feasts o f " fools and of asses" are enacted more in sa-
 Till-: PO PlJLA .il I D E A OK S O U L -S U IIV IV A L . zed du rin g civilization.” W e are now dealing w ith the
beliefs of tw enty millions of modern S piritu alists; our
A t what epoch the dawning intellect of m an first ac­
own fellow men, living iu the full blaze of th e enlightened
cepted the idea of future life, none can tell. But we
19th century. These men ignore none of the discove­
know that, from th e very first, its mots struck so deeply,
ries of modern science ; nay many am ong then, are th e m ­
so entwined about hum an instincts, th a t t he belief has e n­
selves ranked high among the highest of such scienti­
dured through all generations, and is imbedded in the
fic discoverers. N otw ithstanding all this, are they any
consciousness ot every • nation and tribe, civilized, simi-
th e less addicted to the same “ form of superstition,” if
civilized or savage. The greatest minds have speculated
superstition it lie, than the primitive man ? A t least
upon it : and the rudest, savages, though having 110 name
their in terpretations of the physical phenomena, w he n ­
for the Deity, have yet believed in the existence of spirits
ever accompanied by those coincidences which carry to
and worshiped them. If, in <'hristian Russia, Wallachia,
th eir m inds the conviction of an intelligence behind the
Bulgaria and Greece, the Oriental Church enjoins th a t
physical Force— are often precisely the same as those
upon A ll-Saints day offerings of rice anil drink shall be
which presented themselves to tho apprehension of the
placcd upon the graves; and in “ h e a th e n ” India, th e same
man of the early and undeveloped ages.
propitiatory gifts of rice a.re made to tin; departed ; so, like­
W h a t is a shadow ? asks Herbert Spencer. By a child
wise, the poor savage of New ( !alcdonia m akes his sacrifice
and a savage “ a shadow is th o ug ht of as an entity.” Bas-
of food to the skulls of his beloved dead.
tian says of the Benin negroes, th a t “ they regard m en’s
According to H erbert Spencer, the worship of souls anil shadows as th e ir souls " ...th in k in g “ that they...w atch
relics is to lie attributed to “ the prim itive idea th a t any all th e ir actions, and bear witness against them .” Accor­
property characterizing an aggregate, inheres in all parts of ding to Orant.z, among the Greenlanders a m an’s shadow
it ........Tin; soul, present, in the body of the dead man pre­ “ is one of his two souls— the one which goes away from
served entire, is also present in the preserved parts of his his body a t night." By the Feejeeans, the shadow is
body. H e n c e , the faitli in relics.” This definition, though iu called “ the dark spirit, as distinguished from another
logic equally applicable to the gold-enshrined and bejewel­ which each m an possesses.” A nd the celebrated author
led relic of tho cultured Roman Catholic diivot.ee, and to of th e “ Principles of Psychology ” explains th a t “ the com­
th e dusty, time-worn skull of th e fetish worshiper, m ight m unity of meaning, hereafter to bo noted more fully,
yet be excepted to by the former, since he would say th a t which various unallied languages betray between shade
he does not believe the soul to be p resent iu either th e and spirit, show us th e same thing.”
whole cadaver, skeleton, or part, nor does he, strictly spe a k­ W h a t all this shows us th e most clearly however, is
ing, worship it. H e b u t honours th e relic as something that, wrong and contradicting as the conclusions m ay be,
which, having belonged to one whom ho deems saintly, has yet the premises on which they are based are no fictions.
by the contact acquired a sort of miraculous virtue. Mr. A th in g m u st be, before the hum an mind can th in k or con­
Spencer's definition, therefore, dot's not seem to cover the ceive of i t T he very capacity to imagine the existence of
whole ground. So also Professor Max Muller, in his som ething usually invisible and intangible, is itself evi­
Science o f Religion, after having shown to us by citing dence th a t it must have manifested itself a t some time. S k e t­
num erous instances, th a t the hum an mind had, from ching in his usual artistic way the gradual developm ent of
th e beginning, a “ vague hope of a future life” explains the soul-idca, aud pointing out a t th e same tim e how
no more than Herbert. Spencer whence or how came origi­ “ mythology not only pervades the sphere of religion...but,
nally such a hope. But merely points t,o an in herent fa­ infects more or less the whole realm of thought, ” Professor
culty in it nni.ltivateil nations of changing t he forces of Miiller in his tu rn tells us that, when men wished for
n atu re into gods and demons. H e closes his lecture upon the first time to express “ a distinction bet ween th e body,
the T uranian legends and the universality ol this belief in and som ething else within him distinct from th e body...
ghosts and spirits, by simply rem arking th a t th e worship of the name th a t suggested itself wjis breath, chosen to ex­
the spirits of the departed is the. most widely spread form press a t first th e principle of life as distinguished from
of su pe rstition all over the world. the decaying body, afterwards the incorporeal...immortal
Thus, whichever way we I,urn lor a philosophical solution part of m a n — his soul, his mind, his self...w hen a person
of the mystery ; w hether we expect an answer from t heo- dies we, too, say th a t he has given up the ghost, and
l°gy which is itself bound to believe in miracles, an d teach ghost, too, m e a n t originally spirit, and spirit m ean t breath.”
supernaturalism ; or ask it from the now do m inant schools of As instances of this, narratives by various missionaries
m odern th o u g h t—the greatent. opponents of the m iracu­ and travellers are quoted. Questioned by F a th e r F. de
lous iu n a tu r e ; or, again, turn for an explanation t'J th a t Bobadilla, soon after th e Spanish conquest, as to their
philosophy of extreme positivism which, from th e days ideas concerning death, the Indians of N icaragua told
of Epicurus down to the modern school of Ja m e s Mill, him th a t " when men die, tliero comes forth from th e ir
adopting for its device the glaring sciolism “ n i h i l in i n ­ m outh som ething which resembles a person and is called
tellect tt, quod non a nte fu e r it in sennit," makes intellect J u l i o (in Aztec y i d i ' to live’— explains M. Miiller.)
subservient to m a tte r— we receive a satisfactory reply from This being is like a person, b u t does not die and th e corpse
none! remains h e r e ...” In one of his num erous works, Andrew
I f this article were intended merely for a simple collation Jackson Davis, whilom considered the greatest American
of (acts, A u th en ticated by travellers on the spot, and con­ clairvoyant and known as th e " Poughkeepsie Seer,” gives
cerning b u t “ superstitions ” born in the mind of the p ri­ us w hat is a ]>erfect illustration of the belief of th e N i ­
mitive man, and now lingering only among the savage caragua Indians. T his book (Death a n d the A f t e r Life)
tribes of humanity, then the combined works of such p h i­ contains an engraved frontispiece, representing th e d e a th ­
losophers as H e rb e rt Spencer, might, solve our difficul­ bed of An old woman. I t is called the “ Form ation of
ties. W e m ight remain co ntent with his explanation the Spiritual Body.” O u t of the head of th e defunct,
that, in tho absence of hypothesis “ foreign to thou gh t there issues a luminous appearance— her own rejuvena­
in its earliest sta ge...prim itive ideas, arising out of vari­ ted form.*
ous experiences, derived from the inorganic world ”— such
as the actions of wind, the echo, and m a n ’s own shadow * “ S u p p o s o ft p o r s o n is living** s a y s th o P o u g h k e e p s ie S e o r : T h e c l a ir v o y a n t
s e c s r i g h t o v e r tlio h e a d w h a t m a y lw c a lle d a m a g n o tic h a l o —a n e t h e r e a l
— proving to th e uneducated mind th a t th e r e was “ an e m a n a ti o n , in a p p c a r n n c e g o ld e n , a n d th r o b b i n g a s t h o u g h c o n s c io u s ........ T h o
invisible form of existence which manifests p o w e r ” were p e r s o n h a s c e a s e d to b r e a t h e , th o p u ls e is » til(, a n d th o e m a n a ti o n is e l o n ­
g a t e d and Utthioned in (he outlinr o f (he hmnnit fo rm ! B e n e a th i t , is con*
all sufficient to have created a like “ inevitable b e lie f ” n o c t e d th o b r u i n .............o w in g t o th o b rn ln 'H m o m e n tu m , 1 liav o s e e n a d y in g
(sec Spencer’s Genesis o f Superstition.) I Jut we are now > orson, e v e n a t th o l a s t fo o b lo p u ls o - b u a t, r o u s e im im ln iv o ly a n d ris o u p iu
>od t o c o n v c r s o . . b u t t h e n e x t i n s t a n t h o w as g o n e — n is b r a i n b e i n g t h e la s t
concerned with som ething nearer to us, aud higher than t o y ie ld u p th o lif o - p r in c ip lo s . T h o g o h b u i e m a n a ti o n ...... i s c o n n e c te d w ith
th e primitive man of the stone age ; the man who, totally t h e b r n in o y a v o ry lin o li f e - th r e a d . W h o n i t a s c e n d s , t h e r e a p p e a r s s o m e ­
ingored "those conceptions of physical causation which have t h i n g trhiie a n d tinning tik e a h u m a n lio a d ; n e x t , a f a i n t o u tl in e o f t h e faco
divine ; th o n t h e f a i r n e c k a n d beautiful s h o u ld e r s ; th e n , iu r a p i d s u c c e s s io n
Arisen only .as experiences, and have been slowly organi­ c o m e a ll p a r t s o f th o n e w b o d y , d o w n t o t h o . f e e t —a b r i g h t s h in in g im a g e a
 A m ong some H ind us the spirit is supposed to remain over th e y e t fresh corpse, or accompanying it to the b u r y ­
for te n days seated on the eaves of tlie house where it p a r t­ ing ground, or during the six weeks following the d e a t h ,
ed from th e body. T h at it may b ath e and drink, two the peasant women ;is well a.s those of the rich mercantile
plantain leaf-cups are placed on th e eaves, one full of milk classes, go on the grave to shout, or in Biblical phrase­
and the oth e r of water. “On the first day the dead is s u p ­ ology to “ lift up their voices.” Once there they wail
posed to g e t his head ; on the second day bis ears, eyes, in rhythm , addressing the defunct by name, asking of
and nose ; on the third, his hands, breast, and neck ; on the him questions, pausing as if for an answer.
fourth, his middle parts ; on the fifth, his legs and f e e t; on N o t only th e ancient and idolatrous Egyptian and P e r u ­
th e sixth, his vitals ; on the seventh, his bones, marrow, vian had the curious notion th a t the ghost or soul of the
veins and a rteries; on the eighth, his nails, hair, and teeth ; dead man was either present in the mummy, or th a t the
on the ninth, all th e remaining limbs, organs, and manly corpse was itself conscious, b ut there is a sim ilar belief
strengthO ;’ and,’ on the tenth,' h u n gOe r and th irst for th e re- now among th e orthodox Christians of the Greek and tho
newed body.” (The Patiine Prubhus, by Krislmauiith Ra- Roman churches. W e reproach the Egyptians with pla­
ghunuthji ; in th e Government Bombay Gazetteer, 1879.) cing their embalmed dead at the table ; and the heathen
Mr. Davis’s theory is accepted by all th e Spiritualists, Peruvians with having carried around the fields the dried-
and, it is on this model th a t the clairvoyants now describe up corpse of a parent, th a t it m ight see and ju d g e of
the separation of the “ incorruptible from th e corruptible.” the state of the crops. B u t w hat ol the Christian Mexi­
B u t here, Spiritualists and th e Aztecs branch off into two can of to-day, who u nd e r the guidance of his priest, dresses
p a th s; for, while the former m aintain th a t the soul is in up his corpses in finery; bedecks them with flowers, and in
every case immortal and preserves its individuality th ro ug h­ case of the defunct happening to be a female— even paints
out eternity, th e Aztecs say th a t " when the deceased has its cheeks with rouge. T h en seating the body in ;i chair
lived well, the julio goes u p o n high with our gods; but placed on a large table, from which t he ghastly carrion pre­
when he has lived ill, the julio perishes with the body, and sides, as it were, over the mourners seated around the table,
there is an end of it.” who eat and drink the whole night, and play various
Some persons m ight perchance lind the “ primitive" games of cards and dice, consult the defunct as to their
Aztecs more consistent in th e ir logic than our modern chances. On the o ther hand, in Russia, it is a universal cus­
Spiritualists. T he Laponians and Finns also maintain tom to crown th e deceased person’s brow with a long slip
th a t while the body decays, a new one is given to th e dead of gilt and ornam ented paper, called Yvntch ik (the crown),
which th e Sham an can alone see. upon which a prayer is .printed in gaudy letters. This
“ Though breath, or spirit, or gh ost” says fu rth er on Pro­ prayer is a kind of a letter of introduction with which the
fessor Muller “are the most common nam es...w e y et speak parish priest furnishes the corpse to his patron Saint, r e ­
of th e shades of the departed, which m e a n t originally their commending the defunct to the S a in t’s protection.* The
shadows........Those who tirst introduced this expression— Roman Catholic Biisques write letters to th e ir deceased
and we find it in th e most d istant parts of the world— friends and relatives, addressing them to either Paradise,
evidently took th e shadow as th e nearest approach to what Purgatory or— Hell, according to the instructions given by
they wished to express ; som ething th a t should be incorpo­ the F a th e r confessor of the late addresses— and, placing
real, yet closely connected with the body. T he Greek them in th e coffins of the newly departed, ask the latter
eidolon, too, is not much* more than th e shallow........ b u t to safely deliver them in the other world, promising as a
th e curious p a rt is th is........th a t people who speak of the fee to the messenger, more or less masses for the repose of
life or soul as the shadow o ’ th e body, have brought th e m ­ his soul.
selves to believe th a t a dead body easts no shadow, because A t a recent stance, held by a well known m edium in
the shadow has departed from it ; th a t it becomes, in fact, America,— (see Bu n n e r o f Light, Boston, J u n e 14th, 1879.)
a kind of Peter Sclilemild.” (“ T he Science of Religion”). “ Mercedes, late Queen uf Spain, ainiotmci.l herself, uml cnmo
Do the Amazulu and other tribes of S o uth Africa only forth iu full liridal array —a magnificent profusion of lace ami
thus believe { By 110 means ; it is a popular idea among jewels, ami spoke in several different tongues with a linguist pre­
sent. H er sister, the Princess Christina, came aI<o ju s t after in
Slavonian Christians. A corpse which is noticed to cast a much plainer costume, mul with a. timid scliool-girl air.”
shadow in the sun is deemed a sinful soul rejected by
Thus, we see th a t not only can the dead people deli­
heaven itself. I t is doomed henceforth to expiate its sins
ver letters, but, even re tu rn in g from their celestial homes,
as an earth-bound spirit, till th e Day of the Resurrection.
bring back w ith them th e ir “ lace and jewels." As the
Both Lander and Catlin describe the savage Man-
ancient pagan G reek peopled his Olympian heaven with
dans as placing th e skulls of their dead in a circle. Eucli
feasting and flirting d eities; and the American red I n ­
wife knows the skull of her former husband or child, and
dian has his happy hunting-grounds where the spirits of
there seldom passes a day th a t she does not visit it, with a
brave chiefs bestride the ir ghostly steeds, aud chase their
dish of the best cooked food........T here is scarcely an hour
phantom g a m e ; and the liin d u his many superior lokas,
in a pleasant day b u t more or less of these women m ay be
where the ir numerous gods live in gulden palaces, su r­
seen sitting or lying by th e skulls of their children or hu s­
rounded with all m a n n e r of sensual delights ; and the ( ’liris-
bands— talking to them in th e most endearing language
tian his New Jeru salem with streets of “ pure gold, as
tha t they can use (as they were wont to do in former days)
it were transparent glass,” and the foundations of the wall
“ and s e e m in g ly y e ttin g a n a n sw e r back " (Quoted by
of the city “ ga rnishe d...w ith precious s to n e s ;” where bo­
H erbert Spencer in Fetish-worship.)
diless chirping cherubs ami the elect, with golden harps,
W h a t these poor, savage Mandan mothers and wives do,
sing praises to Jehovah ; so th e modern Spiritualist has
is performed daily by millions of civilized Spiritualists, and
his “ S u m m e r Land Zone within the m ilky way,”-)* though
but the more proves the universality of th e conviction th a t
somewhat higher than the celestial territories of other
our dead hear and can answer us. From a theosophical,
people. J There, amid cities and villages abounding in
magnetic,— hence in a certainsense a scientific— standpoint,
palaces, museums, villas, colleges and temples, an eternity
the former have, moreover, far b e tte r reasons to offer than
is passed. The young l i r e n urtu red and taught, the u n ­
the latter. The skull of th e departed person so interro­
developed of the earth matured, the old rejuvenated, and
gated, has surely closer magnetical affinities and relations
every individual taste aud desire gratified ; spirits flirt,
to the defunct, th a n a table through the tippings of which
g e t married, and have families of children. §
the dead ones answer the l i v i n g ; a table, iu most cases,
which the spirit while embodied had never seen nor tou ch ­ * It runs iu this wis^ : St. Nicholas, (or St. Mnry So-and so) holy patron
of—(follow defunct's full nam e and title) receive the soul of (Jod’s servant,
ed. B u t the Spiritualists are not the only ones to vie with and intercede for rem ission of Ids (or her) sins."
the Mandans. I u every part of Russia, w h ether m ourning f Sco S tellar key to th e Sum m er Land ” by Antirow Jackson Davis.
little sm aller than tho physical body, b u t a p erfect p ro to ty p e ...in nil except X In the same a u th o r s work —“ Tho S piritual <in g r e s s ,” (Jalen says through
iU disfigurem ents. Tho tine life-thread continues attached to tlio old brain. the clairvoyant se e r: “ IJctween th e S pirit Monio and tho e a rth , there are,
Tho next thing is th e w ithdraw al of the electric principle. W hen this thread strew n along th e intervening dihtanco......m ore than fun,' Unmhtd thousand
simps, tho sp iritual body i* free (!) and prepared to accom pany i u guardians planets, nud Jifttcn thousand solar bodies of lesser m agnitude.
W (ho Sumt nor L « n d , ” § Tho latest intelligence from America is th at of the m arriage of a sp irit
 Verily, verily we can exclaim with Paul, " () death where upon the nature of various spirits, expressed Iiis opinion
is thy sting ; O grave, where is thy victory I ’ Belief iu upon the spirits of the departed by s a y in g ; t h a t he h ic io
tho survival of 1,1m allocators is the oldest and most time- o f no evil which these pestilent (lemons would not bo
honoured of all beliefs. ready to do. And, in our own century, a kabalist, tho
Travellers tell us that all the Mongolian, T artar, F in ­ greatest m ognetizer living, Baron D upotet, in his “ Jlagio
nish, and Tungusic tribes, besides the spirits of nature, l)evoilee,” warns th e spiritists not to t rouble the rest of tho
deify also theiv r.noost.ral spirits. Tho. ('hinose historians, dead. F o r “ the evoked shadow can f n s / m ifxeff upon,
tre a tin g of the Turanians, the H u n s and the T tiL n i— the follow, and for ever afterwards influence y o u; and we can
forefathers of the modern Turks, show them as worship­ appease it b u t through a pact which will bind us to i t —
ing " the spirits of tho sky, of the earth and th e spirits till death !”
of the departed." M edhurst enum erates the various classes But all this is a m a tte r of individual opinion ; w hat wo
of the Chinese spirits th u s : T he principal are the ce­ are concerned with now is merely to learn how th e basic
lestial spirits ( t in i nhin) ; the terrestrial (ti- h i) ; and the a n ­ fact, of belief in soul-survival could have so engrafted itself
cestral or wandering spirits ( j i v l ii'ci.) A m ong these, the upon every succeeding ago,— despite the extravagances
spirits of th e late Kmporors, great, philosophers, and sages, woven into it— if it be but. a shadowy and unreal intellec­
are revered the most. They are the public properly of tual conception originating with " p r im i tiv e man.” Of
th e whole nation, and are a part of the slate religion, all modern men of science, although he does his best in
“ while each family has, besides this its own uiiinfis, which the body of the work to present th e belief alluded to as a
are treated with g reat regard ; inccnse is burned before mere “ superstition”— the only satisfactory answer is given
their relics, and many superstitious rites performed.” by Prof. Max M'uller, in his “ Introduction to the Science
B ut if all nations equally believe in, and m any worship, of Religion.” vVnd by his solution we have to abide for want
their dead, th eir views as to the desirability of a direct in­ of a b e tte r one. l i e can only do it, however, by overstep­
tercourse with these late citizens ditier widely. In fact., ping the boundaries of comparative philology, and boldly
among the educated, only the modern .Spiritualists seek invading the domain of pure m etaphysics; by following, iu
to communicate constantly with them. We will take a short., a path forbidden by exact science. A t one blow
few instances from the most widely separated peoples. The he cuts th e Cordian knot which H erbert Spencer and
Hindus, as a rule, hold th a t no pure spirit , of a man who his school have tied u n d e r th e chariot of th e “ U n k n o w ­
died reconciled to his fate, will ever come back bodily to able.” IIi! shows us t h a t : “ there is a philosophical disci­
trouble mortals. They maintain that, it is only the him hi 8 pline which examines into the conditions of sensuous or
— the souls of those who de p a rt this life unsatisfied and intuitional knowledge,” and “ a nother philosophical dis­
having th e ir terrestrial desires unquenched, in short, bad, cipline which exam ines into th e conditions of rational or
sinful men and women— who become “ earth-bound.’ U n­ conceptual knowledge and then defines for us a third
able to ascend a t once to Moksha, they have to linger upon faculty..." T he faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not
earth until either their next transmigration or complete only in religion but in all th in g s ; a powor independent of
annihilation, and thu s take every op po rtunity to obsess sense and reason, a power iu a certain sense contradicted
people, especially weak women. So undesirable is to them by sense and reason, b u t y e t a very real power, which has
th e return or apparition of such ghosts, th a t they use every held its own from the beginning of the world, neither sense
means to prevent it. Even in th e case of the most holy nor reason being able to overcome it, while it alone, is able
feeling, the m other’s love for her infant— they adopt m ea­ to overcome both reason and sense.”
sures to prevent h er return to it. T h ere is a belief among T h e faculty of I n t u it io n — th a t which lies entirely b e ­
some of them that whenever a woman dies in child-birth, yond the scope of our modern biologists, could hardly be
she will return to see and watch over h e r child. T h e re ­ b e tte r defined. And yet, when closing his lecture upon
fore, on th eir way back from the ghaut, after tho burning the superstitions rites of the Chinese, and their tem ples
of the body,— the mourners thickly strew m ustard seeds devoted to the worship of the departed ancestoi's, our g reat
all along the road leading from the funeral pile to the d e ­ philologist r e m a r k s : “ All this takes place by slow d e ­
funct’s home. For some unconceivable reasons they think grees ; it begins with placing a flower on the to m b; it
th a t the ghost will feel obliged to pick up, on its way ends— with worshiping the S p irits........ ”
back, every one of these seeds. Ami, as the labor is slow
nnd tedious, the floor m other can never reach her home ■* L I E U T E N A N T C O L O N E L S r. A N T O N Y .''
before tho cock ciows, when she is obliged— iu accord a nee
with the ghostly laws— to vanish, till the following night, In I.SOS .Juan VI., then Princc-llegont of Portugal, fear­
dropping back all her harvest. A m ong th e Tchuvashos, a ing Napoleon I., made his escape to Brazil; and in LSI"),
tribe inhabiting Russian domains, ( ( 'astren’s “ Finaische My- was crowned monarch of tin* U nited Kingdom of Portugal,
thologie,” p. 122) a son whenever offering sacrifice to the Brazil, and Algarve. Recalled to his country by th e Cortes
spirit of his father, uses the following exorcism : “ Wo ho­ of Portugal, lie, sa.iled back to Lisbon in 18‘21. A nd now,
nour thee with a f e a s t: look, here is bread for thee, nnd a very interesting document, containing n eith er more nor
various kinds of food ; thou hast all thou canst. desire : but less th a n the a p p o in tm ent of long-dead St. A nto ny to the
do not trouble us, do not come back near us.” A mong rank of L ie u te n an t Colonel in the Portugese army, by this
the La]i]is anil Finns, those departed spirits which make Prince, is j u s t published iu the Lisbon p aper “ lieviulti
th e ir presence visible and tangible are supposed to be very M ilitar.” T he following is a verbatim translation froni
mischievous nnd “ the most mischievous are the spirits of the Portuguese of this unique proclamation : " Don Ju a n ,
the priests.” E verything is done to keep them away from by the will of Cod, P rince-R egent of Portugal and both
the living. The agreem ent we find between this blind Algarve, of the two seas on both sides of Africa, ltu te r of
popular instinct and the wise conclusions of some of the Guinea, and master of navigation and commerce in E th io ­
greatest philosophers, and even modern specialists, is very pia, Arabia, Persia and India, etc., etc., etc. By the present
remarkable. " Respect, the spirits a n d — keep them a t a we declare to all whom it may concern that, in considera­
distance”— said Confucius, six centuries B.C. N in e cent u ­ tion of our special devotion to the very glorious St. Antony,
ries later, Porphyry, th e famous anti-thenrgist. writing who, moreover is constantly addressed in all th e ir needs
and in full faith by the inhabitants of this capital, and like­
d aug h ter of Colonel Knton, of Isoavonworth, Kansas, a prom inent m em ber of wise for the reason that the belligerent powers of our armies
tho National I democratic Com m ittee. T his d au g h ter, who died a t (ho ago of
th ree week*, grow in some tw enty-odd years in th e Summer-l^and, to b o a arc evidently u n d e r the protection and enjoying th e bless­
tine young lady anil now is wedded to the sp irit son of l-Yanklin J’iorcc, hit© ing of Cod, and th a t thus the peace of Portugal is ensured ;
presid en t of tho IJ. S. Tho wedding, wilnessod l*y a fam ous clairvoyant of
Now-York, was gorgeous. Tho 11 sp irit b rid o M wns “ niTuycd i n n dross of
a propitious result which, we are firmly persuaded, is solely
mild preen." A wedding supper was spread by th e sp irit’* order, w ith lights due to th e powerful intercession of the said Saint,— we
nnd bouquet*, nnd plates placed for tho happy couple. Tho guests assem ­ have resolved : to confer upon him the rank of L ieutenant
bled, an d tho wedded ghosts fully ‘ m aterialized* them selves and sat a t table
with them. Colonel, and an adequate salary, which will be received by
(How*Yoi*k Times, Ju n e 291 h, 18#P.) him iu the shape of our royal decorations and orders (for-
v ia this m i n h a s rcaes ordens), through th e office of Field- discriminated as th e Spirit.” Dr. H enry More, no mean
marshal Xaviers C abin da Cunha, who, in his capacity of authority, repudiates this interpretation. ‘ There can be
Gcneral-Adjutant, is now temporarily holding the office nothing more monstrous,” he says, “ than to make two souls
of Commander-iii-Chief of our armies. Ho ho it. T he in man, th e one sensitive, the other rational, really distinct
said salary to be entered in the official books, and to be from one another, anti to give the name of Astral spirit to
paid regularly a t each term. In assurance of the a u th e n ­ the former; when th ere is in man no Astral spirit beside
ticity of th e pre se n t we herewith sign it with our name, the Plastic of th e soul itself, which is always inseparable
and stam p it with the large seal bearing our arms. Given troin th a t which is rational. N o r upon any oth er account
in the city of Rio-di Janeiro, August :>lst, A.I). 1.S14.” can it be called astral, b u t as it is liable to th a t cor­
W e may add th a t this is not the /irst tim e th a t tie- poreal tem peram en t which proceeds from th e stars, or
ceased saints have been appointed to high m ilitary posi­ ra the r from any m aterial causes in general, as not being
tions. S a in t Yago, in his capacity of Captain-General, yet sufficiently united with the divine body— th a t vehicle of
received for years his salary from the Spanish Treasury, divine virtue or power.” So he maintains th a t the Kabalistic
it being turned over by him (!) to th e C hurch bearing | three souls— Acj)heifh, Itnm'/i, Xcur/mnudi, originate in a
his name. | misunderstanding of the true Platonic doctrine, which is
th a t of a three-told “ vital congruity.” These correspond
i to the three degrees of bodily existence, or to the
A N C I E N T O P I N I O N S U P O N P S Y C H I C B O D IE S . three “ vehicles,” th e terrestrial, the aerial, and the
B y C. C. Massey, Esq., P re sid e n t o f the B r itis h Brunch, etherial. T he la tte r is the (iiii/ncides—the luciform ve­
hicle of the purified soul whose irrational pa rt has been
Theosoph icul Society. brought u nder complete subjection to the rational. The
I t m u st be confessed th a t modern Spiritualism falls very aerial is th a t in which th e great majority of m ankind find
short of the ideas formerly suggested by th e sublime d e ­ themselves a t th e dissolution of the terrestrial body, and
signation which it has assumed. Cliielly in te n t upon recog­ iu which tlie incomplete process of purification has to be
nising and p u ttin g forward the phenom enal proofs of a undergone du rin g long ages of preparation for the stall’s
future existence, it concerns itself little with speculations return to its primitive, etherial state. F o r it m ust lie
on the distinction between m a tte r anti spirit, anti ra th er remembered th a t the pre-existence of souls is a distinguish­
prides itself ou having demolished Materialism w ithout ing tenet of this philosophy as of the Ivabala. The soul
the aid of metaphysics. P erhaps a Platonist m igh t say has “ sunk into m a tte r.” From its highest original state
that the recognition of a future existence is consistent the revolt of its irrational nature has awakened and d e ­
with a very practical and even dogmatic materialism, b ut veloped successively its “ vital congruities” with the re­
it is rath er to be feared th a t such a materialism as this gions below, passing, by means ot its “ Plastic,” first into
would not greatly disturb the spiritual or intellectual r e ­ the aerial aud afterwards into the terrestrial condition.
pose of our modern phenomenalists.* Given the conscious­ Kacli of these regions teems also with an appropriate
ness with its sensibilities safely housed in the psychic body population which never passes, like the hum an soul, from
which demonstratively survives tlic physical carca.sc, and we one to the o th e r— “ gods,” "dem ons,” and animals.* As to
are like men saved from shipwreck, who are for the mo­ duration *' the shortest of all is th a t of th e terrestrial ve­
m ent thankful ami content,. n ot O giving g h t whether hicle. In the aerial, the soul may inhabit, as they define,
o th o u O
they are lauded on a hospitably shore, or on a barren rock, many ages, and in the etherial, for ever.” Sp eaking of tho
or on an island of cannibals. I t is not of course intended second bod}', H enry More says “ the soul’s astral vehicle
th a t this “ hand to m o u th ” im m o rta lity is sufficient for is of that tenuity th a t itself can as easily pass the smallest
the many thoughtful minds whose activity gives life pores o f th e body as the light does glass, or the lightning
and progress to th e movement, b u t t h a t it affords the the scabbard of a sword w ithout tearing or scorching of
relief which most people feel when in an age of do ub t they it.” And again “ I shall make bold to assert, th a t the soul
make th e discovery th a t th e y are undoubtedly to live may live in an aerial vehicle as well as iu t he etherial, and
again. To the question “ how are the dead raised up, that there are very few that,arrive to that high happiness as
and with what body do they come ?” modern Spiritualism, to acquire a celestial vehicle im mediately upon th eir q u it ­
with its empirical methods, is not ade qu a te to reply. Y et ting the terrestrial one ; th a t heavenly chariot necessarily
long before Paul suggested it, it had a tte n tio n of th e most carrying us in triu m ph to the greatest happiness the soul
celebrated schools of philosophy, whose speculations on of man is capable of, which would arrive to all men in ­
the subject, however little th e y may seem to he verified, differently, good or bad, if the partin g with this earthly
ought not to be w ithout interest to us, who, after all, are body would suddenly mount us into the heavenly. W hen
still in the infancy of a spiritualist revival. by a j u s t Nemesis the souls of men that are not heroi­
I t would not be necessary to premise, b u t for the fre­ cally virtuous will find themselves restrained within the
quency with which the phrase occurs, th a t “ the spiritual compass of this caliginous air, as both Reason itself sug­
hotly” is a contradiction iu terms. T he office of body is to gests, and the Platonists have unanimously determ in­
relate spirit to an objective world. By Platonic writers e d . ” T hus also the most thorough-going, and probably
it is usually termed ukhem a— ‘ vehicle.’ I t is the medium tho most deeply versed in the doctrines of the master
of action, and also of sensibility. In this philosophy tho con­ among modern Platonists, Thom as Taylor (Introduction.
ception of Soul was not simply, as with us, the immaterial Pluedo). “ A fter this our divine philosopher informs
subject of consciousness. How warily the interpret er has to th a t the pure soul will after death return to pure and eter­
tread here, every one knows who has dipped, even sup e r­ nal n a tu re s ; b u t th a t the impure soul, in consequence
ficially, into the controversies am ong Platonists th e m ­ of being imbued with terrene affections, will be
selves. All adm it the distinction between th e rational anti j drawn down to a kindred nature, and lie invested
the irrational part or principle, th e la tte r including, first, j with a gross vehicle capable of being seen by the
the sensibility, and secondly, the Plastic, or I.hat power corporeal eye.j" F o r while a propensity to body remains
which in obedience to its sympathies enables the soul to | in the soul, it causes'her to attra c t a certain vehicle to
attach itself to, and to organise into a suitable hotly those herself, either of an aerial nature, or composed from the
substances of the universe to which it is most congruous. spirit and vapours ot her terrestrial body, or which is re ­
I t is more difficult to determ ine w heth er Plato or his p rin ­ cently collected from surrounding a ir ; for according to the
cipal followers, recognised in the rational soul or non. s a arcana of the Platonic philosophy, between an etherial body,
distinct and separable entity,— th a t which is sometimes which is simple and immaterial and is the eternal connate

* 1 am afra id ," says Thom ;u T aylor in hU Introduction t > tlic Plia.l.*, * T he *i!luM«m here is to those beings of tho several kingdom* of tho
“ there are scarcely an y a t tho |>re*cut day who know th a t it i=» ono thin# oleinchts which we, T hcosophiat% following nfti?r th e K abnlbU , havu called
for the sou! to be ioparatod from the body, and a n o th e r for lliu body to bo the “ Klcnientnl*." T hey never bccome n»en. - hhl. Tfnvi.
separated frum th e soul, an d th a t tho form er id by no mean* a necessary + T his is tlio iliu d u theory uf nearly every ono of the Arynn phlloso*
tuiisojucnee of tho la tte r.’' phies. --/M. *
vchie-lc <>f tin- soul, innl a terrene body, wbicb is material I one Sensory. H e by this one sensory lncaneth th e spirit,
ami composite, ami of short duration, there is an aerial , or subtle airy body, in which th e sensitive power doth all
body, whie'h is material indeed, b u t .simple and of a more of it through the w h o l e immediately apprehend all varie­
extended duration ; and in this body I,lie mipurilicd soul ty of sensibles, And if it be demanded t,o how it comes
dwells for a long time after its exit from hence, till this to pass t,hat .this spirit becomes organised in sepulchres, and
p neum atic vehicle being dissolved, it is again invested most commonly of hum an form, b u t sometimes iu
with a composite body; while on th e contrary the purified the forms of oth er animals, to this those’ Ancients
soul immediately ascends into the celestial regions with replieel that, th e ir appearing so frequently in hum an
its ctlierial vehicle alone.” Always it is the disposition of form proeveeh'd from tin-i r he'ing incrn.ssatcel with
th e soul that determ ines the cpiality of its body. “ However evil diet, aud then, a.s it were', stampeel upon with the;
the soul be iu itself affected ” says Porphyry, (translated form of this exterior am b ie n t lwxly in which th e y are, as
by Cmlworth ) “ so does it always find a body suitable and crystal is fbrmcel anel ceiloured like to those things which it
agreeable to its present disposition, and therefore to the is fastened in, or re*fle*cts the image* e>f them. And th a t their
purged soul does naturally accrue a body th a t comes next having somet.imeis either elifferent forms proceedejt.li from
to im materiality, that is, an etherial one.’’ And the same the phantastie power of the soul itself, which can a t plea­
author, “ T he soul is never quite naked of all body, but hath sure transform the* spirituous body into any shape. For
always some body or other joined with it, suitable and being airy, when it is conelenseel and fixed, it becometh
agreeabh; to it.s present- disposition ( e it h e r a purer or visible, and again invisible and vanishing out of sight
inquirer one). 15ut th a t at, its first q u ittin g this gross when it is expanded anel rnrifie-d.” Proem in Arist. de
earthly body, the spirituous body which aceompanieth it Aniniii. Ami Cndwort.h says “ Tlmugh spiritseir ghosts had
( a.s its vehicle) must needs g o away fouled and incrassated certain supple bodie-s which they cemld so fai condense as
with the va|H>urs and steams thereof, till the soul afterwards to make the*m sometimes visible to men, yet is it reason­
by degrees purging itself, this lieromct.h at length a dry able enough to think th a t the)' coulel not constipate e>r fix
splendour, which hath no misty obscurity nor casteth any them into such a firmness, grossness anel solidity .-is that of
shadow.” H ere it will be seen, we lose sight of the spe­ flesh and bom; is to continue therein, or a t le;ast ne>t w ith­
cific ditl'erenceof th e two future vehicles— the etherial out such elifliculty and pain a.s wemld hinder them from
is regarded as a sublimation of the aerial. This, however, a tte m p tin g the same. N otw ithstan ding which it is not
is opposed to the general consensus of Plato's com m en­ denie-ei that they may possibly some-times m ake use of
tators, Sometimes the etherial body, or augoeides, is a p ­ o ther soliel be.xlies, moving and acting them, as in th a t
propriated to the rational soul, orspirit, which must, then famous story of Phleguns when the body vanished ne>t as
be considered as a distinct entity, separable from the lower other ghosts use* to do, but was left a elead- carcase behind.”
soul. Philoponus, a Christian writer, s a y s " that the Ra­ In all the*se; speculations the A v i m a Muml't plays a con­
tional Soul, as to its energie, is separable from all body, but spicuous part! It is the source anel principle of nil animal
th e irrational part or life thereof is separable only from souls, including the irrational soul of man. Hut in man,
this gross body, and not from all body whatsoever, b u t hath who would other wise be merely nnalogus to o th e r terres­
after death a spirituous or airy body, in which it a cte th — trial anim als— this soul participates in a higher principle,
this I sav is a true opinion which shall afterwards lie proved which tenels tei raise anel cemvert it te> itself. To c o m p r e ­
bv us............. The irrational life of the soul hath not all its hend the n ature of this union or hypostasis it would b e
being in this gross earthly body, but rem aineth after the necessary to have* mastereel the; whole of Plato’s philosophy
soul's d eparture out of it, having lor its vehicle and sub­ as comprise*el in the Parmenides anel the Tiimeus ; anel he
ject. the spirituous body, which itself is also compounded would dogmatise rashly who without this arduous pn*pa-
out.of flic'four elements, b u t reeeiveth its denomination ratioii shemlil claim Plato as the: eihampion of an unconeli-
from the predominant, part, to wit, Air, a.s this gross body tional immortality. CVrtainly iu the Plwedo th e ilialogue
of ours is called earthy from what, is most predominant popularly suppose;el to contain all Plato’s teaching on the
therein.” Cndworth, Intell. Syst. From th e same source we subje*ct— the imm ortality allotted to the* im pure soul is of a
extract the following. “ Wherefore these ancients say th a t very epiest.iemn.ble eihn.racter.anel we should rat her infer from
im pure souls after th e ir departure out. of t his body wander the accemnt tlu*re given th a t the hum an personality, a t all
here up and down for a certain space* in their spirituous va- events, is lost by successive immersions into" m atter.” The
porousand airy body,appearingabout sepulch resand haunting following passage* from Plutarch, (epiotcel by Maelnmc Bla-
the ir former habitation. For which cause there is great, rea­ vatsky, “ Isis U nveiled” Vol. 2, p. 2N t) will a t le*ast demons­
son th a t we should take care of living well, as also of abstain­ trate the! jiii tie|iii ty of notions which have recently been mis­
ing from a fouler and grosser d i e t ; these; Ancients telling taken for fanciful novelties. “ Every soul hat h some portion
us likewise th a t this spirituous body of ours being fouled and of reason, a man cannot be a man without it ; b u t as
incrassated by evil diet, is apt. to render the soul in this life much eif e.*ae-h soul as is mixeil with flesh and appetite; is
also more obnoxious to the disturbances of passions. They changed, .anel through pain and ph'a.sure becomes irrational.
further add th a t there is something of the Plantal or Every soul doth not mix herself after erne s o r t ; some plunge
Plastic life, also exercised by the soul, in those spirituous themselves info the boely, nnd so in this life their whole
or airy bodies alter death : they being nourished too, though frame1is corrupted I by appetite ami passion ; others are mix-
not after the same manner, as those gross earthy bodies of eel a.s to some part, but the purer part still ri'inains w ith­
ours are here, b u t by vapours, and th a t not by parts or out the boely. It is not drawn elown into the be>ely, but it
organs, b u t throughout th e whole of them, ( as sponges ) swims above, and touches th e extre-mest part, of the m a n ’s
thev imbibing every where those vapours. For which cause head ; it is like a cord to hole! up and direct th e subsiding
they who are wise will iu this life also take care of using part of the; soul, as long as it proves obcelient and is not
a thin ner and dryer diet, th a t so th a t spirituous lniety overcome by the appetites of the flesh. T he p a rt th a t
(which we have also a t this present time within our proper is plunged into the boely is called se>ul. B u t the incorrup­
body) may not lie clogged and incrassed, b u t attenuated. tible part is called the nous, and the vulgar th ink it is
Over and above which, those* Ancients made, use ofcuHi- within them, as they likewise; imagine! the image* reflected
arms, or purgations to the same end and purpose also. For from a glass t,o be in I,Ihit glass, lint, the more intelligent,
as this earthy bod}’ is washed by water so is th at spiri­ whet know it to be without, call it a Da'inon.” Anel in the
tuous body cleansed by cathartic vapours— some of these same learned work (" Isis Unveiled") we have; two Christian
vapours being nutritive, others purgative. Moreover, t hese authorities, Ircninus and Origen, cited for like* distinction
Ancients further declared concerning this spirituous body between spirit anil soul in such a, m anner as to show th a t
that it was not, organized, but. did the whole of it in every the former must, necessarily be ivgareled a.s separable from
p a rt throughout exercise all functions of sense, the soul the latter. In th e ilistinct.iun itself there is eif course no
nearing, seeing aud perceiving all sensibles by it every novelty for the most moeleratcly well-informcel. I t is in-
where*. For which cause Aristotle* himself affirmeth in sisteel upon in many mexlern works, among which may bo
his Metaphysics tha t there is properly b u t one Sense nnd mentioned H e a rd ’s "T rich otom y of Wan” and G reen s,
Spiritual P h ilo s o p h y ; tlie latter being an exjiosition of A C H A P T E R ON J A IN I S M .
Coleridge’s opinion on this and cognate subjects. B u t the
B y B a l a R a m D us Sen, O r d i n a r y Member o f the O rie n ta l
difficulty of regarding the two principles as separable in
fact as well as in logic arises from the sense, if it is not the A c a d e m y o f Florence.
illusion of personal identity. T h a t we are partible, and T he J a in religion never spread beyond th e limits of
th a t one p a rt only is immortal, th e non-metaphysical mind India. Being th u s much less widely known, it has never
rejects with th e indignation which is i\lways encountered stood high, like Buddhism in th e estimation of foreigners.
by a proposition th a t is at once distasteful and unintelligible. Even in India itself, after (lashing like a meteor across th e
Y et perhaps i tis n o t a grcaterdifficulty (if, indeed, it is not the religious sky for a short time, it long since grew compara­
verysame) than th a t hard saying which t roubled Nicodcmus, tively dim. As a m a tte r of course, it has failed to com­
and which y et has been the key note of th e mystical reli­ mand any considerable degree of notice from beyond.
gious consciousness ever since. This, however, is too ex­ Arliata was the founder of th e J ain religion, and was a
tensive and deep a question to be treated in this article, king of the B enkata hills in th e South Carnatic. E arly
which has forits ohjectchiefly tocall atte n tio n to th e distinc­ retiring from th e world, he went about, exhorting the peo­
tions introduced by ancient thought into the conception of ple to follow th e example of Rishabha Deva, whose cha­
body as the in strum en t or “ vehicle” of soul. T h a t there is a racter he held up as a model to imitate.
correspondence between the spiritual condition of man T he D egam bar and Switam hara sects of the Jains
and the m edium of his objective activity every spiritualist diverged and came into notice long afterwards.
will a d m it to be probable, and it may well be t hat some Rishabha Deva is mentioned in the liltli book of Sri Mata
light is thrown on future states by th e possibility or tho blmgavata. H e is, according to th e Hindus, a part-incarna-
manner of spirit communication with this one. tion of Vishnu. The J a in s acknowledge him as the first Ar-
hata, and he is styled Arliata, because, following in the wake
IN D IA N JU G G L IN G . ot Resava, he atte m p te d to effect a religious reformation.
According to the Piiranas, Rishabha was father of Blia-
A copy of the following certificate, found among the rata, and flourished in very early times. T h e Ja in s do
papers of the late Venayek G ungadher Sha.stree, l'lsq., the
not deny the existence of God ; but they hold the Arliata
eminent Indian Astronomer hits been kindly placed a t our
themselves to be th a t God. It is said in Vi tarn gastati,
disposal by his son, Mr. B. V. Sliastree, after due com pa­
a Ja in work, tha t “ there is only one Creator of th e world,
rison with the original by Rao B ah a d u r S. P. P a n d i t:— and no other, who is eternal and o m nipresen t; and be­
CKItTlFICATK. sides him, everything else here is a source of evil, and
B aroda, 20th F e b ru a r y 1841. unsubstantial even as a dream. O A rhana ! There is no­
This is to certify th a t ft Ja du rjar (juggler) by name thing in this world, which thou hast not created.” The
Lalla Bhadang, an inhabitant of K uppudw un, in Guzerat, attributes of the .lain God are different from those of the
has been a t this place during the last week, and th a t he Vaidantic God. W ith them God is omniscient, conqueror
exhibited the most extraordinary lbata, or, I should rather of anger, envy, and of every evil passion; revered in the three
-say, he wrought miracles, in the presence of a large con­ worlds and the speaker of truth ; Arliata only is the true
course of curious spectators, among whom I was one. H e God.*
produced certain things, (lowers, koonkoo, betelnuts, su- In their opinion virtue is tho only avenue to salvation.
garcandy, a cocoanut, a scorpion, a piece of bone, &c. Virtue absolves man from the bonds of action, and th e re ­
though we could not discover, nor conceive any possibility by restores him to his original purity of nature.
of his having previously concealed them with him. H e Salvation is in its very nature ever up-lifting. The
converted certain things into certain others merely by Ja in s have it t h u s : Then- is a limit beyond which even
once holding them in his list, in spite of the most vigilant the sun, moon, and the planets cannot rise ; and, when
attention we paid, in the hope of being able to discover they reach their point of climax, the)' come down again.
the mystery. However, he could not produce or exhibit But the souls that have once attained to perfection, never
any such article as (apparently not a t hand) had not, he conn; down again. 'The very tendency of the soul is ever
pretended, been previously sanctioned by his Patron God­ to rise high. It. grovels below, only because of its mor­
dess, called Becliarajee. We so far p u t him to test th a t tal ten em en t th a t holds it in ; or, because it is weighted
he was stript of his clothes and*loft almost naked, when, down with its clayey environment. As soon :us this mor­
to our great surprise, he pinched out some betelnuts from tal coil is slmflled off, it resumes its original nature. In­
my body, and drew out a few pieces of sugarcandy a p p a ­ finite is space. Infinite so is I he progress of the soul ; or
rently from the cloth of my jacket. H e took out my gold infinite is the improvement the soul is capable of. A pum p­
chain and instantly struck my thigh with it, when it dis­ kin, for instance, though in itself light enough, would,
appeared. In a m inu te he made it reappear in a pillow if enveloped in clay, or weighed heavily otherwise, sink
two feet behind him. O ur gold seals and rings apparently to th e bottom of the sea ; but, if it could disburthcn itself
vanished, no sooner were they p u t into his hand, and were there, it would steadily work its way up to the surface
reproduced merely by pinching over the (lame of a lamp, again. Even so is the n atu re of the sold.
or at the point of a trident, which he always bears (or his T he Ja in moralists say :—
sceptre. In fact, none of us could perceive the least sleight, Wisdom is an a ttrib u te of man. Wisdom only can lead
or dexterity, of hand, if it m ight be possible for him to to salvation, or enable man to sail safely over the solemn
exercise it, during any of these very wonderful, I may say, main ot lift!. Wisdom only can dispel the gloom of false
supernatu nil exh i hitions. knowledge, like mists after snn-risc. Wisdom only can
absolve man from the consequences of action. Wisdom is
" ' . (Signed.) N A N U N A R A Y A N . S u p r e m e ; and no action can equal wisdom. Wisdom is joy.
Wisdom is snm vunii bonum. Wisdom is Brahma himself.
Not far from the town of Torneo (Uleaborg, Finland), F u r th e r on, in the ethical part of th e J a in religion, it
the mountain called A ai'asax, becomes every year, on St. is said :—
Jo h n ’s day, a place of rendezvous for m any tourists. " A man should dwell only where virtue, tru th , p u rity
During th a t whole n ight the sun never sets a t all, and and good name are prized, and where one may obtain th e
hundreds g a th e r to witness the magnificent spectacle. light of tru e wisdom.
This year, according to the Uleaborg gazettes, there were Man should not dwell where the sovereign is a boy,
about HOG people, among them three Englishmen, two a woman, or an ignoramus ; or, where then; are two kings.
Frenchmen, several Russians, Germans, Danes and Swedes; A man should go nowhere w ithout an object in view.
the rest, Finns. The sun shone with marvellous b rig h t­ A man should not travel alone ; nor sleep alone in a
ness the whole night. An hotel is being bu ilt on the
mount for th e convenience of future travellers. " facTCf'TI^} : ||
house. or mi mi elevated p la c e ; nor enter any man s house Council to m ake our Library, in time, one of the richest
suddenly. in the world in this respect. A cknow ledgement is also
A good m an should not wear torn or dirty c lo th es; nor due to Professor Sakharam A iju n and ])r. Pandurang
p u t mi his hod}’ a red llower, except it he a red lily. Gopal for magazines loaned to th e Library.
A wise m an should never deceivc gods or old men ; and
ne ith e r should be a prosecutor or a witness.
W h e n you come hack from a walk, you should take
a. little rest, th e n p u t off'’your clothes, and wash your hands
ARY A PEA K ASH.
and feet. [C ontinued from tho October N um ber.]
A grinding mill, a cutting instrum ent, a cooking u te n ­
sil, a w ater jar, and a water pot, are the five things that T H E A U TO B IO G R A PH Y OF D A Y A N U N D
bring men to s i n ; which, again, in its turn, causes them S A R A S W A T I, SWAMI.
to deviate from the paths of virtue. Fo r these are the Written by him expressly f o r the Tiikc RorniST.
sources of envy. Take what care you will, they are sure
to give rise to envy. A fter passing a certain time in solitude, on th e Rushee-
The ancients prescribed several virtues to enable man kcsli, a Brahm achari and two m ountain ascetics joined
to escape from this sin. Hence men should always prac­ me, and we all three went, to Tidee. The place was full
tise virtuous actions. of ascetics and R a j (Royal) Pandits— so called on account
Kindness, charity, perfect control over th e passions, of their g re a t learning. One of them invited me to come
worshiping the gods, reverence to t.lic ( iiiru, forgiveness, and have dinn er w ith him a t his house. A t th e appoin­
truth, purity, devotion, and honesty :— these are the virtues ted hour he sent a man to conduct, me safely to his place,
th a t every house-holder should possess. and both the Brahm achari and myself followed the mes­
V irtue is too extensive. It.s most p rom inent feature*, senger. But. w hat wa.s our dismay upon e n tering the
however, is doing good to mankind. house, to first see a B rahm in preparing and cutting meat,
There are two kinds of virtue— that, which atones for and then, proceeding further into the interior apartments,
our sins ; and th a t which secures or brings about salvation. to find a largo company of pandits seated with a pyramid
Tilt* first-mentioned virtue embodies the redemption of of flesh, rumpst.eaks, and dressed up heads of animals
th e fallen, benevolence, humility, perfect control over the before th em 1 T he m aster of th e house, cordially in­
passions, and mildness. These virtues destroy sin. vited me in ; but, w ith a few brief words— begging them
Priests, gurus, guests, and distressed persons, when they to proceed with their good work and n ot to disturb
come to our house, should first be welcomed, and then fed themselves on my account, I left the house and returned
to the best, of our means. to m y own quarters. A few m inutes later, the beef-eating
We should relieve and soothe as much as wre can tin* p an dit was a t my side, praying me to return, and trying
sick, the hungry, the thirsty, and the frightened. to excuse himself by saying th a t it was on vii/aecoiivt,
Being so fortunate as to have been horn men, we should that the sum ptuous viands had been prepared ! I then
always be engaged in something useful eith er to ourselves firmly declared to him that it was all useless. They were
or to others." carnivorous, flesh-eating men, and myself a strict vegeta­
There is very little difference between the H in d u and rian, who felt, sickened a t the very sight of meat. I f he
the J a in systems of morality. This is owing to th e H ind us would insist upon providing me with food, he might, do so
anil Ja in s living together and in th e same country, and to by sending m e a few provisions of grain and vegetables
the fact th a t most of the ethics of the J a in s were derived which my Brahniachari would prepare for me. This lie
from the Aryan code of morality. promised to do, and then, very much confused, retired.
Staying a t Tidee for some time, I inquired of the same
Pandit abou t some books and learned treatises I wanted
T H E S O C I E T Y ’S B U L L E T I N . to get for my instruction ; w hat books and manuscripts
Two persons of influence connected with the Viceregal could be procured a t that, place, and where. H e m e n ­
Government, have recently joined th e Society. The tide tioned some works on Sanskrit, giam m ar, classics, lexico­
turns, evidently. graphies, books on astrology, and th e T a v tr u x — or ritua-
1istlcs. F in d in g th a t the latter were the only ones u n ­
known to me, I asked him to procure the same for me.
O u r Fellows will be glad, o u r adversaries sorry, to learn Thereupon the learned m an brought to me several works
th a t olir journal has, within sixty days after its first aj>- upon this subject. B u t 110 sooner had I opened them, than
enrnnce, tieo-and~a~holf tim es as m i n t y subscribers tis it my eye fell upon such an a m o u n t of incredible obscenities,
eqiin with. N o t one day has passed, since October 1st, mistranslations, m isinterpretations of text and absurdity,
without some names having been added to our list. This that I felt, perfectly horrified. In this Ritual I found th at
U n exp ected good fortune m u st be ta k e n as p ro of of the incest was perm itted with mothers, (laughters, and sisters
wide interest felt by the Indian reading public in this (of the Sho em aker’s caste), as well as am ong th e P ariahs
a tte m p t to recall the golden memories of ancient Arynn or the outca.st.es,— and worship wa.s performed in a p e r­
achievement. B u t most precious of all to us, have been fectly nude state I1).............Spirituous liquors, fish, and all
the letters of blessing and e n c o u r a g e m e n t th a t we have kind of animal food, and M v o ilr a ('-.'(exhibition of indecent
received from natives living in all p arts of this Peninsula. images)........were allowed, from B rahm in down to Marne).
W e have marked upon a map of India, in colored ch alk ,
th e localities of our subscribers, and find th a t ou r paper M) Knr reasons which will be appreciated we prefer piving tho tex t ill
already goes, each month, to nearly every im portant city, Hindi
from th e Himalayas to Comorin. I f we should continue cR oil 2^#f ajp-
to receive contributions from such erudite Indians as those 5ii1t urcTT, ^ r , tfn-
w h o se articles grace our present issue, the T iik o so I'll 1ST
will certainly have a brilliant and useful career.
MK 3 ^ f a q f a ^ r , 5?T
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T he General Council thanks the Fellows who have r f r q jf ? t o 51% n . |— E d .
presented books to the Library, and has ordered each (’2) T he word M vadrahnn been variously understood nnd in terp reted . I t
volume to be inscribed with the donor’s name. A p a rti­ m eans the sijjiict of a royal ns well ns of a religious personage ; a rin p seal
cular request, is made that. Follows will send to the Libra­ with initials engraved upon it. JJut It is also understood in an o th er sense—
tho prestino nnd esoteric.
rian all useful books, magazines and journals th a t have Dhaochnvri, ( huchuin , Kh(cha> i, CJiHrttch<i> i, and these fivo
been read by them and are not especially wanted for wore the Mood rn* practised by th e Aryns to qualify them selves for Ynjj.
T hey
reference. Works upon any branch of Occult Science will prelim inaries of arc tho initiative stages to the diflicult system of KaJ*Y(mj, and tho
th e early discipline ° f H at-Y on. Tho Mooilra is
have a peculiar value, as it is th e desire of th e General a ijuite d istin ct nud in d ep en d en t courso of Yoga training, th e com pletion of
And it was explicitly stated th a t all those five things of to ascertain w heth er some of them did or did not live there
which the nam e commences with tho nasal <’>, mi, as for as rumoured. B u t th e trem endous difficulties ot this
instance, M a d y a (intoxicating liquor) ; M t t a (fish) ; Mcunts mountainous jo urn ey ami the excessive cold forced
(flesh) ; M uodva........ ; and Mait/tooii.............. were so many me, unhappily, to first m ake inquiries among the hill-
means for reaching Muktee ( s a l v a t i o n ) ! liy actually tribes and learn what they knew of such men. Every­
reading th e whole contents of the T untrax I fully as­ where I encountered either a profound ignorance upon
sured myself of th e craft and viciousness of the authors of the subject or a ridiculous superstition. H av in g w an­
this disgusting literature which is regarded as HKUGKU's I dered in vain J'or about tw enty days, disheartened, I re ­
I left th e place and w ent to S hreenagar__ traced my steps, as lonely as before, my companions who had
Taking up my quarters at a temple, on Kediir Ghdt, I a t first accompanied me, having left me two days after we
used these T u n tru s as weapons against th e local pandits, had started through dread of the great cold. 1 then ascended
whenever there was an opportunity for discussion. W hile the T unganath Peak.**) There, I found n temple full of idols
there, I became acquainted with a Sadhoo, named (ianga ami officiating priests, and hastened to descend the peak on
Giri, who by day never left his m ountain where he resided the same day. Before me were two paths, one leading
in a jungle. O ur acquaintance resulted in friendship as I W est and the o ther South-west. 1 chose at random th a t
soon learned how entirely worthy he was of respect. W hile which led towards the jungle, and ascended it. Soon after,
together, we discussed Yuya and o ther sacred subjects, and the jjiith led me into a dense jungle, with rugged rooks and
through close questioning and answering became fully and dried up, waterless brook. The path stopped a bruptly
mutually satisfied th a t wo were fit for each other. So there. Seeing myself th u s arrested, 1 had to m ake my
attractive was his society for me, th a t I stayed over two choice to either climb up still higher, or descend. Ueflect-
months with him. ' I t was only a t the expiration of this ing w hat a he ight there was to the summit, th e tremendous
time, and when a u tu m n was setting in, th a t I, w ith my difficulties of climbing th a t rough and steep hill, ami th a t
companions, the Brahmachftri and th e two ascetics, left the night would come before I could ascend it, I concluded
Kedar G hat for other places. W e visited Ilu d ra Prayiig th a t to reach the su m m it th a t night was an impossibility.
and other cities, until we reached the shrine of Agasta W ith much difficulty, however, catching at the grass and
Munee.............F u rth e r to the N orth, there is a mountain the bushes, I succeeded in atta in in g the higher hank of the
peak known as the Shivpooree (town of Shiva) where 1 Nala (the dry brook), and .standing on a rock, surveyed
spent the four months of the cold season ; when, finally the environs. 1 .saw nothing b u t torm ented hillocks, high
parting from th e Brahmachari and th e two ascetics, 1 land, and a dense pathless jungle covering the whole,
proceeded back to Kedar, this time alone and unimpeded where no man could pass. Meanwhile the sun was rapidly
m my intentions, aud reached G u p ta K u sh e c M (the secret descendin'; © towards the horizon. Darkness would soon set
Benares)............. in, and th e n — w ithout water or any means for kindling a
I stayed b u t few days there, and went thence to the fire, what would be my position in the dreary solitude of
Trlytujeo (a) Narayan shrine, visiting on my way Gowree th a t jungle !
Koond tank, and the cave of Bheemgoopha. Returning By dint of tremendous exertion, though, and after an
iu a few days to Kedar, my favorite place of residence, acute suffering from thorns, which tore my clothes to shreds,
I there finally rested, a num ber of ascetic B rahm in wor­ wounded my whole body, and lamed my feet, I managed
shipers— called Pandas, and th e devotees of th e Tem ple to cross the jungle, and a t last reached the foot of the hill
of Kedar, of th e Jan g a m sect,— keening me company and found myself on the high-way. All was darkness
until my previous companions, the Brahm achari with his around and over me, and 1 had to pick my way at
two ascetics, returned. I closely watched th e ir ceremo­ random, trying only to keep to the road. Finally I
nies and doinj'S,O ’ and observed all th a t was ogoinj' o on with reached a cluster of huts, and learning from the people th a t
a determined object of learning all th a t was to lie known that road led to O khee Math, I directed my steps towards
about these sects. B u t once th a t my object was fulfilled, that place, and passed the night there. In the morning,
I felt a strong desire to visit the surrounding m oun­ feeling sufficiently rested 1 returned to the (lupl.i Kttnhee
tains, with their eternal ico and glaciers, in q uest of those (the Secret Benares), from whence 1 had started on my
true ascetics I have heard of, b u t as yet had never m e t— Northward journey. B u t th a t journey attracted me, and
the M id u ltm d s <J). I was determ ined — come what m ig h t— soon again I repaired to O khee .Math, under th e 'p iv te x t of
examining th a t herm itage and observing the way of living
which helps tho candidate to a tta in La^hima ft ml (tarim a (For tho of its inmates. There I l i a d tim e to examine a t leisure,
meaning of thoso S'uhUiit, seo a itic lo o u ]'*y* 1 i n tho Nov. num ber of
Tmkosoimiist). Tho sense of this holy word once pervorted, th e ignorant I»mh- the ado of th a t famous and rich monastery, so full of pious
tuiiiH debased it to im ply tho pictorial rep resen tatio n of tbo em blem s of pretences and a show of asceticism. The high priest (or
their deities, and to signify tho mark* of thnso sexual emblem* daubed upon
their bodies with Oopichtttul made of tho whitish clay of river* held filtered. Chief Hermit), called M a h u n t, tried hard to induce me to
Tho Vaishnavas dobo*.o th e m ark aim! tho word loss th an tho ; but remain and live there with him, becoming his disciple.
tho Shallas by applying it to tho obscono g estures and tho indecent ex*
nsures of thoir tilthy Ilitual, have entirely degraded its A ryan m eaning. - He even held before me the prospect, which he th o ug ht
Iid. quite dazzling, of inheriting some day his lacs of rupees,
(l)T h o following are tho tlvo nawds in S an scrit ; ** his splendour anil power, and finally succeeding him iu his
(1) ? ( ngii), (•>) 51 ( yna ), (3) «I (n n a ), (4) fT ( n a ), (.">) H (ma).
(2.i Unpin KAshoo -U n p tu , secret, hidden ; K 'uhrt, th e ancient name of spired by the cold negation of tho ag e, despite tho traditions, as well
B e n ares-is a holy placo enshrouded iu m ystery. I t is niton 160 miles from us the religion of thoir forefathers, calling all th a t was held sacred
liliadrinnth. O utw ardly th ere U seen only a tom plo w ith colum ns ; b u t a by tbo latter, a “ ro tte n su p erstitio n ." Alas ! they hardly rem ark them*
firm belief prevails am ong pilgrim s to th e effect th a t th is shriuo only serves selves th a t from idolatry they have fallen into hiuhinu. T hey have b u t
as a lau d m irk to indicate th e locality of the sacred hidden Bonaros —a whole changed th eir idols for poorer ones, and rem ain th e sumo.
city, in fact, underground- T his holy place, thoy believe, will be revealed a t (1) At B hadriuath (N orthern India), on the rig h t bank of th e Bi.shonganga,
tho proper tim e, to th e world. The M ahatmas alone can now reach it, aud where the celebrated tem ple of Vishnu, with hot mineral .springs in it, a n ­
some inhabit it. A learned Swrinii friend, and a native of lih ad rin ath , highly nually a ttra c ts num erous pilgrim s, th ere is a stran g e trad itio n am ong tho
respected a t Bombay, has ju s t told us th a t th e re is a prophecy th a t iu 25 inhabitants. Thoy believe th a t holy Mahatmas (anchorites) have lived
year* from this tim e Benares will Img in to decline iu every o th er rcs)»ew‘t as tho inaccessible m ountain peaks, in caves of llm g reatest Itcanty for
it has lo i.g d o n o iu holiness, and, owing to tho wickedness of men, will several thousand yoars. T heir residence is approachable only through a
tonally fall. Thou, tho m ystery of G upta Krfshoo will be disclosed and th e , cavern porpotually choked wiih snow, which forbids tho approach of tho
truth bogin to dawn upon m en. tiwrfmi P —.so lem n ly avers th a t, having curious and tho skeptical. T he BhudriiuUh peaks in this neighbonrhodd aro
often visited this very shrine, ho has several tim es obsorvud, with his above 2‘2,OUO feet high.—
own eyes, as it were, shadowy forms disappearing a t tho entranco —as though
half visible men, or th e w raiths of men were cntoriug.—Ed. Since th e above was w ritten ono of our m ost rcs|*ect« <1 aud learned Fellow's
hns inform ed us th a t his Unfit (1'rcceptor) told him th a t while stopping
(3) T hree yugs, or tbo T h ree Kpochs. a t tho tem ple of N arayan, on th e H im alayas, whcro ho had paused »omo
(4) The Mahatma*, or literally g reat souls, from two w ords—M uh,i, great, m onths, he saw therein a copper pinto bearing date, with an inscription,
tu d dJmu, soul—aro those m ysterious adepts whom tho popular fancy views said to have been mado by Miaukarachtfryn th at th at tem ple was the ex*
as m agician*/' and of whom every child knows iu India, b u t who m e m et Iromo lim it whoro one should go in ascending tho Himalayas. T he (it>nL
with so rarely, especially iu th is ago of degeneration. W ith the exception of also said th u t farth er up the heights, and beyond apparently unsui nionniablo
sonic Swdmis and ascetics of a perfectly holy life, th ere aro few who know walls of snow and ice. no several tim es saw men of % m ost venerable ap ­
positively th a t th ey tlo exist, aud ar£ no m yths created by su|>erst)tious I carimcc, such as tho Aryan TiUhts are represented, w earing hair so long
fancy, f t will be given, perhaps, to Swami ItayAmtnd, th e g ro at and holy as to hang below* th e ir waist. T hero is reason to know th at he saw correctly,
mat), tJ disabuse th e skeptical m inds of his deg en eratin g co u n try m en ; es­ and th a t tho curront belief is not w ithout foundation th a t the place is
pecially of this young decorated generation, tho Jtntu$st JJoii? of Indlt., the inhabited by adepts and no out’ who is nut an adupt u ilt itv r tjticcucd i|i
Jd..U and M.A# aristo cracy —who, fed upon Wytftvru nm tw ialisni, and in- g ettin g an entrfiucc (Kd ) '
M ahantxhlp, nr supreme rank. T frankly answered liim j through th e bodies of m edium s or liy assuming temporarily
th a t liad 1 ever eraved any sueli riches or glory, 1 would >objective forms tliem selves; tliat this state of existence is
not liave secretly left tin; house of my father, wliieh was not j b etter than the earthly fine ; and tliat in that, incorporeal
less sum ptuous or attractive than liis monastery, with all its existence they will develop ami a tta in to th e degree of final
riches.— “ T he object, which induced me to do away with , perfection. Now, H ind u philosophy an d religion teach
all these wonlly blessings" I added," I li in 1 you neither differently on every one of these points. Though they
strive for, nor possess the knowledge of." He th en en- a d m it th a t some hum an souls may continue for a long
tpiired what was that object lor which I so sl.ri veil, j time wit b o u t ano th er coi poreal body, after (heir severance
“ T lia t object,” I answered “ is the secret knowledge, the j from the hum an bodies which they animated, still this
Vidya, or true erudition of a i/niniiie Yog ; the Mnnlh-r, is the lot of comparatively a few,— of those only who, du-
which is reached only by the purity of one’s soul, and err- i ring th e ir existence on this earth, led a life of sensual
hiln rftfff/jiwcnfcuunttainahle w ithout it. Meanwhile, the j fijipetit.es, and who died prematurely with the* intensity
performance of all the dut ies o f man towards his fellow-men, of those carnal desires unabated aud surviving their soj mi -
and the elevation of hum anity thereby.” ‘ ration from their gross Indies. It is such souls only th a t
T h e M ahai)t remarked that it was very good, and asked 1 are considered to stick to the earth, and become what
me to rem ain with him f o r some tim e at. least, lin t I are called rish a clia s* or w hat the W estern spiritualists
k ep t silent, and returned no reply : f hail not, vet found | miscall ‘spirits ' ! B u t even these are not considered to
what I sought. Kisiug on the following morning very continue in this state of existence for ever, nor is this
early, I left, this rich dwelling and w ent to .loshec Math. state considered as in any way desirable. W ith regard
There, in the company of Dakshanee, or Maharashtra. Slias- to the majority of h um a n souls, it is held th a t according
ll'ces anil Sannya.sis, the true ascetics of the 4th O r d e r —I to their holy or unholy deeds and desires in this life, they
rested for a while. go e ith e r to higher and better worlds, ending with B r a h ­
( T o hi' I'liUliI) m il.) m a loha, by th e a rc hiru di uiarja, or to th e n e th e r worlds,
by the y a m a n u h y a . f T he former are considered to bo
tem porary elevations to b etter existences, the latter to
H I N D U ID E A S A ROUT C O M M U N IO N W I T H worse existences th an on this world iu hum a n shape. B ut
the stage of existence known as r!t<hacha yonl, is regar­
D EA D .
ded in th e H in d u system of philosophy and religion as
B y llao B a h a d u r J a n a rdhan S u lh a r m n Guihjil, 1.1..11., the most horrible and pitiful th a t th e h u m a n soul can
V. T. .S’. enter. T h e reason of it is th a t it is the state th a t comes
over the hum an soul as the result of th e baser desires
N ow th a t a medium of regular communication, in tbe having preponderance a t the tim e of sepaiation from the
shape of the Thnmojihisf, has been established lx-tween the corporeal body ; it is th e state in which th e capacities for
East, and the W est, lor exchanging ideas on mat ters o f ; the enjoym ent of sensual pleasures are in a developed
philosophy and occultism, it may be useful to sta te in state, b u t the soul lacks the* means of physical enjoyment,
general terms what Hindu philosophy and psychology viz, a corporeal b o d y ; it is the state 111 which the soul
have to say about Spiritualism. T h is is the more im por­ can never m ake progress and develop into better exis­
ta n t inasmuch as E uro pe and America are a t the present tence. I t is considered that, in this state the soul being
day startled and bewildered by those remarkable manifes­ deprived of the m eans of enjoyment throu gh its own p h y ­
tations of so-called spirits, which have* rivet ted the attentio n sical body, is p erpetually to rm ented by hunger, appetite
of the learned, and are said to have drawn away more aud oth e r bodily desires, and can have only vicarious e n ­
than tw enty millions of people there from tile materialistic j jo y m e u t by e ntering into the living physical bodies of
tendencies of the present, age. others, or by absorbing the subtlest essences of libations
Viewed from the standpoint of Hindu philosophy, nay, j and oblations offered for th e ir own sake. N o t all Pixha-
t h a t of any philosophy worthy of the name, the sp iritu a ­ chas can e n te r th e living hu m a n body of another,
listic movement in America and Europe is to be hailed as and none can en ter the body of a holy man, th a t is, nu
a demonstrative condemnation of th a t gross materialism, ascetic or a d e p t in occultism.
subversive of all religion and tru e science, which preaches Very few spirits are considered to possess the power
t h a t nothing of m an survives the Corporeal dissolution of m ak in g themselves m anifest by assum ing physical a p ­
called death. Am ongst Hindus, this was the belief and pearances for even a short time. T hese are regarded as
tho creed of th e Charvaks, whom our philosophers have having gre ate r stren gth than the others, and it is believed
regarded, on th a t account, as so despicable th a t no writer th a t these g e t this power over those who in the stage
of distinction am ong Hindus considers it worth his while of their corporeal existence 011 earth, were given up to the
to ta k e the trouble of noticing th e ir creed or refuting it. worship of, and association with demons (Pishachas), or to
T hese Charvaks are p u t down as jidmarn, that, is, creatures the contem plation and practice of m a n i r a s th a t control
who are so deficient in philosophical capacity th a t they them, or who were th e victims of some overbearing pas­
are not fit to be argued with, and must be left to th e m ­ sion. B u t this state of being is deemed th e most miserable
selves till by experience or even meditation they get the and awful th a t any one could have en tered upon, and it
capacity of perceiving that som ething survives the bodily is only th e eomparativelly good souls th a t after long suffer­
dissolution. The spiritualists of A merica and Europe have ing alul purification arc able to extricate themselves.
this tru th phenomenally dem on strated to them and so far T he whole series of prescribed Hindu funeral ceremo­
E astern philosophy welcomes th e movement. But beyond nies, from the 1st to th e l l t l i day after a man's death, is
this it can not go ; for it finds little reason t,o congratulate nothing more th a n th e mode inculcated by th a t religion to
th e spiritualists upon the new ide;is and aspirations they prevent th e hu m a n soul from becoming a P isha ch a. The
p u t forth. T h a t death is the mere separation of tbe corporeal
frame from th e Jiva, or soul th a t anim ates it, is a tr u th tho• Author V ltkttchtis: this word can hardly bo rendered Accurately in Knglish, though
of “ Isis U nveiled" givoa ft pood equivalent in tho term “ Klemen-
ad m itted in all schools of Oriental philosophy. T h e Bliag- taries.” T hey are gross, d epraved human souls which, a f te r th e d eath of tho
body are e a rth hound as tbo re su lt of th e ir titte r lack of sp iritu a lity nnd tho
w n t-g it-i s a y s t i . a t t i ,o j i v i i , w i . i d i i.> a ( . a . t , . , , . ! |.n ,c o i ,.,y - j ^
predom inanco of t heir b aser naturos. These aro tho only dineml>odied human
S e l l , th a t is, Brahlll, leaves the corporeal body at th e time j iioiiiKff with whom tlio living can, ficcotdiiig to llimlu bolicf, conimuno ; nnd.
noedlcA* to gay, tho idea
of death, and it draws in and takes w ith it, the mind anil the tellcctuul endow m ents, who lack spiritual intuitions m ay becomo Pishnchas of thin intercourse U a b h o rre n t. Men of mero in*
senses ; j u s t as th e breeze of air th a t touches and leaves a equally with tho vicious. Iu sh o rt “I'inhndui *’ is a re tu rn in g houI, a dremon.
flower bears off its perfume. So far Oriental philosophy + Hindu* m ostly believe thr»t tho purification nnd progrosnion of tho human
and W estern Spiritualism are a t one. B u t it appears th a t soul a fte r d eath aro oirectc d by its retu rn to this e arth from the several other
worlds w hithor it goes, and its reincarnation, or transm igration ; each new
W estern spiritualists are drifting into the belief th a t every reincarnation is governed by it* deeds in tlio previous birth, those souls which
h u m an soul, after its severance from the corporeal Ixxly have boon good reappearing under higher reincarnation*, those which wero
bad under lower ones. B ut the tru o Yogi so purifies hi* inner self an to go nt
which it anim ated on this earth, rem ains for ever w ithout d eath im m ediately to /im/oM't lolo, whcnco he never returns, b u t where he
ano th e r corporeal body ; th a t all hu m an souls can, anil some remain* u n til th e next P m laytf, or dissolution of the visiblo universe, com­
pletes hi* em ancipation from all earth ly taint, aud transfer* bin) into
. * . •(* 1* • 1 I • *1.1 jMi'ien 11m L
’liMiiii ipiti
tin u m lv c t i i c m s e l v e s n m in k \s t to l i v i n g h u m a n h o in g s , e i t h e r 1 or the otom al Ilia*.
ceremonies performed and oblations offered by tbe relatives h e a t— the light and heat th a t extends from earth below to
of the deceased, are considered efficacious for this purpose, heaven above. T h e sun, th a t fruitful source of much r e ­
and hence H in d u religion enjoins it as th e most affectionate ligion in all ages and countries, did not fail to he viewed
duty of n son or oth e r relative to save his departed ones from m any varied poetical standpoints. T he sun becamo
from this direful fate. In the Sluistras, th e king, as the Savitil, i.e. the daily proycnitor of the world, as he madu
heir of the heirless, is enjoined by th e sacred books to per­ the world daily rise into visible existence from the death
form or g e t performed these sacred rites for those th a t have of darkness in which it lay enveloped during the previous
no relative’s to perform them in their behalf; for it is con­ night. Tho sun became l’usha, tins nonrinher, because it
sidered of param ount importance th a t the post-mortem was through his light th a t nourishing food was grown.
condition of P ishacha Y o n i should be avoided by all T h e sun as befriending all life by his life-inspiring light and
possible means. Even after this calamity overtakes a h u ­ preventing the world from being always plunged in d a rk ­
man soul, aiul it begins to manifest itself as a Pishach, ness, came to be considered as th e universal ‘ Friend ”—
there are ceremonies enjoined, called Pi.sharlia tnochani, Milra who became finally personified, dcilicd and exalted
intended to emancipate it from this sta te and p u t it in iu hym ns und er th a t name. Tin; sun could not fail to ho
the way of assuming a corporeal body according to its d e­ spoken of as the ‘ great traveller’ that *joes swiftly round
serts. liven th e transmigration of a hum an soul into a tlie earth as none else could g o ; as the “ Heavenly Bird of
lower existence, such as th a t of a beast, reptile, insect, «.tc. excellent wings” flying through heavenly space with in­
is considered preferable to the state of J'is/mchii- 1\ m i ; describable rapidity— and thus to be hymned a.s SajMtr-
for, in the first place, there is in th a t state a corporeal tta U a r n lm d n . T he morning dawn, so refreshing and
body for enjoyment, and secondly, it is comparatively a brilliant, so fair and beautiful, and ever young, daily
very short existence, a t th e end of which the soul has shining forth into manifestation and yet daily vanishing
the possibility of rising up to a b e tte r sta te of existence. away without tarrying long, was necessarily personified,
T he hum an form of existence is regarded as the highest aud was deified into Ualias. All these and sim ilar beings
goal to be aspired to in this series of transmigrations, for seemed to aw ake daily in the early morning (Usharbiidhas)
in th a t alone, th e soul has th e capability of knowing the and to rise into daily existence from the womb of tha t
ultim ate secret of its nature, and thereby a ttaining vast unlimited space, that infinity of brilliant heavenly
the highest beatitude. Existence in worlds even better space, which could not b u t be personified, deified and
than the earth, is dcprecated, lor, although th e capacities hymned by them as A d ili. I t required no great stretch
ami powers of outward enjoym ent in those worlds are of imagination to speak of tho principal gods, who seemed
greater than on earth, yet no other world'bosidcs the earth, to bo born iu tho m orning in the far east in the womb of
the B rah m a loka excepted, is considered to give to a soul heaven’s unlim ited brilliant space A d iti, its -[dihjas or
such development as it is capable of receiving when sons of A d ili.
clothed in the hu m an body,— a developm ent which enables B u t speculation did not fail to be regulated by reason,
him to acquire knowledge of our own essence, and thereby and reason led to gradual generalization. The Vedic
attain final emancipation. seers began to perceive that their seniors had after all
I t will be seen from the above th a t the H ind us are not been speaking of one and the same “ <>ne B e i n g ” under
spiritualists in the sense th a t they foster m edium ship or different names. ‘ Not knowing I ask here those tha t
hold willing communion with th eir dead. T h e obsessed ‘ know, for the sake of knowing, 1 th a t am i g n o r a n t : Ho
person th e H indus regard as unfortunate, and if by an ‘ th a t upholds these! six worlds in their respective places,
unhappy chance, the house is’jvisitcd by a dead relative, ‘ there is, is there not,, som ething in the nature of tha t
the occurrence is considered a disaster, and the returning 'U n b o r n One, th a t is one * * ‘ They fall [him] Judra,
one a subject for pity anil prayers. B u t the Yoga philo­ ' M itm , lrc<n m « [ami] A y n i . Also lie [is the same as] the
sophy, with th e Yogi’s evolution of his psychical j k iw c i -s , ‘ Heavenly B ir d of excellent wings. T he sages name the
is a very different thing. By it he can separate his kduta- ‘ One Being in various ways. They call [him] A y n i , Vania,
ru jia or astral soul from his physical body, can e n te r aud [and] Muta-risra,’* says one of the rishes, Dirghatamns,
temporarily direct another man's body, can become om ­ certainly one of th e oldest Vedic poets. Another, specu­
niscient, can commune with the high spirits of oth e r worlds, lating on tho creation of the universe, the gods, and other
and can a tta in to |>owcrs which to ordinary persons appear beings, says of th e time before the creation : ‘ There was
miraculous, b u t which to a philosopher aud true scientist, ‘ then 110 nonentity nor entity, there was no world, nor the
prove only th e intim ate connection of the microcosm and ‘ heaven t h a t is aloft. W h a t enveloped [the world] < W here
the macrocosm, and the incomparable power of the hum an ‘ and for whose benefit [wa.s it] ? W here wa.s water, tho
soul over the material universe. 'deej) abyss ? There was then no death, nor immortality,
‘ no distinction of nig h t and day. T h a t one breathed
1quietly, through its own power. For besides th a t there
[Contiimtxl from tho N ovem ber N um ber.] ‘ was nothing else. Iu the beginning there was darkness
T H E VEDA, T H E O R IG IN A N D H IS T O R Y OF ‘ enveloped in darkness. All this wa.s undistingiiishable
R E L I G IO N . ‘ nothing. T h a t one which had been enveloped cvery-
‘ where in undistingui.shable nothingness was developed
B y B a o B a h a d u r S h a n k a r P a n d a r a n y P a n d it, M .A . ‘ through the force of fervor. Desire arose in it in the
T he bare, innocent, naked, unsophisticated T r u th is ' beginning, which was the first germ of the mind. Sages
there, viz. th a t the idea of many gods is the most natural ‘ searching with th e ir intellect have found th a t to be
to h u m a n th in k in g and th a t the idea of one Suprem e ‘ the connection between th e e ntity and the non-entity.
God is the result of much thinking, speculating and ge ­ ‘ T h e ray of these [non-entity, desire.* and germ], was it
neralizing. T h u s we have th e genesis of th e m any gods ‘ across, below, or above ? There then arose those th a t
out of th e g rea t phoinomena of nat ure, such of them, th a t ‘ could impregnate, and there arose those that, were mighty
is to say, as strike the imagination of simple b u t specu­ objects. There was selfsupporting principle below and
lative minds. In d ra the god of rain, storm, and light, ‘ power above. W ho knows truly, who can here declare,
th a t sends showers of refreshing aud fructilizing rain to ‘ whence, whence this creation arose ! T he gods are poste-
the earth, strikes with his th u n d e rb o lt— the lightning ‘ rior to the creation of the universe. This being so, who
accompanied by th u n d e r— the sup[>oscd demon th a t w ith­ ‘ knows whence this universe sprang ( W hence this u n i­
holds the rain and ^ p re v e n ts tho light of the heavens
from reaching the earth. V anina was conceived as the ;; aTfaf+'fW TS'TIW faSH
great jiower th a t enveloped the earth with the blind
• • •
pall of night, punished the wicked and rewarded the
just, without th e ir being aware of who it was th a t p u ­ fasf 3TOR 3TIfTv3TVi « HT’ni nCcWT I
nished or rewarded them. Agni was a necessary creation RT S|V*T I
to account for all the p h a u o m c n a connected with light and ' v nis I. lei io.
 ‘ verse arose, w heth er it has been creak'd or w heth er it It is in this view again of th e Veda th a t we regard it
‘ has not been created a t all,— H e who is its Rider in this as th e origin of religion. A nd looked a t from this point
' highest heaven, He alone knows ; and if he does not, then of view,— the point of view, th a t is to say, from which you
‘ no one knows.’ * see in it all th e true principles of universal religion and
T h e h ighest flight of speculation, t.he most, laborious dis­ the chief blemishes thereof, and also see through those
covery or even th e boldest assertion of allowable dog­ principles and blemishes to their earliest germ and follow
m atism of modern days have not,, we think, gone much them through all the phases undergone by them un til
beyond this philosophy of religion of th e Vedic Rishi. you come to a stage which induce people to say that tho
T his is abou t creation. T he o th e r a ttrib u te s of the good principles were revealed by God and the blemishes
Deity, viz. Wisdom, Infinity, Mercy, Im m u tability , I m ­ were im parted by God’s enemy, the Devil— looked a t
mortality, Justice, Universal care, th e quality of being the from this standpoint, th e whole of the Veda is th e most
shelter of th e helpless, the poor, the oppressed— these anil valuable book in the world. I t is the oldest contem po­
nil others which go to form the (hid of all nations not. rary history, th e oldest biography of man, the oldest song
only find a p ro m inent place in the Veda, b u t we have th a t man ever sang to a higher Power or Powers. W hen
therein a reliable history as to how m a n — th e Aryan man at we rem em ber this we cease to reject the hym ns as crude
least— originally came to conceive of them, how he deve­ and uncultivated and ta k e the Upanishads, or to take
loped them and how he m atured th em to a point beyond the hym ns and reject th e Brahmanas. To the biographer
which 110 religion or philosophy has progressed to the the infancy, th e childhood, the school days, th e youth as
present day— and all this, be it rem em bered, unaided, u n ­ well as th e old age of his subject aro all equally im por­
assisted, uninspired by direct divine revelation— a t least tant. Look a t the Veda as a historical record to be read
so far as the Vedic poets and authors themselves arc con- and interpreted historically, and it is a treasure of p e r­
ecrned.-f- fect gems, unequalled in lustre or size. Look a t it from
O th e r religious system s—g ra n tin g them an origin in­ the point of view which is generally adopted by th e o ­
d ep en den t of the venerable Veda— do indeed teach the logians of w hatever sect who wish to find in it either
same attribu tes of the Divinity, b u t they do not any of. nothing b u t divine knowledge' or nothing b u t hum an ra­
them allow us to see fh m iu jk them, to see beyond them, vings, and it at once becomes a perfect chaos. To th e his­
to see behind them. Christianity, for instance, finds it torian, th e scientific scholar, th e s tu den t of h um an insti­
necessary to stand upon revelation for the basis of what tutions, the followers of universal religion and above all
it teaches, though we have no hesitation whatever in say­ to the Theosophist th e V eda will always continue to be
ing t h a t though it teaches m any good things it teaches the most im po rtan t book.
nothing th a t the Veda had not ta u g h t before.
Revelation is an unsatisfactory m eth od of accounting S O U N D IN G S IN T H E OCEAN O F A R Y A N
for your possession. The acquisition requires a more n a ­ L I T E R A T U R E ..
tural, more intelligible, and more acceptable explanation.
B y K il l ,a n t K . Cldiatre, B.A., L.C.K.
This explanation is furnished in abu ndance by the Veda,
and it is chiefly for this reason t h a t we call the Veda H i e way in which knowledge of Physical Science is im ­
the origin and history of all religion. parted to us is apt. to mislead. T he principles are laid
But not only have we in the V e d a what, we may call down, b u t our text-books are silent as to th e original dis­
the virtues of religion, and th e history of their origin coverers and e xpo nents; so that, g e ttin g our education
and development, b u t also the vices thereof and the his­ from European instructors, with the help of European
tory of their origin and development. Like all things text-books, and having no concurrent teaching as to ancient
human, religion— which we regard in its developm ent as Indian history, arts, sciences or literature, we are as ignorant,
hu m an and value it to that e x te n t only th a t it is hum an of our national antecedent.s as though we were at school in
— has had its mistakes and evil consequenccs. I t has Ireland or Germany, or even Iceland or Russia. N o won­
also done—or more correctly som ething else has done in its der, then, th a t th e fires of a tru e patriotism — that which
na m e —great h arm since it began to get any votaries makes one love and revere his native land and his ancestors,
to gether under its standard. Religion has had its myt.ho- are being quenched. We are becoming more European,
logy, its miracles. I t has paralysed the free exercise of the aud less Aryan every day. L et us avail then, of the present
best part of man, reason ; it has ta u g h t us to believe th a t opportunity, to sound th e sea of Aryan literature nnd bring
God is partial to certain m en and inimical to certain up w hatever im p o rta n t th in g wc can. The idea of a siphon,
o th e rs; it lias ta u g h t us to believe in imaginary horrors of for example, is obtained by us through the m edium of the
worlds unseen, aud to kill those people who do not believe English tongue. N o historical sketch is attached to im ­
in w h a t we believe. These and o th e r blemishes which portan t treatises on these sciences. This most naturally
attach to religion are in th e Veda, an d as in the case of breeds in us a false idea th a t th e subject we read of m ust
the virtues of religion we have a clear and well-connected he a European discovery. A lthough S anskrit literature
history of the rise and developm ent of th e blemishes also. abounds in references to various conclusions of. these scien­
ces, still th ere is no work yet found which is devoted to
any special subject.. T he progress of Europe and the back­
wardness of H in d u sta n in the cultivation , of Physical
f¥*mcT?r: ^ hill
Sciences strengthen this prejudice, until we come to believe
H JT ^ CT5?TT 3 ? - ^ - H%?T: |
th a t n o thing was done in this direction in A ryavarta even
>?r: || x || in its golden days. T his is saddening: true, b u t we cannot
deny it.; th e fact is there. Patience, however, in our search
fTTOfl || 3 II through th e profound dep th s of Aryan literature, rewards
frT: |' the inquirer every now and then with facts which a t least
r j jf w || ( || for a m om ent enable one to realise to some ex te n t what
m ust have been the good old times of Aryavarta. Up,
f r r t f F T f pT rP fl c f y K ’T W : I then, b r o t h e r s ; let us search, and wc will surely find. Let
us begin w ith the siphon.
3T.1H ^ S(T IT fr^-T JrT aTI^TlcTI J T frflig: I 1. T he Kv.kl-ntii N u d l : what is this ! I t is no other
3 7 ^ 't'l '^'T I \
3T13PJT |l || than the siphon. The nam e when translated conies to mean
“ a cock tube,” and is analogous to “ th e U shaped tube.”
PTHTg^rT 3TT»THT ?TT ^ q fc f ^TT ff | ^
*ft 3R*n«T$T: bI ^ ?TT II \» II Bhnskarncharya, the celebrated H in du astronomer, who
lived eig ht centuries ago, s a y s * : — “ If a metallic tube
Kigvedn X. 129.
t Rwnmi Prvyummd Snraswali - tho new est n o fo rm e r-lik e w is e rejects * || u 3 [|
d irc c t divine revelation as an im possibility b u t claim s intjn’n dion for hia
jH’im itiro four Hfoki's (fid.) ^ srr\: | ' -
b ent in th e form of an anl'uki * he filled with water, and to deify whomsoever exemplifies its higher aspirations ; as
if one end of it he put out of, and th e other into a pot though the k eeping of him on the hum an plane made
full of water, and if we let go hoth the ends, the water o ther men seem m eaner and more little by contrast.
will How o ut in a continuous stream. T his is ” says the Sankaracharaya’s biographers apotheosised th e ir hero,
author of tho Siddhflnta Shiromunni, “ well known to the as A lexander’s and Cicero’s and those of Apollonius, Jesus
artizan sby th e nam e of a cock-tube or l:id:l:ula udtU -f; and and M ahomet did theirs. T h ey made his advent presaged
wonders are w rought by means of this.” by a heavenly vision— of Mahadeva, to his father, Siva-
G a n o ts p e a k s t h u s : — *' The siphon is filled with some g u ru — and his career atte n d ed by miracles which no th e o ­
liquid and the two ends being closed, the shorter leg is ry of interior, or psychical, development can cover. A le­
dipped in the liquid * * I t will then run out through nient posterity m ay well pass over these pious embellish­
the siphon as long as the shorter end dips in th e liquid." ments as th e fruit of an exhubcrant partiality, for after all
' (G anot’s “ P h y s ic s ” : The Siphon.) these have been stripped away, the true grandeur of th e
Now, while the Aryan knowledge of the siphon can not pandit, philosopher, and mystic is only the more plainly
be hypothecated upon an Indian work only eight centuries revealed to us.
old, yet this passage makes it clear enough t h a t this h y ­ W e are, unfortunately, without the necessary data to
draulic in strum en t was used in this country long before enable us to precisely fix the epoch in which this great
Ganot’s “ P h y sic s” wa.s written, and hence the lads in our teacher flourished. Some ascribe it to the second century
schools are not obliged to believe the siphon a European before, others would bring him down to the tenth after,
invention merely because Ganot describes it. And th a t Christ. Most modern scholars. ajjrec ® in locating
. him in
point being settled, the remoter question of Aryan priority the eighth cen tu ry of the Christian era ; and, since we have
over the Greek and E gyptian philosophers, m ay be safely for this opinion the concurrent auth ority of Wilson, Cole-
postponed for another occasion. T h e magnificent ru m s ot brooke, Raininohau Roy, Yajnesvar Shastri, and Professor
our ancient hydraulic works ought to satisfy us th a t engi­ Jayanarayan T arkapanchanam , the Bengali editor of An-
neers capable of constructing them m u s t have known their andagiri’s S a n k a m V ijo y u , and it is less important, after
science thoroughly. , all, to know w hen he ta u g h t than what he ta u g h t and did,
In the works called S u kran iti and Brihatsaiihita, much we may as well accept th a t decision w ithout debate. N o
interesting information is given. W e will place it before more certainly can his birth-place be determined. As
our readers in the n ext issue. seven cities competed for the honor of having produced a
Homer, so five biographers ascribe his nativity to as many
r o o m , November, IS79.
different localities. Sringori is commonly believed to
have been tho favored town (1) ; b u t a passage from th e
BAN K A R A C H A It AY A, P H I L O S O P H E R A N D Sivarahanja, quoted in the Kavicliaritra, would indicate a
M Y STIC.O) town in the Kerala district, named Sasalagrama ; Anan-
B y Kdahinath Trimbeil• Telanrj, M .A., LL.li. dagiri’s Life of S ank ara names C hidam harapura ' 3> ; Ma-
dhev puts forward Kalati ; and lastly, Yajnesvai Shas­
I m ight well plead the m ultitu dino us engagem ents of atri, in his Aryavidya S udhakara, tells us th a t Sankara first
busy professional and literary life, as an excuse for not com­ saw the light a t K a lp i,u).
plying with the request to briefly notice in tho TllKOSo- T aking no notice of th e portents and wonders said to have
1’HIST the incidents of Sankaracharaya’s illustrious career. occurred in the animal and vegetable kingdoms a t his birth
B ut I am, first and last, a H indu, and my sym pathies and —such as the fraternizing to gether of beasts ordinarily hos­
humble cooperation are pledged in advance to every legi­ tile to each other, the uncommon pollueidity of the streams,
timate a tte m p t to elucidate th e history of India or b etter the preternatural shedding of fragrance by trees aud plants,
the intellectual or physical condition of my countrymen. nor of the joy of the U panishads or the glad pawns of the
From th e earliest time thxj study of philosophy and m e ta ­ whole celestial host, we find our hero displaying a most
physics has been prized and encouraged in this country, wonderful precocity. In his first y e ar he acquired the
and high above all other names in its history are. written Sanskrit alp hab et and his own language; a t two, learned
those of our people who have aimed to help men to clear­ to read ; at three, studied the Kavyas and 1’uranas—and
er think in g upon the subjects embraced in those categories, understood many portions of them by intuition Auan-
w hether by th e ir writings, discourses or example. The dagiri, less circumstantial, merely states that S ankara be­
life which forms my present them e is th e life of one of the came conversant with P ra k rit Magadha and Sanskrit lan­
greatest men who have appeared iu India. W h e th e r we guages even in saiuavu, infancy. 'v
consider his natural abilities, his unselfish devotion to Having studied the Itihasa, the Puranas, the Malia-
the cause of religion, or the infiuence he h;us exerted upon bharat, the Smritis, and the Shastras, Sankara, i n hid
his countrymen, this splendid ascetic stands fa cile p v i n a p s. seventh year, returned from liis preceptor to his own home.
• So enchanting, O in fact,' are all his surroundings,
O ’ th a t it Madliav narrates that the m o th er of his hero being, one
is no wonder th a t the admiration of an astonished people day, overpowered by the debility resulting from the au s­
should have euhemerized him into an incarnation of the terities she had practised before his birth to propitiate
Deity. O ur ignoble hum an nature seems ever so con­ the gods and m ake them g r a n t her piayer for a son, as well
scious of its own weakness and imperfection, as to he prone as by thi! torrid heat of the sun, fainted ; whereupon S a n ­
kara, finding her in th e swoon, not only brought her back
* A n k n su —U a goad for d riv in g elcphanta with, nnd in form it resembled
the English letter to consciousness but drew th e river up, as well, a cir­
t "H '4 -Tcrfa- n || cumstance which of course spread his fame as a thaum a-
turgist far and wide ! The. king of Kerala vainly otter­
ing him presents of gold and elephants, through his own
minister, came himself to pay reverence, and disclosing
^ ?r^r his longing for a son like himself, was made happy by the
m ^!T I cTWf sage, who tnui/hl the kiur/ privately the rites to be per­
formed in such cases. 1 m u st n o t lose the opportunity
c'figtf Scf ht-
to point, in passing, to th e two things implied in this
ossra sff^ifcr I l i ^c- biographical scrap, viz., th a t it was believed th a t the
v m z | a w sr^^rync^rrfff^ripa-1 birth of progeny may be brought about by the recitation
of mantram s and the perfoimance of ceremonial rites, and
(1) At tlio request of C'i.l. Oluott I liave perm itted tlio following |>a|<cr to l»e
|uiljli>lioil witli m aterials collected liy me for n paper read to tlm S tu d en ts’ (1) Soc Paiidit K V. Unma.swamiV skotrlio-s, p I and tlio Map a t th o en d
l.iterary mid Scientific Society, in 1S71. i had intended to rew rito tlio life of (lie book. (‘2) K avlcharita, p ;|, line 17. U and ID. I t may be
of ^ankuracliaraya, with some additions ;ni<l alteration*, l»ut as present added licro th a t I have grave d o n b u as to th e Sankara Vijayn, published
'regains; cnyaj'cmontH do n o t leavo mo sullicicnt leisure for such an effort, a t C alcutta, really a work of Anaiidatriri, the pupil of £ m kara. (4) Madlm*
1 have th o u g h t it advisable to consent to my original Essay b«,-inf' u ti­ vncluiniyn, II. U. (5) I*. (<j) .Madhav IV , 1*3.
lized by Col, Olcott nccortliny to bis own discretion.- K. T. T. (7) MaiUmv V. I. Compare A iw m lnjiii p. 11.
("U th a t tlio secret is never publicly taught, lm t privately Pndmapadn. This excited envy in the breasts of the other
conveyed lYom adept Id disciple. I sludl not dwell 11)11111 pupils, to dispel which Sankara, once standing on one
these facts lint leave them to lie disposed of as they will shore of the river which flowed by his residence, called to
liy onr new friends, tin- Tlieosopliists, lor whom the mys­ P adm apada to come over to him directly from the opposite
tical side, of nature offers most enticements. bank. T h e latter obeyed, and dauntlessly walked over on
About this same time tin? g re a t sago Agastya, visiting the surface of the waters, which sent, up a lotus a t each
him with other sages, ]irophcsied to 11is m other that, lie step he took. It, was on this occasion that, the name P a d ­
would die a t the age of thirty-two: Keeling that this m apada was given him by Sankara, a.s lie warmly em b ra ­
world is all a passing show, this boy of eight years d e te r­ ced him in recognition of his enthusiastic devotion.
mined to embrace the life uf a holy Saunyasi, h u t his W hile teaching his pupils the youthful teacher did not
m other objected, her motherly pride doubtless craving a fail of adversaries am ong th e learned men who held tenets
son to her sou who should inherit his own greatness of soul different to his own, but lie always came off victor. H e drew,
and mind. T h e lad’s determination was not to be shaken, says Madhav, from the arsenal of a vast Vedic learning,
however, and the maternal consent,. was obtained, as the the weapons with which to combat his powerful assailants.
biographers tell 11s by the working of a prodigy!-1. Bathing W e are t reated to the description of an eight days’ debate
in the river, one day, his foot was cau gh t by an alligator, between himself and Vyasa, who appeared under the guise
l i e wailed so loud that his m other rail to the spot, and being of an aged Brahmin b u t whose identity was intuitively re­
told that the alligator would not, leave go his hold until cognized at, least by Padmapada. T he biographer tells us
she had agreed to her son's becoming an ascetic, felt coerced th a t th e spirit, iu his assumed guise of the living Brahmin,
into giving her consent. Sankaracha.ra.yu thereupon came propounded a thousand objections to S a n ka ra ’s great Bha-
out of the river, and confiding her to the care of relatives sliya on the Brahma Sutras, which wen: all triu m phantly
and friends, and telling her he would come back to her answered, aud in the end, gave.the latter an extension of
whenever she should need his presence, he went away and sixteen years of life over and almve the set term cf sixteen
took up the career for which he had so strong a natural th a t he was to have lived, ami after bidding him under­
bent. take a refutation of all th e other philosophic systems in
As if drawn by some irresistible magnetic attraction vogue, blessed him and then disappeared.
towards a certain spot, Sankara travelled Ibr several days, A lter this, Sank ara set out for Prayaga in search of
through forests, over hills, by towns, and across rivers, yet B hatta Kuniarila, whom be wished to ask to write vartikas
nil the while unconscious of all, and oblivious to the men on his Bhashya, but found th a t he was upon the point of
and beasts th a t went bv him on his way, he arrived a t the self-cremation in disgust with th e world. Vainly en tre a ­
cave in a hill on the banks of tbe Nerbudda., where (!o- ting him to reconsider his determination, S an kara never­
vind Val.i had fixed his hermitage. After the usual pre­ theless was perm itted to explain his commentaries, which
liminaries the sage accepted the lad as a pupil and taught, Kuniarila praised u n s tin tin g ly ; and after the latter had
him th e Bralmia out. of the four great sentences.— Know­ accomplished his act of self-immolation, proceeded on to
ledge is ISrahma ; This soul is B ra h m a ; Tl ion art t h a t ; Mahislimati, the city where, as Kuniarila had informed him,
and I am Brahma t1**. it is related by Madhav that, im­ he would find Mandana Misra who would u ndertak e the
mediately after he had entered upon this disciplcship, work Sankara had requested him to perform. Arrived at
Sankara performed,— one day, when bis guru was im m er­ the place, he was directed to the sage’s house by parrots
sed in contemplation, or, a.s we should say d l u m t n a ,— miraculously endowed with human speech and able ta
the prodigy of quelling a furious tem pest of rain accom­ discuss most recondite questions of philosophy! H e found
panied by awful th u n d e r and lightning, by pronouncing the house but found it closed, so th a t to obtain entrance
certain mystic verses. Hearing, upon let,inning to cons­ he had to raise himself up into the air and alight, a devs ex
ciousness of external things, what his illustrious pupil umclnna, in M andana’s hall. An anim ated and, at first,
had done (iovind N atlia was overjoyed, as this very event, even acrimonious discussion ensued lietween the host, and
bad been foretold to him by Vyasa a t a sacrifice his unexpected and unwelcome guest, the two finally de­
celebrated, long before, by th e sage Alri. Bestowing ciding to make the wife of Mandana Misra, um pire between
his benediction upon Sankara, he hade him go to Holy them. But she, having other m atters to a ttend to, gave each
Benares and receive there the blessing of the Deity. a garland, stipulating th a t he should be deemed vanquished
'(in tliy "lm i"iix work. whose garland withered. I will not a tte m p t in such time
'J liun enter, a ml l«j;iii to save m.’iiikinit (0. and space as I now command, to even epitomise this wonder­
T h us admonished, Sa n k ara proceeded to Benares where, ful debate, b u t refer the reader to Madhav (V III. 34) for
niter a resilience Ibr some time, he is said to have received particulars, adding th a t they will richly repay study, Sankara
his tirst pupil. Sanandaiia— the same who afterwards be­ won, and in winning, u nd er the terms of the debate, claimed
came celebrated as his greatest favorite u nder th e title of his antagonist as a disciple and required him to abandon
Pailmapailn. I confess to a doubt, of the accuracy of this th e domest ic life and become an ascetic. 1le consented, anil
date, though I quote the circumstance from Madhav’s hook, the wife— who was an incarnation of Sarasvati, as we arc
for if docs seem impossible that Sankara should have be­ told— started for the other world. But before she had
gun to get pupils a t such a very tender age a.s, upon Ma- quite departed she. was prevailed upon by S ank ara to tarry
tlhav’s own showing, lie must have reached a t the time?. while lit; should hold debate with her also. Then com­
However, be this a.s it may, Padm apada was duly enrolled menced the second discussion, b u t the ready answers of
a.s a disciple at Benares, and there most of the others also the former to all questions put to him foiled Sarasvati,
joined him. as she may how be called, until she struck into a path to
In his twelfth year S ankara removed to Badari, on the which Sa n k a ra was a total stranger. Sh e nxhed h im a
lxinks of the Oangcs, where he composed his masterpiece, question oil the science o f love. H e was, of course, unable
the commentary on the Brahma Sutras. H e re also, he ; to answer it at once, being a Sanmyasi and a celibate all
wrote the commentary on the Upnnishnds, on the Bliaga- his life ; so he craved a, respite of one month, which being
vadgita, on the IJrisiniliatApaniva (so called by Madhav), granted, he left Mahislimati. Tho sequel will be told in
and 011 the Saiiatsujaliya, besides ol,her works. H e then my next paper.
taught, his-great commentary to his numerous pupils, but
always reserving his greatest powers of instruction for In spite of the " a rbitrary scepticism" of the largo m a­
(1) M n d lm v V . OP.
jo rity of the medical profession, the most, satisfactory re­
(2) M ndlru’ V. 87. None of Madliav'* detail* nro l»» l*c found in Anan- sults are daily obtained in the hospitals by the external
dnj;iri, wl.i’ro wi' have In it two lines on lliis «ul»joct idtnpcllicr, )• 17. application of metals. Symptom s of the most curious na­
Tl... ..ri^ii.i.ls nro H f lR 3 * ^ || || cT m K T |l ture develop under their iniluence, and give rise to inter­
esting discussions in medical circles.
II
(4) Mndlmv V. 53-01,
 [Truuslateil for the T iieosoihiibt.] ping an old m an to pieces with his sword. I was exces­
T H E PHANTOM DOG * sively shocked a t such a display of useless ferocity, and
hurried forward to stop him. But, beforo I had reached
A n authentic story by a Russian officer.
him, the door of th e h u t flew open, and a woman, with a
D u rin g th e last war in Turkey, a small b u t very mixed cry which made m y blood ru n cold, rushed out of it, and
company were assembled, on a Christm as eve, in tho flung herself upon the corpse of the old man. A t this
ap artm ents occupied by Colonel Y ...in one of the best sight N e dew itchef sprang backward as if he h ad been
hotels of Bucharest. A m ong others, th e re were present the shothimself.and trem bled violently. I looked a t th e woman
correspondents of th e iVeu’-Foc/b H erald, London Tim es, and could hardly suppress a cry of surprise. Heavens,
the Oolos, and the B erjevvi V je d o m o sti; Colonel N. ; a what a gorgeous beauty was there ' W ith her lovely face,
c a p ta in ; and the P resident of the Society of th e Red-Cross, ale as death itself, uplifted toward us, her magnificent
the well known P — f. T he only lady was th e wife of lack eyes, full of nameless terror and mortal hatred were
Colonel V ..., our host, who was busy a t th e large round phosphorescent, flaming like two burning coals as she
table around which we were all seated, pouring o u t tea. fixed thom upon ns. N edew itchef stared a t her like one
W e had all become very m erry and congenial. All felt fascinated, and it was with an effort that, coming out of
in th e best of humours, and each vied w ith the o th e r in his stupor, he mechanically gave tho orders to b e a t the
telling interesting stories. Alone poor M ac-Gahan and rappel in order to p u t an end to useless bloodshed. I did
Lytton, th e correspondents, respectively, of tho American not seo N edew itchef for several days after th a t a c c i d e n t;
and English papers, did not seem to share in th e general and only learned accidentally from his orderly t h a t th e
hilarity ; a circumstance which attracted a tte n tio n to them. same young woman, two days later, had come to his tent,
“ W h a t’s the m a tte r with you, Lytton ?” asked Colonel V. had thrown herself a t his feet, and pouring h er whole soul
“ N othing,” answered th e correspondent, thoughtfully, i n t o her tale, hail confessed an a rd e nt love for him. She
" I was th in k in g about home, and try in g to see w hat they declared that, according to th e Circassian custom, his
were doing now.” courage had m ade her his slave, and th a t she w anted to
" One may speculate with perfect security ”— rem arked be his wife........ H is envious friends had added much more
Mac-Gahan, “ and say th a t the whole family is now assem ­ details which would be useless here. R em em bering well
bled around th e fire-place, d rinking cider, speaking about her look of hatred, I did not a t first believe, b u t had to
far-away friends in India, or talking of g h o sts ...” yield a t last to th e evidence.
“ You dont mean to say th a t in E n g la n d th e y believe “ After the submission of the rebellious aoill, th e com­
till now in ghosts ?” enquired Mine. V. mander-in-chief encamped us a t the foot of the m ountain
" The m ajority do not,” replied L ytton “ bu t there are n in its neighbourhood, so th a t we should command th e g reat
good many who do, and a m u ltitu d e who claim to have Hhemaha highway. W e had to camp there quite a consi­
seen ghosts themselves. There are also such as have not derable length of time, and having nothing else to do we
themselves seen yet who believe all tho s a m e ...” could easily occupy our days with picnics, rides, and h u n t ­
We were all struck with C aptain L ’s uneasy look and ing. One afternoon, calling my dog, I took a gun and
pallor, as he abruptly left th e table. went out for a stroll in th e wild vineyards. I had no in ­
“ You may say w h a t you like and laugh a t such notions,” tention to hunt, b u t simply to take a walk and watch the
he remarked. “ As for myself, I cannot deny th e exist­ splendid sunset from th e th e top of Ali-Dag. My path
ence of ‘ ghosts,'— as you call them. I, myself, was b u t a ran through the most lovely scenery, along a thick dou ­
few m onths ago, an eye-witness to a case which will never ble alley of mimosas, white accacia, aud oth er trees, e n ­
be obliterated from my memory. This u pset all my p re ­ twined with vines, h u n g thickly with bunches of grapes,
vious theories..." and chestn ut frees with th eir large crowns of leaves in te r­
Yielding to our curiosity, th o u g h very unwillingly, the mingled with fruit. Tho whole m ountain slope was cover­
bravo Captain told th a t which he wrote down him self for ed with blooming bushes and flowers, which grew iu rich
me a few days after, and which I now publish with his profusion and spread themselves like a carpet. ^
consent. “ T he air was balmy, heavy with scents, and still, except'
ing the incessant buzzing of the bees ; not a breath of wind
" D uring th e war in the Caucasus, I was serving in one disturbed one single leaf, and nature itself seemed slum ber­
of the regim ents sen t against tho mountaineers. A t t h a t ing. N o t a h u m a n step, not even th e sound of a far-away
time, a young officer, from th e Im perial guard, named voice ; so th a t I w:is finally overpowered by a hallucination
Nedewitchef, was transferred into our regiment. The which made m e dream I was walking upon a deserted
young man was rem arkably handsome, w ith th e figure of a island__
Hercules, and would have soon became a general favourite “ H a v in g gone about two or three miles by a narrow path
were it not for his shyness and extraordinary misanthropy. which wound up to th e m ountain top, I entered a small
Sulky and unsocial in disposition, his only affection seemed thick et drowned in sunlight, and burning like a jewel set
to b e'centred on an enormous black dog w ith a white star with gold, rubies and diamonds. U n d e r a group of tall trees
upon its forehead, which he called Caro. Once our regi­ lying lazily on a patch of green moss, I saw N e d e w itc h ef;
m ent had to move against an aoill (Circassian village) th a t the black-eyed beauty was sitting near him, playing with
was in full revolt. T he Circassians defended th e ir posi­ his hair, ami, asleep a t the feet of his master, was the faith­
tions with desperate bravery, b u t as we had on our side ful dog. Unwilling to break their lite-u-ietc, I passed u n ­
the advantage of twice th eir num bers wo disposed of th em perceived by them and began climbing hig her up. W hile
very easily. T he soldiers driven to blind frenzy by th e crossing with difficulty a thick vineyard, I suddenly came
stubborn defence of the enemy, killed every one they met, upon three Circassians, who, perceiving me, rapidly dis­
giving q u a rte r n either to old m en nor children. N e d e ­ appeared, though not quickly enough to prevent my seeing
witchef commanded a company and was in front of every­ th a t they were armed to th e teeth. Supposing them to Vie
body. N e a r a suldy (a m ud hut) I happened to m eet him runaways from the conquered aouls, I passed on without
face to face—and I felt th un derstru ck I H is handsome, paying them much attention, t 'harmed by the splendid
magnificent face was all distorted by an expression of b r u ­ evening I wandered a bo ut till night, and returned homo
tal cruelty, his eyes were bloodshot and w andering like very late and tired out. Passing through the camp towards
thoso of maniac in a fit of fury. H e was literally chop­ my tent,, I a t once perceived t h a t something unusual had
happened. Armed horsemen belonging to the General's
* This n arrative has ju st been published in th e oj (Alrtsa. The escort rapidly brushed by me. T he division a d ju ta n t w;is
old nnd brave officer vrho vouches for it and who was au eye-w itness a t two furiously gallopping in my direction. N e a r one of the
of the opcodes of tho stran g e occurrence, is too well known in tho society
circlo» of Titfi* and Odos^a for us to rognrd this as a cock ami hull story. officers’ tents a crowd of people with lanterns and torches
An-1 moreover we have tho nam es of all tho p articip an ts in th e tragical finale had assembled, and tin* evening breeze was bringing th e
W hatever olso an incrcdulotiH public in tv think, C aptain L. a t le a s t—u highly
respoctod ofticer—gave th e sto ry a t Un«f»arest as a fact, an d wo p rin t it on hum of anim ated Voices. Curious to know w hat had
•ccouut of its valuo us a con trib ution c # t h o lite ra tu re of Psychology. (t\l.) happened, and su rm ou ntin g my fatigue 1 went straight
to th e crowd. I had hardly approached it when I saw begin pacing u p and down w ith an air of perfect innocence.
th a t it was N cdcw itchef’s tent, and a horrid presenti­ T he soldiers began circulating th e most stupid stories
ment, which s o o n became a fearful reality, got hold of mo about th a t dog. T h e y affirm t h a t it is no living dog, but
a t once. the phantom of ' Caro’ a N ewfoundland th a t had belonged
“ The first object I saw was a mass of hacked and bleeding to an officer of th e ir regiment, W’ho was treacherously kil­
flesh, lying on tlic iron bedstead. I t was N e d e w ilc h e f; he led by some Circassians m any years ago, during th e last
had been literally choppcd to pieces w ith yatagans and Caucasian war with Shamyl.’
daggers. A t the foot of the bed Caro, also bleeding, was " T he last words of the Major brought back to my memory
stretched, looking a t his m a ste r’s rem ains w ith such a th e pictures of th e long forgotten past, and a t th e same
h u m a n expression of pity, despair, and affection mingled, time an uneasy feeling t h a t I could not well define. I could
th a t it b rou gh t a gush of hot tears to my eyes. T h en it not pronounce a word, and remained silent.
was th a t I learned the following : soon after sunset, Caro “ ‘ You heard, I suppose,’ said the Colonel addressing the
furiously barking, ran into the camp and attracted general Major, ' th a t the commander-in-chief has ju s t issued an
attention. I t was immediately rem arked, th a t his muzzle order to shoot th e first sentry found asleep on his post,
was bleeding. The intelligent dog ge ttin g hold of the as .an example for others ?’
soldiers’ coats, seemed to invite th e m to follow him ; which “ ‘ Y es— b u t I confess to a great desire to first try my hand
was im mediately understood, and a party of them sent a t shooting the phantom-dog,— or, whoever represents it.
w ith him u p tho mountain. Caro ran all the tim e be­ I am d eterm ined to expose th e trick ;’ exclaimed th e iras­
fore th e men, showing them th e way, till he b rou gh t them cible Major, who was a skeptic.
a t last to a group of trees where th ey found N e d e w ilc h e f s “ ‘ Well, there is a good opportunity for you,’— p u t in
mangled body. A pool of blood was found a t quite a dis­ the a d ju ta n t— ' I am j u s t going to m ake m y rounds and
tance from th e murdered man, for which no one could examine the posts. W ould you like to come w ith me ?
account, till pieces of coarse clothing disclosed the fact Perhaps we will discover something.’
t h a t Caro had had his battle also with one of th e murderers, “ All readily assented. N o t wishing to p a r t from good
and had come o ut best in the f i g h t ; the latte r accounting company, and being besides devoured with curiosity, I said
also for his bleeding muzzle. The black-eyed beauty had I would go. Major T** carefully loaded his revolver,
disappeared— she w;is revenged. On th e following day and— we started. I t was a glorious night. A silvery vel­
N edew itchef was buried with m ilitary honors, and little by vet moonlight fantastically illuminated th e heights of
little th e sad event was forgotten. Aladgin, towering high above us, and of Kizil-Tapa. An
“ Several of the officers tried to have C a ro ; b u t he unruffled stillness filled th e air. I n both hostile camps all
would live with n o n e : he had got very m uch attached to was quiet. H e re and there t he faint tinkle of a voh jn ka (a
the soldiers, who all doted upon him. Several m onths after kind of primitive guitar), and, nearer, th e mournful cadence
th a t I learned th a t the poor animal got killed in his turn of a soldier’s voice intoning a popular air, hardly broke
by a m ounted Circassian, who blew his brains o u t and,— th e dead stillness of th e n i g h t ; and as wre turned an angle,
disappeared. T he soldiers buried th e dog, and m any there in the m ountain p a th sounds and song abruptly ceased.
were am ong them who slied tears, b u t no one laughed at “ W e passed through a lonely gorge and began m o u n t­
their emotion. A fter Sham yl’s surrender, I left the regi­ ing a steep incline. W e now distinctly saw th e chain
m en t and retu rn ed to St. Petersburg. of sentries on th e picket line. W e k ept to th e bush, in
“ Eighteen years rolled away. T h e present war was the shadow, to escape observ atio n; and, in fact, we a p ­
declared, and I, as an old Caucasian officer well acquainted proached unobserved. Presently, it became too evident tha t
with th e seat of war, was ordered off to Armenia. I a r ­ a sentinel, seated upon a knoll, was asleep. W e had come
rived there in A u gu st and was sent to join m y old regi­ within a hund red paces of him, when suddenly, from be­
ment. T he T urks were in a minority and evidently feel­ hind a bush, darted a huge black dog, with a w hite star
ing afraid, remained idle. W e also had to he inactive on its forehead. O, h o r r o r ! I t v:ax the Caro o f N ed e­
and quietly awaiting for further developments, encamped a t witchef; I positively recognized it. T h e dog rushed up to
Kizil-Tapa, in front of th e Ahulgin heights on which the th e sleeping sentry and tugged violently at his leg. I
T urks had entrenched themselves. T here was no very was following th e scene with intense conccntratiom of a t ­
rigourous discipline observed as yet in the camp. Very tention and a shuddering h e a rt...w h e n a t my very ear
often Mahomedans of th e cavalry were sent to occupy po­ there came the crack of a pistol-shot...I started at th e u n ­
sitions on advanced posts and pickets ; and sleeping sen­ expected explosion.. . Major T — hail fired a t the dog ; at
tries on duty were often reported to th e chiefs. Chi the the same instant tho culprit soldier dropped to th e ground
unfortunate day of August 13th w e lost Kizil-Tapa. After in a heap. We all sprang towards him. The Major was
this unsuccessful battle rigour in discipline reached its tho first to alight from his horse ; b u t he had hardly begun
climax ; the most trilling neglect was often punished to lift the body, when a heart-rending shriek bu rst from
with death. Thus passed some time. After a while I his lips, and he fell senseless upon the corpse.
heard people talking of the mysterious apparition of a dog " The tru th became instantly known; a father had killed
nam ed Caro who was adored by all th e old soldiers. Once his own son. The boy had j u s t joined the regim ent as a
as I went to see our Colonel on business, I heard an officer volunteer, and had been sent out on picket duty. Owing
m entioning Caro, when Major T** addressing an artillery to a terrible mischance he had m e t his death by the hand
m an sternly re m a r k e d : of his own father.
" ‘I t m ust be some trick of th e soldiers’... “ After this tragedy, C a w was seen no more.”
" 'W h a t does all this mean T I asked th e Major, extrem e­
ly interested.
“ ‘ Is it possible th a t you should not have heard the foolish E A S T I N D I A N M A T E R IA M ED ICA,
story told about a dog C aro?’ he asked me, full of sur­ (IN T R O D U C T O R Y ).
prise. And upon receiving m y assuranco th a t I had not,
lh j P a n d it r u n g Gopal, G.G.M.C., F.T.,S',
explained as follows :
" ' Before our disastrous loss of Kizil-Tapa, th e soldi C l'S India, where N a tu r e has been so bounteous, nay, lavish
had been allowed many unpardonable liberties. Very of­ in her gifts, has always presented th e greatest inducements
ten the officers on d u ty had seen th e sentries and patrols to the zealous stu d e n t of her forces, i t was here th a t the
asleep. B u t notw ithstanding all th e ir endeavours, it had first progenitors of the hum an race were m atured physically
hitherto proved impossible to catch any of them ; hardly did ami intellectually. H e re th e intellect of th e h um a n race
an officer on duty appear going the rounds, than an enormous was first n urtured und er the inlluenee of picturesque na­
black dog, with a white star on its forehead, mysteriously tural scenery, and fed on the sight of the multifarious
appeared, no one knew whence, ran toward any careless productions of organic nature ; and here, in the first dawn
sentry, and pulled him by his coat and legs to awaken him. of conscious existence, it began reverentially to a p ­
Of course as soon a.s the man was fairly warned he would prehend the fact of a D iv in # Power, and acquired powers
of expression, language ta k in g form, and sound, and sumption of 3 vikritees, or corruptions of the man, or vital
grace, mid a variety of original deflections and conjugations, force residing in the h um an frame, to which the Aryan
and growing after the lapse of unrecorded ages into those physicians gave the conventional names n( ]>itta (bile), rata
majestic, y e t melodious forms of th o u g h t which bound its (air), and kapha (phlegm) ; to which some add th e blood,
first offspring into a community of divine sym p a th y and a fourth vikritee or transformed force, T he modern reader
created a glorious anil harmonious whole. is therefore at once inclined to reject the theory as well as
In India, therefore, history finds those prim itive grand the descriptions of diseases based on th a t theory, as absurd
conceptions of nature, h e r forms, and all-pervading forces, and w ithout experim ental proof. B ut these descriptions
which her highest form of creation, th e typical man illus­ need not d e te r any s tu d e n t of medicine from following tho
trates in himself. To his remote successor, the modern experience of these writers on the more practical parts of
European, is reserved the mere rem oulding of the vast ex­ the subject; viz., th e ir knowledge of the properties of s u b ­
perience of th e hoary ages into a new struc ture of artificial stances used as remedies, and of special virtue* a ttrib u te d
laws and deductions for the production of new m eans of I by them to certain drugs, which have not hitherto been
earthly comfort, in w hat we now call conventionally, J\’<(- known or found.
tural, or P h y sic a l Science. This phase of the subject has recently attracted some
W ith o u t derogating from the honor ju s tly due to m o­ attention among the medical graduates in Bengal, and
dern discoverers of the laws of m a tte r and motion, or u n ­ s in c e tlie t im e o f D i- s .W i.s e and Ainslic, who first made
dervaluing their deductions, or universal generalisations most creditable a tte m p ts a t investigating the na tu re and
in the different branches of natural or physical science, or value of indigenous drugs used in native practice, l)rs. Ka-
their numerous and trustw orthy observations, conducted naya Lai Deva, and Mohideen Sherecf, of Madras, accom­
in the spirit of truth, no reader of those venerable tomes plished the most laborious and scientific Uisk of identifying
of inspired Aryan teaching, which reveal to us tho pro­ them, and of reducing the numerous synonyms for the
found lore of old Ind ia’s sages, w hether in gram mar, science same materials, which the various languages of In dia af­
or philosophy, can fail to appreciate th e original discoveries ford, to order and precision. We ha ve recently been pre­
of our forefathers, or properly value the crude b u t system a­ sented with a veritable epitome of the whole range of
tized observations of th eir unaided senses. Indian M ateria Medica by a Bengali medical scholar, Dr.
In cannot be denied th a t in th e ir writings are found Oodayu ( 'handra Datta, in a goodly volume in which the
Bucli shrewd generalisations, and such descriptions of such reader can find a carefully classified a rrangem ent of medi­
matter-of-fact phenomena, as every sound intellect m ust cal substances, according to the three principal sources of
appreciate, and cherish as the first finished works of intel­ their production, viz., the mineral, vegetable, and animal
lect and imagination. And, if we give a m om ent’s tho ug ht k in g d o m s; with th e ir Sanscrit names, th eir Bengali or
to those vast extensions of power which our senses have r e ­ I lindi equivalents, and their modern English or current
ceived in these latter days from such wonderful contrivances Latin appellations. Each substance is preceded by a des­
p.s the genius of a Newton, Davoisier, Davy, Faraday, or cription of the part used in practice, and accompanied by
Tyndall has devised, we m ust feel b u t small and humble noted formula; for its administration ; according to the
when confronted with the evidences of th o u g h t and research systematic arran gem ent of L'lialua-datta, the most system ­
which have been bequeathed to posterity by sages and atic therapeutist of old, whose verses are cited in authority.
Beers like Atreya and Agncvesha, or, later on, by L'haraka T he labours of t hese physicians are deserving of our g r a ­
and Dhanwanturi. titude, and have opened to the native practitioner of m e ­
T he writings of these revered men have come to us, dicine in India a wide field of research wherein to cultivate
through the changes and vicissitudes of ages, through s tru g ­ an experience of the active’ properties of native remedies,
gles for the retention of independence and power, through or th e ir physiological action, in graduated as well ils ho-
intellectual mists and chilling frosts, considerably detached, UHeopathic doses, on th e different functions of th e h um an
or m utilated and interpolated for w ant of more genuine body.
guides. T he ir study was gradually neglected for w ant of These authors have sup]died a reliable index to the
encouragement from successive dynasties of cruel or sen­ most, ordinary medical virtues, but it is left to th e future
sual rulers. T h u s the spirit of their teachings came to be investigator to separate their active principles, proximate
misapplied in practice, and th e ir theories m isunderstood in or remote, and furnish to th e practising physician ready
principle. The sources of new currents of th o u g h t were and trustw orthy means to counteract morbid action, or
dried up, and observation was neglected, to th e d e trim e n t meet such indications for relief as may be warranted by
of science as well its art. T he diagnoses of disease became his knowledge of the supposed or proved actions on the
in time a m a tte r of guess-work and uncertainty, aud its healthy hu m an system.
treatm ent empirical, hap-hazard, and dangerous. T he modern practitioner is too much imbued with a
In this dearth of tho professors of science, however, tho m inute acquaintance with the s tru ctu re of t he human organs
nomenclature of diseases with th e ir classes arranged ac­ and with a stereotyped knowledge of their functions iu
cording to th e seat, origin, or nature, was transm ited health (as contrasted with his ideas of the significance of
through successive generations of enfeebled and depressed symptoms produced by proximate or remote causes of dis­
intellects, and practitioners of the a rt were compelled to ease), to be actuated by a pure desire of influencing those
ply it on th e borrowed and indirect testim ony of legendary changes for a return to health by means the most ready,
accounts of supposed, and often fanciful, virtues of drugs or the most active and certain of the desired efVect. In
and their combinations. Such unw orthy followers of Snsh- th e tre a tm e n t of disease th e prevailing dogmas 011 the p a ­
ruta and Charaka being necessarily dwarfed in intellect thology of any particular organ influence him so much that,
and warped in observing powers, were compelled to live in his desire to seem scientific or keep up his reputation
largely on the credulity of their patients, or, by acting in as a man of science, he often clings too scrupulously to the
a measure on their imaginations and prejudices ; a lte rn a te ­ teaching of his school. H e is consequently less iuqiaticnt
ly seeking to kindle hope or excite fear of loss of health to cure by th e simplest or w hat a t all events would seem
and death ; they in th e ir tu rn tru stin g to th e mercy of to be comnion-plaec remedies. But we believe a time will
chance, or to the fancied contrivances of an erring imagi­ come, when such high-class prejudices will give place to a
nation. more matter-of-fact experience, and the practice of r a ­
This state of medical science still prevails am ong the tional medicine will depend on remedies or measures su g ­
Hindus, unhappily to a large extent, and were it not for gested equally by modern pathology, with its n iling Gale­
the establishment of a few schools Ibr medical instruction nical doctrine, s uh/aler causa, toll iter effect us, and by
in India, where the study of physical science is obligatory, the doctrine of 1lahneniann, popularly called Honueo-
would be likely to continue for some tim e to come. puthy, th e sim ilia sim tlll>us ciira ntur, provided only th a t
There is, a t present, no prospect of resuscitating th e the d ru g proposed is proved by experience to be exactly
study of these works, except as a means of health y intel­ homoeopathic of the symptoms of disease.
lectual recreation, as the whole system is bused on an as­ W e feel that we are j u s t beginning to traverse the true
paths of science, and if wo cultivate experience in a. true mous ; monarchs, so much unlike those of the present day,
spirit, th e n w ith fresh advances in our knowledge of the the tyrannical, oppressive, selfish, and debauched— th e m ­
composition o f organic products, and a surer acquaintance selves immortals though mortal beings, where are they ?
with th e physiology of vegetable .secretions, we may be H eroes like L akhm ana, Bliismu, Drona, K a m a and Arjuna,
able to alight on the specific actions of these products as whose very names were th y honour, w hither are they gone ?
influencing individual and isolated forces o f anim al life. W hen will again
O arise sages O like J a n a k a or Bulmikee, '
A nd such results will tend to d e a r e r indications for con­ Veda-Byasa or Mann, Patanjali or G outam a— saints, whose
trolling morbid actions, in the blood or in the; tissues, to a works and deeds have made th e m immortal, like tho
degree commensurate with the different manifestations of Phoenix of old ! T he irresistible scythe of Tim e has
t h a t vital f o r m which feeds the organs and sustains th eir mowed th e m down, withal th y glories and power too.
health y action. The hateful Crescent first forced in its way and did all but
W e do n ot yet, know how, out of m any other pro­ complete thy r u in ........
ducts of our so-called European Alat.eria Mcdicn, the dif­ B u t “ Providence protects th e fallen th e Cross at
ferent classes of vegetable bitters and astringents act, and length took up the Moslem’s pace, and redeemed (Heaven
we aro y e t in tho dark as to the real significance of the willing) the disabled and captive Queen. So M o t h e r ,
actions of w hat are called nervine stim ulants and tonics, despair n o t ! T h e breath th a t once inspired th y la te n t
or, if you will, what are known as nervine sedatives and spirits shall soon revive. A great, aid is come to thee :
depressants. weeping so long in th e wilderness, thy sighs shall now bo
L e a v i n g out of mind other species ol drugs slill credi­ h eard— T he T lln o so i’iirsT shall lead th y sons along.
ted with alterative properties, ami which influence the Such being th e importance of the worthy Jou rn a l and
various or the prim ary centres of the sy m pathetic system its g re at originators,* the Theosophical fttcxefy, there
of nerves, we have; yet to learn in w hat relation to th e arises this “ Strang e Revery” which I have made th e
various dynamical forces of th e . hu m an body these a r ti­ heading of this article. I t is a revery, indeed, b u t neither
ficial classes of remedies stand. unaccountable nor inconsiderate—ra th e r th e issue of
W e shall not, a t this stage of our theme, tire the reader’s a n ie n t deliberation,— to wit, a craving of th e contributor
patience with a consideration of what is assumed 011 h y ­ to have himself enlisted as a Fellow of this g reat body.
potheses drawn from previous experience, as they can best H e seeks thereb y no nam e or fame, before th e public. A
1)0 studied with the help of m any excellent works on the | man of a philanthropic tu rn of mind, b u t in circumstances
subject. W e have merely to ask the indulgence of an a t ­ of life little favourable to th e end, he desires h u t to gratify
te ntive perusal of what we will render from th e original his desire to see him self moving w ithin th e “ Universal
Sansk rit of the classification and properties of substances B rotherhood of H u m a n ity .” H e is not one of those “ dnrk-
described by the Aryan physicians, with the explanation lantern visages” t h a t seeks to shed light b u t upon his own
of th eir actions which modern physiology suggests. path, and cause all around an universal gloom ; b u t one,
W e shall for the present only select the more copious whose soul generates in him an universal love. H e is
and the more reliable branch of th eir researches, viz., the, really of one m ind with the Theosophists on questions of
vegetable Materia Medica, and devote our future ]tapers to theology and sectarianism— or more properly, he is a
a consideration of the subject of the .sensible properties and H i n d u ■ B r a h m i n obeying th e L ib era lism of the Vedas.
app arent uses of Aryan medicinal substances. Thus, he considers him self in no way unfit, and is willing
to follow th e prescribed rules of th e Society. Favored by
such conclusions, and further, emboldened by the express
A STRANOE REVERY. s ta te m e n t in th e last n um ber of the Jo urn al t h a t “ The
Society’s m em bers represent th e most varied nationalities
B y K . P. B.
and races, and were horn and educated in th e most dis­
The query naturally suggesfs itself In any one now ob- : similar creeds and social conditions and also, th a t “ a cer­
serving this “ poor shadow” of the Aryan laud,— Is the Su n tain n u m b e r have scarcely yet acquired any definite belief,
o f I t u l i a ’s (/l»n/ set never to rise again ?— a question that, b u t are in a sta te of expectancy the w riter strengthens
comprehends in abstract all the philosophical, scientific, himself with the hope of success, and wishes th e readers in
and even political interests affecting the country. And general to watch th e progress of affairs with eyes of gene­
yet, how invaluable soever in its n atu re the point he, an rosity and hope.
answ er to it is all h ut impossible. Hope, however, th a t E very m an of A ryan descent should feel pride and re­
darling sup po rter of hum anity, never forsakes while there joice with the fullest h e art over the establishm ent of such
is still life, and makes every loving heart turn sufficiently a mouth-piece, and uphold to th e u tm o s t lim it of his ca­
credulous to fancy a t the last a speedy recovery. H ence— pacity th is only m edium of communication for him with
th e propriety for a native H in d u taking counsel with him ­ all the contem porary advanced nations of both th e East
self : and th e W est. Does not this signalize a most remarkable
Shall, then, our glorious A r y d v a r t a lie always dark ? epoch in the revival of tho A ryan people ? To all who are
No, she c a n n o t ;— she th a t y e t takes pride in having not blind, it most assuredly does. N o hesitation, therefore,
been the earliest q u a rte r of civilization on the globe, th e can th ere be, on th e p a rt of any sensible H in d u to resign
first hotbed of sciences, th e oldest repository of arts, and him self into th e hand s of th e g rea t “ Republic of Consci­
th e most ancient seat of learning and im provements ; the ence,” to enjoy God’s free L ig h t in company w ith those
land whence such as Solon. Pythagoras, Aristotle, A m m o ­ who have made t h a t phrase their peculiar watchword.
nius Saccas and I ’toloiny drew th e ir minds. W h en; was Jet/pore, November 1th.
t h a t wide-famed Republic then, or th a t time-honoured
mistress when thou. Queen of all F a iry Lands, wast already N e x t m onth we will give an account of th e splendid
shining with riches, grandeur, and refinem ent ? A r t not demonstration on th e 20th ult. to commemorate the open­
thou th e original archetype, from which the elder E g yp t ing of th e Theosophical Society's Library. I t was a m e ­
copied h e r peculiar priestcraft ? W as not th y wealth, as it morable event in Bombay.
is to this day, the envy and ambition of th e Dariuses, the
Alexanders, the Antonii and Maximii, as of those who pre­ P le a se v tr ile n o th in g on the face. o f P o s ta l Cards, h i t
ceded th e m even in earlier days \ W hat, then, has made our address.
th e e this day niggard all and worn out, to wail, darkling
* O nr welcome con trib u to r is a R ajput nnd im bued, ap p aren tly , with tlmt
u n d e r demolitions and depredations ? Ah, M o t h h r ! those chivalrous ardor which ever characterized th a t w arrior race. W hile disclaim ­
days of thine aro past, those th y glories lost, and even ing for our journal or Society, all p retence of assum ing th e leadership, or
those brave sons of thine t h a t crowned th y beauty and aspiring to an y th in g moro than a very hum ble p a rt in the g re a t ivork of
Indian national reform , we nevertheless atlirni tho sincerity of o u r motive?,
formed th y greatest pride, are gone— gone for over • Such api! publish w ithout em endation our liro th cr’s words, in th e hope and belief
m ighty princes as lla m a C handra, Y udhistir, Asoka, and th a t Ills nill'1o patriotism will awaken responsive ccbocs aU over Vlio \an<l.
For tho regeneration of In d ia, m ust bo effected by th e efforts of h er own
Bikra-Maditya, kind, benevolent, gen ero us and m a gn ani­ children - Ku. Tiir.os.
 A N OLD LOOK A N D A N E W ONE. honest scientists, who confers their ignorance, and one who
Tlio nineteenth century is tlio century of struggle and strife, proclaims that he has solved every riddle of life, and that nature
p a r excellence ; of religious, political, social, uml philosophical has disclosed to him her last mystery, the public will rarely
conflict. T h o biologists couhl nml would not remain silent hesitate. A s one of Haeckel’s critics remarks, a street quack,
witnesses o f this memorable crisis. Clad from head to foot in with his panacea medicine, will often secure a far more liberal
tho pnuopoly o f exact sciences ; hardened iu buttles against ig ­ and numerous audicuce than an honest mi l cautious physician.
norance, superstition and fidsehood, they rushed to their places A nthropor/cntj lias plunged more minds into a profound ma­
in the ranks of tho fighters and vs those buving authority terialism than any other bool; of which we have knowledge.
began the work of demolition. Even the great, llu x ley was a: one time inclined (see “ Darwin
Hut who destroys ought to rebuild : nnd exact science docs and Haeckel,” l ’op. Science M onihli/ for March 187 i>), moro
nothing of the kind, at least so far as tlio question of the highest I •I"1" ' vns needed, to ,-upport Haeckel’s views, and laud his book,
psychological aspirations of Immunity is concerned. Strange which he called " a milestone indicating the progress of the
to say, yet nevertheless ail incontrovertible fact, the duly has theory of evolution,” a “ real live bool;, full of power nnd
fallen upon the daily augmenting body of Spiritualists, to sweep genius, aud based upon a foundation of practical, original work,
away tho mangled debris of tho warfare, and rebuild from the to which few living men can oiler a parallel.” Whether tho
ruins of the past something more tangible, more unassailable. father of P rotoplasm continues to think m i to this day, is
than (he dreamy doctrines of theology. From the first, Spiri- a matter of little consequence, though wo doubt it. Tho
tualism has fortified its positions by ocular demonstrations, j public, at lea.it, was speedily di.-abused by the combined ett’o rts
slowly but surely replacing fauciful hypothesis and blind faith j of tho greatest minds of Europe.
with a series of phenomena which, when genuine invito tho Jn this famous work of Haeckel’s, not only is man refused a
crucial tests of the most exacting experimentalists'. soul, but mi ancestor is forced upon him, iu the shape of the
It is one of the most curious features of the day, to see sci- formless, gelatinous Ih ith yb iu s J h te c h d is,— the protoplasmic
eneo in her double rule of the aggressor and attacked. Aud root of man— which dwelt in the slime at tlio bottom of the seas
it is a sight, indeed, to follow the steady advance of the columns “ beforo tlio oldest of the fossiliferous rocks were deposited.”
of “ infidelity ” against the strong-holds of tlio Church, simul­ Having transformed himself, in good time into a series of in­
taneously with the pushing hack of materialism towards its last teresting animals— some consisting of but one bowel, nnd others
iutrenehmcnts by the spiritualists, liotli the fundamental doc- of a single noso ( M ono rh iu u e), all evolved out of Professor
trinos of theology, and the cold negations of science, have of Haeckel’s fathomless ingenuity, our genealogical line is led up
late been successfully nssailed by learned aud skilful writers. to, and stops abruptly at the soulless man !
Aud, it can hardly be denied, that there are strong indications We have nothing whatever against tho physical side of the
of wavering on the part o f both the ntlackcd parties, with an theory of evolution, the general theory of which wo thoroughly
evident disposition to capitulate. The Speaker’s Commentary,' accept ourselves ; neither against Haeckel’s worms, fishes, inam-
followed by the. new edition of the revised Bible, giving up as inals, nor, finally, the tailless anthropoid—all of which ho iu-
it despairingly does, tbe hitherto treasured Mosaic miracles, and | troduces to fill up the hiatus between ape aud man— as our
tho recent additions to the party of tlio Spiritualists of more j forefathers. No more do we object to his inventing names for
than of one great man of science, nro impressive facts. Canon | them and coupling them with his own. Wlmt we object to is
Furrar, of Westminister Abbey, destroys lliu old-fashioned be-1 the utter unconcern of the .Jena professor as to the other side
lief in tlio eternity of hell, and the veteran aud learned philo-1 of the theory of evolution : to the evolution of spirit, silently
soplier, Dr. Fichte of (Jermany, dying, all but confesses his be-j developing and asserting itself more and more with every newly
lief iu tho philosophy of Spiritualism! Alas, for tho Philis- j perfected form.
tines of Biology ; tiiis Goliath whom they but put forth as th e ir' W hat wo again object to is that tho ingenuous evolutionist
champion was slain by a singlo medium, aud the spear which | not only purposely neglects, but iu several places actually sneers
seemed as big and strong “ as a weaver’s beam,” has pierced at the iilen of a spiritual evolution, progre.-sing band iu hand
their own sides ! with tho physical, though ho might have done it as seientificnl-
“ T he most recent development of this double conflict is a i ly ns ho did the rest and— moro honestly, l i e would thereby
work which comes j u s t in lime to palliate the evil effects of have missed, perhaps, flic untimely praises of the protoplasmic
nuotlicr ono which preceeded it. We refer to the “ Mechanism of Huxley, but won for bis A n th ro p o g en y the thanks of the public.
Man,” by Mr. Sergeant Cox, following llio ,-l)io Anthropogenic” P er se, tlio theory or evolution is not new, for every cosmo­
of Professor Haeckel. The latter had sown wind ami reaped gony— even the Jewish (lenesis, for him who understands it—■
the whirlwind ; and a furious hurricane it was ato n e time. Tho has it. And Mamt who replaces special creation with periodi­
public luul begun to look up to flic J e n a professor as to n new cal revolutions or Prulcn/us, followed, many thousands of years
saviour from the “ dark superstitious" of llio forefathers. Reac­ ago, the chain of transformation from tho lowest animal lo tho
tion had como. Between the dying infallibility of the Churches, highest— man, even moro comprehensively if less scientifically
the not over-satisfactory results of Spiritualism, ami, for the (in tlio modern senso of the word) than Haeckel. Had tho
average masses, far too deep and philosophical researches of, latter held more lo the spirit of the modern discoveries of bio­
H erbert Spencer, Bain, ami tho great lights of exact Science logy and physiology than to their dead-lcUer and his own theo­
the public was hesitating ami perplexed. Ou tho one hand, it ries, he would have led, perhaps, a new hegira of science sepa­
had a strong, nnd evergrow ing desire to follow a progress that rating itself violently from tho cold materialism of the age. No
went baud in hand with science ; but, not withstanding its lale one— not even the staunchest apostle of Positivism— will deny
conquests, science finds missing links at every step, dreary that the moro we study (lie organisms of the animal world, aud
blanks iu its knowledge, ‘ chasms' on whoso brink its votaries assure ourselves that tho organ of all psychical manifestation is
bhuddcr, fearing to cross. On tho other hand, tho absurdly un­ the nervous system, the more we find the necessity of plunging
justrid icu le cast upon llio believers in phenomena, held hack deeper into tho metaphysical world of psychology, beyond the
the general public from personal investigation. True, the boundary lino hitherto marked for us by the materialists. Tho
Church or rather the “ schoolmen's philosophy,” miscalled Chris­ line of demarcation between the two modes of life of the vege­
tianity, as H uxley has it, was daily olfering to compromise, nnd table and animal worlds is yet terra incognita for every natu­
wiill but a slight effort of diplomacy one might remain within ralist. And no more will any one protest against the scienti­
the fold, while disbelieving even in a personal devil, without fically established truism that intelligence manifests itself in
risking to “ smell of the faggot.” direct proportion with the cerebral development, iu tbe conse­
Hut the spoil was broken ami tho prestige quite gone. For cutive series of the animal world. Following then, the develop­
faith there is no middlu ground. I t must be either completely ment o f ibis system aloue,— from the auiomntie motions pro-
blind, or it will see too much. Like water, it ceases to bo pure | duced by tho simple process of what is called the reflex action
ns soon as tho smallest foreign ingredient is inlroducecd. of the nscidiau mollusk, for instance, the instinctive motions of
T he public is a big child ; cunning yet trusting, diffident nnd the bee, up to the highest order of mauimaliau.s aud ending,
yet credulous. Is it causo for wonder then, that while it hesi­ finally, with man— if wo invariably find an unbroken ratio of
tated botween the conflicting parties, a man like Haeckel, vain steady increase iu cerebral development, hence— a correspond­
nml presumptuous, notwithstanding his great learning, ever ing increaso of reasoning powers, of intelligence,— the deduc­
ready to dogmatize upon problems for tlio solution of which tion becomes irresistible that there must be a spiritual as well
humanity has thirsted for ages, and which no true philosophi­ as a physical evolution.
cal mimi will dare presume to answer conclusively— secured This is tho A. B. C. of physiology. Ami are we to bo told
nt ono timo the greatest attention for his .■in/hrojiogeny i He that there is no fn rth e i development, 110 future evolution for
tween men like Balfour Stewart, Dubois liaymoml, and other . main ? T h a t there is a prospect on earth for the caterpillar lo
become n butterfly, for tho tadpole to develop into n higher berless now avenues— as Ihe result of such n knowlodgo when
form, mid for every bird lo livo after it has rid itscll of its shell, proved— arc opened to us by this nble pioneer ; nnd under his
wliilo for mini, who has cvoluled from the lowest to the highest skilful treatment that hope which was blighted for the moment
puint of physical and menial development on this enrlli, nil . by the brutal band of Positivism, is rekindled in the rentier's
further conscious, sentient, development is to lio nrrested by the brenst, aud death is made to loso its terrors. So confident is
dissolution of his material organization ? T h a t, just as ho lias the author that upon the solution of this enigma— which is
renehed the culminating point, nnd the world of soul begins un­ ono hut to those who will not see—depend (ho most important
folding before bis mind : just, as the nssurnuco of another nnd questions lo humanity, such as disease, old nge, chronic nnd
a better lifo begins dawning upon him ; bis memory, reason, nervous sufferings, mnny of which are now considered as be­
feeling, consciousness, intelligence, and all bis highest aspira­ yond human help, that ho thinks that a perfcct nequninlnnco
tions nro to desert him in one brief moment, and go out into with psychology will he of (hat utmost lielp in treating even
eternal darkness ? Were it so, knowledge, science, life, nnd tho most obstiuato disenses. H e pointedly reminds his render
nil nature itself, would be tbe most idiotic of farces? I f we that,
nrc told th a t such a research does not perlnin to tbe province “ I t seems scarcely credible, b u t it is literally true th at the
of positive sciences, that no exnet nnd nccurato dcducti'ns arc most learned physician cannot tell us by what process any one me­
to lie mado out o f purely mctaphysicnl premisses, then wo will dicine he administers performs its cures ! He can say only th a t
enquire, why should llien deductions, ns hypothetical deduc­ ex|>erieneo lias shown certain efl'eotit as often found to follow the
tions, from purely imaginary dnln, ns iu the case of Haeckel’s exhibition of certain drugs. Hut lie certainly does not know how
Batbybins nnd tailless anthropoid, be accepted ns scientilic those drugs produce those ell'ecls. I t is Btrauge and distressing to
truths, ns 110 such missing link bus ever yet, been found, any observe what irrational prejudices still prevail in all matters con­
nected with the physiology of body and mind, and their mutual
more, limn it has been proved 111:i I. tlio unvcrtebralcd m over, the relationship anil influences, even among persons otherwise well
grand parent of the lovely aw phioxus, or that philosophical informed anti who deem themselves educated. I t is still more strange
recluse— the B athybius, ever existed ? th a t not the least prejudiced nor tbe least instructed in these
But now, peace to the n.-lies of our direct nncestor ! 'l'he subjects are to bo found in tlio profession whose business it is to
venerable l ’rofcssor Virchof, backed l.y nu army of infuriated keep the liumnn machiuc in sound working condition."
naturalists, pnssing like the powerful khamsin, the wind of the Sergeant Cox need scarcely hope to count the practicing
desert, over tho plains of hypothetical speculations, destroyed physicians muting his admirers. His last, remnrk is more ap­
nil our best, hopes for a closer acquaintance with onr noblo re­ plicable to Chinese medicine, whoso practitioners nro paid by
latives of the. slimy ooze. Beginning with liathyhius, whom their pntienls only so long as they preservo their health, nnd
be drngged out of his see-mud— lo show be was not there— the Imve their pay stopped nt Ihe first symptom of disenso in their
Berlin snvnnt evinced no more respect for the Simiae Catarr- pntrons— tlinu iu Europe. I t seems rather the ■*business,”
hinae , (our lail-ble.-sed ancestor) whom be burled back into of tho European doctor to keep tho liumnn machine iu nn u n ­
non-being. IIo went further nnd cru.-hed out of existence sound condition.” H uman suffering is for .European pliysi-
even the bcnutiful tnillcss a pi— the missing link ! So strong einus, ns tho torments of purgnfory tho priest— n porenninl sourco
was tho reaction of thought as to the merits of Haeckel's work, of income.
that it well nigh knocked oil'his legs even the innocent though But Ihe nutlior suggests flint “ tlio cause of this iguornneo of
first cnuse of A nthropogcny— tho grent Chnrles Darwin, him­ the laws of life, of Mental Physiology and of Psychology” is
self. tlint “ they nre not studied ns we study the structure which llint
B u t the mischief is done, aud it requires mighty powerful Lifo moves nnd that Intelligence directs.” H e n.~ks whether
restoratives to bring the ex-ml mi res of Hncckel back to n belief it. hns “ never occurred lo the Physician nnd the Menlnl Philo­
in the human soul. Sergeant Cox’s “ T h e Mechanism of Man : sopher that possibly in tbe laws of life, in Ihe physiology of
A n Answer T o T he Quest ion : W hat Am I ? ” now iu its mind, in Ihe relationship of the conscious Self and the body,
third edition, will remain as one of the most powerful answers more even than iu the structure itself, nrc to bo found tho causes
to the soul-destroying sophistry of Haeckel nnd his like. It of many of Ihe maladies to which that structure is subject.
is quite refreshing to liml that u work upon such an unwelcome Therefore, that in the investigation of thcso laws the secret
subject— to the men of science— n hook which treats of psy­ is to sought of the operation of remedies, rnther tlinu in 1110
chology nnd its phenomena, is so eagerly welcomed by tho edu­ molecular structure where for centuries tho Doctors hnvo been
cated public. In reviewing it, a London weekly very truly exclusively hunting for them with so little success ? ”
remarks that, 11 T h e Scientists have had a cnpilnl limo of it Dr. Win. A. Hammond, of New York, the famous professor
lately ; they have been able lo raise a cloud of doubts about of disen^es of Ihe mind nnd norvous system, experimented for
tbe most serious questions of life ; but they have not been able years with tho celebrated “ Perkins' tmotors.” metal disc?, whoso
to solve one o f the difficulties they raiseil. Into tbe arena which fame nt ono time nearly came to grief, through tho cunning
they occupied few men dared to enter and withstand them, so fraud of nu English speculator. This man. who was making n
that tho boastful cry tho Scientists raised has gone echoing specially of Ihe metallic treatment, was detected in imitating
far nnd wide, that the old foundations of belief iu Immortality the expensive gold, silver, copper, and nickel rings, with rings
were myths, lit for wcaluniiidcd people. Iu Sergeant Cox, of wood painted or gilded. But. t.lio results wero not changed ;
however, the timid believers hnvo found champion able to fight paticnls wore cured ! Now this is n clear case of psychological
the Seieuists with their own weapons : able lo pursue tlio nnd mesmeric power. And Dr. Hammond himself calls it
theories raised by them to their ultimnle conclusions : able to “ nothing more than the pow er o f one m in d over another."
uuuinsk tlio pretentious arrogance of men who would destroy This noted materialist is throughly convinced that if one person
simply liecnuse they ennnot appreciate : men who would pull suggests an idea to another who hns complete fniih in that
down, but cannot build up anything to take the place of the person’s power, the one nctcd upon will experience nil tho sen­
wrecked structure.” B ut wo will now let tho nutlior speak sations tho opernlor niny suggest, to him. H e hns mntlo n num­
for h im s e lf: ber of experiments nnd even published presumably learned papers
“ The Scientists began by denial of the facts and phenomena, upon tlio subject. A nd yet Mesmerism, Spiritualism, nnd occult
not by disproof of them ; by argument <1priori that they cannot be psychologicnl phenomena iu gencrnl, upon the investigation of
anil therefore are n o t That failing, the next step was to discredit
which Sergeant Cox lays the greatest stress, have no bitterer
tbe witnesses. They were not houesl ; if honest they were not
competent ; if competent by general intelligence and experience, iu enemy or more nctive opponent thnt ihe New York celebrity.
the ]>articular instances they were the victims of illusion or delu­ We need only rccnll his dogmatic attitudo in tho ense of Miss
sion. That is the present ]Kisition of the controversy. The asser­ Mollio Fnnclier, of Brooklyn, a respectable young girl who,
tion is still repeated here, with entire confidence, that tho Mechanism nccording to the statement of Dr. Charles E. West, hns lived
of Man is directed aud determined by some intelligent force within without any food for over nino years. T his extraordinary gill
itself ; that tho existence of that force is proved l>y tbe facts and never sleeps— her frequent trances being the only rest sho ob­
phenomena attendant upon the motions of that mechanism iu its
nortnnl nnd its abnormal conditions ; that this force is by tbe same tains : sho rends sealed le tte is a s though the)’ wero open ; des­
evidence proved to be tbe product of som-'hing other than tho mo­ cribes dislant, friends ; though completely blind, perfectly dis­
lecular mechanism of the body ; that this something is an entity criminates colours ; nnd finally, though her right hand is rigidly
distinct from that molecular structure, capable of action beyond drawn up behind her bend, by n permanent paralysis, mnkcs
aud apart from i t ; that this Something is what is called Sour., and cnbroidcry upon canvns, and produces in wax, without having
that this soul lives after it has j>nrted from the body.” taken n lesson in the art, nnd with neither a knowlego ofbotany
T h is subject, that man h u t n soul— which so mnny men of nor even models to copy, flowers of a most marvellously natural
science, especially physicians nnd physiologists deny— is Iren- nppoarnncc. Iu the case of this phenomenal pntient, there nre
teil iu the work under notice with the utmost nbilily. N u m ­ numbers of thoroughly relinblo nnd well cducnted witnesses to
 testily for the genuineness of the phenomeuo. Tim joint te&li- responsible for every calamity nnd inexplicable event, except by
mony of several respectable clergymen, of Professor West, of n few of the above-named pious souls. Least of nil by the men
Mr. I I. l ’arkhurst, the nslronoiner, and of such physicians ns Dr. of science. T h e Christian “ Will of God " in company with the
S|>eir, Ormiston, Kissmn and Mitchell, is on record. With nil Mahomcdnn K ism et nre hnnded over to the emotional Metho­
tliis examined nnd proved, Dr. Ilaminoud, notw ithstanding liis dist nnd the irrepressible Moolah.
personal experience of tlie “ power of mind over mat ter,” had
Ilence, the cause of the figures— if figures there nre— comcs
not a jo t to give th e reporter in explanation of the phenomenon,
within the category of scientific research. Only, iu this case,
hut the words “ humbug !...a clear case of deception ! ...Simply
the latter must be taken in its broadest sense, that which em­
the deception of a hysterical girl, Sir” . . . “ Hut lias the deceived
braces within the nrea of natural sciences psychology, and even
nil these clergymen and physicians, aud for years ? “ inquired metaphysics. Consequently, if this story of tho marvellous
the reporter. boulder should prove something more than n newspaper henx,
“ Oh, that’s nothing, Clergymen nro the most gullible men originating with nil idle reporter, wc will have, perhaps, some
in the world, nnd physicians who have not made n study of comments to offer. We mny then, strengthen our arguments
nervous diseases nre apt to ho imposed upon by thefc girls”... by giving a few sentences from n curious manuscript belong­
(T he A . P. S u n , of Nov. 2 5 th, 1 8 7 8 ). ing to a Fellow of the Theosophical Society in Germany, a
Wo doubt w hether even Sergeant C ox’s able book, though learned mystic, who tells us that the document is already ou
he is President of the Psychological Society of G re at Britain its way to India. I t is a sort of diary, written in those mys­
nud ought to be n competent witness, will make any more im­ tical characters, half ciphers, half alphabet, adopted by tho
pression upon such n mind ns that of the physician llnmmnud
Ro.-icniciuus during the previous two centuries, nud the key
tlinu a hall of snow upon (he rock. And sincc the multitude to which, is now possessed by only a very few mystics. Its
suffers itself to be led by such sciolists as he, this able book author is the famous nnd mysterious Count de St. Germain;
may have to wait another generation before receiving that meed he, who before nnd during the French Revolution puzzled nnd
of appreciation wlm h it merits. A nd yet, no author treating almost terrified every capital of ICurope, nnd some crowned
on psychology 1ms ever built up with more scientific precision Ilends ; nud of whom such n number of weird stories nre told.
or force of argument his proofs of tho existence of a soul iu mini, All comment, now, would be premature. T he bare suggestion
nud its manifestation in the “ mechanism of man.” l ie con­ of thero being anything more mysterious than n blind “ freak ’’
cludes the work with the following remarks : . of nature iu this particular find, is calculnlcd to raise n scorn­
“ Scientists may sneer at Psychology as being visionary .science, ful laugh from every quarter, with the exception, perhaps of
based upon mere assumption and dealing with th at whose very some Spiritualists— nnd their natural allies, the Theosophists.
existence is problematical, lin t its subject m atter is as real us
th a t with which they deal. Even were it not so, the inoiu im- O ur spnee is sennt, so we will make room for another, nnd
]K>rtant it would be Unit the study of it should be pursued, far more extinordinnry story, endorsed by no less a personage
with an honest endeavour to ascertain if the foundation on which than Marshal .Mnc-Mnhon, cx-Presidcnt of the Republic of France,
it is erected be sound nr baseless—tliiit if, after duo investi­ and credited—as in religious duly hound— by some hundred
gation, it lie fonin 1 to bo false, the world may cense from a vain
labor ; but that, if it be proved a tru th, Man may have the bles­ millions of Roman Catholics. Wc admit it the more willingly
sed sissiinince that, us a fact and not merely as a faith, he has j since, had any such story originated with either the Theoso­
a Soul an d inherits un im m ortality.” phists or the Spiritualists, it would have been straightway
ridiculed and set down as a cock-and-bull fable. Hut circum­
Wc wish all such learned authors complelest success in their |
stances alter cases— with the Catholics ; none, however skeptical
noble ctl'orts to bring back humanity to the L igh t of T r u t h — I
at heart, will dare laugh (above his breath) at n story of super­
but we have but little hope for t h e X l X t h century.
natural " m ir a c l e s ” worked by the Madonna and her Snints,
or by Satan and lii.s imps. F or such “ miracles ” the Church
NOCTURNAL TH OUGH TS holds a patent. T he fact lucitly conceded, if not always secretly
believed, by such n tremendous body of Christians for any one to
ON NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS. discredit the power of the devil, even in this age of free thought,
We liegiu with n strange story from the Gainesville E a g le — makes him ranked nt once with the despised infidels. Only
mi American journal :— the Spiritualists and Theosophists have made themselves
“ Some time ago Dr. Stephenson was prospecting the vnst culpable iu the eyes of tho panegyrists of reason, and deserve
hornblende nnd cldoritic slate formation between Gainesville ami to be called “ lunatics” for believing iu phenomena produced by
Jefferson, and found a singular rock on tho land of Mr. P rank H ar­ n a tu ra l causes. Kveu Protestants are warned against pooli-
rison, which he considers one of the most interesting and inex­ |.oohiug the story we here quote ; for they loo, nro bound by
plicable productions of the laws of chemical atlinity. Thu boulder their Calvinistic ami other dogmas tu believe in the power of
of hornblende weighs nearly a ton, is black, and crystalized Satan— a power accorded the Kncmy of Man by the ever inscru­
through it in seams aliout one-eighth of an inch th ick of white
table— “ Will of God.”
quartz ure the figures 1791. They are about four inches long
and placed a t cijtml distances from each other. I t is common A S t a h t i . i n u S t o iiv : M a iis iia l M c M a h o n ’s K tkam ;k
in all plutonic rock to see seams of quartz traverse tho granite, A d v k n tijiii: in Ai.ciuiis,— is the sensational title given to tho
gneiss, hornblende aud other classes of rocks iu various directions, letter of a correspondent, by the C u t / i n l i c M i r r o r ol' Baltimore
from one-eighth of an inch to a foot or more, which sometimes
(Sept. 1«), 187 'J), iu copying it from the N c w - Y o r k l l ’o rh l.
cross each other, but never with tho regularity aud symmetiy of
this. It has not lieen ono thousand years since the Arab invented We print the narrative in full :
our numerals, from 1 to 1 0 , aud we tiud here iu perfect form *‘ Sir- ( >ne day when talking with a well-known man in London, the
the same figures, made by tho laws of chemical affinity on the subject of Spiritualism came up. Referring to the late Kmpcror
oldest rocks, which formed the crust of tho earth countless mil­ Napoleon’s l>elief in the great delusion of the tinv, my friend told me
lions of years before there was a vegetable or auimalin existence." that he was once nt a grand dinner iu l ’aris,at \\ hich many notables
I t mny be n meaningless freuk of nature, nnd it mny be the were present, aud the following incident occurred. A lnem berof the
Imperial Court was telling about Mr. 1 >. I Ionic's exploits at the
freak of a sensational nud not over scrupulous reporter : either Tuilerics; how t h a t in his pichcnce a table wn» caused to lloat from
is possible, nnd :i great cnutiou is certainly required, lieforo we the Hiior to the ceiling with the Kni|ieror seated U[w>n it, aud by no
credit meli an ext inordinary picce of news. Hut what is a visible iBiwer ; and other similar tales. W hen the gentleman had
freak of nature '! T he (•tied of a natural cause ; not even a ; tini.shco, Mai>hitl Mac.Mahon, who was pre.MUit., said, ‘That reminds
“ frenk ” cnu happen otherwise. A nd yet, when this eniise is me of an experience of mine,’ which was as follows : ‘ It was wliou I
evident who ever presumes to go nny deeper into its origiuntiou ? was a sub-otlieer in Algiers th a t the a Hair J am about to speak of took
Not the scientists; for these generally lenve the prior causes to Inkc place. Tho men of my command were mostly natives, and we hail been
much troubled by the large number of deaths ami mysterious tli.-jij*-
care of themselves. Some superstitious souls nud the Christians iiearances which bad taken place among them, and we hail taken great
might ntlribute tho mysterious figures to some occult nnd even pains to find out t lie causes, but were unable to do so. 1 bad under­
a most intelligent cause. Some mny see n connection between stood that the men were given to the practice of necromancy and the
them nnd the French revolution ; others with the finger of (Sod worship of strange gods. Indeed, 1 had myself seen many remarkable
Himself, who traced them for some unfiithonmble reason, to seek feats performed by them, and it was therefore no great surprise to mu
to penetinto which would ho a sacrilege. Hut now, times nnd when an old sergeant, who had heard me express my intention to
nien are changed. Tho strong-hacked, convenient maid-of-r.ll- ferret out the mysteries, came to me nnd. iu a timid manner, sugges­
ted th a t it was generally believed by the soldiers that a certain corpo­
work called ‘"Will of G o d ” and “ Providence,” upon which ral could tell more about them than any one else ifhucho.se. This
these amiable and unconscious blasphemers (regarded as very corporal I had noticed as rt man who did his duty |iei fectly, b u t had
pious Christians) pile all the garbage nud evils of imperfect little or nothing to say to any one, aud always went about alone, li e
nature— lms « timo of |cst. T he All-Perfect is no more held was from the interior of Africa, tall, gaunt, with long, clear-cut fea-
 lures of remarkably .stem expression, nnd tlio most, remarkable eyes I Unlike 1lie Marshal, wc linve something to sny. The Spirilu-
ever beheld. Indeed. it wns not extraordinary tliiit lie should lie said alisfs would mlvnncc a very easy and weli known theory to “ ac­
to have ‘tlio evil eve,’ for if any one ever possessed tlint power it was count” for it, aud flic Thcosophists— though, perhaps, slightly
lie. modifying if, would follow .'•nit. Iiut then, they would have tho
‘ I!eii t on finding out the mysteries. I sent for the col poral, and told
him tliat 1 liad understood lliat lie tonld tell me about them and tliat great body of Itoman Catholics against them. Their theory, or,
lie m ust do it. A t tirst he appeared confused. and began lo m utter to shall wc say, “ infallible dognm" ?— is, if tbe sfory be (rue, tliat
himself, finally saying lie knew nothing about tbe m atter ; but, when 1lie Arab corporal bad fold bis sonl to the Fa Iher of Evil. Hut,
1 , pu ttin g on my sternest look, told him th a t I knew bo could make though presumably all powerful for mischief, old Nick found
an explanation,and that, unless lie did so, I would have him punished, his match in the leaden charm, or medal of fho Virgin ; nnd,
be drew himself up, and, giving me a long ami penetrating look, said gnashing his teeth bad to fake lo his heels before the presence
th a t being punished would make no difference In him, b u t that, if I
was so anxious to know the mysteries. I must go with him alone to a
of the image of the Queen of Heaven. Well,one theory isasgood
certain place at midnight, when the moon was in the third quarter, if a.s any other when wc come to hypolhe.~cs. But then,— the in-
1 had courage enough to do so wit hout telling an_v one of my object or lidels might ask— why not give a slight exfra ftrclch to that
trip, and that, then he would show me tbe causes of the deaths and divine power, and rid hunianily at once nml for ever of that
disappearances ; otherwise, he would tell me nothing, punish him as elcrr.nl mischief-maker, who, “ as a roaring lion, wnlketh about,
1 m ight. W ith o u t acceding to or refusing his st range request,! dis­ seeking whom lie may devour ” ? Weak is humanity and fal­
missed him. and, pondering on his proposal, I walked towards tlio tering flic steps of man ! W hy not, at one clip, save it from
ir.es*. Tlic place the corporal had mentioned was a clump o f h n l f u
dozen trees, situated about tlirec-i|iiarters of a mile outside of our flic snares of (he devil ; the more so as humanity, if incapable
lines on tho edge of the desert. At lirst, 1 was inclined to think th a t of resisting sueh a power, is weak through no fault of its own,
it was a plot to rob or murder me, and my impulse was to think no but again because it so pleased kind J’rovidence ? Surely, if
more of it ; accordingly. I told tlio officers at the mess, and various a simple leaden amulet has such the virtue of putting to
was the advice I received, some, to go and some not. However, on flight (he devil, how much more ought the blessed Virgin her­
thinking the matter over, I resolved not to appeal afraid to go at any self to do. Especially, since of' hile she has taken to visiting
rule ; so, after having quietly examined the spot to see if there were
in person nnd so often the famous grotto at Lourdes.
any pit-falls or chances for am bush, and finding tin; ground smooth
and solid nnd no chance for approach in any diivclion without dis­ liu t then— dreadful thought !■—how could (lie wicked be scn-
covery, I resolved to go. and. sending for tho cor]Kind, told him my in ­ lenced lo eternal perdition ? W hither could the sinner direct
tention of accepting his proposal. As he turned away, I not iced his his trembling steps, when once that kingdom “ where their
eyes gleam with almost fiendish delight, which was not calculated lo worm dietli not, and the lire is never quenched ” is annexed
reassure me. On the appointed night, I stal led out. with him, and by the IJomish Imperial l?aj of Heaven ? Impassable chasm,
nothing wussaid by either until we reached the spot ; here his manner slinrp horns of a dilemma ! So long as it bears its name, Chris-
suddenly changed, aud. from the subdued and almost servile bearing
of the soldier, became stern and authoritative. Then lie ordered me
linnily c a n n o t get rid of the devil, without, so to sny com­
to remove everything metallic from lny person ; a t this 1 felt sure that mitting a most, dreadful, unthinkable suicide. Some years ago
he had a plan to rob luc, but, as I had gone too far to w ithdraw, and fbe pious and holy Caidinal, F ather V entura de Rauliea e x ­
partly thinking it might be only a pai t, of his performance to require pressed his opinion upon die subject. “ To demonstrate," ho
this, [ accordingly took off my sword, and my purse and witch from says, “ the existence of Satan, is (o ic-csfnblish one of (lie
my pockets, and hung them on a convenient branch, thinking this J tin d a m c n fa l d o g m a s of fho Church, w h ic h serve a s a ba­
would be enough ; but he insisted th a t I m ust remove everything sis f o r ( ’h rixlia n ifi/, and without, which it would bo but a
metallic or all would be in vain. I then took oil'everything except
my underclothing, and said all was gone. A t this he appeared pleased, nam e...” Ami, the Aery Catholic Chevalier Agenor des Mous-
uml stripped himself entirely, then, drawing a circle around himself seaux adds,— Satan is “ the C h ic ! P illa r of F a ith ........ liu t for
on tb e ground, he commanded me that, w hatever should happen, I him, the Saviour, the Crucified, the Redeemer, would be but.
should not venture within it. the most ridiculous of supernumeraries, and Hie Cross ail insult
‘ H e then said lie was prepared and would make everything clear to good seine.” ( Mocurs </ Pratiques des Demons — p. i 0.)
to me provided 1 said nothing and did nothing. Then, naked aH lie
was, standing on llio grass, lie begun a series of incantations, nnd, 1 bus we see lliat. die next and most logical move of flic in­
standing up straight iu fl out of me, ami looking me in the eye, he fallible Church would be lo institute a yearly vote of thanks— a
suddenly became rigid and as suddenly disappeared like a Hash. I e D em n — lo the Devil. 'J his happy thought is not copy­
Until then the moon was shining brightly around, and his form stood righted, and his Holiness is welcome to it.
out clear-cut against llio sky, but as I rubbed my eyes to look, it I he more so, as it seems that again, for some inscrutable nnd
suddenly became dark mid a clap of th u n d er sounded, after which it providential reasons heller known in heaven than comprehended
became clear again, and as it did so a .column of smoke arose from upon earfh, not only (he Devil, but even simple mortals nro
where the man bad stood. This gradually resolved itself, sfrange
to say, into the man himself, but be appeared transfigured ; bis face,
allowed to do (ho deeds of darkness. In tho following horri­
which before was stern, had now become fiendish aud terrible, anil fying (rick, played lately at the above mentioned miracle work­
his eyes flashed lire. As 1 looked, bis gaze transfixed me aud my ing grotto of Lourdes, we find the “ Protectress” utterly incnpablo
hair 1le g a l i to rise. As his look continued 1 heard screams as of agony, of protecting even herself. Wc copy this sad talc of human in­
and his expression suddenly changing to one of terror, lie cried, point­ famy also from our pious contemporary— The Catholic M irror :
ing to my breast, ‘ You have lied.' A s h e said (his there Was Hash
. D k s k c i i a t i o .x a t I.OI IIIIKS,- A very strange story conies to us from
of light with a loud report, and be had again disappeared, and all
was clear moonlight around. As ho had pointed t o m y breast, I f ranee—a story rlifliciilt to credit, but our authority is trustworthy.
involuntarily put my hand up and felt a litt le leaden medal of the All who liavo been to llio m i r a c u l o u s shrine at Lourdes must have
Virgin u n d er my sliirl, which I had quite f o r g o t . t o n when removing been struck by t he number of trophies th a t are the offerings of pious
my clothes. Almost thu.elcr struck with the whole scene, seeing pilgrims, or flint the quick recurring miracles have collected iu the
no man visible aud fearing then an attack, 1 rushed to the tree place. There is a touching appropriateness iu the devotion th a t
where my things were, 1 seized my sword, and was astonished to makes the grateful pilgrim oiler at the shrine the mementoes of his
find it so hot that, I could hardly hold it. Calling aloud the man's disease which the mercy of heaven have rendered useless. All the
name, I ran quickly around (lie clump of trees and looked in vain walls a t Lourdes were bung wilh crutches, aud wooden legs, and
iu every direction for him. The moon was tliou shining brightly, icooden urvut, to which scrolls were attached with dales and names
and any dark figure running or lying down could easily be seen on authenticating the miracles. These trophies, it appears, excited
ti e light sand. Seizing my clothes I hastily pulled them on and the malignity of the unbelievers. 1 1 was a hard thing to scoff a t tho
ran as fust us I could to the barracks. At once I called ou t the guard miracles with such visible testimony of their tru th before the eyes of
and, mounting myself, gave orders to scour the country iu every the world. 'J herefore it was resolved th a t the testimony must be
direction, and bring every one found to me. lint it was all in vain, destroyed. In the dead of the night some miscreants ]>enetrated to
for after horn's searching no traces could bo found of any one, and the slnine, tbe religions trophies were collected in n he,ip and set in
all I had for my pains wns (hat the men, surprised at my sudden Haines. 'I hey were reduced lo ashes. A beautiful rose tree that
appearance and strange orders, simply supposed I hat I hail become sprang from a cleft in the rocks was destroyed by the fire, and the
tem porality insane. 1 said nothing, however, and the next day face of the st,idie of the Virgin wns scorched and blackened by tho
after loll-call the corporal was reported absent. 1 had search quiet­ smoke. I t would lie dillicultin nil history to find a parallel for t l u s
ly made for him for some time, but he has never turned up from dnstnrdly and disgraceful outrage by these “ apostles of reason and
th a t day to this.’ Silence reigned for some time a t th a t table, liberty.”
various dignified heads were scratched and quizzical expressions The “ npostles of reason nnd liberty ” are criminals, nnd ought
assumed. Finally the sileucc was broken by the question, ‘ llow to be punished— ns incendiaries, liut, the majesty of (he Law
do you account for it, M a r s h a l? ’ The Marshal quietly smiled, once vindicated, ought they not, as “ apostles of’ reason ” to be
nnd said, ‘ I don't account for it.' ‘ And .your watch I ' said another
gentleman. ‘All,’ replied the Marshal, ‘ th a t is what I consider the
allowed fo respectfully put a few questions to their judges ?
most remarkable thing. The next day when I went back lo the As, for instance : how is it that “ our blessed Lady of
place I not only found my watch and the remainder of my things, but Lourdes,” so prompt at producing “ miracles ” of tho most,
the corporal's things were also (here, aud tho whole place seemed astounding chnractcr, passively suflcred such an appalling personal
undisturbed.' ’’ E. 1!. outrage ? That wns ju s t the moment to show her power, con­
 found the “ infidels," nnd vindicate her “ miracles.” A better F ro m vl. L. Rawtton, L L D . , M.D., (Ncw-York) “ Circu­
opportunity was never lost. As it is, tlio criminal:) scorch ami lar (Pam phlet) of the N ational Liberal League."
blacken the face o f the statue nml—get away unseorchcd, even From the A u t h o r :— “ Revolution at Baroda” ; and “ Tlie
by the fire of (the Catholic) heaven. Kcally, it was very in­ Forces of the N a tiv e States of India, considered in r e la ­
discreet in our contemporary to publish this story ! Perhaps these tion to the Defence of th e Indian Empire,” by D inshah
“ apostles” were the disciples ami followers of llie Zouave Jacob, Ardeshir Taleyarkhan, Esq.
whoso fame ns a healer is not inferior to that of our Lady of
F ro m B a lvan trao Vinaijek Sluts tree, E sq. :— “ A Free
Lourdes and the miraculous water. Or, it may be, they had
known J . 1». Newton, the celebrated American mesmeric Translation ol' P u tw a rd h a n i Punchang, or P utw ardhani
“ healer,” whose large reception rooms arc always hung, and no Almanack.” : A second copy of this valuable work
less than the walls of the grotto, with “ trophies '’ of his mesmeric has been forwarded to the Governm ent of the U n ite d States
power, “ with crutches, wooden legs, and wooden........arms” (?) of America by Col. Olcott.]
• —no ! not with wooden arms, for this implies previous amputa­ From M artin 1 IW /, Esq., B o m b a y :— " Quarterly R etu rn s
tion of natural arms. And almost lnajncal as arc lliu healin';O o f tlie D epartm ent o f Finance and Commerce.”
O
powers of our respectcd friend Dr. Newton, wo doubt whether F r o m Dr. P a n da ra nij Goi>al, G.G.M.O. T o u r along
he has ever claimed the gift of endowing human beings with the Ganges and J u m n a ” by Lieut. Col. Forrest,(Folio— h a n d ­
the extraordinary peculiarity of a cray-lirh— i.e. of having a somely illustrated); “ E c c e H o m o ” ; “ Eden and H eaven,” by
new arm lo grow out of an amputated stump, as seems lo have M. L. Charlesworth ; “ lvusa Ja takaya, a Buddhistic Legend,
been the case at Lourdes,— according to the C atholic M irror. from the Sinhalese of Alagiyavauna Moliotalla,” by T h o ­
But it is not alone ihe wondrous “ grotto” that proved pow­ mas Steele, C.C.S. ; “ Last days in England of R am m ohu n
erless before the destructive clement. T h e lightning (of God ?) R o y ; ” “ Low on the Sim ple Bodies of Chemistry.”
thowed itself no more a respecter of the hom e o f God and holy
F ro m liabu Kedar N a th D ull, (Calcutta) :— “ Sri Krishna
tdirines than those firebolti, tho “ apostles of reason aud liber­
S a n h ita ”— a ( !ommentary upon the different phases of Aryan
ty.” T h e number of churches, ramp-meeting tents, Inberuucles
nnd altars destroyed, during these last two years, by hurricane religious belief, chiefly upon the creed of the Vaishnaiva.s.
and lightning, in Europe and America, is appalling. And now :— From B abu R a je n d r a N a th Dutt, (Calcutta) :— “ B h a r a ­
tiya Granthavala,” being a description of tho works of A n ­
‘‘The famous sanetuaryof Madonna de Vuhnala, situated in the val­
ley of tho (M ine name iu Switzerland, was struck by lightning o n .Sun­
cient India, th eir date and a brief com m entary thereupon.
day, August 2 -1, whilst tbe priest was saying Mass at the altar. Six From l)r. J . Gcrson Da C v n h a (Bombay), M.R.C.S.
people were struck down by tho fatal lluid, one of whom, a little girl & L.M. Eng., L.lt.C.P. Ivlin: Member of tins C om m ittee
who was kneeling near her parents, was killed tm the s p o t , and the of M anagement of the Bombay Branch of the Royal
others are injured beyond hope of recovery. Several |>ersons who j
were near the door had the soles of their shoes t o r n oH.” (Catholic Asiatic Society, iVc. \ c . :— “ Memoir on the Tooth Relic of
Mirror, Sept. With.) C e y lo n ; ” “ History id '('h a u l and Bassein.”
Dear, dear ! Tho little girl killed while kneeling in prayer,
F rom Miss. M. J . B. H u m e :— “ Obscure T exts Illu s tra ­
must have been a very wicked child,— perhaps the daughter of te d ” ; “ Mohammed and M ohammedanism” ; “ T he Apocry­
nu “ apostle of reason,’' — and nil ihe rest “ sinners.” T ruly phal G o sp e ls ;” “ Questions, to which answers arc R espect­
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