Herbert L. Courtney.
Cambridge, November, 1887.
[Editor’s Note.—In reference to the supposed “slighting remark” of which Dr. Lewins speaks, and the no less supposed “hostile notice,” as Mr. Herbert L. Courtney puts it—contained in our September number—we demur to the accusation. Both gentlemen will find it, however, fully answered in the “Literary Jottings” of this number; where, also, their respective pamphlets “Auto-Centricism,” “Humanism versus Theism,” and “The New Gospel of Hylo-Idealism”—are amply noticed by the “Adversary.”]
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.
A Correspondent from New York writes:
.... “The Editors of Lucifer would confer a great benefit on those who are attracted to the movement which they advocate, if they would state:
“(1.) Whether a would-be-theosophist-occultist is required to abandon his worldly ties and duties such as family affection, love of parents, wife, children, friends, etc.?
“I ask this question because it is rumoured here that some theosophical publications have so stated, and would wish to know whether such a sine quâ non condition really exists in your Rules? The same, however, is found in the New Testament. ‘He that loveth father or mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me, etc., etc.,’ is said in Matthew (x. 37). Do the Masters of Theosophy demand as much?
“Yours in the Search of Light,