A series of notes of all the discussions has been started in the form of a printed leaflet, to be distributed each month among all the members to be found in the United States, with the object of solidifying them in their struggle to find the truth, and if possible to procure an interchange of questions and replies in the whole body of American Theosophists. It is believed that this will do much toward helping all, for there is no better way of getting new ideas and of spreading knowledge, than by rubbing minds together, so to say, and thus eliciting the doubts, the questions, and the views of all.
As we are a universal Brotherhood, we are each bound to help the rest, and to do as much as we can toward communicating with each other upon the subject of our studies. This does not mean that any one is to give to the world any rare knowledge which ought to be hidden. It is supposed that up to this time the whole body of American Theosophists is upon one plane. At any rate, those who possess occult knowledge, or think they do, ought to know where and when to keep silent. Long before we are ready for occult knowledge, we have to study that which is the common property of all, but which hitherto has been neglected and allowed to lie hidden, not only in Eastern literature, but also in much that has been produced among Christian people.
The donations of books for the Library of the Branch, during the last month, have been as follows:
By S. C. & L. M. Gould: Vol. I. and II. Notes and Queries; by Bro. R. Hart, 10 books: Mary Jane (spiritist inquiry), Suicide, 2 vols., Lights and Shades of Spiritualism, Psychography (Oxon), Animal Magnetism, &c., England and Islam, Vocal Culture, Civil Polity of the U. S.; by Bro. W. H. Dannat, London Lodge, 20 books: Modern Magic, Book of Mediums, Infinite and Finite, Idyll of White Lotos, Possibility of not Dying, Col. Olcott’s Lectures, Palmistry, Essence of Christianity, Mysteries of Astrology, Zoroaster, Rosicrucians (Jennings), Chaldean Magic, Circle of Light, Gould’s Myths, Unseen Universe, Moore’s Epicurean, Oriental Interpreter, Theosophy and the Higher Life, Pagan and Christian Symbolism (Inman), Man-Fragments, &c., and 28 Miscellaneous Theosophical pamphlets.
Cincinnati.—The new Branch here has been organized since our last issue, with about twenty members. Some meetings have been held at which great interest was manifested. At the next meeting an essay upon some theosophical subject will be read. The members are all engaged in serious study of such subjects as: the laws of Karma, Reincarnation, &c.
“As the great universe has no boundary, and the eight quarters of heaven no gateway, so Supreme Reason has no limits.”—Buddha.
“Look up at it; it is higher than you can see! Bore into it; it is deeper than you can penetrate! Look at it as it stands before you; suddenly it is behind you!”—Confucius.
“Looking up, you cannot see the summit of its head; go behind it, you cannot see its back.”—Lau-tze.
“A man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me; the fragrance of these good actions always rebounding to me, the harm of the slanderer’s words returning to him. For as sound belongs to the drum, and shadow to the substance, so in the end, misery will certainly overtake the evil doer.”—Buddha Sutra of 42 sections.
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