A correspondent sends us the following clipping from The Hindu and asks how the “Asrama” is getting on:—

“Dr Franz Hartmann, the Theosophist, intends establishing in Switzerland an Asharam, which will be a place of refuge for persons of either sex free from religious prejudices, but desirous to attain self-knowledge and to learn the mysteries of nature, and spend their time in useful researches.”

By private advices received some six weeks ago, the Theosophist “Convent” on the margin of a mysterious Swiss Lake had not descended from the archetypal world into the realm of gross matter. By the by, some people smile at the idea of a Convent for both sexes, but the fact is that although Dr Hartmann writes English like a native, his conceptions are sometimes tinged with colours reflected from other languages of which he is a master. “Convent” in French is a term used indiscriminately for both sexes, so it might be better to twist around the letter “n” in future and print the word Couvent.

[1] The Theosophist, 1889, v. 10, n. 115, Supplement to The Theosophist, April 1889, p. 69.