From the Editor of Borderland:[1] There is no subject in the whole range of occult science more mysterious than that which the ancients described in their treatises of the Incubus and the Succuba. Defoe, in his treatise on the Natural History of the Devil, accepted the mediaeval doctrine as substantially correct, fastening all the phenomena […]
Source [1] Mr. Gerald Massey, in a letter to the Medium and Daybreak, gives an account of his historical researches, from which we make the following extract:— “The Christian cult did not commence with our Canonical Gospels, nor with a personal founder supposed to be therein portrayed. “The Jehoshua of the Talmud was undoubtedly […]
F. HARTMANN AND MASTER’S SEAL[1] Dear Judge:—My attention has been called to an article in the Lotus Bleu (June) in which it is said that the letters of Mahâtmâ Μ. used to bear no seal at the time of H.P.B. If any one will look at page 25 of my Report of Observations, he will […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] The latest slogan of the “London Society for Psychic Research” shows the excesses that the urge to satisfy scientific curiosity can lead to. According to it, everyone should choose a motto or saying from any book and send it sealed and numbered to the secretary of the society. After […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] Theosophy in scholarly circles.—The fact that even the greatest learning does not necessarily atrophy the soul, provided that the spark of divine knowledge is not extinguished within it, is proven by the life and thought of the recently deceased famous anatomist Josef Hyrtl. He said the following, verbatim: […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] It has not been long since that triad of malice, stupidity and megalomania, formerly known as the “devil,” appeared under the mask of religion and introduced [to the world] the Inquisition and heresy trials. Hundreds of thousands of people fell victim to this monster in a short space of […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[i] The attempt by a certain party to convert the “Theosophical Society” into an orthodox Brahmin sect and to introduce certain articles of faith into it has, as was to be expected, ended in a miserable fiasco for this party; for at the convention of theosophical societies held in Boston […]
Translation by Robert Hutwohl[1] Cagliostro is not identical with Josef Balsamo. The “Occult Review” (London) recently published a detailed article about this. The deliberate mixing of Cagliostro with the vagabond Balsamo is the work of a notorious blackmailer of the time named Thevenau de Maraude [R.H.—Charles Théveneau de Morande], who invented his slanders on behalf […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[i] What is Theosophy? “Theosophy” is a much abused word, which, like the words “religion,” “morals,” and “science,” is liable to be misunderstood and misapplied, and to serve as a cloak for things which are not theosophical. All existence is relative, and therefore “theosophy” to him who deals with what […]
Translated from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] The greatest riddle which man has to solve is man himself, and among the many human phenomena which we encounter in life, we find from time to time those whose essence appears so completely different from that of the rest, that we must describe them as particularly puzzling. […]