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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



April 1, 1913. 



we cannot forbear to quote some of the 

 verse : — 



Ijord Jesus stood at Paradise Gate 

 And saw a myriad worlds and stars. 



Qih, wha,t is this so desolate 

 Cling-ing to the ^Iden bars? 



Ijord Jesus bowed His comely hea.d 



With: "What a-rt thou, thou thing forlorn?" 

 "Oh, I am a rich man's soul," it said, 



" That died ere I waa born. 



With a great sob she plunged and died. 

 Oh, Lord, what need of hell?" 



" Son, I was there and saw thee died. 



The unstable waters bore Me up 

 Whose hollowed liand can hold the sky, 



Sun, stars, as in a cup. 



"I, Shepherd of the Ocean, passed; 



Gathered My lambs, gathered My sheep: 

 Saw rich men greatly die at last, 



Yea, what they lost they keep. 



" And kno'west Thou not. Lord Cbrist, this hour 

 Who knowest all has been, shall be. 



That the great shiiD, new Babel's Tower, 

 Is sunk beneath the sea? 



" The iceberg pierced her monstrous side. 

 As frail as any cockleshell. 



"That which they cast away they save. 

 They paid their debt in full. One V)reath ; 



Smiled on the innumerable grave. 

 Leaped, and found Life, not Death. 



" Not through the needle's eye may fare 



The camel : by a atraiter gate. 

 Naked and scourged, made clean and bare, 



The rich man enters late." 



THEOSOPHICAL MAGAZINES. 



Writing m the Theosophist on the 

 first period of H. P. Blavatsky's life, 

 Madame Pissareff says H. P. B.'s life 

 can be divided into three well-defined 

 periods : Childhood and youth to her 

 marriage (1831 to 1848); 1848 up to 

 1872 made up the mysterious years 

 about which hardly any definite infor- 

 mation can be had. The third period 

 lasted from 1872 till her death, and was 

 spent in America and India and in 

 Europe among many witnesses who 

 knew her well. As a child she was very 

 clairvoyant, and in Nature saw a 

 " mysterious " life of its own ; she often 

 conversed with birds and animals. 

 Marguerite Pollard wTites on " Theoso- 

 phical Ideas in Contemporary Poetry," 

 and devotes the greater part of her 

 article to comparing the mysticism of 

 Yeats and A. E. (George Russell). 

 Yeats, she says, is more drawn to the 

 occult side of mysticism than A. E., 

 who is essentially a visionary, and 

 identifies himself with the life in 

 Nature. Both have felt the inspiration 

 of the East ; both have succumbed to 

 the magical fascination of ancient Irish 

 legend. Mrs. Besant concludes her 

 paper on " The Bearing of Religious 

 Ideals on Social Re-organisation." 

 Baroness Melina tells of the impression 

 made on her by the Boro-Budur — " the 

 silent ranks of buddhas in meditation 

 facing the massive mountain." 



In the Theosophical Path George 

 ^^'harton James, in his second paper on 

 the Zunis in New Mexico, writes on 



" The Religious and Ceremonial Life of 

 the Zunis." He tells some very interest- 

 ing facts with regard to their devotion 

 to rain-making. The rain-priests are 

 not allowed to do any secular work, but 

 simply pray and fast for rain. Every 

 Zuni believes that when they die they 

 become rain makers. After gathering 

 the ram from the springs of the six 

 regions of the world, it is poured by 

 the ram-makers through the clouds. 

 A very interesting article this month is 

 that by F. J. Dick on " Henri Poincare 

 on Space and Time." Mr. Machell 

 writes on the art of Rodin and F. S. 

 Darrow gives "The Life History of 

 the Soul " as his sixth paper on 

 " Studies in Orphism." 



The Theosophical Chronicle has 

 many interesting papers, amongst them 

 one on " The So-called 'Primitive' Races 

 and Human Evolution," by H. Travers, 

 in which he maintains that to describe 

 certain races as " primitive " or 

 " savage " is, by the light of recent 

 knowledge, proved to be a doubtful 

 rendering, and that those commonly 

 called " primitive," often show every 

 sign of being a race with a long past 

 behinds them, and as races they are in 

 their old age — not infancy. 



The International Psychic Gazette^ 

 which we note has now reached its sixth 

 number, seems to grow in interest each 

 month. It contains this month a paper 

 by Felicia Scatchard on Abdul Baha, in 

 which she relates how she brought Mr. 

 W. T. Stead and Abdul Baha together. 



