The Reviews Reviewed. 



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PSYCHIC AND OCCULT 

 MAGAZINES. 



The TlicosophisI for August contains a lecture 

 delivered by C. Jinarajadiisa at Benares in 1911, on 

 " The Vision of the Spirit," in which he describes the 

 various stages of life evolution, from mineral to vege- 

 table, from vegetable to animal, and from animal to 

 man. This doctrine, he says, " shows Nature as not 

 wasteful and only seemingly cruel, for nothing is lost, 

 and every experience in every form that was destroyed 

 in the process of natural selection is treasured by the 

 life to-da\ .' . ..." In each human being is seen 

 this same principle of an imperishable evolving life." 

 He descrilifs the e.xperiences ot the soul as it passes 

 through the \arious " Visions," to come at last to the 

 " Vision ol the Spirit." " liuddhu, Krishna, and Christ 

 have shown us in their lives something of what that 

 vision is." . . . . " Now for the soul who has come to 

 the end of his climbing, each man is only ' the spirit 

 he workciJ in, not what he did, but what he became.' " 

 Interesting to read in connection with this lecture are 

 two articles in the Tlieosof>hnal Path for August— 

 ■' The .\ntic|uity of Man," by T. Henry ; and "' The 

 Scattering of Races," by T.H. Both deal with the 

 question of Evolution. In the former, T. Henry says 

 that, according. to the recent admissions with regard to 

 the Galley Hill man, to whom Professor Keith assigns 

 an antiquity of at least 170,000 years, if the accepted 

 ideas of evolution are to be maintained, the agexif man 

 must be put immensely far back, as there is no evidence 

 that the man (jf that remote epoch was any more ele- 

 mentary than the man of to-day. Mrs. Besant writes 

 on ■' Investigations into the .Super-Physical." "'A 

 Russian " follows his last month's paper on " The 

 I'erception of Man and Animals " with one on " The 

 I'our-Dimensional World," and explains how it is pos- 

 sible to break through our illusory three-dimensional 

 world and penetrate into the world of four dimensions. 

 An article, written by an experienced Russian educa- 

 tionalist, and translated by Princess (lalitzine, describes 

 the condition of children and edu( ation in Russia. The 

 writer maintains that it is the lack of religious con- 

 sciou.sness in education that is responsible for the 

 great rise in the number of suicides amongst the children 

 of to-day. " The root of the diseases of our young 

 generalii>n lies in the alisence of seriously defined 

 problems ol spiritual culture. This explains the lack 

 of moral development in our children, as well as the 

 absence of equilibrium, because where there are no 

 restraining moral centres, all other centres are also 

 weakened." 



The Thinsophical Path for August contains, besides 

 the two articles named above, an account of Leonardo 

 da Vinci and his works, by C. J. Ryan, who writes of 

 him, not only as a painter, but as a great philosopher 

 and scientist. Far ahead of his time, in one of his 

 manuscripts preserved at Milan there is a note express- 

 ing the opinion that ships could be driven by steam. 

 Leonardo studied the principles of aviation, and tried 



many practical experiments with flying-machines. 

 Other articles are " Theosophy, the Key to Ancient 

 Symbolism," bv H. T, Edge ; " Some Practical Aspects 

 of ■ The Secret Doctrine,' " by " W. L. B." ; " The 

 Immensity of the Universe," by " T." ; " Fear and 

 the Warrior," by R. W. Machellj illustrated by photo 

 graphs of Mr. Machell's two paintings on the subject ; 

 ■■ Your Instinct of Greatness," by Lydia Ross, M.D. 

 The writer finishes this interesting article by declaring 

 that, " If you allow the greatness of your nature to 

 act, it will show itself in your thought and feeling, in 

 your face, in your walk, in your work. Your life, 

 however hidden, will be a strong, silent challenge to the 

 greatness in every fellow-man to come forth and claim 

 its kin. The peace that men seek at any price will 

 freely follow you e\crywhere. Try it ! " 



The International Theosophical Chronicle for August 

 contains, amongst se\eral interesting short papers, 

 one of special interest by a student, entitled " Some 

 Reflections on the Power of Thought." It is well worth 

 reading and remembering. The following quotation 

 gives the keynote to the paper : — " It may seem that 

 what we do, and not what we think, is the more 

 important, yet let us not forget that every action that 

 is performed is preceded by a thought," 



THE DUBLIN REVIEW. 



The July number covers a great range of interest. 

 Oeside the papers separately noticed, the editor dis- 

 cusses Leo XIII, 's bull on Anglican orders. He grants 

 that among Anglicans the Roman movement is 

 checked, yet •' if the time ever comes when the 

 extreme High Church party finds its position in tin 

 Established Church so difficult that it is led to approai h 

 us with a strong wish for reunion, they are likely to be 

 met halfway by general good-will." Mr. Stephen 

 Harding discusses the three great strikes. He favour- 

 the cause of the railway men, but pronounces thi 

 miners' strike an unjustifiable and selfish " corner " 

 in labour, and condemns the London dock strike a-- 

 irrational and wrong. He advocates legislation to 

 make agreements between employers and Trad( 

 Unions legal contracts, with damages as sanction. 

 Canon Barry marks the centenary of " Ideal Ward " 

 by candidly condemning the mistakes he made, whilr 

 eulogising his vision of the Church and method of 

 silencing the sceptic. Mrs. Bellamy Storer writes a 

 poem on the Titanic, in which she says that : — 



The priests lliat prayed 



The wife that slaycii, 



And sinners lirave 



Who liicil lo save. 



Thy (Ic.kI shall arise, 



Savcil by sacrifiic, 

 Throu(;h love of Uixl and of man. 



.\. P. Graves contributes an intcrestini: sludv of (ho 

 preternatural in early Irish poetry, from which excer[)ts 

 aregi\en in Eni;lish translation. M. Leon de Lantsheere 

 exults in the recent Belgian elections as proot ol 

 popular support for Catholic policy. 



