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THE EEV. J. J. B. COLES, ON THEOSOPHY. 



and K.H., in The Occult World, by Mr. Sinnett, were the two 

 Masters who founded the Theosophical Society, using Colonel 

 H. S. Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky, both disciples of M, to lay its 

 foundations; and who gave to Mr. Sinnett the materials from 

 which he wrote his famous books — the one named above Esoteric 

 Buddhism — which brought the light of Theosophy to thousands in 

 the West. H. P. Blavatsky has told how she met the Master M. on 

 the bank of the Serpentine, when he visited London in 1851. 



" . . . And there is the ' Venetian ' and the ' Serapis,' who 

 taught Colonel Olcott for awhile, and the one visited in his Nilgiri 

 retreat by Sabba Kao and C. AV. Leadbeater — some eighty miles 

 from Adyar, where he lives secluded. These are some of the 

 Masters, more or less publicly known and to be known more 

 publicly ere the present century is numbered with the past. . . 

 They aid in countless ways the progress of humanity. From the 

 highest sphere they shed down light and life on all the world. . 



"During the present century one of those great crises in the 

 history of humanity will occur, which mark the conception of a new 

 civilisation. He whom in the East men call the Wisdom-Truth, 

 the World-Teacher, and whom in the West men call the Christ, will 

 ere long return incarnate upon earth and move once more among the 

 busy crowds of men. With Him will come several of the Masters,, 

 to aid His work and spread abroad His message." 



We see then, on the authority of Mrs. Besant herself, that the 

 Theosophical Society is being inspired and promoted by superior 

 beings, who are said to be the "Lords of Karma" and "The 

 Shining Ones." 



Is it not clear then, as Dr. Schofield said, that it is now a question 

 of the inspiration of the Word of God, or the inspired teaching of 

 Modern Theosophy 1 



That many educated and thoughtful people among theosophists 

 have been deceived by these inspired communications is indeed a, 

 more terrible indication of the dangerous days in which we are 

 living than any other of the startling " Signs of the Times. " 



Let us express an earnest hope that some, at least, who have been 

 entangled in the meshes of the " Masters " may escape from the 

 snare when once they realise who is the real " Logos " of 

 Theosophy. 



