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My beloved son, Franz,When you read this, I shall have made the greatest sacrifice that your best and only friend and teacher could have accomplished for your fame. He, who loved you most, is now but an inanimate lump of clay. Of your old teacher there now remains but a clod of cold organic matter. I need not prompt you as to what you have to do with it. Fear not stupid prejudices. It is for your future fame that I have made an offering of my body, and you would be guilty of the blackest ingratitude were you now to render useless this sacrifice. When you shall have replaced the chords upon your violin, and these chords a portion of my own self, under your touch it will acquire the power of that accursed sorcerer, all the magic voices of Paganini’s instrument. You will find therein my voice, my sighs and groans, my song of welcome, the prayerful sobs of my infinite and sorrowful sympathy, my love for you. And now, my Franz, fear nobody! Take your instrument with you, and dog the steps of him who filled our lives with bitterness and despair!... Appear in every arena, where, hitherto, he has reigned without a rival, and bravely throw the gauntlet of defiance in his face. O Franz! then only wilt thou hear with what a magic power the full notes of unselfish love will issue forth from thy violin. Perchance, with a last caressing touch of its chords, thou wilt remember that they once formed a portion of thine old teacher, who now embraces and blesses thee for the last time.Samuel

My beloved son, Franz,

When you read this, I shall have made the greatest sacrifice that your best and only friend and teacher could have accomplished for your fame. He, who loved you most, is now but an inanimate lump of clay. Of your old teacher there now remains but a clod of cold organic matter. I need not prompt you as to what you have to do with it. Fear not stupid prejudices. It is for your future fame that I have made an offering of my body, and you would be guilty of the blackest ingratitude were you now to render useless this sacrifice. When you shall have replaced the chords upon your violin, and these chords a portion of my own self, under your touch it will acquire the power of that accursed sorcerer, all the magic voices of Paganini’s instrument. You will find therein my voice, my sighs and groans, my song of welcome, the prayerful sobs of my infinite and sorrowful sympathy, my love for you. And now, my Franz, fear nobody! Take your instrument with you, and dog the steps of him who filled our lives with bitterness and despair!... Appear in every arena, where, hitherto, he has reigned without a rival, and bravely throw the gauntlet of defiance in his face. O Franz! then only wilt thou hear with what a magic power the full notes of unselfish love will issue forth from thy violin. Perchance, with a last caressing touch of its chords, thou wilt remember that they once formed a portion of thine old teacher, who now embraces and blesses thee for the last time.

Samuel

Two burning tears sparkled in the eyes of Franz, but they dried up instantly. Under the fiery rush of passionate hope and pride, the two orbs of the future magician-artist, riveted to the ghastly face of the dead man, shone like the eyes of a demon.

Our pen refuses to describe that which took place on that day, after the legal inquiry was over. As another note, written with the view of satisfying the authorities, had been prudently provided by the loving care of theold teacher, the verdict was, “Suicide from causes unknown;” after this the coroner and the police retired, leaving the bereaved heir alone in the death-room, with the remains of that which had once been a living man.

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Scarcely a fortnight had elapsed from that day, ere the violin had been dusted, and four new, stout strings had been stretched upon it. Franz dared not look at them. He tried to play, but the bow trembled in his hand like a dagger in the grasp of a novice-brigand. He then determined not to try again, until the portentous night should arrive, when he should have a chance of rivaling, nay, of surpassing, Paganini.

The famous violinist had meanwhile left Paris, and was giving a series of triumphant concerts at an old Flemish town in Belgium.

Onenight, as Paganini, surrounded by a crowd of admirers, was sitting in the dining-room of the hotel at which he was staying, a visiting card, with a few words written on it in pencil, was handed to him by a young man with wild and staring eyes.

Fixing upon the intruder a look which few persons could bear, but receiving back a glance as calm and determined as his own, Paganini slightly bowed, and then dryly said:

“Sir, it shall be as you desire. Name the night. I am at your service.”

On the following morning the whole town was startled by the appearance of bills posted at the corner of every street, and bearing the strange notice:

On the night of ... at the Grand Theater of ... andfor the first time, will appear before the public, Franz Stenio, a German violinist, arrived purposely to throw down the gauntlet to the world-famous Paganini and to challenge him to a duel—upon their violins. He purposes to compete with the great “virtuoso” in the execution of the most difficult of his compositions. The famous Paganini has accepted the challenge. Franz Stenio will play, in competition with the unrivaled violinist, the celebrated “Fantaisie Caprice” of the latter, known as “The Witches.”

The effect of the notice was magical. Paganini, who, amid his greatest triumphs, never lost sight of a profitable speculation, doubled the usual price of admission, but still the theater could not hold the crowds that flocked to secure tickets for that memorable performance.

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At last the morning of the concert day dawned, and the “duel” was in everyone’s mouth. Franz Stenio, who, instead of sleeping, had passed the whole long hours of the preceding midnight in walking up and down his room like an encaged panther, had, toward morning, fallen on his bed from mere physical exhaustion. Gradually he passed into a death-like and dreamless slumber. At the gloomy winter dawn he awoke, but finding it too early to rise he fell to sleep again. And then he had a vivid dream—so vivid indeed, so life-like, that from its terrible realism he felt sure that it was a vision rather than a dream.

He had left his violin on a table by his bedside, locked in its case, the key of which never left him. Since he had strung it with those terrible chords he never let it out of his sight for a moment. In accordance with his resolution he had not touched it since his first trial, and his bow had never but once touched the human strings, for he had since always practised on another instrument. But now in his sleep he saw himself looking at the lockedcase. Something in it was attracting his attention, and he found himself incapable of detaching his eyes from it. Suddenly he saw the upper part of the case slowly rising, and, within the chink thus produced, he perceived two small, phosphorescent green eyes—eyes but too familiar to him—fixing themselves on his, lovingly, almost beseechingly. Then a thin, shrill voice, as if issuing from these ghastly orbs—the voice and orbs of Samuel Klaus himself—resounded in Stenio’s horrified ear, and he heard it say:

“Franz, my beloved boy.... Franz, I cannot, no,I cannotseparate myself from ...them!”

And “they” twanged piteously inside the case.

Franz stood speechless, horror-bound. He felt his blood actually freezing, and his hair moving and standing erect on his head....

“It’s but a dream, an empty dream!” he attempted to formulate in his mind.

“I have tried my best, Franzchen.... I have tried my best to sever myself from these accursed strings, without pulling them to pieces ...” pleaded the same shrill, familiar voice. “Wilt thou help me to do so?...”

Another twang, still more prolonged and dismal, resounded within the case, now dragged about the table in every direction, by some interior power, like some living wriggling thing, the twangs becoming sharper and more jerky with every new pull.

It was not for the first time that Stenio heard those sounds. He had often remarked them before—indeed, ever since he had used his master’s viscera as a footstool for his own ambition. But on every occasion a feeling of creeping horror had prevented him frominvestigating their cause, and he had tried to assure himself that the sounds were only a hallucination.

But now he stood face to face with the terrible fact, whether in dream or in reality he knew not, nor did he care, since the hallucination—if hallucination it were—was far more real and vivid than any reality. He tried to speak, to take a step forward; but, as often happens in nightmares, he could neither utter a word nor move a finger.... He felt hopelessly paralyzed.

The pulls and jerks were becoming more desperate with each moment, and at last something inside the case snapped violently. The vision of his Stradivarius, devoid of its magical strings, flashed before his eyes, throwing him into a cold sweat of mute and unspeakable terror.

He made a superhuman effort to rid himself of the incubus that held him spell-bound. But as the last supplicating whisper of the invisible Presence repeated:

“Do, oh, do ... help me to cut myself off——”

Franz sprang to the case with one bound, like an enraged tiger defending its prey, and with one frantic effort breaking the spell.

“Leave the violin alone, you old fiend from hell!” he cried, in hoarse and trembling tones.

He violently shut down the self-raising lid, and while firmly pressing his left hand on it, he seized with the right a piece of rosin from the table and he drew on the leathered-covered top the sign of the six-pointed star—the seal used by King Solomon to bottle up the rebellious djins inside their prisons.

A wail, like the howl of a she-wolf moaning over her dead little ones, came out of the violin-case:

“Thou art ungrateful ... very ungrateful, my Franz!” sobbed the blubbering “spirit-voice.” “But Iforgive ... for I still love thee well. Yet thou canst not shut me in ... boy. Behold!”

“HE VIOLENTLY SHUT DOWN THE SELF-RAISING LID AND DREW ON THE LEATHER-COVERED TOP THE SIGN OF THE SIX-POINTED STAR, THE SEAL OF KING SOLOMON.”

And instantly a grayish mist spread over and covered case and table, and rising upward formed itself first into an indistinct shape. Then it began growing, and as it grew, Franz felt himself gradually enfolded in cold and damp coils, slimy as those of a huge snake. He gave a terrible cry and—awoke; but, strangely enough, not on his bed, but near the table, just as he had dreamed, pressing the violin-case desperately with both his hands.

“It was but a dream, ... after all,” he muttered, still terrified, but relieved of the load on his heaving breast.

With a tremendous effort he composed himself, and unlocked the case to inspect the violin. He found it covered with dust, but otherwise sound and in order, and he suddenly felt himself as cool and determined as ever. Having dusted the instrument he carefully rosined the bow, tightened the strings and tuned them. He even went so far as to try upon it the first notes of the “Witches”; first cautiously and timidly, then using his bow boldly and with full force.

The sound of that loud, solitary note—defiant as the war trumpet of a conqueror, sweet and majestic as the touch of a seraph on his golden harp in the fancy of the faithful—thrilled through the very soul of Franz. It revealed to him a hitherto unsuspected potency in his bow, which ran on in strains that filled the room with the richest swell of melody, unheard by the artist until that night. Commencing in uninterruptedlegatotones, his bow sang to him of sun-bright hope and beauty, of moonlit nights, when the soft and balmy stillnessendowed every blade of grass and all things animate and inanimate with a voice and a song of love. For a few brief moments it was a torrent of melody, the harmony of which, “tuned to soft woe,” was calculated to make mountains weep, had there been any in the room, and to soothe

... even th’ inexorable powers of hell,

the presence of which was undeniably felt in this modest hotel room. Suddenly, the solemnlegatochant, contrary to all laws of harmony, quivered, becamearpeggios, and ended in shrillstaccatos, like the notes of a hyena laugh. The same creeping sensation of terror, as he had before felt, came over him, and Franz threw the bow away. He had recognized the familiar laugh, and would have no more of it. Dressing, he locked the bedeviled violin securely in its case, and, taking it with him to the dining-room, determined to await quietly the hour of trial.

Theterrible hour of the struggle had come, and Stenio was at his post—calm, resolute, almost smiling.

The theater was crowded to suffocation, and there was not even standing room to be got for any amount of hard cash or favoritism. The singular challenge had reached every quarter to which the post could carry it, and gold flowed freely into Paganini’s unfathomable pockets, to an extent almost satisfying even to his insatiate and venal soul.

It was arranged that Paganini should begin. When he appeared upon the stage, the thick walls of the theater shook to their foundations with the applause that greetedhim. He began and ended his famous composition “The Witches” amid a storm of cheers. The shouts of public enthusiasm lasted so long that Franz began to think his turn would never come. When, at last, Paganini, amid the roaring applause of a frantic public, was allowed to retire behind the scenes, his eye fell upon Stenio, who was tuning his violin, and he felt amazed at the serene calmness, the air of assurance, of the unknown German artist.

When Franz approached the footlights, he was received with icy coldness. But for all that, he did not feel in the least disconcerted. He looked very pale, but his thin white lips wore a scornful smile as response to this dumb unwelcome. He was sure of his triumph.

At the first notes of the prelude of “The Witches” a thrill of astonishment passed over the audience. It was Paganini’s touch, and—it was something more. Some—and they were the majority—thought that never, in his best moments of inspiration, had the Italian artist himself, in executing that diabolical composition of his, exhibited such an extraordinary diabolical power. Under the pressure of the long muscular fingers of Franz, the chords shivered like the palpitating intestines of a disemboweled victim under the vivisector’s knife. They moaned melodiously, like a dying child. The large blue eye of the artist, fixed with a satanic expression upon the sounding-board, seemed to summon forth Orpheus himself from the infernal regions, rather than the musical notes supposed to be generated in the depths of the violin. Sounds seemed to transform themselves into objective shapes, thickly and precipitately gathering as at the evocation of a mighty magician, and to be whirling around him, like a host of fantastic, infernal figures, dancing the witches’ “goat dance.” In the empty depthsof the shadowy background of the stage, behind the artist, a nameless phantasmogoria, produced by the concussion of unearthly vibrations, seemed to form pictures of shameless orgies, of the voluptuous hymens of a real witches’ Sabbat.... A collective hallucination took hold of the public. Panting for breath, ghastly, and trickling with the icy perspiration of an inexpressible horror, they sat spell-bound, and unable to break the spell of the music by the slightest motion. They experienced all the illicit enervating delights of the paradise of Mahommed, that come into the disordered fancy of an opium-eating Mussulman, and felt at the same time the abject terror, the agony of one who struggles against an attack ofdelirium tremens.... Many ladies shrieked aloud, others fainted, and strong men gnashed their teeth in a state of utter helplessness.

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Then came thefinale. Thundering uninterrupted applause delayed its beginning, expanding the momentary pause to a duration of almost a quarter of an hour. The bravos were furious, almost hysterical. At last, when after a profound and last bow, Stenio, whose smile was as sardonic as it was triumphant, lifted his bow to attack the famousfinale, his eye fell upon Paganini, who, calmly seated in the manager’s box, had been behind none in zealous applause. The small and piercing black eyes of the Genoese artist were riveted to the Stradivarius in the hands of Franz, but otherwise he seemed quite cool and unconcerned. His rival’s face troubled him for one short instant, but he regained his self-possession and, lifting once more his bow, drew the first note.

Then the public enthusiasm reached its acme, and soon knew no bounds. The listeners heard and sawindeed. The witches’ voices resounded in the air, and beyond all the other voices, one voice was heard—

Discordant, and unlike to human sounds;It seem’d of dogs the bark, of wolves the howl;The doleful screechings of the midnight owl;The hiss of snakes, the hungry lion’s roar;The sounds of billows beating on the shore;The groan of winds among the leafy wood,And burst of thunder from the rending cloud;—’Twas these, all these in one....

The magic bow was drawing forth its last quivering sounds—famous among prodigious musical feats—imitating the precipitate flight of the witches before bright dawn; of the unholy women saturated with the fumes of their nocturnal Saturnalia, when—a strange thing came to pass on the stage. Without the slightest transition, the notes suddenly changed. In their aerial flight of ascension and descent, their melody was unexpectedly altered in character. The sounds became confused, scattered, disconnected ... and then—it seemed from the sounding-board of the violin—came out squeaking, jarring tones, like those of a street Punch, screaming at the top of a senile voice:

“Art thou satisfied, Franz, my boy?... Have not I gloriously kept my promise, eh?”

The spell was broken. Though still unable to realize the whole situation, those who heard the voice and thePunchinello-like tones, were freed, as by enchantment, from the terrible charm under which they had been held. Loud roars of laughter, mocking exclamations of half-anger and half-irritation were now heard from every corner of the vast theater. The musicians in the orchestra, with faces still blanched from weird emotion, were now seen shaking with laughter, and the whole audience rose, like one man, from their seats, unable yetto solve the enigma; they felt, nevertheless, too disgusted, too disposed to laugh to remain one moment longer in the building.

But suddenly the sea of moving heads in the stalls and the pit became once more motionless, and stood petrified as though struck by lightning. What all saw was terrible enough—the handsome though wild face of the young artist suddenly aged, and his graceful, erect figure bent down, as though under the weight of years; but this was nothing to that which some of the most sensitive clearly perceived. Franz Stenio’s person was now entirely enveloped in a semi-transparent mist, cloud-like, creeping with serpentine motion, and gradually tightening round the living form, as though ready to engulf him. And there were those also who discerned in this tall and ominous pillar of smoke a clearly-defined figure, a form showing the unmistakable outlines of a grotesque and grinning, but terribly awful-looking old man, whose viscera were protruding and the ends of the intestines stretched on the violin.

Within this hazy, quivering veil, the violinist was then seen, driving his bow furiously across the human chords, with the contortions of a demoniac, as we see them represented on medieval cathedral paintings!

An indescribable panic swept over the audience, and breaking now, for the last time, through the spell which had again bound them motionless, every living creature in the theater made one mad rush towards the door. It was like the sudden outburst of a dam, a human torrent, roaring amid a shower of discordant notes, idiotic squeakings, prolonged and whining moans, cacophonous cries of frenzy, above which, like the detonations of pistol shots, was heard the consecutive bursting of thefour strings stretched upon the sound-board of that bewitched violin.

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When the theater was emptied of the last man of the audience, the terrified manager rushed on the stage in search of the unfortunate performer. He was found dead and already stiff, behind the footlights, twisted up into the most unnatural of postures, with the “catguts” wound curiously around his neck, and his violin shattered into a thousand fragments....

When it became publicly known that the unfortunate would-be rival of Niccolo Paganini had not left a cent to pay for his funeral or his hotel-bill, the Genoese, his proverbial meanness notwithstanding, settled the hotel-bill and had poor Stenio buried at his own expense.

He claimed, however, in exchange, the fragments of the Stradivarius—as a momento of the strange event.

THE END

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1. To help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and their true position in life.2. To educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of Universal Brotherhood; and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become workers for humanity.3. To ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women, and assist them to a higher life.4. To assist those who are, or have been in prisons, to establish themselves in honorable positions in life.5. To abolish capital punishment.6. To bring about a better understanding between so-called savage and civilized races, by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship between them.7. To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine, war, and other calamities; and, generally, to extend aid, help and comfort to suffering humanity throughout the world.For further information regarding the above Notices, addressKATHERINE TINGLEYInternational Theosophical Headquarters,Point Loma, California

1. To help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling and their true position in life.

2. To educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of Universal Brotherhood; and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become workers for humanity.

3. To ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women, and assist them to a higher life.

4. To assist those who are, or have been in prisons, to establish themselves in honorable positions in life.

5. To abolish capital punishment.

6. To bring about a better understanding between so-called savage and civilized races, by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship between them.

7. To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine, war, and other calamities; and, generally, to extend aid, help and comfort to suffering humanity throughout the world.

For further information regarding the above Notices, address

KATHERINE TINGLEY

International Theosophical Headquarters,

Point Loma, California

Books Recommended to Inquirers

ForcompleteBook Listwrite toThe Theosophical Publishing Co., Point Loma, California

Bhagavad Gita; (W. Q. Judge, Am. Edition) pocket size,Morocco, gilt edges$1.00Red leather.75The pearl of the scriptures of the East.Echoes from the Orient; (W. Q. Judge) cloth.50Paper.2521 valued articles, giving a broad outline of the Theosophical doctrines, written for the newspaper-reading public.Epitome of Theosophical Teachings, An(W. Q. Judge), 40 pages.15Yoga Aphorisms(translated by W. Q. Judge), pocket size, leather.75Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky. 2 vols, royal 8vo, about 1400 pages; cloth; with portrait of the author.New Point Loma Edition with a preface.Postpaid$7.00Key to Theosophy, The; (H. P. Blavatsky).New Point Loma Edition, with Glossary and exhaustive Index. Portraits of H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge.8vo, cloth, 400 pages. Postpaid$2.25A clear exposition of Theosophy in form of question and answer. The book for students.Nightmare Tales(H. P. Blavatsky).Illustrated by R. Machell, R. A.A collection of the weirdest tales ever written down by any mortal. They contain paragraphs of the profoundest mystical philosophy.Cloth.60Paper.35Life at Point Loma, The: Some notes by Katherine Tingley, Leader and Official Head of theUniversal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.15Reprinted from theLos Angeles Post, Dec., 1902.Concentration, Culture of(W. Q. Judge).15Hypnotism: Theosophical views on(40 pages).15Light on the Path; (M. C.) with comments,Bound in black leather.75Embossed paper.25Mysteries of the Heart Doctrine, The.Prepared byKatherine Tingleyand her pupils. Square, 8vo.Cloth$2.00Paper$1.25A Series of 8 Pamphletscomprising the Different Articles in above; paper; each.25Secret Doctrine, The.The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by H. P. Blavatsky.New Point Loma Edition.Two Vols. Royal 8vo., about 1500 pages; cloth. Postage prepaid$10.00To be reprinted from the original edition of 1888, as published byH. P. Blavatsky.Katherine Tingley, Humanity’s friend:A Visit to Katherine Tingley(by John Hubert Greusel);A Study of Râja Yoga at Point Loma(Reprint from the San FranciscoChronicle, January 6th, 1907). The above three comprised in a pamphlet of 50 pages, published by the Woman’s Theosophical Propaganda League, Point Loma.15

Bhagavad Gita; (W. Q. Judge, Am. Edition) pocket size,Morocco, gilt edges$1.00Red leather.75The pearl of the scriptures of the East.

Echoes from the Orient; (W. Q. Judge) cloth.50Paper.25

21 valued articles, giving a broad outline of the Theosophical doctrines, written for the newspaper-reading public.

Epitome of Theosophical Teachings, An(W. Q. Judge), 40 pages.15

Yoga Aphorisms(translated by W. Q. Judge), pocket size, leather.75

Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky. 2 vols, royal 8vo, about 1400 pages; cloth; with portrait of the author.New Point Loma Edition with a preface.Postpaid$7.00

Key to Theosophy, The; (H. P. Blavatsky).New Point Loma Edition, with Glossary and exhaustive Index. Portraits of H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge.8vo, cloth, 400 pages. Postpaid$2.25

A clear exposition of Theosophy in form of question and answer. The book for students.

Nightmare Tales(H. P. Blavatsky).Illustrated by R. Machell, R. A.A collection of the weirdest tales ever written down by any mortal. They contain paragraphs of the profoundest mystical philosophy.Cloth.60Paper.35

Life at Point Loma, The: Some notes by Katherine Tingley, Leader and Official Head of theUniversal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.15Reprinted from theLos Angeles Post, Dec., 1902.

Concentration, Culture of(W. Q. Judge).15

Hypnotism: Theosophical views on(40 pages).15

Light on the Path; (M. C.) with comments,Bound in black leather.75Embossed paper.25

Mysteries of the Heart Doctrine, The.Prepared byKatherine Tingleyand her pupils. Square, 8vo.Cloth$2.00Paper$1.25

A Series of 8 Pamphletscomprising the Different Articles in above; paper; each.25

Secret Doctrine, The.The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by H. P. Blavatsky.New Point Loma Edition.Two Vols. Royal 8vo., about 1500 pages; cloth. Postage prepaid$10.00

To be reprinted from the original edition of 1888, as published byH. P. Blavatsky.

Katherine Tingley, Humanity’s friend:

A Visit to Katherine Tingley(by John Hubert Greusel);

A Study of Râja Yoga at Point Loma(Reprint from the San FranciscoChronicle, January 6th, 1907). The above three comprised in a pamphlet of 50 pages, published by the Woman’s Theosophical Propaganda League, Point Loma.15

Occultism, Studies in

(H. P. Blavatsky). Pocket size, 6 vols., cloth, per set$1.50Vol. 1.Practical Occultism. Occultismvs.the Occult Arts. The Blessing of Publicity.35Vol. 2.Hypnotism. Black Magic in Science, Signs of the Times.35Vol. 3.Psychic and Noetic Action.35Vol. 4.Kosmic Mind. Dual Aspect of Wisdom.35Vol. 5.Esoteric Character of the Gospels.35Vol. 6.Astral Bodies; Constitution of the Inner Man.35

(H. P. Blavatsky). Pocket size, 6 vols., cloth, per set$1.50

The Path Series

Specially Adapted for InquirersAlready published:No. 1. The purpose of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.05No. 2. Theosophy Generally Stated(W. Q. Judge).05No. 3. Mislaid Mysteries(Herbert Coryn, M. D.).05Thirty copies $1.00; one hundred copies $3.00No. 4. Theosophy and Its Counterfeits.05Thirty copies $1.00; one hundred copies $3.00

Specially Adapted for InquirersAlready published:

Theosophical Manuals

Elementary Handbooks for StudentsCloth, Price each.35No. 1. Elementary Theosophy.No. 2. The Seven Principles of Man.No. 3. Karma.No. 4. Reincarnation.No. 5. Man after Death.No. 6. Kâmaloka and Devachan.No. 7. Teachers and Their Disciples.No. 8. The Doctrine of Cycles.No. 9. Psychism, Ghostology, and the Astral Plane.No. 10. The Astral Light.No. 11. Psychometry, Clairvoyance, and Thought-Transference.No. 12. The Angel and the Demon (2 vols., 35c. each)No. 13. The Flame and the Clay.No. 14. On God and Prayer.No. 15. Theosophy: The Mother of Religions.No. 16. From Crypt to Pronaos.An Essay on the Rise and Fall of Dogma.No. 17. Earth.Its Parentage; its Rounds and its Races.No. 18. Sons of the Firemist.A Study of Man.

Elementary Handbooks for Students

These Manuals contain some of the latest thought on the above technical subjects. Each volume is arranged to be complete in itself, though forming a necessary member of the series. It is intended to add others from time to time, to cover most of the technical aspects of Theosophy in a direct and simple way, thus forming a Theosophical library of inestimable value to inquirers. No one interested in Theosophy can afford to do without them.

Lotus Group Literature

LOTUS LIBRARY FOR CHILDREN

Introduced under the direction of Katherine Tingley

1. The Little Builders, and their Voyage to Rangi(R. N.).502. The Coming of the King(Machell); cloth, gilt edges.35Lotus Song Book.Fifty original songs with copyrighted music; boards.50Lotus Song—“The Sun Temple” with music.15

New Century Series

The Pith and Marrow of Some Sacred Writings.Ten Pamphlets, issued serially; Scripts, each.25Subscription, for the set$1.50Already published:Script 1.Contents: The Relation of Universal Brotherhood to Christianity—No Man Can Serve Two Masters—In this Place is a Greater ThingScript 2.Contents: A Vision of Judgment—The “Woes” of the Prophets—The Great Victory—Fragment; from Bhagavad Gita—Co-Heirs with Christ—Jesus the Man (the only known personal description)Script 3.Contents: The Lesson of Israel’s History—The Man Born Blind—Man’s Divinity and Perfectibility—The Everlasting Covenant—The Burden of the LordScript 4.Contents: Reincarnation in the Bible—The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven—The Temple of God—The Heart Doctrine—The Money Changers in the TempleScript 5.Contents: Egypt and Prehistoric America—Theoretical and Practical Theosophy—Death, One of the Crowning Victories of Human Life—Reliance on the Law—Led by the Spirit of GodScript 6.Contents: Education Through Illusion to Truth—Astronomy in the Light of Ancient Wisdom—Occultism and Magic—ResurrectionScript 7.Contents: Theosophy and Islam, a word concerning Sufism—Archaeology in the light of Theosophy—Man, a Spiritual Builder

The Pith and Marrow of Some Sacred Writings.

Ten Pamphlets, issued serially; Scripts, each.25

Subscription, for the set$1.50

Already published:

Script 1.Contents: The Relation of Universal Brotherhood to Christianity—No Man Can Serve Two Masters—In this Place is a Greater ThingScript 2.Contents: A Vision of Judgment—The “Woes” of the Prophets—The Great Victory—Fragment; from Bhagavad Gita—Co-Heirs with Christ—Jesus the Man (the only known personal description)Script 3.Contents: The Lesson of Israel’s History—The Man Born Blind—Man’s Divinity and Perfectibility—The Everlasting Covenant—The Burden of the LordScript 4.Contents: Reincarnation in the Bible—The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven—The Temple of God—The Heart Doctrine—The Money Changers in the TempleScript 5.Contents: Egypt and Prehistoric America—Theoretical and Practical Theosophy—Death, One of the Crowning Victories of Human Life—Reliance on the Law—Led by the Spirit of GodScript 6.Contents: Education Through Illusion to Truth—Astronomy in the Light of Ancient Wisdom—Occultism and Magic—ResurrectionScript 7.Contents: Theosophy and Islam, a word concerning Sufism—Archaeology in the light of Theosophy—Man, a Spiritual Builder

Script 1.Contents: The Relation of Universal Brotherhood to Christianity—No Man Can Serve Two Masters—In this Place is a Greater Thing

Script 2.Contents: A Vision of Judgment—The “Woes” of the Prophets—The Great Victory—Fragment; from Bhagavad Gita—Co-Heirs with Christ—Jesus the Man (the only known personal description)

Script 3.Contents: The Lesson of Israel’s History—The Man Born Blind—Man’s Divinity and Perfectibility—The Everlasting Covenant—The Burden of the Lord

Script 4.Contents: Reincarnation in the Bible—The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven—The Temple of God—The Heart Doctrine—The Money Changers in the Temple

Script 5.Contents: Egypt and Prehistoric America—Theoretical and Practical Theosophy—Death, One of the Crowning Victories of Human Life—Reliance on the Law—Led by the Spirit of God

Script 6.Contents: Education Through Illusion to Truth—Astronomy in the Light of Ancient Wisdom—Occultism and Magic—Resurrection

Script 7.Contents: Theosophy and Islam, a word concerning Sufism—Archaeology in the light of Theosophy—Man, a Spiritual Builder

TheosophicalPeriodicals

CENTURY PATH

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A Magazine devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Promulgation of Theosophy and the Study of Ancient and Modern Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Art.

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Transcriber’s noteIllustrations have been moved in between paragraphs, and empty pages removed.Also the following corrections have been made, on page7 “situa-ation” changed to “situation” (a clearer comprehension of the situation)13 ” added (perish in the Ocean of Mâyâ.”)14 “sanctury” changed to “sanctuary” (had only peeped into the sanctuary)16 “sancity” changed to “sanctity” (purity and sanctity of their lives)67 “proceded” changed to “proceeded” (I proceeded without delay)68 “wierdness” changed to “weirdness” (are heard in all their weirdness)72 “unaccoutably” changed to “unaccountably” (had so unaccountably disappeared ten years before)97 “unforseen” changed to “unforeseen” (the premature and unforeseen formation)112 “unparalled” changed to “unparalleled” (The unparalleled artist arrived)133 “the the” changed to “the” (he carefully rosined the bow)142 “in in” changed to “in” (in many cases they permit).Otherwise the original has been preserved, including unusual and inconsistent spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation.

Transcriber’s note

Illustrations have been moved in between paragraphs, and empty pages removed.

Also the following corrections have been made, on page7 “situa-ation” changed to “situation” (a clearer comprehension of the situation)13 ” added (perish in the Ocean of Mâyâ.”)14 “sanctury” changed to “sanctuary” (had only peeped into the sanctuary)16 “sancity” changed to “sanctity” (purity and sanctity of their lives)67 “proceded” changed to “proceeded” (I proceeded without delay)68 “wierdness” changed to “weirdness” (are heard in all their weirdness)72 “unaccoutably” changed to “unaccountably” (had so unaccountably disappeared ten years before)97 “unforseen” changed to “unforeseen” (the premature and unforeseen formation)112 “unparalled” changed to “unparalleled” (The unparalleled artist arrived)133 “the the” changed to “the” (he carefully rosined the bow)142 “in in” changed to “in” (in many cases they permit).

Otherwise the original has been preserved, including unusual and inconsistent spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation.

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