The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-13

Devil-worship i'm Paris, and showing
that the witches of old were only
mediums or hypnotisers under an
other name, sensitives who increased
their powers by magical ceremonies,
such as even the ancient polynesian
"kahunas" knew how to perform.
Think of Obsession and Possession, at
all times admitted by the Roman and
Greek churches, but ridiculed by ma
terialistic science, and now "reappear-
ing to the surface" verified by scien
tific researches in magnetism. 1t is
only necessary to read the expert
ments related in Stead's Borderland,
or those conducted by DR.. Luynes and
Colonel de Rochas director of the
Polytechnical School in Paris) and
any one belonging to the self-opiniat-
ed but ignorant class of the sceptics
and materialists who do not believe
in floating or travelling" souls, or in
any soul at all, may there find that
some things can be learned from such
authorities as those. "Old dead facts"
are thus readmitted by modern sci
ence, as facts, and dangerous facts,
too, for, if the Bible condemned
witches, Theosophy also condemns
witchcraft, mediumship, hypnotism,
sorcery and all kinds of Black Magic;
but, while the Bible condemns on
mere assertion, Theosophy explains
why condemnation should be pro-
nounced, and it also has this advant-
age that, while the Bible condemned
all witches to cruel death, Theos-
ophy only wishes them to see their
| own folly and reform. Then again,
as another proof of the predicted re-
| appearance of dead facts" look at
the myths of Atlantis and Lemurla,
those old submerged continents, a few
years ago an object of derision, now
accepted by scientists as a necessary
hypothesis. Interesting facts have
been recorded about them, even maps
have been published within the past
months, to such an extent that it has
been suggested to start an eXpedi-
| (Sea Weeds), or Shallow Waters be-
tween Africa and Brazil, wherein an
area larger than the half of Europe,
still remains unpenetrated and UNI
known. And, since this area is
pointed out by Theosophy, as being
the very site of the last large Island
of Atlantis (Poseidonis,) which in one
night, amid terrific volcanic phenom-
ena, sank with a population of sixty
millions of highly civilized inhab-
itants, it may be the reward of the
explorers to find there those material
proofs predicted by the Secret Doc
trine."
The recent discoveries among the
old ruins of Egypt and Greece have
also furnished interesting facts in
confederation with the assertions OF
Theosophy, gradully pushing back
Hellenic and Egyptian History into
the night of time, far antedating the
Jewish Era of Creation. Mr.. de Nor
gan, present director of the Egyptian
Antiquarian Service, has lately dis
covered the tombs of an hitherto un.
known sovereign, and his family, Au
Ab-Ra, of the 18th Dynasty, about
$500 years b. c., or nearly 400 years
before Abraham; and the ornaments
and precious jewels found in thesC
tombs are described as being of thu
purest gold and the Finest possibl,
workmanship" so that they "coult
hardly be initiated today" showing
a mastery of art almost incredible
And yet-before that time even
Egypt had had eleven glorious and in
disputable dynasties, the monuments
of which show the Egyptians to hav'
been highly civilized nation from tn,
very beginning of the reign of theil
first king Menes. In fact, as re
tellectual, superior and much more
marked by the most learned Egypt
ologists, the civilization of Egypt doe
not show traces of ever having had {
beginning, seeming already old, time
worn, at the earliest period so that 81
more glorious culture is apparent, thu
further back we are enabled to carr,
our retrospect" Is. d. I. 1867. This :!
puzzle to Science, while to Theos
ophy the explanation is as clear a
daylight: Egypt was first set
tied by Atlanto-Aryan colonists" from
India Is. d. I. 746) at the beginning
of the fifth race, but their progress
was fastened by the advent of othe
colonists from Atlantis (Poseidonis
who brought with them the perfect
: ed and already old civilization o