The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08

Seattle, Jan s. 1883.
4 re Editor: Among the interest
sst~r selections from current lit
III 9~stsre published in youY 6un-
u Asy issue there were couple OF
--.nkx rs.atlng 10 T-heosophy and
ls.-ssrxisfx and taken from the
-...ssssIc Review, which are not only
s.<.s-s1lnr hut In q large measure un-
- ~ tseosophy has come TO stay In
-. and as there 10 an increasing
- q people interested In It's doc
49, aerhapz you will kindly permit
.. q erect the uisssasemsnts referred
:. - aryt place. the statement nade
s ~ 4hoe OF the article. the Rev. r.
r Fpood. tina. Marie Coreiii's in
- tb<or1es respecting the electric
..s-..51e 81 the earth meet with the APP
100 = rronlnen. Tneosophisss, In quite
ssrSrf In the wide range Of Theo-
s.sss1Gi uxsrature I do not believe II 10
..s-s1Sie 8 End the slightest aliusion 10
a. sGehor named. Many individual stu
$50 Aeve Doubtless read some OF Marie
ss-s1atr works Gas who has no.,r put
- "a seenerasIy regarded by them as an
s.s,.i-sd and entirely unreliable pyschic.
80 - IL Endorsed oy the leaders OF the
sSeeG5Shdeal Society in any way per-
- - hnow In not the case: IN fact. she
Z r. - ignored by all the leading ex-
sueepSk of the Wisdom religion
- r. os1t place, IL will seem supreme
rtAic1Ious 70 the many hundreds OF
s.teualtets IN Seattle TO be informed
Sef th6y shave been swept almost en-
- ITO the ranks Of Tneosephy."
- - statement OF the reverend
smflenau were measurably true, but II
Snous(1stes. how denseiy ignorant many
~ucosed1y Intelligent people may Be OF
sSss 3 passing around them.
~ fh3rd pcint--as TO what Theosophists
wa6-is one a. much greater Importance.
/ 4 ~ evidently superficial examination
~ 1heosophicai movement Mr.. Film
ND has turned his attention TO the cata-
kr6e sssued BY its publishing society. and
IN ths contents OF said catalogue he
- eene TO the conclusion that the aver
- fhsesophicai student spends most OF
h iaieGfs time porting over ghost stories
~ tssatises on the black arts.
sposeT and ali that is CHASTITY and
var1 - u rapidly qualifying for the iu-
r.st6 Rum. II the reverend gentle
nsa I'D attend few OF the meetings
vhae 11poeoph.sts gather together for the
&t24f. tfG Wptip Stou &c Viz
nuwf RI this Idea and would probably
~ 81 quite fair proportion OF them
vas to(fes acquainted than he himself
VIA ~ best that has been thought and
mH~ 10Th In ancient and modern tines,
81 1cfe fully and accurately Informed
= ID ~ latest Developments In the sci
asi1e World. That a few OF the students
4 ~ Wisdom religion are interested In
ous1agy. the eabaia and the various sub
~ stationed Is undoubtedly a fact.
~ - subjects are merely incidental
~ eubordinatc 20 the general line OF
NJ. And the reason they are inter
~ h these questions is because The
mpc19 supplies n key which enables
~ "a understand the underlying truth
h uncA that has been hitherto mysterI-
- "a ineomprehensible; for 1t demon
sa116 nat around us on all sides ther .
HI Sasi and varied inner world OF be-
- nopled by myriads OF unseen iuteiti-
eneGA Re theater of subtle and Invisible
t1ss4 but which. as manifested In the
n1n11lena OF thought transference, hyp-
HoaAnn. x-rays. etc, ara already forcing
hsmalsses on the attention of those who
hvs ~ 20 sec and ears to hear. There
~" indeed. as Shakespeare remarks.
Mcfe thinGsain heaven and earth than
~ dzeAmt or In the philosophy OF such
pecDoe - Mr., Ellinwood. 1t IL very
~ y condemn what one does not un-
eassand ana what conflicts with ones