That Cruelest Of Tyrants - Public Opinion.

We Cut These Numerous Windings In Our Destinies Daily With Our Own Hands, While We Imagine That We Are Pursuing A Track On The Royal High Road Of Respectability And Duty, And Then Complain Of Those Ways Being So Intricate And So Dark. We Stand Bewildered Before The Mystery Of Our Own Making, And The Riddles Of Life That We Will Not Solve, And Then Accuse The Great Sphinx Of Devouring Us.

How Long Shall We Spiritualists Be Turned Over Like So Many Scapegoats To The Unbelievers, By Cheating Mediums And Speculating Prophets?

Meditation Has Been Defined As The Cessation Of Active Eternal Thought.

The Universe Is The Periodical Manifestation Of This Unknown Absolute Essence.

But, If The Knowledge Of The Occult Powers Of Nature Opens The Spiritual Sight Of Man, Enlarges His Intellectual Faculties, And Leads Him Unerringly To A Profounder Veneration For The Creator, On The Other Hand Ignorance, Dogmatic Narrow-mindedness, And A Childish Fear Of Looking To The Bottom Of Things, Invariably Leads To Fetish-worship And Superstition.