They will therefore be taken as indicating the best line of study, and we shall begin by considering the creative powers of man. All we need as preface is a clear conception of the invariability of law, ajid of the great planes in Nature.

The Invariability of Law:

That we live in a realm of law, that we are surrounded by laws that we cannot break, this is a truism. Yet when the fact is recognised in a real and vital way, and when it is seen to be a fact in the mental and moral world as muc...

The Theosophical teaching, that a man can be thus specially helped only when his past actions have been such as to deserve this assistance, and that even then the help will be given through those who are comparatively near his own level, is free from this serious objection ; and it furthermore brings back to us the older and far grander conception of an unbroken ladder of living beings extending down from the Logos Himself to the very dust beneath our feet.

In the East the existence of the in...

THE ORIGIN OF NUMERICAL SYSTEMS.

"Every cosmogony, from the earliest to the latest, is based upon, interlinked with, and most closely related to, numerals and geometrical figures." " The Secret Doctrine, Blavatasky, III, 69.”

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." " Psalms, xc, 12.

"God is a Number endowed with motion, which is felt but not demonstrated." " Balzac.

Mathematics is the only exact science; the only whose propositions are capable of conclusi...