The Esoteric; A Magazine of Advanced and Practical Esoteric Thought Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...seems vague, illusive, unreal, but matter slipping away into modes of motion, dissolving into mere activity, and so shading off toward some great reality, full of life and energy, --not matter, and therefore spirit. Science has led up to the point where matter, and not God, becomes the unknowable. A little further struggle through this tangle of matter, and we may stand on a "peak of Darien," in wild surmise before the "ocean of spirit.--Rev. T. T. Hunger. The Divine forces were forming man in the gaseous chaos of the beginning, ere matter had rounded itself into light-giving orbs, or whirled off its rotating and balanced suns. Each particle of oxygen, each atom of lime waited for him, ready to obey his thought. The earth, the water, and the air worked for him. The frost and the glacier were his plows. The gases massed themselves into huge mountain chains to serve his turn, and when, in the great day of creation, the hour of humanity struck at last upon this crust of soil which the ages, and seasons, and forces had refined, Man, the Microcosm, is placed to govern matter as the vehicle of power higher than its own, and as the organ of the Reason that made the world.--Emerson. THE ART OF NEVER FORGETTING. NEW SERIES.--NUMBER ONE. BY JOHN LATHAM. We Lave set forth quite fully in the previous series the physiological and psychic fundamentals of a good memory, and shall now proceed to consider the various aids and advantages of system and method. First, however, a brief recapitulation of the basic requirements will be useful, not alone for the benefit of new subscribers, but that all subjects of a technical or educational nature are largely dependent upon repetition for their vivid establishments in the mind; and mind itself, as...