The tour has taken me over 17,630 miles of land and sea, during 44 days and nights of travel; 62 days have been given to work, and the work has comprised 44 public lectures and 90 meetings-at most of which an hour's address has been given, followed by the answering of questions—and a very large number of private interviews. It does not seem a bad record for a woman of over sixty, who, a year ago, was declared by some who wished to discredit her, as being in a state of "senile decay," and therefore incapable of filling the office of President of the Theosophical Society.

Long ago a Master of the WISDOM warned us that a good resolution, which was not carried out, acted as a cancer in the mind, and that it weakened our power of action for the future. It is interesting to see the idea reproduced by the well-known psychologist, Prof. James, who says (quoted in the Theosophical Review for June last): "When a resolve or fine flow of feeling is allowed to evaporate without bearing practical fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge." For this reason some of the Indian and Greek thinkers discouraged the reading of poetry by the young, as it aroused emotion artificially, emotion which was not carried out in action.

Here is an admirable answer, written by Mr. Leadbeater, in the Questions column of The Messenger, the organ of the American Section.

Question: How are we to image the Logos in meditation?

Answer: I do not think that we can image Him at all. The sun is His chief manifestation upon the physical plane, and that may help us a little to realise some of His qualities, and to show how everything comes from Him. I have myself preferred not even to try to make any image of Him, but simply to contemplate Him as pervading all things, so that even I myself am also He, that all other men, too, are He, and in truth that there is nothing but God. Yet at the same time although this that we can see is a manifestation of Him, this solar system that seems so stupendous is to Him but a little thing, for though He is all this, yet outside it and above it all He exists in a glory and a splendor of which we know nothing as yet. Thus though

we agree with the Pantheist that all is God, we yet go very much further than he does, because we realise that He has a far greater existence above and beyond His Universe.

It would be impossible to put more luminously and more reverently the great truth of the Logos and His universe. It is an expansion of the weighty words of the Bhagavad-Giṭā: "I established all this universe with a portion of myself, and I remain.”

The science of the Fifth Race, in the hands of its fifth branch, is very swiftly climbing up to the point reached by the Fourth Race at the zenith of its glory; it will then overtop it, and reach the height whence will commence its slow descent. The conquest of the air is already far advanced, and ere long we shall have air-ships skimming about as in the days of the Toltec empire in Atlantis. And now an application of the Hertzian rays is threatened, which will repeat the death-dealing weapons of Atlantis and of ancient India. Already it has been suggested that war-balloons might drop upon massed regiments of men bombs which, on striking the ground, should burst, liberating a deadly gas, and thus destroy hundreds at a blow. Now it is proposed that by the use of parabolic mirrors, specially constructed to correct the diffraction of the Hertzian rays, a beam of these rays might be directed on any object. Dr. Gustave le Bon says cheerfully on this matter :

The first physicist who realises this discovery will be able to avail himself of the presence of an enemy's ironclads gathered together in a harbor to blow them up in a few minutes. On reaching the metal wires with which these vessels are now honey-combed the sheaf of electric radiations will excite an atmosphere of sparks, which will at once explode the magazines.

Against this new kind of attack science can, at present, suggest no defence. Strange that the science of the Fifth Race, as of the Fourth, is turned more to destruction than to preservation.

It is interesting to notice how the action of the Theosophical Society, in aiding the ancient religions of the East to protect their children against the disintegrating influences of missionary education, is gradually being recognised as a policy beneficial to morality and therefore to the State as a whole, Commenting on Lord

Cromer's views of the effect of "European "-read Christian"education" on the young Moslems of Egypt, and its destruction of their belief in their religion, replacing it with "cynical selfinterest," the London Times remarks:

The great faiths of the East teach devotion to the family, chastity amongst women, veneration and love for parents, and respect for the powers that be. Those are habits of inestimable value to the community and to the State. It may be said that, in the case of some of these creeds, at least as they are taught to the masses and are practised by them, their lessons are contaminated by much that is depraved and degrading. That, no doubt, is true, but even in their lowest forms these faiths afford to many millions of human beings binding systems of social relationship and definite guidance for conduct. To sap the systems and to impair the authority of the guidance, without the command of better and more effective influences to put in their place, is plainly to imperil the foundations of that social life of which the State is the guardian.

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Christianity in the West, as the Times truly remarks, "has helped at once to develop and to restrain a vigorous individualism; "Christianity was framed for that very purpose, as the religion of the sub-race which had for its special work the development of this "vigorous individualism;" it develops individualism by its doctrine of personal salvation, and restrains it by its doctrine of self-sacrifice. But just because it is so pre-eminently suited to the western world, it is unsuited to the eastern, where the common life is regarded as more important than the separate, and the social unit is the family, not the individual. Where missionary effort is undermining the foundations of the State and of Society, Theosophy is strengthening them, by pouring new life into the ancient religions and by training the young along the lines laid down by their ancestral religion and morality.

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