Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

572 BooK REviEws. fJune
regeneration, you would probably have comparatively little trouble in
overcoming lo88es; but your greatest difficulty in reaching spiritual
cunsciousne88 will be to free your senses, and the eyes of the mind,
from the physical world. Again, you will have the severest kind of
temptations to marriage, by whic•h, if you yield, you will. of cou1-se. be
bound in a life of generation. Uranus in Caprico1·n. your life sign,
readily harmonizes with and adds its mystic powers to your uatu1·e.
This is greatly aided by Jupiter in Libra, which gives you unusual
foresight ; so that it is natural for you to f01·esee, either by dream ur
vision,-probably the latter,--everything that is coming t .. you. All
this implants in you the mental qualitie~ for high attainments in the
spiritual and so-called mp•tic ; but you shoulcl be careful to tle\"elop
the spirit of devotion, and to closely follow Spiritual guiclant'e. The
times of greatest danger are, first, when the moon is in Leo. second. in
Capricorn, thi1·d, in Libra; and the hum·s when the"'e z~igns a1·e rising·
BOOK REVIEWS.
Tax l>JVUIB I!icABNATION, ar TM Sup1rria, writes well. In "Tht~ Divine lncarution."
he gives, from different authors, diverse views concerniug Jeaua of s--
1'\ll GloMB&ry :-·• Many of the relatiou,.
of lauon (Jeans), the adept a.'ICetic around "'horn the legend of Christ was formed,
were amoug the Ebionites. As the exiMterrt•e of theee mendicaot .-ti~ can be
traced a\ least a century earlier than chronological Cbriatia11ity, it ia .an additional
proof that laeson or Jeshu lived dnring the reign of Alexander Janneua at Lyd,
where be was put to death as stated in the &phu Taldos Jeshu. ·• The Theosophical
position in this quotation is unmiatakable, notwithstanding the fact that theiJo
present teachers are trying to make it appear that they accept Chriat.. Reapiro
thus oritici- the quotation:-" It is to be regretted that H. P. Blavatsky did not
explain why, if tbia theory be tnte, the followers of 'the anoonquerable Galibaau ·
are (in spite of the corruption~ of Christendom), numbered by millioJt&, and thoee
millions the moat enlightened of earth's nations; while the followers of lauon ue
extinct, and his tmme almost forgotten."
Thia work contains many valuable ~uggeationa, but, aa an example of the laek of
aolid, logical thought, we give the following aolution of the problem " Wbv
and what i, Jt~sllll." He says, " This may be symbolized mathematically by a
eircle of infinite circumference, containing within itself aeries after seriea of 1-r
concentric circles, till at last the central point ia reached." Now, we would like to
ltnow bow "a circle of infinite circumference" could form a mathematical hue
for calculation; and bow a'' circle of infinite circumference" could be enoceeded by
other circles. in mathematical order, until a center ia reached. We call attentioat
to thia as one of a series of extravagant word formations, which, to the ideal mind
and to the thinker who ia able to discriminate and utilize •ll!CPtiona, art> fniJ of
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