The phenomena Theosophists place so much reliance upon are the property of mankind--somnambulism, psychic consciousness, clairvoyance, psychometry, thought-transference, etc. The “Theosophic miracles of communication with persons in other parts of the world” are explicable by thought-transference, and in time may be no more inherently impossible than telegraphy without wires and poles. The physical wonders of Theosophy, akin to those of Spiritualism, are attributed to _shells_, the _astral_ carcases of once embodied but now rapidly dissolving _personality_ of man, and _elementals_, fragmentary spirit imps or sprites, who up to the present have not been as yet incorporated in some incarnated human soul. As to the ethics of Theosophy, brotherly kindness, charity, and self-sacrifice--most desirable virtues and _divine_ attainments--are neither new nor the special property of Theosophy. Such _divine_ qualities and virtues are common to all religions and religious teaching, and if they ever reached their climax in human form, they did in the person of Jesus, the Lord’s Christ. He was the embodiment of these, and a living example for all time, long, long before unthinkable and “ungetatable” Mahatmas were announced by Madame Blavatsky, or believed in by Mrs. Besant. Theosophists recognise seven distinct parts in man, _i.e._, four transitory and three eternal. The transitory elements are--the physical body, the vital principle, the _astral body_, and the _animal soul_. These four comprise man’s _personality_, and being transitory are perishable. Hence the _personality_ of man is annihilated at death. The three eternal elements are--the _spirit_, the _spiritual soul_, and the _mind_. These being imperishable form man’s _individuality_, and constitute the immortal part of man. This immortal part _incarnates_ and _re-incarnates_ throughout innumerable personalities on this globe, and the rest of the planets, beside having alternate periods of “rosy slumber” and of activity. Our _individuality_ has no sex, consequently we may be a little negro wench in one incarnation, an Egyptian monarch in another, a Nero in another, a John Knox in another, and so on. Others may not progress, but sink from incarnation to incarnation, from a mother in Israel, to a Deeming in Australia, and, finally, to utter annihilation. Those good souls who _live the life_, and perfect their souls through much suffering, will become as one with “the Eternal Reality, the Rootless Root of all that was, or is, or ever shall be.” The higher and ever advancing Theosophist may, however, stop short before he reaches the Nirvana, and elect to become a Mahatma, or great soul, and reside on this or some other planet to exercise power and precipitate wisdom, by letters and otherwise, to the world, through chosen adepts. The good Theosophist in this world and the next is surrounded by “thought-forms,” which influence him in his upward career. The Spiritualist has his departed friends for