The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.Various
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The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.
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“LAST WORDS” OF MONCURE D. CONWAY.—We do not refer to a book, but
to an article written by Mr. Conway in the _Forum_ upon the subject
of Theosophy. He declares to those who are honored by his personal
acquaintance, that that article is really “the _last word_ to be
said on the subject,” and he desires all people to read it, so that
their delusions may be dispelled. In this he is wise, because certain
delusions held by some people would be at once dispelled upon reading
his lucubrations.
Mr. Conway has been excessively bitter against Theosophy ever since
he went to the headquarters in Madras, and was well treated and
entertained by the unsuspecting Theosophists there. Almost in the
same hour that he was being housed and fed there, he was writing to
the _Glasgow Herald_—he had not yet got into the _Forum_—an article
abusing those who extended to him their hospitality. He had been
there but a few hours, and so great was his penetration, that in that
short time, he had succeeded, as he said, in unravelling the whole
mystery, in pricking the bubble. But how he grew so wise in such short
space, we do not know. His solution was and is, that Madame Blavatsky
produced Mahatmas, Aryan literature, Sanscrit language, Astral bodies
and all the rest, by means of a curious thing called “glamour,” which
is vulgarly called “pulling the wool.” But Conway gives a little more
power to this glamour than the vulgar phrase, for he ascribes to it
some power over the imagination. He does not say how we are to know
whether or not his own perceptions were “glamoured”; for he has the
hardihood to assert that Madame Blavatsky, the arch conspirator, was
fool enough to unburden her heart to him, a decaying English divine,
and to weakly confess upon a mere plain interrogation put by him,
that “it is all glamours.” For our part, we are led to believe, from
certain information and after having, subsequent to Mr. Conway’s
return to London, conversed with him, that the “glamour” used on the
occasion, was so powerful as to affect Mr. Conway’s perception to such
an extent, that he is willing to accuse himself of such a foolish thing
as trying to make us believe that Blavatsky made a full confession _to
him_. It is really “all glamours”; but after all, the _Forum_ is not
a bad sort of a magazine for Theosophy to get into, even through the
instrumentality of this “glamoured” clergyman.
However, as Theosophy sometimes has prophets, we hope and trust, that
his own entitlement of his thoughts on the subject may not be fateful,
and not be his “last words.”
* * * * *
SINNETT.—In our July issue a printer’s error gave the wrong title to
Mr. Sinnett’s new book. It is called “_United_” and not _Union_, as was
printed in July.
THEOSOPHICAL ACTIVITIES.
NEW YORK: THE ARYAN THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY continues to publish its short
Abridgement of Discussions, which are circulated to all Branches, and
have met with commendation.
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