ROSICRUCIANS.—The Society of the R. C. is being revived in Germany it is said, and theosophists are in it. Next month we will give a resumé of some of their ideas. * * * * * “A knot of ignorance binds all men’s hearts; this, action looses and God’s grace imparts.”—_Hindi verse._ “Study all Scriptures written, near or far; Worship all images and saints of earth; But if you do not study who you are, All your best actions are nothing worth.”—_Sanscrit verse._ OM! FOOTNOTES: [111] The emerald table is from the collection commencing with Le Miroirs d’ Alquimie de Jean de Mehun, philosophe, tres—excellent. Traduict de Latin on François, A Paris, 1613, pp. 36-39, to which is also attached, the Petit Commentaire de L’Hortulain, philosophe, dict des Jardins maritimes, sur la Table d’ Esmerande d’ Hermes Trismegiste pp. 42-64. [112] An ancient Hindu book full of tales as well as doctrines.—[ED.] [113] These _flashes_ of thought are not unknown even in the scientific world, as, where in such a moment of lunacy, it was revealed to an English scientist, that there must be iron in the sun; and Edison gets his ideas thus.—[ED.] [114] The careful student will remember that Jacob Bœhme speaks of the “harsh and bitter anguish of nature which is the principle that produces bones and all corporification.” So here the master, it appears, tells the fortunate chela, that in the spiritual and mental world, anxiety, harsh and bitter, raises a veil before us and prevents us from using our memory. He refers, it would seem, to the other memory above the ordinary. The correctness and value of what was said in this, must be admitted when we reflect that, after all, the whole process of development is the process of _getting back the memory of the past_. And that too is the teaching found in pure Buddhism as well also as in its corrupted form.—[ED.] [115] The mystic syllable OM.—[ED.] [116] There is some reference here apparently to the Upanishad, for they contain a teacher’s directions to break through all shrines until the last one is reached.—[ED.] [117] See _Bagavad-Gita_ where the whole poem turns upon the conflict in this battle field, which is called the “sacred plain of _Kurukshetra_” meaning, the “body which is acquired by Karma.”—[ED.] [118] Arabian Soc. in the Middle Age.—D’Ohsson describing the Turkish Dervishes gives another account. [119] Emerson. AUM Every period of soul is measured by time. The period of other souls indeed is measured by a certain time; but that of the first soul, since it is measured by time, is measured by the whole of time.—_Proklos’ Elements of Theology._ Time, like a seven-wheeled, seven-naved car, moves on; His rolling wheels are all the worlds. His axle is immortality.—_Atharva Veda._