There has been no unity of soul in past efforts, as a whole, and the keynote struck by Katherine Tingley had a ring of newness, somehow, on very real lines. Which does not mean that women have not worked together, often in large bodies, as we see them doing today. But both their aims and the quality of result that grew from these showed that real unity on lines of soul-strength and soul-effort has been lacking. For example, we have today the apparently united body of women who are storming council-chambers and invoking hand-to-hand battles with policemen; and yesterday we had their prototypes in old Rome, excited groups of fad-ridden women who even barred the approaches to the Forum as an argument in support of their demands for political equality--and Roman homes going to pieces by the hundred for lack of true womanhood at the helm. Oh, if women would read history _in a new way_! Efforts characterized by a certain outer binding-together, while of real inner unity there was none, there have been in all ages. But, strange to say, until the inauguration of Theosophical work for women in this year of the twentieth century, the true note has been sounded, in most cases, by some one woman who was more or less _un_helped by the women about her. History inspires us with the virtues of Alcestis, that peerless wife; of Antigone; of that perfect exemplar of motherhood, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi; of the queenly Thusnelda; of Cleopatra, Semiramis, and Zenobia; and let us not forget the peasant girl of Domremy, whose simple purity and absolute self-forgetfulness did more for the "woman movement" of the ages than even her generalship did for France. Yet these are isolated types. Barring Sappho and her woman pupils, Birgitta of Sweden and her wonderful work for and with the women who flocked to the home centers that ecclesiastical enemies fortunately did not prevent her from establishing, history has little to say as to women who have _worked together_ for some truly spiritual cause, in which the noblest they had was placed on Humanity's altar. [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. PHEIDIAS "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"] [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 KRATINOS IN CENTER, EURIPIDES TO LEFT, ATTENDANT AT RIGHT "THE AROMA OF ATHENS"] "MAGNETONS," FORCE AND MATTER: by H. Travers