High Sluice and the Palace of Industry, Amsterdam (_illustrations_) facing 143 Heredity and Biology by H. T. Edge. B. A. (Cantab.) 145 Incorrodible Bronze by Travers 148 Scientific Oddments by the Busy Bee 149 Linnaeus and the Divining-Rod contributed by P. F. 154 Lomaland Cañons (_illustrated_) by W. J. Renshaw 155 Notices 158 [Illustration: Copyright by Katherine Tingley, 1911 Lomaland Photo. and Engraving Dept. SCENE FROM "THE AROMA OF ATHENS," A GREEK DRAMA GIVEN AT POINT LOMA IN APRIL, 1911, BY KATHERINE TINGLEY AND STUDENTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL THEOSOPHICAL HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL FIGURES ARE: PHEIDIAS SEATED, PERIKLES STANDING] THE THEOSOPHICAL PATH KATHERINE TINGLEY, EDITOR VOL. I AUGUST, 1911 NO. 2 I produced the golden key of Pre-existence only at a dead lift, when no other method could satisfy me touching the ways of God, that by this hypothesis I might keep my heart from sinking.--_Henry More_ THEOSOPHY AND MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: by Charles J. Ryan The attitude of the leaders of science and philosophy concerning the significance and probable causes of natural phenomena has greatly changed since 1888 when H. P. Blavatsky wrote her _magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine_. The comfortable feeling that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is ripe for our picking, or at least very nearly so, has largely disappeared with the widening of our perceptions gained through the surprising discoveries in physics, chemistry, psychology, etc., of the intervening period. Happily for the world, the truly leading minds of the present day in science and philosophy are escaping from the crass materialism into which they seemed to be sinking not so long ago; the "camp followers" are also catching up. Paradoxically, and yet naturally, the more we have learned of Nature's methods, the less dogmatic we have become. The present, although a time of great fertility in the production of theories, is one of comparative modesty in the putting forth of assertions that such a thing cannot be, or that such another is against established laws and therefore not to be investigated. We are seeing something similar in the affairs of nations--new experiments in statecraft are being tried in apparently unlikely places.