It is said in an ancient book: "The Path is one for all, the ways that lead thereto must vary with the pilgrim." [Illustration: THE PATH] The Theosophical Path An International Magazine Unsectarian and nonpolitical Monthly Illustrated [Illustration] Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the promulgation of Theosophy, the study of ancient & modern Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Art, and to the uplifting and purification of Home and National Life Edited by Katherine Tingley International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, California, U.S.A. _The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. The birth and evolution of the Sacred Science of the Past are lost in the very night of Time.... It is only by bringing before the reader an abundance of proofs all tending to show that in every age, under every condition of civilization and knowledge, the educated classes of every nation made themselves the more or less faithful echoes of one identical system and its fundamental traditions--that he can be made to see that so many streams of the same water must have had a common source from which they started. What was this source?... There must be truth and fact in that which every people of antiquity accepted and made the foundation of its religions and its faith._--H. P. BLAVATSKY, in _The Secret Doctrine_, II, 794 THE THEOSOPHICAL PATH KATHERINE TINGLEY, EDITOR VOL. I JULY, 1911 NO. 1 THE REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY: by H. T. Edge, B. A. (Cantab.) Among ideas which Theosophists have been proclaiming for many years, and which are now finding expression through other channels, though in piecemeal and modified form, are those connected with the Christ story and Christianity. _Current Literature_, in reviewing "The Christ Myth," by Professor Dr. Arthur Drews of Karlsruhe, says: In essence the argument of the book is that all the main ideas of Christianity existed in the world prior to the birth of Christ, and that the hero of the New Testament is an imaginative conception rather than an actual personality. The opening chapters illuminate the history of the Messianic idea. This idea, Professor Drews contends, is rooted in Persia and Greece, as well as in the Jewish consciousness. The Persians dreamed of a divine "friend" or "mediator" who should deliver them in the eternal struggle between light and darkness, between Ormuzd and Ahriman. The Greeks conceived a mediatory "Word" or _Logos_ which should come to the aid of human weakness and identify man with God. Even more strongly, among the Jews, persisted the thought that "a Son of God" must intercede with Jehovah in behalf of his people.