CONTENTS

LETTER NO. XI.—K.H. has misgivings in role of instructor—the eternal Essence—Force—immutability non-existent in Solar System; 61. Inappropriate terms used by Science—this teaching opposed to all accepted theories—observations on the fallacies and incompleteness of Science—energy indestructible—gravity—chemical attraction—electricity; 62. Chelas are magnetised—only one element in Nature, Akasa—spirit and matter, one—the tetracktis—the sacred seven; 63; the Greek Brother—necessity of serenity of mind for occult study; 64. Psychical powers of hearing—our Zoophagous friend—questions of diet—transmission of letters; 65. Schopenhauer and the "Arhat" doctrines.

LETTER NO. XII.—Explanations re Mahayuga—Pralaya—cyclic evolution—Manvantaras—dead worlds; 67. An eternity of action—Ethnographical details—Eskimaux—Neolithic age—the Basks of Spain—the early traces of man—Geike, Dawkins, Fiske—five races—evolution of speech; 69.

LETTER NO. XIII.—Cosmological notes and queries—esoteric cosmogony; 70. Nature works with positive and negative forces—the worlds of effects; 71. Man's principles return to their source at death—man has potentiality of all 7 principles as a germ; 72. The spiral of man's evolution; 73. Man becomes fully responsible—the Bible—an androgyne ape—Veddahs of Ceylon; 74. Volition awakes with maturity of 4th principle—rounds, cycles, races; 75. The seven notes of the musical scale—the octave—the seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests; 76. Animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms—"life" no responsibility except in man—Buddhas and Avatars—centre of individuality; 77. The object of initiations; 78.

LETTER NO. XIV.—7 objective and 7 subjective globes; 78. The 7 kingdoms—the descent of the monad—occult divisions of mineral kingdom—rounds and rings—divisions and classifications—the whole truth not permitted to be given; 79-81. numbers the key to knowledge—rounds, races, and the number of incarnations in each—the problem of the 777 incarnations—Plato and Confucius 5th Round men—Buddha a 6th rounder; 82-4. Explanatory notes of the diagram "Man on a Planet"—ascending and descending arcs of evolution—the Dhyan Chohans—Devas—increasing intelligence as the Rounds proceed—what happens in each Round; 85-8.

LETTER NO. XV.—Germ of future entity—history of the human foetus the key to the mysteries of nature—the cosmic atom—aggregations of atoms becoming man-bearing globes; 89. Their indestructibility and growth—Adi-Buddhi, Force, or Infinite Life in manifestation; 90. One seven-fold element the permanent cause of all manifestation—examples—the five cognisable elements—the sixth principle; 91. Observations on the "fire" element—primal igneous principle—7 manifestations of fire—the Tree of Life; 92. A mineral contains a spark of the One—the Law of formation, birth, etc. of a globe the same as for a child—the 3 kinds of Manvantaras and Pralayas; 93. Life impulse and formation of Globe "A"—passage of Essence from one globe to another—and one kingdom to another; 94. Further observations on the evolution of man—increased spirituality of the 5th Race man—kingdoms re-entering Globe "A"; 95. Law of equilibrium manifesting—6th and 7th senses—the Lord Buddha a 6th Race man—his appearance a mystery—individuals can only outstrip humanity by one Round; 96. Surya Manvantaras and Pralayas—the Cosmic night; 97. Elementals—Flammarion the Theosophist—his splendid intuition; 98. Pernicious influence of the Moon—the Sun is the first to disintegrate at the Solar Pralaya—the 6th principle of the Universe and man, the greatest of all mysteries; 99.

LETTER NO. XVI.—The Devachan Letter—Devachan allegorically described