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337 and Austin. My surprise becomes greater still to find Mrs. Kingsford, with her splendid natural gifts, standing sponsor to such an intellectual deformity! It is now pefectly clear that Mr. Maitland's statements that "these citations imply theism," and that they "describe precisely that which the theist means by a personal God," are merely gratuitous assumptions.

Then comes a point, the objection to which involves a totally inaccurate presentation of Mr. Sinnett's statements. "This Eternal Something," says Mr. Maitland, "it is further declared, although there is nothing but Matter, Motion, Space, and Duration, consists of two principles, the Universal Spiritual Principle and the Universal Material Principle, which, when separate, are unconscious and non-existing, and only when brought together (by whom or from whence, it is not said) become consciousness and life."

Before proceeding to answer the objections arising out of what Mr. Sinnett is represented to have said above, it is necessary to tally it with what Mr. Sinnett actually says. On page 176 of "Esoteric Buddhism"we read:—"The one eternal, imperishable thing in the Universe which Universal Pralayas themselves pass over without destroying, is that which may be regarded indifferently as Space, Duration, Matter and Motion, not as something having these four attributes, but a something which is these four things at once, and always. And evolution takes its rise in the atomic polarity which motion engenders. In cosmogony the positive and the negative, or the active and the passive, forces correspond to the male and female principles. The spiritual efflux enters into the veil of Cosmic matter; the active is attracted by the passive principle; and if we may here assist imagination by having recourse to old occult symbology—the great Nag—the serpent, emblem of eternity, attracts its tail to its mouth, forming thereby the circle of eternity, or rather cycles in eternity. The one and chief attribute of the Universal Spiritual Principle the unconscious 43