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338 but ever active life—giver, is to expand and shed; that of the Universal Material Principle to gather in and fecundate. Unconscious and non-existing when separate, they become consciousness and life when brought together." If this is not sound, orthodox Kabalistic and "Hermetic Philosophy" to which Mrs. Kingsford confesses she feels herself "especially attracted," then Eliphas Levi has written his theistic "dogmas and Ritual of High Magic" in vain? Let the Fellows of the "London Lodge" open his Vol. I; and see what this great master of Christian Esoteric Doctrine says on the subject, on pages 123-26 et seq, and then draw their conclusions. Mr. Sinnett's language is that of every occultist, who refuses to substitute his own personal fancy for the accepted theories of the ancient Hermetic Philosophy.*

Now, from an examination of Mr. Maitland's citations with the original, with special reference to the passages italicised, it will appear that what Mr. Sinnett does say is not that the Eternal Something does "consist" of the two principles named, but that the latter are the two force-emanating poles engendered by Parabrahman, considered the animating motion of the Universe (Purusha), in itself, the exhaustless fountain of